What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group―rural women―at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women’s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women’s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting―even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation.

A Taiwanese American woman’s coming of consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus in this outrageously hilarious yet startlingly tender debut novel
29-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet, Xiao-Wen Chou, and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. But after four years of painstaking research, she has nothing but anxiety and stomach pain to show for her efforts. When she accidentally stumbles upon a strange and curious note in the Chou archives, she convinces herself it’s her ticket out of academic hell.

But Ingrid’s in much deeper than she thinks. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the note’s message lead to an explosive discovery, one that upends her entire life and the lives of those around her. With her trusty friend Eunice Kim by her side and her rival Vivian Vo hot on her tail, together they set off a rollercoaster of mishaps and misadventures, from campus protests and OTC drug hallucinations, to book burnings and a movement that stinks of “Yellow Peril” propaganda.

In the aftermath, nothing looks quite the same to Ingrid—including her gentle and doting fiancé, Stephen Greene. When he embarks on a book tour with the “super kawaii” Japanese author he’s translated, doubts and insecurities creep in. At the same time, she finds herself drawn to the cool and aloof Alex Kim (even though she swears he’s not her type). As the events Ingrid instigated keep spiraling, she’ll have to confront her sticky relationship to white men and white institutions—and most of all, herself.

An uproarious and bighearted satire, alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast of unforgettable characters, Disorientation is both a blistering send-up of white supremacy in academia, and a profound reckoning of a Taiwanese American woman’s complicity and unspoken rage. In this electrifying debut novel from a provocative new voice, Chou asks who gets to tell our stories—and how the story changes when we finally tell it ourselves.

《神秘主义与逻辑及其他论文》是一部论文集，收录的是罗素于1901-1915年间所写的十篇论文。罗素分析哲学的实质就在于把新的哲学方法即逻辑分析应用于哲学研究，而1901-1915年正是罗素新方法的诞生、成熟及应用时期。这部文集中的绝大部分论文呈现给读者的正是罗素在这一时期对新方法的性质、功能及限度的系统而又深入的思考，以及他对这种方法的一系列具体应用；除了关于新方法本身的阐述外，罗素在这些论文中对新方法的应用主要涉及物质问题、物理学知识问题、外部世界的构造问题、因果性问题、自由意志问题、摹状词问题，等等。从这些论文中，我们能看出逻辑分析方法如何能有效解决传统哲学所无法解决的一些重要问题，以及它可能给罗素之前的传统哲学带来哪些崭新的革命性的变化。另外，罗素关于哲学分析的许多基本原则及基本方法，也都在这部文集中得以体现。尽管罗素在后来的岁月中仍有大量论述发表，这部文集中所体现的哲学原则与哲学方法基本上奠定了其后来哲学的整个发展。

A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system.
More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America’s prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them.
Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. Working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions—including solitary confinement—these artists find ways to resist the brutality and depravity that prisons engender. The impact of their art, Fleetwood observes, can be felt far beyond prison walls. Their bold works, many of which are being published for the first time in this volume, have opened new possibilities in American art.
As the movement to transform the country’s criminal justice system grows, art provides the imprisoned with a political voice. Their works testify to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment and offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century.

