I am sitting here at what is a 2-day workshop on the ‘Asian turn’ in the Enchanted City.1 The conversations, one after another, turn to Asia, the Asia that is the source of revival. The celebratory rhetoric of the workshop makes visible the carnivalesque spirit around the ‘return’ of Asia. Here, to turn is to ‘re-turn’. What imaginaries of Asia are we returning to is a question that I am left wondering, uncomfortable with the wave of de-westernization that seems all too oblivious to the vast underbelly of the globalization politics within Asia that is dialectically intertwined with the story of the Asian re-turn. The stories of revivalism, Silk Roads and Asian maritime flows are euphemistically placed alongside the contemporary story of capital, seeing in these maps of the past the possibilities for the future. (Enchanted City, field notes from the ‘Asian turn’ panel and dates removed to protect confidentiality)

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什么是替代性现代性？在亚洲转向非殖民化的文化

我坐在这里，是一个为期2天的在魔法城市“亚洲转折”中的研讨会。1这些对话又一次转向亚洲，这是复兴的源头。讲习班的庆祝性言论使亚洲“回归”周围的狂欢节精神可见一斑。在这里，转弯就是“转弯”。我们回到的是亚洲的假想，这是一个我想知道的问题，它对去西方化浪潮感到不舒服，因为它似乎完全忽略了亚洲内部全球化政治的广泛底线，而这一点与亚洲的故事辩证地交织在一起。返回。复兴主义，丝绸之路和亚洲海流的故事被委婉地置于当代资本的故事旁边，在过去的这些地图中看到了未来的可能性。（附魔城，