"Our Bruised Arms Hung Up as Monuments": Nuclear Iconography in Post-Cold War Culture

Traditionally, communication scholars have examined nuclear discourse at the expense of nuclear images. This essay compensates by developing a nuclear-critical iconology, one sensitive to the role of images in creating and disrupting popular consent to the production of nuclear weapons. As such, this essay contributes to larger critical projects concerned with visual rhetoric and post-Cold War culture. Following a review of Cold War nuclear iconography and the changing post-Cold War nuclear condition, I examine three aesthetics in post-Cold War nuclear iconography for their signi.cance and potential consequences.     

Interdisciplinarity and Systems Thinking: some implications for engineering education and education for industry

AS developments in science and technology accelerate the processes of social change, it becomes necessary to redefine educational objectives in engineering education. This paper examines some of the reasons for dissatisfaction with the limitations of single-discipline approaches to education, analysing these from a systems perspective. The paper considers the development of systems thinking in relation to engineering and raises some of the implications of systems thinking and systems methodologies for the planning of an interdisciplinary course. Finally, it refers to the course in technology and management at the University of Bradford, which is unified by a systemic philosophy and methodology, and considers the value added by such an approach, in human terms.     

Devil,Deceiver, Dupe: Constructing John Dewey from the Right

The far right in the United States has gained international visibility and power by promulgating its ideas using multiple media sources. This paper considers contemporary right‐wing representations of John Dewey as found on English‐language internet websites. The author employs discourse analytic methods to address the questions—‘How is John Dewey constructed in right‐wing internet discourse?’ and ‘By what means has the Right come to construct Dewey in this way?’ Elements of the internet discourse are related to texts that helped shape it. The paper demonstrates that far right‐wing websites construct Dewey and his ideas as the antithesis of American values and as a political and existential threat of the highest order. In this discourse, Dewey is connected to Satan, communism and global conspiracy theories. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of these beliefs for current educational and political philosophy and praxis.     

文革与食指的诗歌

食指的诗对文革以后朦胧诗的诞生与形成起到决定性的影响。考察食指的诗,可以探究红卫兵的悲剧命运。诗人郭路生无法战胜文革的重压,自我分裂或许为他带来了不足为他人道的自由,但是文革之后,更多的红卫兵一代或成为潜在的分裂症患者,或成为社会的中坚力量。诗人选用“食指”作为笔名来表达自己的抵抗与嘲笑,具有与众不同的意味:中国的诗人在创作中或日常生活中,总会受到无形的压制,但是无论别人如何在背后指指点点,说三道四,人格健全的诗人也不会受到任何伤害。     

Education Revised for a World in Transformation

The concept of lifelong learning, now a topic of world-wide urgency, has evolved markedly over time according to its historical, social and technological context. Today's requirement of repeated response to headlong technological innovation and global challenges of other kinds has transformed 'lifelong learning' from its old status as an optional extra for older people to a new role as an essential perspective in every phase of education. The pivot of that reorientation is to be found in a fresh concept of 'young adult' education, with repercussions throughout every educational system.