Experiencing Critique<Superscript>⋆</Superscript>

Over the past two centuries, criticism has assumed an indispensable role in the production of truth in many academic contexts. Furthermore, a dominant conception of critique emerged out of disciplinary truth regimes – evident as much in right wing think tanks as in critical theories. This ‘grammar of critique’ requires critics to judge specific contexts against founded criteria. However, in an epistemological ethos beset by obdurate uncertainty, where disciplinarity is increasingly under attack, a judgmental grammar faces intractable challenges. For one thing, intransigent ambiguities defy the silencing required to achieve certainty, or universal agreement, on ‘founded criteria’. This predicament creates a distinctive semantic disquiet and a unique opportunity to prize critique loose from its previously privileged grammar. Allegorically referring to Derrida’s images of hospitality, this paper offers a different grammar of critique as an experience of imagined prospects, a promise that rallies against ossified thought systems of the now. This experience is structured through the impossible to the extent that it defies absolute definition, finitely encounters infinite possibilities, involves preconceptions, and opens critics up to promises that never fully arrive. As such, critical experiences invite existential anticipations whose contours, paradoxically, are imagined from within, and yet promise an escape from, local historical circumstances.A version of this paper was presented at Birkbeck, University of London, 24th September, 2004. I would like to thank Peter Fitzpatrick, Claire Valier, Ronnie Lippens, Costas Douzinas and Julia Chryssostalis for their helpful comments.     

Mapping Utopias: A Voyage to Placelessness

I have a map which indicates clearly and beyond any doubt the way to Utopia. I start the journey with a survival kit of paradigmatic egalities, noumenal legalities, and nervous ideals. However, the more I move into the uncartographied space, the more I realise that my survival kit is changing, to the point of becoming porous and permeable. The journey to Utopia is condensed to a log of phenomenological bracketing, where the immersion to the Lebenswelt equals the loss of oneself, and where the descent from the Transcendental to the Natural proves to be as meaningful as the escalating bracketing from the Natural to the Transcendental. The negation of Utopia (ou-topos) displaces not only my Utopia but also my egocentric quest for identity: the ‘I’ becomes ‘me’ before it vanishes, space becomes place, intentionality turns back to itself and retraces its path. The more I approach my destination, the more negation devours distance. When I finally arrive to the designated point, where, according to the map, lies Utopia, the only thing I discover is a map, identical to the one I hold, that indicates, clearly and beyond any doubt, the way to Utopia. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

商人主义、商行为主义究竟是什么?——理论综述与质疑

商人主义、商行为主义是商法理论中用来标识不同立法例的常用词。但通过检索我国现有的商法学与商法总论教科书、相关的商法学论文与专著,商人主义、商行为主义的定位与功能存在各种观点与表述,并没有相对统一的结论。求证于作为商行为主义之代表的《法国商法典》、《西班牙商法典》,作为立法例的商行为主义难以得到验证。商人主义、商行为主义有三种定位,以往的理论并未作出区分。我国未来的商事基本法在立法技术上应采商人主义。     

Project 0395A.ĐC | Performing disorientation

The end of the Vietnam/American War lead to one of the largest exoduses of the latter part of the twentieth century: more than 3 million people escaped from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos over the course of two decades starting in 1975, many by boat and an estimated 1 million died at sea. How do you witness and retell stories of violence in the aftermath of war and dispossession at sea in the context of U.S. empire and Vietnamese socialist revolution? Project 0395A.?C, a multi-media installation by Vietnamese artist, Ly Hoang Ly, intentionally structures and choreographs disorientation to grapple with the condition of being dispossessed at sea, as the Vietnamese refugee is suspended at sea and entangled in histories of French colonialism and caught at the crux of U.S. imperial war and Vietnamese socialist revolution. I argue that disorientation is a performative experience and method that performs an act of refusal to break voyeuristic modes of consuming histories of violence and reorients the body to another theory of Vietnamese refugee subjectivity. I analyze how Ly creates a performative installation and performs with water as the core aesthetic material used to frame, dialogue, and re-narrate a story of Vietnamese refugee subjectivity.     

检察机关法律监督权和诉讼权优化配置的价值和技术分析

检察机关法律监督权和诉讼权的关系,在价值和技术层面上展开讨论,就是价值和技术关系的问题。法律监督权和诉讼权优化配置应当遵循相应的价值理念和技术规则,并且应该根据实践中两者关系出现的价值和技术问题进行改进,并使之相对分离。     

Against state terror: lessons on memory,counterterrorism and resistance from the Global South

Critical theory avows that “where there is power there is always resistance”. However, the practical implications and consequences of particular modes of resistance remain, within World Politics, under-theorised. In critical terrorism studies (CTS), this critical imperative to resist has recently emerged in the proposal to remember state terrorism. With this move, CTS aims to disturb the legitimacy of forms of violence/terror that emerge from the state. In this article, I argue that such an agenda of “resistance through memory” has already been put forth in the Global South (specifically, Latin America). Drawing on this historical experience, I elucidate some problems with the critical imperative to resist. More specifically, I show how in Brazil the Global South counter-memorial narratives of state terror share a common ground with the Global North counterterrorism discourses. I do so by analysing three underlying tropes of Brazilian remembrance that replicate Global North representations of terrorists: bestialism, pathology and dehumanisation.     

瞬间艺术--浅谈新闻摄影

新闻摄影是运用摄影科学的手段,选择正在发生或发现的典型事实进行有说明的图片报道。新闻摄影是一门瞬间的视觉艺术,它能够精确地把稍纵即逝的形象,迅速地固定下来。它从客观现实的事物中摄取影像,以生活里真实的、动态的典型瞬间摄影技巧来反映生活、记录生活,让读者感到真实可信、形象鲜活。     

猪生殖和呼吸综合征间接免疫荧光抗体试验诊断技术的研究

建立了检测猪生殖和呼吸综合征（ＰＲＲＳ）的微量间接免疫荧光抗体试验（ＩＦＡ）。用该方法检测进境种猪７８８头，检出阳性１４头；检测国内猪９６０头，检出阳性６５头。比较试验证明，微量ＩＦＡ与美国的室玻片ＩＦＡ有相同的敏感性和特异性     

VNTR遗传标记的亲权鉴定研究

采用Amp－FLP技术研究人类血液、组织VNTR位点D1S80（pMCT118）、D17S30（pCNZ－22）和ApoB3’位点的遗传多态性，并应用于亲权鉴定案件，获得满意结果。D1S80、D17S30和ApoB3’的DP值分别为0．962、0．956和0．960，累积父权排除率（EPP）为94．51％，远远高于传统血型的DP值和EPP值，是亲权鉴定和个体识别有效方法。     

不同染色组织切片及不同组织固定方法对检测STR基因座的影响

目的探讨不同染色组织切片及不同组织固定方法对DNA检验的影响。方法采用Chelex100法及浓缩纯化方法提取DNA,PCR扩增后310型遗传分析仪检测。结果福尔马林固定4天以内或70%乙醇、无水乙醇分别固定1年及15年的HE染色切片可以检见Amel及9个STR基因座。PTAH等5种特殊染色未能检出相应基因座DNA谱带。结论70%乙醇或无水乙醇固定组织,石腊包埋组织及HE染色切片可以作为DNA?STR检验鉴定的样本材料。