Nakamura Ryûtarô’s Anime, Serial Experiments, Lain (1998)
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https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2015.3.1.53-81Keywords:
embodiment, analogue, digital, mind, bodyAbstract
This paper introduces Nakamura Ryūtarō’s anime, Serial Experiments, Lain (1998) as a new type of anime, a genre nameable as an “expository anime”, for the reason that it creates a diachronic story out of a synchronic aspect of a certain field of science. The overarching topic of Experiments is electronics, focusing on the comparison between digital and analogue communication systems. Experiments unfolds the rationales, potentials, and effects of the two types of communication systems using the perceptions of the major character, a thirteen-year old girl, Rein, as well as other supporting characters.
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Eccles, John, ed. 1982. “The Human Brain and the Human Person.” In Mind and Brain: The Many-Faceted Problems, 81–98. Washington: Paragon House.
Eccles, John, and Daniel Robinson. 1991. “A Contemporary Defense of Dualism.” In Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings, edited by Louis P. Pojman, 291–305. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
Gomez, Juan Antonio, 1982. “C3 Neurological Correlation of Some Universal Principles.” In Mind and Brain: The Many-Faceted Problems, edited by John Eccles, 207–19. Washington: Paragon House.
Hayles, N. Katherine. 1999. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
––––. 2004. “Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments.” In Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information, edited by Robert Mitchel and Phillip Thurtle, 229–47. New York: Routledge.
Katō, Mikirō 加藤幹郎. 2009a. Animation no eiga-gaku『アニメーションの映画学』(Cinematography of Animation). Kyoto: Rinsen Shoten.
––––, ed. 2009b. “Fūkei no jitsuzon: Shinkai Makoto Animation-eiga ni okeru kuraudosukeipu「風景の実存: 深海誠アニメーション映画におけるクラウドスエイプ」(The Cloudscapes in Makoto Shinkai’s Animation-movies).” In <Bijuaru bunka shirīzu> Animation no eiga-gaku『＜ビジュアル文化シリーズ＞アニメーションの映画学』(“Visual Culture Series” Cinematography of Animation), 111–50. Kyoto: Rinsen Shoten.
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Konaka, Chiaki 小中千昭. 1998. Scenario Experiments: Lain the Series. Tokyo: Sony Magazines.
MacKay, Donald M. 1980. Brains, Machines and Persons. Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
Nakamura, Ryūtarō 中村隆太郎. 1998. Shiriaru ekusuperimentsu rein『シリアルエクスペリメンツ・レイン』 (Serial Experiments, Lain). Tokyo: Pioneer LDC, DVD.
Pojman, Louis. 1991. Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
Proust, Marcel. 1928. Swann’s Way, translated by C.K. Scott Monscrieff. New York: Modern Library.
Rushkoff, Douglas. 1994. Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace. San Francisco: Flamingo (book). http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&gs_mss=cyberia%20li&cp=20&gs_id=11g&xhr=t&q=cyberia+life+in+the+trenches+of+hyperspace&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=cyberia+life+in+the+&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=793ef4bddd24371e&biw=1383&bih=791, 3. (PDF)
Shaffer, Jerome. 1991. “Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem.” In Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings, edited by Louis P. Pojman, 279–89. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
Wells, Paul. 2002. Animation: Genre and Authorship. London: A Wallflower Paperback.
Wikipedia 1. “Knights of the Lambda Calculus.” Accessed January 15, 2015. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Lambda_Calculus.
Wikipedia 2. “Memex.” Accessed January 15, 2015. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex.
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24. 07. 2015
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PRINDLE, Tamae KOBAYASHI. 2015. “Nakamura Ryûtarô’s Anime, Serial Experiments, Lain (1998)”. Asian Studies 3 (1): 53-81. https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2015.3.1.53-81.
