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{"title":"Between Documentation and Dramatization: Modes of Critique in South Korean Yushin-Era Radio Culture","authors":"Jina E. Kim","doi":"10.1215/10679847-7334475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7334475","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Mass media radio culture and literature occupied an important and large space in the making of 1970s culture under Park Chung Hee’s Yushin regime. Radio technology and the sounds produced by radio broadcasting indelibly came to be used by the state to maneuver and discipline the masses, but it was also a medium through which programs and listeners found creative outlets to question state-produced truths. Against the popular belief that documentary texts are based on facts, and as sites for reproducing the real, most documentaries can be read as dramatizations working within the dramatic economy of their given medium. South Korean radio used the documentary turn in the 1960s and 1970s as a way of responding to the growing repressive regime and technological innovations. These documentaries specifically used dramatization to reenact truth and reality. Therefore, docudramas can be heard as a site of an intricate drama being played out among the state, mass media, and listeners, who are after all interested in trying to translate what is real and true. Doing so opens up possibilities for situating documentaries in line with work that produces new, creative meanings rather than work that merely reproduces or adheres to hegemonic beliefs and practices.This article analyzes 1970s South Korean radio culture by juxtaposing one of the most popular radio docudramas of that decade, Pŏpch’ang yahwa (Anecdotes of Law and Order), with Ch’oe In-hun’s linked novel The Voice of the Governor General to suggest that even amid Park Chung Hee’s Yushin era, which enforced media censorship and dictated nationalist propaganda, documentation and dramatization in radio enthusiastically played with alternative truths. This, the author argues, happened in radio broadcasting because its sori, or sound, drew a contingent fidelity among the state, radio (broadcasters and authors), and listeners (implied and real) where truth could be held in suspension and engage in producing sonic imagination. The author shows that the radio and auditory texts complicate the idea of fidelity precisely because sound and voice have been “seen” as ephemeral and contingent, whereas vision and reading are linked to fidelity and truth.","PeriodicalId":44356,"journal":{"name":"Positions-Asia Critique","volume":"55 1","pages":"397 - 420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85271614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intimate Dystopias: Dreams of the Interior and Architectural Feminism in Li Shaohong’s Urban Cinema","authors":"E. Y. Huang","doi":"10.1215/10679847-7334449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7334449","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines Chinese filmmaker Li Shaohong’s film productions in the 2000s—including Baober in Love, Stolen Life, and The Door—and provides a gender history of post-socialist Chinese femininity and masculinity. Rather than reading the “post” as the transition from socialist to globally commodified femininity, this essay unravels it as a complex cultural field of gender recoding, negotiation, and experimentation. Critiquing the “city” as an expanding network of consumer desires, Li’s urban cinema illustrates the dystopic imaginary of post-socialist home spaces that evoke an invisible system of spatial violence. Adding a gendered twist to Walter Benjamin’s Marxist critique of phantasmagorias of the interior, Li’s feminist interior portrays a post-socialist masculinist urban (bodies-cities) network, where women are seen as displaced, homeless, and disappeared. In the struggle for “space,” both body and city are portrayed as intimate dystopias, where the most familiar things become the most estranging sites of horror.","PeriodicalId":44356,"journal":{"name":"Positions-Asia Critique","volume":"19 1","pages":"333 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78926832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Accumulation of Difference and the Logic of Area","authors":"G. Walker","doi":"10.1215/10679847-7251819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7251819","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Today, in a world characterized by the dispersion of the concentration of the productive forces, an increasingly multinational composition of global finance capital and its specialized class of handlers, it is relatively common to hear that the problems of “area studies” and its critique are no longer relevant. This argument tends to be made as follows. Area studies depended on a world characterized by the classic mid-twentieth century structures of alignment: the US-aligned world, the USSR-aligned world, the so-called nonaligned world, and so on. But, so this logic goes, today the world that is implied by this organizational schema itself no longer exists, and therefore the problem of area studies has ceased to be an essential target: it is a “remnant” that is “withering away.” But it is in fact exactly the opposite, that we will miss something crucial in the question of area 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.","PeriodicalId":44356,"journal":{"name":"Positions-Asia Critique","volume":"209 1","pages":"67 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83470329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The End of Area","authors":"Gavin Walker, Naoki Sakai","doi":"10.1215/10679847-7251793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7251793","url":null,"abstract":"The term area may have a variety of connotations, but the “area” that is the central topic of this issue of positions: asia critique is thematically determined within the historical context of what is generally referred to as area studies. Broadly speaking, area studies designates a group of academic disciplines, initially conceived of during the advent of the Second World War and later institutionalized under the political climate of the Cold War in the higher education arena in the United States — at universities, research institutes, associations, and public foundations — whose raison d’être was originally to produce knowledge that would serve the global strategy and policy positions of the United States of America. Each of the disciplines under this heading takes an area as its legitimate object, and the identity of an area serves as the principle of disciplinary integrity and specialization. This concept of “area,”","PeriodicalId":44356,"journal":{"name":"Positions-Asia Critique","volume":"213 1","pages":"1 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78784899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Regime of Separation and the Performativity of Area","authors":"Naoki Sakai","doi":"10.1215/10679847-7251910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7251910","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:It is sometimes claimed that area studies is not independent of the racism that characterizes the modern world. This article attempts to examine this claimed association between area studies and racism. But what sort of configuration of social positions and social dynamics do we suggest by racism in the production of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences? Above all else, racism must be apprehended as a structure of the modern world, and it is necessary to understand how it serves to repeatedly confirm the anthropological difference between European humanity and the rest of humanity. The separation of the West (often synonymous with Europe) from the Rest of the world originates in the modern international world, whose internationality was initially confined to Western Europe. In the western promontory of the Eurasian continent, interstate equilibrium was sought after in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the conquest of the Americas was underway; this politics of regulated interstate rivalry gave rise to international law and