Status Updates From Love in Modern Japan: Its E...

“Unlike what is popularly believed, love knows national borders very well.”

- “Girls have come to look at their youthful bodies as an alienable commodity is closely related to the postwar moral education and its culmination in the separation of sex and love, which is in turn closely related to the self’s failure to care for its holistic existence., as can be seen in the way body is subjected to alienation from soul.”

“But one point I want to emphasize is that the way the girls have come to look at their youthful bodies as an alienable commodity is closely related to the postwar moral education and its culmination in the separation of sex and love, which is in turn closely related to the self’s failure to care for its holistic existence., as can be seen in the way body is subjected to alienation from soul.”

“Indeed, indoctrination works precisely in this way: it makes bodies docile, devoid of original thinking, making them into a mere bundle of reactions and responses. It is this docility that is exploited to the maximum under a state of exception.”

“Ontological certainty is sought not in human connections, but in a materially distorted form of fetishism - be it directed towards European designer purses or imaginary adultery or a good-looking Asian actor. Love, again, thus faces a crisis, as its estrangement from self and society intensifies.”