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Published: 24 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373292-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... This chapter analyzes Azuma Hiroki’s writings on media theory from 1997 to 2003. In this phase, in which Azuma had developed himself from a young scholar of critical theory into a prominent intellectual with a main focus on otaku culture in Japan, he wrote extensively on media theory with a plan...
Published: 15 April 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022497-016
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2249-7
Published: 15 April 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022497-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2249-7
Published: 13 August 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478013037-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1303-7
Published: 24 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373292-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... to examine how networks of media theory operate along transnational axes. It offers an account of the attempt to salvage and defend the model of the ideological critique within media theory at a moment when the depoliticization of the public sphere in Japan loomed on the horizon. In so doing, it reopens...
Published: 24 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373292-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... This chapter probes the coincidence of the rise of the academic media celebrity in early 1980s figures such as Asada Akira and Nakazawa Shinichi with a ten-year winter of media theory. It tracks the appearance of the so-called Nyū Aka (New Academism) theorists and the discourse around...
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By Marc Steinberg, Alexander Zahlten
Published: 24 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... This chapter offers a close and unique reading of the media theory of Nakai Masakazu, a leftist theorist active from the 1930s with some connections to the Kyoto school. Drawing on German philosophy, the chapter creates a highly corporeal theory of cinematic spectatorship, a sophisticated...
Published: 24 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373292-016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... theory in Japan , the afterword rearranges the contributions into three “modes”: Remediating the West , Mediatizing Japan , and Inter-izing (Beyond) Japan . This draws out possibilities of speaking to specificity of media and media theorization while taking the movement across contexts into account...
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Published: 24 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373292
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
Published: 01 August 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023098-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2309-8
Book Chapter

By Bishnupriya Ghosh
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 21 April 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023845-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2384-5
Published: 07 March 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376811-017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7681-1
Published: 03 November 2008
DOI: 10.1215/9780822388678-014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8867-8
Book Chapter

By Mark Poster
Published: 09 August 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822388470-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8847-0
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 01 January 1998
DOI: 10.1215/9780822378105-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7810-5
Book Chapter

By Marc Steinberg, Alexander Zahlten
Published: 24 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... media theory Japan history of media theory definition of media theory ...
Published: 24 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373292-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... definition of media theory. This makes the consideration of particular situations in which media theory develops all the more important. While this volume focuses on Japanese media theory in particular, it also argues for the importance of decentering the West in the study of media more broadly, emphasizing...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 06 March 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478009221-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0922-1
Book Chapter

By Marc Steinberg, Alexander Zahlten
Published: 24 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... Japan temporality déjàponisme media theory ...
Published: 24 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373292-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... This chapter details the interpretation in Japan of one of the ur-texts of media theory in North America and (Western) Europe, Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media . McLuhan’s work also possesses canonical status in Japan, where the term media-ron (“media theory”) emerges around...