PG SEMINAR 2021: KEYWORDS IN RETHINKING ASIAN MEDIA AND CINEMA CULTURE

1.   How to understand “Thus we ask, when—not what—is an infrastructure” (p.17)? It’s quoted from Star and Ruhleder, “Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure,” and here’s the paper.  (from Xinyi)         https://drive.google.com/file/d/1snt94NAUzt-qPJkO3q9fTMAOnA6_2hOF/view?usp=sharing 2.       Regarding Hyperobject by Timothy Morton, Morton is associated with the object-oriented ontology (OOO) movement in contemporary philosophy. Although Lamarre brings up Morton's hyperobject here, he's dismissive of OOO later on in the book…(from Chris & Brett) 3.       Lamarre writes that in the anime-television complex enacts an intense form of media parasociality: “The boundary between screen world and real world disappears, allowing television entities to swarm into the real world, and conversely real persons to enter the television world. The result is a distinctive social field in which television entities and real-world entities mingle freely” (2018 23). Lamarre poli

NO.1  Jenner, M. (2018).  ‘Introduction’,  Netflix and the Re-invention of Television . In  Netflix and the Re-invention of Television . Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94316-9 .pp1-31 1.       How does Jenner approach her own question regarding, ‘whether Netflix can be considered television at all’? 2.      How to understand these statements suggested by the author,  ‘television as discourse has proven remarkably flexible in accommodating technologies, industrial changes, or changes in the social practices in the history of the medium’ (p.7), and ‘Netflix did not completely re-invent what television is, but it is part of a reconception that was already prefigured by the habits linked to DVDs or DVRs, objects that are made obsolete or in need of technological adjustment’ (p.13)? NO.2  Lamarre, T. (2018).  ‘Introduction’   The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media . University of Minnesota Press. pp1-29[I think we lay more emp

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