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Papers by Mathias Hamp
Xontext Industry Report: Waterfront Development in Japan, 2019
Imagine a field with hundreds of pyramids the size of the greatest ones built in ancient Egypt. T... more Imagine a field with hundreds of pyramids the size of the greatest ones built in ancient Egypt. That is the volume of the land reclamations in the port of Kobe. This paper is recapitulating the postwar development of this port city once aiming at becoming Asia's mother port. It is offering a brief exploration of the infrastructural development with its land reclamations in deep water and redevelopment of Kobes waterfront (1). Coming and going at large, that are waves but more precisely a changing relationship of the city and its port deeply affected by the mechanics of global logistics (2). Finally this issue of Xontext Industry Reports is touching upon the effects and subsequent recovery from the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 (3).
LMU Munich, Japan Center, 2019
Modern Tokyo with its hyperfunctional transportation, the endless desert of concrete and its more... more Modern Tokyo with its hyperfunctional transportation, the endless desert of concrete and its more than western attire has its origin in the wilting beauty of this forgotten fragile urban space: Edo. This paper explores the transition between this fire and flood plagued Venice of the Far East that - a city of deadly Samurai and pleasant Geisha - to imperial Tokyo.
Xontext Industry Report: IPR in China, 2018
The appropriation and use of copyrighted content in China, both within and outside China, is the ... more The appropriation and use of copyrighted content in China, both within and outside China, is the subject of populist rhetoric and with widely differing commonplaces. Under these circumstances the present industry report aims to better classify the making of intellectual property in China with its unique characteristics. To this end, the study proposes to examine the Shanzhai phenomenon in terms of its definition, its varieties, the associated readings. In addition, it tries to depict the innovation process of Chinese companies in its international context as contribution to a better understanding of the intellectual property in China in a historical perspective.
Xontext Industry Report: Brand Awareness Survey 2004-17, 2019
Discover the development of major electronic distributor's brand awareness and brand recognition ... more Discover the development of major electronic distributor's brand awareness and brand recognition in EMEA from 2004 to 2017 based upon public data. This industry report offers relevant information to how the catalog distributors Digi-Key and Mouser are recognized troughout all major markets of Europe and Middle East Asia versus volume distributors such as Arrow and Avnet or TTI to name but a few. This report draws public data provided by various sources such as Google and Übersuugest.
Tōkyō: Konstruktionen einer Metropole – sozial, politisch, kulturell, historisch, 2008
This book chapter discusses the dissemination of foreign architectural styles and building practi... more This book chapter discusses the dissemination of foreign architectural styles and building practices in modern Japan through the lense of the connected foreign settlements Tsukiji and Yokohama - spearheads of the development of the imperial capital of Japanese Empire: Tokyo.
Japan Zentrum, LMU München, 2011
Wie lassen sich Fremdenniederlassungen in Handelsstützpunkten wie Yokohama erklären und definiere... more Wie lassen sich Fremdenniederlassungen in Handelsstützpunkten wie Yokohama erklären und definieren? Durch eine geographische Einschränkung? Unterliegen diese Formen menschlicher Vergesellschaftung besonderen Funktionen, wie lassen sie sich von anderen menschlichen Niederlassungen abgrenzen. Ausgehend von Emigration als wesentliches Konstitutionsmerkmal beschreibt der folgende Aufsatz die Merkmale von interkulturellen Kontaktszenarien, um auf die Frage antworten zu können, wie der Glaube einer essentiellen Andersartigkeit zwischen Kulturen konsolidiert wird und durch welche Mechanismen er aufrechterhalten wird.
URP GCOE Document 7, Managing Sustainability and Creativity: Urban Management in Japan and Europe, Nov 1, 2008
In this general issue Mathias Hamp provides a profound overview on "Creativity and Mass Producti... more In this general issue Mathias Hamp provides a profound overview on "Creativity and Mass Production in Urban Context". In search for new vocabulary the article introduces the concept of agoraculture entailing an post-urban era where dipossessed service nomads find to a new sendentary lifestyle cultivating in infite fields creative products for the masses.
