社会学
六论自发性 豆瓣 谷歌图书
Two Cheers for Anarchism——Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work
8.8 (89 个评分) 作者: [美] 詹姆斯·C. 斯科特 译者: 袁子奇 社会科学文献出版社 2019 - 4
【内容简介】
著名的当代思想家、耶鲁大学教授詹姆斯•斯科特曾告诉我们国家的视角为什么是错的。现在,在这本简短易懂、极其个人化的新作中,他论证了无政府主义者的视角为什么重要。他用引人入胜、斗志昂扬,甚至幽默的方式,捍卫重视地方性知识、常识、个体创造力、自发性的无政府主义思维,令我们能够审视世间百态……小到学校、工厂、养老院、游乐场里的日常社会政治互动,大到民众抗议和革命。
【编辑推荐】
书中的无政府主义不是意识形态,也无关政治立场,而是一种批判性的思维模式,可以适用于日常生活中的各类现象,如红绿灯的设置、抄近道形成的小径、地名的设置、林场或种植园的管理、游乐园的设计、科学文献索引体系的意义、养老院与老人间的关系等。通过带入无政府主义者的非国家视角,斯科特讨论了这些现象中蕴含的悖论。例如福特的种植园反映了一些为追求效率而设定的规程反而造成了效率的缺失,危地马拉当地农民的果园看似杂乱无章的表面安排后面之下却又更科学的逻辑。总之,作为一位社会科学大家撰写的关于自发性的随笔集,这本小册子中汇集了对生活中小事的思考,有助于读者培养批判性思维和辩证思维。
权力的毛细管作用 豆瓣
9.6 (11 个评分) 作者: 王汎森 北京大学出版社 2015 - 9
《权力的毛细管作用》聚焦于明清嬗代之际的思想史和学术史。全书分两部分,第一部分藉考察讲经会、省过会、日谱、人谱等面相,探讨明季清初道德意识的呈现方式及转化,和道德理想如何影响日常生活的实践,尝试联系“思想史”与“生活史”两个领域。第二部分则以康雍乾时期的文字狱、禁书及其在道咸以降的复出为切入点,展示在清代的政治压力下,权力如何像水分子般在毛细管作用的驱动下渗入日常生活的每一个角落,造成文化领域中无所不在的自我压抑和自我删节,在最微细、最日常、最私密的空间中也发挥了意想不到的力量。
From Village to City 豆瓣
作者: Andrew B. Kipnis University of California Press 2016 - 3
Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. FromVillage toCity paints a vivid portrait of the rapid changes in Zouping and its environs and in the lives of the once-rural people who live there.
Despite the benefits of modernization and an improved standard of living for many of its residents, Zouping is far from a utopia; its inhabitants face new challenges and problems such as alienation, class formation and exclusion, and pollution. As he explores the city’s transformation, Andrew B. Kipnis develops a new theory of urbanization in this compelling portrayal of an emerging metropolis and its people.
张医生与王医生 豆瓣 Goodreads
7.9 (48 个评分) 作者: 伊险峰 / 杨樱 文汇出版社 2021 - 11
两个原生家庭,跨越三十年的奋斗,调动的能量,堪比战争。
李海鹏作序,陈嘉映 梁文道 罗新 严飞 班宇诚挚推荐
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☆《好奇心日报》《小鸟文学》创始人,知名媒体人伊险峰、杨樱首度出书
☆ 以两位工人子弟的阶层跃升,照见中国社会三十年沧桑巨变
☆ 一个昨日世界,但你并不陌生:两个家庭、一座城、一个时代的命运轮廓
☆ 近距离观察普通个体在大时代中的浮沉与变迁,探寻当代人精神困境的社会根源
——“我们的生活变好了,为什么精神却荒芜了?”
