本书是舒斯特曼身体美学整体思想的集成之作，无论从框架结构，还是从思想分布，基本反映出他身体美学思想的要点和最新取向。从身体美学思想的由来、整体思想结构，到身体承担的人文学科使命、跨学科性质、日常生活的指向，既有对传统哲学的延承，更有自己独特而深邃的思考；既有对理论清晰而缜密的辨析、阐述，更有打通理论进入生活孔道的现实关切。 在对身体美学较为理论化、哲学化的分析之外，本书还开辟出一个新的方向，利用身体美学对艺术做了较为具体的分析。书中对建筑、摄影、表演艺术、戏剧与舞蹈、日常生活中自我塑型艺术进行了深入探讨。

Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. Rather than treat these narratives as obstacles to historical inquiry, Igarashi reads them along with counter-narratives that attempted to register the original impact of the war. He traces the tensions between remembering and forgetting by focusing on the body as the central site for Japan's production of the past. This approach leads to fascinating discussions of such diverse topics as the use of the atomic bomb, hygiene policies under the U.S. occupation, the monstrous body of Godzilla, the first Western professional wrestling matches in Japan, the transformation of Tokyo and the athletic body for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the writer Yukio Mishima's dramatic suicide, while providing a fresh critical perspective on the war legacy of Japan.

Scholars and professionals interested in the study and engagement with young people will find this project relevant to deepening their understanding of reading practices with comics and graphic novels. Comics reading has been an understudied experience despite its potential to enrich our exploration of reading in our currently saturated media landscape. This Element is based on seventeen in-depth interviews with teens and young adults who describe themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. These interviews provide insights about how comics reading evolves with the readers and what they consider a good or bad reading experience. Special attention is paid to the place of female readers in the comics community and material aspects of reading. From these readers, one begins to understand why comics reading is something that young people do not 'grow out of' but an experience that they 'grow with'.

《人文与社会译丛:象征交换与死亡》讲述了自文艺复兴以来，人类历史经历了“仿造”、“生产”和“仿真”这三种不同的仿象，它们分别对应于价值的自然规律、商品规律和结构规律。作者通过分析劳动、时尚、身体、死亡、诗歌语言等多层面的社会文化现象，指出仿真原则现在已经替代过去的现实原则支配着一切，不论是政治经济学还是精神分析学，在今天都已成为守法的革命，丧失了有效性和激进性。因此，我们需要一种反馈赠中的馈赠可逆性、牺牲中的交换可逆性、循环中的时间可逆性、摧毁中的生产可逆性、死亡中的生命可逆性、易位书写中韵语言单位和价值的可逆性。这一巨大而同一的形式是毁灭与死亡的形式，它可以在仿真的极限，终结线性的时间、语言、经济和权力，这就是象征交换。这是唯一与代码结构暴力等值的象征暴力，只有这种悖论的理论和实践才能触及今天的超级现实并给予它致命的打击。 编辑推荐 《人文与社会译丛:象征交换与死亡(新版)》是让•波德里亚最主要代表作之一，也是影响最大的著作，被公认为后现代理论与文化研究的最重要、最经典阐述之一。 名人推荐 《象征交换与死亡》无疑是波德里亚最重要的著作，对于现代与后现代争论具有关键意义，也标志着他本人的后现代转向。要理解波德里亚在其思想最丰产时期所具有的复杂性和激发力，就不能错过本书。 ——道格拉斯•凯尔纳 众多后现代文化的绘图者都不敢贸然离开20世纪话语中熟悉的浅水区，他们只是小心翼翼地筛选出一些基本的变化，波德里亚却向着未标明的当代深水区做最精妙的“虚拟”潜入，他为我们提供了满怀热情地探索后现代状况中最重要的新事物的模式。 ——尼古拉斯•楚尔布拉格

Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shōjo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through its diverse chapters this edited collection introduces the two main currents of shōjo research: on the one hand, historical investigations of Japan’s modern girl culture and its representations, informed by Japanese-studies and gender-studies concerns; on the other hand, explorations of the transcultural performativity of shōjo as a crafted concept and affect-prone code, shaped by media studies, genre theory, and fan-culture research. While acknowledging that shōjo has mediated multiple discourses throughout the twentieth century―discourses on Japan and its modernity, consumption and consumerism, non-hegemonic gender, and also technology―this volume shifts the focus to shōjo mediations, stretching from media by and for actual girls, to shōjo as media. As a result, the Japan-derived concept, while still situated, begins to offer possibilities for broader conceptualizations of girlness within the contemporary global digital mediascape.

In Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments, Barbara Postema seeks to explain how comics communicate and create meaning, with an emphasis on two aspects of comics. She first examines the pictorial quality of comics, which receives more emphasis than verbal/textual elements. Her second focus is upon the storytelling and narrative qualities of comics, as well as the literary explorations they provide. The "narrative structure" refers to the potential of images, the story telling capacities of panels, and the sequence of panels, in addition to the more traditional narratological concepts. Overall, the author presents a credible rationale for the way in which comics structure their narratives. At every level of communication, comics rely on gaps or absences to create meaning and guide the reader to a meaningful experience. RIT Press is pleased to announce Narrative Structure in Comics as the first book published in its Comics Monograph Series. BARBARA POSTEMA is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ryerson University in Toronto, where she is working on a project about wordless comics. She has published several articles in the International Journal of Comic Art.

The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought

本书为法国著名作家、电影导演、诗人和马克思主义理论家，字母主义国际与情境主义国际的创始人之一居伊·德波的代表作。除序言外，全书共九章221条。围绕“景观”这一概念，德波指出当代社会正处于从马克思所面对的资本主义物化时代向社会景观之王国的过渡之中，在这种新的历史断代里，整个社会生活显示为一种巨大的景观的积累，景观关系中纯客观性的拜物教式表象，掩盖了人与人、阶级与阶级之间的关系。

全球化与文化研究的经典著作 虽然目前有许多人著书谈论跨民族世界中的全球文化，然而没有人能像阿帕杜莱一样，既有全球性的视野，又熟谙人类学文献及其世界观。这部作品闪耀着智慧之光，对现代性与后现代性问题提出了深刻且令人满意的质问。 ——谢里·奥特纳（Sherry Ortner），加州大学伯克利分校 阿尔君·阿帕杜莱是研究新制度主义所谓跨国公共领域的先锋的社会理论家……他取材多方，信手拈来——从自传性质的到高度理论的，从板球到统计学，从印度泰米尔纳德到美国硅谷。 ——帕尔塔·查特吉（Partha Chatterjee），《民族主义思想与殖民地世界》作者 我希望能以人类学对文化维度的强调为全球化争论带来一个重要转向， 这一点在我作为区域研究学者所经受的训练和实践中得到进一步加强。 ——阿尔君·阿帕杜莱 全球化或许意味着托马斯·弗里德曼所描述的“平坦世界”，麦克卢汉所构建的“地球村”，或者马丁·阿尔杜劳的“无国界世界”，而对印度裔人类学家阿尔君·阿帕杜莱而言，与其说全球化是不可逆转的世界潮流，不如说它建基于想象之上，并日益呈现出流离与散裂的面貌。 《消散的现代性》为全球 化的文化研究提出了全新的框架，它指出想象在今日世界具有现实的社会力量：不仅为身份认同提供了新的资源，也为创造民族-国家的替代方案提供了新的能量。作者审视了当今全球化时代——其特色是大众迁移与电子媒体的孪生力量，并对大众消费模式、多元文化主义论争与族群暴力提出了新的见解。

Nancy Fraser's powerful new book documents the "movements of feminism" and the shifts in the feminist imaginary since the 1970s. Fraser follows the history of feminism from the ferment of the New Left, during which "Second Wave" feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation alongside other social movements, to its emersion in identity politics following the decline of its initial utopian energies. Alongside this detailed history, Fraser recognizes the need for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism to respond to the crisis in neoliberalism. She argues for a feminism that could join other egalitarian movements in struggles aimed at subjecting capitalism to democratic control, while retrieving the core utopian insights of feminism's earlier phases.

