The following is an excerpt from a book I am currently writing entitled, Tractatus de Wabi-Sabi und Dada : The Aesthetic and Anti-Aesthetic.
Ghost in the Shell is often praised for the wrong reasons. Ghost in the Shell is not a masterpiece of film because it is a masterpiece of writing but because it is a masterpiece of film. The dialogue is fairly simple, even Motoko and 2501 discussing the nature of humanity…