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Subjectivities of Russian Traders at the Border with China
No full textThis paper draws attention to a relatively understudied aspect of cross-border trade: the relation between the subjectivities of traders and the geo-political situation they find themselves in. Among Russian traders at the border with China, discourses on comparative civilisation, memories of mid-twentieth century Soviet dominance and ambivalent appreciation of China’s present riches are integral to everyday practices. It is argued that a theoretical concept of melancholia is helpful to understand the traders’ self-reflective and diverse reactions. At this highly securitised border, in the absence of deep social relations with Chinese partners, the goods purchased, consumed and traded appear as vivid alternative foci for emotions. The article suggests that an anthropological approach to qualia (experiential feelings aroused by material objects) provide a useful heuristic for discussion in this situation
Brug dog kataloget!
Get PDFI Aarhus Amtstidende lørdag den 23. januar 1900 kunne man blandt andet læse om drøftelser om bygning af ”en videnskabelig højskole i Aarhus”, telegrammer fra Boerkrigen i Sydafrika og et friskt interview med den russiske forfatter, grev Leo Tolstoj. Men dagens avis indeholder også et fint læserbrev fra en trofast bruger af det daværende Landbohøjskolens Bibliotek, som i 1898 havde svimlende 2.633 udlån! Og så får vi slået fast, hvordan man bedrev litteratursøgning før internettet: Man brugte da kataloget!
Aarhus Amtstidende udkom for sidste gang i 1965
Foucault’s Concept of Confession
Get PDFSetting out from the difficulty of translating the Foucauldian notion of aveu, this paper proposes an account of Foucault’s concept of confession in the years 1979-1983 surrounding the writing of Confessions of the Flesh. I focus on Foucault’s relative failure to bring together the complementary dimensions of confession as confession of sins and confession of faith in early Christianity. Foucault’s attempts to tackle this challenge nonetheless reveal a number of crucial aspects of his thought throughout the 1970s, e.g., the critique of the notion of ideology and the role that critique played in the setting of Foucault’s “critical philosophy of veridictions”. A comparison with the lectures given at Louvain and the Collège de France suggests that Foucault took an original and rather solitary path in Confessions of the Flesh, which may explain the surprises awaiting the reader. Finally, I propose an explanation of Foucault’s final shift away from Christian confession towards Greek parrhesia, pointing to the key role of the idea of a “duty of truth”. This idea led Foucault to an original approach to confession and the illocutionary force of statements
Fascinating Flesh: Revealing the Catholic Foucault
Get PDFThe Catholic dimension in Foucault’s examination of the Church Fathers is featured because neglect of it may misrepresent the very notions of virginity and of flesh in Confessions of the Flesh. Failure to appreciate the tension between a seditious flesh and an incarnational flesh implicitly confines the Patristic vision to the limited modern field of “sexuality.” The fourth volume might be best interpreted against the background of the investigations that prompted Foucault to immerse himself in religious texts and spiritual experiences: his early writings on literature; the later interest of his lectures in pastoral technologies; and his witnessing of the political-spiritual movements both in Islam (the Iranian revolution) and in Catholicism (the anti-military protests in South America and the anti-Communism denunciations of Pope John Paul II)
Fieldwork Report: The Making of Lonely Planet Guide - On the ground research for the Encounter Guide Amsterdam, published in 2009 by Lonely Planet, and written by Zora O’Neill
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