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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: show more biological/mechanical, human/animal, and human/monster. Anime and manga offer a constellation of posthuman prot show lessTags
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- Mechademia, Volume 3: Limits of the Human
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- Anthropology, Graphic Novels & Comics, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 306.095 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Social history Asia
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- PN6714 .L56 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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