The Anime Ecology

Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Introduction: Television Animation and Infrastructure Ecology -- Part I. The Screen-Brain Apparatus -- 1. Population Seizure -- 2. Neurosciences and Television -- 3. This Stuff Called Blink -- 4. A Thousand Tiny Blackouts -- Part II. A Little Social Media History of Television -- 5. Media Genealogy and Transmedia Ecology -- 6. A Little History of Japanese Television -- 7. Television and New Media -- 8. Sociality or Something Like It -- 9. Platformativity and Ontopower -- Part III. Infrastructure Complexes -- 10. The Family Broadcast Complex -- 11. The Home Theater Complex -- 12. The Game Play Complex -- 13. The Portable Interface Complex -- Conclusion: Signaletic Animism -- Notes -- Bibliography