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題名: | Exemplary Affect: Corruption and Transparency in Popular Cultures | 作者: | Parry, Amie Elizabeth | 關鍵詞: | corruption ; transparency ; cultural politics ; science fiction ; anime ; popular culture | 日期: | 六月-2016 | 上傳時間: | 3-十月-2017 | 摘要: | This paper identifies a critical reflection on a corruption vs. transparency discourse, and its attendant structures of feeling, in contemporary East Asian cultural texts. These texts illustrate how such a discourse can be deployed to assert exemplary status for accomplished individuals or members of privileged groups-a status, however, particularly vulnerable to scandal. Feeling exemplary in this sense is a paradox of progressive ethics. I analyze a video made in support of the Sunflower Movement that effectively uses kawaii, meaning cute or lovable, as a political term to strategically posit (and perhaps subtly question) an open, exuberant happiness as a designator of a democratic people, and Satoshi Kon`s anime film Paprika, based on the science fiction novel of the same name. The latter explores the nightmarish dream of interpersonal transparency made literal in institutional contexts, while refusing a neat opposition between transparency and corruption. Because of their detailed illustration of and commentary on exemplary affect, I argue that contemporary East Asian cultural texts are an important resource for developing a critical understanding of neoliberal and postdevelopmental discourses of transparency and corruption. | 關聯: | 文山評論:文學與文化, 9(2),39-71 | 資料類型: | article |
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