Young bodies,power and resistance: a new materialist perspective

Portrayals of young people as either victims or perpetrators of errant, aberrant or even dangerous attitudes, desires or behaviours may be criticised for obscuring the relations of power within which young bodies are socially and physically located. However, notions of ‘resistance’ to power within these critiques remain under-theorised. In this theoretical paper we take a new materialist approach to explore the affectivity of young bodies, and the flows and intensities that produce and reproduce power and resistance, and what young bodies can do, feel and desire. To illustrate young bodies’ resistances, we offer the example of the transgressive pro-ana movement that resists both biomedical and social definitions of anorexia. We conclude there is a need to focus upon ‘resisting’ as an affective movement of becoming, rather than upon ‘resistance’ as an agentic act, with consequences both for young bodies, theory, research and activism.     

地震沉积学方法在确定沉积相边界方面的应用

通过应用测井曲线和地震资料识别的不整合界面、最大水退界面和最大水进界面，将古近系双阳组划分为2个三级层序、5个体系域。SQⅠ包括双阳组一段和二段，分为低位体系域、湖进体系域和高位体系域。SQⅡ包括了双阳组三段地层，分为低位体系域和湖进体系域。在层序格架内，利用地震沉积学理论和方法，利用等时细分地层地震属性分析技术，在高位体系域中识别出强制性水退期沉积、各时期沉积体系的发育过程和沉积体系边界，在此基础上预测出双阳组比较有利的4套储盖组合。     

(T)races of terrorism beyond ports of entry: a retrospective assessment of the limits of profiling in the regulation of airport passenger traffic during the 2010 FIFA World Cup

A critical function of post‐9/11 surveillance worldwide was to manage the ‘terrorist’ spectacle in public spaces such as airports and stadia. With the prospect of the 2010 World Cup looming large, aviation security in South Africa had accordingly gained significance in proportion to the expansion of airports and construction of stadium infrastructure countrywide. Private sector and government intentions to defend and consolidate the developmental spinoffs of expansion and infrastructure construction were expected and, with this, real and perceived threats from both ‘terrorists’ and banned football hooligans from Europe seem to demand surveillance based on racial profiling. The resultant profile picture of surveillance, this paper argues, is in monochrome: black terrorists and white yobs. Mobilising Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical work on deterritorialisation – based on the destabilisation of traditional concepts of territory – aviation ports of entry are seen to transmogrify into points of entry into the public discourse of the Arabic‐African militant, on the one hand, and the English‐European yob menace, on the other. In the final analysis, surveillance discourse moves beyond the confines of the airport and enters the public domain as it conflates the political (militant) and the social (menace) in a single, profiled, ossified narrative of ‘race’.     

Assembling the refugee anthology

ABSTRACT

There has been a sudden proliferation of short story anthologies published in direct response to the refugee ‘crisis’ of 2015 and the US travel ban of 2017. This article focuses on two of these collections (The Displaced and Banthology, both published in 2018) in order to theorize the reasons behind this phenomenon. What makes an anthology better equipped than a single authored piece of writing to respond to such contemporary themes as migration and displacement? I argue that the answer might lie in the precise nature of their heterogeneous form, which allows anthologies to be assembled and reassembled by various stakeholders during their production and reception so that they mean differently in different times and places. My analysis of the anthology as assemblage brings Deleuze and Guattari’s original concept into dialogue with newer notions of queer curation and postcolonial reading in order to conceive of processes of selecting and fitting elements together as deliberate tactics. I pay particular attention to how such processes highlight the agentic role of the reader, allowing them to make their own assemblages from the multiple interrelations that emerge between the anthology’s composite elements, and I show through specific examples from primary texts of how this might be done. Developing this concept of assemblage reading (which is here also transnational by nature) allows me to extend the framework of the refugee anthology to encompass a much wider range of acts of collective creation in my conclusion.     

Joseph Cornell’s Subversive Materialism

Abstract

Joseph Cornell’s box assemblages have proven difficult for art historians and gallerists to categorize. Being neither painting, sculpture, nor precisely collage, their unique position within the history of twentieth-century American art highlights the disruptive materialist strategies the artist employed in forming his objects in the 1940s. This article discusses three related strategies derived from material culture that the assemblages subvert by deviating from the established pathways of particular object categories: the inauthentic object, the souvenir, and the biographical object. These related strategies helped the artist to negotiate his relationship with the city of New York and its immersive consumer culture, and mediate the anxieties recalled in his diaries regarding eternity and the infinite expanse of space. Finally, the article contends that these deviations represent the source of the works’ spiritual and social resonance.     

