The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open five days a week starting August 29, pending State and City approval MET可能八月底會重開。 有時候會覺得還好家人是去年夏天來找我順便逛紐約市。今年......大概只能見識美國的「偉大」。
‘Clean Up This Mess’: The Chinese Thinkers Behind Xi’s Hard Line Chinese academics have been honing the Communist Party’s authoritarian response in Hong Kong, rejecting the liberal ideas of their youth.
"The very word 'repatriation' [...] rested on a fact of citizenship that had ceased to exist the day he, Karamat Lone, took office and sent an unequivocal message to those who treated the privilege of British citizenship as something that could be betrayed without consequences." Shamsie在寫公民身分這點上感覺好過來人。「擁有英國公民身分是種特權，不是出生公民權。」這背後的邏輯和暗示......。
"The fact is, Rebecca Lind has on repeated occasions during her short life been confronted with a system whose arbitrariness we all have to submit to. Or not one single occasion has society, or the philosophy that created it, given her any help or offered her its understanding....
In fact, Rebecca's action had political foundations, although she herself does not belong to any political group and certainly lives in happy ignorance of the political system that dictated practically everything that happens to us in this country.
Let us not forget that the preposterous doctrine that war is the logical conclusion of politics is still valid today, and that this maxim has been created by well-paid theorists in the service of this capitalist society.
What this young woman did yesterday was a political act, even if unconscious. I maintain that Rebecca Lind sees the corrupt rottenness of society more clearly than thousands of other young people. As she lacks political contacts and has little idea of what is involved in a mixed-economy government, her clarity of vision is even greater."
"412 policemen were struggling with about twice as many demonstrators. The police were equipped with tear gas bombs, pistols, whips, batons, cars, motorcycles, shortwave radios, battery megaphones, riot dogs and hysterical horses. The demonstrators were armed with a letter and cardboard signs, which grew more and more sodden in the pelting rain."
"To be sure, history is replete with political regimes that mobilize around crime, use the criminal law to cover up the asymmetrical effects of power, bolster the elimination of political dissidents, and terrorize and deter organized resistance by systematically exploited classes."
"Though criminal laws often speak in terms of prohibitions, and penal sanctions demand greater degrees of submission to authority, the work of governing through crime, seen in its larger totality,
involves the effort of responsible actors of all kinds in contemporary American society who struggle to provide security for their families, their students, their customers, their employees, and others."
"[I]t is the relationship between these two faces of governing through crime, the penal state and the security state, 'the criminology of the other' and the 'criminology of the self ' (Garland 2001a, 137) that in the end we must map if we are to disentangle American democracy from its late modern relationship to crime."
'In the era of racially targeted law-and-order policies,' the overall effect of these representational strategies is to move the problem of crime and its control away from neoconservative politics of over-policing and punishing onto the allegedly neutral terrain of doing responsible science."
Recognizing Racism in the Era of Neoliberalism "Neoliberalism sees the market as the very paradigm of freedom, and democracy emerges as a synonym for capitalism, which has reemerged as the telos of history."
"Over the weekend, Chicago police officers shot and wounded a reportedly armed man in Englewood, another South Side community. The resulting chaos led to misinformation, frustration, clashes with the police, and extensive looting that extended to the city’s downtown areas."
“Catholic or Protestant?” “Just sort of Baptist.” Nile responded on reflex. “Why?” “How is the saying? For a country that claims to be Protestant your government certainly disapproves of protest.” 救命XDDDDDD
"An awful lot of SF readers, however, confuse the existence of that interpretive space with the values the interpretations most often written into that space have, most often, supported: those literary values that are unitary or authoritarian.
The response of these readers, no doubt impelled by the best of intentions and a suspicion that unitary values are inappropriate to a writing field so clearly a pluralistic enterprise, is simply to deny all existence to the interpretive space around the SF text.
The usual way of accomplishing this is for these readers to assume a conscientiously philistine approach—which is what they intuitively feel is opposed to a 'literary' approach. 'First of all,' they say, 'science fiction is merely entertainment.'
