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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 25–69.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Weihong Bao This essay explores a critical dialogue between methods and conceptions of cultural techniques—the second wave of media archaeology—and a case in contemporary Chinese documentary. I examine filmmaker Mao Chenyu, who is also an organic farmer, a critical thinker and writer, and a film...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 151–165.
Published: 01 August 2010
... works with works from more recent postcolonial nations. Imperial eclecticism names the technique by which writers in a new national culture freely manipulate the materials of the larger “world” cultural heritage as a resource for innovation, as Melville does with Shakespeare and Ellison does with Dante...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 5–23.
Published: 01 February 2022
.... Displacing debates over media theory to the landscape of a Chinese context, she argues that contemporary practices in independent Chinese documentary can provide a new—and differently grounded—impetus for what Bernhard Siegert called “cultural techniques.” Exploring the work of filmmaker, critic, artist...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 175–194.
Published: 01 May 2003
... seems clear, certain possibili-
ties of culture are achievable only through the presence of industrial
techniques.
It is not industrial progress per se which damages peoples or cul-
tures; it is the exploitation of peoples in order to keep the machines...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 263–292.
Published: 01 February 2022
... and CGI blockbusters remediate premodern cultural narratives but also provides an analytical measure for approaching the growing phenomenon of motion capture and composited performances. The “virtual realism” of CGI frees Chinese filmmakers to reject the ontological realism of photography and instead...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 147–182.
Published: 01 May 2013
... patterns of ties through which resources,
ideas, and even social roles are thought to flow and acquire symbolic value.
We now describe some of these strategies and techniques as they inter-
sect with sociological approaches to the study of culture and with our own
proposed methodology...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 5–18.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of sensibility that led to a proletarianization of the amateur so that the latter, having lost his or her knowledges, became a cultural consumer . These questions confront us today in a time in which a second machinic turn of sensibility is taking place. This second turn is made possible by digital technologies...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 87–108.
Published: 01 May 2002
... and
its cultural effects, particularly its promise, to the visionary thinker, of be-
coming divine, in the form of symbolic immortality. That Professor O’Hara
finally understands what he has been doing, however, is not necessarily of
interest even to a small public.
My newfound self-understanding...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 59–75.
Published: 01 February 2024
... copy books would be affected” (Baron 2018b ). One might hear in this critic's anxiogenic response at least one implication of gender as constitutive to a distinctively American grammar, offering evidence as to how grammar is also a set of hegemonic social and cultural techniques shaping and shaped...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 163–183.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and the “nature” of language. The Chinese traditional Zen-Taoist philosophy is an important part of Bernstein's echopoetics. 6. Bernstein's criticism and dissatisfaction with the official verse culture in the United States mainly stems from the fact that it maintains the old and stiff poetics, which imprisons...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 171–194.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to. However, I find some positions taken in translingual scholarship to be less than praiseworthy. For example, Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook ( 2006 : 1–41) argue that languages are “inventions of social, cultural and political movements” that “do not exist as real entities in the world,” even though...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 53–79.
Published: 01 May 2013
... at the world’s western
edge? Will Sir Thomas be called to account by the gorgon spirit of Africa
rising caustic from the drink?
35. For more on the globalizing narrative techniques of the verse epic, see my “The
Grassy Green Sea,” in Early Modern Culture, no. 5 (October 2005), emc.eserver.org/1-5...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 125–147.
Published: 01 February 2017
... the twentieth century by
the compressive power of the culture industries and marketing techniques.
A return to a mode of life more attentive to philia would require a
cultivation of the “noetic organs.” “Most of the time we are only potentially
noetic, and actually sensitive,” Stiegler observes...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 47–64.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., for one’s own fears of,
and retreats from, reality 16 But the techniques which enabled that func-
tion—the wearing of the mask, the creative (mis)use of black folk culture that
derived from the necessarily antifoundational relationship to the material,
the central figure of the trickster—were fundamental...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 99–111.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Derrida’s discursive style. But I got a sense of how founda-
tional—and indeed devastating—the critique of my reading technique was
meant to be. “Reading” as a cultural practice, “Reading” as such, I learned,
had an aura at American universities and in American society at large to
which I was simply...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 191–212.
Published: 01 February 2017
... is to be found in the unconscious, which comes into existence through the reorganization of the plastic brain by cultural systems of tool use. Our aesthetic preferences are not simply biologically hardwired but stem from our unconscious inheritance of the culturally transmitted and artificially selected codes...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (1): 79–113.
Published: 01 February 2007
... of Culture, ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1988), 272. Hereafter, this work is cited parenthetically as CSS. A revised version
of the essay can be found in Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History
of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2019) 46 (4): 181–217.
Published: 01 November 2019
... vivent difficilement de la culture à technique primitive d un petit lopin de terre, objet pourtant de l envie de ceux qui n ont pu bénéficier du partage. Ceux- ci sont devenus des miséreux, dont le lien sociologique avec la per- sonnalité collective tribale se relâche de jour en jour et qui cherchent...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (3): 163–199.
Published: 01 August 2006
... torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are abso-
lute, non-discretionary and subject to no exception 8 Further, ACLU/HRF
presumes that Rumsfeld’s defense in this case will hinge ‘‘on the grounds
that such techniques [of torture] were deployed against carefully selected
individuals who...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 133–163.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of the translator-filmmaker emphasizes the agency of the translator. Both films are neither adaptations nor translations, but they appropriate elements of Sebald to trace the effects of his techniques. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may...
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