Tokyo Metropolitan University (首都大学東京, Shuto Daigaku Tōkyō?) is a public university in Japan. It is often referred to as TMU. Tokyo Metropolitan University ranks 237th in the Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2011-2012 which was released on October 6, 2011. In 2011, the university was ranked 32nd in Japan.
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“Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald’s food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and “retro” clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.”
—Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)