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| | how ghostly were the 1920s in Japan? |
 | | In 1868, the modern emperor was revived as the absolute origin in the Japanese mentality and created the Japanese nation as his projected complement. |
 | | The emperor, however, was Janus-faced: on the one hand, he was the absolute paternal origin of the nation, on the other hand, the claim to continuity in his genealogy demanded a linear historical time. |
 | | Due to this deliberate differentiation in planes, this photomontage showed a strangely manipulated optical dimensionality, and more importantly, destabilized the origin-projection structure by undermining the scenographic dimensionality born on that privileged origin of light. |
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