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Archive of the Missing: Speculative Visions and the Terms of Social Repair in Transnational Adoption
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positions 11626809.
Published: 27 February 2025
... of archival violence—biopolitical, administrative, and rhetorical. Via artistic expression, each work disrupts the nationalistic and naturalistic narrative of search and reunion and offers speculative analytics via which to imagine the connections and visions from the missing. Drawing upon their brilliant...
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The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Where There Is No Room for Fiction , the selected photographs here provide a visual ethnographic account of the contested landscape of an urban village under siege. As well, these images explore the possibility of a critical aesthetics in order to engage the official vision of urban modernity...
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Capturing World-Class Urbanism through Modal Governance in Saigon
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 669–692.
Published: 01 November 2017
... institutions like the Asian Development Bank and World Bank that likewise produce urban infrastructure and urban development projects in the city. I argue that these flexible modes of city making are a way for state agencies to speculate on multiple and contradicting visions of the world-class city utilizing...
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positions 11628281.
Published: 27 February 2025
... to the profane through photojournalism, film, animation, visual art, literature, and ethnography. Whether through the speculative visions of transnational adoptees and feminist artists or critical framings of militarisms and disasters, these articles challenge us to look beyond simplistic narratives of success...
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Urban Speculation, Economic Openness, and Market Experiments in Phnom Penh
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 645–667.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Sylvia Nam Foregrounding the interconnections that fuel speculation in Phnom Penh, this article examines experiments by developers and investors who not only seek to bring built projects to the real estate market but also work to build markets by reconfiguring space. The staggering changes to Phnom...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 411–427.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., however, we see the complete reversal of this revolutionary vision. Nongmin 农民 (peasants) and small-scale farmers, as well as the rural land on which they subsist, have been emptied out of their political significance (Schneider 2014 ). Indeed, they are commonly seen by urbanites and by the state...
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From the First Thirty to the Next Thirty Years of positions : A Conversation between Editors
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 709–729.
Published: 01 August 2023
... or critically, as I am considering, “How can we publish this?” that element draws on simple craft as well as an analytic overview developed over decades. Our two venues, the print journal and digital platform, publish highly abstract and sometimes philosophical work, but none of it is merely speculative...
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Archipelagic Optics in Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 839–864.
Published: 01 November 2022
...: 要呈現不同構造的眼所看出去的世界，或許不只是技術的問題。畢竟，即使是同一構造的眼，看出去的世界必然也會有選擇性的不同吧？ References Bahng Aimee . 2018 . Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times. Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Benítez-Rojo Antonio . 1996 . The Repeating Island: The Caribbean...
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Positioning Asia in a Global Future? An Example through Rethinking Finance
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 173–182.
Published: 01 February 2012
.... In the political project of anti- cum- post-
capitalism, positions has not deviated from its consistent focus. What I want
to suggest, then, is to spin the older vision of positions into a contemporary,
speci c, timely, and concrete problematic...
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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
... on autonomist theory for inspiration regarding the visualization of postcapitalist sociality, analysis will demonstrate how their imaginative responses can produce visions of collectivity amenable to postcapitalist projects without explicitly political content. The article hopes to draw out latent capacities...
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Trouble in New Utopia
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 667–686.
Published: 01 August 2004
... a particular territory as encumbered by
myopic obsessions with economic development or sociopolitical agendas on
the part of its governing regime. For example, critic Toshiya Ueno argued
that the nation-state speculatively invests in anything conceived...
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Archipelagic Thought and Theory's Other: Traveling Theory in Japan
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 461–487.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Dennitza Gabrakova This article uses as a starting point the intellectual/creative vision of Japanese contemporary cultural anthropologist Imafuku Ryūta: the vision of the world as archipelago. In order to demonstrate that Imafuku's attempt can be explicated as an instance of the “traveling theory...
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How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experiential? The Political Epistemology of Jingyan
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positions (2002) 10 (2): 333–364.
Published: 01 May 2002
...
organized his argument around a previously unproblematic question: Since
Chinese medical theories are unscientific, far-fetched speculation, and since
traditional Chinese anatomy, physiology, and pathology have all proven to be
wrong, how can Chinese...
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Crises of Money
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positions (2008) 16 (1): 189–219.
Published: 01 February 2008
... attack and weaken the nation
through currency speculation, what is medicine is also poison. Hence this
constitutive alterity needs to be divided into two so that the self can pro-
visionally act in defense of itself, to protect itself against...
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The Market Life of Japanese Literature in Postwar America: Knopf, Translation, and the Archives of Cultural Commerce
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 August 2024
... precisely on how particular readers judged particular works of Japanese literature under particular market conditions. This approach reveals that although practices of close reading, literary criticism, speculative valuation, and sensuous engagement with the particularities of language are more often...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 381–409.
Published: 01 August 2015
...-
ing uncompetitive public corporations. Informatization, however, was only
a temporary fix. By the late 1980s, economic growth had faltered, and the
burst of a speculative asset bubble between 1986 and 1991 pushed the coun-
try into a long...
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In the Scopic Regime of Discovery: Ishikawa Takuboku's Diary in Roman Script and the Gendered Premise of Self-Identity
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positions (1994) 2 (3): 542–569.
Published: 01 August 1994
... of Richard Rorty or emphasize the prevalence of surveillance
with Michel Foucault or bemoan the society of spectacle with Guy Debord,
we confront again and again the ubiquity of vision as the master sense of
the modern era.”2...
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Aesthetics, Dialectics, and Desire in Yang Mo's Song of Youth
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positions (2006) 14 (1): 193–218.
Published: 01 February 2006
... first embrace the latter politically retrograde and
essentially Kantian conception of the beautiful in order that she later come
to realize its failures and embrace the revolutionary vision of beauty.
Lin Daojing’s first actual social exchange...
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“Who Am I?”—Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of “Socialist Alienation”
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positions (1995) 3 (2): 450–482.
Published: 01 May 1995
... of the alienation school, Chinese humanism would never
have occupied such a prominent place in the national agenda, and the liber-
atory vision could not have been so deeply engraved on the intellectual his-
tory of the 1980s. New terrains of inquiry...
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Megalopolis and Wasteland: Peripheral Geographies of Tokyo (1961/1971)
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 201–229.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Ignacio Adriasola In this article, I juxtapose Tange Kenzō ‘s vision for a new civic and business axis to be built over Tokyo Bay in his proposal “Tokyo Megalopolis” (1961) and the Private Landscape series by photographer Hosoe Eikoh (1971–). These very different projects—Tange's paper architecture...
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