Material Culture and the Dance of Agency

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
The Third ◽  
And Performance

This article revolves around the discovery of matter. The first section concerns science studies. It emphasizes the importance of a focus on practice and performance as a way of undoing the ‘linguistic turn’ in the humanities and social sciences. The key concept here is that of a dance of agency. The second section reviews a variety of examples of this dance in fields beyond the natural sciences — civil engineering, pig farming, and convivial relations with dogs, architecture, technologies of the self, biological computing, brainwave music, and certain hylozoist and Eastern spirituality. This article focuses on contrasting forms that dances of agency and their products can take, depending on the presence or absence of an organizing telos of self-extinction. The third and final section reflects on the significance of this contrast for a politics of theory. This article traces the discovery of matter followed by the concepts of method, time, and agency.

scholarly journals O ENSINO E A PESQUISA SOBRE POLÍTICA EXTERNA NO CAMPO DAS RELAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS DO BRASIL

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Aurélio Pimenta de Faria
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

The purpose of this article is to analyze teaching and research on foreign policy in Brazil in the last two decades. The first section discusses how the main narratives about the evolution of International Relations in Brazil, considered as an area of knowledge, depict the place that has been designed, in the same area, to the study of foreign policy. The second section is devoted to an assessment of the status of foreign policy in IR teaching in the country, both at undergraduate and scricto sensu graduate programs. There is also a mapping and characterization of theses and dissertations which had foreign policy as object. The third section assesses the space given to studies on foreign policy in three academic forums nationwide, namely: the meetings of ABRI (Brazilian Association of International Relations), the ABCP (Brazilian Association of Political Science) and ANPOCS (National Association of Graduate Programs and Research in Social Sciences). In the fourth section there is a mapping and characterization of the published articles on foreign policy between 1990 and 2010, in the following IR Brazilian journals: Cena Internacional, Contexto Internacional, Política Externa and Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional. At last, the fifth and final section seeks to assess briefly the importance that comparative studies have in the sub-area of foreign policy in the country. The final considerations make a general assessment of the empirical research presented in the previous sections.

scholarly journals The Foucault Effect in Organization Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sverre Raffnsøe ◽  
Andrea Mennicken ◽  
Peter Miller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Organizational Scholarship ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second Wave

Since the establishment of Organization Studies in 1980, Michel Foucault’s oeuvre has had a remarkable and continuing influence on its field. This article traces the different ways in which organizational scholars have engaged with Foucault’s writings over the past thirty years or so. We identify four overlapping waves of influence. Drawing on Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, the first wave focused on the impact of discipline, and techniques of surveillance and subjugation, on organizational practices and power relations. Part of a much wider ‘linguistic’ turn in the second half of the twentieth century, the second wave led to a focus on discourses as intermediaries that condition ways of viewing and acting. This wave drew mainly on Foucault’s early writings on language and discourse. The third wave was inspired by Foucault’s seminal lectures on governmentality towards the end of the 1970s. Here, an important body of international research investigating governmental technologies operating on subjects as free persons in sites such as education, accounting, medicine and psychiatry emerged. The fourth and last wave arose out of a critical engagement with earlier Foucauldian organizational scholarship and sought to develop a more positive conception of subjectivity. This wave draws in particular on Foucault’s work on asceticism and techniques of the self towards the end of his life. Drawing on Deleuze and Butler, the article conceives the Foucault effect in organization studies as an immanent cause and a performative effect. We argue for the need to move beyond the tired dichotomies between discipline and autonomy, compliance and resistance, power and freedom that, at least to some extent, still hamper organization studies. We seek to overcome such dichotomies by further pursuing newly emerging lines of Foucauldian research that investigate processes of organizing, calculating and economizing characterized by a differential structuring of freedom, performative and indirect agency.

scholarly journals Masters (MSc) in Science Communication. Dublin City University

2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. C05 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Trench
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Broad View ◽  
Outreach Services ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Science Centres ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Science In Society

The Masters (MSc) in Science Communication at Dublin City University (Ireland)
draws on expertise from several disciplines in human and physical sciences.
The programme takes a broad view of communication that includes the various
kinds of interaction between institutions of science and of society, as well
as the diverse means of exchanging information and ideas. Nearly 200 students
from a wide variety of backgrounds have completed the programme since its
start in 1996, and they work in many different types of employment, from
information and outreach services, to science centres, to publishing and
journalism. Through the programme, and in the dissertation in particular,
students are encouraged to reflect critically on the place and performance
of science in society, and on relations between the cultures of natural sciences
and of humanities and social sciences.

scholarly journals Evolutionary ontology and biofile transformation of culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
Josef Šmajs
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Adaptive Strategy ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
The Third ◽  
Neolithic Culture ◽  
Evolutionary Ontology ◽  
Anatomically Modern Humans

The author claims that two large transformations of the human adaptive strategy have occurred in the course of our species’ history: first, the self-preservation modification at the beginning of the anatomically modern humans’ origination; second, the spiritual abandonment of live nature two millennia before the end of the Neolithic culture. Moreover the third transformation, the shift from the predatory spiritual paradigm to the biofile paradigm, has to be undergone today. This transformation is specified with respect to the natural sciences and education system. *** Ontologia evolutiva e transformação biofílica da cultura ***O autor afirma que no curso da história da nossa espécie ocorreram duas grandes transformações na estratégia adaptativa humana: primeiro, a modificação da autopreservação no início da origem anatomicamente moderna dos humanos; segundo, o abandono espiritual da natureza viva dois milênios antes do fim da cultura neolítica. E a terceira transformação, esta a ser efetivada hoje, corresponde à mudança do paradigma espiritual predatório para o paradigma biofílico. Essa transformação é especificamente relativa às ciências naturais e ao sistema educacional.Palavras-chave: Ontologia evolutiva. Natureza. Cultura. Paradigma espiritual predatório. Paradigma espiritual biofílico.

