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In the first part of the essay on constructing universes we examine the universalizing knowledges that seemingly controlled human actors in the precolonial period. We also look at some nineteenth- and twentieth-century examples of the clash of epistemologies. We conclude this section by asking whether the visionary projects and world-views in postcolonial Southeast Asia can be looked at as cosmologies, as a struggle between old and new epistemologies, between mysticism and technology. The second part of the essay concerns the truth regimes that appeared in the colonial period, beginning with the practical business of occupation and gaining control and followed by the establishment of Far Eastern institutes that served the colonial 'will to know.' One of the important sources for colonial knowledge was the corpus of shastric manuals found throughout Southeast Asia on all levels of society. We will examine one of these manuals and read it against the grain of the colonial regime of truth which sought to master and interpret it.

In the first part of the essay on constructing universes we examine the universalizing knowledges that seemingly controlled human actors in the precolonial period. We also look at some nineteenth- and twentieth-century examples of the clash of epistemologies. We conclude this section by asking whether the visionary projects and world-views in postcolonial Southeast Asia can be looked at as cosmologies, as a struggle between old and new epistemologies, between mysticism and technology. The second part of the essay concerns the truth regimes that appeared in the colonial period, beginning with the practical business of occupation and gaining control and followed by the establishment of Far Eastern institutes that served the colonial 'will to know.' One of the important sources for colonial knowledge was the corpus of shastric manuals found throughout Southeast Asia on all levels of society. We will examine one of these manuals and read it against the grain of the colonial regime of truth which sought to master and interpret it.

It has been said that post-capitalist society is a 'knowledge society.' Certainly the revolution in information technology has made the issue of knowledge production controversial and topical. Southeast Asian societies, while they may not be post-capitalist, have a thirst for knowledge as their capitalist classes become more complex and search for solutions to their problems. These problems of the middle classes are not only commercial, professional, and political, but also personal, psychological, and familial. Cable TV, satellite services, CD-ROM, the Internet, and so forth, sensitize us to the production, formatting, transmission, and reception of knowledge not only in our own age but also in the past. Since early times the state has been both shaped by and involved itself in the processes of knowledge formation and dissemination.

Cultures at war in Cold War Southeast Asia : an introduction / Tony Day -- Filming Philippine modernity during the Cold War : the case of Lamberto Avellana / Francisco Benitez -- Modem drama, politics, and the postcolonial aesthetics of left-nationalism in North Sumatra : the forgotten theater of Indonesia's Lekra, 1955-65 / Michael Bodden -- Saigonese art during the war : modernity versus ideology / Boitran Huynh-Beattie -- Cold War rhetoric and the body : physical cultures in early socialist Laos / Simon Creak -- Still stuck in the mud : imagining world literature during the Cold War in Indonesia and Vietnam / Tony Day -- Raising xenophobic socialism against a Communist threat : re-reading the lines of an army propaganda magazine in 1950s Burma / Bo Bo -- The man with the golden gauntlets : Mit Chaibancha's Insi thorng and the hybridization of Red and Yellow Perils in Thai Cold War action cinema / Rachel V. Harrison -- Festival politics : Singapore's 1963 South-East Asia Cultural Festival / Jennifer Lindsay -- Filling in the gaps of history : independent documentaries re-present the Malayan left / Gaik Cheng Khoo -- Recalling and representing Cold War conflict and its aftermath in contemporary Indonesian film and theatre / Barbara Hatley