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Silvio Published in New Essay Collection


Carl Silvio, Assistant Professor of English, has recently published an essay in Cinema Anime, a new collection of essays on Japanese animation. Silvio’s chapter, "Animated Bodies and Cybernetic Selves: The Animatrix and the Question of Posthumanity," explores the complex landscape of post-humanism as expressed in The Animatrix, the animated exposition to the wildly popular, live-action Matrix trilogy.

If you see Carl, please congratulate him on his contribution to this cutting-edge collection of scholarship.

Description of Cinema Anime from Amazon.com:
This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with anime's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies. The contributors dismantle the distinction between "high" and "low" culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of anime and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global.

Silvio, Carl.  "Animated Bodies and Cybernetic Selves: The Animatrix and the Question of Posthumanity."  Cinema Anime.  Ed. Steven Brown.  New York: Palgrave, 2006.  113-37.

Tony Vinci
English/Philosophy
04/12/2006