... the conceptual binary that would insist that it is simply other to the nation. In doing so, it arrives at a universalism that is fundamentally differentiated. The essay pursues this framework through an analysis of Miko Revereza's recent documentary film, No Data Plan (2019), which explores Revereza's...

... within global cultures of cinema, thus invoking and molding the contemplative viewer; politically, these films mark the earliest attempts to conceive the region's relation to modernity through the grids of imagining the urban. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 urban space...

...Liberal Islam Network 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Translated by Laurie Sears Declaration of Universal Humanity Liberal Islam Network All the statements and official documents from the U.S. government about the plan to attack Iraq...

... critical reception of Jan de Groot’s Universism , which provides him with the nucleus of his later essay “Doctrine of the Similar.” The essay concludes with an analysis of Benjamin’s 1934 essay on Kafka, in which he sketches the outlines of a revised “universism” that gains historical density insofar...

... and the arbitrary operating system called “identity,” the author asserts, Murakami positively affirms the precarious physicality that the brain as a mindware inhabits, highlighting the social and interactive dimension of our mental and physical existence. Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 mindware...

...Xiaobing Tang Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 References Appadurai , Arjun . 1990 . “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy”. Public Culture: Bulletin of the Center for Transnational Cultural Studies 2 , no. 2 ( Spring ): 1 -24. Appiah...

... reflexive digitization. The university plays an especially important role as an institutional anchor for practicing reflexive digitization. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 digitization university reflexive modernization digital artifact Reflexive Digitization and the Role...

... Immanuel Kant's political philosophy and theory of subjectivity and argues that he unwittingly moved toward a view that he explicitly rejected, Hegelian cultural universality. Miki attempted to justify Japanese imperialism through a logic of cultural mediation by which the cultures of East Asia were...

...Fabio Lanza This essay questions how we can interrogate the emergence of politics, specifically student politics, without reducing it to the manifestation of an established social category (in this case “students”). By examining the case of Beijing University during the May Fourth movement...

... the rhetorical strategies and lack of epistemological confidence that characterized his journalistic writings of 1935-40. Prior to Principles of Thought for a New Japan , Miki used a rhetorical strategy of conditionals arguing that unless new principles of universal validity were created, it would be impossible...

... figured as a mirror of the nation, either as continuing from the impulses of the nation or as a response to it. Contra this, it proposes that “region” should be understood as being formed simultaneously within and without the structuring of the nation. Even while the horizon of universality provided...

... for a productivist extermination of communism in the north, Ch'oe increasingly sought to overcome the division of the peninsula by questioning a continuing Euro-America-centric global modernity, the East/West binary, and the continuing effects of Japanese colonialism. Ch'oe's naturalizing of a regime of universal...

... had investigated questions about the exposure of bodies to radiation. Their paths crossed at a workshop entitled “Exposure and Effect: Measuring Safety, Environment, and Life in Asia” at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where they discussed the meanings of their research and work...

...), which by 2006 had formed close relationships with major commercial forums championing anti-Japanese nationalism as a populist strategy, and (b) the generation of Chinese born after 1980 ( 80 hou ) and their identity politics, illustrated by a discussion on those who are university students in Hong Kong...

... 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...

...Philip Kaffen In 1950 Nakai Masakazu, the vice librarian of Japan’s new National Diet Library, and philosopher trained in aesthetics at Kyoto Imperial University, published an essay on cinema and contemporary aesthetics. He saw the developments of the past half century as a massive uprooting...

... and its allies, Liu also endorses the total Westernization of China and wholesale privatization of its economy. Despite the common conception of Liu as an advocate of democracy in the face of China's authoritarian government, he seemingly does not even back universal suffrage. The award of the prize...

... the specific ways in which Koreans’ discussions of America reflected the doubling and contradictory effects of capitalism in which the articulation of opposing categories—such as the universal and particular— are interrelated and simultaneous, to reveal “America” as a significant site of grappling...