Tokyo cyberpunk

Palgrave Macmillan

2010

viii, 256 p.

9780230103603

Posthumanism after Akira --Reading rhizomatically --Machinic desires, desiring machines, and consensual hallucinations --Machinic desires : Hans Bellmer's dolls and the technological uncanny in Ghost in the shell 2: innocence --An overview of innocence --"Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble". From puppets to automata --The uncanny mansion --The dolls of Hans Bellmer --Bellmer/Oshii --On the innocence of dolls, angels, and becoming-animal --Desiring machines: biomechanoid eros and other --Techno-fetishes in tetsuo: the iron man and its precursors --The birth of sexy robots --After Metropolis, before tetsuo: Un chien andalou --Giger's biomechanoids, erotomechanics, and metal fetishists --The "regular-size" monsters of Matango --Mutating from the inside out: The fly --"Long live the new flesh": videodrome --The tentacle motif from Hokusai to Tetsuo --Envisioning the machine-city after Blade runner --Confrontations with the salaryman model: resisting hegemonic masculinity and state-sponsored capitalism --Coda: co-opting Tetsuo in Tetsuo ii: body hammer --Consensual hallucinations and the phantoms of electronic presence in Kairo and Avalon --Letting in ghosts, shutting out the sun --Into the mise en abyme: spectral flows and the forbidden room --The human stain: suicide in the shadow of Hiroshima --Avalon and "borderline cinema". The society of the spectacle --The surrealism of (virtually) everyday life --"Welcome to class real". Conclusion --Software in a body: critical posthumanism and Serial experiments Lain --a shojo named lain --Email from the dead --Doppelgangers in cyberspace --Desiring disembodiment --The question of resistance

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