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman." Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems. Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of wherewe might go from here.

Considered a great classic by all who seek for a meeting ground between science and the humanities, "Art and Illusion" examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of visual perception information and learning. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, Gombrich reexamines many ideas on the imitation of nature and the function of tradition. In testing his arguments he ranges over the history of art, noticing particularly the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks, and the visual discoveries of such masters as Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt, as well as the impressionists and the cubists. Gombrich's triumph in "Art and Illusion" arises from the fact that his main concern is less with the artists than with ourselves, the beholders.

A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

本书是对普鲁斯特的名著《追忆似水年华》的一种全新解读。作者一反传统的现象学式解读把《追忆》视为一种“反逻各斯”，其中不再存在一个超越一切认知经验的主体自我，而是一个被动接收世界之符号客体，从而对西方哲学的经峻阐释体系提出挑战。本书见解独到，语言精辟，读来既发人深省，又趣昧盎然。本书自1964年初版后受到广泛关注，多次再版，是作者早期的代表作之一。 本书是对普鲁斯特的名著《追忆似水年华》的一种全新解读，书中具体包括了：符号的类型、符号系统中的多元化、《追忆》的层次、三种机器等内容。本书见解独到，语言精辟，读来既发人深省，又趣昧盎然。本书自1964年初版后受到广泛关注，多次再版，是作者早期的代表作之一。

A look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcasting Every day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet using popular sites such as Twitch, which reaches more than one hundred million viewers a month. In these new platforms for interactive entertainment, big esports events featuring digital game competitors live stream globally, and audiences can interact with broadcasters—and each other—through chat in real time. What are the ramifications of this exploding online industry? Taking readers inside home studios and backstage at large esports events, Watch Me Play investigates the rise of game live streaming and how it is poised to alter how we understand media and audiences. Through extensive interviews and immersion in this gaming scene, T. L. Taylor delves into the inner workings of the live streaming platform Twitch. From branding to business practices, she shows the pleasures and work involved in this broadcasting activity, as well as the management and governance of game live streaming and its hosting communities. At a time when gaming is being reinvented through social media, the potential of an ever-growing audience is transforming user-generated content and alternative distribution methods. These changes will challenge the meaning of ownership and intellectual property and open the way to new forms of creativity. The first book to explore the online phenomenon Twitch and live streaming games, Watch Me Play offers a vibrant look at the melding of private play and public entertainment.

