[KineJapan] my book is coming out!

[Peter Larson]

Congratulations！！

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 8:07 PM Miryam Sas via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Just a headsup that you can download the intro to my new book, "Feeling
> Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Japan" for free here
> <http://ow.ly/e1p650JTVTY>: and get 30% off at Duke's website with the
> code E22SAS.
> Thanks to Tom LaMarre and Daisuke Miyao for writing great endorsements!
> Thanks to all of you who helped this happen in so many ways.
> All the best,
> Miryam
>
> Details below:
>
> *Subjects*
> Media Studies
> <https://www.dukeupress.edu/explore-subjects/browse?subjectid=81&sortid=3>
> , Asian Studies
> <https://www.dukeupress.edu/explore-subjects/browse?subjectid=85&sortid=3>
>  > East Asia
> <https://www.dukeupress.edu/explore-subjects/browse?subjectid=085002&sortid=3>
> , Art and Visual Culture
> <https://www.dukeupress.edu/explore-subjects/browse?subjectid=90&sortid=3>
>  > Art Criticism and Theory
> <https://www.dukeupress.edu/explore-subjects/browse?subjectid=090002&sortid=3>
> In *Feeling Media* Miryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations
> of media theory and media art in Japan. Opening media studies and affect
> theory up to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside
> Euro-America, Sas offers a framework of analysis she calls the affective
> scale—the space where artists and theorists work between the level of the
> individual and larger global and historical shifts. She examines
> intermedia, experimental animation, and Marxist theories of the culture
> industries of the 1960s and 1970s in the work of artists and thinkers
> ranging from filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, photographer Nakahira Takuma, and
> the Three Animators' Group to art critic Hanada Kiyoteru and landscape
> theorist Matsuda Masao. She also outlines how twenty-first-century Japanese
> artists—especially those responding to the Fukushima disaster—adopt and
> adapt this earlier work to reframe ideas about collectivity, community, and
> connectivity in the space between the individual and the system.
>
> “*Feeling Media* takes up the essential question posed by media artists
> of the 1960s, which continues to haunt us. Telecommunications, touted to
> bring us closer together, have instead riddled everyday life with new forms
> of distance and alienation—what kind of politics is equal to this
> situation? Miryam Sas’s profound engagement with Japan’s transmedia art
> advances a practical and orphic response: feel media otherwise.” — Thomas
> Lamarre, Cinema and Media Studies/East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
> University of Chicago
>
> “*Feeling Media* is a must-read for anyone interested in media ecology
> and eager to explore how to live as a global citizen in a world swamped in
> new media. By questioning and overcoming the Eurocentric perspective and
> formation of media theory, it will be a field-defining book in media
> studies and contemporary Japanese art.” — Daisuke Miyao, author of *Japonisme
> and the Birth of Cinema*
> --
> *Miryam Sas*
> Professor, Comparative Literature, Film & Media, Japanese Arts
> University of California, Berkeley
>
> *Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art
> <https://www.dukeupress.edu/feeling-media> *(Duke University Press,
> available for pre-order now.) For 30% off use coupon code E22SAS
> You can read/download the introduction here
> <https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-1849-0_601.pdf> or
> check the flyer here
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GNy5DU7zDDfSU6c96ENEsh_5itBt968t/view?usp=sharing>
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