温州经验对欠发达地区中小企业的启示

温州产业实践表明:温州是利用产业集群优势获得竞争地位,提升区域经济竞争力,使得产品具有很强的市场适应性和很高的市场占有率,产业集群已经成为温州区域经济增长的“加速器”。这种温州产业经验对欠发达地区的中小企业具有借鉴与启发作用。     

Re-assembling climate change policy: Materialism,posthumanism, and the policy assemblage

National and international policy-makers have addressed threats to environmental sustainability from climate change and other environmental degradation for over 30 years. However, it is questionable whether current policies are socially, politically, economically, and scientifically capable of adequately resolving these threats to the planet and living organisms. In this paper we theorize and develop the concept of a “policy assemblage” from within a new materialist ontology, to interrogate critically four policy perspectives on climate change: “liberal environmentalism”; the United Nations policy statements on sustainable development; “green capitalism” (also known as “climate capitalism”) and finally “no-growth economics.” A materialist analysis of interactions between climate change and policies enables us to establish what each policy can do, what it ignores or omits, and consequently its adequacy to address environmental sustainability in the face of climate change. None, we conclude, is adequate or appropriate to address climate change successfully. We then use this conceptual tool to establish a “posthuman” policy on climate change. Humans, from this perspective, are part of the environment, not separate from or in opposition to it, but possess unique capacities that we suggest are now necessary to address climate change. This ontology supplies the starting point from which to establish sociologically a scientifically, socially, and politically adequate posthuman climate change policy. We offer suggestions for the constituent elements of such a policy.     

Mixed methods,materialism and the micropolitics of the research-assemblage

We assess the potential for mixing social research methods, based upon a materialist and micropolitical analysis of the research-assemblage and of what individual research techniques and methods do in practice. Applying a DeleuzoGuattarian toolkit of assemblages, affects and capacities, we document what happens when research methods and techniques interact with the events they wish to study. Micropolitically, many of these techniques and methods have unintended effects of specifying and aggregating events, with the consequently that the knowledge produced by social inquiry is invested with these specifications and aggregations. We argue that rather than abandoning these social research tools, we may use the micropolitical analysis to assess precisely how each method affects knowledge production, and engineer the research designs we use accordingly. This forms the justification for mixing methods that are highly aggregative or specifying with those that are less so, effectively rehabilitating methods that have often been rejected by social researchers, including surveys and experiments.     

巴楚隆起寒武系层序格架及生储盖组合特征

通过对野外露头剖面、 钻 （测） 井、 地震解释等相关资料的综合分析， 以层序地层学理论为指导， 将塔里木盆地巴楚隆起寒武系划分为 3 个二级层序， 14 个三级层序， 其中二级层序均为 I 型层序， 主要发育海侵体系域和高位体系域， 在寒武纪， 研究区主要表现为局限台地—蒸发台地的交替沉积， 其水体深度西北缘相对较大， 东南部相对较浅。在此基础上根据其体系域发育特征探讨了研究区生储盖发育特征及时空配置规律， 共发育 1 套烃源岩、 3 套储集层、 2 套盖层， 烃源岩为 SS1 海侵体系域， 储层分别为 SS1 高位体系域、 SS2海侵体系域、 SS3 高位体系域和海侵体系域， 盖层分别为 SS1 高位体系域和 SS2 高位体系域， 组成了两套较好的生储盖组合。研究区内野外剖面和钻井岩芯资料显示： 白云岩多数经历过热液改造， 在热液改造强烈的地方溶蚀孔洞较为发育， 因此， 在构造活动强烈的地区， 热液通过断裂运移对原岩进行溶蚀和改造， 易于形成较好的储层， 进而形成较好的油气藏。     

Isochrone Mapping of Urban Transport: Car-dependency,Mode-choice and Design Research

Imperatives to develop more walkable, transit-oriented and low-carbon cities have accentuated the need to understand the performance and possible transformation of urban access networks. Within a framework of complex adaptive systems and assemblage thinking we develop isochrone mapping of urban transport access in four transport modes: walking, cycling, public transport and cars. These isochrones can be used to compare the range and area of urban access for each of these modes, over different time limits and for different times of day. Such mapping gears urban morphology to the phenomenology of urban transport and enables us to better understand mode choice. Through design research we can also test a range of possible design scenarios for infrastructure investment and show their impact on the isochrone maps. We conclude with a focus on the relations between car and public transport isochrones as a means of better understanding car-dependency and what we call the ‘Car/PT assemblage’.