Moving Bodily Fantasies: Medical Performances and Modes of Communication

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-88
Author(s):  
Petra Kuppers
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Music Theater ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
Call And Response ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Emergence Of Life

This article investigates the relationship between movement, communication, and medical presentation in three contemporary dance performances. In particular, I wish to present three instances of collaborative work: of work where boundaries between specialists and “lay people,” between different kinds of expertise, and different kinds of knowledges become questioned, dismantled, and (re)erected through performance. My argument hinges on the ongoing creative work involved in the translations between embodiment, phenomenological experience, narratives of self, medical stories, and cultural context. Living as a body in the world means a constant readjustment of these frames, a productive and often painful emergence of life through tensions. What it means to be a (gendered) specialist or a lay person, a patient, or a spectator, emerges in the call-and-response of everyday life, as roles are taken on, re-created, changed, and discarded.A celebrated U.K. dance performance (winner of the Critic's Circle National Dance Award 2004), a U.K. exploratory sci-art experiment by medical experts, writers, and performers, and an Australian music theater piece are at the heart of this analysis: the article explores alignments between semiotic and phenomenological knowledges in these performances. In all of these performances, women are center stage, sometimes as informers, sometimes as playwrights and visual artists, sometimes as main performers.

Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS‐SPSL Collaboration

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Phillips
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Indirect Benefits ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Direct And Indirect Benefits ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter describes the author's contacts with the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) in the 1970s when, as the Secretary of the World University of Students (WUS), he worked closely with Esther Simpson and the SPSL in finding support in the universities for the refugees from Pinochet's Chile. Scholarship and bursary programmes were established for Chilean academics and students, which had many direct and indirect benefits for Chilean and later other refugees coming to the United Kingdom. The relationship that had begun between WUS and SPSL through the links with Esther Simpson and Lord Ashby, then Chairman of SPSL and also Vice-President of WUS, was strengthened through the collaborative work undertaken by the two organizations. Mutual trust and community of purpose led in due course to a compact between the SPSL and WUS, which assured the continuation of the SPSL as an independent body.

Logos and Prosthesis: Bernard Stiegler’s Theory of Tertiary Memory

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-99
Author(s):  
Boris V. Podoroga ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Contemporary Problem ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Destructive Effect ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Destructive Potential

This article discusses the relationship between the concepts of writing and tertiary memory in Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy of technology. It is demonstrated that tertiary memory, being a process of sensuality exteriorization (espacement) that defines the specifics of human existence, is almost identical to Derrida’s writing. Tertiary memory is expressed in everything that falls under the rubric “record”, from the most primitive tools to socio-political institutions and cybernetic technologies. Unlike Derrida, Stiegler believed that tertiary memory is most clearly expressed in material and technical objects. As an example the paper takes Stiegler’s critical analysis of Husserl’s phenomenology and Martin Heidegger’s existential ontology. Stiegler shows that in Husserl’s phenomenology, tertiary memory is represented by tertiary retention (determining a set of symbols, signs and images that implicitly constitute phenomenological experience), while in Heidegger’s philosophy, by the world-historical, determining the objective historical heritage of humankind, without which, as Stiegler demonstrates, there can be no existential experience. Further, the article discusses Stiegler’s thesis about historical and ontological duality of tertiary memory, containing both creative and destructive potential. Referring to Derrida, Stiegler shows that technics should be understood as what Plato called pharmakon, meaning a substance that can be both poison and remedy. This thesis defines the contemporary problem of lacking reflexion of the above-mentioned structural technical duality, which leads to excessive instrumentalization of the technics and its destructive effect on humans, similar to that during the time of Greek sophists.

CONSEQUENCES AND ANTECEDENTS OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY IN A CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXT

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 1650003 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL ROBERT ADAMS ◽  
TESSA CHRISTINA FLATTEN ◽  
HELGE BRINKMANN ◽  
MALTE BRETTEL
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Continuous Innovation ◽  
The World ◽  
Advance Research ◽  
Relevant Topic ◽  
The Relationship

Continuous innovation is one of the key challenges businesses are currently facing, which makes organisational absorptive capacity (ACAP) — a firms ability to explore and exploit external knowledge — a highly relevant topic. This study addresses ACAPs consequences and antecedents in an international context by analysing data from 549 small and medium-sized companies in Austria, Brazil, Germany, India, Singapore, and the US First, we reveal that both potential and realised ACAP have an equally strong positive impact on firm performance around the world. Second, we assess that the relationship between organisational structure and potential ACAP is not moderated by national cultural values. Furthermore, we show that the role a formalised organisational structure plays with regard to realised ACAP is positively moderated by the national cultural characteristic of power distance and negatively by the national cultural trait of masculinity. In contrast, masculinity positively moderates the relationship between specialisation and realised ACAP. Overall, with our study, we advance research on the consequences as well as the antecedents of ACAP and provide managers with mechanisms to support corporate knowledge absorption and innovation generation throughout the world.

scholarly journals Are freedom of religion or belief and security reconcilable?

