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if(!Yusuke is living out a typical teen existence until the day he dies trying save a little boy.The word "Japanimation" is neologism that is made by two words,
Japan+animation.Now, Japanimation is seen in whole world.And people
outside Japan are interested in the Japanese subculture including Manga and
Japanimation, etc.Fordist
social environment of globalization will include Japanimation and ponder
its meaning.The film "GHOST IN THE SHELL" is set in the world of AD 2029.It is a world of cybernetics and sophisticated
electronic information networks , where the border between people and
machines sometimes becomes blurred or invisible.Except for the kernel of their brain, some people in this age
already have substituted a cybernetic, prosthetic body for their own body .Through the net, crimes
have become more sophisticated and more violent.The story of the film is
about a conflict and conspiracy among some departments and agents in the
government.This unidentified super hacker started out as a
computer virus manufactured by the Foreign Ministry."Puppet Master" says "memory can not be defined , but it
defines mankind."As if it were the water in cup, the identity of a human
needs a form or shell at the same time that it needs "ghost".We can't
distinguish between shell and ghost in human beings.What is self or identity for cyborg ma(chi)n(e)?Because her body is almost a machine, she is caught in a paranoia
according to which she was made as an android and provided with a virtual
self and an artificial "ghost".In fact, some people arrested by the "Shell
Squad" as the "Puppet Master" have turned out to be just agents who were
given fictitious personalities by cyber brain hacking.They were "puppets without ghost" and they have only illusional image
and memory and self identity.Broadly speaking, the question here is is the self a mind or a spirit or
does the self consist of a suit, a shell, prosthetic technologies?So, as audience of this film ,we share the same question with
Major Motoko: the problem of the "shellfishness of selfishness" and the
question of "Who am I ?"It seems that he allows
himself to be caught.He affirms, "I'm not an AI.For natural life, DNA is nothing more
than a program designed to preserve itself.And then life, when organized
into species, relies on genes to be its memory system.If these processes become more complicated and sophisticated,
then certain programs or algorithms are going to become more similar to
life itself.Of course, it is very different from the life in nature, but
at least we can see and define some information program as Artificial Life
(AL).In this sense, the "Puppet Master" as AL uses "meme" and cultural
genes to control many humans and systems.The exercise will be considered successful if novel
properties, unimagined by the designer, emerge spontaneously."If AL were truly more than a simple program and could become life, it
would send some information to its own offspring by "imperfect
transmission".The behavior and intention of the "Puppet Master" in this
film is based on this logic.Thus in the end of this film, the "Puppet
Master" proposes to Motoko to merge with each other.One probably could say that we have already known "Puppet Master" in our
ordinary lives.This is why we can consider the work of huge capitalist
corporations and the complicated virtual financial system from the point of
view of Artificial Life (or Artificial Market).There is nothing like the
"invisible hand of God", but there are some invisible hands of "Puppet
Masters".Of course this is just an anonymous process, but at least one can
say that the "Puppet Master" is an allegory of information capitalism.De
Landa presents a similar point of view about the market."Markets and
Antimarkets in the World Economy", in Techno Science and Cyber
Culture, Routledge 1996) Any replicating system that produces variable
copies of itself in order to get new evolving forms must need "the
divergent manifestation of the antimarket".And it has
always been an "antimarket".To analyze this film further, I would go back to the issue of
"Japanimation" itself.Western people
toward Japanese culture.Orientalism: Japan Panic", in The Space of Identity,
Routledge 1995.One can hardly find anything religious, linguistic or
cultural that is common among these varied areas.The principle of its identity
lies outside itself: what endows it with some vague sense of unity is that
Orient is that which is excluded and objectified by the West, in the
service of its historical progress.Orient also was
invented by the world of information capitalism.Orientalism",
Japan not only is located geographically , but also is projected
chronologically.Jean Baudrillard once called Japan a satellite in orbit.Now Japan has been located in the future of technology."If the future is technological, and if technology has become
'Japanised', then the syllogism would suggest that the future is now
Japanese, too.Japan is the
future, and it is a future that seems to be transcending and displacing
Western modernity."Japanimation is defined by the stereotype of Japan as such an image of
the future.The West is seduced and attracted by the model on the one hand,
while on the other hand the model of Japan is looked down upon rather than
envied by the West.Orientalism works there as a
manipulator of the complex about Japan, in which Japan is the object of
transference of the envy and contempt from other cultures and nations.So
now, a role resembling that of the Jew is being played more and more by the
Japanese.Of course it is vain to link the Jew and the Japanese actually
and essentially.Japanese ,which I would like to call
"Japanoid" for not actually Japanese , exists neither inside nor outside
Japan.This image functions as the surface or rather the interface
controlling the relation between Japan and the other.It is through this mirror stage and its cultural apparatus
that Western or other people misunderstand and fail to recognize an always
illusory Japanese culture, but it also is the mechanism through which
Japanese misunderstand themselves.Different from the Lacanian mirror stage, a complete solution for this
structure of disavowal, through which a "real" Japan could be properly
recognized, is impossible.In particular, the
"Puppet Master" has whispered a passage from the Bible to Motoko when he
has tried to approach her through cyber hacking."We resemble each other's essence,
mirror images of one another's psyche."Then we
shall see face to face.One
is about the encounter between the human and the machine, the human and the
net.Rey Chow has an interesting analysis of this point."In Chaplin's assembly line worker, visuality works toward an
automatization of an oppressed figure whose bodily movements become
excessive and comical."Postmodern Automatons" in
Writing Diaspora, Rey Chow, Indiana University Press,
1993.To affirm the culture and the industry of the modern world is to summon
the "automated other" by introducing the rhythm of technology and machine
of each age into ordinary life.Needless to say the Japanese is being seen as the
"automated other".Japanimation, which organizes the image of
automatization and animation (giving it a life form), constructs and
presents a "Japan" as an "automaton culture" and as the "Japanoid" in
"Postmodern Times".It is worth returning to the "Puppet Master" in this film, because the
"Puppet Master" reminds us of the control of the "automaton".In order to supplement her void (as cyborg, as woman,
as minority, etc.She as a minority would abandon her "ghost" to a huge system and
net.This is the look of the feminist critic.Does her power of animation
take us back to the language of God, a superior being who bestows life upon
an inferior?"This is the task of the cyborg as half machine,
half animal and transgressive being.Conversely, when a subject takes up
that tactics of transgression, it becomes like a cyborg unconsciously.The "Japanoid Automaton" could be rejected in this way, but this
rejection and resistance has always broken down in Japanese subculture.In this
cultural climate, a Japan imaginarily separated from both West and East is
reproduced again and again in the political unconscious of Japanimation
(subculture).In certain sense,
Japanimation is an ideological apparatus at the same time that it is also
(virtually?Why do Asian landscapes excites the cyberpunk imagination?But it should be considered that Japanimation has illustrated the
mutation of global capitalism itself by appropriating the illusion of Asia
or Japan.Japanimation is traveling through the cultural diaspora into the world,
and is translated, communicated, and misunderstood.It should be cited the
passage from Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto : "There is no way
to read the following list from a standpoint of "identification", of a
unitary self.If the image of shell and suit in cyborg has been moving, it is
not vain to discover the "automated other" in various expressions and in
global information capitalism itself.It is another way to "animate" the
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