Akira, Violence and Friendship

We discuss 1988 Anime masterpiece "Akira"

Some themes discussed:

Deleuze and Foucault's ideas of societies of discipline and societies of control

Hannah Arendt's approach to violence, and violence in leftist ideology

The rise and fall of capitalist Japan

Science as Pandora's box

Radical friendship

Catherine M. Valente's Radiance:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N03G440/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Hannah Arendt Reflections on Violence:

http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~alexroni/IPD%202019%20readings/IPD1%202019%20No.8/A%20Special%20Supplement_%20Reflections%20on%20Violence%20by%20Hannah%20Arendt%20_%20The%20New%20Yor.pdf