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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Posthumanism after AKIRA
Reading Rhizomatically
Machinic Desires, Desiring Machines, and Consensual Hallucinations
Part I: Machinic Desires: Hans Bellmer’s Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
An Overview of Innocence
“Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble”
From Puppets to Automata
The Uncanny Mansion
The Dolls of Hans Bellmer
Bellmer/Oshii
On the Innocence of Dolls, Angels, and Becoming-Animal
Part II: Desiring Machines: Biomechanoid Eros and Other Techno-Fetishes in Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Its Precursors
The Birth of Sexy Robots
After Metropolis, Before Tetsuo: Un chien andalou
Giger’s Biomechanoids, Erotomechanics, and Metal Fetishists
The “Regular-Size” Monsters of Matango
Mutating from the Inside Out: The Fly
“Long Live the New Flesh”: Videodrome
The Tentacle Motif from Hokusai to Tetsuo
Envisioning the Machine-City after Blade Runner
Confrontations with the Salaryman Model: Resisting Hegemonic Masculinity and State-Sponsored Capitalism
Coda: Co-opting Tetsuo in Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
Part III: Consensual Hallucinations and the Phantoms of Electronic Presence in Kairo and Avalon
Letting In Ghosts, Shutting Out the Sun
Into the Mise en Abyme: Spectral Flows and the Forbidden Room
The Human Stain: Suicide in the Shadow of Hiroshima
Avalon and “Borderline Cinema”
The Society of the Spectacle
The Surrealism of (Virtually) Everyday Life
“Welcome to Class Real”
Conclusion: Software in a Body: Critical Posthumanism and Serial Experiments Lain
A Shōjo Named Lain
E-mail from the Dead
Doppelgängers in Cyberspace
Desiring Disembodiment
The Question of Resistance
Notes
Bibliography
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