[KineJapan] Workshop on Love and the Planetary - Tokyo University June 26th 6pm

[Christophe Thouny]

Dear colleagues,

We are organizing a workshop on the theme of Love and the Planetary next week on Thursday 26th, 6pm. For those of you in town please joins us.
The workshop builds up on a first series of workshops last year on Fukushima Japan. It is open to anybody and mostly based on discussions, with short presentations.

Best regards,

Christophe

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	Christophe Thouny, PhD
	University of Tokyo 
        Global Communication Research Center
	email : ct843 at nyu.edu
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Atmospheres of the Planetary - Love

Phil Kaffen (New York University), Thomas Looser (New York University),   Kimura Saeko (Tsuda College), Christophe Thouny (The University of Tokyo), Ueno Toshiya (Wakō University), Yoshimoto Mitsuhiro (Waseda University)


Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 6pm
The University of Tokyo, Komaba / Bld. 18 / Collaboration Room 2

The current project of the Abe government to arbitrarily redefine the legal interpretation of the Japanese constitution has led recent protests to reluctantly adopt the slogan "Protect the [our?my?] Constitution". As in the desire to "Protect the [our?my?] Planet", the bracketed possessive marks the acknowledgement in disavowal of the non-sovereignty that grounds our affective attachment to a common space of dwelling. What matters is the constitution as constitution, the planet as planet, in a non-sovereign love relation that relies on the desire for this adorable thing to become mine, while remaining essentially alien. In this first workshop on the Planetary and Love, we will discuss how an imperative non-sovereign relation, love as atmosphere, stages our attachment to the national, the human and the planetary in Fukushima Japan. Looking at a variety of texts from movies to the Oshinbo comic, we will attempt to understand how a planetary love can allow us to perform in our everyday academic practices what Lauren Berlant terms “a shift in attachment style.”

English and Japanese⎜Free Admission ⎜No Registration Required
Organized by Christophe Thouny   email: ct843 at nyu.edu



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