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Deflationary tactics with the archive of life: contemporary Jewish art and popular culture
This paper discusses art works by Suzanne Treister, Deborah Kass and Doug Fishbone. It considers the importance of their work for contemporary Jewish identity within the terms of wider conceptual questions that preoccupy contemporary art. These concerns are challenging the perceived structures of power, the “performance” of subjectivity and the questioning of authenticity. A deflationary aesthetic is central to the critique of these structures of thinking fuelled by an interest in the relationship between Jewish subjectivity and popular culture that underpins all of these art works. I argue that popular culture plays a key role as a constituting factor in the production of contemporary Anglophone subjectivity. I use the case studies to develop the argument in the three artists’ specificities and the way they all question the idea of authenticity as a stable source of self-understanding. Suzanne Treister questions history and our relationship with historical events, specifically the Holocaust. She also explores questions of the relationship between structures of power and narratives of history. Debora Kass considers the representation of Jewish women, power and iconicity. Doug Fishbone, a younger artist, takes on self-hate as a transformative tool and as a motif that destabilizes Jewishness as a category, especially in an age of the accelerated post-internet-derived subjectivity
Vacuum Contributions in a Chiral Effective Lagrangian for Nuclei
A relativistic hadronic model for nuclear matter and finite nuclei, which
incorporates nonlinear chiral symmetry and broken scale invariance, is
presented and applied at the one-baryon-loop level to finite nuclei. The model
contains an effective light scalar field that is responsible for the mid-range
nucleon--nucleon attraction and which has anomalous scaling behavior. One-loop
vacuum contributions in this background scalar field at finite density are
constrained by low-energy theorems that reflect the broken scale invariance of
quantum chromodynamics. A mean-field energy functional for nuclear matter and
nuclei is derived that contains small powers of the fields and their
derivatives, and the validity of this truncation is discussed. Good fits to the
bulk properties of finite nuclei and single-particle spectra are obtained.Comment: 24 pages, RevTex, 5 figures, uuencoded compressed postscrip