the politics of internationality. The discourse of the-West-and-the-Rest was formed and routinized against this historical background. Area studies is a direct offshoot of this discursive formation, even though it was introduced to American higher education only much later after World War II. How the West can be separated from the Rest, how this process of separation can be repeatedly performed, and how the postulation of an area can be implicated in this assertion of anthropological difference, these are three main questions pursued in this article.","PeriodicalId":44356,"journal":{"name":"Positions-Asia Critique","volume":"16 1","pages":"241 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76613101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forces and Forms: Governmentality and Bios in the Time of Global Capital","authors":"Sandro Mezzadra, G. Walker","doi":"10.1215/10679847-7251858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7251858","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Global capitalism seems to have swept away all spatial limits to its expansion, making a simple definition of terms such as inside and outside problematic, to say the least. One of the fundamental problems we face today is that critical thought needs to forge concepts that are able to grasp the emergence of the world as a completely material dimension in which increasingly the most local of our experiences are themselves located. As a large part of the literature on globalization is coming to recognize, it is a world that is at the same time increasingly unified and increasingly divided, in which the operation of vectors of homogenization and connection are determined by the continuous multiplication of the factors of “diversity” and the activation of logics of disconnection and fragmentation. It is far from a “smooth” world, and thus we cannot attempt to think it critically through “smooth” concepts. On the contrary, we need “wrinkled” concepts, concepts that are sufficiently flexible to be applied on different scales, capable of grasping simultaneously the elements of unification and division (homogeneity and heterogeneity). What we truly need are concepts that can be applied to the world.","PeriodicalId":44356,"journal":{"name":"Positions-Asia Critique","volume":"12 7","pages":"145 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72478722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racializing Area Studies, Defetishizing China","authors":"S. Shih","doi":"10.1215/10679847-7251806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7251806","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Area studies was originally set up to provide strategically important information for the US empire, while ethnic studies was an aftermath of the civil rights movement critiques it from within. This alone may explain the hostility between area studies and ethnic studies, but the crucial pivot around which this hostility can be better understood is the question of race. What happens when we racialize area studies—that is, to investigate the racial unconscious of area studies—where the “area” as such has been turned into a fetish, with its attendant racial, gender, and libidinal politics? Reading select Sinophone literary texts as allegories of area studies, in this case the Sinitic script as the fetish object, further illuminates the imperative to defetishize the area and bring race squarely into area studies.","PeriodicalId":44356,"journal":{"name":"Positions-Asia Critique","volume":"5 1","pages":"33 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73729465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Financialization of Knowledge and the Pooling of Populations: On the Biopolitical Management of Geocultural Areas during the Transition from Industrial to Bioinformatic Capitalism","authors":"J. Solomon","doi":"10.1215/10679847-7251884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7251884","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay presents a genealogy of the postcolonial/postimperial apparatus of area and charts its contemporary mutation in relation to the transition currently underway from industrial capitalism to bioinformatic capitalism. The restructuring of the university into a service industry that debuted in the 1990s has dramatically affected the milieu in which area studies are practiced. The key to understanding this dramatic change is to be found in the articulation of financialization, bioinformatic technologies, and population management. The creation of an intrinsic link between value production and life, understood as code, has profound ramifications for the organization of the humanities, which are still indebted to very powerful presuppositions not only about species difference (such as the difference between human and animal) but also about the way in which species difference is related to or reflected in social difference. While area studies remain tenaciously tied to the geographical index of anthropological difference inherited from the colonial-imperial modernity, they are today in the business, like the rest of the humanities, of contributing to the construction of an entirely new topography. This topography is generally not visible to the “specialists” who engage in area studies work, nor to the “native social species” they study. It is accessible only from the perspective of the facilities and institutions that handle the “metadata” produced out of academic evaluation bureaucracies. Such topography, based on the algorithmic abstractions of financialization, is capable of mapping movements in everything from gene pools and student migration to recombinant DNA and literary studies, and then further mapping all manner of correlations among the various domains. Hence, while the area studies apparatus was previously a form of institutionalized nation-state racism, today it is becoming part of the bioinformatic circuits of anthropological sampling in the neocon/neoliberal loop between corporate sovereignty and mass surveillance.","PeriodicalId":44356,"journal":{"name":"Positions-Asia Critique","volume":"113 1","pages":"175 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82484829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nietzsche in Contemporary Biopolitics","authors":"Tazaki Hideaki, G. Walker","doi":"10.1215/10679847-7251871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7251871","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: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 and form. The object of biopolitics is precisely life in this sense. It goes without saying that today the thinker developing the most profound theorization of “bare life” is Giorgio Agamben. In Homo Sacer he expands on Foucault’s concept of biopower, developing a study of biopolitics in line with Benjamin and, above all, with Carl Schmitt. What can life do, what can the body do, what potentials do life and the body hold? Is the force that life nurtures external to it or immanent in it? In other words, is biopower, the power to make something live, an immanent potential in life or is it a force that intervenes from the outside? If we consider that from a certain point in time, a force that was previously external to life has now begun to intervene in it, this becomes a theoretical question concerning the apparatuses of power that are separate from the potentials of the body. Thereby this force called “power” becomes something with entirely different origins from that of life—but it is precisely Nietzsche who insists on something different from this way of grasping the question of power.","PeriodicalId":44356,"journal":{"name":"Positions-Asia Critique","volume":"1 1","pages":"159 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72931878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Images","authors":"Marat Raiymkulov","doi":"10.1515/9780822383611-030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383611-030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44356,"journal":{"name":"Positions-Asia Critique","volume":"57 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90709019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}