古希腊乌托邦思想的起源与演变

乌托邦思想是古希腊重要文化遗产之一。它源于荷马史诗,发展并成熟于古典时代后期与希腊化时代之初,先后出现了三种主要的类型。其一是神话乌托邦,即诗人笔下所反映的人类对美好生活及境界的向往,具有神话传说的性质。其二是政治乌托邦,即立足于对现实城邦的改造和重建,但其理想严重脱离实际,无法实现。其三是自然乌托邦或远地乌托邦,即将人类生活的美景嵌置于遥远的海外孤岛之上。正是这类乌托邦故事与柏拉图式的乌托邦理想对后世、特别是16世纪以来的社会空想家产生了重要影响。     

Reinterpreting a Textile Tradition: David McDiarmid's Ecstatic and Utopian Klub Kwilt

Abstract

Appropriating traditional American quilting patterns, and the homely communal ambience of the quilt, self-proclaimed queer artist David McDiarmid proposes in his work, Klub Kwilt (1979), an inter-racial, queer 'community' with its own uniquely appropriate community artefacts. Klub Kwilt is a shiny, reflective art work made in what was then a new synthetic material — laser-etched Mylar. The artist's intention was to materialize and affirm in this work the utopian and ecstatic impulses of the New York gay male, black and Hispanic, underground dance club, Paradise Garage. The utopian world McDiarmid evokes — in a knowing, camp embrace of the synthetic, the showy and the excessive — is one of sexual and musical ecstasy, inter-racial resonance and visual and aural opulence.     

Potemkin Revolution: Utopian Jungle Cities of 21st Century Socialism

This paper explores the entanglement of ideology and materiality in the production of the spaces of 21^st century socialism. “Millennium Cities” are currently being constructed for indigenous communities throughout the Ecuadorian Amazon, with revenues derived from petroleum extracted within their territories. As iconic spatial symbols of the “Citizens’ Revolution”, the Millennium Cities would appear to embody “the original accumulation of 21^st century socialism”—a utopian state ideology promising the collective appropriation of natural resources without the dispossession of the peasantry. Drawing on extensive field research, we argue that they are better understood as a simulation of urban modernity that is symptomatic of the predominance of ground rent in South American capitalism, and which conceals the violent repression of an autonomous indigenous project of petroleum‐based modernization. The original accumulation of 21^st century socialism can therefore be interpreted as a “fantasy of origins”, which functions to reproduce the primitive accumulation of capital.     

唐勤彪和他的收藏

推荐词:浙江铜镜收藏家。其青瓷、青铜器、书画、瓷器等涉猎极广,但铜镜收藏水平最高。唐勤彪,1961年6月出生,浙江省绍兴县平水镇昌峰村人。幼失慈父,家境贫寒,迫于生计,稍长即学技艺、闯四方。人到中年,略有建树,创办绍兴恒济典当行,任董事长。同时,从事市政工程建设,任项目经理。为道桥工程师。其于上世纪的90年代初始涉收藏。现有上至商周、下达民国的各类文物艺     

Fritz Lewy and his bodies

Attention is drawn to the neuronal inclusion bodies in Parkinsonism and the dementia described by F. Lewy in 1910, resulting in his eponym, as well as to his academic career and participation in two world wars on opposite sides.