Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture

Note on Translations vi Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. When Reflexivity Becomes Porn: Mutations of a Modernist Theoretical Practice 13 2. On Captivation: A Remainder of the "Indistinction of Art and Nonart" (written with Julian Rohrhuber) 31 3. Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity, and Lao She 59 4. Sacrifice, Mimesis, and the Theorizing of Victimhood 81 5. "I insist on the Christian dimension": On Foregiveness ... and the Outside of the Human 107 6. American Studies in Japan, Japan in American Studies: Challenges of the Heterolingual Address 133 7. Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze's Method 151 8. Framing the Original: Toward a New Visibility of the Orient 169 Postscript. Intimations from a Scene of Capture 183 Index 187