A notion that Japan is post-modern and is always, under any circumstances, supposed to be modern caused a diffusion of subjectivity, particularly since Japan defied western epistemology: “national-cultural idiosyncrasy that subscribes a conception of the world based on a binary between Western modernity and an always-already postmodern Japan.” According to the West, Japan has diverted the definition of modern subject: representing mind, and embodied transparent neutral transcendental objective that finds him/herself in gender specific role solely responsible for making up narrative for others. Modern subjects were never established in Japan, with Japanese subjects perceived to be constantly loose, flexible, confusing, ambiguous, and reproducible. Asia was considered synonymous with the image of an authoritarian culture lacking in emotional connection, cold, impersonal, and machine-like. Japanese was embodied in liminal quality with not even considered greater than that of robots, but equated with
A notion that Japan is post-modern and is always, under any circumstances, supposed to be modern caused a diffusion of subjectivity, particularly since Japan defied western epistemology: “national-cultural idiosyncrasy that subscribes a conception of the world based on a binary between Western modernity and an always-already postmodern Japan.” According to the West, Japan has diverted the definition of modern subject: representing mind, and embodied transparent neutral transcendental objective that finds him/herself in gender specific role solely responsible for making up narrative for others. Modern subjects were never established in Japan, with Japanese subjects perceived to be constantly loose, flexible, confusing, ambiguous, and reproducible. Asia was considered synonymous with the image of an authoritarian culture lacking in emotional connection, cold, impersonal, and machine-like. Japanese was embodied in liminal quality with not even considered greater than that of robots, but equated with