Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2023.2272567
Kevin J. Hunt
This article revisits Jonathan Glazer’s sci-fi film Under the Skin, ten years on from its release in 2013, to re-read it through Michel Serres’s posthuman philosophy as an allegorical warning about the ongoing ecological crises. Making this argument involves recognizing, through Serres, the crucial role of artistic practice in questioning our current neglect of sensible modes of being. Focusing upon the importance of ‘noise’ within Serres’s posthuman thinking, this article considers the alignment between the sensibility of ‘The Female’ in Under the Skin – an alien in human form (portrayed by Scarlett Johansson) – and the virtue of sensibility advocated by Serres of being ‘on the cusp of sense in the making’ (Webb 2018): a dynamic position situated between the chaotic noise of the world and the limitations of human language (Serres 2016). In combination with Glazer’s direction, the original musical score by Mica Levi and innovative sound design by Johnnie Burn are central to the argument. An additional aim of the article is to show the significance of Serres’s thinking within cultural studies, where this philosophy is currently undervalued.
本文重温乔纳森·格雷泽(Jonathan Glazer)的科幻电影《皮囊之下》(Under the Skin)，在2013年上映十年之后，通过米歇尔·塞雷斯(Michel Serres)的后人类哲学，对正在发生的生态危机发出讽喻的警告，重新解读这部电影。通过Serres，我们认识到艺术实践在质疑我们目前对感性存在模式的忽视方面所起的关键作用。关注“噪音”在塞雷斯后人类思想中的重要性，本文考虑了《皮皮之下》中“女性”的敏感性——一个人类形态的外星人(由斯嘉丽·约翰逊饰演)——与塞雷斯所倡导的“处于感官形成的尖端”的感性美德之间的一致性(Webb 2018):一个位于世界混乱噪音和人类语言局限性之间的动态位置(Serres 2016)。结合格雷泽的指导，Mica Levi的原创配乐和Johnnie Burn的创新音效设计是争论的核心。本文的另一个目的是展示Serres思想在文化研究中的意义，这种哲学目前被低估了。
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures were implemented across the globe. These measures demanded replacing taken-for-granted social practices such as shaking hands with new interaction rituals. Based on our personal observations, this collective process of learning new interactions often resulted in feelings of awkwardness. Awkwardness, in this sense, is more than an individual emotion; it is also a cultural marker helping us understand how interactions, interaction rituals and social norms are constituted. Therefore, we aim to obtain a better understanding of both what people perceive as failed interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they perceive these awkward moments. We do so by looking at how awkwardness is discussed in social and news media during the first wave of the pandemic. Combining a topic modelling of tweets and a thematic text analysis of news articles, we show the main topics representing awkwardness in relation to COVID-19, and how this links to new forms of face-to-face and mediated interactions. Moreover, we demonstrate that experiences of awkwardness often relate to the necessity of bodily and situational co-presence, creating a stronger sense of intimacy, synchronicity and sequency.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2023.2272566
Melissa Shani Brown, Jude Roberts
ABSTRACTIn this article we engage with the representation of non-binary gender in two sci-fi/fantasy comics (Runaways and The Order of the Stick), and metatextual discussion surrounding them. In our analysis we focus on how non-binary gender is represented, and ways in which the comics reveal implicit anxieties around non/human characters who are non-binary. The idea that non-binary gender is ‘hiding’ a true, binary, gender is present within and beyond the text: rather than accepting these characters’ non-binary gender as a fact of their species within the narrative, it is treated a puzzle to be solved. We explore how texts, and fans, focus upon the body and subsequently sexuality as a locus of gender ‘truth’, even though as drawings these bodies cannot be further revealed beyond the page or screen. We argue these comics ‘confuse’ gender in different ways: at times by purposefully confounding the possibility of pinpointing a ‘true’ binary gender for non-binary characters, while at others taking a more conservative path of displacing such ‘confusion’ onto the non-binary characters themselves to imply that it is they who are ‘confused’ – while reflecting broader social patterns, this characterizes non-binary gender as though it were not