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positions (2024) 32 (3): 655–684.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Renren Yang Abstract The article deploys the material metaphor of “flat surface” to read the unexpected cross-modal affinities between amateurish cover design and professional storytelling in Chinese web novels. Canvassing the ways visual and verbal artifacts put into play metaphoric associations...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 547–577.
Published: 01 August 2013
... on” its surfaces using ink or charcoal. I read “writing on” as a spatio-material practice of placing words, in which significance was not mainly an effect of content. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Writing Soˇkkuram: An Archaeology of Inscription around 1911
Robert Oppenheim...
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 119–148.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Andrew Kipnis Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 ”Face“: An Adaptable Discourse of Social Surfaces
Andrew Kipnis
I come to the study of “the Chinese conception of face” with mixed feelings.
On the one hand, I hesitate to focus...
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positions (2005) 13 (2): 299–327.
Published: 01 May 2005
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of modern subjectivity.
My readings of Rampo’s stories attempt to document the reorganization
of the body in the scopic field of modern Japan. Rampo struggled to make
positions 13:2 © 2005 by Duke University Press
positions 13:2 Fall 2005...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 481–512.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the individual and the nation. Many South Korean painters from this period turned to the idea of materiality, the amplification or replication of soil, rice, and earthenware on painted surfaces, as a means to create a visual culture that was bound to a unique Koreanness while simultaneously emerging as universal...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 361–396.
Published: 01 May 2019
... gives them a “virtual” quality (Bergson), with a few distinct traits. First, the gaze tends to focus on surfaces and physical textures (e.g., a tattoo engraved on her father’s and her own skin). When the vérité (truth) of cinematic mimesis is rigorously pursued, Kawase’s reflexive gaze becomes one...
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positions (1994) 2 (3): 570–602.
Published: 01 August 1994
... that await interpretation, we are presented with flat characters, sheer
surfaces, and narrative discontinuities that resist our every attempt to read
into the characters or the story itself. In this refusal to provide the reader...
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 727–759.
Published: 01 November 2016
... production, particularly in the representations and legibility of Filipino bodies. Fuentes's archive imperative encompasses the multivalent compositional and conceptual crossings that the filmmaker makes in his search for his “grandfather.” Close readings are performed on key moments of the film that draw...
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The Imperishables: Somatic Remediation, Femininity, and Plasticity in Ōshima Nagisa's Urban Critique
positions (2024) 32 (2): 287–314.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Junnan Chen Abstract This essay probes the understudied relationship between the hypermediated urban environment and the coding of femininity in the late 1960s and 1970s Japan. Through reading Ōshima Nagisa's Man Who Left His Will on Film ( 1970 ), this essay explores the unique gender dynamics...
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positions (2010) 18 (3): 557–570.
Published: 01 August 2010
... featured on the cover of
this special issue, Zhu Shouren’s “Qu jing” (“Picture Taking What does
it represent? What does its surface show? With what pictorial, discursive,
spatial, and material contexts does the photograph engage, and what...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 705–733.
Published: 01 November 2022
... patients to South Korea (Lee 2019 ). It was in the mid-2010s that news reports began to surface on the rising number of botched surgeries and life-threatening medical accidents, revealing the dark underbelly of the plastic surgery industry. In 2014, the Korea Medical Association held a press...
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positions (1995) 3 (1): v–viii.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Tani E. Barlow Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Ed ito r ‘s I n t rodu c t io n
Three fortuitous, thematic emphases surface in this second general issue of
positions: preoccupation with acts of translation; preoccupation...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 717–743.
Published: 01 November 2017
...=ED&newsid=01912246599760488&PartN=P13&HotCd=89 Lee Sang-hun . 2011 . “A Study on Non-Western Modernity of Surface Phenomena in Korean Commercial Architecture.” Journal of the Korean Institute of Interior Design 20 , no. 6 : 218 – 27 . Ministry of Government...
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 399–425.
Published: 01 May 2024
... be represented cannot be seen clearly and thus articulated to encourage activism. Behemoth reveals the crystallized concern about visibility that surfaced earlier in Crime and Punishment (2007) and Petition in their depiction of marginalized groups and in his earlier shorts that insist...
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positions (1994) 2 (3): v–ix.
Published: 01 August 1994
... be
expected to surface by the alchemical application of Freudo-idealist sex
analytics. The only way to ascertain specificity (and therefore difference and
the sites where difference is significant) is to inquire into the immediate
conditions...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 463–498.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., when aping the surface aspects
of another culture were found to be inadequate, where others might draw
down on a deep local cultural reserve, they found virtually nothing. The
tabula rasa that the Spanish found, or more accurately created...
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positions (2006) 14 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of capital
accumulation and perceptible shifts in the mass culture surfaces in Jesook
Song’s “Family Breakdown and Invisible Homeless Women: Neoliberal
Governance during the Asian Debt Crisis in South Korea, 1997 – 2001...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 279–286.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of visual entertainment.
Notwithstanding the imperatives of capitalist cinema, the filmic space as an
opaque surface disturbs straight visions and the empty time of the liberal
positions 9:2 © 2001 by Duke University Press
positions 9:2 Fall 2001...
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 185–192.
Published: 01 February 2018
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as phenomena and, through this vibration, guides the hand in its movement
across paper, silk, or any other surface.
In keeping with and inseparable from this gesture, to “read” a painting,
in which nature’s vibrancy is momentarily arrested and made...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 455–461.
Published: 01 August 2024
... for maximization of profit, they become flexible producers writing “at any time in any place,” focusing on surface appearances and actions rather than the protagonist's internal workings. Read in conjunction with Yu Zhang's article, our capacity to resist the “any time, any place” in satiating our desires...
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