Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction (Ian Parker, 2004)

accessible via scribd

Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology (Michael Harris Bond, 2010)

ttp://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199541850.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199541850

Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong: The Absent, the Present, and the Reinvented (Diego Busiol, Oct 14, 2016)

Busiol, D. (2015). Factors Affecting the Understanding and use of Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong, 
Mainland China, and Taiwan. J. Amer. Psychoanalytic Association, 63:411-435

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYES0dJNllaMlhfYlE/view?usp=sharing

Google play 2017-5-15

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies (Sep 2011)

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies

Special Issue: Psychoanalysis in China

September 2011

Volume 8, Issue 3

Pages i–ii, 191–281

Issue edited by: David E. Scharff

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aps.v8.3/issuetoc (accessible via pep-web too)

An uneasy dwelling (Paul Gordon, 2010)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYEOEhPTC04MG1oRm8/view?usp=sharing (abebook, 2016-11-3)

Megacity

A  megacity is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million people. A megacity can be a single metropolitan area or two or more metropolitan areas that converge. The terms conurbation, metropolis, and metroplex are also applied to the latter.

As of 2015, there are 35 megacities in existence.

The largest of these are the metropolitan areas of Tokyo and Shanghai, each of these having a population of over 30 million inhabitants, with 38.8 million and 35.5 million respectively. 

The UN predicts there will be 41 megacities by 2030. (wikipedia, 2016-10-2)


Since the mid-twentieth century human action has become the most important factor governing crucial biogeochemical cycles, to wit, the carbon cycle, the sulfur cycle, and the nitrogen cycle.

Only one in twelve persons now alive can remember anything before 1945.

Both these twin surges, of energy use and population growth, started in the 18th century and continue today. 

Before 1800 only a very small number of cities had ever approached a million inhabitants.

There were some basic reasons why there were few large cities, and few cities at all, for that matter, before the modern period.

                    They were like big carnivores in the ecosystem: they drew their sustenance 

                    from over a large space and therefore could only be few in number. 

In 2008 demographers at the UN announced that >50% of humans were living in cities.

                   29% in 1950 (730 million people)
                   slightly more than half in 2015 (roughly 3.7 billion people)

                   This is one of the signal characteristics of the Anthropocene: the majority of 
                   humankind are now living within environments of its own creation. 
                   
                  Our species has become, in effect, an urban animal. 

The world today has 500 cities of populations of at least one million people, 74 with at least 5 million, and 12 with at least 20 million. (The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945, by J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, 2014, preface & Chap 3)

Ice Age

Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in both northern and southern hemispheres.

By this definition, we are in an interglacial period—the Holocene—of the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist. (wikipedia)

秋陽下的山丘

青不是黃
今天不去萬芳醫院
等Network Medicine
四十年混沌
以地質學史觀思考人
尤其holocene和anthropocene
楊繼平火氣很大
文革的問題
不是跨代創傷
是跨代無語失憶
是被遺忘
根本不知曾發生甚麼
那段歷史根本不存在
接下來十月無歇

Neanderthals and Denisovans

Archaic humans

A number of varieties of Homo are grouped into the broad category of archaic humans in the period beginning 500,000 years ago (or 500ka). It typically includes Homo neanderthalensis (40ka-600ka), Homo rhodesiensis(125ka-300ka), Homo heidelbergensis (200ka-600ka), and may also include Homo antecessor (800ka-1200ka). 

This category is contrasted with anatomically modern humans, which include Homo sapiens sapiens and the subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu.

Modern humans are theorized to have evolved from archaic humans, who in turn evolved from Homo erectus. Varieties of archaic humans are sometimes included under the binomial name "Homo sapiens" (Latin: "wise man") because their brain size is very similar to that of modern humans. Archaic humans had a brain size averaging 1200 to 1400 cubic centimeters, which overlaps with the range of modern humans. 

Archaics are distinguished from anatomically modern humans by having a thick skull, prominent supraorbital ridges (brow ridges) and the lack of a prominent chin.

According to recent genetic studies, modern humans may have bred with "at least two groups" of ancient humans: Neanderthals and Denisovans. (wikipedia)

Neanderthals or Neandertals (named for the Neandertal in Germany) were a species or subspecies of archaic human, in the genus Homo, which became extinct around 40,000 years ago. They were closely related to modern humans, sharing 99.7% of DNA.

