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Roland Barthes, The Empire of Signs
“One might say Japan imposes the
same dialectic on its bodies as on its
objects: look at the handkerchief shelf
in a department store: countless, all
different, yet no intolerance in the
series, no subversion of order. Or
again, the haiku: how many haiku in
the history of Japan? They all say the
same thing: season, vegetation, sea,
village, silhouette, yet each is in its
wayan irreducible event. Or again,
ideographic signs: logically unclassi
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flable, since they escape an arbitrary
but limited, hence memorable [...]. And
the same for bodies: all Japanese
form a general body, and yet a vast
tribe of different bodies open, to the
last moment, like a logical system.”
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Artworks by Yayoi Kusama
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Tom Gill, Unconventional Moralities, Tolerance
and Containment in Urban Japan; Morals of
Legitimacy: Between Agency and System
“Hidaka Rokurō (1980) introduces the
term 'soft control' to describe the
Japanese-style control society: 'Domi
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nation of the masses is carried out not
in a hard way, but a soft way; not in a
unified way but in a multifaceted,
multipurpose manner. In particular,
control of everyday life, culture, edu
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cation and consciousness is impor
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tant'. At the level of personal morality,
the apposite theme is containment
rather than control. Zones of tolerance
are defined, often in terms of social
geography. Thus prostitution, for
example, is illegal in Japan but the law
is not strictly enforced within the
flourishing red-light districts […].
Again, people in mainstream Japanese
society may not openly identify them
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selves as homosexuals, yet there is a
thriving gay scene […]. Effeminate and
transvestite males are even more
widely accepted, and may often be
observed on television, not as figures
of fun but as sought-after commenta
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tors on fashion and popular culture.”
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Shibuya Crossing with red lights for pedestrian
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Señal de prohibido fumar en el suelo
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Zona de fumadores en la calle
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Julian Worrall and Erez Golani Solomon, 21st
Century Tokyo: a Guide to Architecture
“A delirious blurring of the distinction
between the mediated image and the
programmatic content of the building
is the result of the spacing of the rods
that enables the screen to be transpar
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ent. […] The interpenetration of medi
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ated and physical spaces extends to
the urban exterior.”
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Pantallas semitransparentes tras las fachadas
de vidrio de los edificios de Shibuya
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