Thomas Lamarre
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3638546 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Lamarre |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Lamarre |
| ASSINATURA | LAMARRE T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | McGill University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Animative Justice
Paratopia
Over the past twenty years, in the worlds of popular media revolving around manga, anime, light novels, and games, there has been an explosion of interest in extracurricular activities (bukatsu) taking place within school clubs (katsudō kurabu or katsudō sakkuru). The rise and explosion of school clubs in popular culture has occurred alongside a wave of heated debates about Japanese education that culminated in a series of education reforms, comm…
Fissile Ethics
Concerned by nuclear disasters unfolding on a planetary scale, many scholars have issued persuasive calls for us to reconsider how we conceptualize radioactivity. In this article, I show how Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation has something arguably crucial to add to these approaches, for it allows us to enlarge and deepen our understanding of radioactivity. First, I consider Simondon's comments on nuclear fission, while situating them…
Steampunk Cinema
Steampunk cinema begins earlier than steampunk literature, with Karel Zeman’s Invention for Destruction (Vynález zkázy, 1958). This film offers a point of departure for exploring the relation between cinema and steampunk, for it not only extrapolates nineteenth-century technologies to invent alternative kinds of machines, but it also frames them within the early film context of “trick cinema” or a “cinema of attractions.” Various filmmakers and a…
Fukushima and the Rebuild of Godzilla
Fukushima and the Rebuild of Godzilla
Transmedia-genre
This essay revisits the theoretical framework of Tom Gunning’s account of cine-genres to delineate an approach to genre suited to domains of inquiry related to, yet distinct from, film studies. It considers how Gunning’s emphasis on non-continuity allows for genre analysis based on form of expression and energetic transformations, instead of limiting it to content, structure, and economic rationality. Gunning’s shift in emphasis also allows for c…
When Is Japanese Cinema
William James
The Anime Ecology
The animation of China
This essay offers an overview of new scholarship on Chinese animation. It provides a survey of recent work on the emergence of a classical animation form in China and on contemporary Chinese digital animation and online video. In keeping with the range of scholarship addressed, this essay introduces a new paradigm for working through the genealogy of animation. It shows how animation, across a wide variety of materials, techniques and forms, fund…
Platformativity
Waves of subaltern, colonial, postcolonial, and critical race studies have posed an undeniable challenge to the normative geopolitical bent of area studies, and yet the same challenges are rarely taken up within media studies. Media studies reach a similar impasse when it comes to dealing with geopolitical forms and functions, stressing the dynamism of media and the passivity, historical immutability, and cultural inertness of regions. This artic…
Art History
As a discipline, art history combines two lines of inquiry, one concerning art, and one concerning history. From the standpoint of philosophy, these two lines of inquiry, however, do not generally receive equal consideration. Indeed, the discipline might be characterized in terms of an imbalance or unevenness between the two, which introduces an interval between art and history that has proven highly generative in producing a range of conceptual …
Regional tv
The rise of what has been called ‘new television’ or ‘media regionalism’ in East Asia has occurred in a context in which the production of media networks ‒ both infrastructures (broadcast and relay stations, satellites, cable systems) and media devices or platforms ( tv sets, vcr , vcd , and mobile phones) ‒ outstrips the production of contents. The essay considers the question: what is coming into common through this emerging sense of media regi…
Living between Infrastructures
This essay explores the relations between mobile phones (keitai), broadcast television, and the commuter train network in contemporary Tokyo. In contrast to accounts that emphasize synergy or seamless integration of these infrastructures, this essay looks at them in terms of polarized tendencies associated with specific infrastructures—vertical hierarchical integration with broadcast television, and horizontal heterarchical differentiation with t…
Cool, Creepy, Moé
This essay looks at the otaku phenomenon in terms of the production of consumption (what produces consumption, and what consumption produces) primarily three registers: fictions of otaku that stage the repression of otaku desires and identities in order to form erogenous zones; cultural discourses that pathologize otaku consumption; and government policies related to Cool Japan that strive to reconfigure otaku consumption in terms of markets and …
Bilder animierter Bewegung/Images of Animate Movement
An Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney
Speciesism, Part III
