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    Kiki Smith: ‘Gold Siren’

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    Haas A. Kiki Smith: ‘Gold Siren’. In: Mobile Städtische Galerie im Museum Fokwang im Öffentlichen Raum (Essen), ed. Private Öffentlichkeit. Exhibition Catalog, Museum Folkwang, Essen. Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag; 2002: 50

    David Smith - Medals for Dishonor (1936-40)

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    Der amerikanische Stahlbildhauer David Smith (1906-65), der in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika hauptsächlich für seine abstrakten Stahlskulpturen bekannt ist, beginnt nach seiner Rückkehr von einer neunmonatigen Reise durch Europa im Juli 1936 nach New York - zu einer folglich in politischer Hinsicht hoch brisanten Zeit - mit der Arbeit an seiner 15-teiligen figurativen Medaillenserie Medals for Dishonor (1936-40). Innerhalb dieser Serie stellt Smith auf surrealistische Art und Weise die Schrecken des Krieges im Allgemeinen dar, verweist mittels unterschiedlichster Motive aber immer wieder auf das damalige Zeitgeschehen. Durch sowohl die Gattung als auch die Kombination aus surrealistischem Stil und sozialkritischem Thema fallen die Medaillen vollständig aus Smiths restlichem, vorwiegend skulpturalem und abstraktem Werk heraus. Im Vergleich mit Werken führender Surrealisten, oder dem Surrealismus nahestehender Künstler, wie beispielsweise Salvador Dalí (1904-89), Max Ernst (1891-1976), André Masson (1896-1987), Joan Miró (1893-1983) und Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) fällt darüber hinaus auf, dass auch diese Gewaltdarstellungen in ihre Werke integrieren, um sich sozialkritisch zu äußern. Kann Smiths Medaillenserie folglich exemplarisch für eine Neuakzentuierung des Surrealismus in den 1930er-Jahren stehen

    A 'third culture' in economics? An essay on Smith, Confucius and the rise of China

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    China's rise drives a growing impact of China on economics. So far, this mainly works via the force of example, but there is also an emerging role of Chinese thinking in economics. This paper raises the question how far Chinese perspectives can affect certain foundational principles in economics, such as the assumptions on individualism and self-interest allegedly originating in Adam Smith. I embark on sketching a 'third culture' in economics, employing a notion from cross-cultural communication theory, which starts out from the observation that the Chinese model was already influential during the European enlightenment, especially on physiocracy, suggesting a particular conceptualization of the relation between good government and a liberal market economy. I relate this observation with the current revisionist view on China's economic history which has revealed the strong role of markets in the context of informal institutions, and thereby explains the strong performance of the Chinese economy in pre-industrial times. I sketch the cultural legacy of this pattern for traditional Chinese conceptions of social interaction and behavior, which are still strong in rural society until today. These different strands of argument are woven together in a comparison between Confucian thinking and Adam Smith, especially with regard to the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments', which ends up in identifying a number of conceptual family resemblances between the two. I conclude with sketching a 'third culture' in economics in which moral aspects of economic action loom large, as well as contextualized thinking in economic policies. --Confucianism,Adam Smith,physiocracy,collectivism and individualism,social relations in China,morality,economy of Imperial China

    A Conversation with Patriann Smith

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    Dr. Patriann Smith talks to us about race, language, and immigration. Dr. Smith is known for her transdisciplinary research at the intersection of linguistics, (im)migration and race in literacy education. Her forthcoming book, with Drs. Arlette Willis and Gwendolyn McMillon, Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness, will soon appear in Teachers College Press. Dr. Smith is a member of the Board of Directors of the Literacy Research Association (LRA) and co-author of LRA’s recent report, Advancing Anti-Racism in Literacy Research. Dr. Patriann Smith is an Associate Professor of Literacy Studies in the College of Education at the University of South Florida. Check out her guest page on the Classroom Caffeine website for the resources Dr. Smith mentions in her episode

    Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction

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    To ignore the strategies and structures through which stories are told, this thesis contends, is to neglect a vital dimension of their politics. Narratology provides productive analytical tools to illuminate the complex and varied mechanics of narrative form, yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing reformulation as an expansive, pluralist and contextualized critical discipline. Participating in this expansion, this thesis evidences the pertinence and vitality of some narratological models and the limitations of others. It opens up alternative critical possibilities by drawing upon insights within contemporary critical theory, from poststructuralist philosophy to transcultural feminism to sociolinguistics. Above all, my interventions proceed from close readings of innovative fiction by women writers hitherto all but unrepresented in, and therefore potentially subversive of, existing models: Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Hiromi Goto, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk. The first chapter formulates an in-between critical space where feminist and postmodernist theories of narrative intersect. It re-examines metafiction through the lens of auto(bio)graphical practice and feminist poststructuralist theories of self, and introduces the notions of folds and echoes to describe specific structural innovations. Chapter Two examines unconventional uses of second-person address and reconsiders existing narratological approaches in their light, focusing on the `push and pull of narrative' that the `you' form enacts. Chapter Three addresses the insufficient attention paid to multiply narrated novels, theorizing them as `narrative communities' and introducing terms to describe different internal relations between narrators, relations that can often be read as determinedly 'democratic'. The final chapter contests the hegemony of temporal models of narrativity by formulating a 'spatial poetics' that accounts both for how spatial structures can be agents of narrative change and for the complexity of textual constructions of space, which frequently exceed static definitions of 'setting'. Running throughout is a reconception of narrative as located not with the figure of the narrator, but in relations of intersubjectivity. The narratological criticism formulated here works towards a situated ethics of reading responsive to the politics of writing: it is engaged, relational, and ever in process

    Recital 6: Part 2.3: Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major, Op. 81a (\u3ci\u3e“Les Adieux”\u3c/i\u3e) (1809)

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    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major, Op. 81a (“Les Adieux”) (1809) Sonate caracteristique, Lebewohl, Abwesenheit und Wiedersehn Das Lebe wohl (The Farewell). Adagio – Allegro Vien am 4ten Mai 1809, bei der Abreise S. Kaiserl. Hoheit des Verehrten Erzherzogs Rudolf. Vienna, 4th May 1809, on the departure of His Imperial Highness the esteemed Archduke Rudolph) Abwesenheit (Absence). Andante espressivo. In gehender Bewegnung doch mit viel Ausdruck Vien 1810 am 30ten jenner. Geschrieben bei der Ankunft Seiner Kaiserl. Hoheit Des Verehrten Erzherzogs Rudolf (Vienna, 30th January 1810, written on the arrival of His Imperial Highness the esteemed Archduke Rudolph) Das Wiedersehen (The Return). Vivacissimamente. Im lebhaftesten Zeitmasse Performer: Jiayan sun, pian

    An Accident of Resistance in Nazi Germany: Oskar Kalbus\u27s Three-Volume History of German Film (1935–37)

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    This article reconsiders the first comprehensive history of German film, Oskar Kalbus’s two-volume Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst (On the Rise of German Film Art, 1935) in terms of its contemporary reception in Nazi Germany and in light of a newly surfaced third volume. This is the first article dedicated to a work that scholars have long cited, though rarely without suspicion. The newly surfaced typescript for Der Film im Dritten Reich (Film in the Third Reich, 1937) confirms the author’s National So- cialist sympathies, but at the same time it highlights by contrast the virtues of the two published volumes
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