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A new form of subjectivity in which individuals are aware of themselves in relation to history –
the self-consciousness of thinking about oneself vis-à-vis some stream of events and trends of change
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Technological change
Idea of progress (pattern to history)
Rationality as ideal (choices)
Mass production/industrialism
Individualism (vis-à-vis society)
Consciousness of society as context
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Flânuer
French -- “an aimless idler; a loafer; an idle man-about-town”
For cultural critics, the flanuer is one of the key figures of the modern city – its bon vivant and observer/recorder
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Nagai Kafu, Tokyo writer and flanuer of Tokyo, ca. 1955
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6. Railways, flanuers, and modernity
Alisa Freedman’s talk, focused on Shinjuku rail station – observing/writing about the city through the trope of a railway terminal
Railways the sine qua non of Tokyo modernity and of “Taishu Bunka” – mass culture
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Terminal culture
Terminals – Ueno, Shinjuku, Asakusa, Shibuya, Ikebukuro – some new, some old
All became “sakariba” – “lively places”
Terminals the new “famous places of Tokyo”
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Shibuya
Statue erected 1934
Melted down for metal during war
New statue erected 1947
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Hachiko in 1932
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Yamanote line completed 1925, after earthquake of 1923
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Mass culture on trains
Middle class life became commuter life
Separation of home and workplace
Opening of western suburbs
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Mass culture on trains
Railway companies as vehicles for urban development
Railroads
Department stores
Real estate companies
Operators of amusement parks
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Commuting
Shopping
Living
Tourism and recreation
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Terminal Culture
The connection of sakariba (lively spots)
To “bedroom” suburbs
Integrated commercialization of middle class life
Sustained and encouraged development of very distinctive differences in Tokyo sub-regions
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Sub-regions of Tokyo both around terminals and in outlying regions
build on, but also greatly expand upon Shitamachi/Yamanote distinctions
Transportation
Demography
Economy
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Shibuya
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Asakusa
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