Otaku : Japan's database animals

Otaku : Japan's database animals / Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.

"Hiroki Azuma's Otaku offers a critical, philosophical, and historical inquiry into the characteristics and consequences of this consumer subculture. For Azuma, one of Japan's leading public intellectuals, otaku culture mirrors the transformations of postwar Japanese society and the n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Azuma, Hiroki, 1971- (Author)
Other Authors: Abel, Jonathan E., 1971- (Translator), Kono, Shion, 1972- (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Japanese
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]
Edition:[English edition].
Subjects:
Since 1945
Subculture > Japan.
Popular culture > Japan.
Animated films > Japan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Animated films
Civilization
Popular culture
Subculture
Japan > Civilization > 1945-
Japan
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Dōbutsukasuru posutomodan.
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.

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