Politics as Hypergestural Improvisation in the Age of Mediocracy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Citton
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Free Jazz ◽  
Musical Improvisation ◽  
Antonio Negri ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Western Democracies ◽  
Anthony Braxton

This chapter draws on the analysis of musical improvisation, as practiced within “free jazz,” in order to shed light on a politics of the multitudes. It suggests that we should consider media-intensive Western “democracies” as “mediocracies,” within which political affects are carried through the communication of gestures. A Spinozist analysis of collective agency in societies of control leads to articulating nine steps toward a political sharpening of the reference to “improvisation.” For politics to benefit from the powers unleashed and theorized by improvisers, it needs to devise a new vocabulary and a new imaginary of human cooperation, which this chapter attempts to sketch in its broadest lines, inspired by authors and creators like Guerino Mazzola, Anthony Braxton, Derek Bailey, Lawrence “Butch” Morris, Michel Foucault, Bruno Latour, and Antonio Negri.

The Strange Entanglement of Jurimorphs

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Latour
Keyword(s):  
Bruno Latour ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Shed Light

Bruno Latour closes out this volume by taking hold of several threads running through the preceding chapters. In addition to responding to a few of the criticisms that have cropped up, Latour offers remarks on the specific analyses developed in several of the chapters in order to shed light on crucial elements of the AIME project and his view of the legal mode of existence, addressing among other things domains, institutions, normativity, jurimorphs and a few modal crossings stimulated by the work of the book’s contributors. The outlines of a new concept – the red letter of the law – even begin to take shape as Latour moves between and among the compelling and original arguments of the individual chapters.

THE DISCOURSE OF SOUND

Tempo ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (277) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kaltenecker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Compositional Styles ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThis article offers a short overview of the development of listening theories concerning Western art music since the end of the eighteenth century. Referring to Michel Foucault, I consider such theories as discourses which produce ‘power effects', such as the training of listening attitudes, or the construction of specific spaces, such as the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth. During the eighteenth century, predominant discourses considered musical pieces as orations and, since the nineteenth century, as complex organisms or structures. In the last third of the twentieth century a focus on sound, evinced for instance by the field of ‘sound studies', has produced a new configuration that dissolves the prevailing model of structural listening. This perspective may shed light on some technical features of contemporary compositional styles, which I examine by considering the use of melodies, gestures and loops in two compositions by Fausto Romitelli and Simon Steen-Andersen.

Missed connection: relations between Italian anti-fascist emigration and British forces in Egypt (1940–1944)

Modern Italy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-279
Author(s):  
Nicola Cacciatore
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Western Democracies

Italian anti-fascists started to emigrate from the moment that Mussolini seized power. These émigrés, or fuorusciti, tried to organise themselves to put an end to Mussolini’s regime, but found themselves confronting a number of unexpected difficulties in their host countries. Among them, Giustiza e Libertà (GL) was one of the most active organisations. One of the problems they had to face was the issue of how best to deal with their hosts without compromising their integrity as Italians, and as patriots. The case of Paolo Vittorelli (Raffaele Battino), who is the subject of this article, presents a clear case study of this issue and shows how close collaboration between Italian anti-fascists and western democracies (in this case, the United Kingdom) was hindered by ideological problems. The study of such episodes helps us to shed light not only on the mentality of the GL émigrés, but also on the way the Italian Resistance would later approach the issue of working together with the Allies during the Italian campaign of 1943–1945.

Theatre - power - subject: On Dragan Živadinov's Elizabethan Trilogy

Maska ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (157) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Bojan Anđelković
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Shed Light

The text offers a philosophical reflection on the cycle of five performances that form the Elizabethan Trilogy project (2008-2013) by director Dragan Živadinov. By introducing four conceptual pairs - theatre and sovereignty, words and things, the subject and the mask, and difference and repetition - it also attempts to reflect on Živadinov's entire opus and on the meaning of his theatre. At the centre of attention in the theatre of repetition, which is opposed to the theatre of representation, there is the relation between theatre, sovereignty and the subject; the author of this text tries to shed light on this relation by drawing on Antonin Artaud's concept of the theatre of cruelty and possible connections between theatre and the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze.

scholarly journals Estatísticas sanitárias e interdependência social na Primeira República

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1007-1035
Author(s):  
Alexandre de Paiva Rio Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Bruno Latour

Resumo O artigo analisa o lugar das tecnologias de quantificação na rede formada em torno do combate às doenças, da revolução pastoriana até o movimento sanitarista dos anos 1920. Investiga o papel da demografia sanitária na imposição do modelo pastoriano entre os médicos, seguido da monumentalização estatística das reformas junto a diferentes atores sociais. A teoria do ator-rede de Bruno Latour e os trabalhos de Michel Foucault sobre a governamentalidade são usados para problematizar o conjunto documental formado pelo censo de 1906, artigos e boletins demográficos publicados na imprensa médica, anuários estatísticos e relatórios ministeriais.

