日本英文学会関東支部メールマガジン 臨時号 2024年12月10日
2024/12/10 (Tue) 18:56
日本英文学会関東支部メールマガジン
臨時号 2024年12月10日
秦邦生先生（東京大学）より２件のお知らせです。
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イベント１
Tokyo Modernism Research Seminar 9
‘“Unworlding” and “reworlding” in world literature’
Professor Julian Murphet (University of Adelaide, Australia)
December 20th (Friday) 2024, 17:00-18:30 [UTC+9]
2024年12月20日（金）17:00-18:30
場所 東京大学駒場キャンパス 18号館４階コラボレーションルーム４
（対面・オンライン参加オプションあり）
Abstract:
What is in a world? In his 2016 book What Is a World: On Postcolonial Literature as world Literature, Pheng Cheah proposes a bracing and innovative approach to the question of world literature by taking the concept of ‘world’ seriously and philosophically. Arguing (after Heidegger) that literature has a unique world-making power, Pheng also shows that the global market of late capitalism is as destructive of the fundamental elements of ‘worlding’ as it is constitutive of a ‘world culture’. We cannot choose either side of this contradiction but must inhabit it creatively and politically. In this paper I want to show how literature from the Global South these last 50 years has been mapping an ineluctable dialectical problem from the inside. On the one hand, they want to shore up and give form to the residual fibres of some ontologically disintegrating ways of life (Indigenous, traditional, pre-colonial) in the formal discourse of either an occupying imperial power or an emergent national language. On the other, they want to give voice to the progressive aspects of colonisation and the encounter with other cultures: universality, working-class organization, secularization, and aesthetic innovation. In the writings of Iwan Simatupang, Clarice Lispector, Bessie Head, and Oodgeroo Noonuccal, we find not one-sided ethno-nationalisms or defences of pre-lapsarian immanence, but deeply contested, contradictory, satirical, dynamic investigations of what it is simultaneously to lose a world and to win one, to hold on to the past and to ride the Luft von anderem Planeten that blows from the high-pressure systems of neo imperial rule. Postcolonial theory has tended to oversimplify and sentimentalise what is most often a dialectical process of ‘unworlding’ and ‘reworlding’ that realises itself in completely new aesthetic shapes with unprecedented lessons for a political reckoning with our fractured planet.
Professor Julian Murphet is Jury Chair of English Language and Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Adelaide. He is a Marxist literary scholar specialising in North American literary history and with interests in film studies, literary theory, and the uses and abuses of 'race'. He is author of the monographs Modern Character 1888-1905 (Oxford UP, 2024), Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide (EUP, 2023), Faulkner’s Media Romance (Oxford UP, 2019), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge UP, 2009) and many others
This special lecture is to be held in the hybrid format.
If you’d like to attend, please register in advance in the following link.
https://forms.gle/pmzaB6iXBubYzEdh9
問い合わせ先: rjohnson@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp（東京大学・ライアン・ジョンソン）
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イベント２
日本レイモンド・ウィリアムズ研究会 特別講演
‘Jameson and the Unfinished Cultural Revolution of Capitalism’
Professor Julian Murphet (University of Adelaide, Australia)
司会 遠藤不比人（成蹊大学）
2024年12月22日（日）15:00-17:00
場所 成蹊大学吉祥寺キャンパス 10号館２階大会議室（対面のみ）
Abstract: One of the signature concepts of Fredric Jameson’s lifelong effort to think the dialectical relationship between cultural forms and modes of production is something he borrowed from Mao: ‘cultural revolution’. Conceiving of this essential component of revolutionary praxis along the lines of a ‘reorganization of consciousness’ required to transform the inhabitants of an older mode of production into integrated members of a new one, Jameson tacitly proposed this idea as the pedagogical master concept of his theory of modernity. Where there were peasants, there shall be paid workers; where there were merchants and master tradesmen, there shall be bourgeois－and not only because of commodification, industrialisation, and technology, but also because cultural workers will undertake the prodigious task of this wholesale ‘reprogramming’, in narrative, poetic, and dramatic forms. In Jameson’s account, however, there is a telling pause over the transition to a postmodern and (beyond that) a post-contemporary landscape of neoliberal scorched-earth late capitalism. If ‘the objective role of intellectuals to implement modernization's cultural revolution long remained a progressive one’ (Cultural Turn, 56), then in the last few decades something else has visibly emerged: what Badiou calls a ‘restorationist’ logic of capitulation and regression into cynicism and nihilism. The bourgeois cultural revolution has stalled, seemingly permanently. Indeed, it is well worth speculating whether the mode of production we call capitalism cannot undergo a complete cultural revolution, cannot finally succeed in reprograming the consciousness of seven billion human beings to suit its abstract imperatives. This paper addresses this theme by ranging across Jameson’s oeuvre for signs and portents of a way through the current impasse.
◎Professor Julian Murphet
現在、アデレード大学教授（Jury Chair of English Language and Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Adelaide）.
