Hart+Lëshkina,由兩位來自紐約的視覺藝術家 Erika HardTati Lëshkina 合作組成。他们在2017年出版過屬於他們的第一本著作《Beyond The Clouds》 –– 一本旨在探索人類的真實需求、慾望以及表現生命中的脆弱之美的攝影集。他們創作的源自生命中的變化無常,將情緒、想像、狐疑以及對生命的執著凝縮於一張張照片之上,再將它們互相組合排列,令我們產生一種無以名狀感覺,逼迫我們思考生而為人的意義。

儘管這本書被歸類為攝影集,但明顯兩位作者並不甘於此,他們並沒有將自己局限在攝影媒介上,他們更常以不同媒介如雕塑,或是行為藝術等形式,去表達他們的想像與美學。

據說,《Beyond The Clouds》的名字還源自一套同名電影《在雲端上的情與欲》(Beyond The Clouds, 1995),這是一套沒有固定的情節和常見的套路的電影,像是由幾段感情串連起來的映像詩,是義大利的著名導演安東尼奧尼(Michelangelo Antonioni)中風後拍攝的第一套電影,想不到當時的安東尼奧尼除了行動不便外,更患上失語症,幸得另一位著名導演雲溫達斯(Wim Wenders)的幫助,這部電影才得以完成,所以這也是兩位創者通力合作的產物,有如命運的劇本一樣。

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Comment by Host Studio on July 5, 2023 at 1:06pm


He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? By Rachel Poser

Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even if that means destroying their discipline.

In the world of classics, the exchange between Dan-el Padilla Peralta and Mary Frances Williams has become known simply as “the incident.” Their back-and-forth took place at a Society of Classical Studies conference in January 2019 — the sort of academic gathering at which nothing tends to happen that would seem controversial or even interesting to those outside the discipline.

But that year, the conference featured a panel on “The Future of Classics,” which, the participants agreed, was far from secure. On top of the problems facing the humanities as a whole — vanishing class sizes caused by disinvestment, declining prominence and student debt — classics was also experiencing a crisis of identity.

Long revered as the foundation of “Western civilization,” the field was trying to shed its self-imposed reputation as an elitist subject overwhelmingly taught and studied by white men. Recently the effort had gained a new sense of urgency: Classics had been embraced by the far right, whose members held up the ancient Greeks and Romans as the originators of so-called white culture. Marchers in Charlottesville, Va., carried flags bearing a symbol of the Roman state; online reactionaries adopted classical pseudonyms; the white-supremacist website Stormfront displayed an image of the Parthenon alongside the tagline “Every month is white history month.”

Padilla, a leading historian of Rome who teaches at Princeton and was born in the Dominican Republic, was one of the panelists that day. For several years, he has been speaking openly about the harm caused by practitioners of classics in the two millenniums since antiquity: the classical justifications of slavery, race science, colonialism, Nazism and other 20th-century fascisms. Classics was a discipline around which the modern Western university grew, and Padilla believes that it has sown racism through the entirety of higher education.

Comment by Host Studio on July 5, 2023 at 1:06pm

Last summer, after Princeton decided to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its School of Public and International Affairs, Padilla was a co-author of an open letter that pushed the university to do more. “We call upon the university to amplify its commitment to Black people,” it read, “and to become, for the first time in its history, an anti-racist institution.” Surveying the damage done by people who lay claim to the classical tradition, Padilla argues, one can only conclude that classics has been instrumental to the invention of “whiteness” and its continued domination.

In recent years, like-minded classicists have come together to dispel harmful myths about antiquity. On social media and in journal articles and blog posts, they have clarified that contrary to right-wing propaganda, the Greeks and Romans did not consider themselves “white,” and their marble sculptures, whose pale flesh has been fetishized since the 18th century, would often have been painted in antiquity. They have noted that in fifth-century-B.C. Athens, which has been celebrated as the birthplace of democracy, participation in politics was restricted to male citizens; thousands of enslaved people worked and died in silver mines south of the city, and custom dictated that upper-class women could not leave the house unless they were veiled and accompanied by a male relative. They have shown that the concept of Western civilization emerged as a euphemism for “white civilization” in the writing of men like Lothrop Stoddard, a Klansman and eugenicist. Some classicists have come around to the idea that their discipline forms part of the scaffold of white supremacy — a traumatic process one described to me as “reverse red-pilling” — but they are also starting to see an opportunity in their position. Because classics played a role in constructing whiteness, they believed, perhaps the field also had a role to play in its dismantling. (Source: https://www.nytimes.com,Published Feb. 2, 2021)

Comment by Host Studio on November 23, 2021 at 12:12am


布爾迪厄《區分:判斷力的社會批判》
——小資產階級不懂得把文化遊戲當成一種遊戲來玩:他們對文化過分嚴肅,不允許自已虛張聲勢或欺騙,或簡而言之不允許自己表現疏遠和隨意,而疏遠和隨意正能表明一種真正的熟習;他過分嚴肅,無法逃避對無知或錯誤的永久焦慮,無法以那些跟不上形勢的人的冷漠,或那些自感有權承認甚或甘於貧乏者的超脫來對抗考驗,從而規避考驗。

他們把文化等同於知識,認為有教養的人就是擁有一個巨大知識寶庫的人,當後者通過一句風趣話一一類似主教可能以鄉村神甫被禁止的隨便態度所說的這類針對教義的風趣話一一宣稱,若回到最簡單的和最崇高的表達,文化可歸結為與文化的一種關係(「文化,是當一個人忘記了一切之後剩下的東西」)時,他們是無法相信的。

他們將文化變成了一個生或死、真或假的問題,不會懷疑不負責任的自信,狂妄的放肆,甚至一篇憑靈感的關於哲學、藝術或文字的隨筆中哪怕一頁意味著的隱藏的誠實。他們僅僅是有知識的人,無法與文化保持熟習的關係,而這種關係肯定了那些通過出身,也就是通過天性和本質與文化聯系在一起的人的隨便和大膽。
(引自第六章·良好的文化意願,Pierre Bourdieu,2010,Distinction —— A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste,Routledge,2010-04-23)

Comment by Host Studio on January 2, 2021 at 4:53pm


杜威:社會珍視價值的工具


杜威指出:“民主主義和教育有相互的關係,因為不但民主主義本身是一個教育的原則,而且如果沒有我們通常所想的狹義教育,沒有我們所想的家庭教育和學校教育,民主主義便不能維持下去,更談不到發展。教育不是唯一的工具,但它是第一的工具,首要的工具,最審慎的工具。通過這種工具,任何社會團體所珍視的價值,其所欲實現的目標,都被分配和提供給個人,讓其思考、觀察、判斷和選擇。”
呂達等主編:《杜威教育文集》,北京:人民教育出版社,2008年,第五卷,第385頁。

Comment by Host Studio on December 20, 2020 at 11:20pm


張靜《案例分析的目標》


相對於自然科學,社會科學運用的證明材料具有多樣性:調查數據、歷史文獻、工作日記、口述紀要、影像材料、碑文印刻、族譜家書、文字檔案、事件軌跡、以及行為過程記錄等。這些材料有些可以數據化,有些雖不可,但同樣能反映社會行為的特質,完全可以作為重要證據使用。比如,戰爭的慘烈狀況既可以用傷亡人數,也可以用親歷者的日記、回憶、繪畫、對話、甚至行為及心理狀況來證明。(張靜:案例分析的目標——從故事到知識(1))

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