Hiroki Azuma is codirector of the Academy of Humanities in the Center for the Study of World Civilizations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. A leading cultural critic in Japan, he is the author of seven books, including Ontological, Postal, which won the 2000 Suntory Literary Prize.
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.
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. He traces otaku’s ascendancy to the distorted conditions created in Japan by the country’s phenomenal postwar modernization, its inability to come to terms with its defeat in the Second World War, and America’s subsequent cultural invasion. More broadly, Azuma argues that the consumption behavior of otaku is representative of the postmodern consumption of culture in general, which sacrifices the search for greater significance to almost animalistic instant gratification. In this context, culture becomes simply a database of plots and characters and its consumers mere “database animals.”
A vital non-Western intervention in postmodern culture and theory, Otaku is also an appealing and perceptive account of Japanese popular culture.
發表於2024-09-26
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一星給數據庫,一星給超平麵,一星給過視。論證還是過於粗糙,很多時候基本上是在自說自話,不提大敘事,虛構清高,動物時代化綫性三分法問題有多大(在所謂的動物化時代,特攝作為大敘事的典型,在2000年之際誕生瞭很多優秀作品,這些都被東浩紀無視瞭),全文也是最後對galgame...
評分(原為“ 關於利奧塔《後現代狀態》發錶40周年討論會 ”的英語演講,自己聽譯,不含與主持人的對話和圓桌討論。沒有找到閤適的小組就發到這裏瞭。) 資料庫動物何以成為政治動物? 在我看來,齣版於1979年的《後現代狀態》是一本充滿瞭對未來預判的書。比如,在後現代狀態中,...
評分一星給數據庫,一星給超平麵,一星給過視。論證還是過於粗糙,很多時候基本上是在自說自話,不提大敘事,虛構清高,動物時代化綫性三分法問題有多大(在所謂的動物化時代,特攝作為大敘事的典型,在2000年之際誕生瞭很多優秀作品,這些都被東浩紀無視瞭),全文也是最後對galgame...
評分我並不懂社會學、心理學或哲學,隻是寫一寫自己的想法。 關於Otaku的價值觀,東浩紀搬齣瞭科耶夫的清高主義和齊澤剋的犬儒主義: 「“美國式的生活被滿足消費者需求的商品所包圍,或者隨著媒體起舞改變行為模式的消費社會,與其說是人類,還不如稱之為動物。像小鳥築巢、蜘...
評分一星給數據庫,一星給超平麵,一星給過視。論證還是過於粗糙,很多時候基本上是在自說自話,不提大敘事,虛構清高,動物時代化綫性三分法問題有多大(在所謂的動物化時代,特攝作為大敘事的典型,在2000年之際誕生瞭很多優秀作品,這些都被東浩紀無視瞭),全文也是最後對galgame...
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很好看也很relevant,雖然值得吐槽的地方也不少
評分理論框架未免太大。以及,Otaku作為一個文化現象,和Geek和搖滾樂迷和嬉皮有什麼本質區彆嗎?
評分畢業論文base.
評分英文宅文化研究的論文全都引這本書,談數據庫消費...數據庫消費我沒有什麼意見啦
評分相當有趣~~
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