Collecting, whether by individuals or institutions, is a form of consumption. This work examines the relationship between the development of the consumer society and the rise of collecting by individuals and institutions. It also considers how and why people collect, as individuals, corporations or museums, and the impact that this collecting has on us and our culture. The text outlines the history of museum collecting from ancient civilizations to the present. It also looks at aspects of consumer culture - advertising, department stores, mass merchandizing and consumer desires - and how this relates to the activity of collecting.

Haraway explores the world of contemporary technoscience through the role of stories, figures, dreams, theories, advertising, scientific advances and politics. Kinship relations among the many cyborg creatures produced in the late twentieth-century - in nuclear research, genetic engineering, reproductive technologies, computer-mediated representational practices and mutations in biological approaches to race' - are also discussed. Beginning with the Modest Witness, the key figure in the Science Revolution, Haraway shows us the trouble lurking in race and gender-marked practices for attesting to matters of fact. Lynn Randolph's paintings, developed in co-operation with Donna Haraway, visualize dramatically the complex imagery of Modest Witness.

From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express takes readers on a compelling journey from the California Gold Rush to the present, letting readers witness both the profusion of Chinese restaurants across the United States and the evolution of many distinct American-Chinese iconic dishes from chop suey to General Tso’s chicken. Along the way, historian Haiming Liu explains how the immigrants adapted their traditional food to suit local palates, and gives readers a taste of Chinese cuisine embedded in the bittersweet story of Chinese Americans. Treating food as a social history, Liu explores why Chinese food changed and how it has influenced American culinary culture, and how Chinese restaurants have become places where shared ethnic identity is affirmed—not only for Chinese immigrants but also for American Jews. The book also includes a look at national chains like P. F. Chang’s and a consideration of how Chinese food culture continues to spread around the globe. Drawing from hundreds of historical and contemporary newspaper reports, journal articles, and writings on food in both English and Chinese, From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express represents a groundbreaking piece of scholarly research. It can be enjoyed equally as a fascinating set of stories about Chinese migration, cultural negotiation, race and ethnicity, diverse flavored Chinese cuisine and its share in American food market today.

20世纪70年代，日本刚刚结束汹涌激荡的战后重建。此前的十多年间，日本人口激增，经济起飞，制造业繁荣发达，文学、电影等艺术文化领域一片欣欣向荣。而若是稍往后看，彼时的日本又处在经济泡沫时代的前夜，即将被卷入全球化的旋涡中。夹在其间、看似不怎么起眼的70年代，实则继承了战后之初的辉煌发展成果，又昭示了日本文化大繁荣、走向世界的进步潮流，拥有承前启后的地位。 1975年，20岁出头的伊恩·布鲁玛来到了日本。他凭借过人的嗅觉，迅速发掘出70年代异彩纷呈却不为世界所知的日本前卫文化，深入到深层的角落、前沿的现场和核心的文化艺术圈：东京浅草的杂乱小巷和破败剧院、下町的文身工作室、京都的真人色情秀，还有黑泽明的电影拍摄现场、寺山修司的实验剧团、唐十郎的巡演帐篷。他以一个“外人”的身份，游离于戏剧、电影、摄影等领域和东京地下文化生活的边缘，好奇而冷静地观察和接触身边的一切。 离开日本数十年后，布鲁玛基于对这段亲身经历的回忆，结合长期的研究思考，敏锐犀利地捕捉到日本怀念传统又敢于革新、迷恋异邦又封闭排外、注重秩序又崇尚暴力的复杂文化气质，从时代与民族的外部描摹出一副迷人独特的日本面貌。

20 世纪50 年代的法国，荒诞戏剧方兴未艾，阿维尼翁戏剧节悄然成立……崭露头角的批评家罗兰•巴特创办了《民众戏剧》杂志，并发表大量戏剧批评阐明艺术立场与理想。作为20 世纪中叶法国左翼知识分子的领袖，罗兰•巴特的剧评对彼时普遍流行的“中产戏剧”进行了言辞激烈的批评和讽刺，并提出自己的先锋戏剧理想——更加低廉的票价、敞开式的演出场所、与观众保持审美距离的表演方式——戏剧的原初精神，古典悲剧传统的庄严感与净化作用将在先锋戏剧质朴、极简和充满暗示性的技巧中得到传承。 本书共收录罗兰•巴特剧评52篇，清晰呈现出罗兰•巴特戏剧美学观的发展，并涉及若干法国戏剧界著名思潮与事件，多角度展示法国剧业生态。阅读这些性格鲜明的文字，耳畔仿佛回荡起一阵阵狂呼呐喊，把人带回那个风起云涌的奔腾年代。

