Feeling Media

“Feeling Media takes up the essential question posed by media artists of the 1960s, which continues to haunt us. Telecommunications, touted to bring us closer together, have instead riddled everyday life with new forms of distance and alienation—what kind of politics is equal to this situation? Miryam Sas’s profound engagement with Japan’s transmedia art advances a practical and orphic response: feel media otherwise.” - Thomas Lamarre, Cinema and Media Studies/East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

“Feeling Media is a must-read for anyone interested in media ecology and eager to explore how to live as a global citizen in a world swamped in new media. By questioning and overcoming the Eurocentric perspective and formation of media theory, it will be a field-defining book in media studies and contemporary Japanese art.” - Daisuke Miyao, author of Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema

"Brief descriptions can’t do justice to the intricately layered and nuanced arguments that Sas produces about each work, each artist, and each thinker. . . . You simply must read the book, as I will again with graduate students in seminar." - Kerim Yasar, The Journal of Japanese Studies

"Feeling Media is a welcomed addition to the post-war avant-garde scholarship, fitting as an interesting addendum to expand an already existing awareness of the field." - Luca Proietti, Japan Forum