ISBN:
9780816653515
,
0816653518
,
9780816653522
,
0816653526
Language:
English
Pages:
xxix, 144 p.
Edition:
[English ed.]
Uniform Title:
Dōbutsukasuru posutomodan
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306/.10952
Keywords:
Subculture
;
Popular culture
;
Massenkultur
;
Subkultur
;
Japan
;
Japan
;
Subkultur
;
Japan
;
Massenkultur
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma -- Translators' introduction -- What is otaku culture? -- The otaku's pseudo-Japan -- The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality
Note:
"Originally published in Japanese as Dōbutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kōdansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso. - Translated from the Japanese
,
Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-139) and index
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