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"She Was Raised on Blood": Technological Anxieties, Animal Intimacies, and Evolutionary Impulses in Marebito.
- Source :
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English Language Notes . Oct2021, Vol. 59 Issue 2, p121-135. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Contemporary Japan has been widely identified as a scene of crisis marked by the breakdown of established sociocultural institutions and the subordination of identity and desire to ever-evolving technocapitalist whims. Japanese-horror (J-horror) media of this period reveals a collective concern with these cultural themes, routinely employing haunted technologies to elaborate the perils and possibilities of existence in a world of incertitude. This article examines Shimizu Takashi's 2004 Marebito with attention to how the film develops a critique of the estranging forces of late capitalism and elaborates an alluring alternative, located in a return to what Derrida describes as the scene of humanity's second trauma: "the Darwinian." In doing so, the article traces how the drive for self-annihilation emerges in Marebito not only as a terrifying prospect but also as an occasion to forge intimate relationships with the repressed of culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00138282
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- English Language Notes
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153524242
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9277315