Priesthood of Democracy

Journal of Urban History, 2010

When German architect Bruno Taut drove in 1936 along the major road linking Tokyo and Yokohama, he criticized the inadequacy and superficiality of the modernizing Japanese built landscape. He later wrote about his revulsion: "I in particular had heard so much about Tokyo that I had no desire to see the city on the spot. […] In passing through the Inland Sea we had absorbed scenery of such rare beauty, had found so little of vulgar trash 1 in such buildings as could be glimpsed, that we could hardly take in the crabbed pretentiousness, the ludicrous would-be modernity of the tin façades that confronted us, could not fathom the loud hideousness of this confusion of architectural styles. What had become of the refined vision of the Japanese, whose scenery was so admirably fitted to sensitize the optical nerve?

Japanese Journal of Human Geography

Various commentators have observed that Tokyo is missing the grand monuments that are a feature of many other large capital cities. Indeed, it could even be said that the city lacks a physical sense of its own history. This paper examines these propositions and lays out a number of reasons why this may be so. I argue here that the treatment of the past in contemporary Tokyo can be understood through the lens of commemoration, conservation, and commodification. While Tokyo may lack grand memorials and significant conservation areas of historical importance, I argue both that the city contains smaller, more improvised monuments and that consumption objects and indeed re created streetscapes furnish a sense of the past in today's city. I suggest at the same time that within Tokyo there has been a concentration on bringing in elements of a Western urbanism considered more modern or, recently, more exotic, and that the past has tended to be consigned to places outside Tokyo. There is in sum little space in Tokyo's ever changing landscape for a physical representation of the past. These claims about the contemporary city are placed in the context of geographical writing on memorialisation and related themes such as heritage in a broader Asian and European context.

The book provides ample evidence to show that the women who were ordained to the diaconate during the first millennium had been sacramentally ordained. The second half of the book offers the text of the full ordination rite from six of the oldest manuscripts. Canterbury Press, London 2002; Women Deacons in the Early Church. Historical Texts and Contemporary Debates, Herder & Herder Crossroad, New York 2006; Vrouwen tot diaken gewijd. Historische feiten en actueel debat, Herne Heeswijk 2006 (Netherlands) and Altiora Averbode 2007 (Belgium).

Asian Music, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-49, 1990

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The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2007

In this paper, we estimate hedonic price equations of Japanese commercial and residential land prices for a 25-year period and to investigate possible structural changes in these price equations. Our price equations are based on transaction prices, not appraised land values, of commercial land in Central Business Districts of Tokyo (Chiyoda Ward, Chuo Ward, and Minato Ward), and residential land of its suburb (Setagaya Ward). We find that price structure differs substantially among locations, reflecting differences in supplier pricing and end-user preferences. We also find significant structural changes in price structure, identifying pre-bubble, bubble and post-bubble periods.

Communication et organisation, 1998

La commercialisation rapide, dans un contexte fortement concurrentiel, de produits et de services innovants et diversifiés, astreints à de fortes exigences de qualité, de coûts et de délais, explique l'émergence de nouvelles logiques managériales centrées sur la notion de projet. En moins de trois décennies, les formes modernes du risque-technologique, commercial, social-ont déclenché un changement organisationnel majeur mobilisant des formes structurelles souples, autonomes et temporaires (équipes de projet). Latéralité, flexibilité, plasticité, sont les métaphores géométriques et physiques d'une culture managériale qui subordonne les acteurs dits « de projet » aux enjeux et aux paradoxes d'une coopération transversale, transfonctionnelle. Des pratiques professionnelles originales se façonnent, se substituant aux formes devenues classiques et à terme obsolètes de la division fonctionnelle des tâches. Dans le monde des projets, les spécialistes regroupent leurs compétences, apprennent à s organiser et à négocier. Cette alternative au modèle bureaucratique prend forme et sens dans les choix stratégiques d'entreprises dites « orientées-projet ». 2 Ce management par projet ne pouvait laisser indifférents les observateurs et les praticiens de la communication des organisations. La gestion optimale des messages, la diffusion efficace de l'information, la traduction et l'intercompréhension des savoirs d'experts, la prévention et l'arbitrage des conflits, la mise en place de contrats favorisant le dialogue et la négociation, le tissage de liens transversaux, la promotion du sentiment communautaire au sein d'équipes de projet, sont autant de problématiques communicationnelles qui concernent le manager de projet et les décideurs en général, et, pourquoi pas, les chercheurs en communication des organisations. 3 Voilà donc le thème du treizième dossier de la revue Communication & Organisation, qu'un nombre important de spécialistes ont bien voulu traiter dans un cadre problématique le plus souple et le plus vaste possible. Qu'ils trouvent ici l'expression de toute notre gratitude pour avoir donné libre cours à leur talent. Théoriciens et hommes de l'art, conformément à la charte communicationnelle d'un projet, exposent des points de vue Management par projet et logiques communicationnelles Communication et organisation, 13 | 1998

MultiMedia Publishing, 2020

The paper begins with a retrospective of the debates on the origin of life: the virus or the cell? The virus needs a cell for replication, instead the cell is a more evolved form on the evolutionary scale of life. In addition, the study of viruses raises pressing conceptual and philosophical questions about their nature, their classification, and their place in the biological world. The subject of pandemics is approached starting from the existentialism of Albert Camus and Sartre, the replacement of the exclusion ritual with the disciplinary mechanism of Michel Foucault, and about the Gaia hypothesis, developed by James Lovelock and supported in the current pandemic by Bruno Latour. The social dimensions of pandemics, their connection to global warming, which has led to an increase in infectious diseases, and the deforestation of large areas, which have caused viruses to migrate from their native area (their "reservoir") are highlighted below. The ethics of pandemics is approached from several philosophical points of view, of which the most important in a crisis of such global dimensions is utilitarianism which involves maximizing benefits for society in direct conflict with the usual (Kantian) view of respect for people as individuals. After a retrospective of the COVID-19 virus that caused the current pandemic, its life cycle and its history, with an emphasis on the philosophy of death, the concept of biopower initially developed by Foucault is discussed, with reference to the practice of modern states of control of the populations and the debate generated by Giorgio Agamben who states that what is manifested in this pandemic is the growing tendency to use the state of emergency as a normal paradigm of government. An interesting and much debated approach is the one generated by the works of Slavoj Žižek, who states that the current pandemic has led to the bankruptcy of the current "barbaric" capitalism, wondering if the path that humanity will take is a neo-communism. Another important negative effect is desocialization, with the conclusion of some philosophers that we cannot exist independently of our relationships with others, that a person's humanity depends on the humanity of those around him. The last section is dedicated to forecasting what the world will look like after the pandemic, and there are already signs of a paradigm shift, including the sudden disappearance of the "wall" ideology: a cough was enough to make it suddenly impossible to avoid the responsibility that every individual has it towards all living beings for the simple fact that he is part of this world, and of the desire to be part of it. The whole is always involved in part, because everything is, in a sense, in everything and in nature there are no autonomous regions that are an exception. The COVID-19 pandemic seems to restore the supremacy that once belonged to politics. One of the virtues of the virus is its ability to generate a more sober idea of ​​freedom: to be free means to do what needs to be done in a specific situation. CONTENTS: Abstract Introduction 1 Viruses 1.1 Ontology 2 Pandemics 2.1 Social dimensions 2.2 Ethics 3 COVID-19 3.1 Biopolitics 3.2 Neocommunism 3.3 Desocialising 4 Forecasting Bibliography DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31039.74405/1