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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.

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

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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