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Kazuya SAKURADA

Abstract:

Media projects for homeless issues in Osaka

The presentation deals with concrete examples of how media projects may offer new perspectives and discussions in relation to social concerns in the city, relating to issues such as homelessness. After the coffee break there will be screening of the film Public Blue (Kansai kôen, 2006), one of the examples of media projects. 

Short CV:

Kazuya SAKURADA is a lecturer of the Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University. He has 10 years of relevant experience of unix-like systems administration as a freelancer. He is one of the founding members of Indymedia Japan in 2002 and working as a researcher at the media arts NPO remo [record, expression and medium-organization] since 2003, where he also organizes the event series Alternative Media Gathering.

He got a master's degree from Osaka City University in 2006 and completed the doctoral program in 2009 without degree. He researches the sociology of "precarity," precariousness of social life under the condition of unemployment, jobless and/or homeless. He just have published a Japanese translation of Precarious Rhapsody: Semio-capitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation (London: Minor Compositions, 2009) written by the Italian autonomist Franco "bifo" Berardi. The Japanese title is Precariato no Uta: Kigou-Shihonshugi no Seishin-Byourigaku (Tokyo: Kawadeshobo-Shinsha, 2009).