杭州——中国最具幸福感城市

从2004年第一次摘得“最具幸福感城市”桂冠,到2008年捧回唯一的“金奖”,杭州将这座城市关于“幸福”的荣誉归结在了所有杭州人、新杭州人的身上。     

梁凤仪的成功与幸福

她的人生写满了成功。就像她襟前的胸花,只要有一点光亮,就会闪烁出夺目的光芒。     

从镜头中觅艺趣

义乌,猛然崛起的新型城市;绣湖公园,继承传统的新构园林;华川书社,经常推陈出新地展示书画、奇石、珠宝的厅堂。不久前,这里又举办了一位来自乡村的摄影家的艺术回乡汇报展——“艺海踏浪”。摄影家叫吴维康,是义乌东部半山区廿三里人,1944年生。1967年,他从金华师范毕业,被分配到更深更远的武义山区当一名小学教师,四十年后的2006年放下心爱的教鞭。     

Participation as Post-Fordist Politics: Demos,New Labour,and Science Policy

In recent years, British science policy has seen a significant shift ‘from deficit to dialogue’ in conceptualizing the relationship between science and the public. Academics in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have been influential as advocates of the new public engagement agenda. However, this participatory agenda has deeper roots in the political ideology of the Third Way. A framing of participation as a politics suited to post-Fordist conditions was put forward in the magazine Marxism Today in the late 1980s, developed in the Demos thinktank in the 1990s, and influenced policy of the New Labour government. The encouragement of public participation and deliberation in relation to science and technology has been part of a broader implementation of participatory mechanisms under New Labour. This participatory program has been explicitly oriented toward producing forms of social consciousness and activity seen as essential to a viable knowledge economy and consumer society. STS arguments for public engagement in science have gained influence insofar as they have intersected with the Third Way politics of post-Fordism.     

Ginzburg in Harlem: History,Structure and the Politics of Primitivism

Abstract

The historian Carlo Ginzburg is renowned for his critique of modern, scientific reason and his articulation of an alternative form of knowledge which he labels ‘conjectural’. This form of knowledge, supposedly more attuned to the historian’s interest in the singular and specific fragment, as opposed to the abstract and universal concept, is so rooted in the practices of the prehistoric hunter that Ginzburg sometimes describes it as a ‘venatic’ form of deduction, binding ‘the human animal closely to other animal species’. In this essay, I explore the ramifications of this alternative form of knowledge, attending especially to its relationship to the modernist theme of ‘primitivism’. I do so by juxtaposing Ginzburg’s critical appraisal of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous literary invention, Sherlock Holmes, and Rudolph Fisher’s own literary invention, John Archer, the physician who sometimes aids criminal investigations in African American Harlem. I argue that the differences between Archer and Holmes draw attention to some troubling implications of Ginzburg’s historiographical argument. Folding this analysis on itself, however, I also suggest that what might be at stake, when Ginzburg insists so troublingly on the importance of the singular, venatic trace, is the evocation of Walter Benjamin’s understanding of the historical ‘event’.     

风雨诗作证--记一代宗师吴昌硕

正当名闻遐迩的西泠印社一百周年纪念之际,西泠印社的第一任社长吴昌硕的题画诗集《吴昌硕题画诗笺评》,经昌硕故里李弘伟君历经7年的精心编撰,由浙江人民出版社正式出版向全国发行。 作为大师故里后辈的我,有幸担任此书的责任编辑深感荣幸,然而读着编着,忽然愧惶和汗颜起来:是啊,大师的书画篆刻艺术早就盛名赫赫,被世人推为一代宗师。然而作为大师的诗艺,我却不甚了了,这次一篇又一篇地读着这部集800余首诗作之大成的皇里巨著,我的心灵顿时被震撼了!原来这位中国的伟大艺术家不仅在书画篆刻艺术上为国人创造了极其宝贵的精神财富,而且在诗之艺术上,也为世人立下了一座丰碑!     

Politics and Interests in the Republic of Science

The institutions of science arecomposed of communities with conflicting andoverlapping interests. In the United States,the internal governance of science resemblesthe structure of republican government,particularly in its fragmentation,representation, and extension. This articlecalls upon Michael Polanyi's metaphor of a`Republic of Science' in the context ofAmerican history and political theory, toexamine the ways in which these interests arerepresented. Using the metaphor obliges us toask about rules of citizenship in the`Republic', and to determine whether those whopay for science should also be represented inits institutions.     

On the Politics of Calculative Devices

This article examines the politics of calculative devices in one of the most successful areas of finance, the life insurance business. By empirically tracing an insurance applicant's risk trajectory, it analyses how calculative devices perform insurance underwriting through acting on insurance risk decisions. This allows one to document what calculative devices exactly do, and to point out the political effects of what they do. First, it highlights the fact that, contrary to thinking in terms of ‘the insurance logic’, there are multiple ways of calcuting life insurance risks. Second, it underscores the crucial role of calculative devices in that process by demonstrating how they align considerations as divergent as economics and medicine to perform a life insurance market. It then demonstrates the political effects of these calculative devices by making explicit how the latter contribute to the production of inequalities in calculative power in life insurance. In this way, the article links up insights from the performativity approach in the sociology of markets with the broader question of governing economic life. Such an approach, it is argued, provides the opportunity to open up the organization of economic markets and to put classic questions of justice and power struggles in economic markets on the agenda again.