11 documents
Sabu Kohso Read Bio Collapse
Sabu Kohso Read Bio Collapse
Sabu Kohso is a political and social critic, translator, and a long-time activist in the global and anti-capitalist struggle. He has published several books on urban space and struggle in Japan, and has translated books by Kojin Karatani and David Graeber. His most recent book is Radiation and Revolution (Duke University Press, 2020).
e-flux Podcast
Posted: January 5, 2023
Category
Podcast
Subjects
Revolution, Social Change, Science Fiction
Half-Life
Nuclear Recursivity and Seismic Awakening
Sabu Kohso
Architecture Essay
Posted: December 22, 2022
Category
Capitalism, War & Conflict, Philosophy
Subjects
Nuclear War, Energy, Russia, Apocalypse
Half-Life
Kate Brown, Talei Luscia Mangioni, Raqs Media Collective, Samia Henni, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Radiowaves Collective, Livia Krohn Miller, and Sabu Kohso
Architecture Project
Posted: December 22, 2022
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Architecture
Subjects
Nuclear War, Postcolonialism, Landscape, Protests & Demonstrations, Cold War
Launch of e-flux journal Issue #131
Leon Dische Becker, Cosmo Bjorkenheim, Sabu Kohso, and Matt Peterson
e-flux Events
Posted: December 7, 2022
Category
Film, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Science Fiction, Revolution, Japan, Covid-19, Accidents & Disasters, Publications
e-flux
Upcoming events
e-flux Announcement
Posted: December 5, 2022
Institution
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 131
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 10, 2022
Category
Architecture, Contemporary Art
Institution
# 131
The Catastrophe Revealed: On Radiation and Revolution
Sabu Kohso in conversation with Matt Peterson
If these post-Fukushima struggles have a message for us now amid the Covid pandemic, it is that we can and must confront these planetary flows, like radioactivity or coronavirus, in our own lives. This means that we must wage our struggles for survival not as national citizens or residents, but as planetary inhabitants.
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 10, 2022
Subjects
Revolution, Japan
# 56
Mutation of the Triad: Totalitarianism, Fascism, and Nationalism in Japan
Sabu Kohso
The Triad of Perversity
History repeats itself. There is no event that disappears without a trace. Everything we experience returns in a new context, in a different form; time and space make up a multi-dimensional complexity where everything that has happened is enfolded in collective memory, waiting for the proper moment to unfold itself and reappear as mutation. But the interconnectivity of events is expanding and growing more dense, to the extent that it is exceeding our grasp….
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2014
Category
Nationalism, Fascism
Subjects
Japan, Xenophobia, Neoliberalism, Accidents & Disasters
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman?
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 11, 2013
Institution
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman?
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 4, 2013
Institution
Blood Mountain Projects
The Otolith Group at Blood Mountain Foundation
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 6, 2012
Institution