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positions (2019) 27 (2): 361–396.
Published: 01 May 2019
... consciousness, raising a number of aesthetic, thematic, and ethical issues (e.g., flatness, cinematic truth [ vérité ], “non-Aristotelian” dramaturgy [Brecht]). Among the numerous issues Kawase’s introspective style raises, the author focuses on its nonsubjective grammar and its (latent) critique of the liberal...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 725–754.
Published: 01 August 2013
... for the emergence of material history. While Benjamin saw incredible theoretical potential, if not structural affinities, between the work of Bertolt Brecht and his own, their ideas on shock differed. Benjamin pursued the cessation of events as a way...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 491–495.
Published: 01 August 2013
... Brecht’s politicized hinge between memesis and nonmimetic political engagement — might help to reconsider what is at stake politically in the shamanic performance. And he launches his own systematic line of criticism. A permeable membrane exists...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1127–1157.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Brecht and Vladimir Mayakovsky, or the very public flirtations with calcu- lated scandal of Alfred Jarry and the Dadaists. Yet, this is how the (death myth of the avant-­garde still goes. Theoretical inconsistencies notwithstand- ing, we cannot let...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., identified in Benjamin’s major cata- log of reading material under a transliteration of its Chinese title, Huilán ji (see GS, 7:439; Li 1876). (This is the source of Berthold Brecht’s similarly named story and play.) In the early 1920s, Benjamin read...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., Kräuterpfarrer in Zizers bei Chur (Schweiz) (Herbs and Weeds. Practical booklet of medicinal herbs by Joh. Künzle, herbs priest in Zizers near Chur). Feldkirch, Austria: Fr. Unterberger. Müller, Inez. Walter Benjamin und Berthold Brecht: Ansätze zu einer...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 401–422.
Published: 01 May 2001
... provid- ing models for potential hackers and cable activists in the audience. Like the works of Bertolt Brecht and Godard, it offers hope of seizing the means of communication by reflecting on its own production and providing an image...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 February 2018
... ∣∣ The Emancipation of Color 33 Lunn, Eugene. 1982. Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benja- min, and Adorno. Berkeley: University of California Press...
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positions (1993) 1 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 February 1993
... own. It is the same quality that Leung admires in Brecht (hardly an exam- ple of noncommitment), whom he describes as someone who is very care- ful not to turn life into a doctrine, not even a heretical doctrine: You were...
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 707–721.
Published: 01 August 2011
... to paraphrase Bertolt Brecht’s quip, “What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a new bank?” What are the violent outbursts of a Red Guard caught in the Cultural Revo- lution compared to the true Cultural Revolution, the permanent...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 29–50.
Published: 01 February 2017
..., Bertolt Brecht, the work of direc- Figure 30  Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota studies a tors like Miklós Jancsó and painting together with the painter Nainsukh Attributed Sergei Eisenstein...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 111–150.
Published: 01 February 2018
...: Searching for Modernity in Vietnam’s South. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Taylor, Roland, ed. Aesthetics and Politics: Debates between Bloch, Lukács, Brecht, Ben- jamin, Adorno. London: Verso. Thế Lử...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 9–30.
Published: 01 February 2005
..., “The ‘Piccolo Teatro’: Bertolazzi and Brecht. Notes on a Materialist Theatre,” in For Marx, trans. Ben Brewster (London: Verso, 1965), 139–40. 36 Beverley employed that formulation during a session at a panel at the Latin American Studies...
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 907–930.
Published: 01 November 2014
... watches the drama itself but also witnesses the process of making the dramatic narra- tive. This also relates to “alienation” as proposed by [Bertolt] Brecht. Second, in Bara no soretsu, various dimensions of time are made to nest...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 539–567.
Published: 01 August 2008
... with the everyday. Henri Lefebvre, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, and Bertolt Brecht struggled against such an assimilation. For the Chinese case, see Charles Laughlin, Chinese Reportage: The Aesthet- ics of Historical Experience (Durham, NC...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 189–221.
Published: 01 February 2013
... In April 1993, Alvin Tan, founder and artistic director of TNS, and Haresh Sharma, its resident playwright, attended Theater of the Oppressed work- shops conducted by Boal at the Brecht Forum in New York. Sharma was positions 21:1  Winter 2013...
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 555–584.
Published: 01 August 2003
... from spectator to participant, I believe,isthecruxofwhatmadang-g˘uk practitionersseizedon;thistransition also captured the imagination of the most revolutionary drama movements of the twentieth century, from Bertolt Brecht’s concept...
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 671–706.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... It is the real positions 19:3 Winter 2011 704 core of the Kantean ethic itself. To paraphrase Brecht yet again, what is the miserable evil of a Sadean group orgy in comparison...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 987–1018.
Published: 01 November 2013
... from previous studies that articulate radio as a tool for producing an imagined community of lis- teners. Supplementing Bertolt Brecht’s utopian prediction that radio might function as a national “apparatus of communication,” notable radio...
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positions (1999) 7 (2): 421–457.
Published: 01 May 1999
... and Literature, ed. Hen- drik M. Ruitenbeek (New York: Dutton, 1964):251. 3 Cited in Eugene Lunn, “Art and Society in the Thought of Karl Marx,” in Marxism und Mod- ernism: An Historical Study of Lukdcs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno...