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Nami OHI
Doctor Course, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo

    Nami Ohi is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (GSIIS), the University of Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Toru Nishigaki. She studies literature from the systems theory perspective. She is especially interested in haiku and analyzes it by using fundamental informatics as a theoretical framework.

    Fundamental informatics examines the formation of meaning and communication on the basis of "information" and the "autopoietic system", rather than on the basis of language and the individual. To be more specific, it understands meaning, which is particular to each person, as "life information" that is based on bodily experiences and emerges outside of rational thought processes. It also understands mind, society, mass media and the Internet as hierarchically related "autopoietic systems", or as "hierarchical autonomous communication systems" (HACSes).

    One of haiku's important characteristics is that its condensed and concise form allows individuals to produce the meanings that involves more than individuals' rational inference or manipulation of language. Haiku's other important characteristic is that it has composed and interpreted in relation to haiku societies, associations and mass media. In addition, the Internet is being increasingly used for the dissemination of haiku. These characteristics make haiku a very suitable topic for fundamental informatics studies.

    Fundamental informatics makes it possible to illuminate irrational aspects of the creation and interpretation of haiku where meaning, which is particular to each person, emerges. Fundamental informatics also makes it possible to consider how haiku is composed and interpreted, under the influence of societies, associations, mass media and the Internet.

Theme of research: An analysis of literature using the systems theory approach; An analysis of Haiku from fundamental informatics perspective

Region of research: systems theory, fundamental informatics, empirical study of literature and media, Haiku

Academic background:
Graduated from School of letters, Arts and Sciences 1, Waseda University (2007.3) (Bachelor of letters, Arts and Sciences)
Graduated from master’s course of GSIIS, the university of Tokyo (2009.3) (master of Interdisciplinary Information Studies)

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Papers:
  • "Of "Inner Experience" by Georges Bataille : How Can It be Understood from a Viewpoint of Autopoiesis Theory" (2006). pdf (422 KB)
  • "An analysis of creation and interpretation of Haiku from fundamental informatics perspective", master’s thesis at GSIIS (2009. 1) (in Japanese) (a best theses of the year award)
  • "An Analysis of Haiku from Autopoietic Systems Theory Perspective", in Journal of Japan Information-Culturology Society, 16:1, 2009, 32-38. (written in Japanese with an abstract in English)
  • "How Haiku-Societies, Haiku-Associations, Mass media and the Internet Influence the Creation and Interpretation of Haiku: A Study from Fundamental Informatics Perspective", in Journal of Information and Media Studies, 8:1, 2009, 11-24. (written in Japanese with an abstract in English)
Presentations:
  • "An Analysis of "Inner Experience" by Georges Bataille from the Systems Theory and Semiotics Perspective", Workshop on Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot, at Meiji University, (2007.5). (in Japanese)
  • "Cognition as Communication: The Accursed Share by Georges Bataille as a contribution to the study of Fundamental Informatics", The New Trends of Socio-information in East Asia, Students’ workshop, at The University of Tokyo (2007. 11). pdf (57 KB)
  • "How can Information Technology Influence the Unconscious Mechanism of the Composition and Interpretation of Haiku; an Analysis from Fundamental Informatics Perspective", Conference of Japan Information-Culturology Society, at The University of Tokyo (2008.10). (in Japanese)
  • "An Analysis of the Composition and Interpretation of Haiku in Communities from the Fundamental Informatics Perspective", Conference of Japanese Society of Information and Media Studies, at Doshisha University (2008.11). (in Japanese)
  • "An Analysis of Haiku from the Informatics Perspective, Based on the Conce pt of Autopoiesis”, ReGIS=STI-IE Joint-Workshop for Intercultural Informati on Ethics in Asia, at the University of Tsukuba (2009. 10).
Ohi is a member of:
  • Japanese Society of Information and Media Studies (JSIMS) (2008-)
  • Japan Information-Culturology Society (JICS) (2008-)
  • Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft (2009-)
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