TAKEMURA JUKU

We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for “Takeura Juku NEXT,” produced by Editorial Engineering Laboratory and led by Director Takemura.

Editorial Engineering Laboratory (Headquarters: Setagaya-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Akiko Ando) will launch “Takeura Juku NEXT,” a five-part lecture series featuring media aesthetician Mitsuhiro Takemura as the instructor, beginning in June 2026.

In this lecture series, we will analyze the structure of modern society—where digital technologies such as AI and social media are deeply entrenched—starting from the perspective of the “New Middle Ages” proposed by Italian semiotician Umberto Eco, known for novels such as *The Name of the Rose* and *Foucault’s Pendulum*.

At a time when the foundations of social consensus are being shaken by changes in the information environment and “certainty” is being lost, we will reexamine the relationship between technology, society, and culture from a cross-disciplinary historical perspective to present a conceptual framework for envisioning the future.

By contrasting the Middle Ages with the modern era—keywords for reinterpreting the present—we will bring to light the underlying layers of our digital technology-driven society.

・The Medieval World and AI Systems
・Theology and Algorithms
・Monasteries and Platforms
・Scholastic Debates and Online Discourse
・Manuscripts and Databases
・Heresy and Misinformation
・Witches and Cancel Culture
・Light and Immersion
・The Fragmentation of Authority
・Alchemy and Cryptocurrency
・The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Pedophilia
・Public Executions and Online Backlash
・Pilgrimages and Fandom
・Gossip and Podcasts
・The New Middle Ages and Games
・Libraries and Google Books

Through these contrasts, we will explore the “shift in perception” brought about by the modern technological environment from multiple angles.

Please refer to the website below for details regarding this program and application information. Additionally, this program offers a special tuition rate for past participants of the Takeura Juku. We would be delighted if you could invite your friends and colleagues to join us and consider participating.

[Information (Editorial Engineering Laboratory Website)]
https://www.eel.co.jp/topics/press_release/7182

[Registration Site]
https://shop.eel.co.jp/products/eel_takemura01

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＜DAY1＞13 Dec. WED ＜DAY2＞14 Dec. THU ＜DAY3＞15 Dec. FRI ●19:00-22:30

10th Anniversary takemura-juku 2023 × DOMMUNE
Methodology of Playing with Fiction and Reality – How Can Reality Be Edited?

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Takemura-juku, which started in 2013. Over the past 10 years we, together with a total of over 3,000 participants, have considered how technology can be used to address current and future challenges: Transmedia, Artificial Intelligence, Crypto-anarchy, the Broken Internet, Hippie Capitalism, Privacy, the Autonomous Revolution, Digital Nomad, and more, we have always reported and discussed technology and cultural foresight.
Looking back over the past 10 years of Takemura-juku, three special guests will join us for the 10th anniversary Takemura-juku, “The Methodology of Playing with Fiction and Reality: How Can Reality Be Edited? This is the overall theme of the 10th anniversary Takemura-juku, which will consider the editability of reality in today’s society of playing with fiction and reality , based on Japanese culture, which has found possibilities in the middle of fiction and reality, while at the same time realizing the reality in the fiction.
It will be held for three consecutive days starting on December 13, and will be a collaboration with DOMMUNE as in the previous year. The first session will feature hypermedia creator Tsuyoshi Takashiro, the second session will feature Seigo Matsuoka, founder of the Editorial Engineering Laboratory CO., Ltd, and the third session will feature media artist Yoichi Ochiai as main guests, with DOMMUNE representative Naohiro Ukawa and young creators and editors also participating in each session.
The future of media and content, the rapid assault of technology such as AI, and the renaissance of the 21st century are just a few of the diverse topics to be discussed. This will be a valuable time to discuss the necessity of delaying technology as seen through media aesthetics, as well as the possibilities of “editing” the society of playing with fiction and reality.
Each session will start at 19:00, and those who watch live at SUPER DOMMUNE Studio (Shibuya PARCO 9F, limited to 33 people) will also be able to attend a reception held in the studio after the talk program! In addition, online viewing will be unlimited. All videos will be available for viewing for two weeks (there will be no video feed of the reception). Below is a summary of the overall and individual themes and programs, and we hope you will join us for Takemura-juku’s memorable 10th anniversary.

