Based on research of archival material from Dalmatian cities, the article aims to provide a framework for understanding the circumstances in creating medieval court records. The key questions are: why were records simplified, and what was their purpose? In order to answer these questions, the author relies on Niklas Luhmann’s study concerning the legitimization of social order, and further studies by James C. Scott on power relations and the simplification of social reality. Considering the key questions from these perspectives shows that court records offer only one version of reality by prioritizing information that was of some practical value to authorities.
本文通过对达尔马提亚城市档案材料的研究，旨在为理解中世纪宫廷记录的创作情况提供一个框架。关键问题是:为什么要简化记录，它们的目的是什么?为了回答这些问题，笔者借鉴了Niklas Luhmann关于社会秩序合法化的研究，以及James C. Scott关于权力关系和社会现实简单化的进一步研究。从这些角度考虑关键问题表明，法庭记录通过优先考虑对当局具有一定实用价值的信息，只提供了现实的一种版本。
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While from the beginning of the 20th century, art in China had the mission of supporting the young and fragile Chinese Republic, and to be as close as possible to its people, Chinese artists who left to study abroad were confronted with Western Modern art, which claimed its autonomy: two irreconcilable conceptions of art. In this article, I shall study how today’s Chinese art critics highlight this encounter with Western culture and analyse the various writings of the time, through the evolution of the lexicon used from the May Fourth (1919) movement to the globalised era. Resume Alors que l’art en Chine, des le debut du XXe siecle, a pour mission de soutenir la jeune et fragile republique chinoise et d’etre au plus pres du peuple, les artistes chinois partis etudier a l’etranger sont confrontes a l’art moderne occidental, qui revendique son autonomie : deux conceptions de l’art inconciliables. Cet article presente la maniere dont les critiques d’art chinois aujourd’hui caracterisent cette rencontre avec la culture occidentale et la maniere dont ils analysent les differents ecrits de l’epoque, a travers l’evolution du lexique employe, depuis le mouvement du Quatre mai (1919) jusqu’a l’ere de la mondialisation.
而从20世纪初开始，中国的艺术就肩负着支持年轻而脆弱的中华民国的使命，并尽可能地接近人民，而出国留学的中国艺术家则面临着要求自主的西方现代艺术，这是两种不可调和的艺术观念。在这篇文章中，我将研究今天的中国艺术评论家如何强调与西方文化的相遇，并通过从五四(1919)运动到全球化时代使用的词汇的演变，分析当时的各种著作。《中国的艺术》，《16世纪的首次亮相》，《年轻一代的使命》，《脆弱的中国共和国》，《艺术与人民的关系》，《艺术家与人民的关系》，《艺术家与人民的关系》，《陌生人与现代西方的艺术的对抗》，《自治与自由》:《不可调和的艺术》的两种概念。Cet(中央东部东京)的文章现在洛杉矶用不莱斯批评艺术品厨房用漏勺今天caracterisent这个邂逅用洛杉矶文化occidentale et la方式不ils analysent不同ecrits德伯爵,一个特拉弗斯以杜lexique雇工,从所属du四点梅(1919)一直到l 'ere de la mondialisation。
{"title":"Fusion, emprunt…dislocation, ou comment la rencontre de l’art occidental s’inscrit dans les écrits des critiques chinois","authors":"Anny Lazarus","doi":"10.16995/OLH.351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/OLH.351","url":null,"abstract":"While from the beginning of the 20th century, art in China had the mission of supporting the young and fragile Chinese Republic, and to be as close as possible to its people, Chinese artists who left to study abroad were confronted with Western Modern art, which claimed its autonomy: two irreconcilable conceptions of art. In this article, I shall study how today’s Chinese art critics highlight this encounter with Western culture and analyse the various writings of the time, through the evolution of the lexicon used from the May Fourth (1919) movement to the globalised era. Resume Alors que l’art en Chine, des le debut du XXe siecle, a pour mission de soutenir la jeune et fragile republique chinoise et d’etre au plus pres du peuple, les artistes chinois partis etudier a l’etranger sont confrontes a l’art moderne occidental, qui revendique son autonomie : deux conceptions de l’art inconciliables. Cet article presente la maniere dont les critiques d’art chinois aujourd’hui caracterisent cette rencontre avec la culture occidentale et la maniere dont ils analysent les differents ecrits de l’epoque, a travers l’evolution du lexique employe, depuis le mouvement du Quatre mai (1919) jusqu’a l’ere de la mondialisation.","PeriodicalId":43026,"journal":{"name":"Open Library of Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67506706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is an introduction to the Open Library of Humanities Special Collection ‘Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives’. It provides an overview of key issues and debates in discussions of social media activism, specifically in relation to populism, and the corresponding rise in hate speech. It provides a summary of the contributing articles which demonstrate the digital practices of the far right and the strategies of actors in challenging hate speech. The introduction also elaborates on the structure of the Special Collection.
