Akira Mizuta Lippit es un erudito cuyo trabajo profundiza en los cines del mundo, la teoría crítica y el cine y la cultura japoneses. Sus escritos publicados, que abarcan varios libros, exploran temas del cine experimental y los estudios visuales, reflejando sus diversos intereses académicos. La investigación de Lippit a menudo examina la intrincada relación entre la cultura japonesa de finales del siglo XX y principios del XXI y el concepto más amplio del mundo. Sus influyentes escritos han sido traducidos a numerosos idiomas y se presentan ampliamente en revistas académicas y antologías.
Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture.
Explores the avisual and its effect on the visual world. Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and invisible men are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. Revealing these hidden interiors of cultural life, this book focuses on historical moments in which the modes of avisuality came into being.
What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? This title features a collection of essays framed by the concept ex- - meaning from, outside, and no longer. It explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video.
Excavates a theory of cinema in Derrida's writing on love, narcissism, echopoiesis, and fluidity