Extended Reading
  • Rico 2022-03-23 09:01:41

    tree of life, organism, the border of extinction

    Motoko Kusanagi is a metaphor for us in the 21st century. The cyborg's body has no boundaries, it flows, changes, is crushed, and reborn from the dirt and ashes. This flow constitutes our way of being.

    In 1985, Donna Haraway published A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism...

  • Josiane 2021-11-15 08:01:26

    Lithium Flower-"Ghost in the Shell" and Artificial Intelligence (Originally published in "Iris" under April)

    And is she really human?
    She's just so something new
    A waking lithium flower
                      
                                     —— "Lithium Flower"

    Those who are familiar with the "Guns in the Shell" series will definitely not forget this Lithium Flower of Kamiyama...

  • Evie 2022-04-22 07:01:10

    Is it also possible that ghost is just a program? Can a program exist in place of ghost? Can memory be tampered with? After all, individuals rely on their survival and distinguish them from other characteristics as memory. If memory is just an implanted program, then what is the meaning of existence?

  • Terrence 2022-04-21 09:01:47

    The presentation of the stream of consciousness of philosophy, although in-depth understanding is a bit tedious, the second half of the whole is also a bit drowsy, it is undoubtedly a masterpiece of the last century. Too many unanswerable questions make people shaken and confused, and also illuminate the corner of the self

Ghost in the Shell quotes

  • Batou: There's nothing sadder than a puppet without a ghost, especially the kind with red blood running through them.

  • Project 2501: As a sentient lifeform, I hereby demand political asylum.

    Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki: Is this a joke?