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In the Scopic Regime of Discovery: Ishikawa Takuboku's Diary in Roman Script and the Gendered Premise of Self-Identity

In the Scopic Regime of Discovery: Ishikawa Takuboku's Diary in Roman Script and the Gendered... positions 23 : 0 1994 by Duke University Press lnouye Scopic Regime of Discovery were the questions that initiated my exploration of Takuboku’s Diary in Roman Script. My desire and disappointment quickly brought to focus the problem of sight-what sight is and how sight is generated in a modern text. T h e general importance of the sense of sight to the modern period is a point many have addressed. In his “Scopic Regimes of Modernity,” Martin Jay concedes the prominence of the visual in the “West.” There is little dispute, he argues, that “whether we focus on ‘the mirror of nature’ metaphor in the philosophy of Richard Rorty or emphasize the prevalence of surveillance with Michel Foucault or bemoan the society of spectacle with Guy Debord, we confront again and again the ubiquity of vision as the master sense of the modern era.”2 Recognizing the importance of the visual in modern culture, Jay still rejects the notion of a single modern “scopic regime.” And it is Jay’s suggestion of the plurality of modern scopic regimes that provides me an opening. For it was the possibility of a scopic regime in modern Japan that might allow me to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

In the Scopic Regime of Discovery: Ishikawa Takuboku's Diary in Roman Script and the Gendered Premise of Self-Identity

positions asia critique , Volume 2 (3) – Dec 1, 1994

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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1527-8271
DOI
10.1215/10679847-2-3-542
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positions 23 : 0 1994 by Duke University Press lnouye Scopic Regime of Discovery were the questions that initiated my exploration of Takuboku’s Diary in Roman Script. My desire and disappointment quickly brought to focus the problem of sight-what sight is and how sight is generated in a modern text. T h e general importance of the sense of sight to the modern period is a point many have addressed. In his “Scopic Regimes of Modernity,” Martin Jay concedes the prominence of the visual in the “West.” There is little dispute, he argues, that “whether we focus on ‘the mirror of nature’ metaphor in the philosophy of Richard Rorty or emphasize the prevalence of surveillance with Michel Foucault or bemoan the society of spectacle with Guy Debord, we confront again and again the ubiquity of vision as the master sense of the modern era.”2 Recognizing the importance of the visual in modern culture, Jay still rejects the notion of a single modern “scopic regime.” And it is Jay’s suggestion of the plurality of modern scopic regimes that provides me an opening. For it was the possibility of a scopic regime in modern Japan that might allow me to

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Published: Dec 1, 1994

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