Last week I visited Beijing for the first time to attend a conference and give my presentation on Pierce and enlightenment. Great city!

The 21st International Conference of the International Association of Women Philosophers starts from next Friday in Hongo, Tokyo.

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I feel like The Utopia of Rules (2015) is the most underrated book of David Graeber. The analysis remains quite relevant and explains how we are “stuck” in the trichotomy of sovereignty, bureaucracy, and charismatic power, the idea to be developed in his later book with D. Wengrow.

I am now heading to Kyoto to attend the meeting of the American Philosophy Forum of Japan. This year’s theme is “Emersonian Perfectionism and the Tragic Sense,” and the keynote lecture will be given by René V. Arcilla and Paul Standish.

the photogenic ginkgo street in our campus

trying to give my cat a lecture on Plato’s allegory

oyster-mazesoba and pokemon donuts

Interesting work by Paul Janet (1861). I would love to read an updated version of this book written by some contemporary scholar.

500yen lunch in UTokyo