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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 Takubokuâs 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 âScopic Regimes of Modernity,â Martin Jay concedes the prominence of the visual in the âWest.â There is little dispute, he argues, that âwhether we focus on âthe mirror of natureâ 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.â2 Recognizing the importance of the visual in modern culture, Jay still rejects the notion of a single modern âscopic regime.â And it is Jayâs 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
positions asia critique – Duke University Press
Published: Dec 1, 1994
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