Ghost in the Shell
Yet another paper on the major Kusanagi, by Mobina Hashmi :
“To conclude this paper, I want to briefly touch on some of the problems raised by Ghost in the Shell endorsement of a dispersed disembodied consciousness. I prefer an understanding of cyborgs as highly technological constructions which bring the body back into technological discourse, not as something to be transcended through technology, but as something integrated within it that add a whole new set of variables that cannot be easily explained or controlled. (…) The desire to remove bodies from this weave is the desire to ignore the structures of race and gender privilege that make it possible for some bodies to be “invisible” while others cannot-and do not necessarily want to-obtain the same kind of transcendence.”