[Recent Publications (book chapters, articles & essays)]

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Dream and Threshold: Violence of doors that never close in Magritte, Kafka and Buñuel
Book chapter, Dreams and atrocity: Reflections on modern and contemporary trauma in art, literature and visual culture, Emily-Rose Baker and Diane Otosaka, Manchester University Press, 2021 (forthcoming).

Hunchback as a Visual Paradigm of Violence in Modern Art: Géricault, Dix, and Salomon

Book chapter, The Body in Theory: Essays After Lacan and Foucault, eds. Becky McLaughlin and Eric Daffron, McFarland Press, 2021.

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Hearing/seeing dread: Thought of distortion and transformation in Kafka’s The Burrow and Odradek

Article, Journal for Cultural Research, Vol. 22 (Issue 1), Taylor & Francis, 2018, pp. 16-26.

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​Enemy

​Essay, exhibition catalogue Phil Hale & Jim Threapleton: ENEMY (at Gallery no 20, London), Sep 2017.

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Bataille and Contagion, or Towards a Space of Sound and Art

Article, online journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image Kritikos, vol. 13 (January-May) 2016.

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Making it Intelligible: Art and Violence in the Nuclear Age in Postwar Japan 
Book ​chapter, Eyes and Gazes in Philosophy and Arts, eds. Giuseppe Patella and Atsushi Okada, UniversItalia Rome, 2015, pp. 365-380.

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Life to Life

Essay, exhibition catalogue Phil Hale - Life Wants to Live (at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NY), Donald M. Grant, Imbroglio publishing and Allen Spiegel Fine Arts, 2015.

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[Recent Conference Papers, Invited Lectures and Talks]

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Nudity in Japan: Towards Anachronic and Transcultural Bodies

Lecture, Central Saint Martins 22 Jan, 2021 / University of East London, 26 Feb. 2021

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Hearing Insects: The Droning World of Dread In Kafka’s The Burrow

Conference paper, ‘(Re)Imagining the Insect: Natures and Cultures of Invertebrates, 1700-1900’, University of Warwick, UK, Mar 7, 2015.

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Kafka’s Odradek - Thoughts of Distortion and Transformation

Conference paper, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies 2014 'Utopia', University of Helsinki, Aug 29, 2014.

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The Thought of Drone

Talk (with Iain Campbell), [Again] Conversations #4, London Action Resource Centre, Aug 27, 2014.

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Threshold – a Place of Secret and Violence: Open Doors in Magritte and Kafka

Conference paper, 'The Secret in Contemporary Theory, Society, and Culture', School of European Culture and Languages at University of Kent, May 31, 2014.

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Contagion and Transgression: Visions/Auditions of Excess towards a Space of Sound and Art

Conference paper, 'Sovereignty and the Human: Exploring Bataille’s Accursed Share Project 2014', University of West England, Apr 25, 2014.

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Géricault and Dix; Hunchback as a Visual Paradigm in Modern Art

Conference paper, London Conference of Critical Thought 2013,  Royal Holloway, University of London, Jun 6, 2013.

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PhD thesis: 

The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka (University College London, 2014)

 

MA thesis: 

René Magritte and Marcel Broodthaers: Self-Referentiality in Modern Art (Kyoto University, 2005)

Text © 2015 Michiko Oki
Illustration © 2015 Pablo Padilla Jargstorf