マルクス主義文学批評の観点から、北米の文学史、映画研究、文学理論、「人種」研究などをおこなう。著書としてModern Character 1888-1905 (Oxford UP, 2024), Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide (EUP, 2023), Faulkner’s Media Romance (Oxford UP, 2019), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge UP, 2009)など多数。
どなたもご参加いただけますが、参加ご希望の方は、事前に以下のGoogle Formでの参加登録をお願いします。
https://forms.gle/2HpWjrYTEQ5xV7rS7
なお、日曜日は会場10号館の正面入り口は閉まっているため、開始時間の15分前頃からスタッフが開ける予定です。来場時にはタイミングにお気をつけください。
問い合わせ先: kshin@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp（東京大学・秦邦生）
「 モダニズム期英国のディストピア文学におけるエコロジー意識と越境性に関する研究」（基盤研究C 研究代表者 秦邦生）
臨時号 2024年12月10日
秦邦生先生（東京大学）より２件のお知らせです。
ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー
イベント１
Tokyo Modernism Research Seminar 9
‘“Unworlding” and “reworlding” in world literature’
Professor Julian Murphet (University of Adelaide, Australia)
December 20th (Friday) 2024, 17:00-18:30 [UTC+9]
2024年12月20日（金）17:00-18:30
場所 東京大学駒場キャンパス 18号館４階コラボレーションルーム４
（対面・オンライン参加オプションあり）
Abstract:
What is in a world? In his 2016 book What Is a World: On Postcolonial Literature as world Literature, Pheng Cheah proposes a bracing and innovative approach to the question of world literature by taking the concept of ‘world’ seriously and philosophically. Arguing (after Heidegger) that literature has a unique world-making power, Pheng also shows that the global market of late capitalism is as destructive of the fundamental elements of ‘worlding’ as it is constitutive of a ‘world culture’. We cannot choose either side of this contradiction but must inhabit it creatively and politically. In this paper I want to show how literature from the Global South these last 50 years has been mapping an ineluctable dialectical problem from the inside. On the one hand, they want to shore up and give form to the residual fibres of some ontologically disintegrating ways of life (Indigenous, traditional, pre-colonial) in the formal discourse of either an occupying imperial power or an emergent national language. On the other, they want to give voice to the progressive aspects of colonisation and the encounter with other cultures: universality, working-class organization, secularization, and aesthetic innovation. In the writings of Iwan Simatupang, Clarice Lispector, Bessie Head, and Oodgeroo Noonuccal, we find not one-sided ethno-nationalisms or defences of pre-lapsarian immanence, but deeply contested, contradictory, satirical, dynamic investigations of what it is simultaneously to lose a world and to win one, to hold on to the past and to ride the Luft von anderem Planeten that blows from the high-pressure systems of neo imperial rule. Postcolonial theory has tended to oversimplify and sentimentalise what is most often a dialectical process of ‘unworlding’ and ‘reworlding’ that realises itself in completely new aesthetic shapes with unprecedented lessons for a political reckoning with our fractured planet.
Professor Julian Murphet is Jury Chair of English Language and Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Adelaide. He is a Marxist literary scholar specialising in North American literary history and with interests in film studies, literary theory, and the uses and abuses of 'race'. He is author of the monographs Modern Character 1888-1905 (Oxford UP, 2024), Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide (EUP, 2023), Faulkner’s Media Romance (Oxford UP, 2019), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge UP, 2009) and many others
This special lecture is to be held in the hybrid format.
If you’d like to attend, please register in advance in the following link.
https://forms.gle/pmzaB6iXBubYzEdh9
問い合わせ先: rjohnson@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp（東京大学・ライアン・ジョンソン）
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イベント２
日本レイモンド・ウィリアムズ研究会 特別講演
‘Jameson and the Unfinished Cultural Revolution of Capitalism’
Professor Julian Murphet (University of Adelaide, Australia)
司会 遠藤不比人（成蹊大学）
2024年12月22日（日）15:00-17:00
場所 成蹊大学吉祥寺キャンパス 10号館２階大会議室（対面のみ）
Abstract: One of the signature concepts of Fredric Jameson’s lifelong effort to think the dialectical relationship between cultural forms and modes of production is something he borrowed from Mao: ‘cultural revolution’. Conceiving of this essential component of revolutionary praxis along the lines of a ‘reorganization of consciousness’ required to transform the inhabitants of an older mode of production into integrated members of a new one, Jameson tacitly proposed this idea as the pedagogical master concept of his theory of modernity. Where there were peasants, there shall be paid workers; where there were merchants and master tradesmen, there shall be bourgeois－and not only because of commodification, industrialisation, and technology, but also because cultural workers will undertake the prodigious task of this wholesale ‘reprogramming’, in narrative, poetic, and dramatic forms. In Jameson’s account, however, there is a telling pause over the transition to a postmodern and (beyond that) a post-contemporary landscape of neoliberal scorched-earth late capitalism. If ‘the objective role of intellectuals to implement modernization's cultural revolution long remained a progressive one’ (Cultural Turn, 56), then in the last few decades something else has visibly emerged: what Badiou calls a ‘restorationist’ logic of capitulation and regression into cynicism and nihilism. The bourgeois cultural revolution has stalled, seemingly permanently. Indeed, it is well worth speculating whether the mode of production we call capitalism cannot undergo a complete cultural revolution, cannot finally succeed in reprograming the consciousness of seven billion human beings to suit its abstract imperatives. This paper addresses this theme by ranging across Jameson’s oeuvre for signs and portents of a way through the current impasse.
◎Professor Julian Murphet
現在、アデレード大学教授（Jury Chair of English Language and Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Adelaide）.
マルクス主義文学批評の観点から、北米の文学史、映画研究、文学理論、「人種」研究などをおこなう。著書としてModern Character 1888-1905 (Oxford UP, 2024), Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary Guide (EUP, 2023), Faulkner’s Media Romance (Oxford UP, 2019), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge UP, 2009)など多数。
どなたもご参加いただけますが、参加ご希望の方は、事前に以下のGoogle Formでの参加登録をお願いします。
https://forms.gle/2HpWjrYTEQ5xV7rS7
なお、日曜日は会場10号館の正面入り口は閉まっているため、開始時間の15分前頃からスタッフが開ける予定です。来場時にはタイミングにお気をつけください。
問い合わせ先: kshin@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp（東京大学・秦邦生）
「 モダニズム期英国のディストピア文学におけるエコロジー意識と越境性に関する研究」（基盤研究C 研究代表者 秦邦生）