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4 unusual facts about Hiroki Azuma


Akihiro Kitada

He is known among the reading public in Japan for co-editing the journal Shiso chizu (思想地図) with the cultural critic Hiroki Azuma during its first years.

Hiroki Azuma

Azuma launched his career as a literary critic in 1993 with a postmodern style influenced by leading Japanese critics Kojin Karatani and Akira Asada.

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Azuma handed the work directly to Karatani during his lecture series at Hosei University which Azuma was auditing.

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Akira Asada stated that it is one the best books written in the 90s; however, Hiroo Yamagata pointed out that the book is based on the misunderstanding of Godel's incompleteness theorem.



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