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Bigelow, Susan J. "Technologies of Perception: Miyazaki in Theory and Practice." Animation 4. (2009): 55–75. Added by: joachim (11/8/10, 6:36 PM) Last edited by: joachim (5/3/23, 5:09 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1177/1746847708099740 BibTeX citation key: Bigelow2009 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Animation, Benjamin. Walter, Japan, Miyazaki. Hayao, Philosophy, Randformen des Comics, Religion Creators: Bigelow Collection: Animation |
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The current Western fascination with Japanese animation can be understood in relation to the experience of the digital in cultural production that opens new avenues of understanding about the self-as-subject. Visualization to engage with the image in interactive, virtual environments involves relinquishing control to recognize the individual as emerging through the unique pattern of their relationships, both human and non-human. This reality is articulated in Eastern philosophical notions of interrelatedness and pre-reflective thinking, what Marshall McLuhan called `comprehensive awareness'. The Japanese animator Miyazaki Hayao draws on a Zen-Shinto religious imaginary to empower the individual to relinquish the self. As an alternative politics to the moral confusion of the post-modern age, his practice demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's gamble with cinema is in play.
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