日本动漫：神道及人性【英文】

Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell), Oshii Mamoru, 1995
Kôkaku kidôtai’s Cyborg Police Officer, Major Kusanagi
Constructing Kôkaku kidôtai’s Post-human Cyborg Body
• Humans are but one integral part of an information-processing mechanism which incorporates a vast technological network
• Human agency, identity, and subjectivity are distributed and do not reside in the individual: the individual is but one facet of the processes themselves which collectively become “agency,” “identity,” and “subjectivity.”
Further, why is animation so popular as a form of film production in Japan?
A corollary to this is, what can the answers to these questions allow Japanese animation to bring to the Western critical stance of posthumanism?
• By overlooking the ways in which non-Western traditions have conceived of the site of consciousness, posthumanism has effectively cut itself off from a fully articulated alternative vision of cognitive existence.
By Any Other Name: Theorising the Posthuman in Japanese Animation Timothy Iles University of Victoria
The Question: What is at root of the apparent affinity Japanese animation has for themes of technology, science, and communication between human and non-human forms of existence?
• Posthumanism: a way of situating human beings in a mechanised, technologised, nonhuman world
• An attitude which sees human beings as always already intimately coupled with technology • Human beings have always been dependent upon technology for survival, prosperity, and for self-definition
• Kôkaku kidôtai by Oshii Mamoru and the works of Miyazaki Hayao among other animators signal themselves as resisting the anthropocentrism of much human thought, seeing instead consciousness and identity as diffuse things created and shared across multiple and diverse forms of existence.
• Japanese philosophical and spiritual influences can contribute to this emerging, „western‟ attitude toward technology and can allow it to overcome its inherent anthropocentrism
My Contentions:
• Aspects of Japanese philosophy and spirituality, growing from Shinto and its attitudes towards the self, the community, and the natural and spirit worlds, have influenced the popularity of animated (science fiction) films in Japan.
• Japanese animated science fiction intersects with the posthuman debate by accepting the possibility of intelligent, sensitive, non-human forms of existence.
Constructing Kôkaku kidôtai’s Post-human Cyborg Body
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Human/Computer Interface, Information Ports
Human/Computer Interface, Information Ports in Use