Monsters, Meaning, and the Music of Chopin in American Horror Cinema of the 1930s and’40s 有人提到蕭邦的第二號還有第二十號夜曲在美國影視描述邪惡/惡魔的時候往往是配樂，尤其是邪惡的男人在勾引和誘惑女人的段落。他的舉例包含了靈異女僕、美恐、破案神探和漢尼拔。
"So it’s not so much a snooty bullshit comment like when the annoying science man says 'December 31 is a cosmically insignificant day so you’re wrong to care about it,' but more about Cronenberg being interested in something that extends beyond the human-centric point-of-view of… humans."
有時候，我會擔心大家以為法西斯主義像是重播上的納粹，像怪獸穿著他們花俏的服裝突然降臨。法西斯主義到來時會表現得像你的朋友。它會重建你的榮光，讓你感到驕傲，保護你的家園，賦予你工作，整肅你的社區，提醒你曾經的榮耀，驅除貪贓枉法，移除任何你感覺不像你的東西...... 法西斯主義不會在來訪時宣告：「我們的章程包含武裝民兵，大規模的監禁、交通運輸、戰爭和迫害。」 -- Michael Rosen
State of emergency declared as NYS coronavirus victim total climbs to 89; numbers in Westchester continue to expand from case of infected New Rochelle man 啊啊啊啊啊救命，89例，也才五天！
花木蘭......。唉。種族、性別和階級問題是綁在一起的。 我去西雅圖的時候，在水族館遇到一個曾經在台灣教書的美國(白)人，他問我和旅伴讀什麼，聽到我的研究方向之後說，我一直不懂，為什麼我在台灣教學生花木蘭，結果他們都不感興趣，比較喜歡美國殺人魔。 (您覺得為什麼呢？) 西岸比起東岸，對亞洲文化感興趣很多。但那種感興趣的方式讓我覺得亞洲文化對他們而言比較像一隻特別的鳥，想收進籠子裡觀賞的感覺。 (("I'm not your nightingale, your little bird, your dove. I'm not your anything. I belong to me and no one else!"))
"They are designed to copy human beings in every way except their emotions. The designers reckoned that after a few years they might develop their own emotional responses. Oh, hate, love, fear, anger, envy." 因為他們不是人類，所以他們的情感也不是人類的。這個跟The Outsider真的沒有差很遠。將近四十年了欸，還在原地打轉。
"In the U.S., millions are uninsured or underinsured, people working multiple jobs can’t make rent, and workers making a few dollars an hour are told that if they miss a shift their hours will be cut. This is a society that responds to poverty with police, and to health care needs with jail.
It may be true that viruses only see bodies, not class or immigration status, but there is no question that those who will bear the brunt of this pandemic will be the poorest and most marginalized. The fundamental inequality on which everything in this country is predicated will be exacerbated by this crisis in ways we cannot fathom."
Generally speaking, all the authorities exercising individual control function according to a double mode; that of binary division and branding (mad/sane; dangerous/harmless; normal/abnormal);
and that of coercive assignment of differential distribution (who he is; where he must be; how he is to be characterized; how he is to be recognized; how a constant surveillance is to be exercised over him in an individual way, etc.). Panopticism
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. 我開始懂了。
"That's it, then, is it? The sun's going down. Or the earth's coming up, as the fashionable theory has it. Not that it makes any difference. What was it all about? When did it begin? Couldn't we just stay put?
I mean no one is going to come on and drag us off.... They'll just have to wait. We're still young..fit...we've got years...We've nothing wrong! We didn't harm anyone. Did we?"
"Our names shouted in a certain dawn... a message...a summons...there must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said—no. But somehow we missed it."
！看Delany在說，才知道The Boys可能出自W. H. Auden的Atlantis？或者是The Boys讓他想到Atlantis？ Being set on the idea Of getting to Atlantis, You have discovered of course Only the Ship of Fools is Making the voyage this year,
As gales of abnormal force Are predicted, and that you Must therefore be ready to Behave absurdly enough To pass for one of The Boys, At least appearing to love Hard liquor, horseplay and noise.
"Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now. We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men.
None of them were the men we knew. The news paper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives.
"The New York City police commissioner said 98 people in the Police Department, including 70 uniformed officers, had tested positive for the coronavirus." 不知道月初時看到的、那些穿梭在紐約市各大景點的警察怎麼了。
(非常跳痛的大腦接線)
有人提到蕭邦的第二號還有第二十號夜曲在美國影視描述邪惡/惡魔的時候往往是配樂，尤其是邪惡的男人在勾引和誘惑女人的段落。他的舉例包含了靈異女僕、美恐、破案神探和漢尼拔。
其實已經快寫完了啦，只是想到研討會可能會被取消就有點失去寫完的動力......
最近要進城，皮皮剉。
不重要的柯能堡資訊XDDD
The Journal of Fantasy and Fan Cultures針對哈利波特和它的粉絲圈研究徵文中。2500-7500字，MLA格式，四月一號截止。
喜歡巴比倫柏林裡面Rath上了政府黑名單的鄰居在一個非常家常的場景對他說「雖然你不知道，但你未來會被列上政府黑名單」然後一邊做(不是德國的)家鄉菜給Rath吃。
喜歡這部描繪威瑪德國怎麼變成納粹德國的步調。
法西斯主義不會在來訪時宣告：「我們的章程包含武裝民兵，大規模的監禁、交通運輸、戰爭和迫害。」
-- Michael Rosen
有影集雷。
一方面Katelbach看到了近在咫尺的未來，但另一方面他對未來還抱持著希望。
要去紐約市：不戴口罩怕病毒攻擊，戴口罩怕被人攻擊。好煩啊啊啊。
3/5 11例
3/6 22例
3/7 早上33例 傍晚上升至89例
3/8 105例
3/9 142例
3/10 173例
3/11 216例
3/12 325例
紐約地鐵上戴口罩的人真的變多了。但大部分還是亞洲人或亞裔。藍瓶子咖啡真的不好喝，不推。拿鐵淡如水而且喝完還會心悸，不懂究竟為什麼那麼紅。
洛克菲勒大廈的望遠鏡，可以看到遠方辦公大樓裡的人在做什麼。
啊啊啊啊啊救命，89例，也才五天！
Westworld第三季要回歸了。公車廣告超多。
他們一邊下樓梯，還可以聽到他開心地對同事說，不錯吧，這個梗我醞釀一陣子了。
這是要上演末日殭屍戰吧？OTZ
&收到年會的信，說不會取消今年會議。也太刺激。
應景，貼個殭屍研究的書單。之前研究The Last of Us那陣子應該有貼過？不管了。
台灣今天也有新聞，同樣是中國製造的部份藥品開始有貨源不足危機，健保局正在尋找其它產地替代性藥品。
"It is acceptable, although not essential by any means, to wear a face mask in public areas."
我去西雅圖的時候，在水族館遇到一個曾經在台灣教書的美國(白)人，他問我和旅伴讀什麼，聽到我的研究方向之後說，我一直不懂，為什麼我在台灣教學生花木蘭，結果他們都不感興趣，比較喜歡美國殺人魔。
(您覺得為什麼呢？)
西岸比起東岸，對亞洲文化感興趣很多。但那種感興趣的方式讓我覺得亞洲文化對他們而言比較像一隻特別的鳥，想收進籠子裡觀賞的感覺。
(("I'm not your nightingale, your little bird, your dove. I'm not your anything. I belong to me and no one else!"))