The work of leading scholar Terry Castle, called by the New York Times "always engaging...consistently fascinating," has helped to revolutionize thinking about lesbian studies and eighteenth-century literature. Reenvisioning the era as peculiarly alive with complexity, in which gender, sexuality, and culture are in constant flux, she offers provocative new theories on culture and sexual identity. This collection offers several of Castle's liveliest essays on female identity from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression, and sexual ambiguity. Like the mythical thermometer of the title, which was purported to measure female lasciviousness, literature is filled with devices for quantifying elements of women's nature and sexuality which are hard to define--or uncomfortable to confront. Looking at images that mask or mystify female nature, like the masquerade or ghosts, these essays offer a challenging look at a fascinating range of issues involved in the exploration of gender studies. The inaugural volume in Oxford's Ideologies of Desire, The Female Thermometer foreshadows the thought-provoking and forward-looking nature of the books that will make up the series. Its revisionist version of eighteenth-century life will intrigue all those concerned with cultural studies and issues of gender relations throughout history.

How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed communities and dealt with conflicts across cultural and geographic distance? This book traces animation fandom from its roots in early cinema audiences, through mid-century children's cartoon fan clubs, to today's digitally-networked transcultural fan cultures.

从古代到当下，从宗教圣地到恐怖意象，全面回顾走廊的进阶之路 ------ ------ ◎编辑推荐 从文学、哲学、历史、电影、艺术乃至游戏等各个角度，伦敦大学教授罗杰·卢克赫斯特全面回顾了走廊的现实发展、社会功能和时代意象。它既是克里特岛科诺索斯宫的复杂路径，是《存在与虚无》中“他者凝视”的显现之地，是监狱里“分隔制度”实施的重要条件，也是《巴顿·芬克》酒店场景中的恐怖意象……我们通过走廊看到无尽的风景，而走廊本身，也是一道无尽的风景。 ◎内容简介 人的一生，要穿过无数个过道、走廊或门厅。这些通道空间没有在建筑史、专著，甚至是旅游指南上留名。它们被低估，被忽视，是建筑的基本部件却鲜被热爱。本书是第一部关于走廊的权威历史书籍，全面回顾了从17世纪和18世纪的乡村住宅和乌托邦社区开始，到改良后的维多利亚监狱、医院和收容所，到“权力走廊”，再到官僚机构以及二十世纪庄园的走廊的历史。从建筑史到小说，从电影到电视，作者探讨了走廊从一个乌托邦理想变为恐怖电影意象的独特路径。 ------ 卖点 ☆ 走廊已经出现了300年，形式也经历了多种变化。然而，存于公共空间与私人空间之间的走廊，无论是在建筑类的专著，还是在人们的日常生活中，都没有受到足够的重视。本书从一个哲思性的角度出发，阐述了走廊在现代化构成中的演变，以及它所扮演的文化角色。角度非常新颖。 ☆ 本书表面上写的是走廊在不同的历史阶段和建筑形式中的功能，实际上却是通过走廊对不同文化和不同群体的考察。因走廊的作用与行走其中的人密切相关。空想共产主义的走廊、官僚主义的走廊、商业走廊、监狱的走廊……走廊的前缀决定了走廊的形式。 ☆ 作者学识渊博，在阐述走廊的同时也提到了走廊在文艺作品中的众多公用。如让-吕克·戈达尔的科幻电影《阿尔法城》中办公室的走廊、库布里克惊悚电影《闪灵》中的家庭走廊、马克·z·丹尼尔斯基的恐怖小说《树叶之家》等。走廊被提升到了文化意象的高度，会吸引文艺爱好者的兴趣。