☆ 一部令人震撼的大剧,充斥着既悲壮又无力、既切肤又旁观的历史感。——历史学家 罗新
☆ “城市发展过程中必将产生大量废弃物,而其中大部分是人”,而这部平民史诗的主题只是“不要成为废弃物”。
——巨大的社会变迁中,是什么决定了普通人的命运?
张医生和王医生出生在20世纪70年代的工人家庭。在国企改制、社会急剧转型的过程中,他们凭借家庭的全力支持与自身的聪慧刻苦,摆脱了掉队的命运,实现了阶层跃升。可是,虽然看起来功成名就,但他们的人生,仍充满了焦虑和疲惫。
两位作者采访数十人,在旧报纸、老照片、建筑废墟与口述回忆中打捞过往生活图景,描摹了张医生与王医生半生的个人成长与阶层跃升之路,并审视二人知识、尊严与自我的建构过程。与此同时,本书还以工业城市、单位社会、稀缺经济、工人阶级文化、男性气概、重大历史事件和时代变迁等为经纬,呈现出兼具深度与广度的当代东北。
阅读张医生与王医生的故事,我们将会厘清,世纪之交的一系列深刻变革,如何塑造了一代人的生存方式与精神世界。而透过个体在历史中的沉浮,我们也将窥见一座城、一个时代的命运轮廓。
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一部社会学视野里的故事,于是,两个人、一座城、一个时代难以分割地连在一起。在汉语写作中应该是首创。
——哲学家 陈嘉映
我们究竟能在两位“成功”的东北医生身上看见什么呢?相较于影视和文字当中常见的下岗工人,他们好像完全没法代表我们想象中的东北。但令人意外,这本视野宏阔、细节饱满的著作,却不止让我们看清了东北,更看到了工业文化的内核;甚至改革开放四十年来,个体生命在时代结构当中的局限与抉择。所以不嫌夸张地说,这不单是张医生与王医生的故事,更是几代中国人的故事。
——作家 梁文道
一部令人震撼的大剧,充斥着既悲壮又无力、既切肤又旁观的历史感。围绕两个医生的个体人生,呈现出兼具深度与广度的当代沈阳。
——历史学家 罗新
近年来,“东北文艺复兴”这个概念很火,和东北失落的经济发展相对比,这片土地上的精神世界得到极大关注。不论是东北式的喜剧幽默,还是旧工业社会里留下的人文沉淀,好像变成了一座“富矿”,供人们挖掘和书写。本书围绕着过去四十年中沈阳的重大历史事件、工人阶级文化等,呈现了一部丰富的民间社会史。作者不仅有着深厚的讲故事能力,而且难能可贵的是,站在了社会学的角度去近距离观察普通家庭和个体在大时代中的浮沉与变迁。
——社会学家 严飞
两位作者令人想起工厂车间里的调度员,制定计划,并线输出,反复确认着书写的节拍,如大雨过后倒灌的水渠,从深处返流,漫经地面,为历史与现实空间重新造影。那些不规则的图景,旁逸斜出的暗渍,列车碾过的印痕,抑或我们凝视、打捞与捕捉的动作,共同构成了一批半成品、一代人与一座城市的命运轮廓。
——作家 班宇
在书中,罗伯特·E.帕克的一条理论显得尤为刺目:城市发展过程中必将产生大量废弃物,而其中大部分是人。两位医生的原生家庭跨越三十年的奋斗在事实上始终紧紧围绕这句话,在这场奋斗中调动的能量、毅力、耐心、机谋是如此之多,堪比战争所需,然而这部平民史诗的主题只是“不要成为废弃物”而已。
——作家、媒体人李海鹏
中国精英与政治变迁 豆瓣
Chinese Elites and Political Change: Zheijang Province in the Early Twentieth Century
作者: [美]萧邦奇 译者: 徐立望 / 杨涛羽 译 江苏人民出版社 2021 - 9
◎内容简介
本书是萧邦奇在其博士论文基础上出版的第一部学术专著,研究了从清末新政到北伐战争时期浙江的精英组织和政治变迁。本书采用核心—边缘的框架,依据人口密度、邮政系统层级、金融机构数量等要素,将浙江分成了核心区内部、核心区外部、边缘区内部和边缘区外部四个不同的社会政治生态区,通过丰富的历史细节、数据、图表,分析了不同区域内的精英参政模式、精英与政府关系、政治变迁过程。萧邦奇从浙江经验中发现,20世纪的中国政治史是政治变迁从核心区内部向外部区域、从精英阶层到非精英阶层不断扩展的过程。
本书是“在中国发现历史”学术思潮的代表作品,提示我们应当注意即使在同一省域,内部仍存在着较大的差异,这对于理解中国其他地区的历史以及更大的国家社会关系问题具有重要参考价值。
◎评论
萧邦奇的兴趣不是叙述单个事件,而是描绘政治发展的一般模式。本书的长处在于其空间分析。萧邦奇证明了这一框架的有效性,令人信服地呈现了民国初年浙江政治发展的差异性。
——亚洲研究协会前主席 罗友枝(Evelyn Rawski)
萧邦奇的研究显示了他的雄心壮志。本书为中国历史研究中的一种新思潮设置了高标准。
