Closet and Cabinet: Clutter as Cosmology

ABSTRACT

In Central Slovakia, homes “grow” and get cluttered with age. Cabinets and closets are used to house this profusion of possessions. However, their very role as containers for precious and meaningful objects—such as expensive cut glass or family heirlooms—gives them a poetic and symbolic weight that belies their modest appearance. Based on anthropological fieldwork, this article investigates how practices of collection, storage, and display of particular genres of domestic objects create spaces of intimacy in the home that work to perpetuate a sense of family history amongst middle-aged Slovaks in and around the provincial town of Banská Bystrica. Inspired by the historiography of Walter Benjamin, as well as his biographical writings, the focus of the study lies on the relation between memory and material culture in the home. Rather than relying on narratives of consumption and aesthetic choice recently popular amongst anthropologists studying domestic decor, it forms an attempt to reengage with literature that looks to the home as a site for the poetic imagination in order to grasp sentiments that are rarely verbalized.     

A three-dimensional object point process for detection of cosmic filaments

Summary.  We propose to apply an object point process to delineate filaments of the large scale structure in red shift catalogues automatically. We illustrate the feasibility of the idea on an example of the recent 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, describe the procedure and characterize the results.     

马克思主义哲学视角下中国传统修身思想价值与方法刍议

修身是中国文化的核心要素之一,是人们认识和改造主观世界的重要方法,它保证社会个体的世界观、价值观、人生观与自然界、人类社会及社会个体的规律性相一致,对个体成长与社会发展具有重要意义。从马克思主义哲学视角剖析修身的内涵和价值,在综述修身的价值观念基础上,从个人角度和社会角度提出培育、引导大众修身的方法,以助力高素质社会主义公民的培育以及社会主义文化强国建设。     

对扬子云“难盖天八事”钱氏释义的几点补充

扬雄（子云）从浑天观点举出八事以难盖天，科学史家钱宝琮对此作有解释。本文先略述钱氏之解释，对其中某几点作一些补充。附论桓谭与扬雄关于盖天浑天的辩难，及另一巴蜀天文学家落下闳制“浑象”事。     

中国的互系性思维:通变

对照西方形而上学本体论和宇宙论思想体系 ,可以得出中国传统的思维方式基本上是一种互系性思维方式。从《易经》可以找到“通变”这一互系思维的关键性观念。它区别于西方主流思维的突出特点是以偶对性为核心的宇宙本身互动连续观 ;这对西方由先验论和二元主义导致的两极概念不可解决的矛盾冲突思维 ,构成一种不可比拟的参照结构。以“通变”作为特点的互系思维凝聚为中国主要思想流派的方式而且溶化于民间文化。 2 0世纪它是解读西方“辩证法”的框架 ,成为中国马克思主义的特定方式     

《中庸》新诠

《中庸》是一篇重要的儒家哲学经典文献,它以道德本体作为始基,以道德主体作为核心,阐述了秉具天命之性的人在社会和自然中的立身原则和行为规范;它所包含的道德本体论、道德主体论、德性伦理政治论、德性宇宙论思想,集中展现了儒家包容性的人文主义精神;它所高扬的道德理想主义,对于当今人类重建道德心理基础、恢复信赖社群与和谐宇宙,具有重要的现实意义。     

The urban design of a Balinese town: placemaking issues in the Balinese urban setting

This research considers the role of indigenous institutions and conceptions of space in the urban design process for producing culturally appropriate designs for Balinese towns. Employing a pluralistic approach (The Image of the City, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1960; Planning a Pluralist City: Conflicting Realities in Ciudad Guyana, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1976; House Form and Culture, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1969, Human Aspects of the Built Form, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1977), a case study of the town of Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia explores the popular accounts on the operative indigenous conceptions of space in contemporary Balinese urban settings. This exploration aims at providing a ground for reconnecting urban design proposals with their cultural context, thus promoting the spatially expressed localism originating from the diversity of cultures which is currently undermined by the highly standardized process of the Indonesian planning system. In particular, for the town of Gianyar, such an exploration provides a set of placemaking issues which is useful in devising urban design guidelines for achieving a town with more pronounced cultural identity.The research concludes that to achieve culturally appropriate places, the design process has to acknowledge the Balinese Hindu psycho-cosmic concept as the core principle in the design of Balinese townscapes. As such, the existing indigenous cosmic territory, which accommodates the relationship between human (microcosm) and environment (macrocosm), along with its adat law and institution, has to be incorporated in contemporary urban design processes. As a result, urban spatial organization, structure and form will significantly reflect the Balinese cultural identity.     

“天下”宇宙观的衍变及其哲学意蕴

"天下"这个术语既有自己的历史演变,又有文化哲学的意义,"天下"不仅仅有地域和空间的含义,而且也指涉着形而上的道德建构意义。对"天下"历史含义进行梳理,可以明确"天下"意义的衍变不但体现了华夏民族的宇宙构想、道德信仰、自我认同,而且彰显了近代中国社会从"天下"到"民族—国家"衍变的历史过程。同时,"天下"宇宙观的消解打破了中国人一统天下的时空观念,"儒教中国"正日益失去其活力,民族国家的意识正日益增强,从而为新时代的"天下"观增添了包容性和开放性的内容。