动画机器

这本书最锋利处，在于它执意要把动画从'影评'里抢回来。多数人在《天空之城》里看宫崎骏的人文情怀，在《人形电脑天使心》里看情色与萌，拉马尔却追问：画面究竟是如何'动'起来的？他拒绝把动画当成叙事的载体，转而考察赛璐璐图层、剪辑节奏、作画师与设备之间那种'人与装置'的互动——一种被读者称作'新观看视力'的东西。它不告诉你动画'讲'了什么，而逼你看见动画'是'如何被制造出来的。正因如此，门槛极高：德勒兹、海德格尔、精神分析铺路在先，案例又止于老作品，甚至被质疑'外行谈技术'。但它换来一个极具争议的立场：不是文化决定，也不是技术决定，而是介于两者之间的'技术决定性'。适合那些看《天官赐福》也会想知道'水为什么这么深'的人。

Thomas Lamarre is a scholar of media, cinema and animation, intellectual history and material culture at the University of Chicago, with projects ranging from the communication networks of 9th century Japan (Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription, 2000), to silent cinema and the global imaginary (Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics, 2005), animation technologies (The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation, 2009) and on television infrastructures and media ecology (The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media, 2018). Current projects include research on animation that addresses the use of animals in the formation of media networks associated with colonialism and extraterritorial empire, and the consequent politics of animism and speciesism. His work as a translator includes major works from Japanese and French: Kawamata Chiaki’s novel Death Sentences(University of Minnesota, 2012); Muriel Combes’s Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual (MIT, 2012); and David Lapoujade’s William James: Pragmatism and Empiricsm (Duke University Press, 2019). He has also edited volumes on cinema and animation, on the impact of modernity in East Asia, on pre-emptive war, and formerly, as Associate Editor of Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and the Fan Arts, a number of volumes on manga, anime, and fan cultures. He is co-editor with Takayuki Tatsumi of a book series with the University of Minnesota Press entitled “Parallel Futures,” which centers on Japanese speculative fiction. Current editorial work includes a co-edited volume on Chinese animation with Daisy Yan Du and a co-edited volume on Digital Animalities with Jody Berland. He previously taught in East Asian Studies and Communications Studies at McGill University. As James McGill Professor Emeritus of Japanese Media Studies at McGill University, he continues to work with the Moving Image Research Laboratory, funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and partnered by local research initiatives such as Immediations, Hexagram, and Artemis.