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positions (2022) 30 (4): 895–921.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Hans Steinmüller Abstract The Wa State of Myanmar is often called “shanzhai China,” that is, a lesser imitation of China. This essay unpacks the material and symbolic implications of creative imitation at the Chinese periphery, embodied in shanzhai 山寨 practices. Literally “mountain fortress...
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 323–349.
Published: 01 May 2017
... : Routledge . In the Beginning: Blackness and the 1960s Creative Nonfiction of ¯ eO Kenzaburo¯ William H. Bridges IV And God stepped out on space And he looked around and said: “I’m lonely — /I’ll make me a world...
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positions (2013) 21 (2): 383–415.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Ming Tiampo This article is a theoretical investigation of the Gutai's collective enterprise, examining the creative process of Gutai Art Exhibitions from 1955 to 1962 and looking in particular at the Outdoor Exhibitions and Gutai Art on Stage. I will argue that the group's leader, Yoshihara Jiro...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 343–368.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of the eighteenth century or contemporary digital file sharers, the media pirate cuts a hip, antiestablishment figure: at once creative, transgressive, and enterprising. So the search for more demoniacal associations continues, roping in the smuggler, the counterfeiter, the serial killer, and, closer to our times...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 397–420.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., but it was also a medium through which programs and listeners found creative outlets to question state-produced truths. Against the popular belief that documentary texts are based on facts, and as sites for reproducing the real, most documentaries can be read as dramatizations working within the dramatic economy...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 365–391.
Published: 01 May 2011
... invention of the category “Tsinoy” as a creative but delicate attempt to embed the Chinese in the national consciousness and construct a positive image of the Chinese. For, as seen in the films, other Chinese can appropriate the term while both local and regional changes reinforce certain Chinese...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 243–264.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., a loosely affiliated group of antipollution thinkers and activists have been exploring the relationship of human society to its environment in extremely creative and fruitful ways. Beginning with the methylmercury poisoning called “Minamata disease” of the 1950–70s, this group began what they called...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 145–175.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Meiling Cheng This article takes an ecological approach to Beijing-based artist Yin Xiuzhen’s cross-media artworks, which comprise installations, performances, and inhabitable sculptures. Yin’s creative outputs—from her earliest installations that bemoan the vanishing old Beijing, through her...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 423–450.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the interactive processes for a minority group to carve out its cultural, economic, and political spaces of creative belonging within the state by conversing with national narratives and contending for the epistemological authority to represent itself in multiethnic China. Copyright 2021 by Duke University...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
Published: 01 May 2022
... capital, compensatory middle-class consumption, and entrepreneurial inspiration that strategically and creatively seeks to challenge working-class migrants’ marginal positions within South Korea's highly stratified and increasingly neoliberal society. [email protected] Copyright...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the better publicized, more successful creative activities, music has been the group's steadiest form of self-expression. Appropriating Roland Barthes's concept of musica practica , this article interrogates the unique status that music has enjoyed in this group and explores three interrelated aspects—album...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 February 2024
... as a creative device to achieve personal freedom and make a career for themselves. Carving out spaces for themselves in the male-dominated rap industry and dance community, they negotiate existing gender norms in both the music genre and Vietnam's urban society. [email protected] Copyright 2024...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 February 2024
... and sustainable material returns, yet the creative imaginations and public actions of ordinary people open up possibilities for valorizing life in social arenas, despite and within the prevailing economic valorization of life. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 573–600.
Published: 01 August 2024
... heroine,” one who creatively utilizes the intervals to maximize productive value and who performs “presentist worldly wisdom” to strategically navigate life and achieve optimal outputs and success in a disorienting world. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024...
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positions (2009) 17 (1): 127–157.
Published: 01 February 2009
... examines Nakai Masakazu's thoughts on technology as it relates to what he perceived as the disciplining of the creative, practical-political energies of the masses by capitalist commodification and specialization. Instead of only defining technology as the instrumental means of production or the technical...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 629–659.
Published: 01 August 2008
.... Roland Barthes's analysis of fashion discourse provides a specific critical apparatus for situating Heian poetics and consumer discourse on common ground. I borrow his insights on how classes of commodities and language concerning their uses enter into creative cross-referencing, in a way that resembles...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 19–50.
Published: 01 February 2010
... to heal, and irony through shock that are articulated within specific conditions of production and exhibition. Two of the major conditions I examine are the artist's creative process and issues of silencing present in the content of the artwork or its exhibition practices. Prior to 1996 the artists...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 241–265.
Published: 01 February 2012
... the creative ways images have inhabited the journal's “books,” I introduce ephemeral embodied performance art and the concept of “relational aesthetics” to discuss documentary filmmaking today. I suggest useful analogies from current art making. How might we reimagine the performance of our writing and reading...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1191–1213.
Published: 01 November 2012
... scene, the Guests, dressed in imaginatively construed Japanese wedding dress, engage in a bloody orgy of violence and cannibalism that reveals they are both part whale. In addition to the costumes of seaweed, fur, and shell worn in this scene, DR9 prominently features Barney's creative reinterpretations...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 189–221.
Published: 01 February 2013
... excitement and nurture a culture of innovation necessary for the creative economy of renaissance Singapore, a global city for the arts. In the transition to this new climate, TNS and another professional theater company, Drama Box, have attempted to negotiate new forum spaces for critical thinking against...