Experiments on puerile nations,or the impossibility of surpassing your father: the case of the Anglo‐Greek dialogue

This article is concerned with the dialogic construction of Greek national and British imperial identities. It examines the gendered language in which the Greeks and the British addressed each other in the 1860s and the 1870s. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, anthropology, studies of nationalism and post‐colonial theory, it looks at the symbolic structure of Anglo‐Greek cultural exchange. In this analysis, it is argued that the familial imageries both sides employed to describe themselves and/or each other were constitutive of the roles they had assumed in Anglo‐Greek relations, but also part of the very process of Greek nation‐building and British imperialism.     

传播政治经济学的学术脉络与人文关怀

传播政治经济学是传播学的重要研究流派之一,其学术发展与资本主义体系在全球范围内的建立、急剧扩张以及与之相抗争的社会运动的发展密切相关.这一学派不仅弥补了侧重行政导向与市场导向的美国主流传播研究之缺失,而且解构了主流传播研究的知识生产与社会权力关系.传播政治经济学对当前资本主义高度商业化、集中化、去管制化、国家化的传播制度与传播现象进行了深刻的批判,体现出全球传播政治经济学学者们在不同层面与场域所进行的超越资本主义的社会转型的各种努力.     

文化帝国主义与文化霸权思想考察

西方有关文化帝国主义的文化霸权理论,其形态与立场都比较复杂,本文所考察的有关文化帝国主义的理论中,萨伊德的东方学理论与后殖民文化批判理论对文化帝国主义是持批判与否定态度的,汤林森的文化帝国主义理论、亨廷顿的文明冲突论以及福山的历史终结论都暗中支持了一种西方文化帝国主义的文化霸权观。     

Who Wants to be a Millionaire? The politics of television exports

Globalization developments are presenting television programme-makers with the possibility of expanding programme sales on the international market. This article focuses on the various initiatives of the UK government to support an export-led strategy, and evaluates the consequences of such a strategy on domestic programming. Highlighting the current trend towards the sale of programme formats, the article further considers whether the increased circulation of television programmes around the world points to a model of interconnectedness and heterogeneity or whether it reinforces unequal patterns of media flows. Drawing on interviews with government advisers and regulators, the article concludes that the promotion of an export-led strategy is economically and culturally flawed and is linked to the UK government's strategy to liberalize trade in services rather than a commitment to increase cultural diversity.     

论黄兴的民族主义思想

黄兴的民族主义思想包含着丰富的内涵。表现在:政治上,他坚决反帝反封;经济上,要求独立自主地发展民族工商业。此外,他还强调发展文化教育事业及国家实行法治等,以使中华民族迅速地繁荣富强起来,成为真正独立自主的国家。这充分反映了他深厚的爱国主义情感。     

法律经济学：历程、思想与启示

法律经济学作为经济学帝国主义的重要表现,是用经济学的方法和理论来考察、研究法律和法律制度的形成、结构、过程、效果、效率及未来发展的学科;是法学和经济学科际整合的边缘学科。本文在阐述了法律经济学的基本轮廓后,提出了法律经济学形成给予我们的几点启示。     

虚幻的有效性——洪宪帝制终结的政治思考

洪宪帝制是袁世凯试图借用帝制权威的传统合法性来自动生成其在近代社会的有效性,以求政权稳定和延续的体制选择。这一体制选择由于突破了近代社会“合法性”的限度,完全丧失了构建政治社会秩序的价值和能力,因而合法性与有效性的张力同样成了袁世凯帝制政权终结的催命符。     

The kick off*

ABSTRACT

Samir Amin's call for the establishing of a fifth international is timely, urgent and necessary. This essay explores some key questions that should be debated by those seeking to create the new international: including the appropriate organizational form; membership; and decision making procedures.     

Home on the waves: domesticity and discomfort aboard the overland route steamship, 1842–1862

ABSTRACT

This article develops insight into the historical connections between corporeality and mobility, focusing upon the mobilities made possible by the shipping line P&O’s steamship service to the East in the mid nineteenth century. Passenger narratives of journeys made by this service describe an idiosyncratic domesticity which evokes a distinctive attempt to discursively frame steamship mobility as a safe, comfortable, normalised experience of a journey which was often anything but. This blasé attitude emphasises the role of bourgeois material and social practices as a means for the historical agents of globalisation to come to terms with steamship travel, extrapolated through ideas of domesticity which mutate and develop through their relation to the sea and the flux of mobility. This process of normalisation centres in travel narratives upon a preoccupation with the notion of comfort. The historical constitution of comfort is articulated through the body’s constitution as a site of struggle, locating the human subject in the dichotomy of the ship interior as a stable materiality and the exterior as a problematic outside revealing that the mobility of steamships was predicated upon the violence not just of speed but the suffering of subaltern labour which reproduced the problematic social relations of empire.     

‘SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGES OF THOUGHT’: EMPIRE'S INSERTS

Scattered throughout Hardt and Negri's Empire are a number of short sections whose manifesto-like energy contrasts with the relatively expository style of the main text. These passages, modeled after the scholie of Spinoza's Ethics, are meant to suggest new ways of thinking about material already presented, to highlight the affective aspect of the material, and to point to hidden connections among different discursive elements. Several of these which did not appear in the published version of Empire for reasons of space are published here for the first time. The matters touched on are as diverse as those in Empire itself: Totality as a philosophical problem, the gender of biopolitical production, the relationship between genocide and the nationstate, the possibility of hope; the paradoxes of unemployment, the function of fear, postmodern prophecy,Hollywood's imperial fantasy, and the paradoxical relationship between being-against and love that has puzzled and fascinated many of Empire's readers.