
Takayuki Tatsumi
Author of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
About the Author
Works by Takayuki Tatsumi
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (2007) — Editor — 95 copies, 2 reviews
Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (2006) 40 copies, 1 review
Associated Works
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Contributor — 263 copies
Dis-orienting planets : racial representations of Asia in science fiction (2017) — Contributor — 8 copies
Science Fiction Eye #07, August 1990 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- 巽孝之
- Awards and honors
- IAFA Distinguished Scholarship (2010)
SFRA Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship (2025)
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Reviews
A really interesting series of critical perspectives on Japanese sf.
All of the essays are really informative and well researched/argued, and I particularly enjoyed the final one on Otaku sexuality and yaoi culture.
Great stuff!
All of the essays are really informative and well researched/argued, and I particularly enjoyed the final one on Otaku sexuality and yaoi culture.
Great stuff!
Eu e Paulo Dantas começamos a ler essa coletânea de artigos no nosso grupo de leitura, mas abandonamos após 5 textos por achar que em geral, embora e talvez justamente porque estes tenham ideias ou um argumento interessante, eles não desenvolvem, ou deixam de lado consequências das mesmas. A introdução é bastante pro-forma. SF as Hamlet do Hiroki Azuma tem uma comparação maluca da ficção científica com Hamlet, com uma analogia do pai fantasma com a ideia de totalidade narrativa, show more que se perde, mas assombra. O problema é que isso não articula bem com a ideia do "otaku 3" (o otaku ápice do pós-modernismo), e o exemplo das obras da Arai Motoko, e a questão das narrativas é muito melhor exposta no livro famoso do autor (Database Animals). O texto da Susan Napier tampouco se sustenta muito bem, a ideia de "estruturas profundas" fica solta (o meio da animação sendo mais propício a uma relação mais solta da representação com o real que levaria a uma abundância de tratamentos ligados à fantasia e ficção científica). A ideia de que Evangelion e Lain apontam para um tratamento pós-moderno da realidade, onde ela pode se desdobrar como uma criação mental é interessante, mas não é bem suportada pelo texto. O texto dos Chiba (Naoki e Hiroko) também fala de um assunto muito interessante - palavras emprestadas, estrangeirismos, nos animes. Mas remete a outra bibliografia, apenas indicando o "efeito cassete" - o brilho que a falta de referencialidade, palavras magras de associação, e passando pela diferenciação clássica do japonês do wago, kango, garaigo, no entanto trabalhando isso de modo muito de passagem / superficial, nas obras (Maccros Plus, Akira). Por fim, o texto "Sexualidade Otaku", do Tamaki Saitou, é uma espécie de condensado de seu livro, e de fato fiquei com vontade de ler. Não é um texto tão problemático, mas é denso demais, e fortemente apoiado em elementos de psicanálise que não domino.
Enfim: os artigos não são ruins. Mas não recomendo, pelo caráter meio superficial com que ideias são tratadas. show less
Enfim: os artigos não são ruins. Mas não recomendo, pelo caráter meio superficial com que ideias são tratadas. show less
Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Takayuki Tatsumi
When I first heard of this book, I preordered and awaited it breathlessly. When it came earlier than I expected, I was thrilled. After I opened the pages, I found myself emerged in a dry, difficult-to-follow, academic book that is full of more quotes from other books than it has original text.
I am not saying that Takayuki Tatsumi isn't knowledgeable on his subject, quite the opposite. I think perhaps he is too close to the subject to be able to write to a layman audience and it shows.
My show more difficulties with the book ranged from it's style to references. Perhaps it is more for the academic minded; it was definitely published via an academic press, and definitely reads like a dissertation. I believe the author is somewhere between 10 and 15 years older than myself, creating a gap in the information streams in which we were exposed to. He makes reference to far too many movies/books/relevant figures (authors, playwrights, directors), etc, that I am simply not familiar with. And while normally this is not a problem, he fails to explain to my understanding who these people and their works are. I felt in the completely dark throughout this book.
But perhaps the worse part was, it was a slow, painstaking read for the 200-odd pages of half-page text that graced the pages. It didn't help that I would have to stop again and again to consult online references to who people or their works were.
Normally, I would give this kind of book only 1 star, but it covers two subjects I am very fond of: Japan and cyberpunk. So it gets an extra star, for anyone NOT deeply interested in these subjects, I recommend to steer clear away. This is not a casual read by any stretch of the imagination.
(@ Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822337746) show less
I am not saying that Takayuki Tatsumi isn't knowledgeable on his subject, quite the opposite. I think perhaps he is too close to the subject to be able to write to a layman audience and it shows.
My show more difficulties with the book ranged from it's style to references. Perhaps it is more for the academic minded; it was definitely published via an academic press, and definitely reads like a dissertation. I believe the author is somewhere between 10 and 15 years older than myself, creating a gap in the information streams in which we were exposed to. He makes reference to far too many movies/books/relevant figures (authors, playwrights, directors), etc, that I am simply not familiar with. And while normally this is not a problem, he fails to explain to my understanding who these people and their works are. I felt in the completely dark throughout this book.
But perhaps the worse part was, it was a slow, painstaking read for the 200-odd pages of half-page text that graced the pages. It didn't help that I would have to stop again and again to consult online references to who people or their works were.
Normally, I would give this kind of book only 1 star, but it covers two subjects I am very fond of: Japan and cyberpunk. So it gets an extra star, for anyone NOT deeply interested in these subjects, I recommend to steer clear away. This is not a casual read by any stretch of the imagination.
(@ Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822337746) show less
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