Conference Presentations by Mathias Hamp
Japan Center, LMU Munich, 2003
映画による個人へ、 或いは文化への影響が頻繁に研究されているが、日本文化に携わっている研究者の見方はだいたい、日本映画は西欧映画に対してどういう風に発達しているのか、或いはどの影響をうけているか... more 映画による個人へ、 或いは文化への影響が頻繁に研究されているが、日本文化に携わっている研究者の見方はだいたい、日本映画は西欧映画に対してどういう風に発達しているのか、或いはどの影響をうけているかに限られている。そ の傾向に対して当文は逆にヨーロッパにおける日本映画の影響と言った見方を探究する。
LMU Munich, Japan Center, 2009
This draft proposes to investigate the political motivation behind the persistence of common enth... more This draft proposes to investigate the political motivation behind the persistence of common entho-centric approaches in describing the otherness of global citizens in a post-globalized world.
Karl Jaspers Center - Japanese Studies Workshop at Heidelberg University, 2010
The following paper introduces the most important theories and findings of my recent research abo... more The following paper introduces the most important theories and findings of my recent research about the foreign settlements in 19th century Japan in four points. These concern, firstly, the foundation of foreign settlements, secondly, their establishment, third, the foreign settlement under the rule of the Tokugawa, and fourthly, the transformation of the foreign settlements in the Meiji period.
VSJF-Jahrestagung: Risk and East Asia, 2009
This paper was presented in 2009 at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Social Sc... more This paper was presented in 2009 at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan as part of the workshop on "Media and Culture". It enquires the architectural origins of the modern Japanese Empire.
Reviews by Mathias Hamp
The following comment responds to the marvelous lecture on the moral evolution of alterity in ant... more The following comment responds to the marvelous lecture on the moral evolution of alterity in anthropological discourse entitled “The Disciplined Other” offered by Prof. Haim Hazan from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Tel Aviv University on May 29, 2017 at Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Whereas the discourse can be publicly screened on YouTube it is with the outmost respect and the authors deepest wishes this wonderful piece may find its way to a broader audience I allow myself to add a transcript of the original lecture to my comment below.
Institut für Romanische Philologie, LMU München, 2015
Was verbindet Stendhal mit Japan? Auf den ersten Blick hin kann man auf solch eine Frage eigentli... more Was verbindet Stendhal mit Japan? Auf den ersten Blick hin kann man auf solch eine Frage eigentlich nur „nichts“ antworten. Diesem vermeintlichen Nichts widmet sich der folgende Beitrag. Doch wie kann man ein Nichts beschreiben? Folgen Sie den Spuren und erleben Sie mit, wie dieses Nichts eingeschlossen wird von einer Tür, durch dessen Schlüsselloch Sie gerade noch «un vase en porcelaine bleue, laid au possible ... du vieux Japon» inmitten eines Pariser Hotels sehen.
Regional Studies of Indochina, 2017
This general paper is offering an introduction to the regional study of French Indochina through ... more This general paper is offering an introduction to the regional study of French Indochina through the lense of Marguerite Duras oeuvre describing the geography, economic and social structure of the French colony.
LMU Munich, Japan Center, 2019
Kafū is considered to be one of the most prominent chronic of modern Tokyo. This paper is dedicat... more Kafū is considered to be one of the most prominent chronic of modern Tokyo. This paper is dedicated to the criticism he conveyed in guise of a hymn to old time called "Fukugawa no uta". This novel is addressing explicit criticism of the enlighted rule Emperor Meiji exerted over Japan after his Restauration 1868. The present paper also explores how the phenomenon of nostalgia can be understood as constant in Japanese culture even surfacing in religious concepts. Furthermore, it discusses the development of Japanese folk music offered by blind artists during the modernization of Japan as an expression of nostalgia.
LMU Munich, Cultural Studies Workshop, 2015
The transgression of borders as basic condition for the theming of the other is one of the essent... more The transgression of borders as basic condition for the theming of the other is one of the essential concerns of art and culture (Waldenfels, 1998). For example, Mikhail Bachtin (1995) formulated his theory about the Carnival around the concept of the other. Carnival is characterized by the transcending of borders. Only during those crazy times can one look at what is otherwise hidden. In this way, popular culture with its exaggerated desire to "laugh" contributes to the carnival of high cultures (Bachtin, 1995, 52-54). Is this boundary blurring a subject in Lee's work? The worldwide reception of Lees' films gives rise to the question as to what extent Bachtin's carnival as a result of literary transgressions also contributes to the softening of cultural boundaries trough Lee's cinematographic work. However, while Bachtin concluded the design of a counterculture with the carnival of high cultures, Lee's stagings of others portray rather opposing worlds that are to be located beyond conventional concepts of culture: That is when East and West finally finished meeting each other to become a transcultural heirtage.
