was the first major invasion. From Grendizer Mazinger to a generation of ufo robot took possession of our young people (young) mind. In Japan they would explode in our homes. Several decades after the conquest would be repeated. This time it was not monsters, but monsters, not soldiers huge massive but the trappings of small pocket and funny aliens, not of confrontation but of mortal races without bloodshed. Actarus and Hiroshi but not Pokemon.
For a nation out apart from the second world war, devastated by atomic bombs, humiliated and defeated, was a symbolic revenge. A burst of nationalism accompanied the invasion of planetary robot , whose animated futuristic aesthetic revival of the ancient samurai warrior. But for those robots to colonize our imaginations tell us what of Japan? And in general the whole universe manga - or souls - which mirror we offer?
Manga - a "world" ancient, as shown in his Marcello Ghilardi Philosophy in the manga. Beauty and imagination in contemporary Japan (Mimesis) - is not only a leading Japanese. There is an identity "pure" Japan that somehow flows into strips. In fact that world Composite - "as in Chinese and Japanese painting of the literati, the manga keeps the integration of painting and calligraphy, drawing and writing," writes Ghilardi - comes from many intersections. Not only are the rolls, but also the American comics. Fascination, meeting, repulsion are the elements that move back and into the world of manga.
Even more complex is the generation posterione the first big wave. While Actarus and Hiroshi are encapsulated in the bodies of which go to war with UFOs but they remain separate (and their identity intact), the bodies of heroes and heroines to their success are changing dramatically: symbionts, and entered the car together in a confusion total between organic and inorganic, organic and artificial . Even here there are contacts with what is happening in the West and in particular the generation of artists post-human.
artists post-human explore that dimension in which the human comes into contact with something else, in a confusion of the Worlds (plant-animal), of gender (female-male) of elements (organic and inorganic). But which body? To which unit they attack? "The object of these artists, is the transformation of body, his disidentification to other forms or expressions where the type and form no longer define the human being, its uniqueness and belonging. Orlan, who transformed the profile of his face through a series of surgeries, Franko B. acting with abrasions, cuts, bleeding, in a bloody manner on his person, and even Stelarc progressively defining the boundary between man and machine through uncertain implants, grafting, mechanical operations and technology "(Belpoliti, Collapses ). The body, staged by this generation of artists, is a body marked, engraved, dismembered, torn to pieces. A bloody body, open. The very concept of art is overwhelmed by this "show of diversity, disease, denial" (Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Identity mutants). The wound by the "transition from representation to reality." The transformation of Cutting body, flesh, blood brings with it the metamorphosis "of the action in the ritual, the audience in the executioner." art ceases to be a diaphragm, to assume a distance between what is represented and who is represented. Is resolved in staging : author and work the same. It is not just relegated to a world of art. The prosthesis, transplantation, the same plastic surgery trivialize this speech, making it accessible to anyone: they are all stages of a process artificialisation or denaturalization of the body, "a radical restructuring of what we have right now called the body" (Esposito, immunitas ).
But the breakdown of identities (and bodies) that takes place in the world of something original manga wake of Eastern thought. The word Ghilardi: "The armor of the robot, the result of more advanced technology, are marked with the models of ancient armor, their transformations and combinations reminiscent of the dressing of the samurai, fighting postures and echoing clashes between samurai of high rank ; and the staging of lives ephemeral and transient, in space or science fiction scenarios, supported by groups such as the one in the substantiality of the self (muga ) And impermanence ( mujo ), typical of Buddhist sensibility. " And again: "The weapons used, in particular, that resolves all the conflict and is evoked in a loud voice from the pilot, seem to evoke the idea that each unit can typically Shinto the car ki (energy, vital breath , the breath, the spirit that animates the matter) and be a receptacle for kami, or natural powers divine spirits that circulate everywhere . God does not dwell only on the scope of nature, or the ancient works of art and craftsmanship, but also reveals itself in the unexpected folds of technology and science. "
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