Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Denisoff
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Michael Field ◽  
British Art ◽  
Vernon Lee ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Ecological Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Relationship Of

Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the environment, queer and feminist politics, national identities, and changing social hierarchies. Combining scholarship in the environmental humanities with aesthetic and literary theory, this interdisciplinary study digs into works by Simeon Solomon, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Arthur Machen and others to address trans-temporal, trans-species intimacy; the vagabondage of place; the erotics of decomposition; occult ecology; decadent feminism; and neo-paganism. Decadent Ecology reveals the mutually influential relationship of art and science during the formulation of modern ecological, environmental, evolutionary and trans-national discourses, while also highlighting the dissident dynamism of new and recuperative pagan spiritualities - primarily Celtic, Nordic-Germanic, Greco-Roman and Egyptian - in the framing of personal, social and national identities.

Figurines

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Material Concept ◽  
As If

This book concerns figurines from cultures that have no direct links with each other. It explores the category of the figurine as a key material concept in the art history of antiquity through comparative juxtaposition of papers drawn from Chinese, pre-Columbian, and Greco-Roman culture. It extends the study of figurines beyond prehistory into ancient art-historical contexts. At stake are issues of figuration and anthropomorphism, miniaturization and portability, one-off production and replication, substitution and scale. Crucially, figurines are objects of handling by their users as well as their makers—so that, as touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a neatly framed pictorial narrative, as if from the outside, the viewer as handler is always potentially and without protection within the narrative of figurines. This is why they have had potential for a potent, even animated, agency in relation to those who use them.

scholarly journals Michael Field

Le Simplegadi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 80-91
Author(s):  
Carla Tempestoso
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Michael Field ◽  
Verbal Representation ◽  
Sister Arts ◽  
Poetic Texts

The allure of the connection between literature, journey and the sister arts interlaces with the endeavours of human beings and with the act of writing about it, of transforming it into a story and sharing it with others (Pantini 1999). The poems included in the collection Sight and Song (1892) by Michael Field, male pseudonym of authoresses Katherine Harris Bradley and her niece Edith Emma Cooper, not only manage to celebrate the affiliation between literature and the figurative arts, but they also become a verbal representation of the visual art, namely of that ékphrasis deemed to be as an exchange between visual and textual cultures. In this analysis, the revolutionary ekphrastic inspiration of the two authoresses will validate the possibility of observing art and reality in a different way and translating it into poetic texts so as to allow the rise of that political capability of subverting Victorian identities and social hierarchies.

The Experience of Form (Bewilderment at the Vatican in George Eliot and Vernon Lee)

2020 ◽  
pp. 203-221
Author(s):  
Jonah Siegel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Vernon Lee ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The consolidation of the fields of art history and archeology in the nineteenth century was characterized by a number of fundamental revisions that were bound to track unevenly with developments in taste. Shifts in aesthetic values and in the history of art itself presented unavoidable challenges to the status of major collections. And yet, some collections were so esteemed that it was difficult for public interest in them to shift along with the vicissitudes of advanced taste. This chapter analyzes the place of the Vatican museum in two distinct but characteristic works of the later part of the nineteenth century in which the intersection of the history of taste and individual aesthetic response is made a matter of deep affective significance: Vernon Lee’s essay, “The Child in the Vatican” and George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Whether the experience of the sculpture collection at the Vatican becomes an occasion to represent an unresolvable emotional crisis framed around a formal issue, or an opportunity to address a formal issue given force by its manifestation as a profound emotional turning point, both texts register fundamental shifts in taste that were bound to affect the objects around which that taste had developed. By registering the limits of powerful concepts that had attempted to establish the relationship of subjects to admired objects, George Eliot and Vernon Lee reveal the emotional determinants and uncertainties accompanying and helping to shape the emergence of formal concerns out of material concepts.

