The Defeat of the Guitar Army: Don DeLillo,John Sinclair,and the Rock Revolution

Abstract

Don DeLillo’s 1973 novel Great Jones Street is seldom analysed as a serious engagement with the rock music and countercultural politics of the 1960s, yet these constitute its historical context, its subject matter, and its central concerns. An historicized reading positions the novel as an intervention into contemporary debates about the causes and consequences of the defeat of the 1960s ‘rock revolution’. These debates were most thoroughly synthesized by the rock culture’s chief agitator and organic intellectual John Sinclair in his 1972 book Guitar Army. Like Guitar Army, Great Jones Street dwells on the connections between the political failure of the rock revolution and the provenance and validity of rock’s anti-rational aesthetic. Sinclair finds political hope in re-emphasizing rock’s anti-rationalism, rooted equally in black music and the psychedelic experience. More sceptical, DeLillo offers a very different reading of the rock culture’s view of African American aesthetics and its use of psychedelics.     

Homework: Routine,social aesthetics and the ambiguity of everyday life

Routine is a central feature of everyday life, yet its peculiar rhythms, and the range of experiences associated with it, are often neglected within cultural studies and sociology. Simmel’s attempt to provide a sociological aesthetics is seen as a project that needs reanimating for the study of everyday life routines. This does not mean, however, that Simmel is the only, or the best, guide to the aesthetic dimensions of everyday routine life. In an attempt to provide some co-ordinates for instigating a socio-aesthetic approach to routine, this paper discusses a number of writers who couple aesthetics and the everyday, and who might provide frameworks for the study of experiential aspects of routine life. It also suggests that an inverted reading of John Dewey could provide socio-aesthetic study with the ‘formless’ forms required to bring everyday background routines into the foreground. The socio-aesthetic study of cooking undertaken by Luce Giard provides an example of the complexity of such an approach. Lastly the article looks briefly at new directions for ‘everyday life aesthetics’, more specifically at Henri Lefebvre’s unfinished project of rhythmanalysis.     

墨子和密尔的经济伦理观之比较研究

墨子和密尔的经济伦理观是近代经济科学有关原则和定理的先行思想,他们所倡导的"重利贵义论"存在许多相似之处又各具特色。对二者经济思想的比较研究,不仅可以展示不同民族所面临的相同或相近的经济问题,在某种程度上也为反思中西方经济伦理问题提供了一个崭新视角。     

Music to Remember Me By: Technologies of Memory in Home Recording

This article presents ethnographic data on home music recording to advance the concept of technologies of memory as way for interactionists to understand memory work as a practice of self. John Dewey's classic ruminations on memory as process are combined with Tia DeNora's contemporary articulation of music as a technology of the self to explain data on home recording as individually and socially meaningful mnemonic work. This specific case study demonstrates how home recordists use material technologies (technics) and technological practices (techniques) to form and reform the self in everyday life. More generally, this article demonstrates the efficacy of interpretive studies of memory, creativity, technology, and the self in everyday life.     

当代美国小说中的新现实主义特色

二战后，在美国小说领域出现了现实主义的新的繁荣，涌现出一批优秀的以现实主义创作为倾向的小说家，然而由于受到战后美国政治、经济、各种新思想以及由此带来的人们心理变化的影响，这一时期的现实主义注定要不同于传统的现实主义，它是经历了战后各种思潮和主义洗礼的具有新特色的现实主义，学界将其称为新现实主义。本文对新现实主义小说进行了界定并以约翰·契弗、塞林格及黑人女作家托尼·莫里森的小说为例，阐述了新现实主义小说的创作特色，认为新现实主义小说是战后美国小说发展的必然趋势。     

约翰·胡斯对威克利夫宗教改革思想的继承和发展

胡斯对威克利夫的宗教改革思想既有继承又有发展。他对威克利夫著作中的许多观点表示赞同,但他并不是盲目地崇拜,他所保卫和传播的是那些“符合于实际和正义的观点“;同时,胡斯在继承威克利夫宗教改革思想的基础上,比威克利夫走得更远,手段更激进,他亲自到农民中去宣传,号召人们使用武力,这成为后来农民起义的思想理论武器。     

Some evidence concerning the value hypothesis of intergenerational status transmission: A research note

This paper reports some evidence bearing on the value hypothesis of intergenerational status transmission. The point of departure is the studies of Kohn (1969, Class and Conformity: A Study in Values, Dorsey, Homewood, Ill.) and Wright and Wright (1976, American Sociological Review, 41, 527–537) on the social class related value orientations called “self-direction” and “conformity.” Our research examines whether children's valuations along this dimension are associated with the valuations of their parents, as the value hypothesis would argue. Key associations consistent with the hypothesis are found although there is, overall, considerable variation in children's valuations not related to variation in the valuations of their parents. Implications of the finding for future examination of the value hypothesis are discussed.     

Stuart Hall's pessimism of the intellect,optimism of the will: reflections on an intellectual life

Stuart Hall was a seminal figure in the development of cultural studies and his death in 2014 has left an intellectual and political void. This article, based on a memorial talk, offers a number of perspectives on Hall’s life and work: the relationship between his speeches/interviews and his written work; the cultural and political context of cultural studies’ emergence; the contradictory and productive relationship between cultural studies and Marxism; the centrality of ‘conjunctural analysis’ to the project of cultural studies; the continuing relevance of the recently republished book Policing the Crisis; the responsibilities of intellectuals to make ideas matter in the world beyond the academy, and the political nature of Hall’s version of cultural studies.     

罗斯金评美的四个错误观念

在提出典型美与活力美这两种美的形态之前,罗斯金首先评论了四种他认为对其美学思想构成一定威胁的美的观念——美即是真,美即有用,美来源于习惯,美取决于联想。在对这四种美学观念的分析中,罗斯金以神为中心的美学思想也可窥见一斑：美是上帝神性的永恒显现,能够将上帝的荣耀展现于我们面前,升华我们对上帝的赞美与崇拜。美具有永恒不变的...     

密尔自由主义思想述评

密尔的自由主义受早期功利主义的影响,并对其进行了不断地修正.功利主义的伦理观是其自由主义思想的伦理基础,最大多数人的最大幸福是其最终的价值目标.他详尽地阐述了社会所能合法施用于个人的权利的性质与限度,划分了个人与社会之间的界限,突出了个性发展对社会福祉的重要性.代议制政府是自由的制度保障.