Akira Mizuta Lippit je profesorom a vedúcim katedry kritických štúdií na Škole filmových umení, pričom jeho práca sa sústreďuje na svetové kinematografie, kritickú teóriu a japonský film a kultúru. Jeho publikované diela, vrátane niekoľkých kníh, odrážajú jeho záujem o experimentálny film a vizuálne štúdie. Lippit sa zameriava najmä na vzťah medzi japonskou kultúrou konca 20. a začiatku 21. storočia a konceptom sveta. Jeho diela, preložené do viacerých jazykov, sa objavujú v odborných časopisoch a zborníkoch.
Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture.
Explores the avisual and its effect on the visual world. Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and invisible men are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. Revealing these hidden interiors of cultural life, this book focuses on historical moments in which the modes of avisuality came into being.
What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? This title features a collection of essays framed by the concept ex- - meaning from, outside, and no longer. It explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video.
Excavates a theory of cinema in Derrida's writing on love, narcissism, echopoiesis, and fluidity