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.
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.
显然,那些被我们称为“死肥宅”的家伙们,都非常喜欢自己那种宅宅又悠然的感觉。我们容易想当然地认为,死肥宅并不经常出门,所以肯定找不到女朋友;然而,根据牛顿的万有引力学说,质量越大,吸引力就越大。 当然,即使有牛顿为死肥宅们站台,对你来说,理解死肥宅依然是非常...
评分显然,那些被我们称为“死肥宅”的家伙们,都非常喜欢自己那种宅宅又悠然的感觉。我们容易想当然地认为,死肥宅并不经常出门,所以肯定找不到女朋友;然而,根据牛顿的万有引力学说,质量越大,吸引力就越大。 当然,即使有牛顿为死肥宅们站台,对你来说,理解死肥宅依然是非常...
评分我并不懂社会学、心理学或哲学,只是写一写自己的想法。 关于Otaku的价值观,东浩纪搬出了科耶夫的清高主义和齐泽克的犬儒主义: 「“美国式的生活被满足消费者需求的商品所包围,或者隨着媒体起舞改变行为模式的消费社会,与其说是人类,还不如称之为动物。像小鸟筑巢、蜘...
评分我并不懂社会学、心理学或哲学,只是写一写自己的想法。 关于Otaku的价值观,东浩纪搬出了科耶夫的清高主义和齐泽克的犬儒主义: 「“美国式的生活被满足消费者需求的商品所包围,或者隨着媒体起舞改变行为模式的消费社会,与其说是人类,还不如称之为动物。像小鸟筑巢、蜘...
评分这是我最近在看一本有趣的书。 开头因为译者序言一上来就是黑格尔和kojeve把我吓傻了——立刻坚定不移地要去读完这本书,才第一章果然被作者的otaku属性与评论给吓尿了。尽管作者的成书是2001年,看起来有那么一点遥远,但是作者本人为宅男宅女说话不腰疼的姿势,我还是要毕恭...
很好看也很relevant,虽然值得吐槽的地方也不少
评分对照阅读!不过这个题目是怎么回事啦,每次感觉英语日语书翻译来去都会很故意地改个看着很fancy和appealing的标题2333
评分对照阅读!不过这个题目是怎么回事啦,每次感觉英语日语书翻译来去都会很故意地改个看着很fancy和appealing的标题2333
评分实在讨厌这种用尾注的书 关键尾注还在全书最后 简直就是电子书阅读的头号敌人 英译本还是一贯地出现了很多意译删节; 书还是很不错的!
评分写着论文发现和自己想法一致的变态感觉真好~~~
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