university of tokyo

Seminar of Contemporary Thought and Philosophy (2021-, Spring & Autumn Semester, Undergraduate)

This course aims to read French texts accurately and to extract meaningful issues through presentations and discussions.

• Autumn 2024: Jean-François Lyotard, Les transformateurs Duchamp (1977)
• Spring 2024: Lecture on the Sublime and capitalism in Jean-François Lyotard
• Autumn 2023: Jean-François Lyotard, Textes dispersés I, (2012)
• Spring 2023: Jean-François Lyotard, Le differend (1983)
• Autumn 2022: Nicolas Bourriaud, Esthétique relationnelle (1998)
• Spring 2022: Eugène Véron, L’esthétique (1878)
• Autumn 2021: Emanuele Coccia, Métamorphoses (2020)
• Spring 2021: Félix Ravaisson, De l’habitude (1838)

Seminar of Culture and Representation (2021-, Spring & Autumn Semester, Graduate)

Spring 2021 – Spring 2022: As we read Peter Szendy’s Kant chez les extraterrestres (2011), we will consider representations of the Earth in contemporary thought and visual culture. This class aims to help students develop the ability to read texts in French and to formulate meaningful questions through readings and discussions.

Spring 2023 – Spring 2024: We will read Jean-François Lyotard’s The Inhuman (1988) and Heidegger and ‘the Jews’ (1988) while considering how the concept of ‘the unrepresentable’ was discussed not only by Lyotard but also more broadly in critical theory during the latter half of the 20th century.”

Tokyo university of the arts

Curatorial and Art Theory (2020-, Autumn Semester, Graduate)

Autumn 2020 – Autumn 2023: This class focuses on an epoch-making contemporary art exhibition, Les immatériaux (Centre Pompidou, 1985), co-curated by French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98) and Thierry Chaput. Since 2015, 30 years after the exhibition, not a few scholars have been attracted to Les immatériaux including philosopher Yuk Hui, who edited 30 Years After Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory (Lüneburg: meson press, 2015) with Andreas Broeckmann. In this class, students are required to work on the broad materials of the exhibition and to learn how to research on contemporary art exhibitions.

Waseda University

Seminar of Culture and Representation (2020-2023, Spring & Autumn Semester, Undergraduate)

Autumn 2020 – Autumn 2022: In this seminar, we will set topics related to “representation” in a broad sense and cultivate applied skills to deepen your research in the future. Here, you can understand the term “representation” to be the same as the so-called “image.” In other words, it includes everything from the pictures we draw in our minds to the images we associate with certain sounds and smells, and even reproduced images such as photographs and movies. This seminar also aims to enable students to take a multifaceted approach to the various ideas surrounding us by crossing over knowledge from multiple fields, including the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.