02954oam 2200577 450 991078119070332120230721005655.09780816668007electronic book0816668000electronic book(CKB)2550000000005126(EBL)471757(OCoLC)527737445(SSID)ssj0000341177(PQKBManifestationID)11284315(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341177(PQKBWorkID)10390290(PQKB)11159688(MiAaPQ)EBC471757(Au-PeEL)EBL471757(CaPaEBR)ebr10353997(EXLCZ)99255000000000512620080916d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOtaku Japan's database animals /Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono[English ed.].Minneapolis :University of Minnesota Press,2009.1 online resource (176 pages)"Originally published in Japanese as Dōbutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kōdansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso.Translated from the Japanese.Print version : 9780816653515 0-8166-5351-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-139) and index.Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma -- Translators' introduction -- What is otaku culture? -- The otaku's pseudo-Japan -- The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality.In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970's, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Hiroki Azuma's Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture. For Azuma, one of Japan's leading public intellectuals, otaku culture...SubcultureJapanPopular cultureJapanJapanCivilization1945-SubculturePopular culture306/.10952Azuma Hiroki1971-1475353MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781190703321Otaku3689544UNINA