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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, March 17, 2023 11:00 am to 12:30 
 pm \n EAS Lounge - 14th Floor \n Robarts Library \n 130 St George Street 
 \n\nSpeakers \nGavin Walker, Associate Professor of History and Graduate 
 Program Director of East Asian Studies at McGill University \n\nDescriptio
 n: \nThe Department of East Asian Studies is pleased to welcome cultural c
 ritic and author, Dr. Gavin Walker, for an upcoming live talk. The recep
 tion history of Marx in Japan is no small matter. In fact, it is essentia
 lly impossible to give an adequate overview of one of the deepest, most p
 rolific, and most variegated linguistic repositories of the Marxist tradi
 tion. Although it continues to remain remarkably little-known in contempor
 ary European or North American intellectual-historical circles, it is a f
 act that Marxism was the dominant strand of theoretical inquiry in Japan f
 or most of the 20th century; more pointedly, we might say, Japanese has
  remained perhaps the most important language for Marxist-theoretical scho
 larship beyond English, German, and French, yet its theoretical history
  remains relatively isolated within its own linguistic boundaries.From its
  initial entry into the Japanese intellectual world in the late 1800s, Ma
 rxist analysis quickly came to constitute a vast and osmotic field that pe
 rmeated all aspects of academic life, historical thought, forms of polit
 ical organization, and ways of analyzing the social condition. If the pre
 war debate on Japanese capitalism — its character, its development, its 
 mode of relation to the emergence of capitalism depicted in Capital – was 
 centered on the relation between the historical and the logical, the post
 war boom of Marxist theoretical writing tended to be split between the met
 hodological analysis of capital itself, and the search for a philosophy o
 f subjectivity located around the theory of alienation, and characterized
  by an interest in the early Marx through the moment of 1968. Karatani’s M
 arx: Towards the Centre of Possibility, serialized in the literary magazi
 ne Gunzō in 1974 represented a break – or rather is itself situated within
  a break, one might say – with the prevailing reading of Marx, dominant 
 in 1968: that of the early Marx, a Lukácsian reading of the figure of the
  self-alienated laboring human.This new reading brought into the picture a
  literary or linguistic reading, focused on the textuality of Capital, a
  transversal reading intersected by structural linguistics (Saussure), ps
 ychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), and deconstruction (Heidegger and Derrida
 ). In a sense, Karatani’s text can now be seen in the long intellectual-h
 istorical light as a key point wherein the tradition of Japanese Marxist t
 heory produced a new point of departure for itself in the global terms of 
 critical theory. Focusing on this text in the latter part of my presentati
 on, we will reflect on the importance of the 1970s as a moment both ‘unde
 r the condition of ‘68’ and simultaneously constrained by this burden. Gav
 in Walker is Associate Professor of History and Graduate Program Director 
 of East Asian Studies at McGill University. He is the author of The Sublim
 e Perversion of Capital (Duke, 2016) and Marx et la politique du dehors (
 Lux Éditeur, 2022), the editor of The End of Area (Duke, 2019, with Na
 oki Sakai), The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japa
 nese ’68 (Verso, 2020), and Foucault’s Late Politics, a special issue o
 f South Atlantic Quarterly, no. 121-4 (Duke, 2022). A member of the edit
 orial board of the Historical Materialism Book Series (Brill/Haymarket) an
 d the editorial collective of positions: asia critique (Duke), he is also
  the editor and translator of Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of
  Possibility (Verso, 2020). His most recent book is a volume co-edited wi
 th Yutaka Nagahara, ‘Ronsō no buntai’: Nihon shihonshugi to tōji sōchi (T
 he Style of the Debate: Japanese Capitalism and the Apparatuses of Control
 , Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University Press, 2023). H
 e is widely published in critical theory, social and political thought, 
 cultural and literary criticism, and modern intellectual history. His new
  book, The Rarity of Politics: Passages from Structure to Subject is fort
 hcoming from Verso. \n130 St George Street \n\nCategories \n Book Talk \n
 \nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityFacultyFirst-Year StudentsGradua
 te StudentsGraduating StudentsProspective Graduate StudentsProspective Und
 ergraduate StudentsStaffUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:130 St George Street
SUMMARY:Talk: Towards a Theory of Post-68 Marxism in Japan
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