.... While this close relationship to the U.S. affords Hmong an undeniable claim to refugee status and reinforces the logic of rescue and liberation,1 it is a narrative tied to illicit U.S. policies during the Cold War and one already mired in archival secrets. As such, secrets have structured 1. Secrecy...

...Introduction. Staking out Secrecy My trou ble is that I strug gle to forget or to forget entirely and those things that I cannot wipe from mind are what have produced A Call to Arms. lu xun Preface to Nahan (A Call to Arms), 1922 Public Secrecy and Its Discontents The afterlives of China s...

... the notion that aesthetic objects are key sites where public secrecy and our relation to it hap- pen. This is not any notion that repre sen ta tion is a smooth mirror for social phenomena, nor Oscar Wilde s claim that life imitates art far more than art imitates life (2007, 936). To put this more...

...Index Abu Ghraib, photo graphs of internees in, 81, 140 41 Adams, Ansel, xiii Adorno, Theodor, 151 Aicher, Otl, 59 Ai Weiwei, 32; photo- forms and, 243n18; secrecy, online celebrity and, 144 45; on self- censorship, 14 15; serialized works and, 222; Studies of Perspective series (Toushi yanjiu...

..., the author of anonymous letters are no less secretive than what they are in a position to disclose . . . the secret has a way of spreading that is in turn shrouded in secrecy. The secret as secretion. The secret must sneak, insert, or introduce itself into the arena of public forms; it must pressure them...

... to disclose. This brings things round to the other way in which Liu s book confounds obvious expectation. It may expressly call itself a private album, but it does so only to signal the fact that its real mission is, in fact, publicity and an end to the long state of privacy secrecy, even in which...

...× × × × × × Don t Look Now 1 Our concern with history . . . is a concern with pre- formed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered. w. g. sebald, Austerlitz, 2001 Ex- secrecy For many...

... an image as a color- inverted negative makes an elegant pretense at secrecy. Preface xv taboo, stating that these photographic negatives were taken 26 years ago, in 1989. To this we might add that most people who purchase Xu s book al- ready know exactly what it is about, and indeed, they have bought...

... geography and history. Specifically, it articulates Hmong presence beyond the frameworks of soldiering and secrecy composed by U.S. liberal imperialism. To be sure, the loss that the baggage signified was not the first indication of Hmong refugees and what they had lost in the war years, in the chaos...

.... Supervalent Thought. Accessed August 5, 2016. https supervalentthought . com / tag / secrecy / . Berman, Marshall. 1989. Can These Ruins Live? Parkett 20:42 55. Berry, Chris. 2004. Postsocialist Cinema in Post- Mao China: The Cultural Revolu- tion after the Cultural Revolution. New York: Routledge. Berry...