英国的矿区如何复兴？ 深圳的“世界之窗”展示了怎样的图景？ 迪斯尼乐园和奥林匹克公园又满足了人们的何种欲望？ 当今以“可参观性”形式展示文化的场所迅速增多，作者将各类展示的场所放置在更广阔的社会、经济和文化变迁的大背景下加以分析，其中包括现代旅游业、经济发展策略、对身份 的展现、全球化、互动性以及消费中的社会关系。作者尤其关注的是当文化在这些语境中被展示之后，如何发生改变。 本书的每一章都尽量生动、浅显地讨论了引起争议的一些关键的理论问题，比如真实性、商品化和再现。

“广告贩卖的实际上是消费品以外的东西：通过展现我们自身和产品之间的相互替代性，它卖给我们的其实是我们自己。” 广告以大众喜闻乐见的方式向我们呈现出一张张熟悉且令人愉悦的面孔，它显然具有经济功能，但它反映的不仅仅是现代经济。本书并没有简单地批评广告的虚假和剥削，而是通过一百多幅插图详细研究了广告的魅力，从而厘清它们毋庸置疑的吸引力从何而来。显然，广告的经济功能是吸引我们购买更多商品，而广告的意识形态功能让作为个体的我们置身于支撑我们社会经济基础的观念中。意识形态在经济环境中不可或缺，因为意识形态使经济环境看似不可或缺。 想要改变社会，就必须打破这种“不可或缺”与意识形态的恶性循环。本书试图打碎这条锁链中由我们自己铸造的一环，它提供的不是一个“答案”，而是一套“工具”，我们可以通过它改变自己对社会微妙、复杂的宣传形式之一的认知。 因此，本书对任何想了解图像和意识形态在我们社会中的运作方式的人来说都是一本经典读物，它为政治符号学和精神分析术语提供了简明、清晰的定义，告诉我们广告是如何不着痕迹地达到其预设效果的。

-编辑推荐- ★ 首部以“视觉”为中心的法国思想史，全面考察法国“视觉中心主义”的兴亡 ☆ 极具学术想象力的跨学科研究，百科全书式的“视觉”话语大全 ★ 理解“视觉中心主义”的历史，洞悉充斥着图像与监视的21世纪 ☆ 作者马丁•杰伊作序推荐 -内容简介- 对视觉的推崇，在西方文化中早已根深蒂固——从柏拉图、笛卡尔直到启蒙运动，视觉往往与清晰、秩序和理性相关联。随着摄影、电影的出现，视觉更晋升为现代感官王国的领主。然而，来自法国的现代思想家——萨特、梅洛-庞蒂、福柯、拉康、巴特、德里达——也以各种方式质疑视觉的霸权地位：从印象派到超现实主义，从现象学到精神分析，从结构主义到后现代分析…… 本书为读者展现了“视觉中心主义”如何被撼动的历史。凭借其杰出的材料整合能力，作者将眼花缭乱的批判整合进宏大的思想史议题，从一个全新的角度呈现出法国思想史。 -媒体推荐- 一本宝贵的书……对于任何想要聚焦20世纪知识生活的人来说，杰伊的这部权威历史著作是必读之作。 ——《艺术论坛》 杰伊对20世纪法国视觉态度的探索，成就了这部令人印象深刻且严谨可靠的作品……杰伊的许多材料来自典籍，他对此进行了有说服力的综合。 ——《泰晤士报文学增刊》 本书所展示的学术成果让人眼花缭乱……它的出版是一个极其重要的知识事件。 ——《十月》 每一个想教授20世纪思想课程的人都该拥有这本书。 ——《现代史杂志》 就其冷静的观察基调而言，这本令人惊异的书是一次穿越思想史的感伤之旅。 ——《美学与艺术批评杂志》

《梦想的装扮：时尚与现代性》是一本关于服饰文化类图书。作者通过此书探究了人类通过时装或其他配饰进行自我修饰行为背后复杂的社会因素，分析了这些社会因素与现代性的关系。该书于1985年首次出版，被著名作家安吉拉•卡特誉为：“这是我读过的最好的时尚类图书，没有‘之一’。”，2013年的更新版，加入了对90年代和20世纪出的一些时尚现象的分析，如受乐队文化影响而出现的“垃圾风”，90年代兴起的波西米亚风格，等等。 《梦想的装扮：时尚与现代性》作为时尚研究领域的重要著作，它为研究时尚文化和喜爱时尚文化的读者提供了很多新的思路，从社会学、历史学、产业经济学等多角度去看待时尚。 万花筒——身体、服饰与文化系列 《巴黎时尚界的日本浪潮》 《时尚的艺术与批评》 《时尚都市：快时尚的代价与服装业的未来》 《梦想的装扮：时尚与现代性》 《男装革命：当代男性时尚的转变》 《时尚的启迪：关键思想家导读》 《前沿时尚：景观、现代性与死亡》

