论晚期中世纪室内装饰画表现要素的嬗变

因装饰主题、装饰环境和赞助体系溢出宗教范围,欧洲中世纪晚期的装饰画从神圣的教堂进入俗世的家庭。结合这一时期的绘画技法理论和实践作品,可以看出,装饰画的表现要素,如载体、材料、功能、形式、尺寸、风格与技法经历了一系列的拓展嬗变,其中赞助人身份和趣味的变化,以及人文主义思想都起到了积极的推动作用。     

建设新时代生态综合交通强国——基于绿色发展理念的思考

中国交通运输的阶段性迈进支撑了社会经济的发展,在进入生态文明体制改革的关键时期,迫切需要回答在新时代怎样建设交通强国这一关键问题,为交通体制规划与创新提供理论的引领与支持,解决政府、企业在交通决策方面遇到的现实问题。基于文献研究法和FSO三维综合交通运输理论,回顾了生态综合交通体系的理论发展,总结了1949年以来综合交通体系的发展改革历程,提出了综合交通体系的阶段论,构建了生态综合交通体系的理论框架。研究认为,生态综合交通体系是综合交通发展的高级阶段,其理论内涵是从功能、结构和运作3个维度符合社会经济协调和友好发展要求的交通体系;构建生态综合交通体系,需要贯彻绿色技术创新与绿色管理创新,掌握好交通产品创新、交通工艺创新、交通市场创新、交通资源配置创新和交通组织创新,注重交通发展与生态发展的协调性,为交通强国提供绿色驱动力;只有构建生态综合交通体系,推动国际、城际、城市交通的绿色发展,促进交通企业组织、硬资源、软资源的绿色发展,推进规划、映射、弹性机制的绿色发展,才能把中国建设成一个绿色发展的交通强国。     

Binary discrimination methods for high-dimensional data with a geometric representation

Four binary discrimination methods are studied in the context of high-dimension, low sample size data with an asymptotic geometric representation, when the dimension increases while the sample sizes of the classes are fixed. We show that the methods support vector machine, mean difference, distance-weighted discrimination, and maximal data piling have the same asymptotic behavior as the dimension increases. We study the consistent, inconsistent, and strongly inconsistent cases in terms of angles between the normal vectors of the separating hyperplanes of the methods and the optimal direction for classification. A simulation study is done to assess the theoretical results.     

Populism as a fantasmatic rupture in the post-political order: integrating Laclau with Glynos and Stavrakakis

ABSTRACT

The recent challenges of populist movements to the ‘post-democratic horizon’ in Greece and elsewhere have highlighted its possibilities as a political force able to mount a challenge to the technocratic logics of the neoliberal consensus. The theoretical perspective of Ernesto Laclau, which focuses on the rhetorical act of naming ‘the people’ and extrinsic representative form over intrinsic content, thus becomes increasingly valuable to explore such possibilities and to account for the current ubiquity of populist articulations both here in New Zealand and further afield. However, the need to clarify and iron out any inconsistencies in Laclau’s approach also increases, and the main task of this article is to raise the consideration of how it could be supplemented by, and articulated with, the Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts of fantasy and jouissance. Analysis of a selection of John Key’s populist articulations in the New Zealand media, and photographs from Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) protests, reveal that both forms of populist articulation, while constructing very different visions of ‘the people’, hinge on the fantasmatic representation of an other; an antagonistic power who steals our enjoyment. However, I conclude that a normative assessment of populist articulations is both possible and necessary.     

Estimating the error distribution function in semiparametric additive regression models

We consider semiparametric additive regression models with a linear parametric part and a nonparametric part, both involving multivariate covariates. For the nonparametric part we assume two models. In the first, the regression function is unspecified and smooth; in the second, the regression function is additive with smooth components. Depending on the model, the regression curve is estimated by suitable least squares methods. The resulting residual-based empirical distribution function is shown to differ from the error-based empirical distribution function by an additive expression, up to a uniformly negligible remainder term. This result implies a functional central limit theorem for the residual-based empirical distribution function. It is used to test for normal errors.     

Low-status work consequences on immigrant workers' organization: the cases of five immigrant groups in Athens

The article centres on the repercussions low-prestige work has on the collective organization and representation of immigrant workers. This micro-sociological analysis focuses on the cases of Egyptian, Albanian, Bangladeshi, Palestinian, and Philippine immigrants in Athens and how the frame of their work and their employment affects their participation in their immigrant work associations. Evidence from in-depth interviews proves that the majority of immigrants do not claim established workers' rights and do not seek membership in any unions. On the contrary, they rely on a network of friends and relatives for support and develop individual behaviours and alternative solutions to achieve survival and protection.     

海德格尔与计算机————兼论当代哲学与技术的理想关系

一般认为,现代哲学与技术实践是分离的,这种未经反思的信念之所以为人接受,原因在于哲学总是作为技术实践的背景而存在。人们只有在技术难题无法通过技术手段克服时,才有可能去反思它背后的哲学假设。计算机与哲学的距离似乎是最遥远的,然而潜藏在计算机科学和技术深处的是传统的哲学信念———世界的可表征性和主客的二元分立。当科学家们想要弄清知识表征难题的根源时,传统的哲学信念才开始得到严肃反思和摒弃。海德格尔凭借他对传统哲学的深刻批判而进入到计算机领域中。在海德格尔式的设计进路中,最具代表性的工作是:存在主义设计、指示表征设计、具身交互设计。它们说明,哲学不只是技术实践的批判者和局外人,还可以成为参与者和推动者。     

低碳科技创新与文化产业融合发展研究

加强低碳科技创新,实现低碳科技与文化的融合,助推低碳文化和低碳经济社会发展是我国应对全球气候变化、主动承担国际减排责任、加快生态文明建设的重要战略选择。低碳科技创新是发展低碳文化、构建低碳社会的重要引擎,低碳文化发展是低碳科技创新的重要心理机制和社会基础。加强低碳文化科技创新,需要加强低碳科技创新的顶层设计、系统推进,加强低碳科技文化的公共服务供给,促进低碳文化产业和低碳社会的发展。     

The turn to the self: From “Big Character Posters” to YouTube videos1

This paper explores the process by which user‐created content in contemporary China has evolved from being appropriated as a weapon of political mobilization and accusation to serving as a vehicle of independent self‐representation. The analysis is set in the context of the social, political and economic metamorphosis that China has undergone in the past five decades and foregrounds the dynamics of political, economic and technological forces transforming Chinese media. The metaphor of “the wall” is used to chart the contours of the struggle for self‐expression and representation. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the political and social implications of the Internet and networked user created media content for China.