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A Study on the Technological Extension of the Body and Mind in Ghost in the Shell (1995)

  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • 2022, 67(), pp.1-30
  • Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Literature
  • Received : September 10, 2022
  • Accepted : October 4, 2022
  • Published : October 31, 2022

Yeon Jeong Gu 1

1숭실대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper dealt with the representation of corporeity and the embodiment of mind as a condition in which the new subjectivity of the posthuman as a technology-mediated human being was manifested. Mamoru Oshii's ‘Ghost in the Shell’ (1995) was referred to showing countless possibilities and the destructive power of digital technology. This Japan-animation film showed how to think about corporeity as the basis for future humans to acquire new subjectivity and the problem of the identity of cybernetic beings as living things. In particular, this paper focused on two analyses. First, the language of reproduction was analyzed, how were portrayed Kusanagi as a cyborg and the Puppet master as the artificial intelligence program. It was critically examined how the language of humanism employs mechanical and technological living things as weapons by dualizing them into body and intelligence. Second, the process of the ‘convergence’ as a way of defying human commands and transcending their limitations was analyzed. This attempt shed light on the struggle of the two artificial creatures which freed themselves from Anthropocentrism and sought to obtain their uniqueness as an independent being. In this study, the meaning of convergence and the self-determination of artificial beings as hybrid beings that embrace others—concepts that have not been thoroughly explained—are explored.

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