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...Yumiko Iida 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Between the Technique of Living an Endless Routine and the Madness of Absolute Degree Zero: Japanese Identity and the Crisis of Modernity in the 1990s Yumiko Iida The aesthetic is at oncethevery secret prototype...

... of collectivism that transcended the narrow confines of “art” ( bijutsu ), and specific social strategies. Among the ritualists, Zero Jigen, which stood out in terms of their numerous performances and contingent styles, and other collectives such as Kokuin and factions of The Play, with other individuals, formed...

... by putting it in the context of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) patriotic education policy that securitizes culture by focusing on identity as difference in a zero-sum game that distinguishes civilization from barbarism, and China from the rest of the world. It critically analyzes the professors...

..., was published in 1991. positions 2:3 Winter 1994 712 John Whittier Treat teaches Japanese language and literature at the University of Washington. His Writing Ground Zero: Japanese...

... of Okinawa for the writing of “The Crying Wind.” In Okinawa “sengo” zero nen (“Postwar” Okinawa Year Zero, 2005), Medoruma recounts hearing stories from his grandparents about special-­attack pilots flying into US ships, their corpses washing ashore...

... group Zero-Dimension, blamed the discussion group for making the trial less interesting by calling for a mistrial.64 Indeed, after the first day of the trial, when the courtroom was packed, the interest of the art world and trial attendance dropped...

... leading to that lightning of the classics” (“Landscape over Zero “the faucet drip-drop drip-drop / mourns the reservoir” (“Moon Festival and “the priest gets lost in prayer” (“Mission34 The following short poem “Untitled” consists of entirely...

...Linda Hoaglund Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Wristwatch-.7 km from ground zero (1961). Interview with Tomatsu Shomei Linda Hoaglund In the winter of 1994 I encountered Tomatsu Shomei’s photographs of hiba4ysha (atomic bomb...

...,” in Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power, ed. Laura Hein and Mark Selden (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), 184; Medoruma Shun, Okinawa [sengo] zero-nen (Okinawa “Postwar” Year Zero) (Tokyo: NHK Shuppan, 2005...

..., pioneered by Gutai and Jikken Kb, was brought to the extreme by Zero Dimension (Zero Jigen), a 1960s collective studied by KuroDalaiJee (Kuroda Raiji), an art historian based in Fukuoka, Japan. KuroDalaiJee’s work constitutes a series of studies...

... Phillipe . 1983 . L'acte photographique (The Photographic Act) . Paris : Nathan/Labor Press . Eien no zero (The Eternal Zero) . 2013 . Dir. Takashi Yamazaki (written by Hyakuta Naoki ). Tokyo : Toho Co., Ltd. Elkins James . 2007 . Photography Theory . London...

..., he goes home, and Dr. Abe’s committee dubs him Japan’s first victim - their very own Patient Zero. Why, this irrepressible desire in us to seek out origins? To know the first before which was naught...

..., in the final analysis, or even (and especially) in the middle of it, there seems to be an equally determined move to repeat ad nauseam the age-old Machiavellian instruction to the Prince—binaric to its core, sophomoric in its zero-sum logic, and crucial...

... Cooperative movement.5 Now in post-defeat Hiroshima, even as his largely rural audience dwindled to zero, he managed to learn step by painful step how to reach them. Revising his rhetorical address, Nakai simplified his delivery and scaled back...

... within the international state system. Consequently Iida’s objective in “Between the Technique of Living an Endless Routine and the Madness of Absolute Degree Zero: Japanese Identity and the Crisis of Modernity in the 1990s” is, she says, to make...

... greater proportions. MI: In a previous conversation, as Aaron mentioned, Zero Jigen also appeared in Bara no soretsu.27 Did you decide to incorporate their performance into the film because you knew them? TM: Yes...

..., but a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the rst to clearly outline what I am tempted to call the elementary scene, or zero level of ideology. This zero level asserts the (nameless) author...

...! 167 could see and feel. This space envelopes Planet 1566 and changes tempera- ture at whim. When it is cold, it can fall to 500 degrees below zero Molsius; when it is hot, it can get to 500 degrees above zero Molsius. When Zhe men...

... exemplify, many texts in the subgenre effectively utilize game references as tutorials for competitive neoliberal thinking. However, as Virno theorizes, these negative emotions are simply the capitalist distortion of a cognitive “degree zero”: our intuition that in postindustrial society “our relation...

... concentrated on false news reports about invented Japanese victories and Allied defeats, but with the inauguration of the Zero Hour program on I March 1943, NHK began incorporating recorded and, later, live music of American pedigree...