In" Anime's Media Mix," Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural production and consumption that led to the phenomenon that is today called "media mix" in Japan and "convergence" in the West. According to Steinberg, both anime and the media mix were ignited on January 1, 1963, when "Astro Boy" hit Japanese TV screens for the first time. Sponsored by a chocolate manufacturer with savvy marketing skills, Astro Boy quickly became a cultural icon in Japan. He was the poster boy (or, in his case, "sticker boy") both for Meiji Seika's chocolates and for what could happen when a goggle-eyed cartoon child fell into the eager clutches of creative marketers. It was only a short step, Steinberg makes clear, from Astro Boy to Pokemon and beyond. Steinberg traces the cultural genealogy that spawned Astro Boy to the transformations of Japanese media culture that followed--and forward to the even more profound developments in global capitalism supported by the circulation of characters like Doraemon, Hello Kitty, and Suzumiya Haruhi. He details how convergence was sparked by anime, with its astoundingly broad merchandising of images and its franchising across media and commodities. He also explains, for the first time, how the rise of anime cannot be understood properly--historically, economically, and culturally--without grasping the integral role that the media mix played from the start. Engaging with film, animation, and media studies, as well as analyses of consumer culture and theories of capitalism, Steinberg offers the first sustained study of the Japanese mode of convergence that informs global media practices to this day.

日本首席BL研究家，繼《BL進化論》後，耗費兩年心力的全新力作！ 2000年代的「進化型BL」到底是什麼？ 創作出令人著迷的BL作品，讓無數人感到興奮快樂的「創作者們」，都是如何構思出他們心目中的BL？ 分析各種作品資料，搭配與創作者的訪談，徹底講解BL是如何從腐女們的妄想，進化成改變社會的力量！ 『獨家收錄』 《無法觸碰的愛》《鳴鳥不飛》ヨネダコウ 《J的故事》《同級生》中村明日美子 《惠比壽名流紳士》《發情》岩本薰 《東京心中》トウテムポール 《魚住君》《妖琦庵系列》榎田尤利 ユウリ 《四代目‧大和辰之》《女王與裁縫師》スカーレット・ベリ子 《38度線》《波本酒與蜂蜜吐司》石原理 《黎明時的藍調》羽生山へび子 《墮落王子》C. S. 帕卡特 《昨日的美食》吉永史 『特別收錄』 千葉雅也／BOYSLAB／三浦紫苑 本書特色 ☆由線條細膩獨特的中村明日美子老師繪製「相守到老」雙封面插圖 ☆特邀10位日本當代知名BL創作者進行靈魂深度的訪談 ☆探索當紅BL作品的幕後創作花絮！

界轉動的力量＝腐女的快樂裝置＝BL 日本首席BL專家 探討BL本質的劃時代著作 第一手文化、性別研究 揭開男男魅惑人心的祕密 ●中村明日美子手繪唯美書衣，雙封面深情呈現 ●橫跨50年BL發展歷史 ˇ超過80部BL作品介紹 ●BL名作《純情羅曼史》、《同級生》、《野性類戀人》、《東京心中》全解析 徹底明白BL的魔力！ 「BL不斷追求和提示的，是對所有人來說自由且宜居的社會適應方式。作者懷著愛意，冷静的分析了這項事實。讀了這本書，讓我更加下定决心熱愛BL。」 ——三浦紫苑（直木賞得獎作家） BL（Boy's Love），是男性與男性之間由戀愛發展出來的各種故事。從森茉莉在七○年代的美少年小說作為「BL始祖」，到現在各種漫畫、小說、動畫、電影，BL提供多重的樂趣，滿足了各式各樣的想像。 然而，喜愛BL的妳／你是否曾經想過： 為什麼BL的讀者與創作者，幾乎是異性戀女性？ BL故事中的女性為什麼反而經常缺席？ 為什麼「攻」在侵犯「受」以後，「受」仍會愛上「攻」？ 「我才不是同性戀，只是喜歡的人剛好是男生！」這句經典告白，其實流露出恐同意識？ 甚至，曾有男同志公開批判BL愛好者，掀起一場激烈論戰？ BL研究者溝口彰子從BL的歷史說起，從耽美幻想到與現實接軌，BL創作中蘊含的性別意識，以及在社會風氣影響下的變革。也正是這些思想上的互相激盪，催生出更多不受性別規範、具包容性的作品，成為一個持續「進化」的活動！

