Search Results for mediatizing Japan

... This chapter investigates the transformation of the cultural industries in Japan in the 1970s through the concept of the “girlscape.” During this time, market segmentation and industry practice created the identificatory figure of the young girl and placed her at the center of a consumer culture...

... mediatizing Japan remediation media life ...

... 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...

... The wartime body of work known as the Kyoto school has for better or worse become a metonym of philosophy in Japan. While it is often figured as a school of philosophy concerned with nothingness, this chapter rereads this school as offering a philosophy of mediation, or Medienphilosophie...

... of work known as the Kyoto school has for better or worse become a metonym of philosophy in Japan. While it is often figured as a school of philosophy concerned with nothingness, this chapter rereads this school as offering a philosophy of mediation, or Medienphilosophie , or “media philosophy...

... technology and social change are thought together. At the same time, it tracks the role of media theory as an indicator of social change, demonstrating how the presuppositions underlying media theory have transformed from the economic boom time of the 1980s to recessionary, post-Fukushima Japan. Azuma...

... processes that allow play to appear free from the historical politics around militaristic violence in Japan. In the end, this research speaks to the ways that specific representations of biraciality preserve the primacy of play—the political inconsequentiality of action—via a racial logic that mediates play...

... If, as Lev Manovich has argued, new media often repeat older media, this essay considers how new media theory can repeat that of older media. By focusing on one of the groundbreaking moments in development of television theory in Japan—the 1958 issue of the journal Shisō devoted to the new...

... If, as Lev Manovich has argued, new media often repeat older media, this essay considers how new media theory can repeat that of older media. By focusing on one of the groundbreaking moments in development of television theory in Japan—the 1958 issue of the journal Shisō devoted to the new...

... 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...

... mediation cinema corporeal spectatorship ...

... This chapter extracts a theory of media out of the unique body of critical work of the popular media figure, TV critic, and eraser-stamp artist Nancy Seki. An enormously prolific author writing about TV at exactly the moment its primacy in the media ecology of Japan began to wane, Nancy Seki...

... the player character Solid Snake as half-Japanese and half-white, locating Snake’s biraciality in the context of Japanese racial formations. The chapter argues that Snake’s racialization premediates the games’ antiwar and antinuclear message in ways that absent Japan itself from the series’ overall critique...

... Azuma Hiroki 3.11 mediation crisis ...

... Nakai Masakazu mediation cinema corporeal spectatorship ...

... This chapter directs attention to the site of a redefinition of technologies of mediation that can be located at the 1970s World Expo in Osaka: the field of architecture. It sheds light on the “cybernetic turn” of Japanese architectural theory as a historical precursor to contemporary attempts...

... history since the 19th-century encounter with Western colonial powers, in which the translation of modern scientific and political knowledge has been a central struggle in Japan’s transformation into a modern nation-state. Nature, subjectivity, and freedom have been the most enigmatic yet important...

... For tourists, the tour guides often become inspirational figures, who left Japan to pursue their individual dreams. The unexpected centrality of guides to these stories is in tension with the tourist industry’s rhetoric of direct encounters with nature. Despite—or because of —the stereotypical...