![]() ![]() Ross Farnell Attempting Immortality: AI, A-Life, and the Posthuman in Greg Egan's Permutation CityĪbstract. These rhetorical postures and ideological viewpoints are weighed and analyzed in the context of Andrew Tudor's influential distinction between the "secure" and the "paranoid" subgenres of the sf-horror film. This voice often employs a strong, if implicit, anti-American rhetoric, evoking the imperative for national unity by situating the US as a potential threat. What is at stake in Patlabor II is nothing less than Japan's current and future international position: while the film represents the country's dominant pacifist mood as well as recent debates over participation in regular UN peacekeeping operations, what finally emerges is a nationalist voice supporting the idea that Japan take responsibility for its own self-defense and expand its role in international affairs. In addition, the film muses upon the nation's experience in World War II and the nature of the ensuing peace under the American treaty. Oshii Mamoru's film Patlabor II engages questions of Japan's future and its involvement in United Nations peacekeeping forces within a science fiction narrative that allegorically reflects-and critiques-the politics and society of postwar Japan. ![]() Michael Fisch Nation, War, and Japan's Future in the Science Fiction Anime Film Patlabor IIĪbstract. "Other Asias" may assume the role of embodying the future only at the cost of taking on this reflective form of otherness. ![]() Even the traditionalism associated with Japanese culture allies Japan to sf's futures: attached to the past, they will bring us along with them into the future. The Japanese are associated with three sf tropes: technology, the alien, and apocalypse. Japan has dominated the future in sf of the last twenty years due to its association with industry and technology and with apocalypse in the form of the atomic bomb. in that mysterious Japanese way"Ībstract.- The recent economic difficulties in Japan make now the perfect time to look back on Japan's role in recent science fiction. This article takes readers on a guided tour of a unique shopping mall at the hub of Hong Kong urbanscape, Times Square, as an illustration of how we can read out of it an "urban secret located at the intersection" of sf and the postmodern. With its history of dislocation, migration, and marginality in its colonial days, Hong Kong emerges as a model city for the sf genre of "future noir" its overcrowded, disjunctive cityscape provides a perfect setting for multiculturalism in a postmodern context. Wong Kin Yuen On the Edge of Spaces: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and Hong Kong's CityscapeĪbstract.- Sf films such as Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell take a deep interest in the Hong Kong urbanscape at the turn of the century. Hesitant Journey to the West: SF's Changing Fortunes in Mainland China Attempting Immortality: AI, A-Life, and the Posthuman in Greg Egan's Permutation City Nation, War, and Japan's Future in the Science Fiction Anime Film Patlabor II On the Edge of Spaces: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and Hong Kong's Cityscape I'm compelled to buy all his books and read through them.,Ībout Me | Contact | Mastodon | privacy policy n/a | license: CC bY-NC 4.Article Abstracts: #80 (On Global Science Fiction- Part II) Science Fiction StudiesĪRTICLE ABSTRACTS ON GLOBAL SCIENCE FICTION I like hard sci-fi that also manages to push the boundaries of several things at once - and Greg Egan is an interesting person to read about this. ![]() The sheer scope of imagination here is immense - and that's what makes this a pleasure to read. Permutation City is the book about multiverses, cyberspaces, and post-AI consciousness - all rolled into a physics and mathematical construct. ![]()
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