The Altered Shall Inherit the Earth: Biopower and the Disabled Body in Texhnolyze.
The anime series Texhnolyze (2003) is set in the underground city of Lux, where the human body’s ability to heal and repair itself has degraded. Those who wield power and can afford it have their amputated limbs replaced with advanced robotic prosthetics in a process known as texhnolyzation. The dis...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 91 - 111 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of California Press
Mar2018
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