Post-modernism begins with the death of the individual subject. There are no longer boundaries between real and unreal, or between objective and subjective; the possibility arises that there is nothing beyond the simulacrum--no original and no history. This is the freedom of multiplicity. But if we fear the loss of subjectivity and cling to the religious faith of the ghost in the shell (if we posit a singular notion of consciousness tucked away in that head of ours), we will experience greater and greater fragmentation, nihilism and madness. On the other hand, if we embrace the sea of information and the multiplicity and interconnectedness of all things, we will be able to move into something postmodern and posthuman. Instead of dated concept of I doubt; I think; therefore I am, Ghost in the Shell gives an answer to our outdated modern assumptions: we can embrace the postmodern world and become one with it.
And it is this sensibility of post-modernism that I will seek to deny.
And it is this sensibility of post-modernism that I will seek to deny.
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