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| school_tradition = [[Continental philosophy]], [[deconstruction]], [[materialism]], [[Dualism (philosophy of mind)|dualism]]
| school_tradition = [[Continental philosophy]], [[deconstruction]], [[materialism]], [[Dualism (philosophy of mind)|dualism]]
| main_interests = [[Metaphysics]], [[ontology]], [[ethics]], [[philosophy of language]], [[communication studies]], [[history of science]], [[philosophy of science]], studies of culture and representation, [[popular culture]], [[otaku|{{transl|ja|otaku}}]] studies, [[literary theory]], [[literary criticism]], [[social philosophy]], [[social thought]], [[information society]]
| main_interests = [[Metaphysics]], [[ontology]], [[ethics]], [[philosophy of language]], [[communication studies]], [[history of science]], [[philosophy of science]], studies of culture and representation, [[popular culture]], [[otaku|{{transliteration|ja|otaku}}]] studies, [[literary theory]], [[literary criticism]], [[social philosophy]], [[social thought]], [[information society]]
| notable_ideas = Misdelivery, Singular/Plural transcendentness, Postal space, Animalization, Database consumption, [[Moe (slang)#Commentary|{{transl|ja|moe}}-elements]], Gamelike realism, Disciplinary power/Environment-controlling power, Human/Animal publicness, General will 2.0, Weak ties, Villagers/Travelers/Tourists, Postal Multitude
| notable_ideas = Misdelivery, Singular/Plural transcendentness, Postal space, Animalization, [[Database consumption]], [[Moe (slang)#Commentary|{{transliteration|ja|moe}}-elements]], Gamelike realism, Disciplinary power/Environment-controlling power, Human/Animal publicness, General will 2.0, Weak ties, Villagers/Travelers/Tourists, Postal Multitude
| influences = [[Continental philosophy]], [[20th-century French philosophy]], [[Post-structuralism]], [[Akira Asada]], [[Jean Baudrillard]], [[Jacques Derrida]], [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]], [[Kojin Karatani]], [[Jun Maeda]], [[Motoko Arai]], [[Richard Rorty]], [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], [[Eiji Ōtsuka]], [[Ryukishi07]]
| influenced = Tsunehiro Uno, [[Tamaki Saitō]], Masaya Chiba, Satoshi Hamano, Gō Itō
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| occupation = [[Cultural critic]]
| occupation = [[Cultural critic]]
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{{nihongo|'''Hiroki Azuma'''|東 浩紀|Azuma Hiroki}} (born May 9, 1971) is a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[cultural critic]], [[novelist]], and [[philosopher]]. He is the co-founder and former director of [[Genron]], an independent institute in Tokyo, Japan.
{{nihongo|'''Hiroki Azuma'''|東 浩紀|Azuma Hiroki}} (born May 9, 1971) is a Japanese [[cultural critic]], [[novelist]], and [[philosopher]]. He is the co-founder and former director of [[Genron]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=English |url=https://genron.co.jp/en |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=株式会社ゲンロン |language=ja}}</ref> an independent institute in Tokyo, Japan.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-10-15 |title=Hiroki Azuma {{!}} Not Political, but Database, Animals: Towards a political semi-transparent interface |url=https://www.caa-ins.org/archives/429 |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=网络社会研究所 |language=zh-CN}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Azuma was born in [[Mitaka, Tokyo]]. Azuma received his [[Ph.D.]] in Culture and Representation from the [[University of Tokyo]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Hiroki Azuma|url=https://www.japansociety.org/content.cfm/hiroki_azuma|access-date=2020-10-29|website=www.japansociety.org|language=en}}</ref> in 1999 and became a professor at the [[International University of Japan]] in 2003. He was an Executive Research Fellow and Professor at the [[Center for Global Communications]] (GLOCOM) and a Research Fellow at [[Stanford University]]'s Japan Center.<ref name=":0" /> Since 2006, he has been working at the Center for Study of World Civilizations at the [[Tokyo Institute of Technology]].
Azuma was born in [[Mitaka, Tokyo]]. Azuma received his [[PhD]] in Culture and Representation from the [[University of Tokyo]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Hiroki Azuma|url=https://www.japansociety.org/content.cfm/hiroki_azuma|access-date=2020-10-29|website=www.japansociety.org|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031130937/https://www.japansociety.org/content.cfm/hiroki_azuma|url-status=dead}}</ref> in 1999 and became a professor at the [[International University of Japan]] in 2003. He was an Executive Research Fellow and Professor at the [[Center for Global Communications]] (GLOCOM) and a Research Fellow at [[Stanford University]]'s Japan Center.<ref name=":0" /> Since 2006, he has been working at the Center for Study of World Civilizations at the [[Tokyo Institute of Technology]].


