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Limits of the human / / Frenchy Lunning, editor



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Titolo: Limits of the human / / Frenchy Lunning, editor Visualizza cluster
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  
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-6968-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826330103321
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Serie: Mechademia ; ; 3.