The Anthropology of Our External Organs and the concept of Co-heterogeneity

More-Than-Human Vol.7 An Interview with Toshiaki Ishikura (Interviewer: Taisuke Karasawa)

Toshiaki Ishikura + more

Dialogue about the meaning of eating/being eaten from nature as a “gaizou” that spreads outside of oneself, the possibility of a model “co-heterogeneity” that beyond the social community, and the secret story of the “Cosmo-Eggs” project.

2021.02.08

Toward a New Way of Making Allies with Forest: How Forests Think and Afterward

More-Than-Human Vol.9 An Interview with Eduardo Kohn (Interviewer: Hiroshi Kondo)

Eduardo Kohn + more

An ontological, anthropological approach to the forests led to a new ethnographic reality. It is a dialogue about the ethic for creating a new way of making allies with the forests by the author of "How Forest Think" and the translator.

2021.01.15

Interspecies Relatedness: From Sacrifice to Intimacy

More-Than-Human Vol.8 An Interview with Radhika Govindrajan (Interviewer: Mari Miyamoto)

Radhika Govindrajan + more

The histories, personalities, and actions of individual animals shape a particular set of social relations or social worlds, but the categories are fluid. Here are stories of five kinds of animals, and the possibility of multi-species ethnography opens our imagination.

2021.01.13

Imaginative Ecologies and the Possibilities of Anthropology

More-Than-Human Vol.6 An Interview with Anand Pandian (Interviewer: Shoko Yamada)

Anand Pandian + more

In the anthropological encounter, some sensibilities let us imagine an alternative kind of environmentalism. Anthropology's method of experience is a constant process of transforming the texture of our collective thinking and being.

2020.11.19

From Macaque’s Point of View: Human-Animal Conflict and Interspecies Intimacy in Japan

More-Than-Human Vol.5 An Interview with John Knight (Interviewer: Oribe Gohara)

John Knight + more

Multi-sited ethnography is one way that rural depopulation and wildlife encroachment can come together. Talk about human-wildlife relationships in the Mountain area in Japan from the monkey perspective.

2020.10.23

Thinking Through Human-Animal Labor

More-Than-Human Vol.4 An Interview with Alex Blanchette (Interviewer: Mariko Yoshida)

Alex Blanchette + more

Ethnography focusing on changes forms of human labor alongside animals' bodily conditions. The life and death cycles of the industrial pig reorganizes not only human communities, but human and nonhuman bodies' engagement.

2020.10.08

What is the True Foundation of Buddhist Philosophy? : The Logic of Dogen and Nagarjuna

More-Than-Human Vol.3 An Interview with Takashi Shimizu (Interviewer: Shigeki Moro)

Takashi Shimizu + more

The author, who brilliantly read speculative realism and the ontological turn of anthropology in connection with Eastern philosophy, talks about the creativity of Buddhist philosophy through the eyes of Dōgen and Nāgārjuna.

2020.09.30

Mongolian Medicine, Multispecies Storytelling and Multimodal Anthropology

More-Than-Human Vol.2 An Interview with Natasha Fijn (Interviewer: Ran Muratsu)

Natasha Fijn + more

Reinterpret coronavirus from the perspective of multispecies medicine in Mongolia. Multimodal Anthropology let us think beyond species by showing different perspective and ontologies towards animals in other cultures.

2020.08.10

The Actuality of Ecocriticism

More-Than-Human Vol.1 An Interview with Yuki Masami (Interviewer: Egawa Ayumi)

Masami Yuki + more

"Ecocriticism," which is a literary study of the relationship between humans and the environment, create a common ground for dialogue through imagination. "More-Than-Human" as spoken by the translator of "Sensitive Spell."

2020.08.07

Designing Nearby, Designing In-distance

Yusuke Koishi

What is fashion? What is human being’s “modality and behavior (様装)” that have been resisting the discretization of the world? This article suggests the possibility of a new approach for grasping fashion as “design in-distance.”

2019.11.08

Message from a Ghost Information Architect

Noriyo Asano

This is an open letter to Peter Morville, in response to his plenary talk at IA Summit 2014.

2015.01.22

ÉKRITS Strollers’ Guide

Hiroshi Obayashi + more

We designed the tags for ÉKRITS aiming at loosely linking information, instead of dividing them into categories - As the signposts to stroll around this forest of discourse.

2015.01.15