Azuma is married to the writer and poet Hoshio Sanae, and they have one child together. His father-in-law is the translator, novelist, and occasional critic Kotaka Nobumitsu.
Azuma is married to the writer and poet Hoshio Sanae<!--Q11277729-->, and they have one child together. His father-in-law is the translator, novelist, and occasional critic Kotaka Nobumitsu.


==Work==
==Work==
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He began writing inspired by the work of [[Kojin Karatani]] and [[Akira Asada]]. He is an associate of [[Takashi Murakami]] and the [[Superflat]] movement. His publishing debut was "[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|Solzhenitsyn]] Essay" in 1993. Azuma handed the work directly to Karatani during his lecture series at [[Hosei University]] which Azuma was [[Academic audit|auditing]].
He began writing inspired by the work of [[Kojin Karatani]] and [[Akira Asada]]. He is an associate of [[Takashi Murakami]] and the [[Superflat]] movement. His publishing debut was "[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|Solzhenitsyn]] Essay" in 1993. Azuma handed the work directly to Karatani during his lecture series at [[Hosei University]] which Azuma was [[Academic audit|auditing]].


Azuma launched his career as a literary critic in 1993 with a postmodern style influenced by leading Japanese critics [[Kojin Karatani]] and [[Akira Asada]]. In the late 1990s, Azuma began examining various pop phenomena, especially the emerging [[otaku]]/[[Internet]]/[[video game]] culture, and became widely known as an advocate of the thoughts of a new generation of Japanese. He is interested in the transformation of the Japanese literary imagination under its current “otaku-ization.”
Azuma launched his career as a literary critic in 1993 with a postmodern style influenced by leading Japanese critics [[Kojin Karatani]] and [[Akira Asada]]. In the late 1990s, Azuma began examining various pop phenomena, especially the emerging [[otaku]]/<ref>{{Cite web |title=Otaku |url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/otaku |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=University of Minnesota Press |language=en}}</ref>[[Internet]]/[[video game]] culture, and became widely known as an advocate of the thoughts of a new generation of Japanese. He is interested in the transformation of the Japanese literary imagination under its current “otaku-ization.”


