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Description of  Globalization and Modernity in Asia: Performative Moments (Asian Visual Cultures, 3)

9462981124 pdf Much has been said regarding the global flows of information that are characteristic of modernity it has been frequently stressed that these conduits are so deeply embedded that local or national environments may be imagined as having a global span. Thus, while we are now well aware that the imagination is integral to global cultural processes, questions still arise about how the imagination of life with a global span is made possible at the level of everyday social practices. This book examines performative interventions that can generate a re-imagining of local publics both spatially grounded and mediatized and help to renegotiate the connection between the local and the global. After the performative turn of the 1960s, it has been understood that shared experience of performance as event or spectacle can transform interpretations of the global and the local and create new meanings, and this book continues in the direction of this important tradition, while also fully expanding on its consequences. Read more