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Thomas LaMarre
The impact of media and technologies has renewed interest in the emergence of cinema and film criticism. Through the translation and analysis of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro’s film work, this work provides…
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Thomas Lamarre
The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. This title challenges the assumption of a cohesive…
Working at the intersection of the philosophy of technology and the history of thought, Lamarre explores how anime and its related media entail material orientations and demonstrates concretely how the…
Thomas Lamarre uses the overlaps between television, anime, and new media-from console games and video to iOS games and streaming-to show how animation helps us think through television in the…
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The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. Combining visual analysis of the calligraphy with which…
David Lapoujade
Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade’s William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to…
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Isabelle Stengers
A leading philosopher seeks to recover "common sense" as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy
With her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured…
Kawamata Chiaki
Japan, 1980s: A special police squad is tracking down one of the \“afflicted\” to recover the \“stuff.\” Although the operation seems like a drug bust, the \“stuff\” is actually some…
‘Lines of Sight’, the seventh volume in the ‘Mechademia’ series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga, explores the various ways in which anime, manga, digital media, fan…
Frenchy Lunning
Manga and anime inspire a wide range of creative activities for fans: blogging and contributing to databases, making elaborate cosplay costumes, producing djinshi (amateur) manga and scanlations, and engaging in…
The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece…
