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positions (2017) 25 (3): 507–526.
Published: 01 August 2017
... prophecy References Alexander Peter F. 1990 . William Plomer: A Biography . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Benedict Ruth . (1946) 1947 . The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture . London : Secker and Warburg . Bester John . (1969) 1971...
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positions (2001) 9 (3): 637–649.
Published: 01 August 2001
... in its entirety; and thus its major
mode of rule is biopower; and (4) though bathed in blood, empire always
presents itself, in the guise of the concept of a just war, as dedicated to peace.
In the rhetorical tradition of prophecy, Hardt and Negri...
Journal Article
positions (2000) 8 (2): 559.
Published: 01 May 2000
... into account that they are predominantly lyrical expres-
sions of limited scope to begin with, these utterances must be felt to contain
truths essential to our understanding of present reality. At the least, this
prophecy for the age of dinosaurs...
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positions (2002) 10 (3): 525–546.
Published: 01 August 2002
..., as momentous actual happenings to which
he himself now gives a convert’s credence. For example, the novella opens
with the prophecy made in 1870 by Ma Hualong, a Hui religious leader at the
point of being mutilated to death. In answer to his Qing...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (4): 729–742.
Published: 01 November 2015
... them to, just because it
is the prophecy of realist theory. Eventually one asks, whose pride is it of
which we speak?
As for Chris Marker, he originally wrote that his six-day trip was one of
inquiry and “human friendship...
Journal Article
positions (2005) 13 (1): 125–135.
Published: 01 February 2005
..., and everything and everyone—every friend, every tree,
every home, every dog, squirrel and bird that I have known and loved—
is incinerated, how shall I live on? Who shall I love? My friends and
I discuss Prophecy, the documentary about the bombing...
Journal Article
positions (1993) 1 (1): 268–279.
Published: 01 February 1993
... of America” and the prophecies issuing from across the
ocean from a gentleman whom I had always thoroughly respected. My
God! To be absent from this land, yet to feel its pulse! How dare one say
when it will live, and when...
Journal Article
positions (2005) 13 (1): 9–30.
Published: 01 February 2005
... realization of his fate.
The truth is, there were three minority reports, although the first and the
third coincided in their final prophecy that Anderton would murder Kaplan,
thus constituting the majority. If the second report started a different time...
Journal Article
positions (2006) 14 (2): 467–494.
Published: 01 May 2006
... First Meeting with Nie Er in his Shanghai tingzijian de shidai fengxi
(The Historical Environment of the Pavilion-Room in Shanghai) (Shijiazhuang: Hebei Jiaoyu,
1999), 166 – 73.
11 “But all its prophecy,” Tret’iakov would comment...
Journal Article
The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique
positions (2024) 32 (2): 287–314.
Published: 01 May 2024
... with political potentiality. Rather than continuously undermining the original, Yasuko's somatic remediation here, on the contrary, re-enchants and temporalizes the material remnant from the previous image, making it a legitimized prophecy—a preordained vision that sets off the cycle of recursion in a time-based...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 607–632.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., the destruction of the nation. In other words, the regulation of one particular act will seemingly spare the destruction of a population. These are the dire prophecies of anti-LGBT protesters, but my goal in this article was to demonstrate how the interstitial spaces between law, legal and state institutions...
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 427–451.
Published: 01 May 2024
...), or imagining herself in her sister's place. 16 Not long after the funeral of the grandfather, Drolkar, facing choices about her unexpected pregnancy, questions the tulku 's prophecy about the grandfather's rebirth, wondering how the old one could be reborn so soon. Drolkar's implication...
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Circumventing the Evils of Colonialism: Yanaihara Tadao and Zionist Settler Colonialism in Palestine
positions (2006) 14 (3): 567–595.
Published: 01 August 2006
... about the (re)establishment of a Jewish national
home in Palestine, as it signified an important phase in the development of
world history according to the prophecy of the Bible, which spoke of Christ’s
return. This is why Usuki Akira has gone...
Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (2): 323–349.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of antiracism, however, came his Hegelian
critique of the negritude movement and the prophecy of its demise (Sartre
1988: 327): “This minor moment [of negritude] is not sufficient in itself.
positions 25:2 May 2017 336...
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positions (2006) 14 (3): 535–566.
Published: 01 August 2006
... in the sense that it demands no justification but its own existence
and in the sense that it further generates its own reality like a self-fulfilling
prophecy. For to reduce things to their positions within finite sets is to sen-
sitize them...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (1): 199–230.
Published: 01 February 2010
... propaganda created a self-fulfilling
prophecy; it was, above all, the crackdown and the negative media campaign
that drove the youth culture out of broad daylight into the dark of the night,
where it grew even more audacious in undermining...
Journal Article
positions (2000) 8 (1): 201–233.
Published: 01 February 2000
... of the notion of
false consciousness. One should not be surprised to find that in this tone of
masculine eschatological prophecy, culture would not occupy a role more
important than that of an effeminated handmaiden of power—the sole...
Journal Article
positions (2018) 26 (1): 77–109.
Published: 01 February 2018
... of prophecy.
No Vacancy at the Grand Hotel Abyss
In Charles Rosen’s review of the English translation of Benjamin’s Origin
of German Trauerspiel, he channels Benjamin to polemicize against the
prevailing regime of academic literary criticism...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (2): 235–265.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., the former minister tellingly uses the verb evaporate to describe a material process of destruction, confirming the prophecy that all that is solid melts into air (Marx and Engels 1848). Conclusion After the collapse of socialism, the death of ideology was proclaimed in the streets of Ulaanbaatar...
Journal Article
positions (1993) 1 (2): 349–388.
Published: 01 May 1993
... Alitto, Liang
Shuming’s prophecy on the imminent Confucianization of the West served
the same logic as Liang Qichao’s 1919call for the Chinese “to rush to the
West’s spiritual salvation.”ll
Both Liangs sought...
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