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positions (2023) 31 (1): 9–13.
Published: 01 February 2023
... See “1961 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year,” https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/1961/yasushi-nagao/1 . 1 Asanuma Inejirō’s assassination footage (1960) is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KROpdUkrM . The reenactment of a decisive moment...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 91–114.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Winnie Won Yin Wong This article explores the correspondences between Lu Xun's famous “lantern slide moment” at Sendai Medical Academy in Japan in 1906, and the Visualizing Cultures student protest at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006. In both incidents, wartime images of Japanese...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 589–619.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Fan Yang This article examines three significant moments of the shanzhai discourse in WTO-era China. Literally referring to a “mountain fortress” occupied by antiofficial bandits, shanzhai is a new term for wide-ranging knockoff products and copycat media forms. Often invoking Robin-Hood-like...
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 585–611.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Wang Xiaoming 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Translated by Robin Visser China on the Brink of a “Momentous Era”
Wang Xiaoming
In the winter of 1927 Lu Xun summarized China’s condition: “China is cur-
rently on the verge of entering...
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positions (1997) 5 (2): 357–389.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Min-Jung Kim Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Moments of Danger in the (Dis)continuous Relation of Korean Nationalism and
Korean American Nationalism
Min-Jung Kim
During the Japanese annexation of Korea (1910- 1945), many Korean...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva This article introduces the house of mirrors as an analytical device with the aim of cracking open binary comparative work. It offers close readings of debates regarding US colonialism among Puerto Rican intellectuals and politicians at two distinct historical moments...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 725–754.
Published: 01 August 2013
.... This productive space — unscripted and undifferentiated — I argue, is likewise a potential site for what Walter Benjamin referred to as the emergence of “historical materialism,” which reveals itself in flashes, or unexpected moments of danger. Within the structured mechanics of ritual there is space for chance...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 173–194.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Ratheesh Radhakrishnan This article, organized around three films— Stop Violence (dir. A. K. Sajan, 2002), Big B (dir. Amal Neerad, 2007), and Annayum Rassolum (dir. Rajeev Ravi, 2013)—attempts to account for a moment in the history of Malayalam cinema when an attempt to spatially imagine, through...
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 507–526.
Published: 01 August 2017
... a profound influence over the literary output of both figures, though in considerably different ways. This article revisits the 1926 sojourn in Japan as a formative moment in the lives of two South African writers that would subsequently be reformed, and to some extent deformed in their writings following...
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 527–563.
Published: 01 August 2017
... to this episode of trans -culturation by examining other accounts of unusual bodily condition that the press brought to light in response to Xie's story. The author focuses on examples of “trans” formation that made explicit reference to Xie, especially during moments when Xie and her doctors intentionally...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 717–743.
Published: 01 November 2017
... officials. Though the narrative of the film treats those conflicts as temporary obstacles to the inevitable achievement of this ambitious project, the author argues that interruptions, suspensions, and instances of dissensus in the smooth narrative are the critical moments in which a sense of community...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 77–109.
Published: 01 February 2018
... systematic or traditional methods of capitalist critique. Their work is therein more open to the contingencies and possibilities of their historical moments. That silence is a principal trope in their critiques corroborates the open-endedness of their work’s deeply skeptical messages about capitalist...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 305–341.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., scientific papers, legal documents, and the Taipei District Court verdict illuminate how a space for contestation was forged in lieu of the closed RCA factory (and RCA’s acquisition by other multinationals). At three different moments — research about RCA’s activities, the lawsuit, and the verdict—victims...
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positions (2018) 26 (2): 213–241.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... The independent works of Mousseau and Ash, documenting a shared historical moment within a world humbled by renewed awareness of ionizing radiation, juxtapose the creation of expert and lay knowledge systems. Their work at the intersections of science, technology, and society show as many commonalities as they do...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 389–421.
Published: 01 August 2018
... soundscapes in the feature films Rabun (2003), Sepet (2005), and Gubra (2006), as well as her work in commercial advertising. By creating moments and objects that “resonate,” Ahmad fashions a cinematic subjectivity that is informed by Malaysia’s position as a newly independent nation and full participant...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 423–449.
Published: 01 August 2018
... types of workers. Recovery, according to these long-time users, is not conceived of as an attempt to return to an earlier way of drug-free living; rather, to recover is to adapt to the economic and social demands of a different historical moment. The conclusion considers how understanding this cohort...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 159–173.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Tazaki Hideaki When politics subsumes life, we must consider the question of what precisely this “life” indicates. What form does life take at the moment when it is touched by politics? In the “Critique of Violence,” Benjamin calls it “bare life,” a life reduced to itself, divested of adornments...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 67–98.
Published: 01 February 2019
... studies if we imagine that it is no longer a problem for thought and politics simply because of the process of “globalization.” In fact, paradoxically, it is the current moment of the integration of the world in which the problem of area studies becomes most decisive. References Agamben Giorgio...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 597–621.
Published: 01 November 2019
... argues that his theorization is in fact flexible enough to withstand more recent critique leveled against the notion of national cinema, and even allows radical new ways of thinking about national cinema in the contemporary moment of a new media environment and increasing transnational cultural flows...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 237–274.
Published: 01 February 2020
... creation and innovation in Hong Kong, which reopens such questions as what is an artist and what is art making. This research supports a picture of art as being more about the process and the here-and-now moment than the final art object. Women’s art as a research framework productively points...
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