Past Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post- Human in Post-Urban Environments
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2018Cita bibliográfica
Barros-Grela, Eduardo. "Past Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post-Human in Post-Urban Environments", in Cityscapes of the Future. Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, ed. Yael Maurer and Meyrav Koren-Kuik. Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 24-48. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004361317_004
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[Abstract] Neon Genesis Evangelion (Hideaki Anno), a Japanese anime series, presents a postapocalyptic
space that is exposed to continuous attacks by external mechanical devices.
This space shows a bipolar identity defined by the permanent possibility of
destruction
and an obsession about the defence of the city (Tokyo-3). Evangelion looks
at urban spaces as places for production of post-human subjectivities, as it identifies
human beings with robotic evolutions of their minds in the same way as it portrays
the unstable plasticity of the city. This plasticity is represented by an inversion of traditional
urban patterns, which results in a mind-challenging post-urban space. This
chapter focuses on the analysis of how these representations originate the paradigms
of post-human spatialities in a post-urban space.
The same problematic relation is also discussed in Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark,
where the urban settings appears again as a destructed cluster of spaces whose recreation
is taken up by an imaginary yet tangible place. In both instances (Auster’s
novel and Anno’s manga) the alternate city is created as a referent for spatialities. It
is presented as a disorganised object, as a body without organs, either as a retractable
city (Evangelion), or as a space in permanent deconstruction (Man in the Dark). This
chapter analyses how space and spatialities perform and are performed by reconstructions
of new urbanities, and how they are related to the dialogue between post-human
identifications and the affective visualities of place and urban territory.
Palabras chave
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Auster, Paul
Spatiality
Post apocalypse
Post-human
Auster, Paul
Spatiality
Post apocalypse
Post-human
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978-90-04-36130-0