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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 2016-06 上傳時間 3-Oct-2017 11:41:01 (UTC+8) 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 dc.creator (作者) Parry, Amie Elizabeth en_US dc.date (日期) 2016-06 dc.date.accessioned 3-Oct-2017 11:41:01 (UTC+8) - dc.date.available 3-Oct-2017 11:41:01 (UTC+8) - dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 3-Oct-2017 11:41:01 (UTC+8) - dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/113375 - dc.description.abstract (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. dc.format.extent 1041429 bytes - dc.format.mimetype application/pdf - dc.relation (關聯) 文山評論：文學與文化, 9(2),39-71 zh_TW dc.subject (關鍵詞) corruption ; transparency ; cultural politics ; science fiction ; anime ; popular culture en_US dc.title (題名) Exemplary Affect: Corruption and Transparency in Popular Cultures en_US dc.type (資料類型) article
