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Paul Roquet

    The Immersive Enclosure
    Ambient Media
    • Ambient Media

      • 248 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Introduction: reading the air -- Background music of the avant-garde: the quiet boom of Erik Satie -- The sound of embodied security: imaginary landscapes of ambient music -- Moving with the rhythms of the city: ambient video attunements -- Soft fascinations in shallow depth: compositing ambient space -- Subtractivism: low-affect living with ambient cinema -- Healing style: ambient literature and the aesthetics of calm -- Conclusion

      Ambient Media
    • Is immersion just another name for enclosure? In this groundbreaking analysis of virtual reality in Japan, Paul Roquet uncovers how the technology is reshaping the politics of labor, gender, home, and nation.

      The Immersive Enclosure