LMU Munich, 2003
Cette étude revoit une sélection de prose orientaliste claudélienne pour montrer le rapport entre... more Cette étude revoit une sélection de prose orientaliste claudélienne pour montrer le rapport entre Claudel et le Japon et suit la thèse qu'une sorte de cristallisation a eu lieu à travers cette rencontre. C'est dire que ses expériences au Japon l'ont amené à une nouvelle connaissance au double sens du term.
Pier Paolo Pasolini "I racconti di Canterbury": Eine Analyse des Films unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Quellen, May 22, 2004
This paper offers an analysis of "I racconti di Canterbury" regarding its literary sources. This ... more This paper offers an analysis of "I racconti di Canterbury" regarding its literary sources. This film by the Italian cineast and film maker Pier Paolo Pasolini offers citations of artists like Hieronymous Bosch or Pieter Breugel the Elder and inscribes itself in the tradition of appropriation art.
Filmreihe "Stadträume" der Fachschaft Kunstgeschichte, LMU München, 2011
"Der letzte Kampf" ist der erste Film, der von Luc Besson geschrieben wurde. Dieser Kultfilm aus ... more "Der letzte Kampf" ist der erste Film, der von Luc Besson geschrieben wurde. Dieser Kultfilm aus dem Jahr 1982 gibt den Ton für seine zukünftigen Produktionen durch und mit Luc Besson vor. Der erste seiner letzten Kämpfe bietet interessante - fast autobiografische - Einblicke in ein neues Wunder des modernen Kinos.
Tutorials by Mathias Hamp
Xontext Tutorial, 2019
Brief tutorial on how to run the Java from Windows command line. Step-by-step description of how ... more Brief tutorial on how to run the Java from Windows command line. Step-by-step description of how to set environmental variables in order to run Java directly from the command line without any integrated development environments such as Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA or Visual Studio.
Xontext Industry Report: Waterfront Development in Japan, 2019
Imagine a field with hundreds of pyramids the size of the greatest ones built in ancient Egypt. T... more Imagine a field with hundreds of pyramids the size of the greatest ones built in ancient Egypt. That is the volume of the land reclamations in the port of Kobe. This paper is recapitulating the postwar development of this port city once aiming at becoming Asia's mother port. It is offering a brief exploration of the infrastructural development with its land reclamations in deep water and redevelopment of Kobes waterfront (1). Coming and going at large, that are waves but more precisely a changing relationship of the city and its port deeply affected by the mechanics of global logistics (2). Finally this issue of Xontext Industry Reports is touching upon the effects and subsequent recovery from the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 (3).
LMU Munich, Japan Center, 2019
Modern Tokyo with its hyperfunctional transportation, the endless desert of concrete and its more... more Modern Tokyo with its hyperfunctional transportation, the endless desert of concrete and its more than western attire has its origin in the wilting beauty of this forgotten fragile urban space: Edo. This paper explores the transition between this fire and flood plagued Venice of the Far East that - a city of deadly Samurai and pleasant Geisha - to imperial Tokyo.
Xontext Industry Report: IPR in China, 2018
The appropriation and use of copyrighted content in China, both within and outside China, is the ... more The appropriation and use of copyrighted content in China, both within and outside China, is the subject of populist rhetoric and with widely differing commonplaces. Under these circumstances the present industry report aims to better classify the making of intellectual property in China with its unique characteristics. To this end, the study proposes to examine the Shanzhai phenomenon in terms of its definition, its varieties, the associated readings. In addition, it tries to depict the innovation process of Chinese companies in its international context as contribution to a better understanding of the intellectual property in China in a historical perspective.