“全球顶尖思想家”写给残酷世界的理性建言 直面人性与历史的暗黑时刻，深入探究是什么让人类如此残暴不仁？ 二十世纪的强权与战火又催生了怎样的艺术花朵？ 《残酷剧场》是伊恩·布鲁玛多年来在《纽约书评》发表的艺文评论和历史散文精选。第二次世界大战期间，世界各地发生了惨绝人寰的屠杀和种族灭绝。有人说，每个人心中都有一个邪恶的纳粹，只等着适当时机爆发。伊恩·布鲁玛则想问：究竟是什么让人类如此残暴不仁？民族？国家？信仰？理想？或只为了满足变态快感？为了追根究底，布鲁玛带领读者探索纳粹的宣传影片、德国占领下的巴黎、犹太人的命运、被盟军炸成废墟的柏林、争议不断的《安妮日记》、珍珠港事变、神风特攻队、堕落艺术、冷战下的东德、巴以冲突、战后的日本的前卫艺术等等，从电影、文学、绘画、音乐、剧场、舞蹈的表现中，重回第二次世界大战现场以及战后重建的世界，试图找出答案。 艺术家为了回应强权的压迫与残酷的现实，在作品中揭露文明行为背后的黑暗面，直视人性中邪恶的冲动。赫尔佐格、法斯宾德、马克斯·贝克曼、乔治·格罗兹、克林特·伊斯特伍德、大卫·鲍伊、川端康成、三岛由纪夫、大岛渚、村上隆、克鲁伯等，都试图探究人类处境的深渊，从中开出艺术的花朵。布鲁玛从不同的人物切入战争，结合对作品的分析、对历史的洞察，辅以敏锐的美学判断，提供读者一个理解人类当前处境的面向，让我们对生活中所见之美、暴力和残酷，有更深刻的体会。 ★ 直视人性中的邪恶深渊，剖析暴力、残酷、权力与艺术的神秘联结。从电影、摄影、绘画，到文学、音乐和舞蹈，谈论备受争议的纳粹导演莱妮·里芬施塔尔、德国新电影代表者法斯宾德、表现主义运动的代表人物马克斯·贝克曼、美国西部片精髓象征克林特·伊斯特伍德，被称为“摇滚变色龙”的大卫·鲍伊等艺术家，到德布林、永井荷风、川端康成、三岛由纪夫等文学家，见证他们如何回应强权与战争、对抗残酷的现实，最后从中开出艺术的花朵。 ★ 以史实和理性，取代狂热与悲情，探讨20世纪影响全人类命运的战争与种族屠杀。本书从不同艺术家和烽火下的“普通人”的经历,切入第二次世界大战柏林和巴黎的惨况、犹太大屠杀的悲剧、神风特攻队的自杀攻击、《安妮日记》的争议、冷战下的东德、巴以冲突、美国帝国主义等，带领读者深入探索这些事件背后的权力机制与人性冲突，分析人们对20世纪动荡时代的历史认知与解读。 ★ 从艺术家的创作灵感到作品的时代精神，理解人类当前的处境与危机。布鲁玛不仅仅聚焦于“二战”，其关怀扩及今日世界的认同危机、找寻历史真相的无力感、底层社会的暴力、年轻世代的虚拟世界生活、当代新闻媒体怪象、亚洲国家经历在东西方文化碰撞下产生的迷惘等，重新赋予20世纪的经典电影、绘画、音乐等艺术作品全新的时代意义。 ★ 美国笔会“迪亚蒙斯坦—施皮尔福格尔艺术评论奖”（Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award）得奖作品。 布鲁玛的兴趣广泛，并对此充满热情，勇于批判……尽管他剖析的创作者天马行空，他的见解评论却总是鞭辟入里。 ——《书单》 布鲁玛写作风格行云流水，探讨题材广泛多样……展现一般文化评论者缺乏的器度……在艺术作品分析上多有着墨，虽然世道日益艰难，但他在字里行间仍对历史抱持正面态度。阅读他的作品，是一趟独树一格的知性之旅，与艺术文化独一无二的邂逅。 ——《科克斯评论》

《文化记忆》是扬•阿斯曼系统提出“文化记忆”理论的经典之作。全书分两部分，一部分探讨了记忆（有关过去的知识）、身份认同（政治想象）、文化的连续性（传统的形成）三者之间的关系。二部分具体描述了在古代埃及、以色列和希腊三种高级文化中，有关过去的集体图像如何构成，对民族身份的确定和强化起到了怎样的作用，文化记忆又是如何形成并发挥作用的。这一理论不仅为认识不同文明成长的内部机制和兴衰根源提供了崭新的视角，也有助于澄清有关记忆与历史之间关系的模糊概念，促使我们重新审视并定义历史真实性和客观性问题。

《英国人的言行潜规则》的出版引起英国人自己的大辩论，有人认为它泄露了太多英国人的秘密，也有人认为它一针见血地揭露了英国人行事风格背后的潜规则。不过所有人都一致同意，这本书实在是太有趣了。“老实说，我真弄不懂，人类学家想要研究那些带有古怪观念、神秘习俗的陌生部族文化，为何非要冒着得痢疾、疟疾的危险，大老远地跑到偏远地方，而最古怪、最叫人费解的部族明明近在眼前嘛。” 为什么英国人一见面总是在谈天气，英国酒吧要有多种游戏器具？为什么英国人似乎都有社交拘泥症，而英国足球流氓却一反常态？《英国人的言行潜规则》作者将这些带有民族性的怪癖和性情放在人类学的显微镜下，从中发现了奇异而迷人的文化，以及背后错综复杂的不成文规矩和透着神秘感的行为规范。