Paul Roquet studies the use of media as personal technologies of perceptual and emotional self-regulation.
Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self (Minnesota, 2016) explores how music, video art, film, and literature came to be used as tools of individual atmospheric mood control, theorizing what it means to treat media as a sensory resource for self-care. His new book,
The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan (Columbia, 2022) critically rethinks the cultural politics of consumer VR as a project to perceptually recenter individuals within a privatized virtual space. Roquet’s work engages closely with materials and social contexts from Japan, drawing on the country's history with media technologies to offer new perspectives for a global media studies. His essays have been published in journals including
Animation,
Journal of Japanese Studies,
Journal of Popular Music Studies,
Representations,
Sound Studies, and the
Journal of Visual Culture. For more details visit
proquet.mit.edu.
