Otaku : Japan's database animals / / Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: [English ed.].
• Language: English; Japanese
• Physical Description: xxix, 144 p. :; ill.
• Notes: "Originally published in Japanese as Dobutsuka suru posutomodan: otaku kara mita nihon shakai (Tokyo: Kodansha Gendai Shinsho, 2001)"--T.p. verso.; Translated from the Japanese.

Table of Contents

• Preface to the English edition / Hiroki Azuma
• Translators' introduction
• What is otaku culture?
• The otaku's pseudo-Japan
• The pseudo-Japan manufactured from U.S.-mode material
• Otaku and postmodernity
• Narrative consumption
• The grand nonnarrative
• Moe-elements
• Database consumption
• The simulacra and the database
• Snobbery and the fictional age
• The dissociated human
• The animal age
• Hyperflatness and hypervisuality
• Multiple personality.