2017 Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology Award Lecture
Grids, Waves, and Nationalism
Some Thoughts from Listening to "Good Vibrations" in a Big Morgue
2018 年 19 巻 1 号 p. 005-050
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2018 年 19 巻 1 号 p. 005-050
This paper is based on my public lecture delivered at the 51st General Meeting of the Japanese Association of Cultural Anthropology at Rokko Campus of Kobe University on 29 May, 2017. It aims to consider two different modes of sociality, grid and wave, in relation to nationalism. Most cases of "grid mode" are found in the disciplinary system of the state. By wave, I mean social relationships in a face-to-face situation. It is primarily related to orality as against literacy. Nationalism is a movement to interpellate people into a nation. A modern state needs not only an archival control over its subjects, but a story to mobilize them to fight for the state. The final part starts with two novels by Shun Medoruma of Okinawa origin. Then, I bring up Christian Boltanski's art works, which tell a possibility of wave mode against a gigantic and collective phallic monument, where personal names are not visible.
