On the Museum's Ruins presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived...(展开全部)

Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to expand its analytical scope to address the toxic but less perceptible corrosions and violent accruals of colonial aftermaths, a...(展开全部)

Tracing the roots of the modern American University in German philosophy and in the work of British thinkers such as Newman and Arnold, Bill Readings argues that historically the integrity of the modern university has been linked to the nation-state, which it has served by promoting and protecting the idea of a national culture. However, now the nation-state is in decline, and ...(展开全部)

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka completed an epic journey across twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, relentlessly researching the beauty of the ancient world. Before the Magnum photographer, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these artefacts with so much persistence ...(展开全部)

凯文•鲍尔斯 Kevin Powers 美国小说家、诗人，1980年生于弗吉尼亚州里士满，出身于蓝领家庭，父亲是工厂工人。17岁应召入伍，2004年2月至2005年3月在伊拉克摩苏尔和塔拉法尔服役。退伍后，就读于弗吉尼亚州立大学，获得本科学位后；在得克萨斯大学奥斯丁分校获得文科硕士，后来在该校米切纳中心担任诗歌研究员。2012年，出版第一部作品《黄鸟》（The Yellow Birds），获得了海明威奖、《卫报》首作奖，以及美国国家图书奖的最终入围书目。

凯文•鲍尔斯 Kevin Powers 美国小说家、诗人，1980年生于弗吉尼亚州里士满，出身于蓝领家庭，父亲是工厂工人。17岁应召入伍，2004年2月至2005年3月在伊拉克摩苏尔和塔拉法尔服役。退伍后，就读于弗吉尼亚州立大学，获得本科学位后；在得克萨斯大学奥斯丁分校获得文科硕士，后来在该校米切纳中心担任诗歌研究员。2012年，出版第一部作品《黄鸟》（The Yellow Birds），获得了海明威奖、《卫报》首作奖，以及美国国家图书奖的最终入围书目。

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world – and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas f...(展开全部)

Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the justification of museums. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge presents a critical nature of museums. Through the examination of case stud...(展开全部)

In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it served as an essential resource for those seeking to enter to the museum profession and for established pro...(展开全部)

爱德华·P. 亚历山大 Edward P. Alexander 教授是国际知名博物馆学家，曾任美国纽约州历史学会会长、威斯康星州历史学会会长等，是美国德拉华大学博物馆学学科的创始人，并荣登美国博物馆协会“百年荣誉榜”。 玛丽·亚历山大 Mary Alexander 是美国华盛顿特区的一位博物馆教育员和管理员，曾在多家博物馆任职，并出版多本博物馆学术研究著作。