But can’t you hear, lurking behind this statement, an appeal not to the notion of a plurality of values but to a single value, 'entertainment value,' meant to totalize the whole field? This is simply the mirror image of the statement 'Literary texts have literary value.'
The good ones presumably have more of it, the bad ones less, but all literary texts have some. This, presumably, is why they are literature in the first place. 'SF texts have entertainment value.' The good ones, again, have more, the bad ones less.
Laurie: The [relationships] in my books are def not healthy. Lisa: Who wants healthy??? [...] Amy: No one is reading crime books for insight into healthy relationships.
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這篇的語氣XDDD
美國人用各種漏洞跑進加拿大，沒保持社交距離也沒口罩，加拿大人不爽。
MET可能八月底會重開。
有時候會覺得還好家人是去年夏天來找我順便逛紐約市。今年......大概只能見識美國的「偉大」。
我後來訂閱了Shudder。它除了電影之外也有電視，幾次看電視都發現它在播亞洲恐怖片。
Chinese academics have been honing the Communist Party’s authoritarian response in Hong Kong, rejecting the liberal ideas of their youth.
(最近在想的是，面對這樣的問題或質疑，是不是還是要略過其中的挑釁意味，依舊試圖去回答對方會問出這種問題的核心。不然就只是加劇對立而已。)
(但實話實說，光現在人在美國讀書，這個「為什麼」就沒有很難懂。真的應該討論的是很多美國大學在教的東西和如今中國政府用的邏輯是一樣的。為什麼美國人覺得自己輸出的是自由民主，對方最後顯現所學卻是統治與控制社會的策略？很基本的問題是，美國社會在自由與民主的定義與實踐上有偏差，很多美國人看不到，但去留學的學生學到了定義和實踐偏差的方式。)
學校說現在本州驗covid-19不用錢。
那我應該不準。第一季我就已經覺得很無聊了......而且有些點大踩我的雷。
Shamsie在寫公民身分這點上感覺好過來人。「擁有英國公民身分是種特權，不是出生公民權。」這背後的邏輯和暗示......。
喔！之前才在說，剛看到有期刊要出特別刊，在徵現代西部類型的稿了，例子就包含Westworld和The Last of Us和Red Dead Redemption。
有時候都忍不住想，社會可以這麼在乎人工智慧，同時拒絕把人當人看。諷刺。
待看。
至於國際學生，美國建議(建議)你們自我隔離十四天。(沒有規定，意思是有人沒做也不能怎樣)
真是一團糟。
！我以為台灣會強制隔離，結果沒有嗎！
那個學生有留什麼紙本或電子信箱的往來可以和學校爭取嗎？(不過以台灣某些學校的調性，呃，告訴校方對方有把事情鬧大的可能性搞不好學校那邊會軟化......OTZ)
((我覺得學校可能比較怕媒體欸))
美國對廣島和長崎投原子彈要滿75年了。
呃......男主角好會哭？
Doctor Who為主題的特刊在徵稿。
喔這部視訊的部分好真實，完全是這幾個月隔離生活的處境。尤其是一些視訊會有的小細節，像看得到每個人的房間，或前面有一段雙重登入結果回音超大的地方，身為過來人當場大笑
看完了。劇情不特別，但這種敘事方式我喜歡。想想我算是手持攝影機類恐怖片的愛好者，這部是多重手持鏡頭，日常程度又加成。
馬丁．貝克 刑事檔案的第十集......還沒出？
啊，好愛這系列XDDD
The limits of the sovereign state: Strategies of crime control in contemporary society
Unpublished.
