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| | Hacking Your Own Ghost: Mythology in the Science Fiction Films of Oshii Mamoru as Sites of Resistance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | In Ghost in the Shell, technology is brought to the interior of the person — Kusanagi is a cyborg, her body consisting mainly of robotic parts, but in the end, Kusanagi’s body is rendered irrelevant after she merges with the Puppet Master, becoming one with the Net. |
 | | In Ghost in the Shell, Kusanagi questions whether or not she, as a cyborg, possesses a “ghost,” an amorphous thing never precisely defined in the film, but which can be likened to the Christian concept of the soul. |
 | | The title of this paper, “Hacking Your Own Ghost,” sums up what Oshii is trying to express through his films: by seizing the concepts of technology and mythology, we gain the power to free ourselves from systems of control, even the control of technology and mythology themselves. |
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