Aesthetic self-medication: Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose's structures of breathing

This essay tracks adaptations to corporeal transformations in breathing in the performance art and life writing of Bob Flanagan (1952–1996) and Sheree Rose (b. 1941). It chronicles how breathing as an aesthetic strategy gets entangled with breathing as an exceptional or ordinary effect of disability over the course—and, in Rose's case, in the aftermath—of Flanagan's cystic fibrosis. The term “aesthetic self-medication” describes the process through which breathing is induced as an aesthetic form, and its patterns and rhythms transcribed and dramatized, in order to stage minimally coherent self-encounters amidst crisis. As Flanagan's chronic illness worsens and the couple's sadomasochistic dynamic no longer manages chronic pain, aesthetic self-medication structures laboured breathing into new genres of, or affective and libidinal relations to, pain, including boredom and musical humour.     

公安院校大学生人文素质状况的调查与思考

建设和谐警营对构建和谐社会、推进公安队伍正规化建设具有十分重要的意义。深入调查公安院校大学生人文素质状况,其目的是寻求公安院校大学生人文素质能力建构模式,开发大学生人文素质教育潜力,丰富和谐警营的文化活动内涵,以提升人民警察的综合素质。     

Cindy Sherman in a New Millennium: Fashion,Feminism, Art and Ageing

ABSTRACT

If feminism and the fashion industry were once seen as adversaries, given how the strictures of Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1949) permeated so much of second wave feminism, a consideration of ‘fashion’ is now central to contemporary feminist scholarship. But just as the earlier critique of fashion seemed finally to have been supplanted, certain basic arguments around dress and makeup nevertheless resurfaced within contemporary feminism. The current neoliberal climate has led to the ever-increasing consumption of ‘fashionable’ goods, provoking unease and encouraging the contested ‘protectionist discourse’ within feminism to shield young women from just such excesses. Meanwhile, the fashion world itself, arguably more powerful than ever, has across the last twenty years continued a process of legitimising itself through its various modes of alliance with the art world; it has even hijacked elements of feminist practice in the pursuit of publicity. This article suggests that the fashion industry and contemporary feminism are nonetheless alike in one significant respect: neither have properly engaged with the needs of an ageing population. It is an omission that this article will seek to examine through a discussion of the recent ‘portraits‘ of Cindy Sherman, an artist of great interest to feminist scholars, in whose earlier work there was a discernible ‘anti-fashion’ element. Now ‘fashionable’ herself, a leading figure in the global art world, she has collaborated with the fashion industry in rather different ways. Her ‘portraits’ of 2012, in which she reconfigured herself as imaginary Manhattan socialites in or beyond middle age, and a later series, exhibited in 2016, where she appears as a series of ageing, anonymous ‘movie stars’, reveal more general ideological tensions surrounding the representation of women, the ageing process and the fashionable ideal. It is the dissection of these tensions that underpin this article, for while Sherman’s work has been the subject of academic debate across a forty year period, her use and critique of the ‘fashionable ‘ image has not been examined alongside an exploration of the expanding activities of the fashion industry itself; nor have her recent images of ageing women been examined within this more general context.     

浅谈治安调解的策略与艺术

治安案件调解是公安机关贯彻治安管理处罚法确立的“教育与处罚相结合”原则的具体体现。对于缩小治安管理处罚的处罚面,以平和的方式解决人民内部矛盾,避免矛盾激化,促成人际关系的和谐,维护社会治安秩序的稳定,构建和谐社会,具有独特的功能和作用。本文从剖析当前治安调解的困境及存在的突出问题入手,对治安调解的策略与艺术进行深入探讨,对于公安机关更为有效地开展治安调解,缓解纠纷,消除矛盾,促进警民关系,维护公安机关的执法形象具有一定的启迪作用。     

现行专利法对我国少数民族传统知识的保护——论我国少数民族传统知识的在先技术化

由于各国在先技术认定规则的差异,传统知识的在先技术地位具有不确定性。传统知识的在先技术地位在美国专利法上存在障碍。按美国专利法模式把我国少数民族传统知识在先技术化,可以保护传统知识的消极知识产权利益。但我国少数民族传统知识的在先技术化也存在一些问题,如该种保护是一种最低水平的保护等。解决这些问题,应采取有关措施如我国少数民族传统知识在先技术化时做出知识产权权利保留等。     

当代青年审美教育的特点与途径

通过美学理论和审美活动来培养青年审美能力和审美理想,利用美学理论和审美实践来培养和提高青年对自然美、社会美和艺术美的感受能力、鉴别能力、欣赏能力和创造能力。帮助青年树立崇高的理想、正确的审美观念和健康的审美趣味,陶冶情操并促进人格全面发展。学校可通过教学、课外活动、优美的环境、教师的示范等综合作用对青年进行审美教育。     

The Poetry of Negligence

Poetry and legal rhetoric are both forms of what the ancient Greeks called poēsis: the art of the word. Tradition nonetheless assigns poetry to the realm of art and beauty, and legal rhetoric to the different realm of law and truth. The late William Matthews' poem ``Negligence' transgresses the boundaries that we have erected between art and law, and beauty and truth. The poem presents a well-crafted piece of legal rhetoric in the form of art. This essay draws out the implications of Matthews' transgression, and suggests that in the end poetry and law have a lot in common: both are forms of manipulation by means of words. The essay develops this connection in order to join with Emmanuel Levinas in calling for a ``breakup in the omnipotence of the logos.' This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

试论艺术在道德教育中的特殊作用

艺术与道德有着内在的亲缘关系 ,艺术作品能反映一定时代和一定社会的伦理道德思想。艺术具有引导作用 ,充分利用艺术审美这一教育形式 ,可以增强道德教育的实效性 ,达到事半功倍的效果     

西部地区高校数字艺术教育战略探索

文章主要论述了西北地区发展数字艺术教育的潜力,在高校设置数字艺术专业的国际趋势,战略方针,并提出了框架性解决方案;同时引申出西北地区由此建成数字文化产业基地的可能,从而发扬光大中华传统文化之精神。     

“抒情的人道主义”与“和谐”的艺术样态——谈汪曾祺的创作

"抒情的人道主义"是汪曾祺文学创作思想的主脉,"和谐"是其艺术样态的本质特征.作家用充满温情而平等的眼光去看人,去接纳平凡人生,用素朴而诗意的心态去书写世俗生活,在人生的沉重和苦涩中发掘温馨的美感和健康的人性人情.其创作思想和艺术个性的形成,主要在于作家对儒家思想的独特理解以及沈从文的影响.