Their average cranial capacity of 1600 cm³ was notably larger than the 1250 – 1400 cm³ average for modern humans. Males stood 164–168 cm (65–66 in) and females 152–156 cm (60–61 in) tall. 

now, 我說過我是尼安德塔人

In December 2013, researchers reported evidence that Neanderthals practiced burial behavior and intentionally buried their dead. In addition, scientists reported having sequenced the entire genome of a Neanderthal for the first time. The genome was extracted from the toe bone of a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal found in a Siberian cave. (wikipedia)

Rise of Homo sapiens

As modern humans spread out from Africa they encountered other hominids such as Homo neanderthalensis and the so-called Denisovans (丹尼索瓦人). 

The nature of interaction between early humans and these sister species has been a long-standing source of controversy, the question being whether humans replaced these earlier species or whether they were in fact similar enough to interbreed, in which case these earlier populations may have contributed genetic material to modern humans. Recent studies of the human and Neanderthal genomes suggest gene flow between archaic Homo sapiens and Neanderthals and Denisovans. 

In March 2016, studies were published that suggest that modern humans bred with hominins, including Denisovans and Neanderthals, on multiple occasions.

This dispersal out of Africa is estimated to have begun about 70,000 years BP from Northeast Africa. Current evidence suggests that there was only one such dispersal and that it only involved a few hundred individuals. 

The vast majority of humans stayed in Africa and adapted to a diverse array of environments. Modern humans subsequently spread globally, replacing earlier hominins (either through competition or hybridization). They inhabited Eurasia and Oceania by 40,000 years BP, and the Americas at least 14,500 years BP. (wikipedia)

http://m.cn.nytimes.com/science/20160318/tc18zimmer/zh-hant/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoXwQ_H3bRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OVRLKI0MK4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTe6vEyhULI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7VdRKQuAa8

Pleistocene megafauna (更新世巨型動物群) 懷念那些大貓大蟲

The Quaternary Period is divided into two epochs: the Pleistocene (2.588 million years ago to 11.7 thousand years ago) and the Holocene (11.7 thousand years ago to today). (wikipedia)

Pleistocene megafauna is the set of large animals that lived on Earth during the Pleistocene epoch and became extinct during the Quaternary extinction event. Megafauna is a term used to describe an animal with an adult body weight of over 44 kg. (wikipedia)

The Quaternary period saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly larger, especially megafaunal, species, many of which occurred during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene (全新世) epoch. (wkipedia)

古神話會不會源自人類對這些大蟲的懼怖和敬畏?

While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialization started in the earnest only in the 1800s. (http://www.universetoday.com/38125/how-long-have-humans-been-on-earth/)

GG歌唱得很動聽落腳就是回不了家的意思

我用去整夜的時間要分辨在你我之間到底誰會愛誰多一點你說你想要逃偏偏注定要落腳 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PxcKc6E2CM (40:25  41:49)

Psychoanalytic Geographies (ed. by Paul Kingsbury, et al., 2014)

Psychoanalytic Geographies is a unique, path-breaking volume and a core text for anyone seeking to grasp how psychoanalysis helps us understand fundamental geographical questions, and how geographical understandings can offer new ways of thinking psychoanalytically. Elaborating on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches that embrace geographical imaginations and a commitment toward spatial thinking, this book demonstrates the breadth, depth, and vitality of cutting edge work in psychoanalytic geographies and presents readers with as wide a set of options as possible for taking psychoanalysis forward in their own work. It covers a wide range of themes and perspectives in terms of theoretical approaches such as Freudian, Lacanian, Kristevan, and Irigarayian; conceptual issues such as space, power, identity, culture, political economy, colonialism, ethics, and aesthetics; disciplinary insights including Geography, English, Sexuality Studies, and History of Science; as well as empirical contexts such as the reception of psychoanalysis in early twentieth century England, psychoanalytic geographies of violence and creativity in a small Mexican city, visual cultures of second-generation Iranian artists living in Los Angeles, and the hysterical underpinnings of climate change scepticism. (amazon)

我先前說過地理決定人

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYEZVdIU3NPa3V3TkU/view?usp=sharing

High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy00Uot2OHc  (畫質不好   當成藍調   用聽的)

Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis (A Critical Theory Institute Book) (ed. by Gabriele Schwab, 2007)

accessbile via FJU

The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony (ed. by Jerry Zaslove, Bill Jeffries, 2011)

緩慢南行

老古說生在anthropocene

文西說死在anthropocene

老古說死前再去墾丁

文西說看一眼蔚藍海洋

老古說郭清華把女人打瞎

文西說他說這不是暴力

老古說這是苦練神功

文西說小魚在安平客廳游來游去

老古說賴清德治水有功逢雨必淹積水不退

文西說蔡英文隨口答應使喚國軍

老古說少年仔免費幫果農架鳥網

文西說這不只是糟蹋軍人

老古說這是無情無義糟蹋軍人

文西說民進黨的官肚子鼓鼓油油

老古說大家對伙食都很滿意

文西說attachment變本加厲

老古說應與數千年農業社會有關

文西說遊牧養兒似養畜牲

老古說工業乃至後工業社會

文西說養兒累贅似換紙內褲

老古說誰還跟誰attach甚麼鳥
文西說南行其實
老古說不是要去南方

The Anthropocene Crisis (John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review, Sep 2016, Volume 68, Issue 04)

http://monthlyreview.org/2016/09/01/the-anthropocene-crisis/ (accessible via questia too)

This article is adapted from the foreword to Ian Angus,Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System(Monthly Review Press, 2016).

The Anthropocene, viewed as a new geological epoch displacing the Holocene epoch of the last 10,000 to 12,000 years, represents what has been called an “anthropogenic rift” in the history of the planet.2 Formally introduced into the contemporary scientific and environmental discussion by climatologist Paul Crutzen in 2000, it stands for the notion that human beings have become the primary emergent geological force affecting the future of the Earth system. Although often traced to the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth century, the Anthropocene is probably best seen as arising in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Recent scientific evidence suggests that the period from around 1950 on exhibits a major spike, marking a Great Acceleration in human impacts on the environment, with the most dramatic stratigraphic trace of the anthropogenic rift to be found in fallout radionuclides from nuclear weapons testing.3

Viewed in this way, the Anthropocene can be seen as corresponding roughly to the rise of the modern environmental movement, which had its beginnings in the protests led by scientists against above-ground nuclear testing after the Second World War, and was to emerge as a wider movement following the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962. Carson’s book was soon followed in the 1960s by the very first warnings, by Soviet and U.S. scientists, of accelerated and irreversible global warming.4 It is this dialectical interrelation between the acceleration into the Anthropocene and the acceleration of a radical environmentalist imperative in response that constitutes the central theme of Ian Angus’s marvelous new book. It is his ability to give us insights into the Anthropocene as a new emergent level of society-nature interaction brought on by historical change—and how the new ecological imperatives it generates have become the central question confronting us in the twenty-first century—that makes Facing the Anthropocene so indispensable. (ibid)

“Nature, the nature that preceded human history,” Karl Marx and Frederick Engels remarked as early as 1845, “no longer exists anywhere (except perhaps on a few Australian coral islands of recent origin).”6 Similar views were presented by George Perkins Marsh, in Man and Naturein 1864, two years before Ernst Haeckel coined the word ecology, and three years before Marx published the first volume of Capital, with its warning of the metabolic rift in the human relation to the earth.7 (ibid)

It is capitalism and the alienated global environment it has produced that constitutes our “burning house” today. Mainstream environmentalists, faced with this monstrous dilemma, have generally chosen to do little more than contemplate it, watching and making minor adjustments to their interior surroundings while flames lick the roof and the entire structure threatens to collapse around them. The point, rather, is to change it, to rebuild the house of civilization under different architectural principles, creating a more sustainable metabolism of humanity and the earth. The name of the movement to achieve this, rising out of the socialist and radical environmental movements, is ecosocialism, and Facing the Anthropocene is its most up-to-date and eloquent manifesto. (ibid)

Jerry Zaslove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rveY4A7Y4

Anarcho-Modernism: Toward a New Critical Theory in Honour of Jerry Zaslove, ed. by Ian Angus, Talonbooks, 2001 (accessible via scribd) (this Ian is a philosopher, not that Ian who talks about anthropocene)

... for the reconstruction of a critical theory adequate for our own time.  (ibid, p. 16)

Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Ian Angus, July 1, 2016)