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
Silvio Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
The World ◽  
Military Security ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents the OSCE / ODIHR document on "Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security", placing it in the broader context of the debate about securitization of religion. The author proposes to consider the document in three stages: 1) to put the document in its context; 2) explain the concept of comprehensive security developed by the OSCE; 3) to suggest several considerations regarding its application to freedom of religion or belief. The political and cultural context is one of the two global processes that today most affect freedom of religion or belief around the world - the nationalization of religion and its securitization. Addressing the potential danger to religion by security, the author criticizes the position of those countries which believe that violence and terrorism, which is becoming more frequent in many parts of the world, is inspired by religious behavior. And so not only in totalitarian or authoritarian states that do not care for human rights, but also in some democratic societies. Understanding the relationship between religious freedom and security, the author proposes to move away from the traditional, state-oriented concept of security, which focuses primarily on the security of states against military aggression, to one focused on the security of people, their protection and empowerment. It is proposed to treat national, state, and military security as tools for personal and public security, which are the basis of today's security concept. The document proposes three guiding principles that provide a sound basis for resolving the conflict between the right to religious freedom and the right to security. 1) the principle of teaching that offers educational programs that promote knowledge of different religions and their social manifestations. But learning to live in a religiously diverse environment is not enough. By itself, it will not create a cohesive and inclusive "common life" so we need 2) the principle of interaction. Without personal involvement in the dialogue, knowledge alone cannot create mutual respect. Training and interaction are needed 3) an enabling environment that can be built through political and legal measures that create confidence and trust through the recognition of rights, including the right to freedom of religion.   Based on these guidelines, the article proposes to address the four cases discussed in the document: conversion, religious extremism, places of worship and meetings, registration of religious organizations. The author analyzes in detail the conversion and registration. Registering a religious or religious organization is far from a technique that only applies to lawyers. This can be a matter of life or death for the whole organization, since simple transactions such as opening a bank account or renting a meeting room are subject to registration. The picture becomes more problematic for so-called "extremist" religious organizations. we need distinc extremism and violent extremism and address security-related measures behaviors rather than thoughts or beliefs. The recommendations are not just for the States. Religious communities, civil society organizations and the media "play an important role in the relationship between freedom of religion or religion and security." They are responsible for creating a cultural and social environment based on responsibility and dedication, the two virtues needed to harmonize freedom and security.  

scholarly journals The History of Special Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 209-227
Author(s):  
Carina Rossa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
History Of Special Education ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Practices of exclusion towards deviance based on prejudices or ideologies have been present in every age and in every cultural context, often taking the stigmatization process. Recently UNESCO in 2015 released its latest report indicating that despite the efforts of governments, civil society and the international communities, the Education for All was not yet a reality in the world. The poor, people with mental or physical disabilities, children with learning disabilities “are not in a position” to grow and develop as the others. In particular as regards students with Special Educational Needs, to still a challenge to find a teaching that is “common denominator” for all students without leaving anyone out is still a “inclusive” rather than a “special” that favours the relationship within whole class and relationships outside it.

scholarly journals Actividad artística y precariedad laboral en España: análisis a partir de un estudio global

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Marta Pérez Ibáñez ◽  
Isidro López-Aparicio
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Current Economic Situation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Professional Artist