a valid way of being.KEYWORDS: non-binary gendercomics/graphic novelsfandomThe Order of the StickMarvel’s Runaways Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.DeclarationsThe authors report there are no competing interests to declare.Ethical ApprovalThis research was conducted within Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s Code of Good Scientific Practice, which obliges researchers connected to this institution to abide by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)’s Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice: Code of Conduct (2019). The research methods used comply with guidelines referring to the respectful use, and anonymizing of non-personal and non-sensitive data, gathered in public spaces, including online spaces, and have been approved by the head of the research unit.Notes1. The fan forum we focus upon here is Giant in the Playground. This is a publicly accessible site where fans would not have an expectation of privacy, and there is no personal or identifying information about the participants. This means there is no demographic information about the fans whose posts we quote – including their own forms of identification – however the focus of our analysis is on the interpretations made of the gender and sexualities of the fictional characters, particularly the extent to which, regardless of the fans’ identities, there was a tendency to read these characters as binary. See the Declarations for discussion of the ethics procedures followed for this research.2. Runaways has been adapted by Hulu (beginning in Citation2017). Xavin did not appear until Season 2, and is played by cis-female actor Clarissa Thibeaux. Here we focus upon representation in the comics.Additional informatio
摘要本文探讨了两部科幻/奇幻漫画(《逃跑》和《棍棒的顺序》)中非二元性别的表现，以及围绕它们的元文本讨论。在我们的分析中，我们关注的是非二元性别是如何表现的，以及漫画如何揭示围绕非二元性别的非人类角色的隐性焦虑。非二元性别“隐藏”了一种真实的、二元的性别，这种想法存在于文本内外:而不是将这些角色的非二元性别视为叙事中他们物种的事实，而是将其视为一个有待解决的谜题。我们探索文本和粉丝如何将身体和随后的性行为作为性别“真相”的焦点，尽管这些身体不能在页面或屏幕之外进一步揭示。我们认为这些漫画以不同的方式“混淆”性别:有时通过故意混淆为非二元角色确定“真正的”二元性别的可能性，而另一些则采取更保守的方式，将这种“混淆”转移到非二元角色本身，暗示是他们“困惑”——同时反映了更广泛的社会模式，这将非二元性别特征化，仿佛它不是一种有效的存在方式。关键词:非二元性别漫画/图画小说随机漫画的秩序漫威的逃跑者披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。声明:作者报告没有相互竞争的利益需要声明。伦理批准本研究是在Ruhr-Universität波鸿良好科学实践准则下进行的，该准则要求与本机构有关的研究人员遵守德国研究协会(DFG)的《维护良好研究实践指南:行为准则(2019)》。所使用的研究方法符合在公共空间(包括在线空间)收集的非个人和非敏感数据的尊重使用和匿名化指导方针，并已得到研究单位负责人的批准。我们在这里关注的粉丝论坛是Giant in The Playground。这是一个公开访问的网站，球迷不会有隐私的期望，没有个人或识别信息的参与者。这意味着我们没有引用粉丝帖子的人口统计信息——包括他们自己的身份认同形式——然而，我们分析的重点是对虚构角色的性别和性取向的解释，特别是在何种程度上，无论粉丝的身份如何，都倾向于将这些角色视为二元的。关于本研究所遵循的伦理程序的讨论，请参见《声明》。《离家出走》已被Hulu改编(从Citation2017开始)。Xavin直到第二季才出现，由顺式女演员Clarissa Thibeaux饰演。这里我们关注的是漫画中的代表性。本研究未得到任何基金的支持。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2023.2272565
Irfan Wahyudi, Rachmah Ida, Panizza Allmark, Sri Endah Kinasih
ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 Pandemic has critically affected migrant workers' social wellbeing in host countries. In Hong Kong, migrant workers who work in domestic sectors are facing stricter rules that may be considered discriminatory, such as the Hong Kong government’s claim that migrants are at ‘high risk’ for infection, because of their habit of ‘mingling’ with other migrant workers. The official messaging positions migrant workers as ‘virus carriers’, this further results in the increase of mental, physical and social exclusion for migrants, in particular female Indonesian domestic migrant workers, who are a vulnerable and marginalized group. This article focuses on how the COVID-19 messaging that came from the Hong Kong government increased the stigma and discrimination towards domestic migrant workers and to provide some examples of the activist responses to the stigmatization through the rise of non-state actors.KEYWORDS: MigrantpandemicstigmadiscriminationstateHong Kong Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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G. D'Costa, Mervyn Davies Peter Hampson, Crisp Oliver
Foreword by Rowan Williams Introduction - The Editors A. The Traditions B. Philosophy as handmaiden of theology: Which Philosophy? C. Faith, Reason and the World.
引言-编辑们A.传统B.哲学作为神学的侍女:哪种哲学?C.信仰、理性与世界。
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