Azuma has published seven books,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Hiroki Azuma: The philosopher of 'otaku' speaks|url=https://japantoday.com/category/features/hiroki-azuma-the-philosopher-of-otaku-speaks|access-date=2020-10-29|website=Japan Today|language=en}}</ref> including ''Sonzaironteki, Yubinteki'' (''Ontological, Postal'') in 1998, which focuses on [[Jacques Derrida]]'s oscillation between literature and philosophy. This work won the [[Suntory Literary Prize]] in 2000<ref name=":1" /> and made Azuma the youngest writer to ever win that prize. Akira Asada stated that it is one of the best books written in the 90s; however, [[Hiroo Yamagata]] pointed out that the book is based on the misunderstanding of [[Gödel's incompleteness theorem]]. He also wrote ''Dobutsuka-suru Postmodern'' (''Animalizing Postmodernity'') (translated as ''Otaku: Japan's Database Animals'' in 2001), which analyzes Japanese pop culture through a postmodern lens.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ruh |first=Brian |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/brain-diving/2011-01-11 |title=Ace of Database |work=Anime News Network |date=11 Jan 2011 }}</ref> He has also set up a [[non-profit organization]] to encourage cutting-edge critics who might be shut out of the existing publishing world.
Azuma has published seven books,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Hiroki Azuma: The philosopher of 'otaku' speaks|url=https://japantoday.com/category/features/hiroki-azuma-the-philosopher-of-otaku-speaks|access-date=2020-10-29|website=Japan Today|language=en}}</ref> including ''Sonzaironteki, Yubinteki'' (''Ontological, Postal'')<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hiroki Azuma |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/hiroki-azuma-38638/ |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=MIT Press |language=en-US}}</ref> in 1998, which focuses on [[Jacques Derrida]]'s oscillation between literature and philosophy. This work won the [[Suntory Literary Prize]] in 2000<ref name=":1" /> and made Azuma the youngest writer to ever win that prize. Akira Asada stated that it is one of the best books written in the 90s; however, [[Hiroo Yamagata]] pointed out that the book is based on the misunderstanding of [[Gödel's incompleteness theorem]]. He also wrote ''Dobutsuka-suru Postmodern'' (2001, lit, ''Animalizing Postmodernity''; translated as ''[[Otaku: Japan's Database Animals]]'' in 2009), which analyzes Japanese pop culture through a postmodern lens and uses the term "[[database consumption]]" to describe a new paradigm of media consumption that consumes elements of a narrative rather than a narrative itself.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ruh |first=Brian |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/brain-diving/2011-01-11 |title=Ace of Database |work=Anime News Network |date=11 Jan 2011 }}</ref> He has also set up a [[non-profit organization]] to encourage cutting-edge critics who might be shut out of the existing publishing world.


==Works==
==Works==
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''存在論的、郵便的－ジャック・デリダについて''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|存在論的、郵便的－ジャック・デリダについて}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''郵便的不安達''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|郵便的不安達}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''不過視なものの世界''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|不過視なものの世界}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''動物化するポストモダン―オタクから見た日本社会''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|動物化するポストモダン―オタクから見た日本社会}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''ゲーム的リアリズムの誕生―動物化するポストモダン2''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|ゲーム的リアリズムの誕生―動物化するポストモダン2}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''文学環境論集―東浩紀コレクションL''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|文学環境論集―東浩紀コレクションL}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''情報環境論集―東浩紀コレクションS''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|情報環境論集―東浩紀コレクションS}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''批評の精神分析―東浩紀コレクションD''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|批評の精神分析―東浩紀コレクションD}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''郵便的不安たちβ''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|郵便的不安たちβ}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''サイバースペースはなぜそう呼ばれるか''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|サイバースペースはなぜそう呼ばれるか}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''一般意志2.0―ルソー、フロイト、グーグル''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|一般意志2.0―ルソー、フロイト、グーグル}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''セカイからもっと近くに―現実から切り離された文学の諸問題''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|セカイからもっと近くに―現実から切り離された文学の諸問題}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''弱いつながり―検索ワードを探す旅''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|弱いつながり―検索ワードを探す旅}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''ゲンロン0―観光客の哲学''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|ゲンロン0―観光客の哲学}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''ゆるく考える''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|ゆるく考える}}
* Azuma, Hiroki. ''テーマパーク化する地球''
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|テーマパーク化する地球}}
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|哲学の誤配}}
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*Azuma, Hiroki. ''Otaku: Japan's Database Animals.'' Minneapolis: [http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/A/azuma_otaku.html University of Minnesota Press], 2009.
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|新対話篇}}
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* Azuma, Hiroki. (2007) "The Animalization of Otaku Culture" [[Mechademia]] '''2''' 175–188.
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|ゲンロン戦記――「知の観客」をつくる}}
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|忘却にあらがう 平成から令和へ}}
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*Hiroki Azuma. (2007) "The Animalization of Otaku Culture" [[Mechademia]] '''2''' 175–188.
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*Hiroki Azuma. ''Otaku: Japan's Database Animals.'' Minneapolis: [http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/A/azuma_otaku.html University of Minnesota Press], 2009.
*Hiroki Azuma. ''General Will 2.0: Rousseau, Freud, Google'', 2014.
*Hiroki Azuma. ''Philosophy of the Tourist'', 2023.