——国际知名清史学者 冉玫烁(Mary Backus Rankin)
小菜场上的家4:田林新村共有空间中的溢出及共生 豆瓣
作者: 张斌 / 王方戟 2018 - 10
“小菜场上的家”是同济大学建筑系三年级实验班的课程设计题目,本书是系列书籍的第四本。
《小菜场上的家4》主体分为两部分,其一是对2015年秋季同济大学建筑与城市规划学院2013级实验班三年级建筑设计课教学活动,以及围绕这个活动所进行的教学讨论的梳理和总结。该实验班由张斌、王方戟和庄慎三位教师负责课程教学组织指导,内容包括任务介绍、成果展示和教学讨论。其二是张斌老师及其研究生团队对田林新村共有空间的调研,包括其历史沿革、空间物理特征、居住状况、社群结构等多个方面,试图发现日常生活是如何以一种微小、临时、往复的方式,最终重塑整个城市空间面貌的。
Minjian 豆瓣
作者: Sebastian Veg Columbia University Press 2019 - 4
Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the marginalized, often proclaiming their independence with a heavy dose of anti-elitist rhetoric. They are proudly minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people.
In this book, Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. An intellectual history of contemporary China, Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere. Veg explores the work of amateur historians who question official accounts, independent documentarians who let ordinary people speak for themselves, and grassroots lawyers and NGO workers who spread practical knowledge. Their interventions are specific rather than universal, with a focus on concrete problems among disenfranchised populations such as victims of Maoism, migrant workers and others without residence permits, and petitioners. Drawing on careful analysis of public texts by grassroots intellectuals and the networks and publics among which they circulate, Minjian is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of crucial trends developing under the surface of contemporary Chinese society.
夹缝生存 豆瓣
7.4 (16 个评分) 作者: [美]阿莉莎·夸特 译者: 黄孟邻 理想国|海南出版社 2021 - 9
“中产阶级”曾经意味着什么?
它意味着你可以养育两个孩子,去高质量的公立学校。
它意味着拥有一栋房子,不需要多大,但是是自己的。
它意味着工作日六点准时下班,和家人一起欢度周末。
《夹缝生存》描述了如今中产阶级家庭的真实境况:社会保障越发薄弱,生育成本不断上涨,怀孕歧视和性别歧视频现、中年失业成为常态,越来越多的白领难以拥有正常的工作时间,更别提保持工作和生活的平衡。
作者采访的对象包括大学教授、律师、护士和儿童保育员等,这些传统职业的回报已经远不如当年。面对着高额的房租、沉重的医疗和教育负担,他们不得不为了维持表面上的体面疲于奔命。对如今这一代人来说,想要过上父母当年的生活似乎已经不可能了。
【编辑推荐】
★贫者越贫,富者越富,消失的中产都去了哪里?
