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Curti, Giorgio Hadi. "The ghost in the city and a landscape of life: A reading of difference in Shirow and Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26. (2008): 87–106. Added by: joachim (6/7/10, 12:41 AM) Last edited by: joachim (11/26/16, 6:42 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1068/d458t BibTeX citation key: Curti2008 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Ghost in the Shell", Adaptation, Animation, Japan, Manga, Oshii. Mamoru, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Shirow. Masamune Creators: Curti Collection: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space |
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In this paper I demonstrate how an ontological perspective variously informed by Spinozan and Deleuzian philosophy and the (Shinto-influenced) work of Japanese artists Masamune Shirow and Mamoru Oshii offers an approach to landscape which decenters human position(s) and allows an exploration of landscape on its own terms. Through an empirical exploration of this approach, I analyze the animated Japanese science fiction film Ghost in the Shell (1998 [1995]), and discuss how its imagery, ideas, and philosophies can elucidate and aid in an understanding of landscape, not as a separate or passive entity but as a relational living and endeavoring thing.
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