==Joint works==
*Kiyoshi Kasai ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|動物化する世界の中で}}
*Masachi Osawa ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|自由を考える――9・11以降の現代思想}}
*Akihiro Kitada ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|東京から考える――格差・郊外・ナショナリズム}}
*Eiji Otsuka ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|リアルのゆくえ――おたく/オタクはどう生きるか}}
*Shinji Miyadai ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|父として考える}}
*Naoki Inose ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|正義について考えよう}}
*Ken Oyama ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|ショッピングモールから考える――ユートピア・バックヤード・未来都市}}
*Yoshinori Kobayashi ＆ Shinji, Miyadai ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|戦争する国の道徳――安保・沖縄・福島}}
*Ken Oyama ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|ショッピングモールから考える付章――庭・オアシス・ユートピア}}
*Daisuke Tsuda ＆ Junichiro Nakagawa ＆ Takeshi Natsuno ＆ Hiroyuki Nishimura ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|ニコニコ超トークステージ――ネット言論はどこへいったのか？}}
*Atsushi Sasaki ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|再起動する批評――ゲンロン批評再生塾第一期全記録}}
*Nozomi Omori ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|SFの書き方――「ゲンロン 大森望 SF創作講座」全記録}}
*Makoto Ichikawa ＆ Satoshi Osawa ＆ Ryota Fukushima ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|現代日本の批評1975-2001}}
*Makoto Ichikawa ＆ Satoshi Osawa ＆ Atsushi Sasaki ＆ Sayawaka ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|現代日本の批評1975-2001}}
*Hidetaka Ishida ＆ Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|新記号論――脳とメディアが出会うとき}}

==Novels==
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|クォンタム・ファミリーズ}}
*Hiroki Azuma. {{Lang|ja|クリュセの魚}}


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Moe (slang)|Moe]]
*[[Moe (slang)|Moe]]
* [[Kojin Karatani]]
*[[Kojin Karatani]]
* [[Akira Asada]]
*[[Akira Asada]]
*[[Eiji Ōtsuka]]
*[[Eiji Ōtsuka]]


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}
* [http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/1092-hiroki-azuma J'Lit | Authors : Hiroki Azuma | Books from Japan] {{in lang|en}}
*[http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/1092-hiroki-azuma J'Lit | Authors : Hiroki Azuma | Books from Japan] {{in lang|en}}


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.hirokiazuma.com/e/ Hiroki Azuma's homepage and blog] {{in lang|en}}
*[http://www.hirokiazuma.com/e/ Hiroki Azuma's homepage and blog] {{in lang|en}}
** [http://www.hirokiazuma.com/en/texts/deconstructions.html "Two Deconstructions: toward the theoretical understanding of Derrida's postal metaphors"]
**[http://www.hirokiazuma.com/en/texts/deconstructions.html "Two Deconstructions: toward the theoretical understanding of Derrida's postal metaphors"]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090122070446/http://www.hirokiazuma.com/en/texts/superflat_en1.html "Superflat Japanese Postmodernity"]
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20090122070446/http://www.hirokiazuma.com/en/texts/superflat_en1.html "Superflat Japanese Postmodernity"]
* [http://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic018/intercity/higashi_E.html "Anime, or something like it:] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]"
*[http://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic018/intercity/higashi_E.html "Anime, or something like it:] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]"
* [http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9802/msg00101.html "Towards a cartography of Japanese anime: Anno Hideaki's >>Evangelion<<. Interview with Azuma Hiroki"]
*[http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9802/msg00101.html "Towards a cartography of Japanese anime: Anno Hideaki's >>Evangelion<<. Interview with Azuma Hiroki"]


