Limits of the human / / Frenchy Lunning, editor
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| Titolo: |
Limits of the human / / Frenchy Lunning, editor
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, Minn., : Univ of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.095 |
| 741.5952 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Animated films - Japan - History and criticism |
| Graphic arts - Japan | |
| Human beings - Variation | |
| Popular culture - Japanese influences | |
| Popular culture - Japan | |
| Altri autori: |
LunningFrenchy
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Limits of the human |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-6968-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826330103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Mechademia ; ; 3.