figure of desire

zone of encounter

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

geographer

university professor

UCLA

innovator in the field of

East Asian studies

Japan studies

anthropology

is dreams and life-worlds condensed by social, political-economic, and cultural relations into recognizable, beckoning shapes: The beautiful and glamorous world of show business... 'America'... the cosmopolitan.

refers to the ways 'social, political-economic, and cultural relations condensed dreams and life-worlds into recognizable, beckoning shapes: the beautiful and glamorous world of show business... 'America'... the cosmopolitan... discourses of wealthy, urban Japanese masculinity... a modern Japanese nation. I call these charismatic cultural forms 'figures of desire.' I take the idea of the 'figure' from Donna Haraway and Claudia Castaneda, who stress the way that figures at once condense meaning and give it form. Unlike passive objects of desire, figures of desire give shape to people's dreams, just as they emerge through the material relations that inform the very dreams people can imagine.' (Faier 2009: 37-8).

is the social, political, and cultural condensations of dreams and life-worlds into recognizable, beckoning shapes ... for example 'show business' is a condensation of the beautiful and glamorous.

refers to the ways 'social, political-economic, and cultural relations condensed dreams and life-worlds into recognizable, beckoning shapes: the beautiful and glamorous world of show business... 'America'... the cosmopolitan... discourses of wealthy, urban Japanese masculinity... a modern Japanese nation. I call these charismatic cultural forms 'figures of desire.' I take the idea of the 'figure' from Donna Haraway and Claudia Castaneda, who stress the way that figures at once condense meaning and give it form.4 Unlike passive objects of desire, figures of desire give shape to people's dreams, just as they emerge through the material relations that inform the very dreams people can imagine.' (Faier 2009: 37-8).

is a nodes of social relationships where different histories, genealogies of meaning, and forms of desire coincide within unequal relations of power.

zones of incounters are 'nodes of social relationships where different histories, genealogies of meaning, and forms of desire coincided within unequal relations of power. (Faier 2009: 41)

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