DR Fabio Gygi's Outputs (3)

Robot Companions: The Animation of Technology and the Technology of Animation in Japan (2018)
Book Chapter
Gygi, F. (2018). Robot Companions: The Animation of Technology and the Technology of Animation in Japan. In M. Astor-Aguilera, & G. Harvey (Eds.), Rethinking Relations and Animism: Personhood and Materiality (94-111). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203709887

Contemporary Japan is often described in utopian terms as a place where humans and nonhumans live and work together in harmony. This acceptance of nonhuman others is explained by some anthropologists as stemming from an “animist unconscious” (Allison... Read More about Robot Companions: The Animation of Technology and the Technology of Animation in Japan.

The Metamorphosis of Excess: ‘Rubbish Houses’ and the Imagined Trajectory of Things in Post-Bubble Japan (2018)
Book Chapter
Gygi, F. (2018). The Metamorphosis of Excess: ‘Rubbish Houses’ and the Imagined Trajectory of Things in Post-Bubble Japan. In K. J. Cwiertka, & E. Machotka (Eds.), Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: A Transdisciplinary Perspective (129-151). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462980631

Lost in the dream : negotiating a life in street music in a Tokyo neighbourhood (2018)
Thesis
Simpkins, R. J. Lost in the dream : negotiating a life in street music in a Tokyo neighbourhood. (Thesis). SOAS University of London