Bit difficult to find words to express my feeling. My days there were brilliant, even just one year though. I haven't heard any good news on universities anywhere in the world especially since 2020 (the pandemic). Our predicament in Japan is almost the same.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/14/s...
I can’t help but feel that a society proceeding big data will inevitably prioritize correlation over causation, since this approach should be more efficient in terms of human and economic resources. However, I also realize this creates the perfect breeding ground for eugenic ideas and policies.
On Saturday, November 8th, the Faculty of Communication Studies, Tokyo Keizai University will host a 30th Anniversary Symposium. We welcome guest speaker Toru Nishigaki. We aim to explore AI from multiple perspectives. Reservations and sharing welcome.
www.tku.ac.jp/event/2025/2...
More than the content of the article, I feel a confidence in museums in the United States. I think the role of museums in the construction of national history would not be so well recognised in Japan.
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Really sad to hear this news. Whenever I got a new article by Stern, I was so thrilled. R.I.P. from Japan.
My online talk with Hiroki Yamamoto on Japanese regional art festivals is just out. Sorry it's only in Japanese, but I think this talk somehow has a taste of basic literature for discussing art festivals in vernacular contexts.
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I recently perused Checa-Gismero's "Biennial Boom" (2024), which I found to be a commendable examination of the biennials I have encountered in recent years. Notably, she demonstrates a commendable aptitude for social science theories, particularly when contrasted with Japanese art historians.
Cover of Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History edited by Okwui Enwezor and Atreyee Gupta. Cover is mustard yellow. The title is in very large red letters in the center, with the subtitle in smaller red letters beneath it. The editors names are at the bottom, also in red, underlined. Behind the title text in shadow, are some repeated dates: 1949, 1952, 1959.
"Postwar Revisited" offers a global perspective on art produced during the crucial years between the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945 and the emergence of a tripartite world order in the 1960s. Read the intro for free now: https://buff.ly/3CqnjQ1
I was almost going to apply, I'm a bit old though. Sounds like a great opportunity for young researchers and probably it would be wonderfully fruitful just like my own experience at the summer camp held by the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society.
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I will be hosting an online academic session "Gathering Words to Describe Local Art Festivals in Japan" on the 31st of January, mainly the conversation between Hiroki Yamamoto (Cultural Studies) and me. If you are interested, please register below.
relations-tokyo.com/research/for...
I didn't expect to say 'good bye' to Kirk when I checked the result of week 9.
It has been said many times. If we don't think seriously about making our lives a little more uncomfortable, 'sustainable living' will become a kind of unattainable mirage.
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Know the impact of the presidential election in US. In the past month alone, my bluesky followers have outgrown... It seems the existing users have been progressively leaving X. It's like some kind of dream to be followed by Dylan Mulvin and Simon Mills as a media researcher in the Far East, haha.
Matt Ryan finally retired as a falcon. The best falcon ever. He has been always a legend of North America. His status is almost same as Harold Innis and James Carey to me. I hope he can spend more time with his family and continue to support Falcons.
www.atlantafalcons.com/news/matt-ry...
Seems interesting. Also, in Japan, the development of financial manager for public cultural institutions (especially those of 50 to 100 staffs, I think) is a very important issue.
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For a media researcher, sounds somehow difficult to write about ‘reading,’ because we cannot but admit that we ourselves are socially significant book lovers. To us, writing about ‘reading’ could be very much a study of the people involved, in a way that is different from that of social movements.
Seems interesting. I'm not so familiar with Fan Studies though...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fan-studie...
The passage below by James W. Carey is something like creeping into my mind.
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Nonetheless, I believe the encounter between British cultural studies and Althusser and French structuralism and poststructuralism was a fatally wrong move. (Carey 1995:83)
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again, Kyle Shanahan...
As I got the reminder, circulating the notice of 'Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School.' Really worth joining it.
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Seems the registration has opened. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer Camp. I was the participant of the first time in Seoul and that was really fascinating memory in my career. If you have any interest, please join it.
culturalstudies.asia/2024-inter-a...
When I was reading “Assembly Codes”, the way they set up questions seemed to fit well, but when I reread the intro of “Signal Traffic”, I vaguely feel if their matters of concern could have also been handled within the framework of media studies that flowed from the UK to Australia in the 90's.
Richly indicative. I hope this sort of visual sociology approach will be widely recognized in Japanese sociology as in UK or Anglophone countries.
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I can see the context behind that turn though...
I feel, there have been too many XX turns in social sciences recently. In addition to its frequency, to a scholar in the isolated far east island, there is another problem on this trend; translation. 「野菜論的転回（vegetal turn）」sounds really like a joke in Japanese. I mean, sounds somehow funny.
The keynote speech in the main symposium is by Yuk Hui and one of the discussants is Paul Roquet. I myself is looking forward to attending.
The timetable and the program of 2023 Autumn Conference of Japan Association for Media Studies. We organized a panel on Yussi Parikka's Media Archaeology (Japanese translation released in July). Two of the panelists including me are from this translating team.
www.jams.media/conferences/...