——20年来,这一代美国人的生活成本提高了30%,医疗支出翻了一番,房价高不可攀,职场环境恶化,育儿成本陡增。机器人和人工智能威胁到传统白领的工作岗位,电视节目只关注特权阶级和明星生活、粉饰太平。作者从住房、育儿、生育、住房 等多个角度切入,向读者呈现中产面临的系统性困境全景。
★疲于奔命却只能勉强维持体面,从“中产”到“破产”只有一线之隔
——白天上课晚上开Uber的教师,人到中年进修第二学历、却被“二次收割”的失业者,忙于工作无法照料孩子、只能交给托儿所的上班族……作者采访了那些在阶层跌落边缘挣扎的普通人,通过他们的叙述,勾勒出当代中产焦虑生活:只有现在,没有未来,只有生存,没有生活。
★《我在底层的生活》《失业白领的职场漂流》作者芭芭拉·艾伦瑞克推荐:
“凭借生动的故事、敏锐的分析和智慧,夸特剖析了中产阶级的坠落,也提供了解决方案和希望。”
★《纽约时报》2018年夏季最佳读物。《金融时报》《卫报》等媒体联合推荐
Insurgent Identities 豆瓣
作者: Roger V. Gould University Of Chicago Press 1995
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In this important contribution both to the study of social protest and to French social history, Roger Gould breaks with previous accounts that portray the Paris Commune of 1871 as a continuation of the class struggles of the 1848 Revolution. Focusing on the collective identities framing conflict during these two upheavals and in the intervening period, Gould reveals that while class played a pivotal role in 1848, it was neighborhood solidarity that was the decisive organizing force in 1871.
The difference was due to Baron Haussmann's massive urban renovation projects between 1852 and 1868, which dispersed workers from Paris's center to newly annexed districts on the outskirts of the city. In these areas, residence rather than occupation structured social relations. Drawing on evidence from trail documents, marriage records, reports of police spies, and the popular press, Gould demonstrates that this fundamental rearrangement in the patterns of social life made possible a neighborhood insurgent movement; whereas the insurgents of 1848 fought and died in defense of their status as workers, those in 1871 did so as members of a besieged urban community.
A valuable resource for historians and scholars of social movements, this work shows that collective identities vary with political circumstances but are nevertheless constrained by social networks. Gould extends this argument to make sense of other protest movements and to offer predictions about the dimensions of future social conflict.
Collision of Wills 豆瓣
作者: Roger V. Gould University Of Chicago Press 2003 - 10
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Minor debts, derisive remarks, a fight over a parking space, butting in line—these are the little things that nevertheless account for much of the violence in human society. But why? Roger V. Gould considers this intriguing question in Collision of Wills. He argues that human conflict is more likely to occur in symmetrical relationships—among friends or social equals—than in hierarchical ones, wherein the difference of social rank between the two individuals is already established.
This, he maintains, is because violence most often occurs when someone wants to achieve superiority or dominance over someone else, even if there is no substantive reason for doing so. In making the case for this original idea, Gould explores a diverse range of examples, including murders, blood feuds, vendettas, revolutions, and the everyday disagreements that compel people to act violently. The result is an intelligent and provocative work that restores the study of conflict to the center of social inquiry.
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Minor debts, derisive remarks, a fight over a parking space, butting in line—these are the little things that nevertheless account for much of the violence in human society. But why? Roger V. Gould considers this intriguing question in Collision of Wills. He argues that human conflict is more likely to occur in symmetrical relationships—among friends or social equals—than in hierarchical ones, wherein the difference of social rank between the two individuals is already established.
