The role of the entrepreneurial encounter in the emergence of opportunities: Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to explore the conceptual potential of the Deleuzian notion of the encounter in order to better understand the genealogy of opportunities. We adopt a processual perspective of opportunities. In order to translate this notion to the domain of entrepreneurship, we analysed and interpreted Jean-Marc Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club. This film follows the creation of the first club in the United States that illegally allowed HIV-positive people to supply themselves with foreign antiretroviral drugs from Mexico or Japan. The article highlights encounters in this process that disturb the entrepreneur’s belief systems and allow him or her to be open to potential opportunity. It finally explores how the encounter may improve our understanding of the political becoming of opportunities within the entrepreneurial process.     

哲理小说与哲学小说

哲理小说创作的特点是 :作家调动小说的一切要素 ,都是为了使小说人物完成对人生的深层哲理感悟 ;而哲学小说与哲理小说不同 ,作家调动小说的一切要素 ,完全是为了让人物来传达一种全新的哲学观念     

Creating narrative scenarios: Science fiction prototyping at Emerge

Scenarios are stories. In the diverse field of scenario planning, this is perhaps the single point of universal agreement. Yet if scenarios are stories, their literary qualities are often underdeveloped. Scenarios used in business and government frequently do not contain a relatable protagonist, move a plot toward resolution, or compellingly use metaphor, imagery, or other emotionally persuasive techniques of literature. In these cases, narrative is relegated to an adjunct role of summarizing the final results of the workshop. While this neglect of narrative may be reasonable in some contexts, the power of narrative should not be underestimated. Scenario planning methodologies can benefit from using diverse narrative techniques to craft compelling and infectious visions of the future. This article explores the relationship between science fiction and scenarios as story genres and investigates a creative story-telling technique, “Science Fiction Prototyping” (Johnson, 2011). While the method is promising, it is an ultimately problematic means to incorporating narrative into scenario planning.     

商界小说研究的力作——评杨虹的《叛逆与超越——近二十年中国商界小说的文化阐释》

《叛逆与超越》对近20年商界小说的成就与局限,从发生学、本体论、谱系学尤其是文化诗学的角度,通过挖掘与梳理大量的史料来透视商界小说的现代性品格。作者跳出传统审美批评的窠臼,立足文化批评,对商界小说进行多维度的研讨与透视,为我们带来了商界小说研究的重大进展。     

The New Narrative: Applying narratology to the shaping of futures outputs

Both scenario development and design practices incorporate elements of storytelling, but this use remains undertheorised. This paper will draw upon literary theory, film theory and science fiction criticism to develop an analytical model of narrative structure and rhetorics which speaks to the concerns of scenario developers and designers when engaged in shaping the final outputs or deliverables of a futures project.After highlighting the differing role of telos in art and futures and defining the metacategory of “narratives of futurity”, this paper then defines the terms “story”, “narrative”, “narrator” and “world” in the literary context. It then shows how those concepts map onto futures practice, before going into detail regarding the variety of narrative strategies available across a range of different forms and media, and the qualitative effects that they can reproduce in audiences. There follows the construction of a 2 × 2 matrix based on the critical concepts of narrative mode and narrative logic, within which narratives of futurity might be usefully catalogued and compared, and from which certain broad conclusions may be reached as regards the relation between choice of medium and rhetorical effect. The implications of this analysis are explored in detail.     

翻译规范论视角的晚清侦探小说翻译

晚清时期,中国出现了侦探小说翻译热潮。意译是晚清小说翻译的时代风尚。这一翻译现象使晚清侦探小说译者经常被指责为对原文不忠和对西方文化缺乏了解。研究晚清侦探小说翻译不可忽视当时社会和文化环境对译者的影响。     

虚拟：文明演化的高级形式

数字化处理技术出现，使虚拟作为一个独立的研究领域引起人们的高度重视。虚拟作为文明演化的高级形式，克服了初级文明形式所固有的局限性，使文明进步获得了质的飞跃和崭新的推动。虚拟的世界使各种现实的想象的要素可以任意组合并得出任意效果。人机虚拟的互动结构对于开发人的潜能，满足人的复杂多样的需求具有巨大的作用。人们应有效地利用虚拟的文明形式达到自己的目的。数字化处理技术可任意分割组合的特点和优点，使它成为文明进步最典型的表达形式，在高新技术领域和经济领域得到广泛应用并取得显著成效。     

商界小说的权力欲望叙事

近20年来,伴随着中国社会文化语境的逐步开放和现代性思潮的日益扩展,欲望叙事获得越来越多的表征空间。基于此,商界小说的权力欲望叙事一方面着力描摹"权力崇拜"世相,展现权力追逐的"夷平性"——就像金钱可以以低俗为标准"夷平"低俗和高贵一样;另一方面敏锐刻画权钱交易带来的人性扭曲与异化,在揭示"官商合谋"的权力腐败的同时,进一步挖掘滋生这种现象的文化土壤,警示真正规范有序的市场经济运行机制构建的艰巨性,凸显出较强的文化批判的力量。     

管道泄漏检测技术应用分析

近年来油气输送管道泄漏事故时有发生，从而造成经济损失和环境污染，因此，对液体输送管道进行检测和定位的研究与实践非常必要。总结了国内外液体输送管道泄漏检测与定位的主要方法，分析了各种方法的原理及优缺点，提出了实际实施过程中应注意的问题及相应对策。     

形式实验主义与主题现实主义——从《金色笔记》试探索小说的形式、内容和功能

在《金色笔记》中,莱辛将各种主题浑然成篇,为读者提供了富有个性的人物素描。作为“营造秩序、提出一种新的人生观”的预言家,她利用小说寓言了两性关系、人类社会的发展、人在未来宇宙空间的位置,并对生活作出哲学性的阐释。她还探求了小说在形式、内容和功能方面发生的变化,锐意改革：展示了以四本笔记,并穿插日记和剪报可以成篇的小说形式,从描述婚外恋的角度对小说内容进行革命。作者在笔记中也触及了社会现实,挖掘人的商业化态度,揭示了感情和财产、金钱和权力之间的关系,并运用象征,揭示了人性关系之本是彼此相依、驱散孤独,两性关系尤为如此。