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The article reviews one of the lesser-known novels of Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Caitali ghurni (1931), as a dystopian narrative. In an attempt to review potential dystopian elements in vernacular texts, the article evaluates and compares the prominent features of western dystopian fiction to explore the characteristics and uniqueness of Caitali ghurni as a dystopian novel. In the process, the study sheds light on the relationship of such texts with the rise of realism in literature or bastabbadi sahitya in early twentieth-century Bengal and how that ushered in literary modernism. The primary aims of the article are to chart the contribution of the novel in expanding the horizon of dystopia as a literary genre to accommodate similarly themed literature produced in the vernacular, and thus to look beyond the confines of a western definition of dystopia. This is achieved through a close content-oriented reading of the novel, especially focusing on the aspects of hunger, social and familial relationships, and sexuality.
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MS 609 of the Bibliotheque municipale de Toulouse contains the registry of the largest known medieval inquisition, the so-called ‘Great Inquisition’ lead by two Dominicans at Toulouse between 1245 and 1246. Since its discovery in the nineteenth century, this registry has remained unedited and is rarely studied in detail. Yet it has become famous for being the record of a broad inquisition into the ‘general state of the faith’, one that affirms that Catharism – the theory of a dualist, organized heretical counter-Church which brought the Albigensian crusade and eventual inquisition to the lands of the Count of Toulouse – was widespread between Toulouse and Carcassonne. This article argues that the registry does not record any general survey of Cathar heresy among the population, but rather it records an inquisition principally aimed at collecting evidence against village consulates who had no greater or lesser relationship to any ‘heresy’ than the rest of the population. This argument is made by challenging the historiographic bias towards sampling the registry anecdotally, replacing it with an evaluation based on a combination of macroanalysis and close reading facilitated by the author’s digital edition of MS 609 and network analysis techniques.
{"title":"Re-mapping the ‘Great Inquisition’ of 1245–46: The Case of Mas-Saintes-Puelles and Saint-Martin-Lalande","authors":"J. Rehr","doi":"10.16995/OLH.414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/OLH.414","url":null,"abstract":"MS 609 of the Bibliotheque municipale de Toulouse contains the registry of the largest known medieval inquisition, the so-called ‘Great Inquisition’ lead by two Dominicans at Toulouse between 1245 and 1246. Since its discovery in the nineteenth century, this registry has remained unedited and is rarely studied in detail. Yet it has become famous for being the record of a broad inquisition into the ‘general state of the faith’, one that affirms that Catharism – the theory of a dualist, organized heretical counter-Church which brought the Albigensian crusade and eventual inquisition to the lands of the Count of Toulouse – was widespread between Toulouse and Carcassonne. This article argues that the registry does not record any general survey of Cathar heresy among the population, but rather it records an inquisition principally aimed at collecting evidence against village consulates who had no greater or lesser relationship to any ‘heresy’ than the rest of the population. This argument is made by challenging the historiographic bias towards sampling the registry anecdotally, replacing it with an evaluation based on a combination of macroanalysis and close reading facilitated by the author’s digital edition of MS 609 and network analysis techniques.","PeriodicalId":43026,"journal":{"name":"Open Library of Humanities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49385864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses border-crossing interconnections and processes of glocalization in Arab(ic) hip hop culture. It is based on an analysis of collaborative networks among Lebanese and Algerian rappers, and their Twitter networks. This approach is grounded in relational sociology, which assumes that culture is the product of interactions between individuals. Here, two interactions are modeled and analyzed as networks. At first, featurings as a form of artistic collaboration are examined. Secondly, Twitter followings, as an important form of online communication, are focused on. By analyzing network-structures like clusters and node properties like the number of connections to other nodes (degree), this article takes a quantitative viewpoint on a subject matter usually analyzed by qualitative tools. The article’s findings indicate the parallel existence of an Algerian and an Eastern Arab(ic) hip hop community excluding the Maghreb region. Both communities have social media connections to the US-American hip hop scene, while French hip hop seems to only play a bigger role in Algeria.
