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GHOST IN THE SHELL-OSHI MAMORU ORIGINAL GHOST IN THE SHELL

Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1999) been many years since its release, but this manga classic that remains a reference today leaves us very interesting passages and dialogues. It
a society where cyborgs and humans are humanized mechanized, there is a moment when the protagonist specifically Motoko Kusanagi diver. This supports the theory of Haraway " late twentieth century ... we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; shortening, we are cyborgs" .


so strong Is the safety of our identity individual? When an individual's humanity is reduced to a brain encased in a titanium body and synthetic leather ... what distinguishes a human being from another when the physical is the result of an assembly line?

"The human body is made up of innumerable parts, as all the components that make me a unique individual with my own personality, yes I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others but my thoughts and my memories are not mine and I have the sense of my own destiny. Each of these things are only part of all, I gather information for use my way, all this is based on a mixture that forms me and gives me rise to my consciousness. "

- Motoko Kusanagi, GitS.

"That's all there, information, including a simulated experience ¹⁾ or a dream is both reality and fantasy, I look at it, all the collects information that a person in your life is just a drop in the ocean. "

- Batou, GitS.

¹⁾ Note: a simulated experience is to be the same as the implantation of memories in the replicants of Blade Runner.

Kusanagi processes information in a particular and unique in its own way, that is the differentiating factor, which distinguishes it even from a physically identical.

Here we interpret a metaphor as in the scene before the water immersion indicated by Motoko Kusanagi : the network (which here know the internet) is vast and infinite.
The idea is as clear as it demonstrates the use of metaphor that has been linked to the network, navigator, browser, blog, surf ...

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"Although the planet is covered by commercial galleries and electronic lights that rotate rapidly, the immediate future is not, yet, as computerized to make peoples and nations disappear ... In a corner of Asia, there is a strange jumble of companies: Japan ... " - Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell

2029, a dark, sinister future where crime levels have escalated in the cities, and political differences are at a high point in almost all major nations. A future where mega-corporations are facing each other in the shadows and where governments are constantly defend against terrorist attacks. The network has reached all levels of daily life and technology has taken over society, bringing a new era characterized by the massive availability of information.



THE CONCEPT OF GHOST

In Ghost in the Shell, the concept of "ghost" is most important. As its name suggests, the "ghost" (ghost or spirit) is the soul or consciousness of each and the "shell" (cap, shell) is simply where is housed, either in body or in a machine or computer. In Ghost in the Shell, the technology has reached a point where the "ghost" can be manipulated, programmed or downloaded to a computer (double the ghost). Obviously, these developments have increased the number of interesting questions about the morality of such acts. This concept of "ghost" and the questions that surround it is one of the main themes of Ghost in the Shell, which should enter as much as possible in your games.