Beyond these formal similarities, I foreground the two works' shared concern with the operations of the modern state, putting them in conversation with critical theorists including Althusser, Butler and Žižek. Max Ward, University of East London, Film Studies Department, Undergraduate. The essay begins with a brief analysis of how area studies has approached Marxist praxis in Japan as a vexed process of intellectual “adaptation” taking place during rapid modernization.
By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. The essay concludes by considering the continuing challenges of studying Marxist thought and movements in East Asian history.This essay explores an imperial state exhibition held in Tokyo in 1938 and explains how the exhib...This essay explores an imperial state exhibition held in Tokyo in 1938 and explains how the exhibition displayed a fascist worldview of historical crisis and national regeneration that was taking shape in Japan in the late 1930s. The essay begins with a brief analysis of how area studies has approached Marxist praxis in Japan as a vexed process of intellectual “adaptation” taking place during rapid modernization. The result is that rather than provincializing Europe per se, Chakrabarty has provincialized Marx specifically. Academia.edu is a place to share and follow research. "Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shū sui and Japan's First AntiImperialist Movement by Robert Thomas Tierney (review)."
"Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shū sui and Japan's First AntiImperialist Mov...Max Ward. In this essay, I read Ōshima’s Death By Hanging as a cinematic exposition of state power and ideology, and will read it along with Louis Althusser’s contemporaneous notes from 1969-1970 outlining what he called Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs) and ideological interpellation. This chapter focuses on the status of history in the text, and in particular, the narratival function of Tanabe’s uncharacteristically personal Preface. The result is that rather than provincializing Europe per se, Chakrabarty has provincialized Marx specifically. "This is an introduction to our book, <
The Journal of Japanese Studies 45, no. Academia MAX. Beyond these formal similarities, I foreground the two works' shared concern with the operations of the modern state, putting them in conversation with critical theorists including Althusser, Butler and Žižek. Refuerzo escolar. "Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shū sui and Japan's First AntiImperialist Movement by Robert Thomas Tierney (review)." Ultimately, this is an exercise in reading Althusser and Ōshima alongside each other, in order to see what their respective — and contemporaneous — analyses allow us to ask about ideology, state power, and political possibility.Max Ward. In doing so, I argue that Death by Hanging reveals the limits of what Žižek theorized as the "Kafkaesque subject," opening into questions about political possibility and gesturing towards what Althusser called " bad subjects. The exhibition – entitled the Thought War Exhibition (Shisosen tenrankai) – was curated by the Japanese state’s newly formed Cabinet Information Division (Naikaku johobu) and held in Takashimaya Department Store in downtown Tokyo. This chapter focuses on the status of history in the text, and in particular, the narratival function of Tanabe’s uncharacteristically personal Preface. Rather, the symposium participants brought their specific areas of expertise to bear on elaborating the curious term ‘thought war’ (shisosen), a term that had only recently been used with any regularity but which had become invested with critical urgency following the invasion of China.Death by Hanging (Kōshikei) is one of Ōshima Nagisa’s most complex political films of the 1960s, ...Death by Hanging (Kōshikei) is one of Ōshima Nagisa’s most complex political films of the 1960s, both for its innovative experiments with film form, as well as how it addresses a variety of political issues, including capital punishment, nationalism, and colonial legacies in postwar Japan, to name just a few.
While the ostensible purpose of the symposium was to discuss propaganda following Japan’s full-scale invasion of China in July of 1937, the presentations had very little to do with the practical coordination of information. In addition to introducing the various essays in the volume, we deal with how to contextualize thought in relation to global capitalist modernity.
At the center of this constellation of issues is the question of ideological subjection by the state and its inherent connection to state violence. 59 likes.