In "Ecology without Nature", Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the 'nature' they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a see...(展开全部)

Thought for the day? All humanists should immediately receive remedial math and science lessons. All scientists should start defending the humanities. Doings in the present? Working with many artists and writing a book for Penguin. Where? Rice University. Born? London, UK, 1968. Educated? Oxford. Jobs? Oxford, Princeton, New York University, University of Colorado at Boulder, U...(展开全部)

A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and...(展开全部)

A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and...(展开全部)

What happens when the body becomes art in the age of biotechnological reproduction? In Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life. From the earliest appearance of Frankenst...(展开全部)

Ari Larissa Heinrich teaches in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures.

李泽厚，当代著名哲学家、美学家和思想学家，湖南长沙人，生于1930年6月，1954年毕业于北京大学哲学系。曾任中国社会科学院哲学研究所研究员、巴黎国际哲学院院士、美国科罗拉多学院荣誉人文学博士。李泽厚的《美的历程》、《中国近代思想史论》等著作影响极大，从者甚众，人称“青年导师”。90年代，李泽厚客居美国，出版了《论语今读》、《世纪新梦》、《己卯五说》等著作，对中国未来的社会建构给予沉甸甸的人文关怀。他提出的“主体性实践哲学”、“心理积淀说”、“情本体”、“偶然性（命运）”、“后马克思主义”、“儒学四期说”等观点对中国近几十年的社会文化和思想产生了很大影响。 李泽厚继1988年当选巴黎哲学院院士之后，2010年出版的以权威和标准严格著称的《诺顿理论和批评选集》（第二版），他的著作与柏拉图、亚里士多德、休谟、康德、莱辛、黑格尔等大哲学家的代表作一起入选。...(展开全部)

What happens when the body becomes art in the age of biotechnological reproduction? In Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life. From the earliest appearance of Frankenst...(展开全部)