SAKIHAMA Sana is a Project Assistant Professor of East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, Institute for Advanced Asian Studies, The University of Tokyo. She is researching the intellectual history of modern and contemporary Okinawa with an interest in how the dynamics of capitalism has transformed and influenced Okinawan society. She is interested in imperialism/colonialism as a concrete manifestation of capitalism and its cultural effects (here “culture” means an expression of the totality of politics, economy, and society). Her current research aims a theoretical and philosophical exploration of how political “subjects” can be formed.