scholarly journals Pedagogias culturais em tempos de pandemia: educações nos muros de Londrina

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Alexandre Luiz Polizel ◽  
Bruna Adriane Fary ◽  
Cristiane Beatriz Dal Bosco Rezzadori
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Bruno Latour

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo traçar considerações acerca das pedagogias culturais nos muros do município de Londrina-PR em tempos de pandemia. Para tal lançamos mãos de um olhar hermenêutico ancorado nos Estudos Culturais das Ciências e das Educações, de base epistêmica em Michel Foucault e Bruno Latour. A interpretativa é lançada a partir de dois pixo nas paredes da região central do município de Londrina-Paraná no início da pandemia de COVID-19, sendo o registro foto-capitado em abril de 2020. A partir da leitura de ambos é possível a taxonomização de duas pedagogias culturais operantes que orientam este manuscrito: a) O reiterar de técnicas de prevenção para com as infecções virais; e b) Uma crítica sócio-cultural das possibilidades éticas do cuidado de si.

scholarly journals Die Instabilität der Praxis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilmar Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Empirische Studien

Praxistheorien bilden ein zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnendes Forschungsprogramm, das gegenwärtig sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Disziplinen von der Soziologie über die Geschichts- und Politikwissenschaft bis hin zur Archäologie beeinflusst. Eines ihrer Kennzeichen ist die Betonung der Routinehaftigkeit sozialen Handelns, die teilweise in die Kritik geraten ist. Vertreten die Praxistheorien damit grundsätzlich eine statische Perspektive auf das Soziale? Ausgehend von der Frage nach ihrem Verständnis von Reproduktion und Transformation des Sozialen werden die Positionen von Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault und Bruno Latour im Detail beleuchtet. Dabei steht das Konzept der Wiederholung im Zentrum der Perspektive. Das Buch entwickelt einen Vergleich der vier Ansätze, indem es die jeweilige Verwendung zentraler sozial- und kulturtheoretischer Analysekategorien (Körper, Materialität, Macht/Norm) diskutiert. Zudem arbeitet es methodologische Prinzipien heraus, die empirische Studien anleiten können. Damit bietet das Buch sowohl einen systematischen Beitrag zur aktuellen Theoriedebatte als auch eine Handreichung für die praxeologische Forschung.

Dominant Positions: John Coltrane, Michel Foucault, and the Politics of Representation

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Free Jazz ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
John Coltrane ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The 1960S

In a 1979 essay on the principles of a contemporary movement in literature, écriture, Michel Foucault quotes approvingly a rhetorical question posed by minimalist author Samuel Beckett: “what does it matter who is speaking?” (“What Is an Author?” 205). My purpose in this paper is to argue that endorsing such critical-theoretical inattention to speakers’ identities actually promotes some of the abuses of power that Foucault and the theorists he has inspired most object to. Notably, inattention to identity forecloses analysis of the speaker’s position within the discourse and, in so doing, permits both the continued dominance of socially-legitimated points of view and continued marginalization of social commentaries and critiques that oppose themselves to these dominant threads of discourse. My critique of this curious blind-spot in Foucault’s theorizing is worked out through an analysis of critical attention to John Coltrane’s ‘free jazz’ experimentations of the 1960s. One of the central points I am concerned to make in discussing Coltrane is that how artistic projects are represented depends at least in part upon the willingness of critics to take notice of issues of identity and social positioning (both their own, and that of the artists they evaluate). I choose to engage with evaluations of Coltrane, specifically, because there are certain features of his relation to his audience and his critics that demand of us an especially nuanced and complex analysis of the power jazz journalism can exert.

scholarly journals Bruno Latour e Michel Foucault: a formação de práticas civilizatórias

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Edilene Maria Carvalho Leal
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Bruno Latour

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2016v15n1p142Esse artigo discute o problema da efetividade de práticas civilizatórias no contexto das sociedades atuais, uma vez que estas decorrem de um longo processo de racionalização da vida coletiva e individual responsável pela dicotomização entre técnica e valor, racionalidade e irracionalidade, liberdade e heteronímia. Contudo, na contramão de grande parte de pensadores que analisaram esse processo a partir da perspectiva da razão como centro de produção, tanto das conquistas ético-políticas quanto da lógica da reprodução técnica das sociedades modernas, Bruno Latour e Michel Foucault desenvolveram argumentos convincentes, segundo os quais sociedades orientadas predominantemente pela racionalização jamais existiram e, por isso mesmo, não se pode negar que estas mesmas sociedades desenvolveram ou podem desenvolver modos de vida ou práticas coletivas e individuais de existência ético-civilizatórias. 

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