“安乐死”的合法性分析

安乐死历来是个敏感的话题,有关安乐死的争论除在哲学、伦理学、医学等领域展开外,法学界对安乐死从不同的角度发表了不同的观点。近期对这一问题的讨论尤其引人注目,笔者想就此进行分析并进而提出一些自己的看法。     

Goffman,Growing Up,and Experienced Relationality

This article adopts a Goffmanian framework to grapple with the emotional‐relational experiences associated with teenagers growing up. Drawing upon focus group interviews with 14–15 year olds in East and West Belfast, the lack of full personhood attributed to nonadults is discussed in relation to spatial exclusion and stigmatizing service transactions, along with some emotional consequences. However, instances where teenagers embrace as well as reject this ostensibly negative social positioning are also elaborated. The overall thrust of the article seeks to demonstrate how the hierarchical adult‐child complex is built and maintained through everyday face‐to‐face interaction and the ritualistic expression of standards of worth assigned to participants.     

The powerful relational language of ‘family’: togetherness,belonging and personhood

This article examines the notion of ‘family’ to consider how it may be understood in people's everyday lives. Certain recurrent and powerful motifs are apparent, notably themes of togetherness and belonging, in the context of a unit that the person can be ‘part of’. At the same time, there may be important variations in the meanings given to individuality and family, evoking differing understandings of the self and personhood. I consider these ideas further through globally relevant but variable cultural themes of autonomy and relationality, suggesting the term ‘social person’ as a heuristic device to distinguish the sense of ‘close‐knit selves’ that may be involved in some understandings of personhood. I argue that this version of personhood may be powerfully expressed through ‘family’ meanings, with a significance which can be at least provisionally mapped along lines of inequality and disadvantage within and between societies around the world. These forms of connectedness may be hard to grasp through those theoretical and methodological frameworks which emphasize the (relational) individual. I argue that, in affluent English speaking societies, ¹ there may be little alternative to the language of ‘family’ for expressing such forms of relationality and connection.     

有时间的人--云南孟定傣德的生日、人名与人观

本文拟通过叙述和分析孟定傣德个体人的生日和名字现象,使他们的世界中存在于人体内外的时间得以略见一斑。孟定傣德每一个人的一生中都会有许多名字,随着生命历程的时间之流,以及相对比较共时性的语境变化,人的名字也在迁流:产生、搁置、唤起、更换、累积、遗失、死亡、再生。这种迁流通过与生日、出生顺序等等时间现象的直接联系,通过生日、名字与健康、文化性别(gender)、知识、社会地位等状况的纠缠,塑造着一种有时间的人。     

Babes in tech land: expo labor as capitalist technology’s erotic body

This article investigates the tech industry practice of hiring “booth babes”—female models costumed in erotic outfits—to introduce new technologies at expos. My research identifies a gendered industrial logic that simultaneously sexualizes promotional spectacles while undervaluing women who create them. Challenging industrial ideologies that view booth babe labor as outside of the tech industry, I engage first in a discourse analysis of job calls for tradeshow modeling gigs, gray literature that evidences not only their industrial presence but also the values that tech companies place on their work. I then turn to their labor conditions, as conveyed through ethnographic interviews with tradeshow models, before drawing connections between booth babe work and other forms of post-Fordist labor. Finally, I propose that the utility of booth babes to the tech industry stems from their enactment of “promosexuality,” a set of corporate erotics oriented toward capitalist promotion.     

Bittersweet

ABSTRACT

For Uitoto communities in the borderlands of the Colombian Amazon, ordinary sociality depends on the effective rendering of sweet social relations from a universe of bitterly antisocial possibilities. Human personhood and kinship must be continually materialized through the transformation of bitter substances and sensations into sweet ones, and the incorporation of sweetness as a sensible quality of moral personhood. In a context where the sensorium is frequently transposed into a moral register, taste qualities both index and transmit the moral qualities of persons, and the bittersweet potentialities of kinship relations are mediated through botanical instruments of moral transformation. This paper explores the qualities of dulzura (sweetness) and amargura (bitterness) as key terms of value in the moral economy of Uitoto horticulturalists—experts in the management of bitter manioc (manihot escualenta) and bitter feelings alike.     

我们所知道的董钻老师——记作物栽培学家董钻教授

董钻教授深谙作物栽培学,博古通今,对学科的发展有着丰富的理想。在40多年的教学生涯中,他一边教书,一边进行作物产量生理方面的科学研究。他对作物栽培学的学科建设和人才培养付出了极大的努力,贡献颇多。在科研方面,对高产栽培中株型和群体光合效率的关系进行过深入研究,他以大豆高产栽培为目标,始终不渝地从事大豆产量生理研究,内容涉及大豆的生长发育、器官建成、产量形成、光合生理、养分代谢、水分生理等,特别是在大豆株型和群体结构研究方面独树一帜,提出调控作物生长发育和产量、品质形成过程的新观点、新方法。形成和推出了作物＂器官平衡＂的概念,对于大豆育种和高产栽培有一定的指导意义。他对大豆高产、超高产的理论进行了有益的探索,将＂高产群体生理参数＂概念引入作物栽培,提出栽培必须以品种为基础,栽培在于发挥品种的潜力,品种、环境、措施是作物生产的三要素。他不但在学术水平上有很深的造诣,而且在学术道德上有很好的修养,他求真务实、坚持真理、尊重前人与提携后辈。     

Remembering Bad Cooks

ABSTRACT

To the extent the food studies literature concerns itself with cooking, the focus is exclusively on good cooking, and that which tastes good. This article focuses on the neglected area of bad cooking, and what sorts of messages a putatively bad-tasting dish is supposed, again putatively, to convey about the person who cooked it. In opening up the disgusting meal for anthropological investigation, this article also exposes an underworld of social relations where antipathy and rejection prevail, in place of community and sentiments of nostalgia.     

Relationalism through Social Robotics

Social robotics is a rapidly developing industry‐oriented area of research, intent on making robots in social roles commonplace in the near future. This has led to rising interest in the dynamics as well as ethics of human‐robot relationships, described here as a nascent relational turn. A contrast is drawn with the 1990s’ paradigm shift associated with relational‐self themes in social psychology. Constructions of the human‐robot relationship reproduce the “I‐You‐Me” dominant model of theorising about the self with biases that (as in social constructionism) consistently accentuate externalist or “interactionist” standpoints as opposed to internalist or “individualistic”. Perspectives classifiable as “ecological relationalism” may compensate for limitations of interactionist‐individualistic dimension. Implications for theorising subjectivity are considered.     

Evidence,Experience and Conjecture: Reading the Interior through Benjamin and Bloch

This article looks at the resonances between Walter Benjamin's writing on the bourgeois domestic interior, and Ernst Bloch's investigation of the detective novel. These resonances hinge on the evidence that the interior registers through traces, and how these traces relate to the conjectural knowledge of detection. Explored via Carlo Ginzburg, conjectural knowledge raises the question of experience in modernity, a question crucial to understanding the role of literary narrative in the nineteenth century, as well as the historical emergence of the bourgeois domestic interior at this time.