Xontext Industry Report: Brand Awareness Survey 2004-17, 2019
Discover the development of major electronic distributor's brand awareness and brand recognition ... more Discover the development of major electronic distributor's brand awareness and brand recognition in EMEA from 2004 to 2017 based upon public data. This industry report offers relevant information to how the catalog distributors Digi-Key and Mouser are recognized troughout all major markets of Europe and Middle East Asia versus volume distributors such as Arrow and Avnet or TTI to name but a few. This report draws public data provided by various sources such as Google and Übersuugest.
Tōkyō: Konstruktionen einer Metropole – sozial, politisch, kulturell, historisch, 2008
This book chapter discusses the dissemination of foreign architectural styles and building practi... more This book chapter discusses the dissemination of foreign architectural styles and building practices in modern Japan through the lense of the connected foreign settlements Tsukiji and Yokohama - spearheads of the development of the imperial capital of Japanese Empire: Tokyo.
Japan Zentrum, LMU München, 2011
Wie lassen sich Fremdenniederlassungen in Handelsstützpunkten wie Yokohama erklären und definiere... more Wie lassen sich Fremdenniederlassungen in Handelsstützpunkten wie Yokohama erklären und definieren? Durch eine geographische Einschränkung? Unterliegen diese Formen menschlicher Vergesellschaftung besonderen Funktionen, wie lassen sie sich von anderen menschlichen Niederlassungen abgrenzen. Ausgehend von Emigration als wesentliches Konstitutionsmerkmal beschreibt der folgende Aufsatz die Merkmale von interkulturellen Kontaktszenarien, um auf die Frage antworten zu können, wie der Glaube einer essentiellen Andersartigkeit zwischen Kulturen konsolidiert wird und durch welche Mechanismen er aufrechterhalten wird.
URP GCOE Document 7, Managing Sustainability and Creativity: Urban Management in Japan and Europe, Nov 1, 2008
In this general issue Mathias Hamp provides a profound overview on "Creativity and Mass Producti... more In this general issue Mathias Hamp provides a profound overview on "Creativity and Mass Production in Urban Context". In search for new vocabulary the article introduces the concept of agoraculture entailing an post-urban era where dipossessed service nomads find to a new sendentary lifestyle cultivating in infite fields creative products for the masses.
Japan Center, LMU Munich, 2003
映画による個人へ、 或いは文化への影響が頻繁に研究されているが、日本文化に携わっている研究者の見方はだいたい、日本映画は西欧映画に対してどういう風に発達しているのか、或いはどの影響をうけているか... more 映画による個人へ、 或いは文化への影響が頻繁に研究されているが、日本文化に携わっている研究者の見方はだいたい、日本映画は西欧映画に対してどういう風に発達しているのか、或いはどの影響をうけているかに限られている。そ の傾向に対して当文は逆にヨーロッパにおける日本映画の影響と言った見方を探究する。
LMU Munich, Japan Center, 2009
This draft proposes to investigate the political motivation behind the persistence of common enth... more This draft proposes to investigate the political motivation behind the persistence of common entho-centric approaches in describing the otherness of global citizens in a post-globalized world.
Karl Jaspers Center - Japanese Studies Workshop at Heidelberg University, 2010
The following paper introduces the most important theories and findings of my recent research abo... more The following paper introduces the most important theories and findings of my recent research about the foreign settlements in 19th century Japan in four points. These concern, firstly, the foundation of foreign settlements, secondly, their establishment, third, the foreign settlement under the rule of the Tokugawa, and fourthly, the transformation of the foreign settlements in the Meiji period.
VSJF-Jahrestagung: Risk and East Asia, 2009
This paper was presented in 2009 at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Social Sc... more This paper was presented in 2009 at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan as part of the workshop on "Media and Culture". It enquires the architectural origins of the modern Japanese Empire.
The following comment responds to the marvelous lecture on the moral evolution of alterity in ant... more The following comment responds to the marvelous lecture on the moral evolution of alterity in anthropological discourse entitled “The Disciplined Other” offered by Prof. Haim Hazan from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Tel Aviv University on May 29, 2017 at Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Whereas the discourse can be publicly screened on YouTube it is with the outmost respect and the authors deepest wishes this wonderful piece may find its way to a broader audience I allow myself to add a transcript of the original lecture to my comment below.