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Latest revision as of 00:50, 10 August 2024

For the Japanese footballer, see Hiroki Azuma (footballer).
Hiroki Azuma
東 浩紀
Born (1971-05-09) May 9, 1971 (age 53)
OccupationCultural critic
EraContemporary philosophy, 20th-century philosophy, 21st-century philosophy
RegionJapanese philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy, deconstruction, materialism, dualism
Main interests
Metaphysics, ontology, ethics, philosophy of language, communication studies, history of science, philosophy of science, studies of culture and representation, popular culture, otaku studies, literary theory, literary criticism, social philosophy, social thought, information society
Notable ideas
Misdelivery, Singular/Plural transcendentness, Postal space, Animalization, Database consumption, moe-elements, Gamelike realism, Disciplinary power/Environment-controlling power, Human/Animal publicness, General will 2.0, Weak ties, Villagers/Travelers/Tourists, Postal Multitude

Hiroki Azuma (東 浩紀, Azuma Hiroki) (born May 9, 1971) is a Japanese cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher. He is the co-founder and former director of Genron,[1] an independent institute in Tokyo, Japan.[2]

Biography

[edit]

Azuma was born in Mitaka, Tokyo. Azuma received his PhD in Culture and Representation from the University of Tokyo[3] in 1999 and became a professor at the International University of Japan in 2003. He was an Executive Research Fellow and Professor at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM) and a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Japan Center.[3] Since 2006, he has been working at the Center for Study of World Civilizations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Azuma is married to the writer and poet Hoshio Sanae, and they have one child together. His father-in-law is the translator, novelist, and occasional critic Kotaka Nobumitsu.

Work

[edit]

Hiroki Azuma is one of the most influential young literary critics in Japan, focusing on literature and on the idea of individual liberty.[3]

He began writing inspired by the work of Kojin Karatani and Akira Asada. He is an associate of Takashi Murakami and the Superflat movement. His publishing debut was "Solzhenitsyn Essay" in 1993. Azuma handed the work directly to Karatani during his lecture series at Hosei University which Azuma was auditing.

Azuma launched his career as a literary critic in 1993 with a postmodern style influenced by leading Japanese critics Kojin Karatani and Akira Asada. In the late 1990s, Azuma began examining various pop phenomena, especially the emerging otaku/[4]Internet/video game culture, and became widely known as an advocate of the thoughts of a new generation of Japanese. He is interested in the transformation of the Japanese literary imagination under its current “otaku-ization.”

Azuma has published seven books,[5] including Sonzaironteki, Yubinteki (Ontological, Postal)[6] in 1998, which focuses on Jacques Derrida's oscillation between literature and philosophy. This work won the Suntory Literary Prize in 2000[5] and made Azuma the youngest writer to ever win that prize. Akira Asada stated that it is one of the best books written in the 90s; however, Hiroo Yamagata pointed out that the book is based on the misunderstanding of Gödel's incompleteness theorem. He also wrote Dobutsuka-suru Postmodern (2001, lit, Animalizing Postmodernity; translated as Otaku: Japan's Database Animals in 2009), which analyzes Japanese pop culture through a postmodern lens and uses the term "database consumption" to describe a new paradigm of media consumption that consumes elements of a narrative rather than a narrative itself.[7] He has also set up a non-profit organization to encourage cutting-edge critics who might be shut out of the existing publishing world.

