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positions (2000) 8 (1): 9–76.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Kuan-Hsing Chen 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Translated by Yiman Wang The Imperialist Eye: The Cultural Imaginary of
a Subempire and a Nation-State
Kuan-Hsing Chen
I look hard for
The origin of blood.
Some say...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 541–570.
Published: 01 August 2023
... attention on its own terms in the scholarship of either Lu Xun or Chinese visual culture. Lu Xun's essay includes a folklore account of “foreign devils” plucking out locals’ eyes and pickling them in a jar. Bracketing the magic lantern incident held by many as the primal scene of modern Chinese literature...
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in Archaeology of the Eyeball: Lu Xun, Eye-Gouging Myth, and Ocular Anatomy
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2023
Figure 1 Diagrams of the human eye explaining the causes of myopia and hyperopia. Reproduced from Hobson's A New Treatise on Anatomy ( 1851 ).
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in Archaeology of the Eyeball: Lu Xun, Eye-Gouging Myth, and Ocular Anatomy
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2023
Figure 2 Diagrams of the human eye and other optical devices. Reproduced from Dudgeon's ( 1873 : 25) Extraordinary Sights of Shadow Extraction .
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in Archaeology of the Eyeball: Lu Xun, Eye-Gouging Myth, and Ocular Anatomy
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2023
Figure 4 “The Eye of the Dead”: a report in Liangyou magazine on German scientists’ experiment with retinography (“Siren de yanjing” 1934).
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positions (2006) 14 (3): 749–773.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Carlos Rojas Duke University Press 2006 Flies’ Eyes, Mural Remnants, and Jia Pingwa’s Perverse Nostalgia
Carlos Rojas
Like the trompe l’oeil itself, the fly is obsessed with minutiae, Christian or Confu-
cian. The fly moves between the cracks...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 839–864.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the fields’ geopolitical imagination largely defined by the category of independent nation‐states. To that end, the author turns to Taiwanese writer Wu Ming‐Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes and develops “archipelagic optics” as a transpacific interpretive framework—one that includes the decontinental...
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in A Collective Fantasia of the Financial Age in Early 1990s China: Erotic-Speculative Sensation, Neoliberal Labor Heroine, and Presentist Worldly Wisdom
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 1 Book covers of The Leung Fung Yee Phenomenon and Leung Fung Yee in the Eyes of Shanghainese .
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 231–251.
Published: 01 February 2010
... critiques are downplayed and sometimes do not make their way into print. Araki's recent exhibitions were enthusiastically received in the West. A series of photographs of bound naked women in kimonos dazzles Western eyes. I proceed to analyze orientalist contradictions based on the Western reviewers' double...
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 617–625.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Tonglin Lu As China emerges from its Maoist isolationism and rapidly integrates into the global capitalist market, it is no longer possible to preserve the rigid boundaries between these sides — a theorist with international standing can no longer grasp today's world while closing his (or her) eyes...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 167–174.
Published: 01 February 2015
... their explanatory texts. The MIT controversy opened our eyes not only to the destabilizing effect of knowledge production in the digital era but also the perils of participatory culture online. The 2006 debate also drove home the crisis about online publishing: materials published online are never going...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 516–546.
Published: 01 August 2018
...,” a stigmatic marker of poverty, with an eye to the neoliberal production of a “culture of poverty.” The author argues that a “culture of poverty,” which is invoked in Seotap, is neither a subculture that is passed down from generation to generation among a particular group of the poor, nor a disposition...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 361–396.
Published: 01 May 2019
... with her affective, nondual consciousness, which (perhaps ironically) resembles scientific eyes that capture the everyday’s physical textures. Second, for this reason, the images are almost always sensual (affective) (e.g., embodied with a sense of touch and proprioception) or “haptic” (Laura Marks...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 277–309.
Published: 01 May 2020
... cinema of the 1960s (especially Frederick Wiseman) as well as Bronisław Malinowski’s participant observation, Sōda’s observational style not only emphasizes the self-affective nature of documentary eyes but also rejects the preconceived reality of its object. Documentary is not conceived “in the head...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 159–187.
Published: 01 February 2022
... with a circular red mouth, grass skirt, and winking hologram eyes. Dakko means “to hug,” and Dakko-chan's astronomical popularity resulted in part from the way the doll could be worn as an accessory, attached to the body by its hugging arms. This article asks what it meant for Japan, a nation still recovering...
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in Archaeology of the Eyeball: Lu Xun, Eye-Gouging Myth, and Ocular Anatomy
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2023
Figure 3 Illustration in Children's Morning Post (“Anxiang he yanqiu” 1933 : 1) showcasing structural affinities between the human eye and the camera.
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in Familiar Strangers: North Koreans as “Dangerous Refugees” and the Crisis of Korean Chinese Community in Zhang Lu's Dooman River (2010)
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1 Chang-ho's falling body fills the right window, whereas the police and chief are included in the left window. Child X is sitting inside the building between two windows, closing his eyes firmly. Courtesy of INDIESTORY Inc.
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 65–90.
Published: 01 February 2007
... and unable to cope with anything that reminds
him of his absent father (photographs, the English language, and especially
the military tattoo the American inscribed on his mother’s breast). Chang-
guk works for Dog-eye, the local dog butcher, who...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 531–539.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Suzy Kim [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Eye-gouging is one of the most gruesome tropes of the uncanny. A terrifying specter...
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 51–69.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Chen Xue Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Searching for the Lost Wings of the Angel
Chen Xue
The first time I saw A’Su, I was certain that she and I were the same sort.
We’re both angels who have lost our wings. Our eyes...
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