Thomas Lamarre is James McGill Professor in East Asian studies and associate professor in communication studies at McGill University. He is author of Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription, Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichiro on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics, and The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (Minnesota, 2009). He was coeditor of the Mechademia annual book series and is coeditor of the Parallel Futures series with the University of Minnesota Press.

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

Thomas Lamarre is James McGill Professor in East Asian studies and associate professor in communication studies at McGill University. He is author of Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription, Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichiro on Cinema and “Oriental” Aesthetics, and The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (Minnesota, 2009). He was coeditor of the Mechademia annual book series and is coeditor of the Parallel Futures series with the University of Minnesota Press.