... of departure,” “acts within acts,” para-existential “middles” of chance and opportunity, and uncanny sensations irreducible to sight, sound, or understanding. At stake for Nakai in such concepts were the critical, transformative energies of the people themselves, which were increasingly subject to the various...

... in Kinokuniya Hall on American race relations). In these nonfictional musings, Ōe posits an analogous existential dilemma shared by the postwar Japanese and post–civil rights era African-Americans. Ōe's proposed solution to this dilemma—a kind of existential freedom rooted in celebrating ethnic and racial...

... society, and the public imagination, ensuring that Penan voices are heard on issues as varied as access to education, the predations of logging companies, and the existential questions of land tenure. In setting aside space for a Penan storyteller to speak in his own eloquent words, this article is itself...

... in question. What I wish to pursue now is an issue I posed at the beginning of this paper, namely, the strategic position of Sartre’s existential humanism within this entire brouhaha. To speak of Sartre, of course...

... . Jackson Michael . 2005 . Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and Effects . New York : Bergahn . Jackson Michael . 2013 . Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Kipnis Andrew . 2007 . “ Neoliberalism Reified: Suzhi...

... symbolisms probing the very foundation of human existence. In reflections on the human condition, existentialism, a postwar vogue, rein- forced the other dominant intellectual fashion of the era, neo-Freudian speculation. If the former put...

... such as Umemoto Katsumi, Nakai Masakazu, Yoshimoto Takaaki, Tanigawa Gan, and Tokoto Mitsuko all embraced the theory of subjective nothingness. Ōshima's Kōshukei drew inspiration from Umemoto's theory, as well as existential philosophy such as Sartreanism, for its portrayal of the protagonist R, who in the film...

... figures in this new activist left—Hirai Gen, Matsumoto Hajime, and Amamiya Karin—and demonstrates some of the ways that their work and activism are sketching out an exciting new future beyond capitalism itself. hyperneoliberalism NEET freeter Mickey Mouse proletariat ikitsurasa (existential...

... and to a theory of cultural crisis. In response to the cultural crisis of capitalism, So˘ argued that the intellect is to transition to a different level of temporality in which the process of logic (i.e., rationalization) gives existential form...

... of those struggling in it. There is something I noticed in your work, however. It reaches a climax in A Personal Matter. I realize that the theme you have pursued persistently is the issue of an existential auton- omous subject and its...

... was a colonial city, forcing its inhabitants Barlow ❘ Editor’s Introduction 493 to create new subject forms as they sought community, in a situation that Peycam names “ ‘existential’ malaise.” Christopher...

... and to transform, through his writing, the habits of intellectuals’ self-aggrandizing claims and also to challenge the state police’s crude policing of thought. Solomon is careful when it comes to the ambiguous potential of exuber- ance, existential passion...

... or regionalism, but has perhaps trapped it in the slave’s “existential impasse” in relationship to the master.17 The split found in Asia today, between development and poverty or between self-interest and responsibility, invokes two opposing...

... by transmuting China into “a collec- tive personality with an existential problem.” To accentuate the manic quality of this narrativity, Sun also mentions PRC counterparts who write the nation and never the individual: he ponders the difference...

... 316 2. You have recounted how, after you “experienced an existential crisis” during the six or so years you spent in prison during the latter half of the 1970s that the “problem of life” began to press on you in a direct fashion...

... collection Wild Grass (1927) in concluding the doomed existential quest, but the trope of insignificant yet interminable wild grass is a powerful antinomy to the frustration “I” consistently experiences. Musically, the ennui and disappointment of the lost self is balanced by a surprisingly bright...

... general Raoul Salan, the head of the OAS during the Algerian rebellion against French colonial rule. In Salan, Schmitt says, “an existential conflict is exposed that is decisive for the partisan problem, one that arises when a conventional combat...

...-existential Forces of Invention: Nakai Masakazu’s Theory of Technology and Critique of Capitalism .” positions 17 , no. 1 : 127 – 57 . Morgan Daniel . 2012 . Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema . Berkeley : University of California Press . Nagae Michitarō . 1942 . Eiga...

... the traditional relationship between the camera and their female stars in a way that challenges the cam- era’s existential and narrative control over the image of women. Instead of being eroticized as objects of desire, women in their films question...

... possible lives than from life possibilities. Possible lives rest on the very ontologies of being-in-the-world, while life possibilities are realized through social and political processes. Similarly, Michael Jackson ( 2011 : xi) defines the idea of well-being as grounded “in the mystery of existential...