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The Politics of Postmodernism
01 Jan 1989-
TL;DR: In this article, the postmodernist representation is de-naturalized the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history, Re-presenting the past: 'total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text.
Abstract: General editor's preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Representing the postmodern: What is postmodernism? Representation and its politics, Whose postmodernism? Postmodernity, postmodernism, and modernism. 2. Postmodernist representation: De-naturalizing the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history. 3. Re-presenting the past: 'Total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text. 4. The politics of parody: Parodic postmodern representation, Double-coded politics, Postmodern film? 5. Text/image border tensions: The paradoxes of photography, The ideological arena of photo-graphy, The politics of address 6. Postmodernism and feminisms: Politicizing desire, Feminist postmodernist parody, The private and the public. Concluding note: some directed reading. Bibliography. Index.
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TL;DR: When individuals come unstuck from their native land, they are called migrants as mentioned in this paper, and their hopefulness is the best thing about migrants and seceded nations, and what's the worst thing is the emptiness of one's luggage.
Abstract: When individuals come unstuck from their native land, they are called migrants. [... ] What is the best thing about migrant peoples and seceded nations? I think it is their hopefulness. I . . . ] And what's the worst thing? It is the emptiness of one's luggage. I'm speaking of invisible suitcases, not the physical, perhaps cardboard, variety containing a few meaning-drained mementoes: we have come unstuck from more than land. We have floated upwards from history, from memory, from Time. —Salman Rushdie, Shame
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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: The one who made too much of an effort to understand, the one who underwent the agonies of a conversion, who embraced the customs of those who forged their destinies in this primeval slime in a hand-to-hand struggle with the mountains and the trees, was vulnerable because certain forces of the world he had left behind continued to operate in him as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The one who made too much of an effort to understand, the one who underwent the agonies of a conversion, the one whose idea was that of renunciation when he embraced the customs of those who forged their destinies in this primeval slime in a hand-to-hand struggle with the mountains and the trees, was vulnerable because certain forces of the world he had left behind continued to operate in him. Titles are never simple or innocent especially when they appear to be so. This holds true for the seemingly innocuous title of this chapter. For what should give us pause in the title is the innocent, commonplace conjunction. Why is ‘primitivism’ – a term that summons up colonial projects and projections and enables the West to assert its modernity and maturity – linked through the conjunction ‘and’ to ‘postcolonial literature’ which, one can justifiably assume, would reject the scandalous problems associated with the term ‘primitivism’? If, as literary and art historians have informed us repeatedly, modernist art and literature relied heavily on the resources provided by so-called primitive cultures, then surely postcolonial writers and artists would be critical of any form of primitivism that energized Western modernism? What, then, is the status of the conjunction in our title? Does it imply some kind of relation between primitivism and postcolonial literature? What sort of relation do we have here? Is it an antagonistic relation in which postcolonialism is opposed to primitivism? Or a complementary relation in which postcolonial literature finds primitivism useful as a strategic partner?
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TL;DR: This paper examined how mesomobilization deploys on the web to foster online resistance, focusing on a particular cyber protest targeting a governmental campaign against illegal downloading and show how webzines, as meso-level actors, managed to turn their readers' comments into appealing frames around cultural legitimacy, Internet freedom and morality.
Abstract: This article examines how mesomobilization deploys on the web to foster online resistance. We focus on a particular cyber protest targeting a governmental campaign against illegal downloading and show how webzines, as meso-level actors, managed to turn their readers’ comments into appealing frames around cultural legitimacy, Internet freedom and morality. In this instance, web users initiated the diagnostic framing and provided webzines with motives to launch a call to arms. This took the form of parody that produced a disruption and a set of grievances against the official campaign. Our fieldwork reveals the existence of online dormant networks – pre-existing fluid cultural groups sharing common interests – that meso-level actors readily mobilize when a crisis arises. Our study extends our understanding of consumer resistance by highlighting the dynamics of online networks in organizing overt protest and political challenge.
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Cites background from "The Politics of Postmodernism"
...Hutcheon has argued that parody’s politics are essentially ambivalent, since parody itself constitutes a kind of “authorized transgression” which both legitimizes and contests the source text (Hutcheon 1989, 101)....
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...Disrupting (what Hutcheon 1989 calls “de-doxifying”) and then “reshaping” (Hutchinson 1983) our ideological frameworks, parody is inherently political (Gong and Yang 2010)....
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...This “refunctioning” of the source text is in effect a recontextualization; in parody, and particularly in postmodern parody, the original material is “placed in an entirely different context” (Hutcheon 1989, 105)....
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: Inhalte und Formen feministischer Politik sind unklarer denn je, oszillieren zwischen einer bisweilen schon fossilierten Gleichstellungspolitik und Versuchen, an womoglich uberkommenen Bewegungsstrukturen festzuhalten.
Abstract: Etwas abgekuhlt sind die Debatten um die Kritik an der Kategorie Geschlecht und um Postmoderne und politisches Handeln, die die feministischen Auseinandersetzungen Anfang der neunziger Jahre pragten. Was viel Staub im feministischen Getriebe aufwirbelte, hat sich vielerorts langst beruhigt. Einigen Konflikten ging schlicht die Luft aus, andere wurden stillgelegt, durchgearbeitet nur wenige. Geblieben sind uns unbehagliche Geschlechterkonstruktionen und -verhaltnisse sowie massive Unsicherheiten, wie politisch weiter. Inhalte und Formen feministischer Politik sind unklarer denn je, oszillieren zwischen einer bisweilen schon fossilierten Gleichstellungspolitik und Versuchen, an womoglich uberkommenen Bewegungsstrukturen festzuhalten.
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...4 Vgl. hierzu vor allem Hutcheon (1985, 1989); Jameson (1982, 1984); Lovell (1983)....
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