Timescales and the Temporal Emergence of Musicking

2021 ◽  
pp. 168-196
Author(s):  
Juan M. Loaiza
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Participatory Systems ◽  
Normative Constraints

The aim of this chapter is twofold: to present a new way of mapping timescales of musicking, and to elaborate an explanatory approach that overcomes philosophical reductionism and allows interdisciplinary conversation. It proposes that the emergence of organizational properties in musicking is best understood by looking at the relations between timescales, using the heuristic of inter-scale relationships within temporal ranges. The chapter argues that simpler models of timescales have limited explanatory use and do not naturally capture the experiential richness of musicking. In contrast, the mapping of temporal ranges highlights the relations between many processes that mutually enable and constrain one another across timescales, and across brains, bodies, and environment. The map guides research into the complexity of musicking without sacrificing disciplinary focus. It consists of three domains of organization—sensorimotor, social life, and person/Self—interweaving ecological-enactive concepts of embodiment, self-organization, participatory systems, attunement, normative constraints, habits, and sense-making.

scholarly journals Carnival forms of suggestion in Ukrainian information space in the context of aconsciousness war

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Olena Snytko
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Protection ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article examines the carnival forms of suggestion – a widely observed phenomenon on the Internet in Ukraine – in the context of the consciousness war. The carnivalization of consciousness and human existence are considered characteristic features of modern culture, which is also defined by transitivity. Carnivalization is found in various forms of modern culture, in particular, in elite (postmodern), mass and in (youth) counterculture, as well as in all spheres of public life. A systematic, consistent use of the so-called carnival forms of suggestive influence appears a popular phenomenon of the Ukrainian culture of the last several decades. The main carnival mechanism is laughter. This tool plays an important role in self-organization of social life and facilitates the perception of truth. A close study into the countersuggestion means actively used on the Internet in Ukraine during the violent informational and psychological confrontation in 2014-2018 has proven a high effectiveness of the so-called carnival forms. These forms of suggestion, which emerged spontaneously on the Internet during the most difficult months and years of the Russian aggression, played a key role in information protection ensuring and information countermeasures in Ukraine. Having the creolized character and all the signs of a suggestion, these texts have had and continue having a stabilizing effect on the consciousness of individuals improving their emotional intelligence. The carnival forms actualizing these therapeutic countersuggestive texts are organic and effective in the era of crucial worldview changes taking place in the present-day Ukraine. Moreover, the laughter is claimed an effective tool exposing the current political situation, relieving from fear, approving new thoughts and ideas and debunking negative narratives. Furthermore, the suggestive nature of verbal texts organically interacts with audiovisual means of influence and is supported by micro-rhythms of all levels, primarily by lexical, grammatical, and phonetic repetitions, which help to consolidate the primary meanings. Finally, the methods of randomizing ideas, breaking patterns, and creating cognitive dissonance are widely used in the creolized political texts.

Posttraditional Migrants

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 617-635
Author(s):  
Dariuš Zifonun
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
The Creation

This article analyses the participation of migrants in sport. Based on the case study of a Turkish soccer club in Germany, it scrutinizes the structural and processual features of ethnic self organization. The club responds to the problems of social order in modern complex societies—problems emanating from the pluralization of social life-worlds—by employing a number of characteristic answers. Among them are the segmentation into sub-worlds, the composition of an integrative ideology of friendship as well as the creation of a soccer style. In processes of legitimation and delegitimation, questions of belonging and recognition are being negotiated. All of this allows for the management of ambivalence in everyday life and contributes to the distinctively posttraditional character of community. The article suggests that a sociology of social worlds approach can substantially contribute to the study of the interactive social structures of society.

Mind Outside Brain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Heylighen ◽  
Shima Beigi
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Extended Mind ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Elementary Reactions ◽  
Process Metaphysics ◽  
Mechanistic Worldview ◽  
Eastern Philosophies

We approach the problem of the extended mind from a radically non-dualist perspective. The separation between mind and matter is an artifact of the mechanistic worldview, which leaves no room for mental phenomena such as agency, intentionality, or experience. We propose to replace it by an action ontology, which conceives mind and matter as aspects of the same network of processes. By adopting the intentional stance, we interpret the catalysts of elementary reactions as agents exhibiting desires, intentions, and sensations. Autopoietic networks of reactions constitute more complex super-agents, which exhibit memory, deliberation and sense-making. In the case of social networks, individual agents coordinate their actions via the propagation of challenges. The distributed cognition that emerges cannot be situated in any individual brain. This non-dualist, holistic view extends and operationalizes process metaphysics and Eastern philosophies. It is supported by both mindfulness experiences and mathematical models of action, self-organization, and cognition.

scholarly journals Philosophical Reflections: Cognitive, Political and Social Aspects

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vytis Valatka
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Life World ◽  
The Third

