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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777707703321

Titolo

Limits of the human [[electronic resource] /] / Frenchy Lunning, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : Univ of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-6968-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Mechademia ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

LunningFrenchy

Disciplina

306.095

741.5952

Soggetti

Animated films - Japan - History and criticism

Graphic arts - Japan

Human beings - Variation

Popular culture - Japanese influences

Popular culture - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface: The Limits of the Human; Introduction: The Limits of ""The Limits of the Human""; Contours: Around the Human; Companions: With the Human; Compossibles: Of the Human; Review and Commentary; Contributors; Call for Papers

Sommario/riassunto

Dramatic advances in genetics, cloning, robotics, and nanotechnology have given rise to both hopes and fears about how technology might transform humanity. As the possibility of a posthuman future becomes increasingly likely, debates about how to interpret or shape this future abound. In Japan, anime and manga artists have for decades been imagining the contours of posthumanity, creating dazzling and sometimes disturbing works of art that envision a variety of human/nonhuman hybrids: biological/mechanical, human/animal, and human/monster. Anime and manga offer a constellation of posthuman prot