Ken C Kawashima
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken C Kawashima |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kawashima |
| SIGNATURE | KAWASHIMA K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2307-5737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Japanese Marxism and Uno Kōzō
This article revisits the history of Marxism in Japan and Uno Kōzō’s method for political-economic research from the perspective of Gavin Walker’s book, The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan. Walker’s book not only introduces key debates from the history of Marxism in Japan to a contemporary and English-speaking audience. It also rethinks and develops important concepts, discourses and probl…
The Revolutionary and Anti-Capitalist Politics of the Late Foucault
This article argues that Foucault's analysis of ancient philosophy, ethics, and politics after 1979-1980 represents not only a discursive break or discontinuity with Foucault's decades-long analysis of capitalism, but also an inventive series of techniques and practices to negate and overcome fundamental problems of subjectivity under historical capitalism and in revolutionary political action. Part 1 of the article returns to The Birth of Biopol…
The Hidden Area between Marx and Foucault
This article investigates an often obscure methodological “area” found between the discourses and methods of Marx and Foucault. What kind of an area separates their methods—and hence their politics? Ultimately, this is a question of the area between Foucault’s “logic of strategy” and Marx’s “dialectical logic.” How are we to think of a logic of strategy alongside a logic of dialectics? What is the historical materiality of this alongsidedness, an…
The Voice of Interpellation and Capitalist Crisis
If the problem of ideology, as Louis Althusser argues, is about the hailing of interpellation, then ideology can be understood as a problem of the voice. In this essay, I address the politics of the voice by analyzing Emperor Hirohito's so-called surrender speech, which was recorded on August 14, 1945, and broadcast over the radio waves in Japan and its former colonies on August 15, 1945. In the wake of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima a…
Notes toward a Critical Analysis of Chronic Recession and Ideology
Tosaka Jun
Tosaka Jun (1900–1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique and important critics of capitalism, the emperor system, imperialism, and everyday life in wartime Japan. This collection of translations contains some of Tosaka's most important essays and original articles on Tosaka
The Proletarian Gamble
Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression in Japan, migrant Korean peasants arrived on Japanese soil amid extreme instability in the labor and housing markets. In The Proletarian Gamble, Ken C. Kawashima maintains that contingent labor is a defining characteristic of capitalist commodit…
The Obscene, Violent Supplement of State Power
This article reconsiders the concept of the state apparatus by looking at the micropolitics and history surrounding the largest “Korean welfare organization” in interwar Japan, the Sôaikai (), or Mutual Love Association. As a welfare organization of Korean workers in Japan, the Sôaikai not only operated as the largest institutional supplier of Korean day workers to the construction industry; it was also considered as a “preventive police organiza…
Two Dreams in One Bed
Capital's Dice-Box Shaking
This essay suggests how the problem of contingency necessarily appears as a mode of capitalist domination within the process of commodifying labor power. Tracing this problem in Marx's Capital and Grundrisse, as well as in the work of Uno Kōzō, I demonstrate how an unavoidably contingent and undecidable moment within the process of commodifying labor power is itself exploited for the purpose of producing surplus value and profit. At the center of…
The Micropolitics of Capital
Book Review| September 01 2004 The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003 Ken C. Kawashima Ken C. Kawashima Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 531–539. https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-37-3-4-531 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio…
Capital's Dice-Box Shaking
This essay suggests how the problem of contingency necessarily appears as a mode of capitalist domination within the process of commodifying labor power. Tracing this problem in Marx's Capital and Grundrisse, as well as in the work of Uno Kōzō, I demonstrate how an unavoidably contingent and undecidable moment within the process of commodifying labor power is itself exploited for the purpose of producing surplus value and profit. At the center of…
The Hidden Area between Marx and Foucault
This article investigates an often obscure methodological “area” found between the discourses and methods of Marx and Foucault. What kind of an area separates their methods—and hence their politics? Ultimately, this is a question of the area between Foucault’s “logic of strategy” and Marx’s “dialectical logic.” How are we to think of a logic of strategy alongside a logic of dialectics? What is the historical materiality of this alongsidedness, an…
The Voice of Interpellation and Capitalist Crisis
If the problem of ideology, as Louis Althusser argues, is about the hailing of interpellation, then ideology can be understood as a problem of the voice. In this essay, I address the politics of the voice by analyzing Emperor Hirohito's so-called surrender speech, which was recorded on August 14, 1945, and broadcast over the radio waves in Japan and its former colonies on August 15, 1945. In the wake of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima a…
The Micropolitics of Capital
Book Review| September 01 2004 The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003 Ken C. Kawashima Ken C. Kawashima Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 531–539. https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-37-3-4-531 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio…
Capital's Dice-Box Shaking
This essay suggests how the problem of contingency necessarily appears as a mode of capitalist domination within the process of commodifying labor power. Tracing this problem in Marx's Capital and Grundrisse, as well as in the work of Uno Kōzō, I demonstrate how an unavoidably contingent and undecidable moment within the process of commodifying labor power is itself exploited for the purpose of producing surplus value and profit. At the center of…
Two Dreams in One Bed
The Proletarian Gamble
Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression in Japan, migrant Korean peasants arrived on Japanese soil amid extreme instability in the labor and housing markets. In The Proletarian Gamble, Ken C. Kawashima maintains that contingent labor is a defining characteristic of capitalist commodit…
The Obscene, Violent Supplement of State Power
This article reconsiders the concept of the state apparatus by looking at the micropolitics and history surrounding the largest “Korean welfare organization” in interwar Japan, the Sôaikai (), or Mutual Love Association. As a welfare organization of Korean workers in Japan, the Sôaikai not only operated as the largest institutional supplier of Korean day workers to the construction industry; it was also considered as a “preventive police organiza…
Notes toward a Critical Analysis of Chronic Recession and Ideology
Tosaka Jun
Tosaka Jun (1900–1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique and important critics of capitalism, the emperor system, imperialism, and everyday life in wartime Japan. This collection of translations contains some of Tosaka's most important essays and original articles on Tosaka
The Voice of Interpellation and Capitalist Crisis
If the problem of ideology, as Louis Althusser argues, is about the hailing of interpellation, then ideology can be understood as a problem of the voice. In this essay, I address the politics of the voice by analyzing Emperor Hirohito's so-called surrender speech, which was recorded on August 14, 1945, and broadcast over the radio waves in Japan and its former colonies on August 15, 1945. In the wake of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima a…
The Hidden Area between Marx and Foucault
This article investigates an often obscure methodological “area” found between the discourses and methods of Marx and Foucault. What kind of an area separates their methods—and hence their politics? Ultimately, this is a question of the area between Foucault’s “logic of strategy” and Marx’s “dialectical logic.” How are we to think of a logic of strategy alongside a logic of dialectics? What is the historical materiality of this alongsidedness, an…
The Revolutionary and Anti-Capitalist Politics of the Late Foucault
This article argues that Foucault's analysis of ancient philosophy, ethics, and politics after 1979-1980 represents not only a discursive break or discontinuity with Foucault's decades-long analysis of capitalism, but also an inventive series of techniques and practices to negate and overcome fundamental problems of subjectivity under historical capitalism and in revolutionary political action. Part 1 of the article returns to The Birth of Biopol…
Beyond Japanese Marxism and Uno Kōzō
This article revisits the history of Marxism in Japan and Uno Kōzō’s method for political-economic research from the perspective of Gavin Walker’s book, The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan. Walker’s book not only introduces key debates from the history of Marxism in Japan to a contemporary and English-speaking audience. It also rethinks and develops important concepts, discourses and probl…
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