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Ideology of the Image: Wu Guanzhong's Abstract Expression, 1979–1983
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 315–340.
Published: 01 May 2024
...”) in “On Practice.” Worthy of laboratorial “scientific analysis and study,” the discourse of modern art parallels that of science (or scientism). The essays “Abstract Beauty” and “Formal Beauty” appeared in the midst of heated debates on imagistic thinking. Wu strategically drew on the keyword xingxiang siwei...
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Paradoxy and Meaning in Bei Dao's Poetry
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 113–136.
Published: 01 February 2007
....
Liu argues, represents a significant development in Zhuang Zi’s thinking
through paradoxy. What appears to be a repudiation of binary oppositions
by Zhuang Zi is in fact an admission of all paradoxes.17 This is to say that
opposites...
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Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) and the Apocalypse of Ecological Visibility
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., splice open, abstract, as well as scale up and down natural and artificial landscapes that are equally under siege in China's industrialization. Analyzing Behemoth 's representation of imbalanced ecology will help us better understand the singularity of Zhao's imagistic mediations and narrative...
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The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 287–314.
Published: 01 May 2024
... media practices. . . . On the other hand, we find a shared interest in thinking about the changing contours of power that informed urban forms, particularly in how to sustain critical forms of urban practice even as administrable networks of communication, transportation, and control expanded across...
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Urban Mediations in Hong Kong Contemporary Art: Notes on A Very Good City and Local Orientation
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 733–758.
Published: 01 August 2004
... as activating a space of
mediation between linguistic, imagistic, and mnemonic fields in which place
identity can be re-produced by the viewer as he or she is affected by it. In
this space, the specificity of a place, its identity, to follow geographer...
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Translational Nation: Politics and Re-presentation at the Independence Hall of Korea
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 85–110.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of the political is more accurately understood as the impolitical insofar as “political representation can only rivet the multiplicity to the unity of its ‘imagist’ form, which is not concrete but transcendental.” In the context of the Hall, the theatrical is not merely false, in the sense of being disingenuous...
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Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 171–202.
Published: 01 February 2023
... the freedom to play with the affective dimensions of social images, thereby generating autonomous visions that can escape the neoliberal traps of nostalgia, narcissism, and cynicism. The uses of the “other-world” trope, I argue, point us toward a raw process of imagistic and affective cognition...
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Reading as Watching: What We See and What We Get
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 241–265.
Published: 01 February 2012
.... What is worth analyzing in social life remains abstract (for example, changes in ways of thinking), intractable (such as shifts in class power dimensions), and invisibly structured (capital in various manifestations). Without sustained effort to materialize analysis (in written and oral language...
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“Flat Surface” as Material Metaphor: “Bad” Cover Design, “Good” Storytelling, and Post-Fordist Sensibility in Chinese Web Novels
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 655–684.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., not only to hear the critique of gewu from priggish Confucianists (chap. 967) but also to validate gewu by tracing its genesis to Mo Zi's idea of pragmatism in ancient China (chap. 964). Ning deems public debate a prerequisite to developing progressive thinking and reaching a social consensus (chap...
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Critical Mediations: Haewŏn Chinhon Kut , a Shamanic Ritual for Korean “Comfort Women”
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 725–754.
Published: 01 August 2013
... and seductive language, then broken
harshly and cruelly trampled on, forgive us. You who felt so much shame, that you
could not return to your own country and ended up dying in foreign lands so filled
with sorrow! Why do you think of yourselves...
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Shanghai Savage
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positions (2003) 11 (1): 91–133.
Published: 01 February 2003
... Republican Shanghai culture
through their usage by no means marks my endorsement of them.) As in
the imperial metropolises of the West, the savage and its images became
demeaning ways of thinking, producing, and representing racial difference...
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In the Haze: On Narrativization and Air Pollution in Shanghai
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 447–479.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of Anxiety in Thinking about Climate Change .” In Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives , edited by Weintrobe Sally , 33 – 47 . New York : Routledge . Weston Timothy B. Jensen Lionel M. 2000 . “ Introduction: Lead Story — Favored Nations...
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Sustaining Jouissance : Commercial and Heian Modes of Intertextuality in Tanka by Tawara Machi
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 629–659.
Published: 01 August 2008
.... In “Street Corner of Capitalism,” criti-
cism is itself reduced to imagistic configurations acting as platitudes, dena-
turing danger. While locating comic juxtapositions, in the end, the tanka
in this sequence exhibit limited critical positioning...
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The Colonial Origin of Korean Realism and Its Contemporary Manifestation
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positions (2006) 14 (1): 165–192.
Published: 01 February 2006
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mapping,” an instinctual and legitimate way of human thinking in which
the subject seeks to understand isolated facts by inferring implicit relations
between them.7 As an aesthetic attitude that preserves an indispensable faith
in the capacity...
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The National Allegory Revisited: Writing Private and Public in Contemporary Taiwan
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positions (2006) 14 (3): 633–662.
Published: 01 August 2006
...” the
nation does animate many non-Western writings, are there ways of thinking
about this impulse that do not lapse into the kind of Eurocentric condescen-
sion that so incensed both Ahmad and numerous critics since?
This article sets out to probe...
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The Images of Russia and Russians in Colonial-Era Korean Literature: The 1930s
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 287–316.
Published: 01 May 2015
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hak iipsa yoˇn’gu (The Study of the History of Transplantation of the Modern Western Literature
to Korea) (Seoul: Uˇ ryu Munhwasa, 1980), 707 – 8.
18. The poetical grouping of “imagists” to which Esenin belonged, was studied, among others...
