Prosthetic Kokoro: Technics and Affects in Japan’s Robot and Idol Anime.
This paper examines the Japanese television series Idolmaster: Xenoglossia (2007) by reading its creative mix of robot and idol anime genres alongside Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy of technology. Focusing on moe, an intersubjective, affective form of relationality among viewers and fictional charact...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 483 - 503 |
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| Formato: | Film/TV Criticism and Review |
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University of California Press
Nov2025
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