[閒聊] "One of my favorite poets, W. H. Auden, has written that a prime component of evil is the notion that, somehow, on some level, whether in the army, on the the assembly line, in bed or in a brothel, human beings are replaceable."
上個月在讀十八世紀海盜黃金年代的資料，外加黑帆Billy Bones的角色設定，才比較了解十八世紀大英帝國海軍的強制徵兵。 The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 看到有些人在說俄羅斯兵什麼都不知道是有可能的嗎？喔。大英帝國為您示範幾百年前他們的徵兵系統怎麼運作。
Tracing the Anthropocene in Southeast Asian film and artists’ moving image: Introduction Theory/Praxis/Politics Webinar series 報名網址 March 10, 2022 9:00-10:30am EST
"In the union of the sexes, each alike contributes to the common end, though in different ways. From this diversity springs the first difference that may be observed between man and woman in their moral relations.
One should be strong and active, the other weak and passive; one must necessarily have both the power and the will, it is sufficient for the other to offer little resistance."
"Once it is demonstrated that man and woman are not, and should not be constituted the same, either in character or in temperament, it follows that they should not have the same education.
In following the directions of nature they must act together but they should not do the same things; their duties have a common end, but the duties themselves are different and consequently also the tastes that direct them."
"Ukraine is Not Giving Up": On The Hope for A Free, Democratic, Multiethnic Ukraine Interview with Oleksandr Shyn, a Korean-Ukrainian student living in Taiwan. 這篇專訪好看。和漾有翻譯一些片段。
"[C]ivilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct, how much it presupposes precisely the non-satisfaction...of powerful instincts. This 'cultural frustration' dominates the large field of social relationships between human beings." Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930 Good night and good luck.
"[W]hile any situation could be used as an image of any other, no thing could be an image of another--especially two things as complicated as two people.
And to use them as such was to abuse them and to delude oneself that it was the coherence and ability of things (especially people) to be their unique and individual selves that allowed the malleability and richness of images to occur at all."
"What she had sensed, she realized as the words she could not hold away any longer finally moved in, was that the world in which images occurred was opaque, complete, and closed
(though what gave it its weight and meaning was that this was not true of the space of examples, samples, symbols, models, expressions, reasons, representations and the rest yet that everything and anything could be an image of everything and anything the true of the false, the imaginary of the real, the useful of the useless, the helpful of the hurtful)
was what gave such strength to the particular types of images that went by all those other names; that it was the organized coherence of them all which made distinguishing them possible.
But of course that was not what she had known . . . only an expression of it, one sort of image. And yes, she thought, remembering Venn again, to express it was to reverse much of its value. To express it was to call it containable: and it was its uncontainableness she had known."
"A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe – those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history."
"This [lack of materials from children in the history of childhood sexuality] is, in part, due to dominant Anglophone constructions of childhood which promoted the idea that children were passive, incomplete or incapable of agency.
The child, as a cultural category, was grounded upon an ambivalent foundation – understood as innocent and in need of safeguarding or as deviant and even adult-like depending upon its relationship to a particular phenomenon (e.g.,crime).
As a result, the complexity of children’s cultural, historical or subjective variability was obscured and silenced. This was particularly the case in discussions of sexuality. The child and its sexuality were deployed within narratives of protection in the service of adult perception and, at times, adult agendas."
"That has been the problem all along. That's the thing gates never understood and a thing you never understood. You cannot decide to follow a man like that and then pick and choose when you deny him."
香港反送中運動左翼敗北的系譜：翻譯、轉型與邊界 Spectral Transition: Detention (the film), the New Rousseauian Consensus, and Discursive Continuities from the First Cold War to the New Cold War in Taiwan 待看。
"I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you
"There was no leeway to be one thing or the other. You had to be either absolutely virulently against communism or anything that smacked of being leftist of any sort at all. Or you had to be a communist and a left wing person and in-between there was nothing. There was no gradation.
I think it was difficult for you whether you were left or right in a sense, you know, to know....You might be accused of being a fellow traveler because you were talking to somebody who had already been accused of being a communist or they were thought to be a fellow traveler or whatever.
And so literally speaking you would see somebody, a friend, you knew it was a friend and it got to be so embarrassing, it was so sad and embarrassing. And it was a case of either you had to cross the street or they had to cross the street.
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 近幾年越來越常看到影視提到這個問題，但都還是拿來當劇情推進工具居多。
“They’re not telepaths.” “They’re slaves!” Her tone was accusing. “Yes.” Page was silent for a moment, startled by Ada’s willingness to admit such a thing. “Just like that? Yes, you make slaves of people? I’m going to be part of a group that makes slaves of people?” “Page — “ “Why do you think I tried to die?”
“Because you didn’t understand. You still don’t.” ... “And I know about being a slave.” The girl’s voice was leaden. “I don’t want to be a part of anything that makes people slaves.” “You have no choice. Neither do we.” “You could stop doing it.”
