Eyjafjallajökull 4′33″: A Stillness in Three Parts

Abstract

This paper uses the work and musical theory of the composer John Cage as a point of departure for considering the disruption caused by the ash cloud originating at the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Mobility has been defined as a constellation of movement, representation and practice; this definition is used to structure an analysis of what Eyjafjallajökull meant for the pace of air travel, how it unsettles common‐place cultural understandings of air travel, and what it could mean for the practice of aeromobility in the future. The literature on stillness is engaged to inform a discussion of air travel, with the airport as its exemplar space, and its potential to act as a focal point for debate on the nature of contemporary citizenship.     

现成品文学发展述评 ——"非原创天才"的"非创意写作"

杜尚创造的“现成品艺术”对20世纪中后期的艺术产生了深远影响,而在此前后,文学创作中也出现了利用先在的文本进行再创作的作品——现成品文学。本雅明以引语蒙太奇建构起了巴黎拱廊;凯奇以通写的手法重塑了文字文本的感观世界;歌德史密斯的极端抄写将“非创意写作”发挥到了极致;Flarf诗歌借助互联网技术和内容将现成品文学引入数字化时代。这些作品不仅引发了对作者-读者-文本三边关系和“创新”的再度思考,还呈现出不同时代的经济、文化和科技在现成品文学创作的形式和内容上留下的深刻印记。     

Engaging with Listening,Silence and Noise: Peering‐into the Analytical/Continental Divide

In this paper I offer, by way of a circuitous route, a journey examining ‘how we know we know’. This examination is significant as it again rehearses the division between ‘Analytical’ and ‘Continental’ knowing. A division in valuing knowing that, when tested in the circumstances of a performance of John Cage's ‘4 minutes and 33 seconds’ and an engagement with Diego Velázquez's painting Las Meninas, exposes the role of the audience in their engagement with any object or event.     

笼养蛋鸡啄癖的发生及防治

“啄癖”是一种公认的家禽异常行为。引起啄癖的诱因较多,因此,在生产中极易发生,且能迅速蔓延至全群,常常给生产单位造成巨大经济损失。若能早期预防,及早发现,及时治疗,是可以得到避免和控制的。