Urban Planetary and Tokyo Modernity - Dwelling in Passing

This book revisits Japanese modern literature in relation to Kon Wajir¿'s urban ethnography and draws a speculative genealogy of dwelling practices in the Japanese capital defined by mobility, affect and the beautiful, in particular what Kon called "accidental beauty."

List of contents

Chapter 1: Encounters with the Planetary: Mori ¿gai's Cartographic Writing
Chapter 2: The View from the Near-Suburb: Tayama Katai's Musashino
Chapter 3: From Production to Attitude: Cartographic Heterotopia in Kaf¿'s Fair-Weather Clogs
Chapter 4: Of Modernology and Parks: Kon Wajir¿'s Theory of Urban Ecologies
Chapter 5: The Urban Voyant in the New Guidebook to Greater Tokyo

About the author

By Christophe Thouny

Product details

• Authors: Christophe Thouny
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666929300
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-930-0
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, c 1910 to c 1919, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Urban communities, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000