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

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Unleashing Fantastic Nightmares: Ee ja nai ka (1867-1868), The Dawn of Transgression in Japan

Book chapter, Globalising the Avant-Garde (The 8th volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies), De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 109-122. (Peer-reviewed)

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Dreams and Thresholds: The Violence of Doors That Never Close in Magritte, Kafka and Buñuel

Book chapter, Dreams and Atrocity: The Oneiric in Representations of Trauma, eds. Emily-Rose Baker and Diane Otosaka, Manchester University Press, 2023, pp. 60-78. (Peer-reviewed)

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Dreadful Charm: Yōkai that Resides at the Threshold of the Unknown

Essay, Swedenborg Review 4, The Swedenborg Society, 2022, pp. 20-21.​​

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Fabulous Yonder

Essay for the group exhibition Making Poetry with Solid Objects (@Komagome Soko, Tokyo), 22 Jan -13 Feb 2022.

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, pp. 80-91. (Peer-reviewed)

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

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

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​Enemy

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

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

Paper, Online Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text and Image Kritikos, vol. 13 (January-May) 2016. (Peer-reviewed)

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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. (Peer-reviewed)

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Life to Life

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

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[Artistic/Performative presentations]

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Voices from the Ground - Part 1: The Mushroom Vortex, Part 2: Fern Vortex & Part 3: The Invisible Vortex.

Site-specific installation/sound art, Pablo Padilla Jargstorf and Michiko Oki, Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival 2024, Oomachi, Nagano, Japan 30 Aug-1 Sep 2024.

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Trespassing

Performative reading, The Cock Salon (@The Cock Tavern, London), 5 Feb 2023 & Swedenborg Review #4 Launch Event (@Swedenborg Society, London), 15 Feb 2023.

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Umbralia: Cracking into the threshold

Artistic presentation (experimental film), International Society for the Study of Surrealism Virtual Conference 2022, 17-20 Nov 2022.

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Hinges: On Violence

Performative reading, The Cock Salon (@The Cock Tavern, London), 7 Aug 2022. 

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[Conference Papers & Invited Lectures]

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The Scatological Imagination in Japanese Humour – Laughter, transgression and base materialism in the representations from farts to sewage and toilets

Conference paper, Online Research and Writing Workshop on Japanese Humour and Comedy, 20th June 2025

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The Surreal, the Digital, the Primitively Instinctive – Revisiting Surrealism through ‘Digital Animism’

Conference paper, International Society for the Study of Surrealism Conference 2024 'Surréalismes Paris', American University of Paris, 28-30 Oct 2024.

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Hedonism through Polytheism: Towards a Critique of the Violence of Normalisation

Conference paper, London Conference in Critical Thought 2024, University of Greenwich, 28-29 June 2024.

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What the Hell? - Performing the Extraordinary: Pandemonium, Parade and Vengeance

Conference paper, Performance Studies International #29 ASSEMBLE, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, 20-23 June 2024.

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Thought Experiments in the Form of Audio-Visual Creative Writing - in the Case of ‘Umbralia: Cracking into the Threshold’ (2022)

Conference paper, The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference, Association of Jungian Analysts Centre London,10 June 2023.​

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Unleashing Fantastic Nightmares: Ee ja nai ka (1867-1868), The Dawn of Transgression in Japan

Conference paper, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies 8th conference 2022 'Globalising the Avant-Garde', Instituto de História da Arte, IHA/FCSH-Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1 Sep 2022.​

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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, 7 Mar 2015.

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Kafka’s Odradek - Thoughts of Distortion and Transformation

Conference paper, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies 4th conference 2014 'Utopia', University of Helsinki, 29 Aug 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, 31 May 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, 25 Apr 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, 6 Jun 2013.

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[Translations]

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Bourdelle’s Impact in East Asia (Jap→Eng), Department of Sculpture Musashino Art University, 2021, 278 pages total.

 

A Study of Modern Japanese Sculpture (Jap→Eng), Department of Sculpture Musashino Art University, 2015, 242 pages total.

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Joint translation of the Japanese edition of Charlotte Cotton, The Photograph as Contemporary Art (Themes & Hudson, 2004, 256 pages total) published in Tokyo: Shobun-sha, 2009.

Joint translation of the Japanese edition of Jonathan Crary, Suspension of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern Culture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000, 416 pages total) published in Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2005.