... filled with decontextualized buildings designed by famous foreign architects. While this uniformly high-rise environment and urban development is common among the high-economic-growth East and Southeast Asia countries since the 1980s, one difference in Singapore's urbanism is a utopian belief that once...

...Jing Wang This think piece returns the MIT controversy to an analytical frame that was largely ignored in 2006—the digital. Online reading habits have changed the ways of how we navigate the Web. Surfing through hyperlinks gave rise to decontextualization and the decoupling of images from...

.... Decontextualized Individualism The fisherman commercial is also embedded in a very radical form of indi- vidualism. It sets an atomized man against the hostile world of natural disas- ters. The man depends on faith in himself. Natural disasters like typhoons...

... agendas in the US and Chinese cyberspheres. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Sino-Japanese relations online patriotism historical memory apology decontextualization The Misplaced “Apology”: Rethinking China’s Internet Patriotism Zhou Kui In April 2006...

... decontextualized fragments from other genres can be fitted to restore the typical premodern Chinese wedding. The Divorce of Past and Present: Text As Data Twentieth-century Chinese scholarship reconstructs premodern wedding ritual...

... nature of warfare. According to this decontextualized view, US soldiers deserve our thanks for risking their lives overseas to stop dangerous, aggressive, unreasonable, destructive bullies. Figure 6 Collage of images of US soldiers...

..., then the original accusation that the MIT students purposefully decontextualized an image to instigate a malicious attack does not stand well. Much of the contestation over the interpretations of the Visualizing Cul- positions 23:1  February 2015...

..., as such representations were becoming increasingly decontextualized, they began to function less as metonyms of nature in some metaphysical sense (as “Nature”) than as signifiers of the extent to which people no longer regarded nature as an intrinsic part...

... decontextualize foreign countries and cultures to reinforce a national iden- tity. Instead, he works them into the narrative in a way that subtly erases traditional distinctions between the Japanese self and the foreign (usually Western) Other...

... decontextualized geographical Gao The Great Wall in Contemporary Chinese Art 779 Figure 2 Xu Bing, Ghosts Pounding the Wall, artist and crew working specimen, abstracted out of real space and time as a fragment carefully...

...,” Stringer and Cui empha- size how Kwan fragments and decontextualizes the “original” and then recontextualizes it in accordance with his contemporary sensibilities. For Cui, Kwan’s preference for the postmodern meta- cinema leads to systematic...

..., as it is at the Holocaust museum, by a process of decontextualization and recontextual- ization. Placing black leather shoes from north Korea on a display, as in a museum, isolates them from their conventional paradigmatic and syntag- matic chains...

... comfortable space, he was determined to avoid the risks of large-scale institutionalization, which easily decontextualizes exhibited images by rendering them into ahistorical aesthetic images, or mere historical records to support “authentic” Korean...

... detail and specificity demands distance and focus, Morley decontextualizes isolated details in order to arrive at generalizations that confirm his construction of Japan in sexualized terms. Thus, just as in this passage he orders isolated...

... that enables its present-­day consequences, including North Korea’s steps in the past half-­decade toward nuclear self-­defense, to be decontextualized as “provocations” that call out for potentially catastrophic preemptive violence.17 This causal...

...-games, which fail to accurately represent independence activists’ personal dilemmas, convictions, and life-risking commitments. Participants merely experience the decontextualized emulations of the movement without a clear awareness of whose actions they are mimicking. This affective distribution...

... television stations, could easily tolerate the linguistically decontextualized Mandarin-s­peaking Colonial Malacca in The Ghost Bride. Indeed, watching Singapore television was prevalent to the extent that Johoreans rarely felt the need to reflect on their own situatedness. When asked about why she and her...

... protocols for “trackbacks” enable the maintenance of these chains of transmission in digital culture. The reblogging of images would be seen as “decontextualization” or even a lit- eral “ripping off” in print culture, which was what the MIT...

...- tographs used in anthropology, the very power of the visual technology working at the exhibition was its “ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.”34 Importantly, this practice of dislocating easily...

... for capital, but dislocates millions of people and sends them on the run as immigrants, refugees, and migratory laborers. When positions 16:2  Fall 2008 466 hybridity is decontextualized from the historical forces...