Blake, Duncan, and the Politics of Writing from Myth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Freedman
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Romantic Poet ◽  
A Site

Robert Duncan saw Blake’s images of ‘fire and blood’ alive in contemporary America. Like many of his generation, he was appalled by the war in Vietnam, believing it to be symptomatic of a deeper spiritual sickness in America. He wanted poetry to provide an alternative form of democratic participation which would recover the meaning of freedom from the toxic lexicon of American foreign policy. Duncan, like Blake, imagined the body, and the body politic, as a site of alterity and ethical responsibility, charged with repression and desire. His reading of Blake sought to preserve the place of the Romantic poet in the modern world but, ironically, helped expose its fragility.

scholarly journals Methods that Move: A Physical Performative Pedagogy of Subjectivity

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Francombe
Keyword(s):  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Body Work ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
Performative Pedagogy ◽  
A Site

Driven by a desire to interrogate and articulate the role and place of the body in the study of sport, this paper encourages those who are incited by a richer understanding of the physical to expand and elaborate upon the fleshy figuration that guides the research projects and practices/strategies of the present. This call for papers is an opportunity to unpack the methodological impetus of “body work” (Giardina & Newman, 2011a) and to locate it within the nexus of dialogues that expressly seek to reengage an eclectic body politic at precisely the time when the body is a site of continuous scrutinizing and scientific confession. As researchers we grapple with and problematize method(ologies) in light of the conjunctural demands placed upon our scholarship and so I reflect on a recently conducted project and the methodological moments that it brought to light. Conceptualized in terms of a physical performative pedagogy of subjectivity, I tentatively forward a discussion of what moving methods might look and feel like and thus I question why, when we research into physical, sporting, (in)active experiences, do we refrain from putting the body to work? Why do we not theorize the body through the moving body?

Mana, Macht und Mythen

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bargatzky
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Universe

We should avoid the disrespect involved in giving mythic and religious facts less importance than they actually have in the life of non-Western indigenous peoples. This book deals with mythologic ideas which inhere in the ritual reproduction of the body politic in the actions of contemporary peoples in Australia and Oceania who still depend on the functioning of family and clan. By ritual fusion and compartmentalization, they successfully manage to live in the modern world without abandoning certain essential elements of their pre-European religious and civic cultures. By expediently switching codes, they can continue to act according to the rules of traditional society and perform as citizens of the contemporary world. The conception of myth as a rational way to explain the universe by rendering it meaningful is a necessary prerequisite for our understanding of the ways of peoples whose cultures are rooted in the past but who can perform successfully in the modern world.

The Constitution and Foreign Affairs

1985 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 14-23
Author(s):  
I.M. Destler
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
John Marshall ◽  
Nuclear Arms

J.W. Fulbright once called it "American Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century Under an Eighteenth Century Constitution." In no other policy sphere has our governing charter generated as much anxiety about its suitability to the modern world. Can a system with divided authority, with two major foreign policy decisionmaking institutions, meet the need for united national action on life-or-death matters like, for example, the control and deployment of nuclear arms?There are those who would deny the problem through simple assertion of presidential predominance. Citing authorities from John Marshall (as federalist Congressman) through Woodrow Wilson (as Constitutional scholar) to Edwin Meese (as presidential counselor), executive branch practitioners and even scholars assert repeatedly that, on foreign policy, the president reigns supreme (or at least ought to).

scholarly journals A Virtual Body Politic on #Gaza: The Mobilization of Information Patterns

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laila Shereen Sakr
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dziga Vertov ◽  
Information Patterns ◽  
A Site ◽  
Material Bodies ◽  
Data Visualizations ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Virtual Body

 From Walter Benjamin and Dziga Vertov to Instagram and machine vision: new strategies of seeing and representation in modern and software societies constantly emerge and reshape our field of phenomenological, affective, and discursive vision. Social media’s use of images and representations of the body, within the highly securitized and militarized networks and landscapes that we traverse, focuses attention on the body as a site of contested political control and capitalist consumerism. This study of a virtual body politic provides a close reading of two data visualizations from Twitter conversations on Egypt in 2011 and Gaza in 2014 in order to analyze the mobilization of information patterns over time. These visualizations of Internet data are not about claims about material bodies or the intentions of communicators, but traces of an embodied moment of intentional use of digital media. Every data point has an embodied analogue at some moment. And tweets have a very particular (historically specific, geo-specific) moment of origin that is exceedingly tangled with materials bodies. My aim here is to determine what the emerging patterns tell us about a virtual body politic. 

Forms of Futuristic Interpretation of Revelation in the Modern Period

2020 ◽  
pp. 446-463
Author(s):  
Joshua T. Searle ◽  
Kenneth G. C. Newport
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Real World ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter examines futuristic interpretations of Revelation in the modern period, highlighting how specific interpretations have had a real-world impact on society and geopolitics. It begins with an overview of the diverse cultural applications of futuristic readings of Revelation to the modern world, and then the focus shifts to an examination of how apocalyptic rhetoric confers meaning and coherence on the world in the minds of futuristic interpreters. This is followed by a discussion of the origins of premillennial dispensationalism and its role in shaping American foreign policy toward the Middle East. The chapter concludes with an assessment of whether futurism will retain its influence further into the twenty-first century and beyond.

scholarly journals Soft Power for Russia: from Adoption to Latent Governance Skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-221
Author(s):  
Alexander E. Konkov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

This article is devoted to the study of Russian perception of soft power, which was initially conceptualized within the American political theory and is still being discussed in terms of its application to real political relations in the modern world. Scientific novelty of the article lies in identifying, based on retrospective analysis of Russian language publications on soft power, gradual shift from descriptive approach to soft power as exclusive instrument of American foreign policy towards an emerging independent category of Russian soft power. The latter incorporates perceptions about the ability of the state to rely on the most effective social structures in interaction, first of all, with external actors, which, however, can also have a domestic civil dimension in terms of expanding the tools for latent management of social processes. Besides considering the publication dynamics in scientific journals, the author also analyzes the gradual entry of the concept of soft power into discourse of real Russian politics through the public rhetoric of country’s top leadership and strategic foreign policy documents. Initially, Russian priorities articulated through the search for mechanisms to resist soft power from the outside. Later a consecutive postulate emerged to develop sovereign soft power instruments, based on the active engagement of civil society institutions into foreign policy process. Activation of latter, as well as the growing practices of different countries in building relations with non-governmental organizations in the implementation of their national interests, are becoming important factors to encourage government efforts for soft power. Russian experience demonstrates a two-way process in search for the corresponding national model: while the state expresses interest in developing additional mechanisms that support its policy in the international arena, the society demonstrates a demand for increasingly universal forms of self-realization in a competitive global market.

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