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May 20: EastAsia+ Workshop with Thomas Lamarre

A huge cargo ship is pitched against a red and white Eifel tower against the an East Asian urban skyline shrouded in smog.
May 12, 2021

Infrastructure and Sensibility: A Physiology of Power

The EastAsia+ Initiative presented a talk by Thomas Lamarre on television, anime infrastructures, and new formations of media power. Across these two lines of inquiry, Lamarre delineated both an ecological approach to media and a physiology of power, which might open a transformation in our media sensibility.  This talk was made possible through the generous support of Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities. 

His talk was recorded on May 20, 2021 and may be viewed below or on our EAP Vimeo channel. While you're there, check out the talk given by Joshua Neves, our first EastAsia+ speaker.

Bio: Thomas Lamarre (he/him/his) teaches in Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.  Publications on media, thought, and material history include work on communication networks in 9th century Japan (Uncovering Heian Japan, 2000); silent cinema and the global imaginary (Shadows on the Screen, 2005); animation technologies (The Anime Machine, 2009) and infrastructure ecologies (The Anime Ecology, 2018).  Major translations include Kawamata Chiaki’s Death Sentences (2012), Muriel Combes’s Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual (2012), and David Lapoujade’s William James, Empiricism, and Pragmatism (2019). Presented by EastAsia+, a new initiative at Cornell that combines programming, mentorship, and (digital) publishing around East Asian media studies. EastAsia+ is a collective of scholars, publishing professionals, librarians, curators, and graduate students dedicated to exploring new possibilities for academic publishing, networking, and collaboration in East Asia media studies and digital humanities research. 

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