(日本語による原文下部に掲載)
An Inundation of Rumors is Already Announcing the Advent of Revolution
The Committee for Translating Coming Insurrection
Politicians, the State,
Mass media, the specialists,
The high officials of nuclear power
They all are enemies
They all are liars
– from a poem of a high school student in
Minami-soma City, Fukushima Prefecture
The Justice of Panic
Sudden catastrophe runs a crack through everyday life (labor, politics, art, the state, capital…). Perhaps the interruption is the beginning of all becoming. We might recall Bertolt Brecht’s morality plays. But what needs to be summoned now, more than anything, is Akira Kurosawa’s film I Live in Fear (1955). Continue reading
