Mr. Tagomi's Planet: A Note on Speculative Fictionists Philip K.Dick, Chiaki Kawamata, Project Itoh

Date
Thu October 31st 2013, 4:15 - 5:30pm
Event Sponsor
Center for East Asian Studies
Location
521 Memorial Way, Knight Building, Room 102
Mr. Tagomi's Planet: A Note on Speculative Fictionists Philip K.Dick, Chiaki Kawamata, Project Itoh
Speaker:

Tatsumi Takayuki , Professor, Keio University

This lecture attempts to clarify not only the significance of "Japan" in Dick's works but also Dick's impacts upon the Japanese science fiction from the 1960s through the 2010s, putting special emphasis on Japanese major speculative fictionists: Yoshio Aramaki, Chiaki Kawamata, and Project Itoh. While North American science fiction has been attracted by the semiosis of Japan as alternate future, the works of Aramaki, Kawamata and Itoh that have been translated into English lately, starts influencing Euro-American writers and critics. The 21st century will re-portray Dick as a literary and cultural engine for transnational and even planetary re-creation and re-interpretation of science fiction.

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