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Geopolitical Fantasy, Acts of Speculation, The Affect of Difference…
Geopolitical Fantasy
Identification Trouble in
an Imagined Landscape
geographical imagination
continental action cinema
reoriented the oppressive regime
from the Pacific to Manchuria
Asianism / popular culture (1960s~1970s)
The absence of Asianism
state doctrine
academic analysis(~2003)
Break the Chain（1971）
three men:
refuse to join the resistance army
accept national identity wholeheartedly
negative respondence to hyper-nationalist project (1960s)
An Eagle in the Wilderness （1969）
displacements & dis/locations
（changed the traditional of continental action film genre )
Chang/ (not) resistance army
Honto/ (turns his back on) the army
dis/allocation and the trouble with identification and identity
critical geopolitical fantasy
which doubts, disrupts, and transcends the finite boundaries of the nation-state and nationality
imagined communities
protective and proactive mental work
for the modern nation-state
Geo-Fantasy Elsewhere
Cold War dictatorship era
Public fantasy / films （1960s ～1970s ）
Continental action cinema / Manchu Western
national cinema
non-national cinema
Northeast China
（formerly Manchuria / Manchukuo）
Colonial period （anti-Japan）
Prasenjit Duara
Manchukuo
historical laboratory
globalizing forces are mediated by East Asian modernity
multiethnic mixing
trans-Asia beyond the national
“transnational phenomenon”
“inauthentic” space： South Korea
familiarity & unfamiliarity
location — imaginative landscape
(public fantasy)
a history of resistance
a desire to be elsewhere
Park Junghee regime’s modernization project (nation-building process) / some films do some do not
No freedom of travel
Personal experience:
Kimpo International Airport/ globe game
Her mother’s memory about Manchuria
Acts of Speculation
Speculative media histories
“fact” -contingent
the margins of media history
“center stage”
the foundations of film history
“rebellious unlearning”
Forgetting film history
remembering other histories
overlooked, silenced, or ignored
What if
repressed narratives
Speculation
irreverence
established methods
evidentiary norms
disciplinary conventions
Donna J. Haraway
SF
a mode of attention
a theory of history
a practice of worlding
speculative criticism
past- speculatively conjure -future
The Affect of Difference (Intro)
Imperial Formations and
Strategies of Differential Inclusion
imperial formations
gradated forms of sovereignty
processes of becoming that decimate, displace, and (re)claim
multiple tenses
affect of racial difference
race and racism
“scientific” racism (phenotypical differences)
neo-racism (cultural or linguistic markers)
(essentialist)
imperial racism
modern antiracist theory
subjectivity
Japan’s imperial sovereignty
inclusion and exclusion
differential inclusion
the political function of the
everyday moods and sentiments
Comparative Racialization and
the Intimiate Politics of Assimilation
politics of comparison
spatial and temporal scope of empire
re-vision colonial history
colony and metropole
affect
Affect
diversity of the definitions
mediation process
ideology
Hokkaido & Okinawa
“internal colonies”
Korea
intimacy as a means to assimilation
Taiwan
forced Japanese-language education
Representational Logic and
the Affect of Difference
Representation
imperial subjecthood [assimilation]
minimal difference (of colonizer from colonized)
reflection of the “known”
emerging sensibility (inclusion and exclusion)
Affects
everyday experiences
social-political collective
Manchuria Tour
modern urban paradise
a wild frontier of different exotic cultures
Wartime Japanese brodcasters
strong emotional ties / affective bonds
East Asia
postcolonial
without necessarily being postimperial
Postwar American imperium
racial identities
postcolonial bodies
reconstructive surgery -eyelids and noses
new form of subjectivity -American norms