We are all fans. Whether we log on to Web sites to scrutinize the latest plot turns in Lost, "stalk" our favourite celebrities on Gawker, attend gaming conventions, or simply wait with bated breath for the newest Harry Potter novel - each of us is a fan. Fandom extends beyond television and film to literature, opera, sports, and pop music, and encompasses both high and low culture. Fandom brings together leading scholars to examine fans, their practices, and their favourite texts. This unparalleled selection of original essays examines instances across the spectrum of modern cultural consumption from Karl Marx to Paris Hilton, Buffy the Vampire Slayer to backyard wrestling, Bach fugues to Bollywood cinema and nineteenth-century concert halls to computer gaming. Contributors examine fans of high cultural texts and genres, the spaces of fandom, fandom around the globe, the impact of new technologies on fandom, and the legal and historical contexts of fan activity. Fandom is key to understanding modern life in our increasingly mediated and globalized world.

In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as 'geek' - an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres, including anime, manga, and video games. Most important of all, as this collection shows, is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche interests but produce and distribute their own media content. In this collection of essays, Japanese and American scholars offer richly detailed descriptions of how this once stigmatized Japanese youth culture created its own alternative markets and cultural products such as fan fiction, comics, costumes, and remixes, becoming a major international force that can challenge the dominance of commercial media. By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, this groundbreaking collection provides fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.

From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationships with “cute girl” characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary Japan. While much of the Japanese public considers the forms of character love associated with “otaku” to be weird and perverse, the Japanese government has endeavored to incorporate “otaku” culture into its branding of “Cool Japan.” In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith explores the conflicting meanings of “otaku” culture and its significance to Japanese popular culture, masculinity, and the nation. Tracing the history of “otaku” and “cute girl” characters from their origins in the 1970s to his recent fieldwork in Akihabara, Tokyo (“the Holy Land of Otaku”), Galbraith contends that the discourse surrounding “otaku” reveals tensions around contested notions of gender, sexuality, and ways of imagining the nation that extend far beyond Japan. At the same time, in their relationships with characters and one another, “otaku” are imagining and creating alternative social worlds.

Chinese cuisine has had a deep impact on culinary traditions in Southeast Asia, where the lack of certain ingredients and access to new ingredients along with the culinary knowledge of local people led Chinese migrants to modify traditional dishes and to invent new foods. This process brought the cuisine of southern China, considered by some writers to be "the finest in the world," into contact with a wide range of local and global cuisines and ingredients. When Chinese from Southeast Asia moved on to other parts of the world, they brought these variants of Chinese food with them, completing a cycle of culinary reproduction, localization and invention, and globalization. The process does not end there, for the new context offers yet another set of ingredients and culinary traditions, and the "embedding and fusing of foods" continues, creating additional hybrid forms. Written by scholars whose deep familiarity with Chinese cuisine is both personal and academic, Chinese Food and Foodways in Southeast Asia and Beyond is a book that anyone who has been fortunate enough to encounter Southeast Asian food will savour, and it provides a window on this world for those who have yet to discover it.

Food and Language: Discourses and Foodways across Cultures explores in innovative ways how food and language are intertwined across cultures and social settings. How do we talk about food? How do we interact in its presence? How do we use food to communicate? And how does social interaction feed us? The book assumes no previous linguistic or anthropological knowledge but provides readers with the understanding to pursue further research on the subject. With a full glossary at the end of the book and additional tools hosted on an eResources page (such as recommended web and video links and some suggested research exercises), this book serves as an ideal introduction for courses on food, language, and food-and-language in anthropology departments, linguistics departments, and across the humanities and social sciences. It will also appeal to any reader interested in the semiotic interplay between food and language.