Paul Roquet
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816692446
- eISBN:
- 9781452953625
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692446.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
Contemporary life is increasingly shaped through attunement to the atmospheric affordances of the media environment. Ambient Media delves into the use of music, video, film, and literature as tools ...
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Contemporary life is increasingly shaped through attunement to the atmospheric affordances of the media environment. Ambient Media delves into the use of music, video, film, and literature as tools to tune this atmospheric self. The book traces the emergence of mood-regulating media in Japan from the environmental art and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 70s to the more recent emphasis on “healing” styles. Focusing on how ambience reshapes those dwelling within it, Ambient Media explores the working of atmospheres designed for affective calm, rhythmic attunement, embodied security, and urban coexistence. The book argues for understanding ambient media as a specifically neoliberal response to mood regulation, serving as a way to atmospherically shape collective behavior while providing resources for emotional autonomy and attention restoration at the individual level. Ambient Media considers the adaptive side of atmosphere as an approach to self-care and social mobility. At the same time, the book considers the limits of mood regulation and the low-affect lifestyle when it comes to interpersonal life. Musicians, video artists, filmmakers, and writers in Japan have expanded on Brian Eno’s original idea of a style affording “calm, and a space to think,” providing materials to cultivate sensory serenity within the uncertain horizons of the contemporary social landscape. Offering a new way of understanding Japanese social demands to “read the air,” the book documents both the adaptive and the alarming sides of this turn to mediated moods.Less
Contemporary life is increasingly shaped through attunement to the atmospheric affordances of the media environment. Ambient Media delves into the use of music, video, film, and literature as tools to tune this atmospheric self. The book traces the emergence of mood-regulating media in Japan from the environmental art and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 70s to the more recent emphasis on “healing” styles. Focusing on how ambience reshapes those dwelling within it, Ambient Media explores the working of atmospheres designed for affective calm, rhythmic attunement, embodied security, and urban coexistence. The book argues for understanding ambient media as a specifically neoliberal response to mood regulation, serving as a way to atmospherically shape collective behavior while providing resources for emotional autonomy and attention restoration at the individual level. Ambient Media considers the adaptive side of atmosphere as an approach to self-care and social mobility. At the same time, the book considers the limits of mood regulation and the low-affect lifestyle when it comes to interpersonal life. Musicians, video artists, filmmakers, and writers in Japan have expanded on Brian Eno’s original idea of a style affording “calm, and a space to think,” providing materials to cultivate sensory serenity within the uncertain horizons of the contemporary social landscape. Offering a new way of understanding Japanese social demands to “read the air,” the book documents both the adaptive and the alarming sides of this turn to mediated moods.
Daniela Vallega-Neu
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034012
- eISBN:
- 9780262334631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034012.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This Chapter traces the relation between Heidegger’s Black Notebooks between 1932 and 1941 and his non-public writings on the event between 1936 and 1941 (the latter starting with Contributions to ...
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This Chapter traces the relation between Heidegger’s Black Notebooks between 1932 and 1941 and his non-public writings on the event between 1936 and 1941 (the latter starting with Contributions to Philosophy [GA 65] and ending with The Event [GA 71]) in which Heidegger develops his thinking of the history of being. The author argues that the Black Notebooks are less rigorous and less “philosophical” with respect to the kind of thinking Heidegger attempts to develop in his writings of the event. Still, earlier notebooks (1932-36) give some insight into how Heidegger began to develop his “beyng-historical” (seynsgeschichtliches) thinking that finds its first fuller articulation in Contributions to Philosophy, and there are overlaps especially between the Notebooks and the non-public writings of the event between 1938 and 1939 (Besinnung and Geschichte des Seyns). However in in 1941-42, when in Über den Anfang (GA 70), Das Ereignis (GA 71) the attunement of Heidegger’s thinking of the event shifts away from a language of power and resistance, the relation to the Notebooks changes and a clearer gap opens between what and how Heidegger writes in the Notebooks of that time and his writings of the event.Less
This Chapter traces the relation between Heidegger’s Black Notebooks between 1932 and 1941 and his non-public writings on the event between 1936 and 1941 (the latter starting with Contributions to Philosophy [GA 65] and ending with The Event [GA 71]) in which Heidegger develops his thinking of the history of being. The author argues that the Black Notebooks are less rigorous and less “philosophical” with respect to the kind of thinking Heidegger attempts to develop in his writings of the event. Still, earlier notebooks (1932-36) give some insight into how Heidegger began to develop his “beyng-historical” (seynsgeschichtliches) thinking that finds its first fuller articulation in Contributions to Philosophy, and there are overlaps especially between the Notebooks and the non-public writings of the event between 1938 and 1939 (Besinnung and Geschichte des Seyns). However in in 1941-42, when in Über den Anfang (GA 70), Das Ereignis (GA 71) the attunement of Heidegger’s thinking of the event shifts away from a language of power and resistance, the relation to the Notebooks changes and a clearer gap opens between what and how Heidegger writes in the Notebooks of that time and his writings of the event.
Paul Roquet
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816692446
- eISBN:
- 9781452953625
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692446.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
Chapter Three maps out how the audiovisual attunements of ambient video intersect with the impersonal rhythms of the urban environment. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, Roquet explores how ...
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Chapter Three maps out how the audiovisual attunements of ambient video intersect with the impersonal rhythms of the urban environment. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, Roquet explores how ambient media can serve as an intermediary between the rhythms of the city and the rhythms of the body.Less
Chapter Three maps out how the audiovisual attunements of ambient video intersect with the impersonal rhythms of the urban environment. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, Roquet explores how ambient media can serve as an intermediary between the rhythms of the city and the rhythms of the body.
Russell J. Duvernoy
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474466912
- eISBN:
- 9781474496162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466912.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter dwells on axiological and existential tensions raised by the concept of ecological attunement. First, it distinguishes this concept from Heidegger’s well-known discussion of attunement ...
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This chapter dwells on axiological and existential tensions raised by the concept of ecological attunement. First, it distinguishes this concept from Heidegger’s well-known discussion of attunement and world. Then, it places Whiteheadean/Deleuzean concepts of affect and feeling in dialogue with the affect theory of Sylvan Tompkins and Daniel Stern, arguing that the “vitality affects” of the latter are ontologically prior to constituted worlds in a phenomenological sense. It considers how attention to affective tertiary qualities are shaped by inheritance of affective patterns and attentive choices of the past while also oriented towards a potentially open future. In this way, selection (from inherited qualities) and orientation (towards future projection) become the two sides of ecological attuning as an existential ideal. This double-sided structure is considered in relation to Whitehead’s discussion of “evil” and Deleuze’s emphasis on willing the event and counter-actualisation.Less
This chapter dwells on axiological and existential tensions raised by the concept of ecological attunement. First, it distinguishes this concept from Heidegger’s well-known discussion of attunement and world. Then, it places Whiteheadean/Deleuzean concepts of affect and feeling in dialogue with the affect theory of Sylvan Tompkins and Daniel Stern, arguing that the “vitality affects” of the latter are ontologically prior to constituted worlds in a phenomenological sense. It considers how attention to affective tertiary qualities are shaped by inheritance of affective patterns and attentive choices of the past while also oriented towards a potentially open future. In this way, selection (from inherited qualities) and orientation (towards future projection) become the two sides of ecological attuning as an existential ideal. This double-sided structure is considered in relation to Whitehead’s discussion of “evil” and Deleuze’s emphasis on willing the event and counter-actualisation.
