Zombie Rhythms: Temporality and Contemporary Media Culture in Japan

Zombie Rhythms: Temporality and Contemporary Media Culture in Japan

Alexander Zahlten - Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University

Monday, October 19, 2015 - 4:00pm
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

The intensified interconnections between media after the 1960s entailed numerous shifts that still shape media culture in Japan today.

This talk will explore several historical tipping points that negotiate a new economy of mediated life in the transforming media ecology. From the vivisection of giant monsters in the 1960s to the funeral ceremony for a post-apocalyptic warlord in 2007, a pattern of zombification emerges that is tailored to the rhythms of late-capitalist media culture.  

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