Este artículo, fruto de un proyecto de investigación interdisciplinar, pretende contextualizar la actividad profesional de los artistas plásticos y visuales en España, en las actuales circunstancias económicas, sociales y laborales. En primer lugar, ante la compleja problemática sobre la consideración de artista profesional y ante la ausencia de registros y censos específicos que permitan estudiar este sector, delimitamos los criterios que lo definen y la relación entre su identidad, su actividad, su rendimiento económico, y analizamos su conexión con el resto del sistema del arte. Posteriormente, a partir de indicadores económicos y laborales nacionales y europeos, proponemos una primera cuantificación de artistas plásticos y visuales españoles, un dato inexistente y altamente demandado por el sector. Por último, enumeramos algunos de los datos más significativos aportados por esta investigación sobre la situación económica actual del sector, un estudio en el que han participado más de 1.100 artistas españoles, cuyos resultados nos reafirman en nuestra hipótesis sobre la precariedad del trabajo artístico, y en la necesidad de conocer en mayor profundidad las demandas, necesidades y capacidades de los artistas en el actual contexto social, económico y cultural español. This article, the result of an interdisciplinary research project, aims to contextualize the professional activity of visual and visual artists in Spain, in the current economic, social and labor circumstances. In the first place, due to the complex issue regarding the consideration of professional artist and in the absence of specific censuses that allow us to study this sector, we delimit the criteria that define it and the relationship between their identity, activity, economic performance, and connection with the rest of the art system. Next, based on national and European economic and labor indicators, we propose a first quantification of Spanish visual and visual artists, a nonexistent fact and highly demanded by the sector. Finally, we list some of the most significant data provided by this research on the current economic situation of the sector, a study in which more than 1,100 Spanish artists have participated. The results reaffirm our hypothesis about the precariousness of artistic work, and the need to know in greater depth the demands, needs and capacities of artists in the current Spanish social, economic and cultural context.

scholarly journals Pinocchio illustrations in the fascist period: history of implicit propaganda

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Bocchi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Unofficial History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Feeling ◽  
The Relationship

The contribution aims to investigate the influence that the italian Fascist period had on the iconography of images, including the illustrations of Children’s Literature, using the representation of Pinocchio as an emblematic image for this reflection. Often, in fact, we look at the Great History leaving out the unofficial history, that of mass culture, which more than anything else gives us back the common feeling of the society between the World Wars, opening us to the complexity of a period in which the stories of those who lived in it dissolve. The contribution will therefore attempt to historically and socially frame aesthetics in the Fascist Period by retracing the relationship between images and propaganda and analysing, through the social and cultural context, the illustrations of Pinocchio and the educational and iconographic influences exerted on an entire generation of children and young people, adopting Avventure e spedizioni punitive di Pinocchio fascista as a paradigm.

scholarly journals Expansion and Contraction: The Play Spaces of Todd and the Vampire

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Erin Heisel
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The World ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
The Relationship

What happens when the music production processes and spaces of a traditionally live art form such as opera are digitized? What is the relationship between community and isolation for artists when their workspace is lifted from the theatre—with its interpersonal connections—and placed in the virtual world? What opportunities and what risks does this pose for performers? Are there parallels to other art forms that developed or expanded as the result of new media technologies? This article will explore these issues by considering the production processes of the animated YouTube opera/movie Todd and the Vampire, composed and created by Ronen Shai, with contributions by musicians and visual artists working simultaneously, but independently, around the world. How does this piece utilize technology to challenge and transcend traditional notions of space and identity? What are the implications of this somewhat disembodied process for performers, audiences, and for the art form itself?

A Hundred Thousand Lines of Flight: A Machinic Introduction to the Nomad Thought and Scrumpled Geography of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus A Doel
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Continuous Variation ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The World ◽  
Relational Space ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fundamental Shift ◽  
The Way

What is space? What is spacing? And how does spacing itself hold together? The author pursues these questions, which continue to haunt and transfix geographers, by drawing upon the collaborative work of two exemplary thinkers: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. What emerges from such an encounter is a fundamental shift in the way space, place, and spacing are configured; a shift which will have enormous implications for anyone concerned with unfolding the relationship between society and space. Particular emphasis is placed on the radicalization of relations, of the spacing of relations, and of relational space. Such a radicalization effectively deconstructs the field of geography as we know it, and demands that we reconfigure both the world and our theoretical-practices ‘from the middle’. This yields a world of continuous variation, becoming, and chance, rather than one of constancy, being, and predictability; and it is populated solely by hæcceities, singularities, and events, strung together through joints, intervals, and folds. Accordingly, a fractal world of infinite disadjustment, destabilization, and disjointure is what is meant by the term ‘scrumpled geography’, and it constitutes the horizon on which one should situate deconstruction, postmodernism, and poststructuralism more generally. Unfolding the joints, intervals, and folds of such a world is precisely the task undertaken by Deleuze and Guattari. However, the author reworks their own undertaking by giving it a much more explicitly spatial inflexion and consistency. Thus, the paper not only clarifies the scrumpled geography embedded within the work of Deleuze and Guattari, it also demonstrates the revolutionary implications of a rigorously deconstructive and poststructuralist consideration of space, place, and spacing.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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