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Ambient Media - Japanese Atmospheres of Self (Hardcover)
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Ambient Media - Japanese Atmospheres of Self (Hardcover)
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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 the ones ultimately in control.
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