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Guattari and Japan

2012; Edinburgh University Press; Volume: 6; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3366/dls.2012.0057

1755-1684

Toshiya Ueno,

Globalization and Cultural Identity

Revisiting Guattari's visits to Japan in the 1980s during the country's ‘bubble economy’, this paper investigates from a personal perspective the Radio Homerun mini-FM station as well as other stops on Guattari's Tokyo ‘pilgrimage’. Guattari's reception and influence in Japan is contextualised through the writer Kõbõ Abe and philosopher Kiyoteru Hanada, in addition to the groundbreaking work of Tetsuo Kogawa, against the backdrop of the rise of postmodernism. Similarities between Guattari's sense of Japan and Brazil are then broached.