'Bataille's boys': postmodernity, Fascists and football fans

In his analysis of football hooliganism, Anthony King claims to reveal the historical, conceptual scheme young, male supporters draw upon. This 'masculine vision', he states, is similar to that held by the Freikorps. Both groups are said to adhere to modernist notions of masculinity, sexuality and nationhood, reinforced by rituals which maintain boundaries between these 'proper' males and deviant 'others'. Occasionally, football hooligans breach these boundaries in acts of postmodern transgression. King also claims that fans link sex and violence in their imaginations. In this response I examine King's critique of his fellow theorists; challenge his 'Freikorps-Fans' analogy; demonstrate the problem he has in establishing the sex-violence link and question the relevance of his concept of postmodernity.     

消解“单一的现代性”:重构中国的另类现代性

现代性一直伴随着我们并和我们无法分离,它不仅使得中国更加接近现代化,而且还影响了我们的生活、思维以及学术研究的方法,激励了我们的物质和文化知识的生产。既然我们现在就生活在这样一个全球化的时代,那么现代性也就呈现出了新的面目,成了一种扩大了的现代性,或者说一种后现代时代的现代性,因为它经历了某种形式的裂变,从单一的现代性演化成了不同形式的复数的现代性。因此,我们也许能够在全球化的时代从中国的具体国情和立场出发,重新建构一种另类的现代性。显然,这两个话题是通过翻译从西方引进到中国的,而且不断地在我们的理论争鸣中被中国的文学和文化研究学者引证并讨论。中国的另类现代性的形成,一方面消解了大一统的单一现代性的神话,为不同形式的复数的现代性在全世界各地的形成铺平了道路,另一方面,它本身又对全球现代性的宏大叙事作出了自己的独特贡献。     

Postmodern society and the individual: The structural characteristics of postmodern society and how they shape who we think we are

The notion that personality is pluralistic and not a rigid construct is widely acknowledged within the social sciences. However, factors affecting multiplicity outside of clinical enquiry are still poorly understood. The idea that postmodern society has influenced how the individual conceives of their self-concept is frequently discussed, however, seldom theorized and empirically inspected. This study tests a number of psycho-sociological hypotheses that being immersed within consumption and part of a technology-based culture are contributing factors to self-pluralism. Data is collected from 201 individuals living in postmodern societies. Results indicate that technology exposure and materialistic beliefs are related to levels of self-pluralism and that materialism plays a partial mediatory role in technology's influence on multiplicity. These findings add support to postmodern understandings of the self and society and show everyday experiences associated with modern living influence how one conceives of their identity.     

Knowledge Communities, Spatial Theory and Social Policy

This paper uses the concept of knowledge communities to account for the relatively low impact of spatial perspectives on welfare policy (marginalization in the economic sphere; limited uptake in the social sphere). However, recent developments in the social sciences include a growing recognition of relationships between discourse, knowledge and power. Central to this work is a recognition of the territorialized nature of knowledge. These developments suggest that social policy has the potential to be reconfigured in a much more geographically sensitive manner.     

Postmodernity and Welfare: When Worlds Collide

Social policy is just about the last social science subject to take the postmodern challenge, though we have seen a rash of contributions in recent months. These have proved catalytic but may have been presented in a manner that is careless as to the nature of welfare as a boundaried academic realm. These offerings have also illustrated the difficulties involved in splicing poststructural analysis with a historically structural subject. Equally, definitions of social policy generated within the welfare community may also act as a de facto barrier to the postmodern. Consequently we seem to have the makings of a non-debate of incompatible analyses, making even the possibility of a "third position" a remote one. However, a sideways glance at the chronologically more advanced postmodernism–feminism debate offers some hope that a welfare-adapted postmodernity may emerge in the future.     

鲍曼的现代性批判

鲍曼的现代性批判有其独特的犹太特性和后现代视角,他指出秩序是现代性的首要追求,通过监狱、福利制度、园艺,乃至大屠杀以达目的。但现代性的秩序设计注定是要失败的,混乱与秩序如影随形,这是现代性的矛盾性,犹太人的同化困境和陌生人的遭遇是这种矛盾性的体验,犹太思想家记录了这种矛盾性并尝试着以不同方式提供出路,鲍曼提供了与他们相似的现代性对症良方：后现代性。     

后现代影视:政治与道德话语的放逐

中国近期影视后现代性强化了世俗愿望的追求,拆解了英雄创业的神话,在放逐各种政治与道德权威话语的同时,破坏了具有历史主义特征的精神模式,使影视更加贴近百姓的感受经验。