ABSTRACT
Antonio Negri visited Japan for the first time in 2013, two years after the triple disaster, and wrote that the tragedy exposed the necessity of finding a new way to coexist with nature, stressing the need for a critical reappraisal of our civilisation. 1 Negri suggested that Japan’s powerful cultural traditions which manage to coexist with super-modernity have the potential to solve this conundrum. 2 The reality of the Anthropocene also confronts us with the dilemma of how to coexist with nature. In this book, I have pursued this Zen-like question of how this may be possible by exploring the new discourse of animism which has emerged in contemporary Japan.