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Taking as my starting point Hannah Arendt’s (1994/1943) observations on the public response to the mass exile of Jews during World War Two, I argue that the UK’s mediatised reaction to those escaping conflict during the Mediterranean refugee crisis followed similar ideological patterns: fear, suspicion, antipathy and reserved compassion. I then move on to examine the role that human rights organisations had in the sympathetic re-construction of migrants/refugees. Here, I argue that at the same time as media platforms have become progressively more intertwined, ideologically complex, and perhaps as a result more responsive to shifting narratives and the changing public mood about the other, non-governmental organisations continue to operate within an established system of representation that render the migrant abject in terms of western dominance. In response to this reading of the refugee crisis, I offer the conclusion that while discourses produced by the various actors with a stake in the construction and counter-construction of the crisis were multifaceted and dynamic in their response to the evolving situation, the competing narratives surrounding the event remained resolutely embedded within a neocolonial discourse of otherness.
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This article seeks to examine the persistence, in Indian and specifically Bengali literature of the twentieth century, of a contradiction: the myth of an ideal or utopian village set against actual experiences of suffering, inequality, and deprivation. It traces some elements of this contradiction to Thomas More’s foundational text, Utopia (1516), and continues by examining the idealization of the self-sufficient and unchanging Indian village community in the social thought of the nineteenth-century British jurist Sir Henry Maine. Subsequently, the village becomes a focal concern for Indian nationalists, producing a strain of idealized ‘pastoralism’ as well as utopian dreams, countered by equally important critiques of rural obscurantism and decay. Both idealization and critique find their place in the literature and art of early twentieth century Bengal, but the category of the village Utopia proves impossible to sustain. The title of the article gestures towards this failure by citing the name (Nishchindipur, meaning ‘place of contentment’) of the village setting for Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Bengali novel Pather Panchali (1928), made into an iconic film (1955) by the director Satyajit Ray. The film generated a curious conjunction of the epithets ‘idyllic’ and ‘impoverished’, and was criticized for its unsparing depiction of rural suffering.
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Nayan Kulkarni’s Blade, Lucy and Jorge Orta’s Raft of the Medusa, and Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s Quicksand were exhibited in Hull during its year as the 2017 UK City of Culture. These artworks provide the impetus for an article that moves between the local, national, and global, in order to connect visual culture, climate politics, and questions of citizenship and borders in a warming world. In the first section, I discuss how Blade—a wind turbine rotor blade repurposed as a public art installation—provides the opportunity to examine the role of large-scale renewable energy transition in addressing the deep regional economic inequalities in the UK. In the second section, I consider how artworks displayed as part of the ‘Somewhere Becoming Sea’ exhibition linked Hull’s recent history to a global context of displacement and precarity, in the wake of the ongoing ‘refugee crisis’ within Europe and at its borders. In the final section, I seek to bring together a number of threads from the preceding discussion, in order to outline some alternative political horizons. I turn initially to Sean McAllister’s documentary A Northern Soul (2018) and its powerful examination of how personal debt, the toxic fuel of neoliberalism, forecloses the future. In opposition to a future of deepening inequality and climate breakdown, I trace a renewed politics of public ownership and expanded social welfare in the UK, and its place in a prospective global renewable energy transition. This is a hopeful vision, given the current political climate, I argue, but it is also an eminently feasible one.
