Fantasy and the Female Body
By Emma Louise Backe Tamora Pierce has assumed a canonical place in fantasy literature, especially for younger readers. Pierce’s stories…
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Kill Your Darlings: Hannibal, Culture & Morality
By Emma Louise Backe When I was a child, I would ask my parents why the bad guys never won…
Introducing The Editors
As a part of the recent changes which have been occurring here at The Geek Anthropologist, this blog is now…
Seeing Is Believing: Visual Culture and Ancient Aliens
By Emma Louise Backe For centuries, humans have stared at the heavens, attempting to scry a pattern from the stars…
Cyborgs & Singularity
I know, I’ve been remiss. Even though I’ve been a die-hard anime fan since early high school, it’s taken me until recently to watch Ghost in a Shell, the pivotal Japanese science fiction film released in 1995.
Based on the manga by Masumune Shirow, Ghost in a Shell epitomizes the sheer brilliance of Japanese animation: the illustrations impeccably render a dystopian future in which humans have begun to transcend the limits of the human body by incorporating state of the art technology and cybernetic science into every part of their physicality and cognition.
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