Conditional support for territorial migrations in Serbian national discourse

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
The Eu

Abstract After more than a decade of Serbia’s investment in the EU integration, its citizens are still imagining their national identities from the externally assigned position of ‘flawed’ Europeans. To respond to this subject position in the context of ongoing migration trends in Europe, these individuals engage in identity politics that both celebrate elements of otherness, and also locate them in the country’s own internal and Eastern Others. This study uses critical discourse analysis to examine the ideological effects of these negotiations in response to the 2010/2011 asylum-seeking crisis, when a number of Serbian citizens applied for asylum in several EU countries, which defined this as an abuse of Schengen system. The analysis of more than 1,000 online comments shows that newsreaders offer conditional support for asylum seekers to (re)inscribe preferred social hierarchies. Represented simultaneously as suffering citizens and immoral internal other, asylum seekers serve as the strategic means by which ethnic discrimination becomes an invisible element of everyday nationalism.

Attachment and politics are two functionally distinct systems, and both share genetics with interpersonal trust and altruism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Haarklau Kleppestø ◽  
Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski ◽  
Olav Vassend ◽  
Espen Røysamb ◽  
Nikolai Haahjem Eftedal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Genetic Overlap ◽  
Genetic Linkages ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The evolved attachment system maintains proximity and care-giving behavior between parents and offspring, in a way that is argued to shape people’s mental models of how relationships work, resulting in secure, anxious or avoidant interpersonal styles. Several theorists have suggested that the attachment system is closely connected to orientations and behaviors in social and political domains, such that the latter are grounded in the same set of familial experiences as are the different attachment styles. We use a large sample of Norwegian twins (N = 1987) to assess the relationship between attachment styles and two key ideological orientations, right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), and the role of genetic and environmental influences therein. We also consider the relationship of both sets of traits with the interpersonal orientations of trust and altruism. Results indicate no shared environmental overlap between attachment and ideology, nor even between the two attachment styles or between the two ideological traits, challenging conventional wisdom in developmental, social, and political psychology. Rather, evidence supports two functionally distinct systems, one for navigating intimate relationships and one for navigating social hierarchies, with genetic overlap between traits within each system, and two distinct genetic linkages to trust and altruism. We argue for further genetically informed research in other settings to elucidate the etiology and dynamics of these core aspects of our social and political nature.

scholarly journals Jesus and the Paralytics

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-404
Author(s):  
Anthony Giambrone
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
The Common ◽  
Relationship Of

This study explores the Greco-Roman memorialization of healings through material culture as a point of comparison for the Gospels’ miracle traditions.  Special attention is given to the ex-votos left at healing shrines and especially the Iamata inscriptions connected with the Asclepius cult.  This corpus of evidence brings into focus a series of dynamics that help illuminate the stories of Jesus’ two healings of a paralytic (John 5:1-15; Mark 2:1-10).  The comparisons help clarify both the common memorializing supports that informed and sustained the memory of Jesus transmitted in the Gospels, as well as the distinctive relationship of the Christian cult to certain specific places where memories of Jesus where preserved.

scholarly journals A synthesized approach to the study of human problems in Soviet philosophy of the 1980s: historical and philosophical analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Oleg A. Ustinov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Origin Of Man ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article analyzes the attempt to develop a synthesized concept of man, or the «unified science of man», undertaken in the 1980s by a group of Soviet philosophers led by academician I.T. Frolov. The complex interdisciplinary study of the human phenomenon, first presented to the academic community in this period, included not only the traditional synthesis of philosophical data with the data of natural and social sciences but also the experience of co-optation of certain religious philosophy provisions into philosophy. Some scientists put forward a hypothesis about the convergence of science and religion in the future. However, the idea of abandoning a strict materialistic worldview was not accepted by the academic community. The article reconstructs and analyzes the basic provisions of the «unified science of man»: ideas about the anthropological ideal, the origin of man and the correlation of biological and social principles in his nature, the interrelation of freedom and necessity, external and internal freedom, the meaning and purpose of life, the relationship of personality and society. The paper concludes that in the 1980s there was developed a strategy in the USSR for the holistic solution of the philosophical problems of man based on the creative development of classical Marxism, which could subsequently lead to the transition of Russian philosophical anthropology and philosophy in general to a whole new level. Due to external circumstances, this work was actually stopped at the very beginning, and the task declared paramount in terms of scientific and social significance was never solved.

