...Hyun Ok Park Duke University Press 2005 Repetition, Comparability, and Indeterminable Nation: Korean Migrants in the 1920s and 1990s Hyun Ok Park This essay concerns the national mediation of capitalist expansion...

...-destructive or “archiviolithic” impulse. In Derrida's model, this negativity is the consequence of repetition, which is the archive's raison d'être, and which is linked in turn to the Freudian death drive. This essay explores a poetics of archival destruction in a range of texts. Concentrating specifically...

... politicotemporal imaginaries: a stagnant time of political repetition—associated here with a Weberian rationalization and disenchantment of the world—and an anarchic time of disorienting economic growth—the volatile temporality of capitalist creative destruction, here captured by Paul Valéry's notion...

... conditions and neoliberal market ideology from which it seeks critical distance, and reflects on its seemingly diminishing authority. In this context replication—syntactical repetition, rhythm, rhyme, quotation, and ready-made stanzaic forms—works as a means of acknowledging poetry’s enmeshment...

..., halting rhythms, repetitions, asides, and idiosyncratic quotes. As in the Orphic tradition, the professor becomes what he's professing: Brown teaches us to sing a love song according to the Muses, finding the meaning in the singing and in the etymology of the names of the divine sisters. Brown's nearly...

..., northeastern Japan lagged behind much of the country in development well into the postwar period. The state’s decision to construct American-designed­ nuclear reac- tors in Fukushima in the 1960s must therefore be seen as a gesture to off- set the deficit of historical repetition and to stimulate...

...’’ Because repetition is frequently a key signature employed by authors to signal what they believe is most important, it is a common practice to give some attention to the repetitions that make an appearance in an author’s boundary 2 27:3, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press. 200...

... is not historical knowledge: it is the future society made perceptible in the present. Here, Attali takes the eruption of “new noise” (20) within the postwar social structure (the regime of “repetition,” in his terms) to herald the “freedom” of “a new political and cultural order” (19)—an emergent order made from...

... atmosphere, the same horrible repetition, and the music, almost the same music, or so it seems in my memory at least. There is a strong feel- ing of déjà vu about that music, if it is possible to say that about music. How does La Jetée return to Vertigo? What is the relation between the return...

... in grammatological standardization and that operate as a repetition compulsion—Stiegler will be led to embed the triple-­stranded individua- tion complex in a larger complex rooted in biological individuation. Such an embedding comprises the core of Stiegler’s recuperation of the Freudian thematic...

..., depending on our ‘‘picture-taking’’ needs. Some nights, when we stop at a hotel, Great Mongol sings. He goes to karaoke bars (repetition boxes, in Cantonese), where he performs pop songs: ‘‘New York, New York’’ à la Frank Sinatra...

... unchanging spatialscape where time is rooted in a primor- dial and infinite repetitiveness. But even here, we can see the shadow of the time lag and the curious way that the present, a temporal category, conjures up the past. Anderson’s Haunt The status of a muscular modular metonym...

..., and then eventually reconfirmed in the estranged experience of the nuclear plant crisis. One can think of the quotidianism of contempo- rary poetry as a symptom of a larger phenomenon. Even if one’s every- dayness may be perceived as quantitatively repetitive, its quality is pre- cisely the contrary...

... force against it Thus critique must confront not merely Heidegger’s own ‘‘thought movements’’ but all the philosophical concepts and systems that precede and surround Heidegger. ‘‘The thought movement that con- gealed in them Adorno explains, ‘‘must be reliquified, its validity traced, in repetition...

... the artist, a distinguished dis-agent­ of transindividuation. It is the judgment of the one who judges through a frequenting of works, who stays near (séjourne) works, who returns to them, who lingers there, as Kant says regarding the beautiful, who awaits something of a reiteration and a repetition...

... tradition of a robust and nonnostalgic “retrieval” of possibilities that have been seemingly foreclosed and rendered obsolete by regimes of domi- nant and hegemonic thought. Retrieval and repetition are pivotal terms in Spanos’s critical lexicon. Throughout his career, Spanos has taken great care...

... the present to the past’’ (The Mind of the South [New York: Knopf, 1961], li). For a historical writing about these very concerns, see C. Vann Woodward, The Burden of Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960). 6. James Snead, ‘‘Repetition as a Figure of Black Culture...

..., and dematerialization. Butler’s original formulation is fundamentally constructivist. Gender results from the repeated exercise of social rituals linked to various appara- tuses. Through repetition, heteronormativity appears natural and materially grounded. She finds the possibility for the subversion...

..., the structure of repetition inherent in writing. In emphasizing the constitution of a national political community in repeated performances of reading, writing, publishing, and distributing publications, Lenin and Nâz m not only anticipated the media theories of the newspaper made famous by Marshall McLuhan...

... such as unexpected repetition as much as in the blank solidity of natu- ral landscape, that disrupts and ironizes the still pervasive interpretation of Wordsworth as pseudopantheist, even in a critical moment when such interpretations are increasingly likely to come packaged in the terms of ecocriticism. Put...