“You’d still be with your parents if we didn’t do it. We couldn’t have cared for you.” She took a deep breath. “We don’t harm people like the Dietrichs in any way. In fact they’re healthier and more comfortable now than they were before we found them. And the work they’re doing for us is work they enjoy.”
“If they didn’t enjoy it, you’d change their minds for them.” “We might, but they wouldn’t be aware of it. They would be content.” The girl stared at her. “Do you think that makes it better?”
“Not better. Kinder, in a frightening sort of way, I know. I’m not pretending that theirs is the best possible way of life, Page — although they think it is. They’re slaves and I wouldn’t trade places with them. But we, our kind, couldn’t exist long without them.”
“Then maybe we shouldn’t exist! If our way is to enslave good people like the Dietrichs and let animals like my parents go free, the world would be better without us.”
Ada looked away from her for a moment, then faced her sadly. “You haven’t understood me. Perhaps you don’t want to; I wouldn’t blame you. The Dietrichs, Page, those good people who took you in, cared for you, loved you. Why, do you imagine, they did all that?”
Reconceptualising the media audience
Notes on Deconstructing “the Popular”
The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
看到有些人在說俄羅斯兵什麼都不知道是有可能的嗎？喔。大英帝國為您示範幾百年前他們的徵兵系統怎麼運作。
老王，就只是老王。 : 據說呼聲很高的候選人之一前幾天在辯論會上還大聲疾呼韓國要以動制靜，率先用飛彈攻擊有敵意的國家(室友大崩潰)
Conference/Symposium: Center for Korean Studies | March 3 | 4-6 p.m. | Zoom Webinar
Theory/Praxis/Politics Webinar series
報名網址
March 10, 2022
9:00-10:30am EST
4.1 (FRI) 7 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater [FREE ADMISSION]
"In the union of the sexes, each alike contributes to the common end, though in different ways. From this diversity springs the first difference that may be observed between man and woman in their moral relations.
Sexual assault on men in war
The US Army and Male Rape during the Second World War
戰爭的強暴又不是只有針對一個性別。這種用google一查就查得到的東西......。
The Landscape of Silence: Sexual Violence Against Men in War
Interview with Oleksandr Shyn, a Korean-Ukrainian student living in Taiwan.
這篇專訪好看。和漾有翻譯一些片段。
Towards a Technology of the Dead: Kim Soyoung on Her “Exile” Documentary Trilogy
謝謝你分享這篇和節譯！
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
(拉開窗簾)
我：......看起來不太小欸。
室友：這鬼地方到底有什麼問題？！
(樓下管理員剛好開門出去，在雪中發出一聲慘叫)
Clay's Ark
Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 5:30 PM EST
Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930
Good night and good luck.
(室友：完全不知道哪件事比較荒謬，尹錫悅說自己是女性主義者，還是他的支持者因為他說自己是女性主義者所以拿選票威脅)
(室友凌晨就醒了等開票結果中)
受夠把這種論述奉為圭臬的人。
如果對女性主義和語言有興趣，推Feminist Philosophy of Language的書單，可以當入門。
我有空的話看看有沒有時間翻譯Carol Tavris的The Mismeasure of Woman好了。OTZ
不是連納粹都覺得美國太過分了自己修改一些借來的法律推符號學(Semiotics)。Subject of Semiotics。
抱歉，Semiotics是翻成符號學。
也算是轟轟烈烈的(?)半年多過去了，還在生物學決定人類行為階段的討論，到底......。
真的是只剩一句祝大家幸福。
晚點有空補資料。
嗯......看那噗的書寫方向建議，我猜那個期刊不是那位論文相關領域。他如果去投文學相關學術期刊然後用他噗上翻的那些理論去批評酷兒理論的話，我欽佩他的勇氣。
Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life
A History of Childhood: Children and Childhood in the West from Medieval to Modern Times
Childhood in World History
Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England: Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC
Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood
The History of the Criminal Liability of Children
Imperiled and perilous: Exploring the history of childhood sexuality
巧合。
喔喔喔這篇提到留聲機的發明怎麼改變漫畫用視覺呈現聲音的歷史，超有趣。
↑想知道這句的脈絡，推Biopolitics: A Reader，或Right of Death and Power over Life (寫於1976)
(但看某些人的反應，我覺得可能對他們來說還是太難了？？？)
例如說
「（想要更換法律上的性別）是因為目前台灣是個高度性別化的社會，所以其實你作很多事都必須要先證明你的性別。我覺得很奇妙的是⋯⋯」
「什麼叫高度性別化的社會。」
「就是做很多事情，女生就要用什麼廁所，女生就要住什麼宿舍，男生就要住什麼樣的宿舍。」
「不是世界常態嗎？」
「是嗎？」
（笑）
「你剛剛說台灣是高度性別化的國家，暗示是有些國家沒有那麼性別化？」
寫成逐字稿有點怪，但三個人講話時不會有硬要用對話體作名詞解釋的感覺。
聽說大學本來開始傾向辦文化研究、影視研究和K-POP相關研討會，現在直接又退回去研究「文學」文學了。
Horror Films and Grief
Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements
不知道如果選The Nightingale，美國大學生會不會看得很崩潰。
整個WTF。
這篇有趣。那個法制化的問題，基本上是美國社會改革最常見的問題。你要純用那個架構去屠龍，屠龍者最後都變成龍。他們白人女性主義、白人談人權談自由，最主要的問題都是這個。喔，不過反過來說，反對者往往連讓對方動法律的權利都不給啦，遑論怎麼改變這種屠龍者變成龍的問題。
......