From Romana Gens to cumbiatella: propaganda, migration and identity in Italo-Peruvian mobilities

Modern Italy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-44
Author(s):  
Javier Suárez Trejo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Branding Strategies ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

Branding promotes and sells products and services through the creation of an identity – the brand. What happens when the promoter of a brand is a government? What transformations does a national identity experience when it becomes a brand to export? Is national branding a contemporary form of promoting national identities? To explore these questions, the article focuses on two artefacts that show the propaganda/branding strategies of Italians in Peru and Peruvians in Italy during the twentieth century: the magazine Romana- Gens ne la Terra de ‘Los Incas’ (1934–1941) and the ad-documentary Marca Perú in Loreto, Italy (2012). The analysis of these artefacts shows three dimensions of Italo-Peruvian mobilities. First, the complex negotiations of foreign populations that seek to integrate into their adoptive countries (and/or desired market). Second, the reversal of the direction of migration: Latin America was a point of arrival for the Italian immigrants from the nineteenth century until the 1970s, but during the last decades of the twentieth century, it became a point of departure to Italy, which was seen as a place of economic progress. Finally, the specific politics of affects in the relationship of Italian and Peruvian immigrants with national identities built during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

scholarly journals Forest research at the Turkey Lakes Watershed

1999 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. K. Morrison ◽  
D. A. Cameron ◽  
N. W. Foster ◽  
A. Groot
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Maple ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Precipitation Chemistry ◽  
Forest Growth ◽  
Soil Productivity ◽  
Single Tree Selection ◽  
Turkey Lakes Watershed ◽  
A Site ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Relationship Of

The 10.5 km2 Turkey Lakes Watershed, located on the Precambrian Shield approximately 60 km north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is occupied by a typical Great Lakes-St. Lawrence sugar maple-yellow birch forest. Since late 1979, the watershed has been the site of an interdisciplinary study on impacts of long-range transported air pollutants on the biology of forests, lakes and streams, and the recovery of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in response to reduced pollutant deposition. A knowledge base on forest growth, soils and hydrology, with detailed climate and precipitation chemistry records dating back nearly twenty years has been developed. This history, plus an available infrastructure, makes the watershed an ideal site to study processes across the terrestrial-aquatic interface. A harvesting impacts project, for example, was started in 1997. This project is built around a field experiment comparing clear-felling, shelterwood, and single-tree selection versus uncut control, for appropriateness of application and for impacts on long-term soil productivity, stand function, diversity of plant and animal life, and hydrological and other on- and off-site impacts. The watershed is also a site for the ECOLEAP Project, which is attempting to improve overall understanding of mechanisms controlling forest productivity, and a site to test terrain and climate models to model temperature, moisture, energy and nutrients and the relationship of these to species distribution, abundance and productivity at different scales up to the watershed level. Key words: acid precipitation, air pollution, biogeochemistry, research site, watershed

Virtual Conflicts

2017 ◽  
pp. 162-198
Author(s):  
Laura Hengehold
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

According to Deleuze, philosophical problems persist covertly in the actualization of their solutions. This chapter addresses aspects of Beauvoir’s thought in The Second Sex that remain problematic from a Deleuzian perspective, such as the relationship of reciprocity to equality and hierarchy, the relationship between political violence and the “transcendental” violence provoking thought, and finally, the ontological status of the “event” grounding Beauvoir’s understanding of history in Deleuzian terms. This reading of Beauvoir is distinguished from other feminist engagements with Deleuze and argues that the most important task feminist thinkers face is understanding how representation and singularity or becoming can both be taken into consideration by feminist politics at the level of laws and institutions.

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