Topic > An Analysis of the Cyberpunk Anime Film Ghost In The Shell

It has become a reflexive instinct to pick up our phone every time it lights up with a notification. With the proliferation of social media, we share and receive information about the daily lives of ourselves and other people, even when we are physically apart. Our daily use of technology, including but not limited to the Internet, social media platforms, electronic devices, etc., demonstrates how we simultaneously participate in education and are subject to these networks. The omnipresence of technology – communication (phones, email), control (surveillance, military), life support (medical) etc. – indicates the extent to which technology has become integrated and intertwined in our daily lives. With these technological advances, the growing reliance on complex technological networks for survival and the connection of bodies with urban space through electronic and digital means, the city cannot be simply explained in terms of physical, tangible territories and material networks. The city, instead, should be thought of more as urban systems, circuits and networks that operate as an information matrix, where urban experiences and environments straddle the boundary between real and virtual, which is becoming increasingly blurred by cybernetics and from biotechnology. This article aims to use the idea of ​​the cyborg as a means to explore the urban condition and draws on the analysis of the cyberpunk genre to examine the role of technology in the definition and conceptualisation of the city. I will analyze the cyberpunk anime film Ghost in the Shell, in which the individual use of technology has been developed to the point where communication and control technologies have integrated and reconfigured the body (cyborg), to gain insight into new technologies… .middle of paper......gh network technology as individuals increasingly stay within the confines of their homes. The cyborg metaphor allows us to conceptualize the interaction between social and biological processes that produce urban space and possibilities for everyday life. Existing urban spatial relations and power relations may change with the introduction of new technologies. At the same time, we should also recognize that new technologies can also be used to strengthen the centralities of existing power centers. Technology can be seen to change existing spatial relations and power networks at global, national or local levels. Using the concept of cyborg urbanization as a way of conceptualising the human technological interface we can attempt to develop an imaginative response to the uncertainty of the city's future and its implications for wider social and political processes.