Photographic Thought/Sensation/Materiality in Japanese Literary and Visual Media

As a vital medium of relation and exchange among mental and material worlds, photography has inflected the entangled conditions of possibility for literary and visual media in Japan in untold ways. This course examines the evolving contours of thought, sensation, and materiality provoked by the photographic encounters among a diverse set of textual and visual practices. Drawing on primary materials and criticism from literary and artistic contexts as well as secondary scholarship, this course explores the changing relations among media and moments of critical reflection afforded by photography in Japan.