The volume includes UTCP fellows' presentations and Takahiro Nakajima's keynote address at the conference Age of Comparison? held at New York University from March 27 to 29, 2008 and Prof. Xudong Zhang's seminar with us.

Utopia: Here and There

Contents

Preface
NAKAJIMA Takahiro

1. Utopia through Likeness: Godard's Logic of Similarity
HIRAKURA Kei

2. Reverberations of a Utopian Utterance: Lu Xun, Ōe Kenzaburō, Simada Masahiko
Dennitza GABRAKOVA

3. Comparative Hermeneutics and Utopian Desire: "Chinese Modernity" in Modern Chinese Aesthetics
HASHIMOTO Satoru

4. Comparing and Explaining Different Cultures: The Case of Captain Cook
YOSHIDA Kei

5. Gilded Space: Creating Spaces with Gilded Folding Screen
IDO Misato

6. Critical Comparability in the Age of "Classical Turn"
NAKAJIMA Takahiro

7. Lu Xun and East Asian Modernity: Theoretical Perspectives
Takeuchi Yoshimi, Gilles Deleuze, and Fredric Jameson
Joint Seminar with University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy: March 26, 2008 (transcript)
ZHANG Xudong