H-Film: ANIMATING LIFE: LECTURES (July 4) and FILM SCREENING (July 5)

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ANIMATING LIFE: LECTURES (July 4) and FILM SCREENING (July 5) 
by Shunsuke Nozawa 
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reflects the original authorship.

Type: LectureDate: July 4, 2016 to July 5, 2016Location: JapanSubject 
Fields: Anthropology, East Asian History / Studies, Film and Film History, 
Popular Culture Studies, Japanese History / Studies

ANIMATING LIFE:

LECTURES (July 4) and FILM SCREENING (July 5)

Presented by Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation and Interfaculty 
Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo

*Monday July 5, 2016 LECTURES: Thomas Lamarre and Elizabeth Povinelli*

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 * Date: Monday, July 4, 2016
 * Time: 13:15-17:30
 * Place: Daiwa Ubiquitous Computing Research Building, 3F. University of
   Tokyo Hongo Campus
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 * Participation is free and open to all; Language of presentation is English

- 13:15: Introduction

- 13:30: Thomas Lamarre (McGill University)

Title: “Animation and Transhuman Ethics”

In the 1930s and early 1940s, the explosion of cartoons onto the global 
cinema market sparked a wave of critical analyses of animation — writings 
by Sergei Eisenstein, Theodor Adorno, and Imamura Taihei. Across these 
writings emerges a concern for the “personness” of cartoon characters: 
cartoons implied a weird relation in which the cartoon body conveyed an 
affective intelligence that verged on being a person (animism). Yet that 
personness remained unstable, highly plastic, refusing to coalesce into an 
individual with genuine personhood (or shutaisei) while defying the 
boundaries of species. In addition, in different ways, these writers all 
linked the emergence of cartoon animism to the emergence of new capitalist 
totalities. Significantly, the same historical period also saw the first 
stirring of today’s multimedia franchises. Ultimately, however, these early 
accounts do not subordinate animation to capitalist capture or totalization. 
Thus they pose a question that remains open and urgent today: how do the 
animist tendencies of animation allow us to think creatively about the total 
events and global emergencies evoked in contemporary ecocriticism and animal 
studies, such as mass species extinction, the Anthropocene, and the uneven 
distribution of apparently total events across populations and places?

- 14:30: Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University)

Title: “Geontopower, Life and Non-Life in Late Liberalism”

This talk elaborates how our allegiance to the concept of biopower is hiding 
and revealing another problematic—a formation for want of a better term I 
am calling geontological power, or geontopower. It asks whether the concepts 
of biopolitics, positive or negative, or necropolitics, colonial or 
postcolonial, still inform the formation of power in which late liberalism 
now operates—or has been operating. If, paraphrasing Gilles Deleuze, 
concepts open understanding to what is all around us but not in our field of 
vision, does biopolitics any longer gather together under its conceptual 
wings what needs to be thought if we are to understand contemporary late 
liberalism? Have we been so entranced by the image of power working through 
life that we haven’t noticed the new problems, figures, strategies, and 
concepts emerging all around us, suggesting another formation of late liberal 
power—or the revelation of a formation that is fundamental to but hidden by 
the concept of biopower? Have we been so focused on exploring each and every 
wrinkle in the biopolitical fold (biosecurity, biospectrality, 
thanatopoliticality) that we forgot to notice that the figures of 
biopower—the hysterical woman, the Malthusian couple, the perverse adult, 
and the masturbating child; the camps and barracks, the panopticon and 
solitary confinement—once so central to our understanding of contemporary 
power, now seem not as decisive, to be inflected by or giving way to new 
figures: the Desert, the Animist, the Virus? And is a return to sovereignty 
our only option for understanding contemporary late liberal power?

Lectures will be followed by a roundtable and open discussion with Thomas 
Lamarre, Elizabeth Povinelli, Anne Allison, and Shunsuke Nozawa

*Tuesday July 5, 2016 FILM SCREENING: "Intervention Trilogy" by Karrabing 
Film Collective*
/- When the Dogs Talked/ (2014)
/- Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$/ (2015)
/- Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams/ (2016)

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 * Date: Tuesday July 5, 2016
 * Time: 18:30-20:30
 * Place: Fukutake Learning Theater, Fukutake Hall B2. University of Tokyo
   Hongo Campus
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 * Participation is free and open to all

Karrabing Film Collective is a majority Indigenous Australian grassroots 
media group which seeks to analyze the conditions of contemporary life 
through improvisational narrative filmmaking. This film screening of “the 
Intervention Trilogy” features three of their award-winning productions, 
followed by discussion with one of the Collective’s participants, Elizabeth 
Povinelli.
Contact nozawa.shunsuke at iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp [6]

Contact Info: 
Shunsuke Nozawa

Project Associate Professor

Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies

University of Tokyo

7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033

03 5841 7907

Contact Email: nozawa.shunsuke at iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp 
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