EAS100Y1 Lecture Notes - Woodblock Printing, Birds Eye View, Sengoku Period
2 Feb 2013
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The sun in the last days of the shogunate. Dealing with temporal consciousness travelling from modernity to early modern period. We begin from 0 ad and go in both directions to the past and the future. We project ourselves forward into the future in science fiction. We are waiting for this messianic moment, the supposed end of the world. One period and one emperor name that has a beginning and an ending. Different organization of signs if it"s showa "45 versus meiji 45. General nogi kills himself in meiji "45 expunging his desire to be proper to this martial aesthetic. When you convert those years that karatani notes into christian years, it"s a totally different sense of history. Moving into this period is moving into a completely different kind of thought and organization. Presentism historians imposing how the world works today on the past. Ballad star-crossed lovers, young boy transported into sengoku-jidai, digital camera.