This, he maintains, is because violence most often occurs when someone wants to achieve superiority or dominance over someone else, even if there is no substantive reason for doing so. In making the case for this original idea, Gould explores a diverse range of examples, including murders, blood feuds, vendettas, revolutions, and the everyday disagreements that compel people to act violently. The result is an intelligent and provocative work that restores the study of conflict to the center of social inquiry.
乡村中国的权力与财富 豆瓣
power and wealth in rural china: the political economy of institutional change
作者: (美)白苏珊 译者: 郎友兴 / 方小平 浙江人民出版社 2009 - 1
《乡村中国的权力与财富:制度变迁的政治经济学》代表了在全球化时代新一代政治经济学家研究发展中国家的最优秀的著作,必将在关于中国转型的为数不多的重要著作中占有一席之地。自1978年以来,制度变迁成为中国快速的经济社会转型的核心。作为21世纪初世界经济发展最快的国家之一,中国正同时从农业向工业、从计划经济向市场经济转变。本研究考察了中国经济最具活力的层面之一——乡村工业的制度变迁。通过探讨个体,地方政府及其所处宏观政策环境之间的复杂的互动,《乡村中国的权力与财富:制度变迁的政治经济学》比其他任何著作都更好地澄清了中国城镇和乡村工业的制度背景以及最近产权改革的私有化趋势。
彳亍躓頓七十年 博客來 谷歌图书 豆瓣
作者: 葉啟政 遠流 2013 - 11
葉啟政出生在日治時期末年的新竹,在肅殺的1950年代就讀於學風開放的新竹中學,培養了對於思想、電影的興趣,並不顧家庭反對,以優異的數學成績考入台大哲學系。
大二轉入心理系,跟著楊國樞先生讀書,當時正是行為主義與實證主義當道的年代,葉啟政一方面受實驗心理學的訓練,另一方面也種下日後出國改唸社會學博士的種子。
葉啟政赴美唸書時,正逢學生運動風起雲湧、西方馬克思主義左派理論勃興;回台任教,則碰上台灣經濟起飛、社會逐漸穩定、但文化認同的問題與自由民主的推動則漸漸浮上檯面的階段。葉啟政以台大社會系教授的身份向政府提出建言、興辦雜誌、發表文章、集會結社,更透過教學啟迪年輕的心靈──後來許多學生在1980年代末參與學運、投身媒體、從事政治。
儘管葉啟政在台灣社會轉型的眾聲喧嘩中曾經發出議論,但他最嚮往的還是獨自一人從事思想工作。從台大社會系退休之後,應世新大學之聘,擔任講座教授,帶領讀書會,潛心著述。
透過葉啟政學生何榮幸的整理執筆,捕捉了年屆七十的葉啟政回憶過往的點滴,把這個人的生命歷程,鑲嵌進台灣半個多世紀以來的發展軌跡。
实证的迷思 豆瓣
9.1 (7 个评分) 作者: 叶启政 生活·读书·新知三联书店 2018 - 2
本书是台湾大学著名社会学者叶启政先生的新著。全书致力于对当前社会科学中占统治地位的计量与统计方法进行理论反思,意在打破社会科 学研究的“范式迷思”。
当今的中国社会学研究,在美国社会学传统的影响下,日益表现出以经验实征方式进行量化研究的趋势。本书致力于对这种“范式迷思”进 行理论反思。作者回溯了社会学实证主义传统形成的文化-历史语境,尤其注重对统计方法中的核心概念“均值”与“变异量”进行知识社会学分析,指出其并不具有超越特定时空场域的普遍有效性。最后,作者以韦伯的“理念类型”作为一种特别的思考模式,陈述其在社会学思考中可能具备的丰富而深邃的意义。本书兼具思想史与科学史的特点,极大程度地打开了反思科学方法的大门。
Beyond Nostalgia 豆瓣
作者: Ray, Ruth E. University of Virginia Press 2000 - 4
For three years, Ruth E. Ray visited and participated in eight writing groups at six senior centers in inner-city and suburban Detroit, looking for ways in which the elderly fashion their memories through personal narrative. Her innovative book involves the reader in the construction of life stories as a richly rewarding and highly social process that often reveals the types of relationships that dominate the lives of group members, the majority of whom are women.Because Ray wrote and responded herself and shares her anxiety and triumph in presenting her writing to women old enough to be her mother, some of a different race and class, Beyond Nostalgia is an excellent primer for professionals working with diverse groups in a variety of settings. It is also an important contribution to the emerging field of feminist gerontology. Ray's book demonstrates its own thesis that the presentation and negotiation of life stories in writing groups initiates change and personal