The Closing of the Country and the Architecture of Control You are standing on the deck of a Portuguese carrack anchored at Nagasaki in the

The Inheritance of Position You hand over your résumé at the front desk, and the woman scanning it pauses for half a second longer than

The Kamakura Settlement and the Birth of Warrior Rule A man kneels before another man in the mud outside Kamakura, and what passes between them

The Village Square and the Stranger's Face A man drops in the middle of a train platform at rush hour, and for exactly two or

The Body Before the Voice You are watching a man walk into a room, and before he opens his mouth, something in the atmosphere has

The Courtroom as Cultural Battlefield You are sitting in the dark in the summer of 1959, and a word has just been spoken from a

The Body as Site of Captivity You wake before the alarm, before the light, before any thought has had time to form — and already

The Respectable Origins of a Pharmaceutical Miracle You are handed a small glass bottle, embossed with a diamond-shaped logo, the label printed in the clean

The Manufactured Gaze and Its Willing Subjects You are sitting in the dark and something happens to your body before your mind catches up. The

The Weight of the Unheard Score You are sitting in the dark and something is happening to your chest. Not the images — the images

The Screen as a Moral Frontier You are sitting in a theater in 1931, and the woman on the screen is doing something you were