【编辑推荐】
一部反潮流的“老式”民族志
一项理论与方法相结合的集体协作
聚焦社会互动中的张力，理解“日常生活的语法”，探寻未被言明的准则
城市居民会被编织到复杂的关系网络之中，关系网络则为社会团结和道德团结提供了基石。
这是一本关于双重性的书，也是一项对于新专业职工阶级的研究。
社会学的目标不是抽象本身，而是忠实于脉络的抽象。
【内容简介】
为什么门卫这份工作既容易获得又难以获得？为什么门卫既显得整天忙碌不堪又显得无所事事？门卫对住户的了解远远超过住户对他们的了解。门卫知道住户吃什么食物，看什么电影，和谁在一起。虽然门卫对住户的生活十分熟悉，但他们之间的社会距离却十分遥远。结合观察、采访和调查信息，本书提供了关于门卫的职业角色、大厅动态以及门卫和住户之间极为重要的社会交往的世俗特征的深刻而持久的民族志书写。身为社会学家的比尔曼讨论了门卫如何在安全和监视角色之外履行各种职责。他认为，门卫也是敏锐的管理者，他们必须巧妙地协调社会动态，这是在大型建筑物中生活不可避免的结果，包括策略性地平衡权力和服务意识，以及处理争议。
【名家推荐】
对于那些希望门卫不要再叫他“先生”，担心保姆可能被误认为是情妇，或者想知道自己是否应该在门卫可能通过安全摄像头监视的情况下，不在电梯镜子里看自己鼻毛的人来说，《寻找门卫》真是一个奇迹。它为终生尴尬的遮阳伞偶遇提供了理论基础。
——《纽约客》
这是一本值得推荐的书，无论是对社会学入门者，还是对厌倦了生活的人来说都是如此。事实上，即使是不熟悉晦涩的经典社会学学说的读者，也会喜欢这种对纽约门卫世界温暖而细致的描述……值得嘉奖的是比尔曼以一种颇具可读性的方式提出了他的复杂的分析。
——《英国社会学》期刊
不一定非得是纽约人才能欣赏这本书。这是因为它的作者……有一个长远的目标。他想把丰富的实地田野调查与严谨的正式模型结合起来……就其分析能力和教学创造力而言，它是自身的典范。
——《当代社会学》期刊
通过《寻找门卫》，彼得·比尔曼成为当今城市社会最具独创性、最令人眼花缭乱的记录者之一。在这本非常值得一读的书中，他展示了日常的城市环境和工作者，就像住宅项目和街角的男人一样有趣，这些都是当代城市研究的标准主题。
——米切尔·邓奈尔，《人行道王国》作者
《寻找门卫》源于比尔曼在哥伦比亚大学开设的大一本科生社会学导论课，其原始面貌是学生在课堂上为这项集体研究所提交的报告。为了这门课和这项研究，学生们分组去曼哈顿的高层住宅进行观察、访谈和记录，并不得不对各种突发问题随机应变。不得不说，能开出这样的课是所有社会学老师的梦想。
——李钧鹏，International Sociology Reviews主编
你有没有想过，在你所在城市的公寓楼门口，那些坚忍、沉着、穿着整齐的男人(是的，他们几乎都是男人)的内心和思想中隐藏着什么?比尔曼是哥伦比亚大学的社会学家，由于自己与朋友的门卫的尴尬互动，他开始对纽约的门卫以及他们与住户之间复杂的关系进行详尽的研究。这本书的大部分内容都体现在对门卫的简短采访中，这些门卫说出了他们(通常是不言而喻的)的想法……他们所揭露的一切值得你付出时间。
——《出版人周刊》
不一定非得是纽约人才能欣赏门卫。这是因为它的作者……有一个长远的目标。他想把丰富的实地田野调查与严谨的正式模型结合起来……就其分析能力和教学创造力而言，它是自身的典范。
——《当代社会学》期刊
比尔曼的杰出工作值得祝贺。这是大多数对人类互动感兴趣的社会学家都可能经历过的问题，我们中谁不是呢?
——《美国社会学》期刊
比尔曼在纽约成功地延续了芝加哥学派符号互动论，并结出了罕见而珍贵的果实……比尔曼的书以这些“文化看门人”的生活经历为基础，他运用理论来理解生活中的行动者，并从一个特定的角度来看待整体，令人印象深刻。
——《工作人类学评论》

道教的密教的辟呪物について、平成一二年度は、台湾の台南・東港鎮、中国福建省の厦門・泉州および香港・澳門を調査し、一三年度は東南アジアのバンコク・ペナン・マラッカ・クアラルンプールの各華人街と台湾の金門島・淡水・鹿港・彰化を調査し、一四年度には、フィリピンのマニラとシンガポールの各華人街を調査した。本書は、その成果をまとめたものである。

Sonic Writing explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media. Studying the domains of instrument design, musical notation, and sound recording under the rubrics of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions of sound, the book describes how these historical techniques of sonic writing are implemented in new digital music technologies. With a scope ranging from ancient Greek music theory, medieval notation, early modern scientific instrumentation to contemporary multimedia and artificial intelligence, it provides a theoretical grounding for further study and development of technologies of musical expression. The book draws a bespoke affinity and similarity between current musical practices and those from before the advent of notation and recording, stressing the importance of instrument design in the study of new music and projecting how new computational technologies, including machine learning, will transform our musical practices. Sonic Writing offers a richly illustrated study of contemporary musical media, where interactivity, artificial intelligence, and networked devices disclose new possibilities for musical expression. Thor Magnusson provides a conceptual framework for the creation and analysis of this new musical work, arguing that contemporary sonic writing becomes a new form of material and symbolic design--one that is bound to be ephemeral, a system of fluid objects where technologies are continually redesigned in a fast cycle of innovation.

Subtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move in the world. But rarely do we reflect on this subterranean dimension of communication.
In this book, renowned classicist and scholar of rhetoric Laurent Pernot explores the fascinating world of subtext. Of the two meanings present in any instance of double meaning, Pernot focuses on the meaning that is unstated—the meaning that counts. He analyzes subtext in all its multifarious forms, including allusion, allegory, insinuation, figured speech, irony, innuendo, esoteric teaching, reading between the lines, ambiguity, and beyond. Drawing on examples from figures as varied as Homer, Shakespeare, Molière, Proust, Foucault, and others, as well as from popular culture, Pernot shows how subtext can be identified and deciphered as well as how prevalent and essential it is in human life.
With erudition and wit, Pernot explains and clarifies a device of language that we use and understand every day without even realizing it. The Subtle Subtext is a book for anyone who is interested in language, literature, hidden meanings, and the finer points of social relations.

Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection
of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought,
she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think
without thinking—how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible
to consciousness yet necessary for it to function.
Marshalling fresh insights from neuroscience, cognitive science,
cognitive biology, and literature, Hayles expands our understanding of
cognition and demonstrates that it involves more than consciousness
alone. Cognition, as Hayles defines it, is applicable not only to nonconscious
processes in humans but to all forms of life, including unicellular
organisms and plants. Startlingly, she also shows that cognition
operates in the sophisticated information-processing abilities of technical
systems: when humans and cognitive technical systems interact,
they form “cognitive assemblages”—as found in urban traffic control,
drones, and the trading algorithms of finance capital, for instance—
and these assemblages are transforming life on earth. The result is
what Hayles calls a “planetary cognitive ecology,” which includes both
human and technical actors and which poses urgent questions to humanists
and social scientists alike.
At a time when scientific and technological advances are bringing
far-reaching aspects of cognition into the public eye, Unthought reflects
deeply on our contemporary situation and moves us toward a more
sustainable and flourishing environment for all beings.

★日本史学家新田一郎的经典力作，从物语的角度解读历史
东京大学教授新田一郎承袭家学渊源，广泛涉猎日本文化史、法制史，具有广阔的研究视野。本书以《太平记》为线索，从“物语”的角度切入历史，大胆提出历史在很大程度上是后人“虚构”的观点，并重申了讲述历史、回溯过往对当下、对现代人的意义。
★两个朝廷同时存在，天皇与将军针锋相对，还原一段极具争议的历史
京都与吉野朝廷并立，哪个朝廷才是正统的问题一直延续到后世，甚至曾引起政治纷争。同一时期，镰仓幕府被推翻，室町幕府建立，天皇与将军之间的矛盾正是南北朝分裂的导火索。本书聚焦一个不为国内读者所熟知的时代，以生动的笔法展现了日本历史上朝廷与武家之间的最后一次拉锯战，描写了京都在毁于应仁之乱前最后的繁华。
★从中日“南北朝”的异同看两国历史文化的差异，管窥日本政权结构的核心
南朝天皇与北朝天皇同出于一个家族，从侧面印证了天皇“万世一系”，其血统不可替代。本书提供了一个解读两国政治、历史与文化差异的新角度。
本书是“讲谈社•日本的历史”第六卷，讲述的是日本南北朝时代至室町时代的历史，在时间上相当于中国的元末明初。
镰仓幕府末期，一位雄才大略的帝王——后醍醐天皇横空出世，决心夺回被幕府瓜分的政治权力。同时，各地武士掀起推翻镰仓幕府的浪潮，源氏武士的后裔——足利尊氏脱颖而出，成为武士阶层新的代言人。随着尊氏就任征夷大将军、建立室町幕府，武士阶层与专制王权之间的矛盾再难避免。
本卷以《太平记》为线索，展现了南北朝时期两个朝廷、两位天皇并立的特殊局面，并重申了“物语”对现代人、对历史研究的重要意义。
南北朝，日本历史上动乱和变革的时代。
书写者的笔墨紧紧扣住了历史演进的旋律，记录下无法掌握自己命运的人们，在历史中的奋力选择和追逐的足迹。
—— 清华大学教授 刘晓峰