growth among older people.Drawing on personal observations, the give-and-take of meeting conversations, lengthy interviews, and the life stories themselves, Ray tells a story of adult development through personal narrative. She recreates the group process through which age peers begin to articulate what life means, both individually and collectively. The writing groups of older adults that Ray studied challenged their members to consider not just cultural influences, but generational effects on the evolving content and structure of their life stories.Age, Ray argues, has been largely ignored by feminists and she makes a strong case for the need to learn how women make meaning of their lives across the life span. As an important document and analysis of that process, Beyond Nostalgia should appeal to academics and practitioners in women's studies, composition studies, gerontology, developmental psyschology, sociology, social work, and linguistics, and to anyone who works with older people.
孤独的城市 豆瓣
The Lonely City
7.8 (20 个评分) 作者: [英] 奥利维娅·莱恩 译者: 杨懿晶 未读·文艺家·北京联合出版公司 2017 - 8
本书作者孤身一人居住在纽约这座玻璃牢笼般的城市中时,一种密感的缺失状态促使她不断地追问孤独的本质。她从数名具有代表性的当代艺术家为切入点,以用一种自然流动的叙事方式,将爱德华·霍珀、安迪·沃霍尔、亨利·达戈、大卫·沃纳洛维奇等当代艺术家的生平与自己的反思浑然天成地编织在一起,深入地剖析了生活在现代城市的人们所共同经历的、无法避免的孤独,从艺术、社会学、心理学等多个方面为读者呈现出孤独的全貌。
Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain 豆瓣
作者: John H. Goldthorpe Oxford University Press, USA 1987
Originally published in 1980, but out of print for some time, this book is now again available. This book is intended for first-degree students and graduates studying sociology, especially social stratification; professional sociologists interested in quantitative analyses, especially log-linear modelling. Economists and political scientists researching social stratification, mobility, or the sociology of modern Britain. In collaboration with: Llewellyn, Catriona; Unknown function: Payne, Clive
Twitter and Tear Gas 豆瓣
作者: Zeynep Tufekci Yale University Press 2017 - 5
To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people. An incisive observer, writer, and participant in today’s social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests—how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long-term quests for change.
Tufekci speaks from direct experience, combining on-the-ground interviews with insightful analysis. She describes how the internet helped the Zapatista uprisings in Mexico, the necessity of remote Twitter users to organize medical supplies during Arab Spring, the refusal to use bullhorns in the Occupy Movement that started in New York, and the empowering effect of tear gas in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. These details from life inside social movements complete a moving investigation of authority, technology, and culture—and offer essential insights into the future of governance.
