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ILCAA Joint Research Project

Life as Dynamism: in Search of a Methodological Connection between Affect, Thinking, and Art (jrp000234)

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Keywords

  • life
  • affect
  • thinking
  • art

Areas

  • Asia
  • Africa
  • Oceania
  • South America

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2017–March, 2020

Modern anthropology was established on fieldwork. However, at the end of 20th century, ethnographies based on fieldwork were criticized as resulting from the epistemological exploitation of peripheral societies. Since then, and into the 21st century, the “Ontological turn” - which shifts focus from questions of knowledge and epistemology towards those of ontology - has impacted anthropology. This joint research project transcends conventional knowledge, collapses divisions between epistemology and ontology, and explores new approaches to the actuality of life. Methodologies from various disciplines including anthropology, cognitive science, philosophy, and art are connected in the search for alternative fundamental ideas in anthropology ? e.g. “culture” and “society”- which emphasize the wholeness of objects. The concept of “life as dynamism” is thus applied to the immanent force of life-affect- undercurrent in experience or reality.

Ryoko NISHII, Project Coordinator (Professor, ILCAA)

Members

Coordinator

  • Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

  • Kaori KAWAI
  • Ikuya TOKORO
  • Yukako YOSHIDA

Joint Researchers

  • Yukio GUNJI
  • Ayako IWATANI
  • Naoki KASUGA
  • Kazunori KONDO
  • Akinori KUBO
  • Suehisa KURODA
  • Kyoko NAKAMURA
  • Katsuo NAWA
  • Yutaka SAKUMA
  • Tomohisa SATO
  • Ken SHIOTANI
  • Kotaro TAKAGI
  • Tadashi YANAI
  • Takeshi UTSUMI

Outputs

Publications:

NISHII, Ryoko, Tadashi YANAI et al. (eds.)Affectus: Touching the Outside of Life. (2020-12-15, Kyoto University Press.)
Book Info (in Japanese)







Meetings

The 10th meeting

  • Date/Time: Fri 31 Jan 2020 13:00–19:00, Sat 1 Feb 2020 10:00–19:00
  • Venue: Seminar Room 301, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly Sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Life as Dynamism: in Search of a Methodological Connection between Affect, Thinking, and Art”, Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (A) “New Anthropological Approach to Affective Studies through Fieldwork Focused on Critical Situations” (Principal Reseacher: Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA) Project Number:17H00948)
  • 31 Jan
  • Comments and Discussion on each draft for publication.
    One paper have 30 minutes including comments and discussion.
    Suehisa KURODA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Professor emeritus, The University of Shiga Prefecture)
    Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)
    Tadashi YANAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University)
    Kyoko Nakamura (ILCAA Research Fellow)
    Akira OKAZAKI (ILCAA Research Fellow)
    Katsuo NAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University)
  • 1 Feb
  • Comments and Discussion on each draft for publication.
    One paper have 30 minutes including comments and discussion.
    Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University)
    Ayako IWATANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)
    Kotaro TAKAGI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aoyama Gakuin University)
    Akinori KUBO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hitotsubashi University)
    Naoki KASUGA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hitotsubashi University)
    Kazunori KONDO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kagoshima Univeristy)
    Yukio- Pegio GUNJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University)

