Thomas Looser
Biographic Data
| ID | 4222572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Looser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Looser |
| SIGNATURE | LOOSER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8131-7680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Years of Adva Journal
Superflat and the Layers of Image and History in 1990s Japan
Superflat and the Layers of Image and History in 1990s Japan Thomas Looser (bio) "Japanese [people]," wrote Murakami Takashi in the year 2000, "are too unaware of history"—echoing what by then had become a trite sentiment.1 For Murakami, one remedy lay in art, or at least in what might be thought of as a kind of critical image. And in rethinking art as history—not merely art as representing history but art as putting into practice a new relation …
From Edogawa to Miyazaki
The influence of Miyazaki Hayao,whose animated films consistently break Japanese film box-office records, and those of Japanese anime in general, is locatable within an increasingly global interest in new media - an interest that is accompanied by a sense that new media are inaugurating new modes of sociality. This is not altogether new: earlier in the twentieth century, for example, Edogawa Rampo depicted the onset of modern conditions in Japan …
From Edogawa to Miyazaki
The influence of Miyazaki Hayao,whose animated films consistently break Japanese film box-office records, and those of Japanese anime in general, is locatable within an increasingly global interest in new media - an interest that is accompanied by a sense that new media are inaugurating new modes of sociality. This is not altogether new: earlier in the twentieth century, for example, Edogawa Rampo depicted the onset of modern conditions in Japan …
From Edogawa to Miyazaki
The influence of Miyazaki Hayao,whose animated films consistently break Japanese film box-office records, and those of Japanese anime in general, is locatable within an increasingly global interest in new media - an interest that is accompanied by a sense that new media are inaugurating new modes of sociality. This is not altogether new: earlier in the twentieth century, for example, Edogawa Rampo depicted the onset of modern conditions in Japan …
Superflat and the Layers of Image and History in 1990s Japan
Superflat and the Layers of Image and History in 1990s Japan Thomas Looser (bio) "Japanese [people]," wrote Murakami Takashi in the year 2000, "are too unaware of history"—echoing what by then had become a trite sentiment.1 For Murakami, one remedy lay in art, or at least in what might be thought of as a kind of critical image. And in rethinking art as history—not merely art as representing history but art as putting into practice a new relation …
Years of Adva Journal
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Anime (1 work) · Art history (1 work)