Memoirs of Anthony H. Su

Dada Received its enigmatic name in February 1916; was a reaction against the brutality of war, the expediency of art and literature and the dangerous inadequacy of rational thought; in fact it spat out its contempt for the spiritual and moral decadence of a whole intellectual, cultural and social system. Born in neutral Zurich in the middle of the anarchic destruction of the Great War, it expressed its disgust with a morally culpable bourgeoisie and a spiritually nerveless art which had no objective beyond a simplistic social photography, a faith in its own function as anodyne and a reprehensible dedication to self-fulfilment. With unabashed relish Dada declared its negative intent: it wished, apparently, to destroy art along with bourgeois society, but in truth it opposed itself to the abuse of art rather than art itself, to society rather than humanity. Its exponents were poets and artists (Marcel Duchamp, Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Richard Huelsenbeck, Man Ray, Max Ernst) wh...

2020-9-13 Sunday, the day before flying back to Taiwan We flew back from Taiwan to stay away from the thread and inconvenience of Corovid-19, on February 19. Quarantined at the home where we have been living for more than 15 years is a piece of cake. Actually ever since returning from Taiwan   2020-9-14 Monday There was a long line waiting for taxi. The policewoman tola me it might take an hour to clear up and I'd better wait inside. After an hour I went out and saw no line and some taxies waiting for riders. Filling out a form and receiving whole body sanitization with both hands raised at shoulder level a regular-sized taxi took me to my new home. The drive, who didn't respond to my friendly chatting, printed out a receipt for me to sign. It shows NT$$1350.00. I gave him $1,500 and told him to keep the changes. He seemed to be surprised. For the first time in life, I explored a new home all by myself. There were several urgent actions awaiting. 1. Make sure the key points we...

9:00 2020/8/29  Taiwanese is the first language I learned naturally at home and at the church building where my family resided. I was not aware of the existence of Mandarin until 7 after I attended grade school. Obviously, I was totally lost the first moment I stepped into the classroom and could not be assigned a seat because I was accepted into the school after the number of enrollment was less than anticipated, in 1952. I was accustomed to the classroom atmosphere in the church Sunday School but not the disciplines and the language used in the public school. Basically, my classmates were in the same situation except I missed the first couple of weeks because I was considered one year younger and not qualified for entering the school that year because my birthdate was more than one month after the standard date for the school year. Fortunately, all the strange language I heard was about the commands for actions and I could comprehend them by simply watching others. Shortly after ...

Sohisam Tony Su  分享了 1 則動態回顧。 3月25日上午8:28  ·  有一天，在台灣神學院的教室裡，突然受到「引思掰餌」講出「三ㄕˋ實習論」，暫時平息一段紛事。 見習跟實習有何異同？ 「見識」實習 - 觀察自己沒有學過、沒有插手過的事情 「嘗試」實習 - 動手操作學過但是缺乏經驗的事情 「服事」實習 - 提供「專長/資歷」服務，換取報償。 2020/8/12 7:34 那次是由薛伯讚牧師已牧育主任身份召開的座談會。他邀請我（以勵馨基金會的身份，因為蛇徐院社工係的學生可能去勵馨實習）去參加。好像是因為社會工作領域對於實習特別用心。（其實我的瞭解是神學院的實習歷史最悠久。只不過在教會裡面沒有聽說有誰認真研究或是討論「實習學」） 學生們對於我的出現好像也沒有特殊的訝異，他們難得有機會暢談教會實習的心得與感想。 超乎我意料的是有不少言論在吐嘈說類似「無償的實習很不合理，是剝削」的言論。我臨時開始想如何回應這樣的討論。至少我不可以選邊站，無論是負荷學生們的主張，或是從「教會接受不需要的人力，提供機會與教導」的立場著墨。 那可以算是一次的「話語臨到」，也就是說在毫無基礎的前提下，突然嘴巴被塞進一些話，...

相信許多人都同意說，「大公司裡應用的都是由高手在執行尖端科技、知識、與創意」。「大公司的老闆一定都很聰明、能幹、有眼光」。 2020/8/13 18:00 謝謝你的分享，讓我對你有了進一步的了解。我記得你是念社會學和社工的，你後來怎麼會在美國的飛機製造公司服務？又是怎麼樣回到台灣在長榮管理學院教電腦通識課的？你要學生期中考後自己讀課本，教學生做研究，學生反應如何？ 社會學跟社會工作的訓練與履歷怎麼會跑到飛機製造公司服務？ 怎麼樣回到台灣在長榮管理學院教電腦通識課的 要學生期中考後自己讀課本，教學生做研究，學生反應如何？ 說來話長，慢慢道來----

2020/06/27 22:09 A second blog series to recall and recommend. This is about the significance of US history to the people around the world. This was inspired by attending the oral defense of Cho-chien Feng yesterday at 2pm through web meeting. Here is his resume as of now .  I knew his dissertation plan for a long time and I had listened to one of his special speeches about some of the content in a special speech gathering of the Taiwanese Association of America in St. Louis last year. I was not inspired of any actions of me until yesterday. It would help me and the author by having a blog series to talk about and learn from that dissertation. This does not mean that I will study that part of history thoroughly or become a historian. I simply think the history of US revolution is a critical step to knowing more about democracy.  Here is a rough list of what has come to my mind, before I dig into his dissertation: Were there immigrants without the heritage of a Britsch or bein...

2020/6/26 13:11 A morning nap took me into a new territory of imagination or in-dream-action. In the dream, I was given instruction from a mentor to look for ideas for interviewing some people for new projects by going through a pile of papers he collected with Samson and Tai. We sat on the floor to flip through all the papers looking for ideas or inspiration. Obviously, we could not find anything, not even a beginning point. I started to think about the method and the preparatory steps that were lacking. I woke up shortly after 12pm and feeling grateful for the dream. It reminds me that I have been living in that dream in the real world of lockdown by the Covid19. Shortly after we started the online worship beginning March 15, 2020, Dr. Yu Hao, a brand new PHD in education and the deacon in charge of worship services, gave me an idea to start a brand new Hymn Briefing half hour before the online worship service starts every Sunday, at 9:30, utilizing my recorded demonstration of the h...