Institut für Romanische Philologie, LMU München, 2015
Was verbindet Stendhal mit Japan? Auf den ersten Blick hin kann man auf solch eine Frage eigentli... more Was verbindet Stendhal mit Japan? Auf den ersten Blick hin kann man auf solch eine Frage eigentlich nur „nichts“ antworten. Diesem vermeintlichen Nichts widmet sich der folgende Beitrag. Doch wie kann man ein Nichts beschreiben? Folgen Sie den Spuren und erleben Sie mit, wie dieses Nichts eingeschlossen wird von einer Tür, durch dessen Schlüsselloch Sie gerade noch «un vase en porcelaine bleue, laid au possible ... du vieux Japon» inmitten eines Pariser Hotels sehen.
Regional Studies of Indochina, 2017
This general paper is offering an introduction to the regional study of French Indochina through ... more This general paper is offering an introduction to the regional study of French Indochina through the lense of Marguerite Duras oeuvre describing the geography, economic and social structure of the French colony.
LMU Munich, Japan Center, 2019
Kafū is considered to be one of the most prominent chronic of modern Tokyo. This paper is dedicat... more Kafū is considered to be one of the most prominent chronic of modern Tokyo. This paper is dedicated to the criticism he conveyed in guise of a hymn to old time called "Fukugawa no uta". This novel is addressing explicit criticism of the enlighted rule Emperor Meiji exerted over Japan after his Restauration 1868. The present paper also explores how the phenomenon of nostalgia can be understood as constant in Japanese culture even surfacing in religious concepts. Furthermore, it discusses the development of Japanese folk music offered by blind artists during the modernization of Japan as an expression of nostalgia.
LMU Munich, Cultural Studies Workshop, 2015
The transgression of borders as basic condition for the theming of the other is one of the essent... more The transgression of borders as basic condition for the theming of the other is one of the essential concerns of art and culture (Waldenfels, 1998). For example, Mikhail Bachtin (1995) formulated his theory about the Carnival around the concept of the other. Carnival is characterized by the transcending of borders. Only during those crazy times can one look at what is otherwise hidden. In this way, popular culture with its exaggerated desire to "laugh" contributes to the carnival of high cultures (Bachtin, 1995, 52-54). Is this boundary blurring a subject in Lee's work? The worldwide reception of Lees' films gives rise to the question as to what extent Bachtin's carnival as a result of literary transgressions also contributes to the softening of cultural boundaries trough Lee's cinematographic work. However, while Bachtin concluded the design of a counterculture with the carnival of high cultures, Lee's stagings of others portray rather opposing worlds that are to be located beyond conventional concepts of culture: That is when East and West finally finished meeting each other to become a transcultural heirtage.
LMU Munich, 2003
Cette étude revoit une sélection de prose orientaliste claudélienne pour montrer le rapport entre... more Cette étude revoit une sélection de prose orientaliste claudélienne pour montrer le rapport entre Claudel et le Japon et suit la thèse qu'une sorte de cristallisation a eu lieu à travers cette rencontre. C'est dire que ses expériences au Japon l'ont amené à une nouvelle connaissance au double sens du term.
Pier Paolo Pasolini "I racconti di Canterbury": Eine Analyse des Films unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Quellen, May 22, 2004
This paper offers an analysis of "I racconti di Canterbury" regarding its literary sources. This ... more This paper offers an analysis of "I racconti di Canterbury" regarding its literary sources. This film by the Italian cineast and film maker Pier Paolo Pasolini offers citations of artists like Hieronymous Bosch or Pieter Breugel the Elder and inscribes itself in the tradition of appropriation art.
Filmreihe "Stadträume" der Fachschaft Kunstgeschichte, LMU München, 2011
"Der letzte Kampf" ist der erste Film, der von Luc Besson geschrieben wurde. Dieser Kultfilm aus ... more "Der letzte Kampf" ist der erste Film, der von Luc Besson geschrieben wurde. Dieser Kultfilm aus dem Jahr 1982 gibt den Ton für seine zukünftigen Produktionen durch und mit Luc Besson vor. Der erste seiner letzten Kämpfe bietet interessante - fast autobiografische - Einblicke in ein neues Wunder des modernen Kinos.
