Otaku Japan's database animals /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Japanese
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
Edition:[English ed.].
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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.