「西の魔女」とは、中学生の少女・まいの祖母のこと。学校へ行けないまいは、田舎の祖母のところで生活することに。まいは、祖母の家系が魔女の血筋だと聞く。祖母のいう魔女とは、代々草木についての知識を受け継ぎ、物事の先を見通す不思議な能力を持つ人だと知る。まいは自分も魔女になりたいと願い、「魔女修行」を始める。この「魔女修行」とは、意志の力を強くし、何事も自分で決めること。そのための第一歩は規則正しい生活をするといった地味なものだった。野苺を摘んでジャムをつくったり、ハーブで草木の虫を除いたりと、身近な自然を感じながらの心地よい生活が始まる。次第にまいの心は癒されていく。魔女はいう。「自分が楽に生きられる場所を求めたからといって、後ろめたく思う必要はありませんよ。サボテンは水の中に生える必要はないし、蓮の花は空中では咲かない。シロクマがハワイより北極で生きるほうを選んだからといって、だれがシロクマを責めますか」そしてまいは、この「西の魔女」から決定的なメッセージをうけとるのだった……。

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her latest book, Dr. Brené Brown writes, “If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection.”
In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances—a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.
Over the past two decades, Brown’s extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as on Brown’s singular skills as a storyteller, to show us how accurately naming an experience doesn’t give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice.
Brown shares, “I want this book to be an atlas for all of us, because I believe that, with an adventurous heart and the right maps, we can travel anywhere and never fear losing ourselves.”

A deep and radically original exploration of Taoist and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist wisdom through the lens of the life and work of Tu Fu, widely considered China's greatest classical poet.
What is consciousness but the Cosmos awakened to itself? This question is fundamental to the Taoist and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist worldview that shapes classical Chinese poetry. A uniquely conceived biography, Awakened Cosmos illuminates that worldview through the life and work of Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.), China's greatest classical poet. Tu Fu's writing traces his life from periods of relative normalcy to years spent as an impoverished refugee amid the devastation of civil war. Exploring key poems to guide the reader through Tu Fu's dramatic life, Awakened Cosmos reveals Taoist/Ch'an insight deeply lived across the full range of human experience.
Each chapter presents a poem in three stages: first, the original Chinese; then, an English translation in Hinton's masterful style; and finally, a lyrical essay that discusses the untranslatable philosophical dimensions of the poem. The result is nothing short of remarkable: a biography of the Cosmos awakened to itself in the form of a magisterial poet alive in T'ang Dynasty China.
Thirty years ago, David Hinton published America's first full-length translation of Tu Fu's work. Awakened Cosmos is published simultaneously with a newly translated and substantially expanded version of that landmark translation: The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated (New Directions).

Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters.
The hardest part of research isn’t answering a question. It’s knowing what to do before you know what your question is. Where Research Begins tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else?
This book will help you start your new research project the right way for you with a series of simple yet ingenious exercises. Written in a conversational style and packed with real-world examples, this easy-to-follow workbook offers an engaging guide to finding research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas.
Read this book if you (or your students):
• have difficulty choosing a research topic
• know your topic, but are unsure how to turn it into a research project
• feel intimidated by or unqualified to do research
• worry that you’re asking the wrong questions about your research topic
• have plenty of good ideas, but aren’t sure which one to commit to
• feel like your research topic was imposed by someone else
• want to learn new ways to think about how to do research.
Under the expert guidance of award-winning researchers Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, you will find yourself on the path to a compelling and meaningful research project, one that matters to you—and the world.

《玻璃珠游戏》是黑塞毕生的压卷精心杰作，也是他一生最后完成的一部长篇小说。描述主人翁克尼克在艺术的理想国成为最佳珠戏导师的过程，全书通过完整的奏鸣曲的结构，把主人翁的出生、感召、修业的心路历程淋漓地勾勒出来，可以说是黑塞毕生文学
的高峰，也是他文学创作的总结。这部小说出版三年后，黑塞荣获地位崇高的歌德文学奖，同年又获得1946 年诺贝尔文学奖的桂冠。
这部小说是了解黑塞思想的锁匙，也是他一生文学事业的天鹅之歌。

Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of art but also political life--and our attempts to know both art and politics. Inescapable and frequently troubling, forms shape every aspect of our experience. But forms don't impose their order in any simple way. Multiple shapes, patterns, and arrangements, overlapping and colliding, generate complex and unpredictable social landscapes that challenge and unsettle conventional analytic models in literary and cultural studies.
Borrowing the concept of "affordances" from design theory, this book investigates the specific ways that four major forms--wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks--have structured culture, politics, and scholarly knowledge across periods, and it proposes exciting new ways of linking formalism to historicism and literature to politics. Levine rereads both formalist and antiformalist theorists, including Cleanth Brooks, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Mary Poovey, and Judith Butler, and she offers engaging accounts of a wide range of objects, from medieval convents and modern theme parks to Sophocles's Antigone and the television series The Wire.
The result is a radically new way of thinking about form for the next generation and essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities who must wrestle with the problem of form and context.