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DAY1 13 Dec. WED 19:00-22:30
19:00-21:30 10th Anniversary Takemura-juku 2023 ✕ DOMMUNE “Methodology of Playing with Fiction and Reality” – How Can Reality Be Edited?
“Journey of Hyperreality” – Creating World Experiences｜SPECIAL GUEST: Tsuyoshi Takashiro
21:30-22:30 10TH Anniversary of Takemura-juku “ECCO Social Gathering NIGHT – Chapter 1” (no video streaming)

PRINCIPAL: Mitsuhiro Takemura
SPECIAL GUEST: Tsuyoshi Takashiro (Hyper Media Creator)
ACTIVATOR: Arina Tsukada (Editor, Curator)
MODERATOR: Naohiro Ukawa (Artist of “now”)

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DAY2 14 Dec. THU 19:00-22:30
19:00-21:30 10th Anniversary Takemura-juku 2023 ✕ DOMMUNE “Methodology of Playing with Fiction and Reality” – How Can Reality Be Edited?
AIDA: Between the World of Pseudo-Models (MODOKI) and us｜SPECIAL GUEST: Seigo Matsuoka
21:30-22:30 10TH Anniversary of Takemura-juku “ECCO Social Gathering NIGHT – Chapter 2” (no video streaming)

PRINCIPAL: Mitsuhiro Takemura
SPECIAL GUEST: Seigo Matsuoka (Editorial Engineer, Director of the Editorial Engineering Laboratory CO., Ltd, Principal of Isis Editing School)
ACTIVATOR: Yuta Hanai (Editor in Chief, Tattva), Rie Noguchi (Editor in Chief, Publisher, USO)
MODERATOR: Naohiro Ukawa (Artist of the “present”)

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DAY3 15 Dec. FRI 19:00-22:30
19:00-21:30 10th Anniversary Takemura-juku 2023 ✕ DOMMUNE “Methodology of Playing with Fiction and Reality” – How Can Reality Be Edited?
Conviviality in Media and Art｜SPECIAL GUEST: Yoichi Ochiai
21:30-22:30 10TH Anniversary of Takemura-juku “ECCO Social Gathering NIGHT – Chapter 3” (no video streaming)

PRINCIPAL: Mitsuhiro Takemura
SPECIAL GUEST: Yoichi Ochiai (Media Artist)
ACTIVATOR: Shiori Watanabe (Artist)
MODERATOR: Naohiro Ukawa (Artist of the “now”)

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10TH Anniversary of Takemura-juku x DOMMUNE
MITSUHIRO TAKEMURA’S “ECCO Social Gathering NIGHT” (no video streaming)
●13 Dec. “ECCO NIGHT 2023 – Chapter1” MITSUHIRO TAKEMURA & GUESTS
●14 Dec. “ECCO NIGHT 2023 – Chapter2” MITSUHIRO TAKEMURA & GUESTS
●15 Dec. “ECCO NIGHT 2023 – Chapter3” MITSUHIRO TAKEMURA & GUESTS
[Studio viewers will be able to attend the reception held in the studio after the talk program.]

This is a short notice to inform you that Takemura-juku 2022 x DOMMUNE will be held on three consecutive nights from Monday, Dec. 5 to Wednesday, Dev. 7. What kind of “reality” are we living now? Based on the “dispersed dropout from legacy reality,” which was the focus of the main theme “DIGITAL EXODUS” of last year’s Takemura-juku, over the three days we will weave a dialogue on such themes as “The Medievalizing Modern Age,” “The Massive Flattening of the World / The Cultural Horizon Where the Past and Future Become ‘Now’”.

The event will be streamed for a fee (only the first 30 minutes will be free of charge), and a limited number of 50 studio viewers are invited to the DOMMUNE site.

《Tikets》
Paid video streaming: 2,000 yen each day
Limited studio viewing for 30 people: 3,000 yen each day
3-Day Passport Ticket for video streaming: 5,000 yen
3-day studio viewing passport ticket for 20 people: 7,000 yen
All prices include archive viewing rights for 2 weeks (+α / until 12/22).

＜DAY1＞ https://takemurajukudommune1.peatix.com/
＜DAY2＞ https://takemurajukudommune22.peatix.com/
＜DAY3＞ https://takemurajukudommune3.peatix.com/
＜DAY1〜3 PASSPORT＞ https://takemurajukudommunepass.peatix.com/

DOMMUNE https://www.dommune.com/streamings/2022/120501/

We look forward to your participation.

We are already living in a new paradigm. The old rules no longer apply. Globalism has been replaced by three spheres. The East, the West, and the digital sphere. These three spheres are not limited to any particular country or region. Some people believe that Japan belongs to the Western sphere and is a unique civilization. However, each sphere has been based on different “civilizing” technologies by nature.

East: ideograms/ hieroglyphs ideo/pictographs
West: the alphabet
Digital binary code (binary code)

These three spheres are incapable of interacting with each other at the most basic level. The conflicts and tensions surrounding this three-body problem are a world metaphorically described by Chinese science fiction writer Cixin Liu, where the path to equilibrium and dialogue is very limited.

At the same time, politics and economics are changing dramatically, and there will be no return to “normal. Robots are rapidly replacing human workers, and AI is rapidly evolving.

Institutions in which trust has been severely eroded are dysfunctional, and we need to understand the digital paradigm, which is very different from the dominance of television since the late 20th century. In the context of the digital paradigm, institutions are transformed, reformed, and changed. As Dorothy once said in The Wizard of Oz, “I don’t believe we’re in Kansas anymore” – “We’re not in Kansas anymore. We’re not in Kansas anymore”.

