In his 1986 analysis of Foucault, philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1988) asks what the struggle for modern subjectivity might look like given that the subject must resist, on the one hand, the impulse to individualize themselves by exerting power over others…
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A Kiss of Death/Life: The Formation of Cyborg Subjectivity in Malice@Doll (2001)
by Ai-Ting Chung • August 6, 2018 • 7 Comments
In her 2005 book Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity Sue Short argues that “science and technology become the equivalent of magical totems equipped with the ability to transform entire worlds without the need for struggle”[1]. The dystopia of Konaka Chiaki’s…