Speciesism, Part III:Neoteny and the Politics of Life Thomas Lamarre (bio) In part one of this series, drawing on Sergei Eisenstein and Ōtsuka Eiji, I called attention to the "plasmaticity" of animation, which becomes pronounced in animated characters. Implicit in my emphasis on plasmaticity was a move away from representation theory and the politics of representation.1 If we look at wartime animation only in terms of what it represents, we quick…
How Characters Stand Out
How Characters Stand Out Miyamoto Hirohito (bio) Translated by Thomas Lamarre (bio) The Importance of Characters for Manga Among the various elements used in the composition of manga, it is well known that characters have particular significance. If we consult an American encyclopedia compiled at a time when manga first began to flourish in newspaper serialization, we find under the heading of comics that the comic strip (a type of manga using a …
Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992
Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992 Miyadai Shinji (bio) and Thomas Lamarre (bio) Translated by Shion Kono (bio) Editor's Introduction A sociologist known for his work on pop culture phenomena and also something of a cultural phenomenon himself, Miyadai Shinji has authored and coauthored dozens of books on topics ranging from government policy and film criticism to sex and subcultures. These include Sabuk…
Seeing through the Car
This essay uses The Fifth Element as a case study for an analysis of how cinema experiments with automobiles, while working through different theoretical approaches to the automobile, those of Marcuse, Baudrillard and Virilio, which pose crucial questions about production, consumption, representation, simulation and perception. Ultimately, however, rather than treat cinema as representation or simulation, this essay provides a close reading of th…
Disarming Atom
Disarming Atom: Tezuka Osamu’s Manga at War and Peace Ōtsuka Eiji (bio) and Thomas LaMarre (bio) Ambassador Atom: A Parable of the Japan–U.S. Peace Treaty Nearly all readers of manga are familiar with Tezuka Osamu’s most representative series Mighty Atom (Tetsuwan Atomu),1 but casual readers may not be familiar with the earliest version of this series, Ambassador Atom, which began serialization in the April issue of Shōnen in 1951. This was also …
Born of Trauma
Research Article| February 01 2008 Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction Thomas Lamarre Thomas Lamarre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2008) 16 (1): 131–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2007-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Lamarre; Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction. positions 1 February 2008; 16 (1): 131–156. …
Speciesism, Part I
Speciesism, Part I: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation Thomas LaMarre (bio) To scores of millions of participants, John Dower reminds us, World War II was a race war.1 Among the many patterns of racial prejudice explored in his book War without Mercy, Dower discusses how the American media depicted the Japanese as animals: “A characteristic feature of this level of anti-Japanese sentiment was the resort to nonhuman or subhuman re…
Speciesism, Part I
Speciesism, Part I: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation Thomas LaMarre (bio) To scores of millions of participants, John Dower reminds us, World War II was a race war.1 Among the many patterns of racial prejudice explored in his book War without Mercy, Dower discusses how the American media depicted the Japanese as animals: “A characteristic feature of this level of anti-Japanese sentiment was the resort to nonhuman or subhuman re…
Cool, Creepy, Moé
This essay looks at the otaku phenomenon in terms of the production of consumption (what produces consumption, and what consumption produces) primarily three registers: fictions of otaku that stage the repression of otaku desires and identities in order to form erogenous zones; cultural discourses that pathologize otaku consumption; and government policies related to Cool Japan that strive to reconfigure otaku consumption in terms of markets and …
Born of Trauma
Research Article| February 01 2008 Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction Thomas Lamarre Thomas Lamarre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2008) 16 (1): 131–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2007-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Lamarre; Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction. positions 1 February 2008; 16 (1): 131–156. …
Bacterial Cultures and Linguistic Colonies
Research Article| August 01 1998 Bacterial Cultures and Linguistic Colonies: Mori Rintarō's Experiments with History, Science, and Language Thomas Lamarre Thomas Lamarre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1998) 6 (3): 597–635. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-6-3-597 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tool…
Paratopia
Over the past twenty years, in the worlds of popular media revolving around manga, anime, light novels, and games, there has been an explosion of interest in extracurricular activities (bukatsu) taking place within school clubs (katsudō kurabu or katsudō sakkuru). The rise and explosion of school clubs in popular culture has occurred alongside a wave of heated debates about Japanese education that culminated in a series of education reforms, comm…
Seeing through the Car
