Chapter 8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson inVirtual Light

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS viii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xxiii
5. Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence 1
6. Part One Theory
7. Chapter 1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in the Postmillenarian Milieu 9
8. Chapter 2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric 38
9. Part Two History
10. Chapter 3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the FutureWar Novels of the 1890s 63
11. Chapter 4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yanagita, and Akutagawa 71
12. Chapter 5. WhichWay to Coincidence?: A Queer Reading of J. G. Ballard’s Crash 86
13. Chapter 6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder 93
14. Part Three Aesthetics
15. Chapter 7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades 105
16. Chapter 8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson inVirtual Light 112
17. Chapter 9. Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru 123
18. Part Four Performance
19. Chapter 10. Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe’s ‘‘The Man That Was Used Up’’ as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama’s Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin 137
20. Part Five Representation
21. Chapter 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narratives on the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity 151
22. Conclusion—Waiting for Godzilla: Toward a Globalist Theme Park 171
23. Appendix 1: Toward the Frontiers of ‘‘Fiction’’: From Metafiction and Cyberpunk, through Avant-Pop—The Correspondence between Takayuki Tatsumi and Larry McCaffery 185
24. Appendix 2: A Dialogue with the Nanofash Pygmalion: An Interview with Richard Calder 197
25. Notes 205
26. Works Cited 223
27. Index 237