Neoliberal Space-Time and Literature/Film/Contemporary Art as Its Cognitive Constellation

• Project/Area Number: 15K12871
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Literature in general
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Yoshimoto Mitsuhiro 早稲田大学, 国際学術院, 教授 (80596833)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: ポピュラー文学 / SF / 美術館 / 新自由主義 / 映画 / 都市空間 / アート / 惑星的 / グローバリゼーション / ハリウッド映画 / 世界文学 / 惑星 / 現代アート / スピード

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project attempts to analyze the relationship between neoliberal space-time and contemporary art, film, and literature. It examines how a variety of contemporary images and representations reflect neoliberal space-time experiences and at the same time how they articulate new types of spatio-temporality that make the neoliberal system perceptible. It also explores the idea of planetary as an alternative to neoliberal globalization.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] プリンストン大学(米国)
• [Journal Article] ニューハリウッドとブロックバスター映画 (2018)
  • Author(s): 吉本光宏
  • Journal Title: アメリカ文化事典 Volume: -
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] グローバルハリウッドとデジタルメディア (2018)
  • Author(s): 吉本光宏
  • Journal Title: アメリカ文化事典 Volume: -
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Nuclear Disaster and Bubbles (2017)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Journal Title: Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society after Fukushima Volume: - Pages: 29-50
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Conclusion: Capitalism and Atmosphere (2017)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Journal Title: Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society after Fukushima Volume: - Pages: 207-209
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 陰謀と内戦 (2017)
  • Author(s): 吉本光宏
  • Journal Title: ユリイカ Volume: 1月号 Pages: 189-197
• [Presentation] The Changing Face of Japanese Studies (2018)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: University of California, San Diego
  • Invited
• [Presentation] The Planetary and the Japan Problem (2018)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: Association for Asian Studies
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Kurosawa, Shakespeare, and the End of the World (2017)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: International Conference on Shakespeare Film: East and West
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学
  • Year and Date: 2017-01-21
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 'The World Is Not Enough': Ito Keikaku's Vision of Dystopia/Utopia (2017)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: Association for Asian Studies in Asia
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Cyberdemocracy or Cyberpopulism?: A Crisis of Political Reason in Contemporary Japan (2017)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: Free University of Brussels
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] English, Subculture, and the Unconscious of World Literature (2016)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: American Comparative Literature Association
  • Place of Presentation: ペンシルベニア州立大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-23
• [Presentation] Cinematic Imagination and Nuclear Chronotopes (2016)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: International Conference--Contextualizing Asian Ecocinema: Past and Future
  • Place of Presentation: 香港大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-27
• [Presentation] A Few Preliminary Observations on Otaku Theory and the Cultural Logic of Neoliberalism (2016)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: American Comparative Literature Association
  • Place of Presentation: Harvard University
  • Year and Date: 2016-03-18
• [Presentation] 問題としての世界文学 (2016)
  • Author(s): 吉本光宏
  • Organizer: 慶応大学シンポジウム：世界文学の現在
  • Place of Presentation: 慶応大学
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Cognitive Mapping or World Building? The World in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture (2016)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
  • Place of Presentation: シンガポール国立大学
• [Presentation] Asia as Visuality (2015)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: Asia・Theory・Visuality Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Princeton University
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-13
  • Invited
• [Book] Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society after Fukushima (2017)
  • Author(s): Christophe Thouny and Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Total Pages: 218
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan