中村雄二郎の知

スチュワート研を作った時に当時平井研究室の助手だった篠野さんは我々の指導教官であった。よって私たちは英語ゼミと日本語ゼミを並行してこなしていた。スチュワート先生の本はCharles Moore のPlace of houses、次はKoolhaasのDelirious New York、篠野さん本はフロイトの芸術論、次は中村雄次郎の魔女ランダ考だった。中村の本は当時理解できなかったがその後でた『臨床の知とは何か』を読まねばと思って３０年経った。今日読んでみると臨床の知とはコスモロジー、シンボリズム、パフォーマンスだと。言い換えると固有性、多様性、身体性である。３０年経ってもその知はアカデミズムの中で確立されているとは言えない。と言うのはおそらく、普遍性も一義性も機械性もやはり重要だからだろうと思う。いかにそのバランスをとりながらその境界の知を確立できるのかが肝要なのだと思う。

Mr. Sasano, who was an assistant at Hirai Lab at the time when Stewart Lab was created, was our academic advisor. Therefore, we were doing English seminars and Japanese seminars in parallel. Mr. Stewart's book was Charles Moore's Place of houses, next was Koolhaas's Delirious New York, Mr. Sasano's book was Freud's Art theory, and next was Nakamura Yujiro's Witch Randa's thoughts. I couldn't understand Nakamura's book at that time, but it's been 30 years since I thought I should read "What is clinical knowledge?" When I read it today, clinical knowledge consists of cosmology, symbolism, and performance. In other words, it is uniqueness, 
diversity, and physicality. Even after 30 years, that knowledge cannot be said to have been 
established in academia. I think this is probably because universality, uniqueness, and 
mechanicalness are all important. I think it is important to be able to establish the knowledge of the boundary while balancing it.