The nonarrival of black freedom (c. 12.6.84)

This article seeks to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Saidiya V. Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America through a series of meditations on questions of time, embodied performance, the political concept of emancipation, and Oliver L. Jackson’s painting, Untitled 12.6.84, which graces the cover of this seminal work. This effort to recall Hartman’s argument regarding the nonevent of emancipation moves in the service of developing an understanding of the nonarrival of black freedom as a conceptual frame for addressing the recursive and untimely dimensions of black self-making. Ultimately, this article argues that Scenes of Subjection allows us to glimpse the making of worlds within the historical archive that fall outside of the normative horizons and expectations of political emancipation. Neither durable nor everlasting, neither verifiable nor guaranteed, such worlds take shape and dissolve within the mysterious rapport between the “could be” and the “not yet” and leave traces on the broken flesh of the black body.     

Body and experiment – reflecting Kawabata Yasunari's counter-aesthetics

Abstract

From his earliest works, Kawabata, known as an explicit aestheticist, deals in his works with flawed and disabled bodies in contrast to beautiful ones, evoking feelings of revulsion, awkwardness, disgust and premonitions of decay and death. The dynamism created out of these tensions and ruptures in the aestheticized world is scrutizined as hidden counter-aesthetics through questions such as: Which kinds of impairments are to be observed? Can they be classified according to grades? Are there gender specificities? How are these tensions and ruptures organized, and which categories (semantic, biological, political, moral) are concerned? Which narratorial and other functions are served through the counter-image of the flawed (impaired) body? And finally, how do the findings from these investigations into the flipside, the ‘Other’ of Kawabata's aesthetic universe, contribute to complementary or alternative ways of reading and understanding his literature? In a final section, Kawabata's treatment of female bodies as a site of experimenting with extreme situations of passivity and agency is highlighted, challenging more conventional readings of this and other works. The works discussed are from a deliberately broad chronological and generic range, including canonical and popular works. They range from the newspaper novels ‘Utsukushii!’ (1927) and ‘Maihime’ (1950/1), the novel ‘Senbazuru’ (1952) to the stories and palm-of-the-hand stories ‘Ningen no ashioto’ (1925),’Izu no odoriko’ (1926), ‘Mekura to shōjo’ (1928), ‘Utsukushiki haka’ (1929) ‘Hokuro no tegami’ (1940), ‘Sasabune’ (1950), and, in the final section, ‘Kataude’ (1963/4) and ‘Nemureru bijo’ (1960/1).     

Noucentisme's “arbitrary” nature in the Mont-roig landscapes of Joan Miró (1918–1922)

The purpose of this article is to discuss the development of Joan Miró's aesthetics between 1915 and the early 1920s, and to offer an interpretation of a series of landscapes that he painted between 1918 and 1922, by highlighting their similarities with some of the landscapes described by Catalan writer Josep Pla in his Obra completa. Both Miró's and Pla's landscapes are situated within the context of Noucentisme and, more particularly, of Noucentisme's classicist aesthetics as defined by Eugeni d'Ors in his Glosari.     

以科技侦查推动侦查模式的根本变革

现代社会,犯罪数量持续高发,犯罪类型不断衍生,犯罪手段不断升级,犯罪活动方式不断变化,给侦查工作带来了许多新的挑战。如果仍然以“人证为主”的侦查模式作为侦查工作的主导模式,必然导致侦查成本成倍增加,破案率大幅下降。侦查模式由“人证”向“物证”的转变势在必行。在实现刑事侦查模式的转化中,现代科学技术在实现现代“物证”的司法证明中发挥了巨大的作用。科学技术能客观、及时地提供科学证据,在未来的司法活动中将大显身手。     

WTO框架之下构建我国技术法规和标准体系的思考

为了消除国际贸易中不合理、不必要的技术性贸易壁垒,TBT与SPS协定应运而生。WTO在鼓励成员方采纳国际标准,或是在科学根据的前提之下制定高于国际标准的同时,WTO/TBT、SPS协议对各国技术法规的制定和实施采取了一系列约束性规定。我国作为世界上最大的发展中国家,完善的技术法规和标准体系对于我国开拓海外市场,促进出口,以及提高国内产品质量,保障消费者利益等都有着十分重要的意义。因此,我国政府相关部门必须结合我国国情,在广泛借鉴并认真研究WTO相关规则的基础上,构建我国的技术法规和标准体系。     

诱惑侦查之立法困惑——新刑诉法第151条的相关问题讨论

为了惩治犯罪的需要,现实中侦查机关经常采用有关人员隐蔽身份搜集信息、获取证据的手段,但是刑诉法中一直未见其相关规定。实践中的频繁运用与法律上的空白规定不符合目前侦查工作的需要。因此,新修订的刑诉法在"侦查"一章"技术侦查措施"一节作出了相关规定,对此种侦查措施进行法律调整。然而,该规定仍然存在一些不明确的地方,比如其在章节中的位置问题、但书的内涵等。     

“于正剧现象”研究

"于正剧现象"的特征是"叫座不叫好"。这种类型的电视剧违背艺术真实的美学原则,文本中充满大量的虚假情节、虚假人物、虚假环境、虚假道具。既不符合直观真实或超现实真实,又不符合主观真实,更难以达到客观真实的美学高度,是一种典型的高碳艺术。大力开发符合艺术真实,特别是实现客观真实的低碳艺术,这是中国电视剧艺术发展的正确方向。     

东北振兴政策实践效果评价与政策启示——基于全要素生产率增长的全国比较

通过利用马奎斯特(DEA-Malmquist)指数计算得到我国各省的全要素生产率增长及其构成,对比分析东北三省与全国各省的计算情况,发现2003~2007年我国东北振兴政策实践未达到理想效果,提出东北振兴政策的一个重点指向就是对技术研发与创新、资源节约和生产要素高效利用进行大力支持。     

循环经济的价值分析

环境和技术问题是制约着人类社会发展的两大重要因素,如何避免其负面影响,发挥其积极效应,是我们应该面对和思考的问题.循环经济为我们进一步解决目前面临的环境和技术问题提供了一条新的思路,它的提出体现了环境的价值,指明了技术发展的方向,进而为人的全面发展提供了物质和技术基础,推动整个人类社会的进步.     

技术创新生态价值背离探析

技术创新因其生态功能而蕴涵着生态价值.但是,由于市场经济单一目标的追求,导致了技术创新生态价值的背离.需要探讨造成生态价值背离深刻的认识论原因和社会原因,实现技术创新生态价值的回归,确立技术创新生态化的范式转变,促进人与自然的和谐发展.