In formulating an approach to the climate crisis,the cultural institutions should redefine their neutral position,or rather define whether the term“neutral”juxtaposes the climate crisis with human freedom projects r...In formulating an approach to the climate crisis,the cultural institutions should redefine their neutral position,or rather define whether the term“neutral”juxtaposes the climate crisis with human freedom projects related to race or gender.Maintaining neutrality as an overall principle,I argue a cultural political approach as a part of the agenda set in cultural institutions,both political and ethical,by reading an attempt by Pierre Bourdieu to engage the cultural field in not letting economics undermine its independency,and later through Walter Benjamin’s view on the thorough reader.By connecting Benjamin to Julia Kristeva’s use of Freud’s theory on the unnameable as a phobia,having to be treated in other terms than the“greenwashing of language”undertaken by politicians and social engineers,the cultural institutions could get onto the peloton and act as a path finder.Although funded and supported,cultural institutions have the advantage of a non-profit service to communities who seek information,entertainment,and tools,not having to compete on an open marked.展开更多
Culture as a determiner of behavior,activities and sensibilities has produced innumerable landmark handiworks,most significant representative performances and profound artistic and sporting moments that signify our ex...Culture as a determiner of behavior,activities and sensibilities has produced innumerable landmark handiworks,most significant representative performances and profound artistic and sporting moments that signify our existence on the globe.The reflective moments of human civilization and culture are fixated in history and space time junctures.It must have been so enlightening and refreshing to every passing generation to see with wonderstruck eyes the evolution and the incredible journey of the human beings on earth.But at the same time it must have saddened so many hearts to see the incomprehensibility of the forces of destruction working implicitly in minds and activities and making the greater life tenuous and less sustainable.Especially now when Covid 19 pandemic has started frustrating life and beliefs of so many,a cultural crisis seems to have dawned and set the approaches of the community towards world view and perspectives of life.From the basic divisions of culture by Raymond Williams we have consciously traversed years of culture and living experiences,but the notion of culture as documentary and social has deflated to the extent of changing the essentials of behavior and feelings.Apart from diverse and innumerable responses towards this catastrophic topical situation of fear,anxiety and uncertainty;the social,cultural,economic and political scenes have depleted like never before.展开更多
The "Pictorial" or "Iconic Turn" is a central issue in the contemporary theory of images and visual cultural studies. Should the theories concerning the "Iconic Turn" and formulated in the last 20 years by schol...The "Pictorial" or "Iconic Turn" is a central issue in the contemporary theory of images and visual cultural studies. Should the theories concerning the "Iconic Turn" and formulated in the last 20 years by scholars such as Gottfried Boehm, William Mitchell, Hans Belting be taken as critical theories of crisis? Is the currently experienced "turn towards images" (and their progressive rehabilitation after a long standing philosophical and theological rejection) a sign and symptom of some crisis of people's relation with images, language and, generally speaking, with the representation forms of reality? The main hypothesis of this essay envisages two sets of problems: first, the analysis of the relation between the possible idea of turning point and the concept of crisis; secondly, the thorough investigation of the relation connecting the iconic turn to the project of "critical iconology" or "critique of visual culture," as outlined by Hans Belting and William Mitchell. From the interpretation of the "Iconic Turn" as situation of crisis and aesthetic, anthropological, and epistemological transformation follows the need for the sciences of image to provide a "critical iconology" in order to be able to theoretically reformulate the ideological and political presuppositions of some dominant contemporary forms of visual representation.展开更多
“Citizenship”as a concept was put forward by scholars,once city-states emerged in ancient Greece.Following Aristotle and Plato,many other scholars and thinkers made their contributions to this concept by expounding,...