My book is officially on sale today in print form! You can buy it here: https://t.co/6ztgwiJVFv And the open access version is also live today: https://t.co/QdVJPjIgJp
Now available for preorder - The End of Modern Literature: On Permanent Revolution by Kojin Karatani
"The collection is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the destiny of culture under the conditions of late capitalism."
- Matthew Beaumont
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Thank you to our speakers, audience & supporters for 3 exciting days with 20 presentations that opened up interdisciplinary perspectives on Japan's & our technological future @DWIH_Tokyo@FritzBreithaupt@hiroosa@quantumabels Check out photos here https://t.co/IqOxTwQvhk
So honored and excited to deliver the keynote address for Japan Week 2024 at Brown University this Thursday! Providence/East Coast friends and colleagues—please join us if you can! Also, shoutout to the Department of East Asian Studies for this wonderful event flyer! 🤩
On Thursday!
Jessamyn R. Abel (Pennsylvania State University) on her new book “Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train” in conversation with Yuting Dong (University of Chicago), 7-8:30 pm ET.
Register for Zoom here: https://t.co/dhtlk4agGM
Read all about CineMap, an innovative project by @quantumabels and his team to create a database and visualization tool that allows scholars and movie enthusiasts to rethink the importance of movie locations worldwide.
https://t.co/60Nr8m4cFk
On @notevenpast, IHS GRA @alypeter examines CineMap, a database/visualization tool for scholars & cinephiles exploring the role of place in film: https://t.co/guIKwsD5ns.
3/5: Last week, Jonathan E. Abel @quantumabels stopped by IHS to speak on his latest project CineMAP, a database & visualization tool for thinking about the role of location and place in Japanese film history. Sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies & the Asian Studies Dept.
The New Real by @quantumabels is a synthetic history of new media reception in modern and contemporary Japan
Find the CAP virtual exhibit here
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Could this actually work in practice? I’ve never seen accurate transcription software for Japanese. So even if the translation software was the best, what is being translated won’t be accurate. Or am I missing something here?
@msteinbrg Well the data collected by this here platform is pretty totalizing too. Having played with the fire hose through academic developer access to the twitter api, I can only imagine what the Threads data looks like. But I doubt they’ll open it to academics because FB never realy did.
My article on the use of un/underpaid prison labour to support memory work is now out in The Library Quarterly! I argue that this type of labour is exploitative, and that those of us in the information profession need to recognize this. 1/3
私の日本語流行語レビューはこれから少しずつEJOによって日本語で出版されます!初回の投稿をぜひご覧ください!
My Japanese slang reviews are now coming out bit by bit in Japanese through a joint project with the amazing EJO! Check out the first post here:
https://t.co/IwbTDA5PHI