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