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GITS Philosophy

posted 14 years ago by dragon_dance
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I am wondering if somebody can point me to some books/works by various authors that deal with philosophy that was touched upon in the Stand Alone Complex series, possibly the GITS movies as well. I am no philosophy major (I study rocks and minerals) so I'm kind of lost when it comes to finding philosophy books. I have these thus far:

"The Ghost in the Machine" by Arthur Koestler

"The Phenomenology of Spirit" by Georg W.F. Hegel

"How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics" by N. Katherine Hayles

"Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality" by various authors

"Individualism and Economic Order" by Friedrich Hayek

Any books by Donna Haraway (her essay "Cyborg Manifesto")

I am actually growing somewhat familiar with Haraway as I am actually reading her essays in my Women in Science class. If anything, this class is not scientific essays, but full of philosophical essays that make little sense to me. I am not generally good at reading philosophy unless it is dumbed down for me...I have a hard enough time with geology jargon.

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[–] Liquidize105 14 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell

A few of particular interest to me: The one set in the movie theater in the cyberbrain of the indie director is specifically about structuralism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism

Kuze's revolution deals with Marxist theory of Base and Superstructure in the cyber world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstructure_%28sociology%29

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[–] dragon_dance 14 years ago

Okay, this may be a stupid question, but after I read your sig...do you visit any video game forums by any chance?

Margeary is dreaming of horses.

Rise and rise again-until lambs become lions.