纳扬·库尔卡尼（Nayan Kulkarni）的《刀锋战士》（Blade）、露西和豪尔赫·奥尔塔（Lucy and Jorge Orta。这些艺术品为一篇在地方、国家和全球之间流动的文章提供了动力，以将视觉文化、气候政治以及在变暖的世界中的公民身份和边界问题联系起来。在第一节中，我讨论了Blade——一种被重新用作公共艺术装置的风力涡轮机转子叶片——如何提供机会来研究大规模可再生能源转型在解决英国深层次区域经济不平等问题中的作用。在第二节中，我认为，在欧洲及其边境持续的“难民危机”之后，作为“成为海洋的某处”展览一部分展出的艺术品如何将赫尔的近代历史与全球流离失所和不稳定的背景联系起来。在最后一节中，我试图将前面讨论中的一些线索汇集在一起，以概述一些可供选择的政治视野。我最初转向肖恩·麦卡利斯特的纪录片《北方灵魂》（2018），以及它对个人债务——新自由主义的有毒燃料——如何阻止未来的有力审视。为了反对不平等加剧和气候崩溃的未来，我追溯了英国公有制和扩大社会福利的新政治，以及它在未来全球可再生能源转型中的地位。我认为，考虑到当前的政治气候，这是一个充满希望的愿景，但也是一个非常可行的愿景。
{"title":"Climate, Power, and Possible Futures, from the Banks of the Humber Estuary","authors":"T. White","doi":"10.16995/OLH.417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/OLH.417","url":null,"abstract":"Nayan Kulkarni’s Blade, Lucy and Jorge Orta’s Raft of the Medusa, and Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s Quicksand were exhibited in Hull during its year as the 2017 UK City of Culture. These artworks provide the impetus for an article that moves between the local, national, and global, in order to connect visual culture, climate politics, and questions of citizenship and borders in a warming world. In the first section, I discuss how Blade—a wind turbine rotor blade repurposed as a public art installation—provides the opportunity to examine the role of large-scale renewable energy transition in addressing the deep regional economic inequalities in the UK. In the second section, I consider how artworks displayed as part of the ‘Somewhere Becoming Sea’ exhibition linked Hull’s recent history to a global context of displacement and precarity, in the wake of the ongoing ‘refugee crisis’ within Europe and at its borders. In the final section, I seek to bring together a number of threads from the preceding discussion, in order to outline some alternative political horizons. I turn initially to Sean McAllister’s documentary A Northern Soul (2018) and its powerful examination of how personal debt, the toxic fuel of neoliberalism, forecloses the future. In opposition to a future of deepening inequality and climate breakdown, I trace a renewed politics of public ownership and expanded social welfare in the UK, and its place in a prospective global renewable energy transition. This is a hopeful vision, given the current political climate, I argue, but it is also an eminently feasible one.","PeriodicalId":43026,"journal":{"name":"Open Library of Humanities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42710788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The following article explores some of the ways in which the leaders of a medieval ecclesiastical institution, in this case Bury St Edmund, could construct that institution’s own identity by textual production that was centred on the figure of their patron saint, Edmund Martyr. This textual production, and the formulation of Saint Edmund, underwent a continuous development from 1065 onwards, which can be most clearly seen in the composition of the liturgical office for Edmund’s feast day. By an examination of three examples taken from this office, I aim to demonstrate some of the ways in which the figure of Edmund was altered, how the narrative of his passion story was developed and what audiences these changes were aimed at. The purpose of the article is to emphasise the function of the office as a vehicle for the construction of institutional identity in the Middle Ages.
{"title":"Strategies for Constructing an Institutional Identity: Three Case Studies from the Liturgical Office of Saint Edmund Martyr","authors":"Steffen Hope","doi":"10.16995/OLH.310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/OLH.310","url":null,"abstract":"The following article explores some of the ways in which the leaders of a medieval ecclesiastical institution, in this case Bury St Edmund, could construct that institution’s own identity by textual production that was centred on the figure of their patron saint, Edmund Martyr. This textual production, and the formulation of Saint Edmund, underwent a continuous development from 1065 onwards, which can be most clearly seen in the composition of the liturgical office for Edmund’s feast day. By an examination of three examples taken from this office, I aim to demonstrate some of the ways in which the figure of Edmund was altered, how the narrative of his passion story was developed and what audiences these changes were aimed at. The purpose of the article is to emphasise the function of the office as a vehicle for the construction of institutional identity in the Middle Ages.","PeriodicalId":43026,"journal":{"name":"Open Library of Humanities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45806577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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