Referring to the plot of Ghost in the Shell, it is important to note that Motoko Kusanagi as any other cyborg in her world uses her human brain and soul, ‘ghost’, hidden in the ‘shell’ of the manufactured body, but this body is provided by the government.Īlthough Motoko Kusanagi’s body is produced to reflect her gender and sexual identity, it cannot even bleed as a human body.
Thus, in Ghost in the Shell, the boundaries are breached because human brains can be hidden in the manufactured bodies to produce such a new form as a cyborg which cannot reproduce, but it can survive in the world of informational technologies, and the singularity is challenged because replicants are also possible in this world furthermore, in the post-human future, not only cyborgs can be met but also virtual minds.Ĭyborgs as the specific form of the human evolution necessary to survive in the world of high technologies should be discussed with references to the idea of dehumanization and breaching boundaries. In spite of the fact that the majority of the agents in Motoko Kusanagi’s Shell Squad are cyborgs, the heroine thinks a lot about the question of her identity as the cyborg, human, and woman. Ghost in the Shell is the story about Motoko Kusanagi, a female cyborg, who lives in the world of cyborgs and works as the security agent. Ghost in the Shell (1995) is the anime created by Mamoru Oshii which is based on Masamune Shirow’s manga. Furthermore, in this world, the singularity is challenged because cyborgs are not unique as humans, but they are as functional and promiscuous as machines. Cyborgs can be discussed as the symbols of the contemporary world in which boundaries between humans and machines are destroyed to respond to the needs of the informational society where technologies play the key role.
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