Hong Kong: Other histories, other politics

Public Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 293-313

  Abbas, Ackbar ^a  

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EID: 0031477794     PISSN: 08992363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-9-3-293     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. See Paul Virilio, "Perspectives of Real Time," trans. Chris Kraus and Yvonne Shafir, in Metropolis, ed. Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal (New York: Rizzoli, 1991), 59-64.
2. Many believe that the recent election which returned Mr. Tung Chee-hwa to the office of Chief Executive was very much a "show" election. Mr. Tung had Beijing's approval - and no serious rivals.
3. See Arthur Rimbaud, "Vagabonds," in Illuminations, trans. Louise Varese (New York: New Directions, 1957). 67.
4. Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life," in On Individuality and Social Form, ed. Donald N. Levine (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), 324-339.
5. This is the argument of Naonori Matsuda, whose essay unfortunately could not be included in this issue.
6. See Paul Virilio, The Lost Dimension, trans. Daniel Moshenberg (New York: Semiotext(e), 1991).
7. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn (London: Fontana Books, 1973), 235.
8. See Giles Deleuze, Cinema II, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), 126-155.
9. See Rem Koolhaas, S, M, L, XL (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995), 1238-1264. Koolhaas says that when "it elevates mediocrity to a higher level," the Generic City is "at its most subversive, its most ideological" (1261).
10. Michael Yahuda, Hong Kong: China's Challenge (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), 49. Though Yahuda is both perspicacious and perspicuous on many points, even he succumbs to the view that "British policy towards Hong Kong has been shaped by - moral obligation" (ibid, 73). A genealogy of political morals is long overdue.
11. See Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason, trans. Michael Eldred (London and New York: Verso, 1988), 5.