Carpool Karaoke: deconstructing the directly lived experience of hearing oneself singing

The various ways whereby spatial conditions afford to monumentalize culture and to appropriate geographically demarcated places in terms of individual and collective meaning structures has been amply documented in urban cultural studies. However, considerably less attention has been paid to how cultural identity is produced against the background of musical temporality. By way of a phenomenological inquiry into the staged spectacle of James Corden’s (the host of CBS Network’s Late Late Show) Carpool Karaoke, this paper addresses the issues of directly lived experience and authenticity as facets of cultural identity. By critically discussing the assumptions of self-presence and auto-affectivity while singing and listening to one’s sung voice against the background of pre-recorded songs, the notion of directly lived musical experience is put to the test. Furthermore, by examining the dramaturgical scaffolding of Carpool Karaoke, the analysis points to wider implications for post-modern cultural studies in terms of an identified ironic reversal of modernist universal criteria of legitimacy in favor of a celebration of post-modern being-with inauthentically. The analysis of the selected Carpool Karaoke corpus utilizes a resourceful blend of phenomenological method, semiotics and interpretive videography while challenging embedded orthodoxies in the extant literature.     

Rhetorical citizenship: studying the discursive crafting and enactment of citizenship

This article argues for the relevance of a rhetorical approach to the study of citizenship, proposing the concept of rhetorical citizenship as a term for a fourth dimension of citizenship and as a scholarly approach to the topic in addition to the dimensions of status, rights, and identity commonly recognized in the literature. We show how this view aligns with current views of the multidi Citizenship Studies mensionality of citizenship, explain our use of the term rhetoric, and illustrate the usefulness of a rhetorical approach in two examples. In close textual readings both examples – one vernacular, one elite – are shown to discursively craft and enact different notions of citizenship vis-a-vis the European refugee crisis. We conclude that a rhetorical perspective on public civic discourse is useful in virtue of its close attention to discursive creativity as well as to textual properties that may significantly, but often implicitly, affect citizens’ understanding of their own role in the polity, and further because it recognizes deep differences as inevitable while valorizing discourse across them.     

紧密结合三项重点工作促进民行工作新发展

人民检察院作为国家法律的监督机关,所担负的职责与中央政法委提出的＂深入推进社会矛盾化解、社会管理创新、公正廉洁执法＂三项重点工作的内容密切相关,从三项重点工作出发,履行好检察监督职能,是构建社会主义和谐社会,维护改革发展稳定大局、保障人民群众安居乐业的必然要求。因此,在中央提出深入推进三项重点工作的背景下,更加需要不断的提高思想认识,创新工作机制,完善工作制度,把发挥民行法律监督职能作用作为推进三项重点工作的重要着力点。     

马克思主义大众化在中国道路中的价值功能

中国道路是围绕什么是社会主义,怎样建设社会主义这个根本问题,在理论和实践中形成和发展起来的中国特色社会主义道路。人民大众坚定走中国道路是中华民族实现伟大复兴的前提,这需要用马克思主义理论武装人民大众,并在人民大众的中国道路实践中,充分彰显马克思主义理论的科学认知、方法指引、实践指导价值功能。     

马克思恩格斯对近代国际法的丰富和发展

马克思恩格斯对近代国际法的丰富和发展主要体现在以下方面：在国际法基本理论问题上有所突破;对战争与武装冲突法提出新见解;对指导国际关系的国际法原则有新看法;主张建立体现公平正义的国际法律新秩序。     

"研讨式"教学方式初探——以我院"一国两制与台湾问题"教学为例

"研讨式"教学是一种以解决问题为中心的现代教学方式.相对于传统的"讲授式","研讨式"更多的注重了师生的互动,能更好的调动学员的思考和学习的积极性.以在贵州省社会主义学院开展的一次"一国两制与台湾问题"研讨课为例,探讨"研讨式"这种新型教学方式的授课心得.     

思维教学文化：内涵特征、主要功能和生成策略

思维教学存在着一种思维型的教学文化，这种思维教学文化是思维教学生存和发展的文化土壤。文章首先对思维教学文化的内涵和特征进行分析，在此基础上对这种新型教学文化的促进、变革和提升功能进行阐释，最后，提出思维型教学文化的生成需要教学主体更新教学观念、深化思维教学理念；变革教学行为，拓展思维教学方法；改革教学制度，保证思维教学环境。