Works

[edit]
  • Hiroki Azuma. 存在論的、郵便的－ジャック・デリダについて
  • Hiroki Azuma. 郵便的不安達
  • Hiroki Azuma. 不過視なものの世界
  • Hiroki Azuma. 動物化するポストモダン―オタクから見た日本社会
  • Hiroki Azuma. ゲーム的リアリズムの誕生―動物化するポストモダン2
  • Hiroki Azuma. 文学環境論集―東浩紀コレクションL
  • Hiroki Azuma. 情報環境論集―東浩紀コレクションS
  • Hiroki Azuma. 批評の精神分析―東浩紀コレクションD
  • Hiroki Azuma. 郵便的不安たちβ
  • Hiroki Azuma. サイバースペースはなぜそう呼ばれるか
  • Hiroki Azuma. 一般意志2.0―ルソー、フロイト、グーグル
  • Hiroki Azuma. セカイからもっと近くに―現実から切り離された文学の諸問題
  • Hiroki Azuma. 弱いつながり―検索ワードを探す旅
  • Hiroki Azuma. ゲンロン0―観光客の哲学
  • Hiroki Azuma. ゆるく考える
  • Hiroki Azuma. テーマパーク化する地球
  • Hiroki Azuma. 哲学の誤配
  • Hiroki Azuma. 新対話篇
  • Hiroki Azuma. ゲンロン戦記――「知の観客」をつくる
  • Hiroki Azuma. 忘却にあらがう 平成から令和へ
  • Hiroki Azuma. (2007) "The Animalization of Otaku Culture" Mechademia 2 175–188.
  • Hiroki Azuma. Otaku: Japan's Database Animals. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
  • Hiroki Azuma. General Will 2.0: Rousseau, Freud, Google, 2014.
  • Hiroki Azuma. Philosophy of the Tourist, 2023.

Joint works

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  • Kiyoshi Kasai ＆ Hiroki Azuma. 動物化する世界の中で
  • Masachi Osawa ＆ Hiroki Azuma. 自由を考える――9・11以降の現代思想
  • Akihiro Kitada ＆ Hiroki Azuma. 東京から考える――格差・郊外・ナショナリズム
  • Eiji Otsuka ＆ Hiroki Azuma. リアルのゆくえ――おたく/オタクはどう生きるか
  • Shinji Miyadai ＆ Hiroki Azuma. 父として考える
  • Naoki Inose ＆ Hiroki Azuma. 正義について考えよう
  • Ken Oyama ＆ Hiroki Azuma. ショッピングモールから考える――ユートピア・バックヤード・未来都市
  • Yoshinori Kobayashi ＆ Shinji, Miyadai ＆ Hiroki Azuma. 戦争する国の道徳――安保・沖縄・福島
  • Ken Oyama ＆ Hiroki Azuma. ショッピングモールから考える付章――庭・オアシス・ユートピア
  • Daisuke Tsuda ＆ Junichiro Nakagawa ＆ Takeshi Natsuno ＆ Hiroyuki Nishimura ＆ Hiroki Azuma. ニコニコ超トークステージ――ネット言論はどこへいったのか？
  • Atsushi Sasaki ＆ Hiroki Azuma. 再起動する批評――ゲンロン批評再生塾第一期全記録
  • Nozomi Omori ＆ Hiroki Azuma. SFの書き方――「ゲンロン 大森望 SF創作講座」全記録
  • Makoto Ichikawa ＆ Satoshi Osawa ＆ Ryota Fukushima ＆ Hiroki Azuma. 現代日本の批評1975-2001
  • Makoto Ichikawa ＆ Satoshi Osawa ＆ Atsushi Sasaki ＆ Sayawaka ＆ Hiroki Azuma. 現代日本の批評1975-2001
  • Hidetaka Ishida ＆ Hiroki Azuma. 新記号論――脳とメディアが出会うとき

Novels

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  • Hiroki Azuma. クォンタム・ファミリーズ
  • Hiroki Azuma. クリュセの魚

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "English". 株式会社ゲンロン (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  2. ^ "Hiroki Azuma | Not Political, but Database, Animals: Towards a political semi-transparent interface". 网络社会研究所 (in Chinese (China)). 2016-10-15. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  3. ^ a b c "Hiroki Azuma". www.japansociety.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  4. ^ "Otaku". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  5. ^ a b "Hiroki Azuma: The philosopher of 'otaku' speaks". Japan Today. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  6. ^ "Hiroki Azuma". MIT Press. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  7. ^ Ruh, Brian (11 Jan 2011). "Ace of Database". Anime News Network.
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