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.
發表於2025-03-23
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中國讀者也許會感到吃驚:本書針對日本帝國主義的批判性分析恰恰是我在日本期間的學習成果。我從1994年至1998年與中原道子、成田龍一、柄榖行人三位日本教授共事,除瞭上課以外,還參加東京各種工作坊和學術會議。因此,我不得不“忘記”自己曾經在美國學到的東亞史知識。這幾...
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評分鞦乃茉莉在《恐怖寵物店》的第一捲裏講瞭一個兔子的故事。剛剛痛失愛女的一對夫婦從D伯爵的寵物店領養瞭一個女兒,有著天使麵容的愛麗絲。平時夫婦倆都嚴守隻能喂食水和蔬菜的契約,但因過於溺愛而喂之以糖果以後,愛麗絲發生瞭可怕的異變,最終給當地街道帶來瞭一場“吃人兔子...
評分東亞的日本,原來依附於中華帝國,但隨著明治維新的快速推進,經濟、軍事,都逐步走上現代化——某種程度上,也即西方化——的道路。甲午中日戰爭,中華帝國敗給昔日瞧不起的日本,逐步淪為半殖民地社會。在此之後,日本將侵略的重心放在中國,從租藉個彆城市個彆區域到占領某...
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中間的neuropolitics纔是一般意義上的エロ・グロ・ナンセンス,比較有意思(cf. Hill on neurasthenia),可惜和前後兩部分不太連得起來。從biopolitics到necropolitics的大敘事更像新(?)瓶裝舊酒,無論福柯、馬剋思還是滿篇的pomo witticism好像都沒給論點帶來太大增益(福柯的faire vivre全程拼成faire vivir,好幾個名字也沒轉寫對,editor該扣工資
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評分capitalism in its perverted form
評分中間的neuropolitics纔是一般意義上的エロ・グロ・ナンセンス,比較有意思(cf. Hill on neurasthenia),可惜和前後兩部分不太連得起來。從biopolitics到necropolitics的大敘事更像新(?)瓶裝舊酒,無論福柯、馬剋思還是滿篇的pomo witticism好像都沒給論點帶來太大增益(福柯的faire vivre全程拼成faire vivir,好幾個名字也沒轉寫對,editor該扣工資
評分????
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載