This text explores the large body of sculpture, paintings and other religious imagery produced for China's common classes from the third to the sixth centuries CE. In contrast to the works made for imperial patrons, illustrious monastics, or other luminaries, these ordinary images - modest in scale, mass-produced, and at times incomplete - were created for those of lesser stand...(展开全部)

朱迪丝·N.施克莱 Judith N. Shklar （1928—1992） 美国政治理论家，哈佛大学政治学教授，历任美国政治学与法哲学协会主席、美国政治科学协会主席等，并入选美国艺术与科学学院。对法国和美国政治思想传统有精深研究，对约翰·罗尔斯、理查德·罗蒂等人产生过重要影响。 代表作品有：《政治思想与政治思想家》（Political Thought and Political Thinkers）、《美国公民权》（American Citizenship）、《守法主义》（Legalism）、《平常的恶》（Ordinary Vices）以及The Faces of Injustice、After Utopia: the Decline of Political Faith等。

The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Shklar's "ordinary vices"--cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy--are merely treacherous shoals, flawing our characters with mean-spiritedness and inhumanity. Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers--Moliere and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare ...(展开全部)

Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the subject as a capacity to affect and be affected. In a series of brief vignettes comb...(展开全部)

朱迪丝·N.施克莱 Judith N. Shklar （1928—1992） 美国政治理论家，哈佛大学政治学教授，历任美国政治学与法哲学协会主席、美国政治科学协会主席等，并入选美国艺术与科学学院。对法国和美国政治思想传统有精深研究，对约翰·罗尔斯、理查德·罗蒂等人产生过重要影响。 代表作品有：《政治思想与政治思想家》（Political Thought and Political Thinkers）、《美国公民权》（American Citizenship）、《守法主义》（Legalism）、《平常的恶》（Ordinary Vices）以及The Faces of Injustice、After Utopia: the Decline of Political Faith等。

The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Shklar's "ordinary vices"--cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy--are merely treacherous shoals, flawing our characters with mean-spiritedness and inhumanity. Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers--Moliere and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare ...(展开全部)

The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman). A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a seri...(展开全部)

Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the subject as a capacity to affect and be affected. In a series of brief vignettes comb...(展开全部)

Since 2002, Sze Tsung Leong has been photographing the dramatic changes that are transforming the cities of China, revealing a process that begins with the destruction of traditional neighborhoods and ends in the mass construction of new urban environments. He travels with a large-format view camera, visiting cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Nanjing, Pingyao and X...(展开全部)

In Discorrelated Images, Shane Denson examines the ways in which computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had with conventional analog forms of cinema. Denson analyzes works ranging from the Transformers series and Blade Runner 2049 to videogames and multimedia installations to show how what he call...(展开全部)