Mark Driscoll is Associate Professor of Japanese and International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the editor and translator of Katsuei Yuasa’s Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels, also published by Duke University Press.
In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including Chinese coolies, Japanese pimps, trafficked Japanese women, and Korean tenant farmers supplied the vital energy that drove Japan's empire. He identifies three phases of Japan's capitalist expansion, each powered by distinct modes of capturing and expropriating life and labor: biopolitics (1895–1914), neuropolitics (1920–32), and necropolitics (1935-45). During the first phase, Japanese elites harnessed the labor of marginalized subjects as Japan colonized Taiwan, Korea, and south Manchuria, and sent hustlers and sex workers into China to expand its market hegemony. Linking the deformed bodies laboring in the peripheries with the "erotic-grotesque" media in the metropole, Driscoll centers the second phase on commercial sexology, pornography, and detective stories in Tokyo to argue that by 1930, capitalism had colonized all aspects of human life: not just labor practices but also consumers’ attention and leisure time. Focusing on Japan's Manchukuo colony in the third phase, he shows what happens to the central figures of biopolitics as they are subsumed under necropolitical capitalism: coolies become forced laborers, pimps turn into state officials and authorized narcotraffickers, and sex workers become "comfort women". Driscoll concludes by discussing Chinese fiction written inside Manchukuo, describing the everyday violence unleashed by necropolitics.
(贴出这篇文章的公众号似乎已经停办了,这里存一下) 一 现代中国的人们对“日本帝国主义”这个词汇都不陌生,在各种影视作品中“打倒日本帝国主义”的口号也不鲜见,以至于恐怕很多读者会认为,这种表述体现了一种“极端民族主义”,阻碍我们认识的“历史的复杂性”。就一般...
评分整本书意在揭露日本自从明治维新后,面对日益膨胀的欲望,在本国资源有限的情况下,日本一批精英分子只能把眼光放在自己的邻居身上。于是,一场非常血腥的侵略战争计划,并开始付诸行动。那么这本书,作者很想向读者揭露日本想扩大殖民地的丑闻。可是,整本书的问题全部集中在...
评分整本书意在揭露日本自从明治维新后,面对日益膨胀的欲望,在本国资源有限的情况下,日本一批精英分子只能把眼光放在自己的邻居身上。于是,一场非常血腥的侵略战争计划,并开始付诸行动。那么这本书,作者很想向读者揭露日本想扩大殖民地的丑闻。可是,整本书的问题全部集中在...
评分“资本主义来到人间从头到脚每个毛孔都滴着血和肮脏的东西。”——马克思 在接触资本主义萌芽的历史教科书之前,其实我对于这个西方国家发起并在如今成为主流的主义理念并不熟悉,而大量的文献也在强调着资本主义原始积累的过程就是征服、奴役、掠夺、杀戮过程。我们无从得知在...
评分(贴出这篇文章的公众号似乎已经停办了,这里存一下) 一 现代中国的人们对“日本帝国主义”这个词汇都不陌生,在各种影视作品中“打倒日本帝国主义”的口号也不鲜见,以至于恐怕很多读者会认为,这种表述体现了一种“极端民族主义”,阻碍我们认识的“历史的复杂性”。就一般...
Satisfied my weird interest....:-)
评分中英对照读的,中文译的真好~@心伪
评分中英对照读的,中文译的真好~@心伪
评分中间的neuropolitics才是一般意义上的エロ・グロ・ナンセンス,比较有意思(cf. Hill on neurasthenia),可惜和前后两部分不太连得起来。从biopolitics到necropolitics的大叙事更像新(?)瓶装旧酒,无论福柯、马克思还是满篇的pomo witticism好像都没给论点带来太大增益(福柯的faire vivre全程拼成faire vivir,好几个名字也没转写对,editor该扣工资
评分帝国扩张:战时文化对异邦的色情/暴力幻想
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