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• Irresolute Reformers ? Westernizers under Nicholaevan Regime (1825-1855) A Case Study on I. S. Turgenev (1818-1883

  11 mars 2014, par Po-yi, Chen

  This paper aims to reconsider the concept of Narodnost’ (1) and re-interpret its effects on Russian aristocratic society since this concept affects not only the issue of serfdom in Imperial Russia, but also the issue of Slavic unity or concept of Slavdom, which may have a prominent influence on (...)

• The end of Xia – the contemporary biopolitics in Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin

  11 mars 2014, par Hui-Yu Tang

  Within the four narratives consisted in Jia Zhangke’s latest film A Touch of Sin, the heroes or the heroines eventually put an end to the social injustice by the act of killing. These acts of killing, through Jia’s narrative, reveal that if the contemporary China can not be contained within the (...)

• Force-Fed Prisoners and Detainees as Political Use of the Body Abstract

  11 mars 2014, par Hui Min Lee

  Using fast as protest usually serves a political purpose, from detainees at Guantanamo Bay, to British women fasting as suffrage for the right to vote, to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s several hunger strikes, people who believe in justice have used hunger strikes as a means of pursuing their (...)

• The Embalmed Revolution : the Leader’s Corpse Preservation within Bio-technics and Bio-politics of Sovereignty

  11 mars 2014, par Che-Liang Wu

  Body preservation of monarchic rulers, such as pharaohs of ancient Egypt or emperors of Chinese Dynasties, once symbolized as immortality and sacredness of sovereign power, is not monopolized by the monarchic regime but also inherited by modern-states regimes for memorizing revolutionary (...)

• Penser à Demy

  11 mars 2014, par Philippe Chevallier

  L’idée saugrenue d’un bonheur intégral semble prise entre cruauté (Georges Bataille) et naïveté (Frédéric Lenoir), au point que rares sont ceux qui se risquent à penser une telle chose. Le bonheur ne serait-il pas l’impossible : un piège à philosophe, une simple idée régulatrice ou une chimère (...)