Repletion: Masao Adachi’s Totality

This article considers film director Masao Adachi's contributions to the landscape theory known as _fukeiron_, developed by radical filmmakers in Japan in the 1960s. In this theory, landscape is the generalized phenomenality that appears in conditions of "ruling power"— but not mimetically as the power’s own figure, nor correlatively as its cause, spring, or effect. Rather it is that appearance in, through, on, and over which "ruling power" registers—a phenomenality that allows an abstract totality to be imagined. The article explores the resources of Adachi's notion of landscape for radical political theory.