Back in the bazaar: taking Pierre Bourdieu to a trading room

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of aesthetic judgment, this text offers an inductive account of financial reasoning inside a trading room. Driven to maximise bank profits, trading room operators do not find ‘one best way’. Rather they choose among several possible winning strategies: mathematical arbitrage, economic analysis, chartist analysis. These strategies differ sharply from one another in their conception of the market, method, proximity to scholarly knowledge, and legitimacy. We show that the choice of one method depends on a system of tastes and distastes that are both historical – depending on individuals’ social and educational background – and relational – depending on the individual's relative position within the trading room viewed as a field.     

欧洲化中国:过去和未来

我用“Euro Sinica”这个词来描述欧洲对中国文化的建构 (重建 )。从历史的角度来说 ,现在的任务包括对过去研究的理清和为将来的研究打下基础。在此基础上 ,本文分为四个部分 :前三个部分是定位于 17到 2 0世纪 (宽泛的 )这个历史阶段 ,最后一部分是在对过去研究的基础上 ,致力于对未来可能出现的发展进行前瞻性研究 ;同时 ,作为现在的学者 ,应该如何去为影响将来中欧之间的跨文化研究视角而努力 ,或许 ,在未来会出现人类文化的多元化 ,或是一个真正的多元文化世界     

Future pest status of an insect pest in museums,Attagenus smirnovi: Distribution and food consumption in relation to climate change

The brown carpet beetle Attagenus smirnovi, Zhantiev 1973 (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) is an important pest of objects of organic origin in museums of cultural and natural history in Europe. Future climate changes are expected to lead to increasing temperatures, which will affect the pest status of this species. In the present study a laboratory investigation was conducted to elucidate the effect of temperature and humidity on the amounts of organic material consumed by larvae of A. smirnovi. In the case of new and old skin, consumption was approximately twice as high at 28 °C compared to 20 °C. Wool was consumed in the greatest amounts: 169 mg of wool was consumed in three months by 30 A. smirnovi larvae. The expected future climate changes in Scandinavia are assumed to lead to higher temperatures in museums and stores where climate is not regulated. Updated data on the present distribution of A. smirnovi in Europe show that it is widespread and common, also in regions with a climate that does not support its survival out of doors. Thus, dispersal of this pest probably only rarely occurs by flight, but usually with human activity. Due to the widespread distribution of A. smirnovi, it is likely that damages in museums and collections in Scandinavia due to this pest will increase as climate changes come into effect.     

朝鲜时代的礼讼与君统、宗法诸问题

礼讼是指在宗法制度下 ,因王位继承者的嫡庶、丧服的等差、宗室勋戚的封号等礼仪问题所引起的争讼。朝鲜后期频繁发生的礼讼事件 ,与党派斗争交叉纠结 ,对社会政治不断产生重大影响。本文依据宗法理念和相关史实 ,分析了元宗追崇、己亥服制等礼讼事件在君统、宗法等问题上的理论意义     

In Search of Stylized Facts on Art Market Prices: Evidence from the Secondary Market for Prints and Drawings in Italy

In the paper we develop some price indices for the secondary market forprints and drawings in Italy for the period 1977–1999. Theempirical evidence suggests the emergence of causal links from thepainting series and consumer price series to the print and drawingsprice series. Within the secondary market, the drawings price seriesprecedes the print price series.     

Alternative Facts and States of Fear: Reality and STS in an Age of Climate Fictions

Minerva - In the decades since the Science Wars of the 1990s, climate science has become a crucible for the negotiation of claims about reality and expertise. This negotiation, which has drawn...     

虚拟更新:数字媒介艺术在历史文化空间改造中的应用研究

数字媒介艺术嵌入历史文化实体空间,成为历史文化空间的一部分,能够延伸人们对历史文化空间的场所体验.不同于真实的物质建造,数字媒介艺术可以在不改变已有物理空间的前提下,为参与者提供易于理解的文化信息和复合的感官体验.这一特定类型的数字介入不仅为历史文化空间的更新提供新的设计策略,而且进一步将原有的历史文化空间转变成为一种...