但徒勞永遠勝過犬儒。hope someone can say that to me when next time cynicism sinks in
when：Jun 9, 2020 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Where: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95731288262
The Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies brings together a panel discussion on the ongoing legal crisis in Hong Kong, stemming from the recent Decision by China's Central People's Government to draft and impose a national security law. Experts will discuss the recent Decision and provide context about the Basic Law of Hong Kong, and analyze the implications of the Decision on political movements in Hong Kong, and the effects on the lives of the people of Hong Kong.
Featuring Sharon Hom, Nicholas Howson, Louisa Lim and Martin Flaherty, with opening remarks from incoming LRCCS Director Twila Tardif.
Where: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95731288262
The Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies brings together a panel discussion on the ongoing legal crisis in Hong Kong, stemming from the recent Decision by China's Central People's Government to draft and impose a national security law. Experts will discuss the recent Decision and provide context about the Basic Law of Hong Kong, and analyze the implications of the Decision on political movements in Hong Kong, and the effects on the lives of the people of Hong Kong.
Featuring Sharon Hom, Nicholas Howson, Louisa Lim and Martin Flaherty, with opening remarks from incoming LRCCS Director Twila Tardif.
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How does cinema engage with poetics and baroque cyberspace? How does language learning and music meet? Interested in cyberspace, cyborg, film, literature, East Asia, tone language and education?
Don't miss our last summer webinar "Poetic Cinema, Music in Tone Languages, and Baroque Cyberspace" on Monday, 8 June, at 4 pm BST with Gerald Jia Ding (Comparative Literature, Stanford University) Rui Qi Choo (Applied Linguistics and Education, University of York) and Ting Zheng(East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University)
Details and Zoom link could be checked on the website page of Centre for Modern Studies, University of York:
https://www.york.ac.uk/modernstudies/events/2019-20/summer/countervoices-8june/
算了下應該是北京時間週一晚上 11:00 開始
Don't miss our last summer webinar "Poetic Cinema, Music in Tone Languages, and Baroque Cyberspace" on Monday, 8 June, at 4 pm BST with Gerald Jia Ding (Comparative Literature, Stanford University) Rui Qi Choo (Applied Linguistics and Education, University of York) and Ting Zheng(East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University)
Details and Zoom link could be checked on the website page of Centre for Modern Studies, University of York:
https://www.york.ac.uk/modernstudies/events/2019-20/summer/countervoices-8june/
算了下應該是北京時間週一晚上 11:00 開始
https://www.mpweekly.com/culture/%e9%99%b3%e5%86%a0%e4%b8%ad-%e7%be%85%e6%b0%b8%e7%94%9f-%e7%81%ab%e7%b4%85%e5%b9%b4%e4%bb%a3-132266
烏托邦是不存在的。烏托邦是不可企及的。烏托邦不是恆常不變的，而是必然會變異、扭曲的。 正因如此，文學藝術對烏托邦的反思才如此重要。藝術提供了不同的 面向，讓我可以看到自己的盲點。 沒有了這種反思，世界就會變得扁 平。單一的美學、秩序、標準會加諸所有人身上，脫序者會被犧牲、 改造，世界失去多樣性，變成某些人的樂土，某些人的地獄。
這的確很煩厭─ 藝術經常提醒我們，世界不完美，連烏托邦都不存在。我們為什麼不能「正面」一些，「簡單」一些？然而歷史總是告訴我們，文學藝術的批判是合理的，現實的「烏托邦」是殘酷的。唯有通過不斷的自省和包容，在文學藝術的滋養之下，我們才能在生命的過程中，一步步趨向那理想的世界。
烏托邦是不存在的。烏托邦是不可企及的。烏托邦不是恆常不變的，而是必然會變異、扭曲的。 正因如此，文學藝術對烏托邦的反思才如此重要。藝術提供了不同的 面向，讓我可以看到自己的盲點。 沒有了這種反思，世界就會變得扁 平。單一的美學、秩序、標準會加諸所有人身上，脫序者會被犧牲、 改造，世界失去多樣性，變成某些人的樂土，某些人的地獄。
這的確很煩厭─ 藝術經常提醒我們，世界不完美，連烏托邦都不存在。我們為什麼不能「正面」一些，「簡單」一些？然而歷史總是告訴我們，文學藝術的批判是合理的，現實的「烏托邦」是殘酷的。唯有通過不斷的自省和包容，在文學藝術的滋養之下，我們才能在生命的過程中，一步步趨向那理想的世界。
明周文化
陳冠中╳羅永生 不夠理想主義 - 明周文化
理想主義者，應該要知道唯物辯證的歷史觀。馬克思認為， 存在決定意識，沒有權力的人，通過革命、鬥爭，得到權力，卻矛盾地成為自己曾要鬥倒的對象。這看似可恨?如你採用唯物辯證的歷史觀，就會認同，在這個反覆革命的過程，世界會變得更好。然而這代表我們不可從前人身上學習嗎?不，通 ...
