Mechademia. Vol. 3, Limits of the human

Contents......Page 6
Preface: The Limits of the Human......Page 10
Introduction: The Limits of \"The Limits of the Human\"......Page 12
Contours: Around the Human......Page 18
Refiguring the Human......Page 20
The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru......Page 25
Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard......Page 47
Undressing and Dressing Loli: A Search for the Identity of the Japanese Lolita......Page 64
Manga: Komatopia......Page 82
Companions: With the Human......Page 90
Speciesism, Part I: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation......Page 92
Stigmata in Tezuka Osamu\'s Works......Page 114
Disarming Atom: Tezuka Osamu\'s Manga at War and Peace......Page 128
States of Emergency: Urban Space and the Robotic Body in the Metropolis Tales......Page 144
Emotional Infectivity: Cyborg Affect and the Limits of the Human......Page 167
Manga: The Signal of Noise......Page 190
Compossibles: Of the Human......Page 206
Gundam and the Future of Japanoid Art......Page 208
Pop Culture Icons: Religious Inflections of the Character Toy in Taiwan......Page 217
Machinic Desires: Hans Bellmer\'s Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence......Page 239
Postscript: On \"The Living\"......Page 272
A Healing Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama Kaidashi kiko......Page 273
Lost in Transition: Train Men and Dolls in Millennial Japan......Page 276
Howl\'s Moving Castle......Page 278
Playing Outside the Box with Mind Game......Page 280
From Transnationalization to Globalization: The Experience of Hong Kong......Page 283
\"Always Exoticize!\" Cyborg Identities and the Challenge of the Nonhuman in Full Metal Apache......Page 285
Postmodern Is Old Hat: Samurai Champloo......Page 288
Giant Robots and Superheroes: Manifestations of Divine Power, East and West An Interview with Crispin Freeman......Page 291
Contributors......Page 300
Call for Papers......Page 304