Compilation of Questions & Comments of Week 2 (Lamarre)
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)
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 politicizes this in Deleuzian as a potential
for thinking of self in media-ecological terms. For my own research, I am
wondering if there are other ways to politicize this, especially in ways that
can resonate with concerns in other parts of the humanities beside the
Deleuze-Foucault-Massumi lineage that Lamarre is working with. In particular,
how does the anime parasocial field articulate collectivity to viewers, most of
whom aren’t on board with ecosophist politics. (from Brett)
4. A review on Lamarre's article: https://japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol18/iss3/gough.html (from Hao)
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