哦？
想看Antebellum。
哎唷喂呀。
Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Serializing Evil: David Peace and the Formulae of Crime Fiction
Law as a Gendering Practice
目前看到三集中的第一集。好慢。然後目前還看不太出來影集想把重點擺在哪。該不會是想當true crime拍吧？（總共也才三集，我覺得有主軸的話這速度有點太慢了）
&發現斑比身上的白斑看起來像是森林裡陽光透過樹隙落在地上的擬色。
猜猜鹿在哪裡？
(離超遠照還是被牠發現)
(但第一個故事的梗很不錯XDDDD)
那我看的實況主應該沒關，他一直在被綁架的時候嚇到XD
"Neoliberalism sees the market as the very paradigm of freedom, and democracy emerges as a synonym for capitalism, which has reemerged as the telos of history."
Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South
嗯......是Magnificent Mile。本來三月報告漢尼拔的時候要住那邊。
最近追的好幾個美隊作者都轉寫不死軍團了。
USPS just made sweeping changes to its leadership as lawmakers call for an investigation into delayed mail ahead of the 2020 election
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科學家發現大白鯊每年會去那裡，也不知道他們在做什麼，就幫那個地方取名叫大白鯊的咖啡店。
我說，你們美國人可以順便搞清楚台灣和中國學生的差別嗎......一直被系上誤認成可以遞換的代名詞很煩欸。像上次那個FBI警告信事件簡直是在亂槍打鳥。
目前五集。這個是在歌頌美國個人主義嗎？哇噢。
我比較想看同人文。這樣算是名副其實的ABO文欸。
這部有一些試圖顛覆的地方，可是完全都不在點上。像，如果這麼想用savage，好啊，至少也玩一下savage的意義？沒耶。直接把美國老西部/現代南方人的形象挪移然後定義成savage也太方便了吧？
但它讓我發現The Outsider用了很多驅魔/惡魔附身的梗。連opening都長很像。
之前在追的美隊圈作者果然在政治和種族的敏感度都比電影高很多。
“Just sort of Baptist.” Nile responded on reflex. “Why?”
“How is the saying? For a country that claims to be Protestant your government certainly disapproves of protest.”
救命XDDDDDD
這劇不是辦案中心，是角色中心。
嗯？這個翻譯徵才似乎怪怪的？
(光「台灣腔方言」其實就踩我大雷)
除了甜羅勒還隨便種了番茄(用不小心把番茄放太久結果從番茄裡發芽的種子)，結果最近番茄居然長了番茄
嗯......如果之後要研究Paco Ignacio Taibo II的話搞不好可以回頭把這部撿起來。
怪了，我發現這些角色還多半是女角？
看的多是冷門劇覺得最近差別不太大。
(通常光發現有個也看過又喜歡同一部的人就默默開心一陣，有衍生文還是變熱門什麼就不奢求了)
結果毫不意外，口罩戴好戴滿的冠軍是皇后區的法拉盛。
......類型到一個程度體制就開始收編。
買了二手Life Itself打算來看，結果發現這本平裝本比別人都小一號。
Macbeth by Jo Nesbø review – Shakespeare reimagined
存。有機會的話搞不好可以選這本。不過這樣代表要上莎劇，而且還是馬克白......呃我覺得我沒辦法挑戰莎劇。如果跳過讀馬克白純討論耐斯博這本和馬克白的關係好像比較可行。
離題，看這篇才發現Russian Doll被歸在喜劇類。
Jessica Johnson的短篇A Band Apart
喔這個podcast感覺好有趣！有空來聽。
有人截了一張這本裡提的概念。
報名連結
Photos from the fires burning in Napa County
簡直2020的美國縮影。
從辦案偏成科幻(？)還是奇幻(？)的劇情有點像Fortitude。但Fortitude明顯有恐怖路線，這部目前看不太出來。
......這部出現在恐怖片串流平台上的原因是？首集完全走Outlast路線。可是Outlast一代好歹還是記者誤入精神病院，這部主角直接是獄卒，把監獄暴動拍成恐怖片。......嗯。
嗯？
Part 2: What Is the Canadian Dream? And How Do You Write About It
Lisa: Who wants healthy???
[...]
Amy: No one is reading crime books for insight into healthy relationships.
“Our Boys” and the Economics of Empathy
待看。
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