Associate Professor, Center for Future Humanity Research and Liberal Arts Research and Education, Institute for the Creation of Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology. visiting scholar at MIT (2019). He specializes in aesthetics and contemporary art. Originally aspiring to be a biologist, he switched to the humanities in his third year of college, and in 2010 he withdrew from the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology with credits in Aesthetics and Art, where he earned his Ph. D. in Literature in the same year. His major publications include "How Do the Blind See the World?" (Kobunsha), "Stammering Body" (Igaku Shoin), "Remembering Body" (Shunju-sha), and "Hand Ethics" (Kodansha). 2020), and the 42nd Suntory Academic Prize.