Resuscitating Embodied Presence in Healthcare: The Encounter with le Visage in Levinas

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Michael C. Brannigan
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Presence

Vegan attendance: reading Gibbons’s animals

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-394
Author(s):  
Emelia Quinn
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Aesthetic Pleasure ◽  
Simone Weil ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One ◽  
Embodied Presence

When we encounter the work of Grinling Gibbons, we find ourselves in the presence of multiple non-human animals. However, it is unclear how one should address these presences. On the one hand, for ecofeminist scholars such as Josephine Donovan, the aestheticization of animal death is to be vehemently resisted and the embodied presence of animals recovered by looking beyond the surface: a mode of looking that Donovan terms ‘attentive love’. On the other hand, a re-reading of the philosophical ideas of Simone Weil, upon which Donovan premises her argument, suggests that attention to others requires a mode of radical detachment. These two positions speak in important ways to the dilemmas faced by a vegan spectator. Drawing on Jason Edwards’s previous work on ‘the vegan viewer’, this article seeks to reconcile a vegan resistance to Gibbons’s depictions of animal death, in their spontaneous falling under human dominion, with the aesthetic pleasure generated by Gibbons’s craftmanship. I therefore propose ‘vegan camp’ as a means of reconciling oneself to insufficiency and complicity in systems of violence without renouncing pleasure. Vegan camp is detailed as an aesthetics that acknowledges the violence of humanity and one’s inescapable place within it, dissolving the subjective idea of the beautiful vegan soul to pay attention to the pervasive presence of an anthropocentrism that, in the case of Gibbons, decoratively adorns the sites at which animals might be eaten, worn, or offered up for sacrifice.

Embodied presence

2017 ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Caroline Brazier
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Presence

scholarly journals A comparison of visual and audio scaffolds in L2 English reading

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Stephens ◽  
Meagan Renee Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Repeated Reading ◽  
Reading Aloud ◽  
English Classes ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Japanese Learners ◽  
Embodied Presence

This is a study of Japanese learners’ perspectives on visual and audio scaffolds in the teaching of second language English reading. We compare the approaches of ER, according to Day & Bamford’s (1998) ten principles (outlined below) in class, and Assisted Repeated Reading (ARR) of a work of fiction to a class. ARR refers to the reading aloud of a text multiple times to students as they follow along silently (see Taguchi & Gorsuch, 2002). Two classes of students in required English classes undertook both ER and ARR. Both the ER and ARR enhanced the students’ comprehension of the texts; in the case of ER, most students chose picture books, which aided their comprehension. In the case of ARR, the embodied presence of the reader, and the modeling of prosody facilitated comprehension.

The Generative Politics of Presentism in Post-15M Spain

boundary 2 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-190
Author(s):  
Katryn Evinson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Party ◽  
National Election ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Parliamentary Politics ◽  
Dignified Life ◽  
Embodied Presence

This essay revises post-15M movement political party landscape, emphasizing the intentional yet unusual use of the present within the New Left's organizing grammar. Against sectors of the traditional Left, who see presentism as a product of neoliberalism, I claim that in the post-15M conjuncture, the present constituted a battleground in the struggle for a dignified life. First, I focus on the Catalan left-wing nationalist party CUP's use of anarchist symbols to suggest that references to sabotage were deployed to disrupt parliamentary politics, forcing constant interruption. Second, I analyze Podemos founding member Iñigo Errejón's speech after the party's 2016 national election defeat, where his rhetoric linked the temporality of the present with anti-austerity protestors’ embodied presence. Last, I read the rise of neomunicipalisms as another iteration of presentism, aiming to politicize everyday life. To conclude, I advance that such material practices of “generative presentism” problematize presentism's assumed depoliticizing nature.

Orgasms and Oppositions: Dani Ploeger's ELECTRODE

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-163
Author(s):  
Alissa Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Muscle Contraction ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Male Subject ◽  
Sound Synthesis ◽  
Sphincter Muscle ◽  
Contraction Pattern ◽  
Digital Sound ◽  
Embodied Presence

In his performance installation, ELECTRODE (2011), Dani Ploeger repeatedly “fakes” orgasms. Using medical devices, digital sound synthesis, and graphs, Ploeger rigorously and specifically labors to replicate the sphincter muscle contraction pattern registered by an anonymous male subject during masturbation and orgasm. In so doing, Ploeger critically explores gender and abjection and creates a heightened, embodied presence.

scholarly journals Evoking Embodied Presence: These Things, Songwriting, Filmmaking, and Borrowing a Performative Trick From Bob Dylan

2020 ◽  
pp. 194084472097875
Author(s):  
Kitrina Douglas ◽  
David Carless
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Special Interest Group ◽  
Bob Dylan ◽  
Embodied Presence

Our performative contribution to the 2019 Special Interest Group in autoethnography provided an opportunity to consider the materiality of absence and presence. Using the film These Things and the research-inspired song that underpins the film, we explore how a 5-min multimedia performative act opened possibilities for solidarity and resistance, offering ways to include the absent other.

scholarly journals The Psychoanalytic Method of George Atwood

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Smolenski
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Psychological Disorders ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Psychoanalytic Method ◽  
Embodied Presence

In what *technê*, and what *habitus*, must a psychoanalytic practitioner beskilled in order to facilitate the healing of patients? To answer thisquestion, this paper takes as its case study the clinical practice ofGeorge Atwood, the phenomenological psychoanalyst whose book, *The Abyss ofMadness*, describes his work with patients embroiled in struggles with themost serious psychological disorders. Atwood’s method is fundamentallyemancipatory in that it seeks to help the patient liberate himself frompsychological bondage to and enmeshment within the traumatic experiencesand oppressive social bonds that have shaped his excruciating experientialworld. The path toward this emancipation can only be based in truth, and assuch, Atwood’s method is predicated on the continual exercise of courage inservice of “the inner truth of a life." The dedication to practice suchcourage through the often-overwhelming encounter with the “blood” that,according to Atwood, characterizes every healing analysis is born of whatcan only be called deep love. In this context, love names a set of profoundinner resources the therapist brings to his own comportment and conduct,and by extension and implication the overall trajectory of the patient’slife. This paper explores several specific analytic practices through whichthe love of the analyst meets and is co-translated into the subjectiveexperience of the patient, enabling him through embodied presence, example,and guidance to re-structure the world of his experience in ways that aremore open, more life-giving, and ultimately more loving to self and other.

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