We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)

（不得不承认，这真的很像命运石之门）每个人做完事情之后都会产生后果，然而在做这件事之前和过程中，结果是无法确定的。而所诞生的结果，也就是你所在的世界，然而这样会在“世界架”中诞生出两个世界。现在，世界架已经接近承受的极限，而主角被卷入了被选...

（不得不承认，这真的很像命运石之门）每个人做完事情之后都会产生后果，然而在做这件事之前和过程中，结果是无法确定的。而所诞生的结果，也就是你所在的世界，然而这样会在“世界架”中诞生出两个世界。现在，世界架已经接近承受的极限，而主角被卷入了被选...

In Plantation Worlds, Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amidst tea plantations in the Indian state of Assam. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, n...(展开全部)

霍华德·贝克尔（Howard S.Becker)，1928年出生，美国著名社会学家，芝加哥学派，符号互动论和标签理论的代表人物，研究领域横跨教育社会学、越轨社会学、艺术社会学、社会学方法等。

City Worlds presents both an overview and the core of the argument in the Understanding Cities series. Using an integrated and interactive text City Worlds draws on our spatial imaginations to prompt a distinctive understanding of cities.

While the world evaporates into the digital, the anachronistic Polaroid snapshot dominates media and advertising. The recent sale of the photography collection owned by Polaroid’s inventor, Edwin Land, to the Viennese photography museum WestLicht marks an artmarket trend toward the analog. Beginning in the sixties, Polaroid supplied artists around the world, from Ansel Adams to...(展开全部)

The experience of the impossible churns up in our epoch whenever a collective dream turns to trauma: politically, sexually, economically, and with a certain ultimacy, ecologically. Out of an ancient theological lineage, the figure of the cloud comes to convey possibility in the face of the impossible. An old mystical nonknowing of God now hosts a current knowledge of uncertaint...(展开全部)

The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the prop...(展开全部)