Singularity instead of a human: the essay on political and philosophical understanding of the Shinsekai Yori anime series
- Authors: Adilbaev T.
- Issue: Vol 34, No 4 (2024)
- Pages: 112-129
- Section: ARTICLES
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/0869-5377/article/view/290512
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17323/0869-5377-2024-4-112-127
- ID: 290512
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Abstract
Sci-fi anime does not surprise anyone, but political and philosophical one is a completely different matter. Anime that illustrates the key concepts of such classics as Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Friedrich Nietzsche. And after them, that puts up a thought experiment, designed into a work of art, in which a human, as a biological species, completely disappears, partially evolving into another creature. How this can happen, what is accompanied and what it leads to is the plot-forming core in the anime series From the New World (新世界より Shinsekai Yori, 2012–2013) and the subject of this article.
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T. Adilbaev
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