Takeshi Morisato

黒人文化、思想、歴史、哲学に興味のある学生・研究者は必ず読むことをおすすめします。

以下、アフリカーナ哲学・黒人思想の観点からの専門的批評です↓

今後の黒人思想・文化研究の基盤になる一冊だとも思います。音楽史や映画史だけでなく、未邦訳の有名な著作もかなり多く紹介されていて、この辺から翻訳紹介していくだけでも日本における黒人文化研究は十分目覚ましい発展を遂げていくのではないでしょうか。

黒人文化を文献研究や西洋の古典的な歴史学や地政学などの観点からではなく口伝伝承・記憶の伝統（Mnemonic tradition)として捉えているのが素晴らしい。新書という限られたスペースで濃厚な即興性と日本の読者にとって親しみやすい創造性に富んだ入門書であると思います。

YouTube video by The Ikarus Inspired Podcast A Deep Dive into Africana Philosophy with Dr. Miron Clay-Gilmore

PPLS #philosophy graduate now a postdoctoral fellow @utoronto.ca Dr Miron Clay-Gilmore provides a deep exploration into Africana philosophy, race, and the politics of knowledge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fmE... (1/2)

A fantastic explanation of Africana Philosophy from the first Black student to earn a PhD from Edinburgh's Philosophy Department, Dr. Miron Clay-Gilmore.

Here I am explaining @EdinburghUni's "Race Review" and Africana philosophy research before diving into Du Bois' The World and Africa at the workshop @Meiji_Univ_PR.

Managed to meet family over the very short 3 day trip to Tokyo 🗼

Giving a talk on Du Bois’ “Man-Not” in “The World and Africa” (1947).
prezi.com/view/ljYMW...

Daryl Jamieson in action for exploring the "hollow expanse" (i.e., emptiness) at the First of the World Philosophies Lecture Series this academic year in Edinburgh.
@DarylJamieson @SchoolofPPLS

This is so good. I hate grapefruits in the UK grocery stores but now I look at them differently: youtube.com/shorts/O...

I am reading Herbert Aptheker's Introduction to 1976 version of "The World and Africa" (where he explains how the reception of the first edition was, how Du Bois tried to republish in 1953 & 55 but couldn't & how we ended up with the current 1965 version). archive.org/details/...

Yes!

an event organised by Inoue Enryō centre in Japan.

Harlem was very nice to me. Definitely the most favorite part of the NYC.

here is the link to today's slide: prezi.com/view/ZncRq...

Heading to day one of the conference!

A diner in Queens feels like any other diners anywhere in the States: & they always remind me of all the papers that I wrote for BA and MA in philosophy.

This week I am heading to talk about the relation of decolonial feminism and BMS in NYC: marnialazreg.work

I got to see the work of Alioune Diagne (@aliounediagne_officiel) at @mcndakar in Dakar. He turns old black&white images in colonial postcards into colourful paintings and the medium is none other than sugar. There is an amazing decolonial philosophy behind his art.

Models of Black Thought: Philosophy Department Annual Opening of the Semester Lecture 2025, by Michael Thomas. Sept 25 at 17:30–19:00. Please register at: secr.wijs-fgw <secr.wijs-fgw@uva.nl>. aihr.uva.nl/content/...

Call for papers
Colloquium “Decolonial activism: Challenges and
Perspectives”
University of Liege – 20-21 May 2026
www.irss.uliege.be/u...
Les abstracts de 500 mots sont attendus pour le 30 novembre 2025

a trailer for whats to come next week in NYC.

"A Buddhist Philosophy of Literature: Outlining Yogacara Buddhism with Miyazawa Kenji and Huey P. Newton," TARKA — Revista de Filosofia Intercultural 1 (2025): periodicos.ufca.edu....
My first Afro-Asian paper on Newton & kudos to @filosofia.alafi (@AlafiOficial).

Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction" was just translated into Spanish this April 2025 @tinta_limon: tintalimon.com.ar/li...

pre-ordering this now from @DukePress.

Book cover for An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design.

The presentation based on this chapter was really interesting. Didn’t know about the first emergency medical response team was formed by Black volunteers.

Black professor condemns ‘right-wing attacks’ on slavery research Tommy J Curry says critics of research on slavery links are repeating American talking points to ‘censor radical ideas in academe by ethnic minorities’

www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

One of the things that first drew me to Japan was its philosophy: growing out of myths, rituals and an awareness of impermanence, and worked into everyday life & art.

A short 🧵 for anyone new to this...

@takeshimorisato.bsky.social

How Can Japanese Philosophy Help Us To Live Well? An Interview with Takeshi Morisato

For more on how Japanese philosophy can help us live well, watch or listen to my conversation with @takeshimorisato.bsky.social.

👉 www.historywithchrisharding.com/p/how-can-ja...

I am shocked how geographically close west Africa is to Europe (compared to my usual flight pattern from Europe to Tokyo). 4 hrs and 40 minutes is nothing. We can’t even reach half way at airports in the Middle East…