著者

Yasuoka Koichi Yasuoka Motoko

出版者

Institute for Research in Humanities Kyoto University

雑誌

ZINBUN (ISSN:00845515)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.42, pp.161-174, 2011-03

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QWERTY keyboard is widely used for information processing nowadays in Japan, United States, and other countries. And the most frequently asked question about the keyboard is: “Why are the letters of the keyboard arranged the way they are?” Several papers in the field of information processing answer the question like this: “To slow down the operator.” It’s nonsense. In this paper we reveal the prehistory of QWERTY keyboard along the history of telegraph apparatus: Morse, Hughes-Phelps, and Teletype. The early keyboard of Type-Writer was derived from Hughes-Phelps Printing Telegraph, and it was developed for Morse receivers. The keyboard arrangement very often changed during the development, and accidentally grew into QWERTY among the different requirements. QWERTY was adopted by Teletype in the 1910’s, and Teletype was widely used as a computer terminal later.

著者

Bosteels Bruno

出版者

Institute for Research in Humanities Kyoto University

雑誌

ZINBUN (ISSN:00845515)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, pp.21-39, 2016-03

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International Symposium "Provided that this lasts…": Politics, Subject, and Contemporary Philosophy (January 12th, 2015)

著者

Oyagi Go

出版者

Institute for Research in Humanities Kyoto University

雑誌

ZINBUN (ISSN:00845515)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.45, pp.109-129, 2015-03

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This paper discusses the way in which Japanese immigrants negotiated the ferocious terrainof racial politics in the early twentieth century in the United States by examining their reactions to theAlien Land Law of 1920. Proposed as an initiative measure in California, the law was designed to closethe loopholes in the 1913 California Alien Land Law, which prohibited “aliens ineligible to citizenship”and the companies whose majority stock was held by them from purchasing agricultural land, or leasingsuch land for more than three years. The wording notwithstanding, the Alien Land Laws targetedthe Japanese immigrants in the state. This paper begins by analyzing how and why the anti-Japanesemovement reemerged in March 1920 when the California Oriental Exclusion League, the bipartisanumbrella organization of the movement, proposed the Alien Land Law of 1920 as an initiative measure.After interrogating the discourse of the anti-Japanese advocates, this paper investigates how theJapanese immigrant community reacted to the initiative measure that would not only damage theirsocio-economic life but also possibly pave the way to Japanese exclusion. Shedding light on the rolesplayed by the Japanese government, this paper fully explores the thoughts and actions of the Japaneseimmigrants against the initiative measure.

著者

Sato Junji

出版者

Institute for Research in Humanities Kyoto University

雑誌

ZINBUN (ISSN:00845515)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, pp.59-73, 2016-03

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Workshop: What "we" owe to Étienne Balibar's reading--Individuality and Community, from Rousseau to Blanchot (January 17th, 2015)Journée d'études : Ce que « nous » devons à la lecture d'Étienne Balibar--Individualité et Communauté, de Rousseau à Blanchot (le 17 janvier 2015)Les textes que nous avons analysés apportent une contribution à la solution d'une série de problèmes que posent différentes figurations du corps politique, notion clef pour les théories politiques occidentales depuis Hobbes jusqu'à Rousseau : quelle est la différence spécifique entre les figures du corps qui apparaissent chez Diderot (Le rêve de d'Alembert) et chez Rousseau (Discours sur l'économie politique) ? ; quelle est la signification de la figure exceptionnelle d'Otanés qu'évoque brièvement une note de la Dédicace du Discours sur l'inégalité de J.-J. Rousseau ? ; comment interpréter le statut d'exception au sein de la théorie politique rousseauiste ? En suivant É. Terray qui jette un jour nouveau sur l'aspect médical de l'isonomie politique ( l'absence totale de rapports dominant-dominé ) chez les Grecs, nous interprétons les textes de Diderot et de Rousseau comme autant de tentatives pour constituer une médication politique ; mais, en même temps, le cas Otanés révèle une originalité des textes rousseauistes dont l'objectif est, on le sait bien, d'administrer des remèdes pour le mal de société de son temps, tout en mettant explicitement en cause le statut de médecin ou de guérisseur. Nous dirions volontiers que, chez Rousseau, le guérisseur social se constitue en tant que tel à travers sa propre souffrance : il se constitue, selon l'expression heureuse de J. Starobinski, comme « guérisseur souffrant ». À la lumière de ces interprétations, nous pouvons nous rendre compte de la route périlleuse qu'a suivie Jean-Jacques Rousseau pour atteindre son but : l'auto-qualification de son statut de thérapeute exceptionnel du corps politique.

著者

Oyagi Go

出版者

Institute for Research in Humanities Kyoto University

雑誌

ZINBUN (ISSN:00845515)

巻号頁・発行日

no.45, pp.109-129, 2015-03

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This paper discusses the way in which Japanese immigrants negotiated the ferocious terrainof racial politics in the early twentieth century in the United States by examining their reactions to theAlien Land Law of 1920. Proposed as an initiative measure in California, the law was designed to closethe loopholes in the 1913 California Alien Land Law, which prohibited "aliens ineligible to citizenship"and the companies whose majority stock was held by them from purchasing agricultural land, or leasingsuch land for more than three years. The wording notwithstanding, the Alien Land Laws targetedthe Japanese immigrants in the state. This paper begins by analyzing how and why the anti-Japanesemovement reemerged in March 1920 when the California Oriental Exclusion League, the bipartisanumbrella organization of the movement, proposed the Alien Land Law of 1920 as an initiative measure.After interrogating the discourse of the anti-Japanese advocates, this paper investigates how theJapanese immigrant community reacted to the initiative measure that would not only damage theirsocio-economic life but also possibly pave the way to Japanese exclusion. Shedding light on the rolesplayed by the Japanese government, this paper fully explores the thoughts and actions of the Japaneseimmigrants against the initiative measure.