MCM Graduate Program
Marc Steinberg
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Biography
Year entered: 2003
Research Interests
serial media and serial consumption; Japanese anime, manga, art, and
film; movement and stillness; economy and visual culture; marxist
theory; film theory; Gilles Deleuze, Otsuka Eiji, media mix aesthetics
and practice; the light novel.
Publications:
"Immobile Sections and Trans-series Movement: Astroboy and the
Emergence of Anime," Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1:2
(2006), 190-206.
"Otaku Consumption, Superflat Art, and the Return to Edo," Japan Forum
16:3 (2004)
"Building Perceptions: Media Architecture and the Hypersurface
Experience," in Parachute #113 (January/February/March 2004)
"Facing Deformation: Character-commodities, Murakami Takashi, and our
Posthuman Condition," in Orientations: Transcultural Perspectives on
Asia #5 (Fall 2003) and Lab71 (#4)
"Characterizing a new seriality: Murakami Takashi's DOB project" in
Parachute # 110 (April/ May/June 2003)
"The Trajectory of Apocalypse: Pleasure and Destruction in Akira and
Evangelion" in East Asia Forum, Volume 8/9 (Fall 1999 / Fall 2000)