艺术世界中的七天 豆瓣
作者: [美]萨拉·桑顿 译者: 何云朝 雅众文化 / 上海三联书店 2019 - 9
★★★
《纽约时报》和《星期日泰晤士报》年度最佳艺术书籍
当代艺术是创新的一个极端符号和象征,若一国没有当代艺术,就没有未来。
普利策奖得主安娜琳·斯旺、艺术家格雷森·佩里推荐
★★★
【编辑推荐】
1.非虚构写作,故事引人入胜,全面透视西方当代艺术的创作、生产、传播和拍卖市场
2.《纽约时报》《星期日泰晤士报》最佳艺术类书籍
3.一种置身艺术世界的感受:作者鲜活地描述了一个特殊社会的人生百态,让读者体会到其中的激烈竞争、奇特、光鲜亮丽,以及其中的神秘运作方式。
4.挑动读者的思考与反应:艺术世界是由不同的次文化交集而成,每一种文化对艺术的定义都有不同的主张,书中每一个有声音的人都同意,艺术应该挑起人的思考与反应。
5.作者揭示了艺术世界在寻找生命的意义的同时,追求创意、品味、地位、金钱的新趋势。这本书将改变你对当代艺术界的认识。
【内容介绍】
艺术市场一直在蓬勃发展,博物馆的参观人数激增,越来越多的人自称为艺术家。当代艺术成为一种大众娱乐、一种奢侈品、一种工作描述,而对某些人来说,则成为一种宗教的替代品。而炙手可热的艺术品并非突然冒出,它是艺术家、画商、策展人、艺评家、经纪人、收藏家联合“制造”出来的。
萨拉·桑顿花了五年的时间,走访六城五国,将其280次贴身采访整理成7 篇故事,为大家探索艺术世界的秘密,是了解现代艺术的最佳指南。在这一系列节奏优美的叙述中,萨拉·桑顿带领我们参观了佳士得拍卖行上演的喜剧,村上隆工作室的艺术创作,巴塞尔国际艺术博览会上的艺术精品,《艺术论坛》杂志的执着,透纳奖背后的竞争,尚未走入市场的加州艺术学院的艺术评论课,以及威尼斯双年展的仙境。
艺术拍卖让人有艺术品可以变现的错觉,但别以为价格只会朝一个方向飙涨,在一个神秘、时髦、诱惑、上瘾的世界,艺术品价值全看你愿意付多少钱决定!要在艺术市场卖得高价,作品的“估价”更胜于“评价”:
1. 棕色的画不如蓝色或红色的画;忧郁的画不如让人愉快的画。
2. 男性的裸体画通常不如大胸脯女性的画。
3. 超过电梯大小的作品,在市场上就没有销路。
4. 绘画是最受欢迎的艺术品。
5. 新兴、年轻的当代艺术家作品容易受到高度注意。
6. 艺术品是否在市场中初次亮相,或已转手过好几次,对抢手程度也有影响。
7. 艺术品跟过哪些收藏家,不仅为人津津乐道,无形中也提高了它的价值。
8. 获得透纳奖提名,作品售价会提高三分之一,得奖则会使售价暴增一倍。
【媒体推荐】
《艺术世界中的七天》笔调轻松愉快却有着探索社会意义的敏锐性。它让我们审视那些认为“当代艺术已经成为一种信仰”的人时,觉得他们既可笑又抱之以一定程度的理解与同情。……结论:请阅读它吧。
——《时代周刊》(Time)
这是迄今为止,阐释现代艺术繁荣写得最好的一本书。这是一幅罗伯特阿尔特曼式的全景图,展现了过去十年中最重要的文化现象。
——《星期日泰晤士报》(The Sunday Times)
《艺术世界中的七天》一书当经得起时间考验。作者桑顿鲜活地描述了一个特殊社会的人生百态,让人体会到其中的割喉竞争、它的奇特、它的光鲜亮丽,也知道那个世界里头充满了那一类会在高中不受欢迎的人物。
──莱斯丽·卡米(Leslie Camhi),《时尚》杂志(Vogue)
本书对当代艺术的神秘运作方式,提供了清晰而有趣的叙述,作者自我节制,未对当代艺术提供自作聪明或过于笼统的答案;她的报导严谨,而字里行间有许多弦外之音,读者可以自己去做连想。
──彼德·艾斯普登(Peter Aspden),《金融时报》(Financial Times)
一本精彩好书──充满细节、有闲话性、又有洞见。读到结尾时,你几乎可以了解为何避险基金操作高手斯蒂夫·科恩(Steve Cohen)会拿出八百万美元来买一个泡在甲醛里的烂鲨鱼。
──丹·皮特森(Thane Peterson),《商业周刊》(BusinessWeek)
对时刻受到身份地位驱动的艺术世界,桑顿有精辟独到又趣味横溢的民族文化志式的记述。她对艺术世界若干最负盛名机构的剖析,既优雅又讽刺,令人回味无穷。
──《出版人周刊》评论(Publishers Weekly)
桑顿是一位有学术专长与杰出写作计划的史学兼社会学家,也是一位眼光独到的观察家兼写故事能手,她简洁有力的句子透露了丰富的信息。她从艺术第一线精辟报导,对艺术家、画商、艺评家与收藏家的众生相,有着画质清晰的描述,对创意转变为商品过程中的内在矛盾,也有深入的解析。
──唐娜·希曼(Donna Seaman),《书单》(Booklist)
桑顿就好像我们派出的私家侦探一样,她带着读者空降到一个奇妙的艺术世界之中,让我们了解艺术世界运作核心中的灵魂与各种细节。
──艾伦·延托布(Alan Yentob),BBC创意总监
全程亲临现场、亲眼所见的描述让人读之有味,在桑顿一双巧手之下,艺术世界精致诱人的亚文化在我们面前展现开来。她引人入胜、智慧与鲜活的叙述,让我们了解当代艺术是如何扮演大众娱乐的新角色。
──巴诺书店(Barnes &Noble)
桑顿抓住了贯穿艺术世界殿堂的本质、魅力、复杂与矛盾,让局外人着迷不已。
──克里斯·米绍德(Chris Michaud),路透社
高明而引人入胜,透过圈内人的眼光来看今天的艺术世界。一本必读的好书。
──安娜琳·斯旺(Annalyn Swan),普利策奖得主
让人忍不住想一页接一页地看。我担心这本书揭开了太多的神秘面纱,下一代的艺术家突然之间会面对信息爆炸。
──格雷森·佩里(Grayson Perry),英国艺术家