This essay uses The Fifth Element as a case study for an analysis of how cinema experiments with automobiles, while working through different theoretical approaches to the automobile, those of Marcuse, Baudrillard and Virilio, which pose crucial questions about production, consumption, representation, simulation and perception. Ultimately, however, rather than treat cinema as representation or simulation, this essay provides a close reading of th…
Writing Doubled Over, Broken
Research Article| May 01 1994 Writing Doubled Over, Broken: Provisional Names, Acrostic Poems, and the Perpetual Contest of Doubles in Heian Japan Thomas LaMarre Thomas LaMarre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1994) 2 (2): 250–273. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2-2-250 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas LaMarre; Writing Doubled Over, Broken: Provisional Names, Ac…
Writing Doubled Over, Broken
Research Article| May 01 1994 Writing Doubled Over, Broken: Provisional Names, Acrostic Poems, and the Perpetual Contest of Doubles in Heian Japan Thomas LaMarre Thomas LaMarre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1994) 2 (2): 250–273. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2-2-250 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas LaMarre; Writing Doubled Over, Broken: Provisional Names, Ac…
Bacterial Cultures and Linguistic Colonies
Research Article| August 01 1998 Bacterial Cultures and Linguistic Colonies: Mori Rintarō's Experiments with History, Science, and Language Thomas Lamarre Thomas Lamarre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1998) 6 (3): 597–635. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-6-3-597 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tool…
The deformation of the modern spectator
In order to complicate the opposition between Western modernity and Japanese tradition that is often said to characterize the works of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, this essay explores the logic of synaesthesia in some of his works from the early Taisho period such as ‘The mermaid's lament’, ‘The present and future of motion pictures’, and ‘The tumor with a human face’. Synaesthesia in Tanizaki involves not only a decomposition and recombination of differ…
From animation to anime
This essay deals with two kinds of movement common in cel animation: 'drawing movements' and 'moving drawings'. Drawing movements is common in traditional cel animation that strives for full animation. The latter ndash; moving drawings - becomes pronounced in techniques of limited animation, common in anime . The goal is not, however, to identify and consolidate differences between animation and anime . On the contrary, this paper explores how dr…
Between cinema and anime
L'empire des figures. Aux frontières de l'écriture japonaise
L'empire des figures. Aux frontières de l'écriture japonaise Ce texte explore les rapports entre écriture et culture nationale. Contrairement à la théorie utilitaire qui domine nos sciences linguistiques en ce qui concerne les caractères chinois dans l'écriture japonaise, nous suivons les théories de Karatani, Lyotard et Derrida, afin d'évoquer l'« étoilement » du signe, et dans des registres différents : son et marque, parler et voir, discours e…
Uncovering Heian Japan
Platonic Sex
Anime abounds in images of ‘nonhuman women’, that is, goddesses, female robots, gynoids, alien women, animal girls, female cyborgs, and many others. This article provides an introduction to problems of gender and genre in relation to the nonhuman woman, followed by an extended discussion of the animated television series Chobits, based on a manga series by the four-woman team CLAMP. In a manner eerily consonant with psychoanalytic theory, Chobits…
The Multiplanar Image
The Multiplanar Image Thomas Lamarre (bio) When I take the Shinkansen, I love watching the countryside stream past the windows. I can't help but recall Paul Virilio's remark, that the landscape seen from the train window is art, just as much as the works of Pablo Picasso or Paul Klee. Virilio calls the effect of speed on the landscape an "art of the engine."1 And he associates it with cinema. "What happens in the train window, in the car windshie…
Doll Beauties and Cosplay
Doll Beauties and Cosplay Mari Kotani (bio) Translated by Thomas LaMarre (bio) A Doll's House It was not so long ago that being described as a "dolled-up woman" or a "doll-like woman" would not have been seen as a particularly good thing. This is probably still true today. To think of a woman as a doll gives the impression of someone pretty as can be yet totally scatterbrained, without a thought in her head. It's not far from this to the idea tha…
Platonic Sex
Carrying on from part one published in the July 2006 issue of animation: an interdisciplinary journal, part two continues its exploration of the animated series Chobitswith an eye to how it reads problems of media and technology almost exclusively in terms of human desire, much as psychoanalytic theory reads technology in terms of the weird substance of enjoyment. Part two takes up an analysis of partial objects and perversion in order to show ho…
The Animalization of Otaku Culture
The Animalization of Otaku Culture Thomas LaMarre and Azuma Hiroki (bio) Translated by Yuriko Furuhata (bio) and Marc Steinberg (bio) Introduction Thomas LaMarre Azuma Hiroki is a philosopher and cultural critic who has in recent years become a major intellectual figure in Japan, writing on issues as diverse as representation, art history, otaku subculture, narrative structure, and, lately, freedom in the post-9/11 world. His work is notable for …
