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发表于2024-12-24
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Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokémon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum and E.T.—all reflect its gathering power. But what does “cute” mean, as a sensibility and style? Why is it so pervasive? Is it all infantile fluff, or is there something more uncanny and even menacing going on—in a lighthearted way? In The Power of Cute, Simon May provides nuanced and surprising answers.
We usually see the cute as merely diminutive, harmless, and helpless. May challenges this prevailing perspective, investigating everything from Mickey Mouse to Kim Jong-il to argue that cuteness is not restricted to such sweet qualities but also beguiles us by transforming or distorting them into something of playfully indeterminate power, gender, age, morality, and even species. May grapples with cuteness’s dark and unpindownable side—unnerving, artful, knowing, apprehensive—elements that have fascinated since ancient times through mythical figures, especially hybrids like the hermaphrodite and the sphinx. He argues that cuteness is an addictive antidote to today’s pressured expectations of knowing our purpose, being in charge, and appearing predictable, transparent, and sincere. Instead, it frivolously expresses the uncertainty that these norms deny: the ineliminable uncertainty of who we are; of how much we can control and know; of who, in our relations with others, really has power; indeed, of the very value and purpose of power.
The Power of Cute delves into a phenomenon that speaks with strange force to our age.
Simon May is visiting professor of philosophy at King’s College London. His books include Love: A History, Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion, a collection of his own aphorisms entitled Thinking Aloud, and Nietzsche’s Ethics and His War on “Morality.” His work has been translated into ten languages.
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評分寫得挺糟糕的。主要是說可愛的流行不是因為它無害,而是因為它相對於權力結構的模棱兩可性,它在權力結構中無法被準確定位。可愛作為一種現象被本質化瞭,對我這種感興趣其工具屬性的人而言不對胃口。而且這種模棱兩可性實際上是可以分解的,可愛在什麼時候是權力,什麼時候是無權力,其實是可以很清楚具體的。事例分析很差,漏洞很多,比如本書說日本的卡哇伊文化是戰後創傷,但實際上日本在二戰宣傳影片中就已經很可愛瞭,那些影片裏權力結構可是清清楚楚的。
作为当代现象的可爱并非简单的纯良(sweet)而是带有怪怖(uncanny)的成分——是一种无助同时自洽、脆弱同时坚韧的存在。因而可爱者在权力关系中也并非如我们想当然的那样必然处于受控的、无力的、弱势的一端,而是更类似于一种动物露出肚皮的装死行为,一种策略性的示弱——...
評分作为当代现象的可爱并非简单的纯良(sweet)而是带有怪怖(uncanny)的成分——是一种无助同时自洽、脆弱同时坚韧的存在。因而可爱者在权力关系中也并非如我们想当然的那样必然处于受控的、无力的、弱势的一端,而是更类似于一种动物露出肚皮的装死行为,一种策略性的示弱——...
評分作为当代现象的可爱并非简单的纯良(sweet)而是带有怪怖(uncanny)的成分——是一种无助同时自洽、脆弱同时坚韧的存在。因而可爱者在权力关系中也并非如我们想当然的那样必然处于受控的、无力的、弱势的一端,而是更类似于一种动物露出肚皮的装死行为,一种策略性的示弱——...
評分作为当代现象的可爱并非简单的纯良(sweet)而是带有怪怖(uncanny)的成分——是一种无助同时自洽、脆弱同时坚韧的存在。因而可爱者在权力关系中也并非如我们想当然的那样必然处于受控的、无力的、弱势的一端,而是更类似于一种动物露出肚皮的装死行为,一种策略性的示弱——...
評分作为当代现象的可爱并非简单的纯良(sweet)而是带有怪怖(uncanny)的成分——是一种无助同时自洽、脆弱同时坚韧的存在。因而可爱者在权力关系中也并非如我们想当然的那样必然处于受控的、无力的、弱势的一端,而是更类似于一种动物露出肚皮的装死行为,一种策略性的示弱——...
The Power of Cute pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024