Books by Yuriko Furuhata
Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in Japan, 2019
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e-flux architecture accumulation, 2023
The Nuclear Geopolitics of Anthropogenic Clouds Unlike the enduring half-life of radioactive mate... more The Nuclear Geopolitics of Anthropogenic Clouds Unlike the enduring half-life of radioactive materials whose toxicity lasts for thousands of years, evanescent clouds in the sky are the embodiment of impermanence and ephemerality. The proliferation of anthropogenic clouds such as airplane contrails, nuclear mushroom clouds, and factory smoke in the atmosphere has been integral to the history of human-induced climate change. They contribute to the greenhouse effect by trapping heat, and the rising temperature of the planet in turn dissolves the low-hanging stratocumulus clouds in the subtropics that offer shade and cool down the earth's surface. Caught in the feedback loop of global warming, clouds are one of the most uncertain factors of climate change.
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Representations, 2022
This article focuses on the animated Japanese film Weathering with You (2019) in order to think c... more This article focuses on the animated Japanese film Weathering with You (2019) in order to think critically about the limits and merits of site-specific, local approaches to the anthropogenic climate crisis, and to the Anthropocene and its mythopoetic tendency. While the geological period of the Anthropocene is thoroughly historical and rooted in the modern scientific paradigm of Earth history, the mythologizing tendency in search of new cosmologies within the discourse of the Anthropocene complicates this linear trajectory of time. Anthropocene discourse invites its critics to revive and reinvent local myths. When these myths appear within the planetary scale of Anthropocene discourse, they take on a cosmological, if not universal, outlook. It is this spatial and temporal paradox of myths within the geological framework of the Anthropocene that this article investigates through the mediation of Weathering with You.
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Public Culture, 2021
This article examines the intertwined cultural politics of geology, mining, and archival media in... more This article examines the intertwined cultural politics of geology, mining, and archival media in the context of Japan's development as an archipelagic empire. The first Japanese geological map (1876) was completed by American geologist Benjamin Smith Lyman, who surveyed mineral deposits in Hokkaidō, Japan's northern island, long inhabited by the Indigenous Ainu people. Following anticolonial and archipelagic scholarship, the author reads across earthly archives of geological strata and colonial archives of historical documents to elucidate the conceptual duality of the archipelago as both a geological formation and a geopolitical territory. In tracing this formative era of Japan's resource extraction and settler colonialism, which precedes and informs the current rush to extract rare earth minerals necessary to maintain global digital infrastructures, this article aims to both de‐Westernize the methodological orientation known as media geology and offer a prehistory of contemporary rare earth mining in the Pacific Ocean.
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Screen Genealogies: From Optical Device to Environmental Medium, 2019
Yuriko Furuhata explores the fog sculptures of artist Nakaya Fujiko. Nakaya's deployment of fog a... more Yuriko Furuhata explores the fog sculptures of artist Nakaya Fujiko. Nakaya's deployment of fog and smoke recalls other expanded cinema practitioners and environmental artists in the postwar period, yet her experiments take on a different significance when seen not as a descendant of the phantasmagoria but as part of an assemblage linked to the development of smoke screens for aerial warfare. Paying particular attention to the dual function of fog screens-which obfuscate visibility yet also make visible such qualities as temperature, humidity, and wind-Furuhata historicizes the epistemological and political conditions behind the turn to fog and smoke within expanded cinema and the environmental arts during the Cold War. In so doing, Furuhata provides a geopolitically nuanced twist to the recent interest in 'atmospheric media' and 'elemental media'.
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Media+Environment, 2019
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