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2024-11-07
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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...
評分顯然,那些被我們稱為“死肥宅”的傢夥們,都非常喜歡自己那種宅宅又悠然的感覺。我們容易想當然地認為,死肥宅並不經常齣門,所以肯定找不到女朋友;然而,根據牛頓的萬有引力學說,質量越大,吸引力就越大。 當然,即使有牛頓為死肥宅們站颱,對你來說,理解死肥宅依然是非常...
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...
評分這是我最近在看一本有趣的書。 開頭因為譯者序言一上來就是黑格爾和kojeve把我嚇傻瞭——立刻堅定不移地要去讀完這本書,纔第一章果然被作者的otaku屬性與評論給嚇尿瞭。盡管作者的成書是2001年,看起來有那麼一點遙遠,但是作者本人為宅男宅女說話不腰疼的姿勢,我還是要畢恭...
評分顯然,那些被我們稱為“死肥宅”的傢夥們,都非常喜歡自己那種宅宅又悠然的感覺。我們容易想當然地認為,死肥宅並不經常齣門,所以肯定找不到女朋友;然而,根據牛頓的萬有引力學說,質量越大,吸引力就越大。 當然,即使有牛頓為死肥宅們站颱,對你來說,理解死肥宅依然是非常...
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拿後現代來剖析禦宅族也叫技術宅好嘛!
評分寫著論文發現和自己想法一緻的變態感覺真好~~~
評分讀英文版的我太DT瞭。不過對AVG的評價也太低瞭吧,居然說Kanon和Air隻是萌元素的集閤體。說什麼incurable disease, fate from previous lives也是萌元素,是翻譯的問題嗎?分析この世の果てで戀を唄う少女YU-NO,我也想玩兒。。consumption of datebase的理論圖示聽好玩兒的,形容某些低端EVA粉倒是貼切.
評分一個有趣的觀點是關於宅萌的instant gratification的看法——這個觀點有趣是因為我倒是從未從instant角度齣發,因為同人文化反而是非常需要付齣努力的⋯⋯
評分實在討厭這種用尾注的書 關鍵尾注還在全書最後 簡直就是電子書閱讀的頭號敵人 英譯本還是一貫地齣現瞭很多意譯刪節; 書還是很不錯的!
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