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Showing posts with label junichirō tanizaki. Show all posts
14 May 2026

Torpedo the Ark Goes k-punk: A Little Bit More Politics (Sections VII - XIII)

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Марк Фишер: Кислотный коммунист (SA/2026)   Note: All page references in this post are to Mark Fisher's  k-punk:  The Collected and Unpu...
28 Jan 2025

Why Cleaning Headstones is Gravely Mistaken

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Shaun Tookey at work on a grave shown before and after Images: @thegravecleaner     I sincerely wish Shaun Tookey - who has found fame on so...
25 Jul 2023

On the Traditional Beauty of Japanese Women (2): White Skin

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色の白いは七難隠す   Whilst the emergence of mass marketed skin lightening products was an early 20th-century phenomenon, the Japanese desire for ble...
4 Nov 2016

Naomi (Notes on a Japanese Novel)

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I. Sadly, I have to confess my slight disappointment with Tanizaki's novel Chijin no Ai , often translated into English as...
31 Oct 2016

In Praise of Shadows and the Beauty of Japanese Ghost Girls (A Post for Halloween 2016)

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A Japanese Ghost Girl or Yūrei [幽靈] The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of the Falling Shadow; a place in which the g...
28 Oct 2016

Science is Universal

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When not writing in praise of shadows and the superiority of the traditional Japanese toilet as a place of spiritual repose and poeti...

Aux Chiottes with Junichirō Tanizaki

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Junichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) was one of the great figures of twentieth century Japanese literature. His work has two main obsessions...