Amazon.com: Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit eBook: Mears, Ashley: Kindle Store
https://www.amazon.com/Very-Important-People-Status-Circuit-ebook/dp/B0824B49LS
"Free things are a clear marker of status in the VIP world. Free entry, drinks, and dinners signal recognition of a person’s social worth. “I always said, in nightlife it’s not what you spend, it’s what you get for free. That’s real power,” said Malcolm, the promoter I followed in New York and Miami. “You got a lot of money and you spend a lot, of course you get respect. But if you don’t spend a dime, that’s power.”"
https://www.amazon.com/Very-Important-People-Status-Circuit-ebook/dp/B0824B49LS
"Free things are a clear marker of status in the VIP world. Free entry, drinks, and dinners signal recognition of a person’s social worth. “I always said, in nightlife it’s not what you spend, it’s what you get for free. That’s real power,” said Malcolm, the promoter I followed in New York and Miami. “You got a lot of money and you spend a lot, of course you get respect. But if you don’t spend a dime, that’s power.”"
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/perfume-articles-of-interest-9/
99% Invisible 的 mini podcast 系列: Articles of Interest，介紹跟穿戴相關物品和概念的前世今生，有點意思
99% Invisible 的 mini podcast 系列: Articles of Interest，介紹跟穿戴相關物品和概念的前世今生，有點意思
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-coronavirus-and-our-future
「The critic Raymond Williams once wrote that every historical period has its own “structure of feeling.” How everything seemed in the nineteen-sixties, the way the Victorians understood one another, the chivalry of the Middle Ages, the world view of Tang-dynasty China: each period, Williams thought, had a distinct way of organizing basic human emotions into an overarching cultural system. Each had its own way of experiencing being alive」
「 Schools and borders had closed; the governor of California, like governors elsewhere, had asked residents to begin staying at home. But the change that struck me seemed more abstract and internal. It was a change in the way we were looking at things, and it is still ongoing. The virus is rewriting our imaginations. What felt impossible has become thinkable. We’re getting a different sense of our place in history. We know we’re entering a new world, a new era. We seem to be learning our way into a new structure of feeling.」
「These events, and others like them, are easier to imagine now than they were back in January, when they were the stuff of dystopian science fiction. But science fiction is the realism of our time. The sense that we are all now stuck in a science-fiction novel that we’re writing together—that’s another sign of the emerging structure of feeling. 」
「The critic Raymond Williams once wrote that every historical period has its own “structure of feeling.” How everything seemed in the nineteen-sixties, the way the Victorians understood one another, the chivalry of the Middle Ages, the world view of Tang-dynasty China: each period, Williams thought, had a distinct way of organizing basic human emotions into an overarching cultural system. Each had its own way of experiencing being alive」
「 Schools and borders had closed; the governor of California, like governors elsewhere, had asked residents to begin staying at home. But the change that struck me seemed more abstract and internal. It was a change in the way we were looking at things, and it is still ongoing. The virus is rewriting our imaginations. What felt impossible has become thinkable. We’re getting a different sense of our place in history. We know we’re entering a new world, a new era. We seem to be learning our way into a new structure of feeling.」
「These events, and others like them, are easier to imagine now than they were back in January, when they were the stuff of dystopian science fiction. But science fiction is the realism of our time. The sense that we are all now stuck in a science-fiction novel that we’re writing together—that’s another sign of the emerging structure of feeling. 」
The New Yorker
The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations
What felt impossible has become thinkable. The spring of 2020 is suggestive of how much, and how quickly, we can change as a civilization.