Oriental Cities, Postmodern Futures: Naked Lunch, Blade Runner, and Neuromancer

Yu, Timothy

doi:10.1093/melus/33.4.45

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“…The focus of this research question is primarily on the representations themselves, instead of what these representations may be doing in relation to discourses of Ornamentalism. I selected the timeframe of 2018 to 2022 in order to focus my analysis on examples of high-tech media that have not yet been thoroughly explored -in contrast to media like Blade Runner and Cloud Atlas, which many authors have analyzed through the lenses of Orientalism and Techno-Orientalism(Nishime, 2017;Park, 2018;Yu, 2008) -as well as situate my research in a more recent context. I address the ways in which Ornamentalist representations of East Asian women can be perceived as subversive in the following research question.…”

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Re-ornamenting Asian Femininity: Ornamentalism as Opportunity in Representations of Asian Women in High-tech Popular Media

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2024

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<p>The Asian woman has historically been objectified and fetishized in popular media and visual culture, and is portrayed as an expendable, hypersexualized object of desire (Cheng, 2019). Despite the notions of desire and fetish attached to Asian women, Asian femininity remains underexplored in studies of race and gender. Cheng (2019) explores the intertwining notions of corporeality and objecthood associated with Asian femininity and proposes the theory of Ornamentalism as a way of understanding the Asian woman's negotiation of her existence. Through a visual social semiotic analysis of 40 samples of promotional materials from three East Asian musical artists, this study explores the ways in which high-tech and AI-mediated media representations may allow Asian women to assert and establish visibility despite objectification, through the lens of Cheng's (2019) theory of Ornamentalism.</p>

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