In the final installment of the #exodus series, I’ll be speaking with Mark Stahlman, director of the Center for the Study of Digital Life, who has been predicting the future of digital society since the dawn of the Internet, and who continues to point out the inherent influence of Marshall McLuhan and Norbert Winner. Mark Stahlman, who has foreseen the future of digital society since the dawn of the Internet and has pointed out the inherent influence of Marshall McLuhan and Norbert Winner, will be our special guest.

What is the digital exodus from the massive phenomenon of the digital nomad, the distributed dropout that pervades the creator economy? Is the digital society going to be conquered by transhumanism? Can existing states and governments be reconstructed on a human scale to withstand the digital age? With a new perspective on the world as a three-body problem, and with an eye on the governance of the future we choose, we will look at the essential issues facing digital society.

https://takemurajuku211201.peatix.com/?fbclid=IwAR0O_VM9LJWXxQoXxibr4qNgVhq7AhTl3GUGFAnwmmmFOOWUUEvZlLNFvPU

The Creator Economy is a $104.2 billion economy built by 50 million independent creators worldwide, from bloggers to influencers, YouTubers to writers, who monetize their characters, skills, or content. This means an economy of scale. This is expected to grow to several trillion dollars in the future. What supports the growing creator economy is an ecosystem that allows people to monetize their content more directly.
In addition to the creator economy, blockchain, cryptocurrency, the green revolution, remote work, micro-schools, NFTs (non-fungible tokens), and the metaverse are all currently in the spotlight. What do they all have in common? They all have one thing in common: they all involve people disengaging from the existing “legacy systems,” or institutions that have been in place for a long time. The decentralized dropout from the monetary system, big banks, mass media, industrial education, and the 9 to 5 rat race is indicative of a movement of economic individualism in which people are trying to reclaim their own sovereignty.
The new focus of the creator economy is that exodus from existing institutions is accompanied by a growing number of tools and connections, including blockchain-based trust systems, next-generation social networking platforms, co-working spaces, and online communities This is what I mean.With accelerating investment in new platforms and tools to support creators’ individual economic activities, is the Creator Economy a passing trend or a revolution in economic individualism? We will consider this question with guests from Romania, Berlin and Tokyo.

https://takemurajuku211110.peatix.com/

During the course of the corona pandemic, many people realized that they could actually be working anywhere in the world. At the same time, misguided policy decisions led to a decline in public trust in governments and institutions. And decentralized technology is enabling a whole new form of human cooperation. What does this mean for the creation of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) and cyber states, which are being touted as the next revolution after social media, and the rise of digital nomads who are driving them? The keynote speech by digital nomad strategist Lauren Razavi will be followed by a discussion with other guests.
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Organizer: takemura-juku 2021 Secretariat
Sponsor: Parsol Career Co.
Production cooperation: Blkswn Publishers Inc.
For details, please refer to the special website: https://exodus.takemura-juku.space/

https://takemurajuku20211013.peatix.com/

“THE NEW CONTEXT CONFERENCE” is a conference to discuss “new context” for a sustainable society, and has been attended by many industry celebrities, startup founders, and researchers. This time, it will be a hybrid event with talks by speakers that are livestreamed to an online audience.
The theme of this year, which is the 21st time since the first conference in 2005, is “Earthshot” Whole Earth 2021 @Tokyo ~ Half Century Since Whole Earth Catalog: Shaping the Future with Technology ~.
Our goal is to bring together individuals, who are at the forefront of social and environmental issues, to discuss topics such as the balance of energy and technology, environment and economy, digital government, and impact investment. We are honored to have Stewart Brand as a keynote speaker, who is the founder of the legendary book the Whole Earth Catalog, which is the philosophical foundation of the Internet revolution.
Session 1
Whole Earth Catalog and Art, Culture and ESG
In this session, we will consider the roots of the Silicon Valley counterculture and the current ESG in the context of art and creativity.
Mitsuhiro Takemura, Nick Philip, TBD

https://ncc.garage.co.jp/en/

part1: Facilitator
“Homo Digitalis: The future of works and office – automation and decentralization” Mitsuhiro Takemura

part 2: Dialogue
Naoki Ito, Michiaki Matsushima, Mitsuhiro Takemura, Tetsuya Mizuguchi & Koji Takahashi

https://takemurajuku201128.peatix.com/

part1: Facilitator
“Phantom time and Deepfake” Mitsuhiro Takemura

part 2: Dialogue
Michiaki Matsushima, Dominique Chen, Mitsuhiro Takemura, Tetsuya Mizuguchi & Koji Takahashi

https://takemurajuku201031.peatix.com/

part1: Facilitator
“Ecosystem for emergence – Startup as pollinator” Mitsuhiro Takemura

part 2: Dialogue “Biophilic design and greentech”
Ryotaro Bordini Chikushi, Chiaki Hayashi, KAIRI, Mitsuhiro Takemura, Tetsuya Mizuguchi & Koji Takahashi

https://peatix.com/event/1599095