如果艺术世界总是像一扇大门深锁的谜团,那么本书便是打开这个谜团的钥匙。桑顿的书到处都是各种问题的答案。谁会花一千三百万美元购买一件艺术品?谁在负责拍卖工作?艺术批评的重要性何在?艺术家如何去缔造成功?
──《悉尼晨锋报》(Sydney Morning Herald)
Five Days at Memorial 豆瓣
作者: Sheri Fink Crown Publishing Group (NY) 2013 - 9
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice

In the tradition of the best writing on medicine, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos.

After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths.
Five Days at Memorial , the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing.
In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your understanding of human nature in crisis.
Engineering Culture 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Kunda, Gideon Temple University Press 2006 - 9 其它标题: Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation
"Engineering Culture" is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book - which has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Hebrew - has been revised to bring it up to date. In "Engineering Culture", Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated "corporate culture." Kunda uses detailed descriptions of everyday interactions and rituals in which the culture is brought to life, excerpts from in-depth interviews and a wide variety of corporate texts to vividly portray managerial attempts to design and impose the culture and the ways in which it is experienced by members of the organization.The company's management, Kunda reveals, uses a variety of methods to promulgate what it claims is a non-authoritarian, informal, and flexible work environment that enhances and rewards individual commitment, initiative, and creativity while promoting personal growth. The author demonstrates, however, that these pervasive efforts mask an elaborate and subtle form of normative control in which the members' minds and hearts become the target of corporate influence. Kunda carefully dissects the impact this form of control has on employees' work behavior and on their sense of self. In the conclusion written especially for this edition, Kunda reviews the company's fortunes in the years that followed publication of the first edition, reevaluates the arguments in the book, and explores the relevance of corporate culture and its management today.
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normative control的三条路径。管理层布道,仪式性的presentation促成员工间比如监督控制,和难以弥合的自我和企业之间的冲突。
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