完全聽不懂中文的室友：？why so激動？還有為什麼他是對我不是對你講中文？？？
我：
(上次和室友一起去買珍奶，問那家店員他們家芋頭紅茶珍奶和綠茶珍奶的差別，結果因為店內同時警報器失控大響不停，店員希望我們快點點餐，也失控，對著我吶喊：反正你喝不出差別！！！
&巴特勒的理論有他的問題沒錯(我上禮拜才看到巴特勒當場被問到轉移焦點)，但如果只是因為不想讓某些人去變動法律而把巴特勒抬出來批評，嗯。
我後來兩種都嚐，他們茶泡的之淡，根本沒茶味，難怪會跟我說分不出來
Unger's Philosophy: A Critical Legal Study
Taking Rights Aggressively: The Perils and and Promise of Critical Legal Theory for Peoples of Color
Spectral Transition: Detention (the film), the New Rousseauian Consensus, and Discursive Continuities from the First Cold War to the New Cold War in Taiwan
待看。
近幾年越來越常看到影視提到這個問題，但都還是拿來當劇情推進工具居多。
Serial and Mass Murder: Understanding Multicide through Offending Patterns, Explanations, and Outcomes
&推影集巴比倫柏林！
Deinstitutionalization
(雖然也不一定有時間讀XD)我的待看書單也超長的)&影集好喜歡讓Jamie光上身？？？可以多一點歷史少一點床戲嗎
我小時候超喜歡crucible! 第一次看電影超震撼ㄉ（DDL演得好用力XD
DDL真的超用力在演XDDD
我第一次看好像最有印象的是Abigail(?)
剛剛去看Abigail居然是Winona Ryder
(我覺得可能台灣要談麥卡錫主義有點尷尬吧......想當年我那個教授好像支持國民黨......)
玩電動有益身心，推電動
menstruator......我覺得已經被引入日常然後有衍生含義了，現在用變成在搶字義解釋權。
和漾 / 罷免缺你不可🫵 : 喔喔喔，感謝推薦！來放入片單
台灣電影線上國際研討會 2022/04/01 (Fri.) at 9:00-12:40 (Taipei Time)
......Okja.
嗯......嗯。一言難盡啊。但他關注女性主義所以問了許多女性Alpha設定的問題，還挺有趣的，很適合拿來當ABO設定背景。
Joe Cole這部受虐起來好好看啊(???)。&女角不太諜報傳統。
(以及是我的錯覺還是Palmer的口音會隨他和誰講話微調？)
April 8-9, 2022
不過他們前陣子作弊事件好像挺嚴重的
Kim Kimble: Race, Gender, and the Celebrity Hairstylist
抱歉，有人拿我的內容去叫別人閉嘴。知識對我而言不應該是那樣的。
就直接說了，那些偷偷說討論我都沒參加，也不會加入。我不想加入也不喜歡匿名噗，在不知道對方是誰的狀況下我的攻擊性會變很高。對和我對話的人和我都不怎麼好。
......想到我的厄瓜多同學曾經說過，西班牙人到現在還會當著他的面說：我們雖然殖民了你們，但至少我們為你們帶來了文明，不然你們現在都還是野蠻人。
(但聽到最多類似發言的是我那個在教薩伊德orientalism的沙烏地阿拉伯同學
除非他們是真的想知道為什麼，不然就只是雙方沒交集的攻訐而已
A History of Helmut Zemo in 67 Real and Imagined Suicides
是影集獵鷹與冬兵的同人文，主要角色是Zemo。
為什麼(大概過去兩天？)有人在截我的噗浪內容去和別人吵架......還不只一噗......
Japanese Horror Culture: Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games
哎唷每次原住民的語言都沒有翻譯啦，我想知道他們在講什麼啊 (不過想想當初第一季和第二季蓋爾語如果沒有人翻譯給Claire聽的時候也是沒字幕)
“They’re slaves!” Her tone was accusing.
“Yes.”
Page was silent for a moment, startled by Ada’s willingness to admit such a thing. “Just like that? Yes, you make slaves of people? I’m going to be part of a group that makes slaves of people?”
“Page — “
“Why do you think I tried to die?”
...
“And I know about being a slave.” The girl’s voice was leaden. “I don’t want to be a part of anything that makes people slaves.”
“You have no choice. Neither do we.”
“You could stop doing it.”
“We might, but they wouldn’t be aware of it. They would be content.”
The girl stared at her. “Do you think that makes it better?”