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Who would win in an out and out slugfest between David Martinez and Ryuko Matoi? Would the Sandivistan be enough to overcome the power of Kamui Senketsu? Would the Scissor Blade be a match for Gorilla Arms? Are Life Fibers resistant to bullets? Is Rebecca Trans!?!
I don’t care!
This video is an analysis of the ways each series approaches and engages with systems of control.
Chapters
0:00 - 1:11 Intro
1:12 - 7:01 The Body Politic
7:02 - 12:24 Machine Society
12:25 - 18:40 - Futurity
18:40-20:47 - Conclusion
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Notes:
1. Awards, www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...
2. KLK MAL.
3. For a more in-depth examination of the post human in Kill la Kill, see Vasquez, 2016.
4. Haraway, 2010. Pg. 147.
5. Wikia chip ware, cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Chi...
6. Russell, 2008. Pg. 106
7. Fukuyama, 2006. pp. 182, 194. If you have any interest in the ideological foundations which would be necessary for the kind of world represented in Edgerunners, or Cyber Punk more broadly, than Fukuyama’s text is necessary reading.
8. Tsangaris, 2018. Pg. 17.
9. Fisher, 2009, Pg. 16.
10. Tassi, 2022.
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“Chipware: Cyberpunk” in Fandom.Com cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Chi... (accessed Oct 7, 2022)
Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 2009
Fukuyama, Francis. The End of History and the Last Man. New York, Free Press, 2006.
Haraway, Donna. “A MANIFESTO FOR CYBORGS: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIALIST FEMINISM IN THE 1980s” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge, New York, 2010.
“Kill la Kill.” My Anime List. myanimelist.net/anime/18679/K... (accessed Oct 7, 2022)
Russell, Keith. “The Glimpse and Fan Service: New Media, New Aesthetics”. The International Journal of The Humanities, Vol. 6, No. 5. 2008.
Tassi, Paul. “As ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Sells 20 Million Copies, Forgive, Don’t Forget”. Forbes. September 29, 2022. www.forbes.com/sites/paultass... (accessed Oct 7, 2022)
Tsangaris, Michael. “Re-adapting radical forms of expression in the digital era -Investigating new aspects of recuperation” 1. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology / RC57 Visual Sociology, Jul 2018, Toronto, Canada.
Vasquez, William. A Posthuman Analysis of Kill La Kill. Thesis. California State University, Long Beach, 2016.