Xontext Tutorial, 2019
Brief tutorial on how to run the Java from Windows command line. Step-by-step description of how ... more Brief tutorial on how to run the Java from Windows command line. Step-by-step description of how to set environmental variables in order to run Java directly from the command line without any integrated development environments such as Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA or Visual Studio.
Der Hafen von Kōbe: Aspekte seines Wandels im Zuge der Modernisierung Japans, 2005
Japanische Geschichtsschreibung verleitet angesichts der zahlreichen einschneidenden Ereignisse d... more Japanische Geschichtsschreibung verleitet angesichts der zahlreichen einschneidenden Ereignisse dazu, in mehr oder weniger klar definierbaren Perioden verstanden zu werden. Zwischen diesen Perioden können Wendepunkte stehen, wie zum Beispiel der 17. Januar 1995. In nur wenigen Minuten am frühen Morgen dieses Tages wurde der weltberühmte Seehafen Kōbe zerstört. Die Auswirkungen des Erdbebens betrafen die gesamte Kansai-Region. Dieses Buch ist aber weit mehr als dem Wiederaufbau der Stadt gewidmet, sondern rekapituliert alle weiteren bedeutenden Wendepunkte in der Stadtgeschichte Kōbes, um aufzuzeigen welchen Stellenwert dieser Hafenstandort innerhalb der japanischen Geschichte einnimmt.
Die Domestizierung der Samurai: Die Fremdenniederlassungen und die Konsolidierung des modernen Japans, 2014
Die Samurai - das Sinnbild der tödlichen Krieger. Doch im Japan des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden die S... more Die Samurai - das Sinnbild der tödlichen Krieger. Doch im Japan des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden die Samurai domestiziert, wie auch westliche Barbaren, Geishas, Zen-Mönche oder Unberührbare. Klar definierbare Opfer und Täter sucht man vergeblich: Die Domestizierung der Samurai handelt von der Bewältigung alter und der Entstehung neuer Fremdbilder - in einem Lebensraum, dessen Grenzen bis dahin nicht klar umrissen waren. Mathias Hamp zeichnet die Landesöffnung Japans in anderen Farben als dem Stahlgrau westlicher Kanonenboot-Diplomatie. Mit fundiertem historischem Hintergrund vertieft er den Blick auf die Entwicklung der komplexen Gesellschaftsordnung, in der das Fremde und seine Niederlassung zur Basis des modernen Japans wurden. "Zweifelsfrei eine Neubewertung der japanischen Auseinandersetzung mit den 'Fremden', anregend, originell, erkenntnisreich und auf hohem intellektuellen Niveau." - Prof. Dr. Reinhard Zöllner, Universität Bonn
Fujimori Lab, Tokyo University, Institute for Industrial Sciences, 2014
The Japanese tea house holds many puzzles. As an architect, Terunobu Fujimori values this histori... more The Japanese tea house holds many puzzles. As an architect, Terunobu Fujimori values this historical format because it gives expression to his "primitive-gard". As a historian, he is far ahead of his teachers and understands to resolve the enigma Rikyûs Harakiri in a meaningful way. With Arata Isozaki in London he goes on a journey to search for the long-lost tea house of Lennons Yoko. Celebrated, eccentric and eloquent, the architecture detective Fujimori Terunobu is a television star. His career as a professor of architectural history began in the venerable halls of Tokyo University with an outcry. Since then, he has not minced his words, not even when it comes to relocating the dawn of modernity from Europe to Japan. His argument is silent confrontation: the tealogy
Xontext, 2015
Diese Bildanalyse ist einem Holzschnitt aus der Serie "Berühmte Orte der östlichen Hauptstadt" vo... more Diese Bildanalyse ist einem Holzschnitt aus der Serie "Berühmte Orte der östlichen Hauptstadt" von Utagawa Hiroshige gewidmet. Sie gibt einen flüchtigen Einblick in die gesellschaftspolitischen Entstehungshintergrund des Werks in der Tempô-Zeit unter den Shogunen Tokugawa Ienari und Ieyoshi.
Xontext Translation Services, 2014
Visual Analysis of woodblock prints by Utagawa Yasukiyo. This paper focuses on a woodblock print ... more Visual Analysis of woodblock prints by Utagawa Yasukiyo. This paper focuses on a woodblock print displaying two elegant ladies in 19th century Japan. Discover one more exemple of the wide-spread "Bijin-awase" series that were quite common in Edo-era Japan through this dissection of popular Japanese art piece by Mathias Hamp.
