Thomas D Looser
Biographic Data
| ID | 8527662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas D Looser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas D |
| FAMILY NAME | Looser |
| SIGNATURE | LOOSER T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Art of an Ecosystem
Anyone interested in the ecosystems of the Pacific Islands knows that at the most practical level, the “actual reality of things” is not ideal. In Hawai‘i, as elsewhere in the Pacific Islands, water is a central case in point. Therefore, it is perhaps unsurprising that the upcoming centennial of the Ala Wai canal in Waikīkī, Oʻahu is taking on new significance. Built in 1921, the canal was designed not only to help control flooding, but also to d…
Real Imaginary Diasporas
An island might seem an unlikely figure of globalization, and perhaps more appropriate as a model for diasporic communities. This article takes as a starting point the assumption that islands (conceptually as well as geographically) are in fact particularly relevant to pivotal trends within contemporary globalization, even while there are also reasons to consider islanding in relation to diaspora, and in ways that might make us rethink both globa…
Island Worlds, Oceanic Diasporas, and Global Flows
Revealed Identity
Reviewed by: Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku Thomas D. Looser (bio) Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku. By Paul S. Atkins. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006. xiii, 292 pages. $60.00. The book jacket tells us that this is the first (English-language, presumably) comprehensive study of the nō plays of the fifteenth-century author Komparu Zenchiku. This in itself might be cons…
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 …
Revealed Identity
Reviewed by: Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku Thomas D. Looser (bio) Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku. By Paul S. Atkins. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006. xiii, 292 pages. $60.00. The book jacket tells us that this is the first (English-language, presumably) comprehensive study of the nō plays of the fifteenth-century author Komparu Zenchiku. This in itself might be cons…
Real Imaginary Diasporas
An island might seem an unlikely figure of globalization, and perhaps more appropriate as a model for diasporic communities. This article takes as a starting point the assumption that islands (conceptually as well as geographically) are in fact particularly relevant to pivotal trends within contemporary globalization, even while there are also reasons to consider islanding in relation to diaspora, and in ways that might make us rethink both globa…
Island Worlds, Oceanic Diasporas, and Global Flows
The Art of an Ecosystem
Anyone interested in the ecosystems of the Pacific Islands knows that at the most practical level, the “actual reality of things” is not ideal. In Hawai‘i, as elsewhere in the Pacific Islands, water is a central case in point. Therefore, it is perhaps unsurprising that the upcoming centennial of the Ala Wai canal in Waikīkī, Oʻahu is taking on new significance. Built in 1921, the canal was designed not only to help control flooding, but also to d…
History (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)