“Citizenship”as a concept was put forward by scholars,once city-states emerged in ancient Greece.Following Aristotle and Plato,many other scholars and thinkers made their contributions to this concept by expounding,analyzing and further developing it.However,it did not turn into a systematical discourse until Marshall.Marshall’s perception therefore,served as a starting point and a model for a number of scholars thereafter.According to Marshal,citizenship can be understood in three dimensions,covering political right,social right and civic right.Without any doubt,Marshall’s notion of citizenship focuses on rights,leaving a citizen’s obligation untouched,for which Marshall was criticized and attacked by scholars.However due to limitation of space,this issue is not to be further discussed.Besides,as a result of emigrants from one country to another,citizenship as a concept more concerned with national boundary gets more complex and vaguer.Under this backdrop,a number of scholars and researchers proposed the fourth dimension,it is suggested that besides the 3 above mentioned rights,a fourth right should be added,which is culture right.Based on the notion and theories of culture rights and theories regarding the difficulty and dilemma confronted by emigrants,whether they immigrate out of their own wish or being forced to,the author aims to analyze Simon-a character in Coetzee’s(himself an emigrant from South Africa to Australia)novel The Childhood of Jesus(2013)and his cultural identity dilemma.Following from this analysis,the conclusion on the unlikeliness or feasibility of culture citizenship then is to be made.展开更多
Recent technological change and the economic upheaval it has produced are coded by social meanings. Cultural codes not only trigger technological and economic changes, but also provide pathways to control them, allowi...Recent technological change and the economic upheaval it has produced are coded by social meanings. Cultural codes not only trigger technological and economic changes, but also provide pathways to control them, allowing the dem- ocratic practices of independent journalism to be sustained in new forms. Even as they successfully defend their professional ethics, however, journalists experience them as vulnerable to subversion in the face of technological and economic change. Indeed, independent journalists and the social groups who support them often feel as if they are losing the struggle for autonomy. Just as current anxieties have been triggered by computerization and digital news, so were earlier crises of journalism linked to technological shifts that demanded new forms of economic organization. Digital production has created extraordinary organizational upheaval and economic strain. At the same time, critical confrontations with digital production have trig- gered innovative organizational forms that allow new technologies to sustain, rather than undermine, the democratic culture and institution of news production. If news producers are making efforts to adapt professional journalism to the digital age while maintaining journalistic civil values, there are parallel adaptations from the digital side: digital journalism becoming more like professional journalism.展开更多
文章运用文献计量法和科学知识图谱法,基于CNKI和Web of Science数据库,借助Citespace和VOSviewer软件对国内外信息资源管理学科关于新冠疫情研究文献进行聚类、共现等可视化分析,得出新冠疫情期间国内外信息资源管理学科研究热点主要...文章运用文献计量法和科学知识图谱法,基于CNKI和Web of Science数据库,借助Citespace和VOSviewer软件对国内外信息资源管理学科关于新冠疫情研究文献进行聚类、共现等可视化分析,得出新冠疫情期间国内外信息资源管理学科研究热点主要聚焦在公共危机预警、应急舆情分析、信息综合治理、知识服务质量、信息系统便利度等方面。总结出未来信息资源管理助力公共文化事业发展将持续增强、应对重大危机处理能力将得到有效提升、以人为本的服务理念将不断深入等趋势。展开更多
文摘In formulating an approach to the climate crisis,the cultural institutions should redefine their neutral position,or rather define whether the term“neutral”juxtaposes the climate crisis with human freedom projects related to race or gender.Maintaining neutrality as an overall principle,I argue a cultural political approach as a part of the agenda set in cultural institutions,both political and ethical,by reading an attempt by Pierre Bourdieu to engage the cultural field in not letting economics undermine its independency,and later through Walter Benjamin’s view on the thorough reader.By connecting Benjamin to Julia Kristeva’s use of Freud’s theory on the unnameable as a phobia,having to be treated in other terms than the“greenwashing of language”undertaken by politicians and social engineers,the cultural institutions could get onto the peloton and act as a path finder.Although funded and supported,cultural institutions have the advantage of a non-profit service to communities who seek information,entertainment,and tools,not having to compete on an open marked.
文摘Culture as a determiner of behavior,activities and sensibilities has produced innumerable landmark handiworks,most significant representative performances and profound artistic and sporting moments that signify our existence on the globe.The reflective moments of human civilization and culture are fixated in history and space time junctures.It must have been so enlightening and refreshing to every passing generation to see with wonderstruck eyes the evolution and the incredible journey of the human beings on earth.But at the same time it must have saddened so many hearts to see the incomprehensibility of the forces of destruction working implicitly in minds and activities and making the greater life tenuous and less sustainable.Especially now when Covid 19 pandemic has started frustrating life and beliefs of so many,a cultural crisis seems to have dawned and set the approaches of the community towards world view and perspectives of life.From the basic divisions of culture by Raymond Williams we have consciously traversed years of culture and living experiences,but the notion of culture as documentary and social has deflated to the extent of changing the essentials of behavior and feelings.Apart from diverse and innumerable responses towards this catastrophic topical situation of fear,anxiety and uncertainty;the social,cultural,economic and political scenes have depleted like never before.