Disarming Atom
Disarming Atom: Tezuka Osamu’s Manga at War and Peace Ōtsuka Eiji (bio) and Thomas LaMarre (bio) Ambassador Atom: A Parable of the Japan–U.S. Peace Treaty Nearly all readers of manga are familiar with Tezuka Osamu’s most representative series Mighty Atom (Tetsuwan Atomu),1 but casual readers may not be familiar with the earliest version of this series, Ambassador Atom, which began serialization in the April issue of Shōnen in 1951. This was also …
Born of Trauma
Research Article| February 01 2008 Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction Thomas Lamarre Thomas Lamarre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2008) 16 (1): 131–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2007-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Lamarre; Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction. positions 1 February 2008; 16 (1): 131–156. …
Speciesism, Part I
Speciesism, Part I: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation Thomas LaMarre (bio) To scores of millions of participants, John Dower reminds us, World War II was a race war.1 Among the many patterns of racial prejudice explored in his book War without Mercy, Dower discusses how the American media depicted the Japanese as animals: “A characteristic feature of this level of anti-Japanese sentiment was the resort to nonhuman or subhuman re…
Expanded empiricism
To understand how Natsume Sōseki's Bungakuron departs from classical empiricism, this paper reads it alongside the psychology and philosophy of William James. Not only did James's ‘principles of psychology’ and the New Psychology movement have a major impact on Sōseki's ‘principles of literature’, but also James's shift from psychology to radical empiricism affords insight into Sōseki's efforts to develop a theory of relations on the basis of F+f…
Speciesism, Part III
Speciesism, Part III:Neoteny and the Politics of Life Thomas Lamarre (bio) In part one of this series, drawing on Sergei Eisenstein and Ōtsuka Eiji, I called attention to the "plasmaticity" of animation, which becomes pronounced in animated characters. Implicit in my emphasis on plasmaticity was a move away from representation theory and the politics of representation.1 If we look at wartime animation only in terms of what it represents, we quick…
How Characters Stand Out
How Characters Stand Out Miyamoto Hirohito (bio) Translated by Thomas Lamarre (bio) The Importance of Characters for Manga Among the various elements used in the composition of manga, it is well known that characters have particular significance. If we consult an American encyclopedia compiled at a time when manga first began to flourish in newspaper serialization, we find under the heading of comics that the comic strip (a type of manga using a …
Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992
Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992 Miyadai Shinji (bio) and Thomas Lamarre (bio) Translated by Shion Kono (bio) Editor's Introduction A sociologist known for his work on pop culture phenomena and also something of a cultural phenomenon himself, Miyadai Shinji has authored and coauthored dozens of books on topics ranging from government policy and film criticism to sex and subcultures. These include Sabuk…
Seeing through the Car
This essay uses The Fifth Element as a case study for an analysis of how cinema experiments with automobiles, while working through different theoretical approaches to the automobile, those of Marcuse, Baudrillard and Virilio, which pose crucial questions about production, consumption, representation, simulation and perception. Ultimately, however, rather than treat cinema as representation or simulation, this essay provides a close reading of th…
Bilder animierter Bewegung/Images of Animate Movement
An Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney
Cool, Creepy, Moé
This essay looks at the otaku phenomenon in terms of the production of consumption (what produces consumption, and what consumption produces) primarily three registers: fictions of otaku that stage the repression of otaku desires and identities in order to form erogenous zones; cultural discourses that pathologize otaku consumption; and government policies related to Cool Japan that strive to reconfigure otaku consumption in terms of markets and …
Regional tv
The rise of what has been called ‘new television’ or ‘media regionalism’ in East Asia has occurred in a context in which the production of media networks ‒ both infrastructures (broadcast and relay stations, satellites, cable systems) and media devices or platforms ( tv sets, vcr , vcd , and mobile phones) ‒ outstrips the production of contents. The essay considers the question: what is coming into common through this emerging sense of media regi…
Living between Infrastructures
This essay explores the relations between mobile phones (keitai), broadcast television, and the commuter train network in contemporary Tokyo. In contrast to accounts that emphasize synergy or seamless integration of these infrastructures, this essay looks at them in terms of polarized tendencies associated with specific infrastructures—vertical hierarchical integration with broadcast television, and horizontal heterarchical differentiation with t…
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