Cyber-Society-Live / OTAKU: Japan's Database Animals
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A publishing event-the highly influential best seller in Japan
translated into English.
OTAKU: Japan's Database Animals
Hiroki Azuma
Translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono
University of Minnesota Press | 176 pages | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-5352-2 | paperback | $17.95
ISBN 978-0-8166-5351-5 | hardcover | $54.00
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 nature
of human behavior in the postmodern era. A vital non-Western intervention in
postmodern culture and theory, Otaku is also a perceptive account of
Japanese popular culture.
"Abandon every preconception, all ye who enter! In this mind-boggling book
on Japan's postmodernity, Hiroki Azuma conjures the ghost of the famous
post-Hegelian Kojčve, whose theory gets revived and even 'animated' here to
reinterpret the anime-saturated realism that dominates our global Japanized
reality studio. No one has more tactfully intertwined post-Derridean philosophy
with Otaku-centric subculture studies than Azuma."-Takayuki Tatsumi
"This is one of a truly seminal set of works attempting to theorize the
form of social being that we now call the otaku. One can see in this book a set
of conditions ("postmodern" really isn't adequate)-including structures of
desire, production, consumption, and a return to animal philosophy-that are
specific to Japan, but increasingly relevant to us all."-Thomas Looser
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