Music Thinking Process: Unfolding the creation of the piece Résonances manifestes

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-291
Author(s):  
Hubert Gendron-Blais

Beyond the social and even the human, sound opens onto the intertwining of movements animating the lived experience. A sonic epistemology considers not only that the acoustic ecologies are enunciative of social relations and power dynamics, but also that they tell about the way reality is lived, experienced, organised: they are expressive, in themselves. This means, for an epistemology of phonosophy, that every perception of a sound implies a conceptual movement, which carries a mental dimension that could become the material for another thinking practice, for a sophia. This article approaches music as thinking in itself: a thought of the sonic. This affirmation will be expanded through the contribution of process philosophy (Whitehead, Deleuze and Guattari, Manning, etc.), which allows a musical event to be considered as an ecology, produced by the encounter of a multiplicity of bodies (human, sonic, technological, etc.). The processes of capture of forces involved and the different techniques required to increase the expressive potentialities of the musical assemblage will be unfolded through the case of Résonances manifestes, a comprovised music piece based on a sound score composed of field recordings from autonomous demonstrations.

Author(s):  
Gregoris Ioannou

Abstract Drawing on a case study of contemporary employment relations in tourism and catering in Greece, this paper seeks to contribute to our empirical understanding of employment law. Which factors determine the ways in which the law is perceived by employers and workers and complied with, breached or avoided? The main argument of the paper is that not only market forces are relevant here; several other factors need to be taken into consideration, which when combined with market forces can re-regulate as well as deregulate the field of employment. These tend to be informal, locally embedded and influenced by wider social relations. By constructing a simple matrix of employment settings based on locale and seasonality on one axis, and size of enterprise and scope of services provided on the other, the paper demonstrates how organisational and spatial parameters and the social environment interact with market forces and legal forces to shape prevailing norms and to influence the behaviour of parties to the contract for work. It further demonstrates that the structuring of the sectoral labour market is a process determined by broader social power dynamics. Beyond serving as part of the context within which contracting for work takes place, legal rules are a resource to be mobilised by both employers and workers.


Author(s):  
Victor D. Thompson ◽  
Jennifer Birch

While the settings for village formation in eastern North America differ widely, the cultural materials that peoples used to craft village communities and the social processes that played out within them were not so different. The power of villages to create new societal forms developed through processes of emplacement, negotiation, cooperation, and competition at multiple social and spatial scales. As such, the way individuals and groups expressed power operated under different societal constraints than under other kinds of social formations. In this chapter, we consider the several key themes that are important to understanding village coalescence and operation, including social relations, cooperation, power dynamics, kinship, hierarchy, and the rise of large and powerful villages, among others. While we have centered this discussion on eastern North America, we have also situated this regional analysis in a global context in order to illustrate how our understanding of village societies in the area contributes to a broader understanding of world archaeology.


Author(s):  
Л. Г. Матвеева

У статті розглядається проблематика наступності права як загальнотеоретичної кате­горії, аналізуються різні позиції щодо сутності наступності права. Виявляються й аналізу­ються фактори, які зумовлюють наступність права. До соціальних факторів наступності в праві слід відносити фактори розвитку суспільства, державну волю. Виділяється такий соціальний і водночас правовий фактор, як традиції правового регулювання, до яких різні автори відносять об'єднання різних цівілізаційних моделей і правової системи. Наступність у праві може виражатися в правових нормах, правових інститутах, право­свідомості, правовій поведінці. Найбільш яскраво наступність права проявляється в коди­фікованих нормативно-правових актах і правових звичаях. Наступність права є важливим механізмом, завдяки якому відбувається оновлення нормативно-правової бази регулювання суспільних відносин, зберігається цінний накопичений і пережитий досвід. Поряд із вивченням наступності права в законодавстві та юридичній практиці також розглядається наступність у юридичній науці. Зроблено висновок, що наступний зв'язок у праві дозволяє виявити співвідношення вибудованої вітчизняної державно-правової систе­ми та конкретних історичних умов її існування.   The article deals with the problems of law succession as a general theoretical category; it is analyzed different points of view concerning the nature ot law succession. It is identified and analyzed the factors that determine the law continuity. The social factors of continuity in the law should include; factors of development of society, a will of state. It is distinguished at the same time a social and legal factors as the tradition of legal regulation to which different authors include unification of different civilizational model and the legal system. Law succession may be expressed in the law and legal institutions, sense of justice, legal behavior. The law succession is manifested most clearly in codified legal acts and legal traditions. The law succession is an important mechanism by which updates the legal framework regulating social relations and saved valuable lessons, a lived experience. Along with the study of law succession in legislation and legal practice, it is considered the continuity in jurisprudence. It is concluded that the successive link in the law ratio reveals the architecture of the domestic state legal system and the specific historical conditions of its existence.


2021 ◽  

In a crucial sense, all machines are time machines. The essays in Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time develop the central concept of hardwired temporalities to consider how technical networks hardwire and rewire patterns of time. Digital media introduce new temporal patterns in their features of instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and continually improved speed. They construct temporal infrastructures that affect the rhythms of lived experience and shape social relations and practices of cooperation. Interdisciplinary in method and international in scope, the volume draws together insights from media and communication studies, cultural studies, and science and technology studies while staging an important encounter between two distinct approaches to the temporal patterning of media infrastructures, a North American strain emphasizing the social and cultural experiences of lived time and a European tradition, prominent especially in Germany, focusing on technological time and time-critical processes.


Author(s):  
Andrew Bickford

This chapter presents a case study regarding East Germany after reunification, and frames it in terms of a larger and interdisciplinary inquiry into what demilitarization is all about. Narrow conceptions of demilitarization that are centered solely on the destruction of weapons fetishize weapons, and these narrow views obscure analysis of the social relations and cultural constructions upon which militarization programs are dependent. Demilitarization implies a reversal of an implicit process or program—an unraveling—of ways of thinking and sensing that made a military solution thinkable and desirable. The chapter also looks at the salient foci of demilitarization at the “micro” level of everyday life and lived experience, and how states attempt to make certain kinds of citizens.


2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 216-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Cook

Abstract. In family systems, it is possible for one to put oneself at risk by eliciting aversive, high-risk behaviors from others ( Cook, Kenny, & Goldstein, 1991 ). Consequently, it is desirable that family assessments should clarify the direction of effects when evaluating family dynamics. In this paper a new method of family assessment will be presented that identifies bidirectional influence processes in family relationships. Based on the Social Relations Model (SRM: Kenny & La Voie, 1984 ), the SRM Family Assessment provides information about the give and take of family dynamics at three levels of analysis: group, individual, and dyad. The method will be briefly illustrated by the assessment of a family from the PIER Program, a randomized clinical trial of an intervention to prevent the onset of psychosis in high-risk young people.


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