LMU Munich Japanese Center, 2004
Nagai Kafû's novel "Fukugawa no uta" (The Song of Fukugawa) offers a delightful and nostalgic des... more Nagai Kafû's novel "Fukugawa no uta" (The Song of Fukugawa) offers a delightful and nostalgic description of a everyday ride through in the lower shitamachi district in the emerging imperial capital town of Tokyo.
LMU Munich, Japan Center, 2004
Babar is the story of a little elephant. He came from the jungle to the city, got civilised to be... more Babar is the story of a little elephant. He came from the jungle to the city, got civilised to become King. This draft is a tentative translation by Mathias Hamp of the second book of the Barbar series by Jean Brunhoff dating from 1931.
Xontext Industry Report, 2019
The future of agriculture lies in its abilities to control as many environmental aspects of plant... more The future of agriculture lies in its abilities to control as many environmental aspects of plant cultivation as possible. This paper discusses controlled environment agriculture in short CEA with its origins, multiple benefits and involved challenges.
Angesichts der populistischen Diskurse der jüngsten Zeit lädt folgender Beitrag dazu ein, den Ein... more Angesichts der populistischen Diskurse der jüngsten Zeit lädt folgender Beitrag dazu ein, den Einfluss bayerischer Institutionen und Individuen auf das Morgenland zu hinterfragen. Dabei dient Bayern als besonderer Ausgangspunkt: nicht zuletzt aufgrund seiner Erfahrungen mit der Willkür sozialer Grenzräume, die sein Territorium im Laufe der Geschichte in ein Diesseits und Jenseits teilten. Die Bavarisierung des Morgenlands versteht sich als kulturrelativierender Gegenentwurf zu den einseitigen Betrachtungen einer mittlerweile nicht geteilten aber weltumspannenden Geschichte.
In sight of Tokyo Olympic 2020 you may wonder what Games could be played as spectator to win Gold... more In sight of Tokyo Olympic 2020 you may wonder what Games could be played as spectator to win Gold. This fun paper guides you to some hillarious islands you can explore: some with your mind, some with your eyes and feet, others with your heart.
Xontext Industry Report, 2019
This guide gives an overview of the current landscape of electronic ressource planning, the chall... more This guide gives an overview of the current landscape of electronic ressource planning, the challenges with industrial automation under the term Industrie 4.0.
The beauty of a cup of tea, a falling cherry blossom and the death of tea master Sen-no-rikyû - t... more The beauty of a cup of tea, a falling cherry blossom and the death of tea master Sen-no-rikyû - this project explaines all these enigmas by scrutinizing the origins of Japanese tea culture in Zen Buddhism and the political and aethetic struggle of a time when Japan was about to get settled for the great Pax Tokugawa.
A paradigmatic shift from cumputer aided process to human aided automation invites to look back a... more A paradigmatic shift from cumputer aided process to human aided automation invites to look back at the history of human machine interaction. This paper deals with the changing relationship between human and machines, the communication tools and effects of this shift towards a fully automated world economy.
The treaty system and extraterritorial jurisprudence may indicate a forced opening of the island ... more The treaty system and extraterritorial jurisprudence may indicate a forced opening of the island kingdom. However the forces for this opening or in Japanese "kaikoku" didn't come from overseas but a domestic power struggle that has been often overlooked in his brief apogee of the Bakumatsu Era. This paper tries to relativize the view that a secluded island kingdom has been forced to open up to foreign dominance by outlining some pertinent details of the first days of Yokohama and the foreign exchanges of that time.
Xontext Industry Report, 2019
Geld als soziales Medium zur Dissipation von Energie täuscht seinem Verständnis nach über die Tat... more Geld als soziales Medium zur Dissipation von Energie täuscht seinem Verständnis nach über die Tatsache hinweg, dass Werte damit eher zerstört werden als geschaffen. So gesehen verweist das Wort Schöpfung folgerichtig auf die anzunehmende Erschöpfung eines geschlossenen Weltwirtschaftssystems.