...Racial Palimpsest Part 1, “Racial Palimpsest,” diagnoses layered conjunctures in South Africa's twentieth century seen from the changing geographies of South Durban, where the Durban City Council imagined fulfilling its fantasy of building a white city. With very thin knowledge of ground...

... collective memory mobile screens neoliberal policy palimpsest Qianmen ...

... of predominantly Korean actors. Based on Kwak’s screenplay, the film conjoins and combines these many layers of style and sensibility into what the chapter calls affective palimpsests , which foreground the complex itinerancy of affective tropes that travel from one context to another, and function to build new...

... As in other quickly developing cities, a prevalent trope for gentrified Beijing is the palimpsest. It places the passing of time within a narrative of spatial transformation and the preservation of collective memory. I propose that although palimpsest seems to offer a location-specific...

...Urbanization As in other quickly developing cities, a prevalent trope for gentrified Beijing is the palimpsest. It places the passing of time within a narrative of spatial transformation and the preservation of collective memory. I propose that although palimpsest seems to offer a location...

... The conclusion, “Accumulating Remains, Rhythms of Expectation,” reads Edward Said's insight that “repetition cannot long escape the ironies it bears within it” with Stuart Hall's notion of conjunctural change as attentive to the emergence of “a different rhythm.” The palimpsestic argument...

... helps make sense of the disorienting and wicked ways that the words, vehicles and infrastructures, and aesthetic practices of visualizing and enunciating the forms of mobility named evacuation disguised them. The chapter explores evacuation as an almost palimpsestic layering of other practices of forced...

... Part 1, “Racial Palimpsest,” diagnoses layered conjunctures in South Africa's twentieth century seen from the changing geographies of South Durban, where the Durban City Council imagined fulfilling its fantasy of building a white city. With very thin knowledge of ground realities, it instead...

... into what the chapter calls affective palimpsests , which foreground the complex itinerancy of affective tropes that travel from one context to another, and function to build new transnational affectivities that are increasingly disarticulated from the national contexts from which they initially emerged...