算了，爬回去睡覺。
XDDDD
科羅拉多也宣布進入緊急狀態，我看這學期在美國的年會大概都要取消了。
照這速度等到一個確診病患出現早就一堆人中標了啦。
——要怎麼阻止屠龍者變成龍？
AAS也取消了。
他：「大陸的學校......」
我：「？為什麼你要用『大陸』這樣的詞？」
他：「不然你會用什麼？」
我：「中國。」
他：「喔......我覺得大陸比較政治正確，我平常是用國內，但我怕冒犯你，你用中國，我可能會覺得冒犯，所以最後用了大陸。」
我： (可是你用國內我一點也不覺得被冒犯啊) (他國事務)
聽說有大學部學生的簽證很嚴，如果沒有修滿12學分學生必須離開美國。有教授拒絕轉為線上課程，直接取消整堂課，學生少四學分，馬上面臨必須離開美國回到疫區的困境。
因為他們不是人類，所以他們的情感也不是人類的。這個跟The Outsider真的沒有差很遠。將近四十年了欸，還在原地打轉。
3/14 524例 晚上上調為613例
3/15 729例
3/16 950例
3/17 1374例
3/18 2382例
3/19 4152例
3/20 7102例
3/21 10356例
這個病毒會大量傳播，和整個社會制度也高度相關。
挺喜歡這部把殭屍拿來當政治手段的方式。自損八百傷敵一千的手段果然只有某些文化和社會情境才想得出來。
Panopticism
對不起，看這個我大腦只會出現十八禁腦補
我：噢謝天謝地！
這影集抓outlaw的那條線抓得太精巧了啦，而且這些細節都不是在故事主線上，有時候覺得他們沒想那麼多，但仔細爬梳又覺得這麼踩線根本不可能沒想過。
美國自從911之後針對反恐的緊急狀態到目前仍沒有中止。快要20年了。
Well.
......我也想知道，最近每一個政策都讓民眾更恐慌，然後我們這些衰爆的留學生就被有種族歧視的人當出氣包。
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
我開始懂了。
Guildenstern does not notice.
最近在各國的留學生都好慘
美國暫停簽證了。台灣似乎沒受影響。韓國同學崩潰中，他現在等於必須待在美國直到疫情結束。
project MUSE這陣子有很多免費資源，大家快看看有什麼想下載的論文。
美國國際旅遊疫情建議爆表了。第四級： 不要旅遊。
Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood
via
他居然還可以說do better，我只想叫川普閉嘴。
只是想到我教授之前上課播過各種片，但唯一一次大學生反應大到他最後不得不把整個恐怖片單元拿掉(我哭)的是日本電影課上播咒怨。所以上課可以播看見魔鬼、索多瑪120天、錄影帶謀殺案、著魔、狼溪、殺手阿一或X聖治，學生會嚇到該該叫，但看完他們可以冷靜下來聽這些片的背景脈絡。一播咒怨，抱怨信就直接灌入系主任信箱。
AIT跟上，暫停所有簽證服務。好的，看起來我今年可以回去的機會更渺茫了。
對照一下秘密森林，就知道奉俊昊有多酸XDDD
‘It Feels Like a War Zone’: Doctors and Nurses Plead for Masks on Social Media
啊，好慘。
JSTOR也開放了！等等，好像是針對疫區。JSTOR這裡走。
Breaking Bad或漢尼拔那類型的。
好喔。祝堪薩斯幸福。
樓下鄰居的病似乎終於快好了。
The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962–2007
飛機暫時停飛紐約和費城地區。現已恢復正常。
冰都融了。
嘿，這本在MUSE上可以免費下載了！
雖然我很喜歡Ronsel和Jamie的獨白，可是結尾感覺有點草率欸？
(決定去找同人文看)
Being set on the idea
Of getting to Atlantis,
You have discovered of course
Only the Ship of Fools is
Making the voyage this year,
Are predicted, and that you
Must therefore be ready to
Behave absurdly enough
To pass for one of The Boys,
At least appearing to love
Hard liquor, horseplay and noise.
這個監控程度......。
──當你覺得為了國家大多數人的存亡做到這個程度是沒問題的，那之後要站在什麼立場批評國家的政策？
We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
3/23 20875例
3/24 25665例
3/25 30811例
3/26 37258例
3/27 44635例
3/28 52318例
3/29 59513例
3/30 66497例
3/31 75795例
不知道月初時看到的、那些穿梭在紐約市各大景點的警察怎麼了。
是說我也算開了眼戒，管不住嗯呃性慾(？)的這些男性頻頻跑八大夜店，搞得警方必需協同衛生局做夜店的擴大臨檢這個還是重點新聞喔。XDD