The 311 earthquake and the ensuing Fukushima nuclear crisis sent a shockwave to Japan and the world, and produced immediate consequences on lives and politics, both domestic and international. 311 compels Japanese intellectuals to re-think thoughts and interrogate the relations/distance between contemporary theories and activism. Recently Taiwan is also embroiled in intense debates about nuclear energy in the wake of the 311 disaster. In this roundtable forum, two distinguished speakers Professor Kokubun and Professor Chiba will join local scholars for a discussion on the status of life, technology, and critical theories after 311. Through the Asian Frontiers Forum, we hope to create deep dialogues among Asian intellectual communities on these urgent issues and foster reflexive and transformative deployments of critical theories in East Asia.
Kokubun Koichiro, Associate Professor at Takasaki City University of Economics, Japan, specializes in contemporary French theories (Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze), 17th-century European philosophy, and Japanese thoughts. His recent publications include Nature in Philosophy (『哲学の自然』, 2013, co-authored with Nakazawa Shinichi), Spinoza’s Method (『スピノザの方法』, Misuzu-Shobo, 2011), and Ethics of Leisure and Boredom (『暇と退屈の倫理学』, Asahi-Press, 2011), the last of which received 2012 Kinokuniya Book of the Year Award in the Humanities category. Chiba Masaya is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. His intellectual concerns mainly focus on models of “after-poststructuralism” and Deleuze’s composition of metaphysics and natural philosophy. His papers and columns can be found in the following prominent journals: Gendai-Shisō (『現代思想』), Furansu Tetsugaku Shisō Kenkyū (Revue de Philosophie Française), and Shisouchizu beta (『思想地圖 Beta』, edited by Azuma Hiroki). Professor Kokubun is also the Japanese translator of Claire Colebrook’s Gilles Deleuze, Derrida’s Marx and Sons, and Deleuze’s Kant’s Critical Philosophy. He and Professor Chiba are co-translators of Guattari’s The Anti-Oedipus Papers (2010).
時間:5/30 (Thursday), 2:00-5:00 pm
地點: 臺灣大學文學院會議室（文學院二樓）
主持人: 涂銘宏 (淡江大學)
講者:
國分功一郎 (日本高崎經濟大學)
千葉雅也 (日本立命館大學)
討論人:
邱彥彬 (國立政治大學)
李鴻瓊 (國立台灣大學)
蘇秋華 (東吳大學)
涂銘宏 (淡江大學)
主辦單位: 台灣人文學社、國立台灣大學台灣研究中心、科技部「思想東亞、超克全球、想像世界」計畫
協辦單位:文化研究協會、國立台灣大學外文系
