Hourigan, Daniel (2013) Ghost in the Shell 2, technicity and the subject. Film-Philosophy, 17 (1). pp. 51-67.
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Abstract
This discussion examines how Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence questions what remains of being human and the assemblage of humanity when the human and the machine collide and elide their limit of differentiation. It will be shown how the film's predilection for technology in its narrative content and technological rationalism in its wider conceptual embedding reconstructs humanity but rejects the metaphysical valuation of humanity through notions of dignity, taboo, respect, affect, and so forth. By connecting this twin problematic of ontological difference and metaphysical poverty to the ontological philosophy of Martin Heidegger and psychoanalytic philosophy of Slavoj Zizek, this paper aims to unearth and lay bare the paradoxes inherent in the view of technology and society deployed by Innocence and how the film is able to, in the presence of these explicitly ontological paradoxes, put the question of what constitutes a human Subject into crisis by coding it as a symptom.
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| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | This publication is copyright. It may be reproduced in whole or in part for the purposes of study, research, or review, but is subject to the inclusion of an acknowledgment of the source. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. |
| Faculty / Department / School: | Historic - Faculty of Arts - School of Humanities and Communication |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2014 05:41 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Mar 2017 06:09 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Oshii; Ghost in the Shell 2; Wachowski; The Matrix Reloaded; Heidegger; Zizek; Lacan; Parmenides; psychoanalysis; ontology; metaphysics |
| Fields of Research : | 16 Studies in Human Society > 1601 Anthropology > 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology 19 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing > 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media > 190201 Cinema Studies 22 Philosophy and Religious Studies > 2203 Philosophy > 220309 Metaphysics |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | E Expanding Knowledge > 97 Expanding Knowledge > 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/25910 |
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