How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan
Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation to make a case for portraying ambient media as a neoliberal response to older modes of collective harmony.
Through a series of probing interventions, Paul Roquet generates a new environment for Japan studies—one that takes into account the faint, ambient, receding, and ubiquitous immaterialities that fill Japan's ether. This is a work worth noticing.
—
Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California
Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan, and what it means to use media as a resource for personal mood regulation. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation.
Focusing on how an atmosphere works to reshape those dwelling within it, Roquet shows how ambient aesthetics can provide affordances for reflective drift, rhythmic attunement, embodied security, and urban coexistence. Musicians, video artists, filmmakers, and novelists in Japan have expanded on Brian Eno’s notion of the ambient as a style generating “calm, and a space to think,” exploring what it means to cultivate an ambivalent tranquility set against the uncertain horizons of an ever-shifting social landscape. Offering a new way of understanding the emphasis on “reading the air” in Japanese culture, Ambient Media documents both the adaptive and the alarming sides of the increasing deployment of mediated moods.
Arguing against critiques of mood regulation that see it primarily as a form of social pacification, Roquet makes a case for understanding ambient media as a neoliberal response to older modes of collective attunement—one that enables the indirect shaping of social behavior while also allowing individuals to feel like they are ultimately in control.
Through a series of probing interventions, Paul Roquet generates a new environment for Japan studies—one that takes into account the faint, ambient, receding, and ubiquitous immaterialities that fill Japan's ether. This is a work worth noticing.
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Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California
Ambient Media is an ambitious work that introduces the reader to a captivating cross-section of ambient media in the current Japanese mediascape, with a particular focus on sound and image-based arts. Paul Roquet smartly cuts through multiple strata from music to experimental performance to design, offering a fresh and novel perspective on the atmospheres of ambient media.
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Marc Steinberg, Concordia University
A gateway into a world of arresting and inspiring electronic media.
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New Books in Music
Roquet offers a concrete cultural and technological context for anyone curious about the dominance in contemporary Japan of “ambient” creators.
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The Japan Times
Roquet’s approach to ambient mediation provides a fresh and inspiring theoretical approach for media studies and offers a fruitful discussion of the spati-temporal aspects of atmospheric immersion or ambient (non)mediation, describing it as something experienced as the synchronization of rhythm or the contingency of space.
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Journal of Japanese Studies
Beyond the clear grounding in Japan studies, this book opens ways of thinking with a much broader relevance beyond the specific context of postindustrial Japan. Roquet’s writing is thorough yet evocative, with a tone of presentation that cleverly draws us into the reflective meditation being discussed.
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Cultural Politics
Ambient Media’s strength lies in its hybrid nature, seamlessly blending together Japanese and Western Critical traditions and historical trajectories. Roquet’s close readings of individual texts are vivid and convincing, and the analyses are grounded in specific historical and cultural contexts.
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Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema
What Ambient Media achieves is the construction of a clear, contemporary history of the topic while addressing the inherently double-edged possibilities such as history creates for interpretation.
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Japanese Studies
Beyond the more theoretical passages, Roquet also offers intriguing case studies of individual practitioners working in their respective ambient media that inspire one to check out their work, from musicians and sound artists such as Tetsu Inoue and Chihei Hatakeyama to experimental filmmakers like Masakatsu Takagi, while displaying a remarkable talent for poetically evoking Tokyo’s various landscapes and accompanying soundscapes through lively descriptions of often highly abstract aural and visual material.
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All the Anime
Ambient Media opens ways for thinking with a much broader relevance beyond the specific context of postindustrial Japan. Roquet’s writing is thorough yet evocative, with a tone of presentation that cleverly draws us into the reflective meditation being discussed.
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Cultural Politics

I note that I’ve lived longer in the past, now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn’t mind forgetting a lot more of it.