研究期間：10301~10312;This project addresses the question of how technology of textile industry (the production and consumption of silk in particular) is weaved into the technique, or the fabrication of fashion in terms of dispositive of territoriality in capitalist Second Empire. Based on the reading of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Zola, Simmel and Benjamin, I am particularly interested in seeking how silk, as object of thauma, is re-figured in literary works along with the emerging social norm of fashion in terms of the modern dispositive of territoriality. By so doing, we will then look into the space of fashion-consumption configured by arcades, department stores, or fashion magazines, and see how the fabrication of a modern subject is (re)textualized together with the modulation of fashion as milieu. The problematic resides especially in questioning the function of mediated technology embodied by the object of estrangement/admiration, such as silk, in the process of (de-)formation which points to the instance of fracture, interrogating the notion of territoriality in terms of slippery modulation.
