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Serial Experiments Lain Artbook by Yoshitoshi Abe

Computer wiring tunnel inside an abandoned coal power plant.

Photo by Bryan Buckley

I hate the fact that some Lain fans are total creeps about her, despite her being(/having the body of) an actual 14-year-old girl.

I know she’s mostly naked in a few scenes and completely in the end credits, the night dress she wears a lot is meant to be her ~sexy outfit~ according to one of the fully grown adult men who worked on the show, and the fact that the age of consent (BETWEEN TEENAGERS) is lower in Japan than it is elsewhere. That doesn’t mean I enjoy watching those scenes or the end credits, and it also doesn’t mean anyone should have to tolerate paedophiles in this fandom.

It’s a horrible, massive problem, and it needs to stop.

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“Sunset” by Arkady Rylov (1917)

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Serial Experiments Lain traces the emergence of the Internet and the transformation it has brought about in the technologies of subjectivity that govern human forms of self-reference, categories of perception, and forms of communication. One of the most commonly accepted ideologies of cyberspace, at the time Serial Experiments Lain was first aired on Japan’s TV Tokyo network in the late 1990s, portrayed the Internet as a zone of unbridled democracy and freedom of expression, yet Serial Experiments Lain offered a counterdiscourse, linking the digital realm, referred to as “the Wired,” to surveillance technologies and a control society. In Serial Experiments Lain, the world of cyberspace is haunted by the anonymous eye of the Panopticon. What was all too often ignored by early Internet theorists in their enthusiasm for the “egalitarian” open-endedness of web surfing was the extent to which the reader user is subjected to the preprogrammed constraints and filtered selectivity of Web site nodes constituting a virtual network of links. Choices and options, no matter how decentralized, exist only to the extent that web programming and search engine algorithms make them possible. As the Internet spread to every corner of the world and was embraced as a sort of “digital democracy,” Serial Experiments Lain warned us of the need to be more attentive to the new “technologies of the self” enframing the subjectification of Internet users.

Steven T. Brown, Screening Anime (via foucault-the-haters)

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