This article explores various interlinks and connections between philosophy and the other sciences, namely, linguistics, cognitive sciences, sociology, economy, political, ideological and human life studies. Those interlinks and connections are analysed within three methodological paradigms. The first paradigm binds cognising, defining and speaking. The second paradigm integrates assembling, self-organising and social engineering. The third one connects working, living and sensing together. According to the aforementioned paradigms, this issue is divided into three chapters. This article, in turn, delivers concise presentations of articles belonging to the above-mentioned chapters. Those presentations interlink various issues of different sciences, such as solving paradoxes of knowability, delivering reliable definitions of transdisciplinary knowledge, identifying means and mechanisms of linguistic subjectivity, proposing effective ways and procedures of self-organization of democracy, discovering relevant methods of social engineering for strengthening democratic welfare state, offering feasible scenarios of Europeanization processes, establishing balance between work, recreation and health, and identifying common sense phenomenon with social life-world.

The Constitution of Violence Through the Language of Law: Legal Hermenutics in Second‐Century Roman Egypt

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (03) ◽  
pp. 797-801
Author(s):  
Justin B. Richland
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Fundamental Mode ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
The World ◽  
Roman Egypt ◽  
Primary Modality

This essay examines the linguistic anthropological themes emergent in Violence in Roman Egypt (2013). Viewing law as a discourse, it explores how language is constitutive of law and is the primary modality of acting upon, and enacting the world(s) that it shapes, giving meaning to the lives of people who engage each other in and through it. Violence petitions in second‐century Egypt are a fundamental mode of sense making and problem solving, calling on legal authorities to interpret claims of iniuria, or legal battery, into a language that they understand and remedy. In doing so, law changes the discourse of violence, specifically, and social life, more broadly.

Touch and Social Interaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asta Cekaite ◽  
Marjorie H. Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Online Publication ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Instructional Environments ◽  
The World ◽  
Interaction Order

Our understanding of touch as a basic and complex sense is informed by phenomenological perspectives on our corporeal “being-in-the-world” and the notion of intercorporeality (Merleau-Ponty 1964) as well as by sociological perspectives on social life as organized and accomplished through corporeal participation and the interaction order (Goffman 1983). Intercorporeality involves sense-making of oneself and copresent others as body subjects, active in (re)producing a corporeal interaction order that is understood as tactile as well as visual and sonorous. In our review of contemporary ethnographic work, we direct our attention to touch and social interaction and discuss ( a) ritualized supportive interchanges; ( b) moves of compassion that calm a distressed child; ( c) forms of control that socialize the body and gain attention, in particular to create multisensorial, instructional environments; and ( d) forms of touch during care and bodywork in medical and therapeutic contexts. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 50 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

scholarly journals Students’ language use when talking about the evolution of life - negotiating the meaning of key terms and their semantic relationships

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Clas Olander ◽  
Åke Ingerman
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Semantic Relationships ◽  
Evolution Of Life ◽  
Old Swedish ◽  
Scientific Terms ◽  
Key Terms

In this paper, we explore an idea from Vygotsky about the meaning and sense of words, and how it manifests itself in students’ talk. This is done by analysing the discussions of 15-year old Swedish students participating in teaching activities concerning biological evolution. It turned out that the students seldom articulated the scientific terms. Instead, they contextualised by using three strategies – paralleling, transferring, and delimiting. All three of these strategies have merits and drawbacks in connection with ‘meaning’ of single terms. However, when combining the terms into thematic patterns, the students formed rather sound and coherent scientific explanations. This is understood as relying on the students’ use of an interlanguage where colloquial expressions serve as an asset in sense-making. The verbalisation of an explanation in an interlanguage is advantageous when communicating in social life outside the science classroom, and thus the possibility of further sense making is enhanced.

Epoka zakazu druku jako geneza litewskiej nowoczesności – zarys perspektyw

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 255-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Niemojewski
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The Press ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Modern Era

On May 7, 1904 the prohibition against the Lithuanian press was lifted. It was one of the most significant events that had a direct influence on the evolution of Lithuanian cultural, political and social life. Because of its importance it can be considered as the beginning of Lithuanian modernity. The aim of this reaserch paper is to demonstrate the significance of this turning point and to discuss the genesis of modern era by analysing the period preceding this event, in Lithuanian historiography called “the era of press ban” or “the time of book smugglers”. This period begun in 1864, when czarist authority prohibited the press in latin alphabet and tried to enforce the Russian one. During these 40 years of Lithuanian fight for freedom of printing, the proces of social and cultural changes were initiated. At that time, the first cultural institutions gathering a new generation of intelligentsia, using Lithuanian language, were born, and new forms of self-organization and the new cycles of ideas were shaped. Those processes were related to spreading the types and practices of printing word, available through illegal and well-organised publishing network. From this perspective, the period in which the seeds of Lithuanian modernity were created was a variant of the development of the printing culture, characteristic for Central and Eastern Europe.

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