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 Enorsquo;s notion of the ambient as a style generating ldquo;calm; and a space to think;rdquo; 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 ldquo;reading the airrdquo; 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 attunementmdash;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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Quite exoticBy DarkleI enjoyed the photos. Quite exotic. More text would be even better.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. With so many buildings and structures to choose from.it is very diffict to tell Irelands history;but this is a good attempt.By Jerry GuildThis is a very unusual ;interesting and informative book about buildings and structures in Ireland ;and their historical significances.The author has chosen 50 buildings and other man-made constructions from different parts of Ireland and uses them to explain Irelands long and complicated history.For each of his choices;he providesa photograph and explains by whom and why it was constructed.He describes iwhere and why it helps to explain the history of that particular building and others similar to it.In each case;the author gives much more detail as to the history and not as much about the details of the structures construction ; layout or detailed construction ;other that a photograph;Hence;this is really much more a book of history than a book of details about structures.The book consists of 200 pages and is constructed of excellent paper;very good printing;good color rendition;a good Index and a quality hard cover and dust jacket.I have a book in my library called "A Short History Of Ireland" ;which I often think is an oxymoron;but this book really is a short history of Ireland ;by an author of other historical books.One of which is "a Concise History of Modern Ireland".Part of any countrys history is definitely the buildings and various structures that the people construct;and that makes this book a very different approach to a countrys history.The photographs are all in color and give a good idea of the structure involved ;but they are basically snapshots rather than high quality photographs. On the dust jacket it shows that the photograph of the author is credited to Anthony Georgriff;but I did not find any mention of who took the other bphotographs.I suspect they may have been by the author.