文摘The "Pictorial" or "Iconic Turn" is a central issue in the contemporary theory of images and visual cultural studies. Should the theories concerning the "Iconic Turn" and formulated in the last 20 years by scholars such as Gottfried Boehm, William Mitchell, Hans Belting be taken as critical theories of crisis? Is the currently experienced "turn towards images" (and their progressive rehabilitation after a long standing philosophical and theological rejection) a sign and symptom of some crisis of people's relation with images, language and, generally speaking, with the representation forms of reality? The main hypothesis of this essay envisages two sets of problems: first, the analysis of the relation between the possible idea of turning point and the concept of crisis; secondly, the thorough investigation of the relation connecting the iconic turn to the project of "critical iconology" or "critique of visual culture," as outlined by Hans Belting and William Mitchell. From the interpretation of the "Iconic Turn" as situation of crisis and aesthetic, anthropological, and epistemological transformation follows the need for the sciences of image to provide a "critical iconology" in order to be able to theoretically reformulate the ideological and political presuppositions of some dominant contemporary forms of visual representation.
文摘“Citizenship”as a concept was put forward by scholars,once city-states emerged in ancient Greece.Following Aristotle and Plato,many other scholars and thinkers made their contributions to this concept by expounding,analyzing and further developing it.However,it did not turn into a systematical discourse until Marshall.Marshall’s perception therefore,served as a starting point and a model for a number of scholars thereafter.According to Marshal,citizenship can be understood in three dimensions,covering political right,social right and civic right.Without any doubt,Marshall’s notion of citizenship focuses on rights,leaving a citizen’s obligation untouched,for which Marshall was criticized and attacked by scholars.However due to limitation of space,this issue is not to be further discussed.Besides,as a result of emigrants from one country to another,citizenship as a concept more concerned with national boundary gets more complex and vaguer.Under this backdrop,a number of scholars and researchers proposed the fourth dimension,it is suggested that besides the 3 above mentioned rights,a fourth right should be added,which is culture right.Based on the notion and theories of culture rights and theories regarding the difficulty and dilemma confronted by emigrants,whether they immigrate out of their own wish or being forced to,the author aims to analyze Simon-a character in Coetzee’s(himself an emigrant from South Africa to Australia)novel The Childhood of Jesus(2013)and his cultural identity dilemma.Following from this analysis,the conclusion on the unlikeliness or feasibility of culture citizenship then is to be made.
文摘Recent technological change and the economic upheaval it has produced are coded by social meanings. Cultural codes not only trigger technological and economic changes, but also provide pathways to control them, allowing the dem- ocratic practices of independent journalism to be sustained in new forms. Even as they successfully defend their professional ethics, however, journalists experience them as vulnerable to subversion in the face of technological and economic change. Indeed, independent journalists and the social groups who support them often feel as if they are losing the struggle for autonomy. Just as current anxieties have been triggered by computerization and digital news, so were earlier crises of journalism linked to technological shifts that demanded new forms of economic organization. Digital production has created extraordinary organizational upheaval and economic strain. At the same time, critical confrontations with digital production have trig- gered innovative organizational forms that allow new technologies to sustain, rather than undermine, the democratic culture and institution of news production. If news producers are making efforts to adapt professional journalism to the digital age while maintaining journalistic civil values, there are parallel adaptations from the digital side: digital journalism becoming more like professional journalism.
文摘文章运用文献计量法和科学知识图谱法,基于CNKI和Web of Science数据库,借助Citespace和VOSviewer软件对国内外信息资源管理学科关于新冠疫情研究文献进行聚类、共现等可视化分析,得出新冠疫情期间国内外信息资源管理学科研究热点主要聚焦在公共危机预警、应急舆情分析、信息综合治理、知识服务质量、信息系统便利度等方面。总结出未来信息资源管理助力公共文化事业发展将持续增强、应对重大危机处理能力将得到有效提升、以人为本的服务理念将不断深入等趋势。