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.     

Immigrant Social Workers and Transnational Practices: The Example of Latin Americans in Switzerland

This article explores how Latin American social workers living in Switzerland develop transnational practices in their professional and civic life. It focuses more particularly on the forms of support that these migrants provide to their societies of origin or to their immigrant compatriots through the activities they carry out either through their job, through their extra-professional commitments, or by combining these two dimensions of their existence. From interviews with 17 Latin American social workers, a typology of four forms of transnational commitment is suggested: local social work and transnational civic activity, professional transnationalism, transnational alternative professional exchanges, and “glocal” social work.     

The Sense of a Life: Re-assessing Simone de Beauvoir

Violently differing views on Simone de Beauvoir clash—how not? Our own obsessional reading of and about her is all the more enhanced by her look and manner(s) of dressing, and her affairs, but, above all, by her towering intelligence and pioneering spirit. This piece tries to deal with as many aspects of her being and seeming and appearance to others, as critics and as readers, as behoves such a vital spirit.     

日常生活向度的家庭意识形态考量

本文着眼日常生活向度的家庭意识形态,把马克思主义哲学在家庭教化中的担当从学理和现实层面进行剖析。作为当下中国建设的指导性思想,作为一种意识形态话语样态,马克思主义哲学观照日常生活,关照普通大众的日常生活,因此,立足马克思哲学经典文本及其精神实质,科学揭示当下马克思主义哲学在日常生活中、家庭中的传播、指导功效机能,凸显马克思主义哲学实践精神、主体精神、人文精神,推进马克思主义哲学大众化、生活化。     

关子再造学习型政府与社会科学发展的深度思考

学习型政府,是一切科学领导和科学发展的基础和前提。现代经济就是学习型经济,因此,领导者知识素质的高低,直接决定着发展中国家经济发展的质量。施行领导是一个知识的输出过程和知识的应用过程。只有在不断地学习先进知识的过程中,政府领导者才能不断地提升自己的价值理性和工具理性。后发优势是晚发型国家和地区的一种重要资源,但没有学习,就没有后发优势。建设学习型政府,就是一次政府组织的再造过程,也是对政府领导者素质的再造过程。     

论被害人的承诺权限

被害人承诺问题是刑法中正当化行为的一个重要的部分。从被害人承诺的前提性条件出发,综合运用法学、哲学、伦理学的知识对被害人承诺权限,尤其是生命权和身体健康权进行论述,对行为主体是否能同意对生命的侵害、健康权承诺的限度以及安乐死的正当性问题进行深入探讨,有助于解决与被害人承诺相关的社会现实问题。     

青年农民工城市融入问题研究——以分布于广州、上海、青岛的三个个案为例

青年农民工的城市融入困境主要体现在工作、生活、交往和心理四个方面。为加快我国城市化和现代化进程,国家应制定相应的对策,积极引导青年农民工朝着正确的方向发展,同时,要妥善解决青年农民工面临的各种困难,满足他们在工作和生活方面提出的各种合理要求。     

论生活伦理的伦理价值

生活伦理是以自然伦理实体—家庭为主体的＂神的规律＂的产物,但它却孕育了＂人的规律＂的伦理可能。生活伦理的合法性不仅是来自于非课题的伦常生活有效积习的自明性,还表现为生活伦理对家庭及一般社群的伦理奠基性。生活伦理维系了家庭秩序化,构成一般社群伦理的先决价值。     

Our kids: Unaccompanied minors and the question of care

The question of care and what it means both conceptually and practically in the designated arena of child and youth care is a vexing one in the 21st century. Without a doubt, there are increasing numbers of young people who are either demonstrably in need of care or perceive themselves to be either lacking adequate care or simply existing outside those social spaces where care is available. Perhapsthere is no better exemplar of the contested set of relations that is contemporary childhood than those young people traversing national borders. Some of these young people travel with family members, but an ever-increasing number travel unaccompanied by parents or any other form of adult relation. Of these, a group particularly at risk are those without legal documentation. We would argue that this group of young people is urgently in need of our attention as child and youth care workers and scholars.     

公平诉讼观与诚实信用原则

传统诉讼竞技观将诉讼视作敌对双方之争 ,不仅存在着诉讼观念上的严重偏差 ,也损害了诉讼的公平理念。公平诉讼观的确立 ,与诚实信用原则得以适用于民事诉讼有着密不可分的关系。弘扬民事诉讼法上的诚实信用精神 ,确立我国的公平诉讼观 ,主要体现在禁止权利滥用、禁止伪证、保护经济上弱者及律师的诚信代理等若干方面