The 9th meeting

  • Date/Time: Sat 20 Jul 2019 13:00-19:00, Sun 21 Jul 2019 9:30–13:00
  • Venue: Multimedia Seminar Room 306, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Life as Dynamism: in Search of a Methodological Connection between Affect, Thinking, and Art”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “New Anthropological Approach to Affective Studies through Fieldwork Focused on Critical Situations” (Principal Investigator：Ryoko Nishii(ILCAA) Project Number：17H00948)
  • 20 Jul
  • Discussion on the concept of each paper for publication
    One paper have 30 minutes including comments and discussion.
    Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University)
    Kazunori KONDO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kagoshima University)
    Yukio- Pegio GUNJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University)
    Kotaro TAKAGI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aoyama Gakuin University)
    Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA)
    Kyoko NAKAMURA (ILCAA Research Fellow)
    Naoki KASUGA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hitotsubashi University)
    Takeshi UTSUMI ((ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of the Arts)
    Akinori KUBO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hitotsubashi University)
    Ryoko NISHII（ILCAA)
  • 21 Jul
  • Discussion on the concept of each paper for publication
    One paper have 30 minutes including comments and discussion.
    Ayako IWATANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto Univsersity)
    Suehisa KURODA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Professor emeritus, The University of Shiga Prefecture)
    Katsuo NAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)
    Akira OKAZAKI (ILCAA Research Fellow)
    Tomohisa SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto City University of Arts)
    Tadashi YANAI（ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)

The 8th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(221KB)

  • Date/Time: Sat 25 May 2019 13:00–19:00
  • Venue: Multimedia Seminar Room 306, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “New Anthropological Approach to Affective Studies through Fieldwork Focused on Critical Situations” (Principal Investigator：Ryoko Nishii(ILCAA) Project Number：17H00948)
  • Ayako IWATANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto Univsersity)
    “Connection and Disconnection at the Surface of the Place of Remembering: the House and Music of the Romanian Roma”
    Katsuo NAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)
    “On the "Drumming" in Byans and Adjacent Regions: Affect, Aesthetics, and Boundaries
    Akira OKAZAKI (ILCAA Fellow)
    “"Dreams devour people": "Shadow" and "Affectus" among an African society”

The 7th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(103KB)

  • Date/Time: Sun 24 Mar 2019 13:00–18:45
  • Venue: Multimedia Seminar Room 306, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese
  • Discussion on the orientation of “Life as Dynamism”
    Kyoko NAKAMURA (ILCAA Research Fellow)
    “Waiting for Flower-Holding Bird”
    Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA)
    “Laughing at “Disabled” Bodies: An analysis on Balinese theater and everyday life (tentative)”

The 6th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(659KB)

  • Date/Time: Sat 15 Dec 2018 13:00–18:45
  • Venue: Hongo Satellite 4F
  • Language: Japanese
  • Ryoko NISHII（ILCAA)
    Discussion on the orientation of “Life as dynamism”
    Naoki KASUGA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hitotsubashi University)
    “Magic Pointed toward an Infinite Set”
    Kotaro TAKAGI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aoyama Gakuin University)
    “Statement credibility assessment as concrete human psychology”

The 5th meeting

  • Encounter in Fieldwork : “Under the Influence of Vincent Crapanzano”
  • Date/Time: Sun 14 Oct 2018 12:30–18:00
  • Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
  • Language: English
  • Session I
    12:30–12:40 Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)
    Opening address
    12:40–13:10 Vincent Crapanzano (New York City University)
    “Transference and Countertransference: On the Transfer of Emotions and Its Moral Implications”
    13:10–13:25 Question and answer
    13:25–13:45 Junko KITANAKA (Keio University)
    “Knowing Oneself via the Data: Epidemiological Subjects and the Datafication of Health”
    13:45–14:00 Question and answer
    14:00–14:20 Takeshi MATSUSHIMA (Hiroshima University)
    “Repetition and Redundancy”
    14:20–14:35 Question and answer
    Session II
    14:50–15:10 Kazuto NAKATANI (Kyoto University)
    “Following the Drawn Lines: On Contrapuntal Relationships between Observer and Subject”
    15:10–15:25 Question and answer
    15:25–15:45 Naoki KASUGA (Hitotsubashi University)
    “Reality and Infinity from Melanesian Cases ”
    15:45–16:00 Question and answer
    Session III
    16:15–16:35 Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)
    “Life as a House: The Case of Na Chua”
    16:35–16:50 Question and answer
    16:50–17:10　 adashi YANAI (The University of Tokyo)
    “Affects and psychoanalysis of nature: preliminary thoughts”
    17:10–17:25 Question and answer
    Jointly sponsored by
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “New Anthropological Approach to Affective Studies through Fieldwork of Critical Situations”(17H00948)，Core Project (Anthropology)The Potential Value of Indigenous Knowledge in Managing Hazards in Asia and Africa: The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives 2，ILCAA Joint Research Projects “Life as Dynamism in Search of a Methodological Connection between Affect, Thinking, and Art”

