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Die Geister der Bombe. Der Ausstellungskatalog „Nachbilder. Wechselnde Perspektiven auf Hiroshima“
(2021)
Der zweisprachig gehaltene Ausstellungskatalog „Nachbilder. Wechselnde Perspektiven auf Hiroshima“ basiert auf der von dem freien Journalisten und Fotografen David Rojkowski kuratierten gleichnamigen Hiroshima-Ausstellung. Im Sommer 2020 wurde sie im Mahnmal St. Nikolai in Hamburg gezeigt. In Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Japan-Zentrum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Gabriele Vogt; Essay) und der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg entstand zur Ausstellung der eher schlicht anmutende Begleitband mit über 150 Abbildungen auf 132 Seiten. Seit Anfang des Jahres 2021 gibt es auch eine Website, die einen guten Einblick in die Wanderausstellung ermöglicht.
Beyond Nostalgia and the Prison of English. Positioning Japan in a Global History of Emotions
(2021)
This article interrogates the history of emotions at a pivotal moment in its growth as a discipline. It does so by bringing into conversation the ways in which scholars in Japan have approached ›nostalgia‹ (and emotions more broadly) as an object of study with concepts, theories, and methods prioritised by a predominantly Eurocentric field. It argues that Anglocentric notions of nostalgia as conceptual frameworks often neglect the particularisms that underlie the way that the Japanese language communicates and operationalizes cultural norms and codes of feeling. It also examines the aisthetic work of musicologist Tsugami Eisuke to help understand historical and psychological distinctions between ›nostalgia‹ and Japanese ideas of temporal ›longing‹, working towards a global history of emotions that meaningfully embraces multilateral and multi-lingual interaction. This article thus argues for a more nuanced way of discussing nostalgia cross-culturally, transcending dominant approaches in the field which are often grounded in a specifically Euro-Western experience but claim universal reach.
Modeled after the Soviet propaganda magazine SSSR na stroike (›USSR in Construction‹, published 1930–1941, 1949), the Japanese overseas propaganda photo magazine FRONT (1942–1945) provided visual propaganda for the so-called ›Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere‹, a concept that was proclaimed in 1940 and served to disguise Japan’s quest for hegemony in Asia. Employing the aesthetics of Russian Constructivism and Socialist Realism of SSSR na stroike, FRONT created a visual aesthetic that could be termed Japanese Co-Prosperity Realism. Its dynamic and modernistic design was a transculturally inspired practice by Japanese photographers, graphic designers, journalists and producers of visual media, some of whom had been left-wing intellectuals or had lived and worked in the Soviet Union. In a comparative perspective, this paper carves out the political, cultural and gendered semantics of the (in)visibility of power, political religion and ethnic diversity that such aesthetics entailed. It explores some of the shifting backgrounds against which photographic techniques were enacted, from their avant-garde beginnings to their application in authoritarian regimes.