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281. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Mieke Bal Moments of Meaning-Making III: G–I
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The three short pieces below are the third set of vignettes in an alphabetically ordered series of entries, which, together, will constitute a non-subject-centered autobiography. Professional memories are merged with personal ones. I call them “vignettes” to underline the fragmentary nature of memory.
282. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Kyle Dacuyan Memoria
283. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
David Perry “She Lives in the Temporary”: Bodies without Organs, “Engendered Opposites,” and Dao-Time in Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway Cycle
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Han Bo’s 2011 China Eastern Railway nine-poem cycle begins and ends with the figures of two different women, initiating and then intensifying via the cycle’s structure of a circuit, or loop, a reading of the poems in which conceptual binaries are scrambled and undone. Gender binaries are at the root of the larger structure of binary pairs, and as such gender serves as a particularly intense site of a critique that may be read in coproductive terms by way of both contemporary critical theory and China’s deep philosophical tradi­tions. In this essay’s reading of the poems, modernity—in both Western and Chinese forms—is deconstructed in ways that are legible in terms of aspects of 道 Dao as well as concepts drawn from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Further in this regard, Kyoo Lee’s analysis of xuanpin (“dark female animal”) in the Daodejing helps bring this deconstructive critique into a space of “ontologically interfused or fermented thoughts” that challenge gender itself as a stable and stabilizing category, positing instead a “contemporized” conception of Dao as ceaseless dynamic flux and flow with respect to gender as well as all received and constructively “natural”-ized binaries. The poems gesture toward a dissolution of conceptual binaries, and further toward a state of generative flux, that is not only obliterative of “modernity” (with an emphasis on time and temporalities) but also radically productive of capacities for new, creative apprehensions and articulations of relations between humankind and nonhuman nature. This analysis has broad application ranging from concrete historical moments and events (the history of the 中东铁路, the China Eastern Railway) to ideological formations, national and civilizational projects and identities, and ongoing planetary ecological crisis. Finally, it points toward possible productive entanglements and fusions of lines of Chinese thought (Dao as an aspect not only of Daoism but also of Confucian thought and, in less direct ways, forms of Chinese Buddhism) with lines of Western philosophical endeavor.
284. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Yuming Piao Mind the Gaps: Western Modernity, Chinese Feminine Subjectivity, and the Industrial-Rural Divide in Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway Poetics
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“Modern Sexual Organicity” (《现代性器》 Xiàndài Xìngqì) and “Super Killer” (《大杀器》 Dà Shaqì) by Han Bo, which I translate and discuss here, unfold around the poet’s playfully sustained series of observations of the irreconcilable gaps and irreducible dissonances between Western modernity and Chinese contemporaneity. Focusing on the (post)structural dimension of the extreme intricacy and intensity of Han’s language game that polysemically intersects with traditional Chinese poetic moves as well, which itself mirrors the structurally (bi)polarized and gendered social realities in China, this essay highlights the unfused/able figure of the woman, a “farmwoman” on the train in particular, a moving image of precarious mobility, transience, and vitality.
285. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Yuan Gao Equipmentality as United Actor in Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway Poems and Questions of Female Agency
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Trains, a representation of Western technology and civilization, entered China in the early twentieth century. Han Bo poeticizes this train-induced Chinese modernity and its ongoing processes by mobilizing female images and characters on, of, or around the train, itself a complex of technocultural material forces entering into the vision of the modern Chinese people both individually and collectively. This essay analyzes such a train of train images in two poems by Han Bo, “Modern Sexual Equipmentality” and “Mass-Murdering Equipmentality,” while providing a brief contextual and conceptual framework for understanding some of the literary and philosophical aspects of contemporary Chinese poetry with some focus on their gender dynamics.
286. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Dong Sun The Song of the Body: Subjectless Interfacing
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Retro-writing has ethical implications. How a speaking subject applies a retro-perspective frames a piece of writing within certain cultural discourses. In contemporary Chinese poetry, cultural nostalgia and the attempted revival of ancient aesthetics is a complex issue, one that is largely the result of a general interest in cultural archeology, writers’ anxiety of influence, the desire to escape from various political pressures, and the claim of a need for a distinc­tive Chinese cultural identity. The subject in many contemporary Chinese poems, in many cases, is a male subject striving to retrieve the premodern holistic state of being, which is illusory. Han Bo’s two poems “Modern Sex Machine” and “Mass(ive) Killing Machine” are unique in that they examine the bludgeoning of modernity within postmodern parameters and attempt to map the dynamics of modern and contemporary subjecthood, which is in fact a transcorporeal experience of the subject as that which is, ultimately, subjectless. Such work, in creating a cross-corporeal subjectless subject, embraces alterity and renders possibilities for the reader to reject a prior unitary transcendental subject that is illusory, and thereby to discover the beings of themselves and their roles in the world—and to extend this work of reconfiguring subjecthood from literature into other aspects of social life.
287. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Yizhong Ning A Double Vein of Feminized Anxiety in Modernity and Contemporaneity
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Translating and commenting on two poems by Han Bo, “Modern Organ” and “The Big Killer,” that both focus on techno-scientific modernity and anxiety in the contemporary time and its impact on female subjectivity, this essay reflects on such an asymmetrically gendered burden of modern material progress to show that the embedded and added patriarchal obstacles, undeniably there, should be taken seriously. How, then, to achieve a more balanced gender equality in the modern time is a question that remains challenging for all.
288. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Han Bo, Chen Xiaoyu The Way That Splits beneath Heaven
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In the Chinese cultural imaginary, the road (Dao, “way”), especially trade routes, has always been an important metaphor for changing circum­stances including shifting ideological grounds. Its own life trajectory is both classical and contemporary, and its emergence predates the trains, nation-states, sovereign powers, and so on, all such signs of techno-political modernity at work. Also in that regard, spiritually inflected images of the “West Heaven,” also an old name for India, where Buddhism originated, have always been present in East Asian cultural spheres, which, in turn, points to the presence of a deeper Eurasian world connected through the Middle East as well. Now, however, quite strikingly, such global conceptual structures, long part of the evolving Chinese cultural tradition too, are being rapidly localized and recast into something else. For example, in China, Buddhism, a religion fundamentally critical of idol worshipping, has become pantheistic, and the political ideas that originally promoted equality newly patriarchal. For those living along the China Eastern Railway tracks in the twenty-first century, all such ideologies have become part of a tensional fight of gods in which they, too, are caught: on one hand they long for a linear progression of society that would never turn back, but on the other hand they are reluctant to abandon the self-comforting theory of reincarnation. This is also how they come to praise the imported concept of the motherland while worshipping figures of traditional patriarchal power.
289. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Bernabé S. Mendoza Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
290. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Trevor Norris Helen Palmer, Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange
291. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 12 > Issue: 1/2
Shannon Hoff Mary C. Rawlinson, The Betrayal of Substance: Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”
292. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Verena Erlenbusch Foucault’s Sad Heterotopology of the Body
293. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
John Kaiser Ortiz Gloria Anzaldúa and the Problem of Violence against Women
294. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Aimi Hamraie Beyond Accommodation: Disability, Feminist Philosophy, and the Design of Everyday Academic Life
295. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
John McMahon Emotional Orientations: Simone de Beauvoir and Sara Ahmed on Subjectivity and the Emotional Phenomenology of Gender
296. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Kelly Oliver Service Dogs: Between Animal Studies and Disability Studies
297. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Christopher Taylor Purushottama Bilimoria and Dina Al-Kassim, editors. Postcolonial Reason and Its Critique: Deliberations on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Thoughts
298. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Lisa Baraitser Sarah LaChance Adams. Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a “Good” Mother Would Do: The Ethics of Ambivalence
299. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Amy Ray Stewart Elaine P. Miller. Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times
300. philoSOPHIA: Volume > 6 > Issue: 2
Elizabeth Benninger Tina Chanter and Sean D. Kirkland, editors. The Returns of Antigone: Interdisciplinary Essays