The 4th meeting

  • International Symposium: “Coping with Vertiginous Realities”
  • Date/Time: Sat 6 Oct 2018 13:00–17:30
  • Venue: Room 303, ILCAA
  • 13:00–13:10 Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)
    Opening address
    13:10–14:10 Vincent Crapanzano (New York City University)
    Keynote lecture : “Affective Responses to Manufactured Anomie”
    14:20–14:50 Akimitsu IKEDA (ILCAA)
    “Sectarian Tension and Everyday Life : Case of Lebanon”
    14:50–15:20 Kazuyoshi SUGAWARA (Kyoto University)
    “Enacting the Past Incidents in a Non-literate Society: Tripartite Interaction among the G|ui Narrators, Research Assistants, and an Anthropologist in Central Kalahari”
    15:35–16:05 Akira OKAZAKI (ILCAA)
    “Accommodating Nightmares: How to Cope with Anxieties in a Sudanese Refugee Community”
    16:05–16:20 Tadashi YANAI（The University of Tokyo)
    Comments
    16:20–17:30
    Discussion
  • Language：English
    • Jointly sponsored by
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “New Anthropological Approach to Affective Studies through Fieldwork of Critical Situations”(17H00948)，Core Project (Anthropology)The Potential Value of Indigenous Knowledge in Managing Hazards in Asia and Africa: The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives 2，ILCAA Joint Research Projects “Life as Dynamism in Search of a Methodological Connection between Affect, Thinking, and Art”

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(255KB)

  • Date/Time: Sat 12 May 2018 13:00–18:45
  • Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
  • Tadashi YANAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)
    “The concept of affectus in Spinoza’s theory on nature, emotions and politics: between philosophy and anthropology”
    Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA)
    “Dynamics of Affective Re-production in Rural Niger”

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(235KB)

  • Date/Time: Sat 16 Sep 2017 13:00–19:00
  • Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
  • Kazunori KONDO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kagoshima University)
    “Archaeological exploration of the concept of immanence in Deleuze’s works”
    Tomohisa SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto City University of Arts)
    “On Creative Archives: recording and revitalizing art resources”

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(106KB)

  • Date/Time: Sun 11 Jun 2017 13:00–19:30
  • Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
  • Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Life as dynamism-in search of a methodological connection between affect, thinking, and art” and Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (Principal Investigator: Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA) #17H00948)
  • Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)
    Introduction to “Life as dynamism -in search of a methodological connection between affect, thinking, and art”
    Yukio- Pegio GUNJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University)
    Science to be artistic: Heterogeneity summoning the outside
    Ken SHIOTANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University)
    Toward conceiving/being conceived to dynamicity

Related events

Symposium: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Figure of Lives

  • Date: Sat 20 Oct 2018 13:30–18:00
  • Venue: Multi-media seminar room (306)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Jointly sponsored by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A)“New anthropological approach to affective studies through fieldwork of eritical situations”, Core Project“The Potential Value of Indigenous Knowledge in Managing Hazards in Asia and Africa: The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives 2”
  • 13:30–13:40　Ryoko NISHII(ILCAA）
    Opening Remarks
    13:40–14:30　Daisuke TANAKA(The University of Tokyo)
    “Disaster and Dead Bodies: Relief Activities of Funeral Industry after the Great East Japan Earthquake”
    14:40–15:30　Tomoko NIWA(National Institutes for the Humanities)
    “The Art of Recording and Sharing Everyday Life After 3.11: Personal Documentary, Drama, Exhibition”
    15:40–16:30　 Makoto FURUKAWA (Kansai University)
    “On Fukushima from native view point”
    16:40–18:00　
    Discussion

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