Television and the making of a transnational Alevi identity

ABSTRACT

Satellite broadcasting technologies contribute a great deal to interaction across national boundaries, and in this regard satellite television is significant in the construction of a transnational public sphere for the Alevi community in Turkey and abroad. This paper addresses the role of television in the making of that transnational Alevi identity. In particular, it focuses on the flow and the programme contents of Cem TV and Yol TV, two leading Alevi channels, to demonstrate how the transnational imagination of Alevi identity corresponds to different political understandings of Aleviness.     

中国古代文论中的“灵感”说

同西方“灵感”说的神赐灵感观念相比 ,中国古代文论中的“灵感”说更注重结合作家具体的创作实践感受 ,来揭示创作灵感的突发而易逝的特点以及它对作家创作想象活动的催发作用。古人论创作灵感现象还进一步透过灵感现象的表现特征而揭示它的产生原因 ,“积之在平日”是灵感生成的必要前提 ,而“得之在俄顷”则是积蓄在胸的作家与客观外物心物交感的必然结果。     

Developing critical and empathic capabilities in intercultural education through the VaKE approach

One of the core goals of intercultural education is to develop critical and empathic reflection on social justice, particularly as related to humanistic choices and how individuals can counteract exclusion. The present article analyses the Values and Knowledge Education (VaKE) approach, which is aimed at raising awareness about implicit value-oriented priorities in decision-making. Through the Human Development and Capability Approach, the applicability of VaKE’s didactic principles is analysed in relation to young people’s perspectives on resettlement in Europe. The VaKE method was used at a 2013 summer camp in Austria with a culturally diverse group of young Europeans who were presented with a dilemma story that highlighted the complex issue of providing assistance to asylum seekers. The participants engaged in various knowledge and moral viability checks that enabled them to engage with opposing arguments. The participants evidenced critical reflection and self-scrutiny, as well as affiliation and empathic imagination, regarding problems that are encountered by asylum seekers.     

颠覆与虚无:莎剧《麦克白》与《哈姆莱特》中的主观性困境

本文通过对比莎士比亚四大悲剧中《麦克白》与《哈姆莱特》两剧主人公的性格,从主观性的角度入手,尝试分析麦克白与哈姆莱特这两个人物的性格特征及其缺陷如何造成其悲剧命运,并进一步揭示莎士比亚塑造这两个人物的现代性意义。麦克白受想象引发的欲望诱惑,犯下弑君罪行,在犯罪之后,又受同样源于想象的恐惧折磨,幻想掩盖罪行,确保安全,反而令自己的罪恶越发深重。麦克白用自己的行动不断颠覆现实,将自身放逐于自然秩序之外。哈姆莱特的困境在于,他用自己高度二元化的形而上学思维来把握世界,在自己的头脑中构建起思维与存在、本质与表象、理想与现实的对立,并在双方的对立冲突中令自己陷入虚无,从而无法完成报仇的使命。莎士比亚塑造的这两个人物,正是后来现代社会中高度主观抽象的现代人的真实写照。     

Towards the elsewhere: discourses on migration and mobility practices between Morocco and Italy

The objective of this article is to analyse the preparation process of young Moroccan migrants intended to migrate to Italy. My focus is on the personal and collective formulation of their desire to leave and on concomitant action taken to bring about these aspirations; highlighting the complexity of the imagination, which migration – and expected return – entails. A second point of interest is the agency exerted by such youth, as they prepare for departure; even when they have not yet physically left the country. In addition, my observation is focussed on networks emerging as a result of having to deal with state-imposed, migration restrictions, as well as with the politics of humanitarian agencies and NGOs. I argue that these aspiring migrants project themselves into the future and act in accordance with what they long to become. They shape themselves as mobile subjects through a process of self-making to overcome the above-mentioned constraints.     

艺术想象在中西文论中的分途异趋

西方之想象与中国之神思,异名而同实,均指形象思维。西方自柏拉图、亚里斯多德以降,至菲洛斯特拉托斯方为之一变,从否定趋向肯定。借英国经验派之力,浪漫主义在反抗欧陆理性主义时,着力标举想象。其后,荦荦大者有二：一是维柯《新科学》;二是鲍姆嘉通的《美学》。在神思论发展演变的历史长河中,有三部里程碑式的杰作：即陆机《文赋》、刘勰《文心雕龙·神思》和叶燮的《原诗》。想象与神思,异轨同奔,虽有契合之处,但分歧也比比皆是。推究起来,则是中西思维方式的不同,实际上可归原为中西文化的差异。     

农村题材小说中的城市想象

“十七年”农村题材小说中普遍存在着城市和农村的潜在对立,虽然小说都是以农村作为描写的场景,但却表现出对缺席的城市的文学想象,其结果是城市在不同阶级的人眼里幻化成充满矛盾的景象。这种不同的文学景象其实反映的是当时主流意识形态对城市的矛盾态度和困惑心理。而这种矛盾同时也是中国当代现代性追求中尴尬处境的折射。     

Un-imagining the local/future: cinematic engagement with the absence of hope

ABSTRACT

With reference to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and Hong Kong’s uncertain fate come 2047, I ask how one un-imagines the cultural future of inhabiting the locality. As people take prompts from the present predicament to cope with real possibilities about the future, they realize that a strong embodiment of local consciousness permeates the sociocultural space. I discuss how such engagement takes place through cinematic experience, and examine tactics of the spectator’s critique centring around the erosion of hope at the core of everyday, intellectual and affective imagination. I trace the ways in which postcolonial subjects engage with hope and with the shock of hopelessness in a lived social imaginary. Examining in detail three differently representative recent films, namely, The Midnight After (2014. Dir. Fruit Chan, The Midnight After Film and One Ninety Films), Overheard 3 (2014. Dir. Alex Mak and Felix Chong, Sil-Metropole, Bona Film and Pop Movies) and Ten Years (2015. Dir. K. L. Ng (‘Local Egg’, Boon-deh dan), J. Au (‘Dialect’, Fong-yin), K. Chow (‘Self-Immolator’, Jee-fun jeh), F. P. Wong (‘Season of the End’, Dong sim), and Z. Kwok (‘Extras’, Fau gua), Ten Years Studio), I depict the modes in popular imagination that invoke people’s engagement with the ‘local’, albeit in its affective state. Accordingly, in the context of ‘externalized’ social realities, I identify three interlocking modes of cultural engagement, which I characterize as figurative, performative and prefigurative, respectively. In their ‘future’ imaginary, I look for ordinary people’s ways to face the absurdity of the status quo and the performativity of local struggles with the self.     

“欲望”与“禁忌”:中国现代女性作家的“思春”叙事

"思春"叙事是中国现代女性作家表达思想感情的重要方式,她们往往不像男性作家那样消弭了自我而去追随革命,相反,她们多以一种完全有悖于男性想象的心灵独语,十分隐晦地讲述女性对于情爱问题的矛盾心态:既渴望爱情的归宿又惧怕男性的伤害,既有本能欲望的冲动又有理性节制的掌控,她们正是通过文学艺术这种含蓄达意的表现方式,向社会展示了一种为男权话语所忽视了的精神世界。