scholarly journals ‘THE GREAT YOUTUBE PURGE OF WRONGTHINK’: ALTRIGHT ADAPTATIONS IN A CHANGING PLATFORM ECOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Burnett ◽  
Fotini P. Moura Trancoso
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Specific Approach ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
The Third ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Social media platforms are under increasing pressure to counter racist and other extremist discourses online. The perceived "independence" of platforms such as YouTube has attracted AltRight "micro-celebrities" (Lewis, 2020) that build alternative networks of influence. This paper examines how the discourses of one online AltRight "manfluencer" responds to tightening controls over allowable speech. We present analysis of the YouTube channel of the Swedish far right bodybuilder and motivational speaker Marcus Follin, or "The Golden One". His specific approach to politics includes fitspiration, motivational speaking, and other kinds of neoliberal technologies of the self that in his ideology come together as a call to defend white motherlands and join hands between European nations to fight against globalism and multiculturalism. Through conducting post-foundational discourse analysis of a corpus of 40 videos, we identify three prominent strategies that he uses to respond to increased control of online spaces. The first is to increase cultural encryption, constructing social media as territories in a “metapolitical” war will be won culturally. The second is partial articulation, where he stays focused on positive messages, and his ideology is explained as being about love, not hate. The third is migration, diversification, and new platform-specific foci, through which he finds new and ‘independent’ online spaces and builds new audiences. We conclude that we need more nuanced understandings of how far right ideologies might thrive and build resilience in response to pressure on their speech.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
First Century ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Performance History ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Performance Texts ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Shakespearean Tragedy ◽  
Selection Of

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The collection is organized in five sections. The opening section places the plays in a variety of illuminating contexts, exploring questions of genre, and examining ways in which later generations of critics have shaped our idea of ‘Shakespearean’ tragedy. The second section is devoted to current textual issues; while the third offers new critical readings of each of the tragedies. This is set beside a group of essays that deal with performance history, with screen productions, and with versions devised for the operatic stage, as well as with twentieth and twenty-first century re-workings of Shakespearean tragedy. The book’s final section seeks to expand readers’ awareness of Shakespeare’s global reach, tracing histories of criticism and performance across the world. Offering the richest and most diverse collection of approaches to Shakespearean tragedy currently available, the Handbook will be an indispensable resource for students, both undergraduate and graduate levels, while the lively and provocative character of its essays will make it a required reading for teachers of Shakespeare everywhere.

scholarly journals Contemporary Self-Help Literature: An Analysis from the Perspective of Governementality Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Urošević
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Self ◽  
Short History ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
Neoliberal Governmentality ◽  
The Third ◽  
Self Help ◽  
History Of ◽  
Governmentality Studies

In this paper we will be analyzing contemporary self-help literature through the lens of what is usually called “governmentality studies”. These studies originate in the thought of Michel Foucault therefore we will begin our paper by presenting his theoretical framework for analyzing governmentality. The concept of the “dispositif” will be explained as a network of power relations aimed at governing individuals. “Subjection” is a concept we wil be using and it will be explained as a process of making individuals a part of a dispositif. Also the concept of “subjectivity” will be used, defined as a relation that an individual has with himself through which he governs himself and the concept of “technologies of the self” defined as a set of discourses through which subjectivity is formed. Our idea is to research contemporary self-help literature as a technology of the self through which an individual governs himself according to the rules of a certain dispositif therefore. In the next part of our paper we will present the context of our research which will be described as a change in governmentality regimes in the second half of the twentieth century. We will present that change as a transition from a disciplinary regime of governemntality to the neoliberal regime. In the next part of our paper we will define self-help literature as a discursive technology of the self that aims at getting its readers to see themselves as having a problem that requires them to transform themselves and therefore achieve happiness. Next we will present a short history oh self-help literature dividing it into three phases that differ in the relation authors have to their readers and in the figure of the big other whose ideas the authors claim to represent. We will claim that our object of research is the third period of the development of self-help literature beginning in the eighties. Next we will present our research that will be conducted by using Foucaults’s theoretical discourse developed in the second volume of his History of Sexuality. We will conclude that contemporary self-help literature can be seen as a technology of the self that transforms the reader’s subjectivity in order to make them govern themselves as autonomous subjects that seek to fulfill their innermost desires. Therefore we will claim that contemporary self-help literature can bee seen as a technology of the self of the neoliberal governmentality regime. 

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN KETERBUKAAN DIRI (Self-Disclosure) DENGAN TEKNIK PETAK JOHARI MELALUI BIMBINGAN KELOMPOK DI SMA NEGERI 2 DI KOTA BENGKULU KELAS X MIPA F

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Anik Febrianti
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Guidance Services ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
The Third ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
Technical Guidance

Openness Self(Self-Disclosure) is the attitude of the individual able and willing to provide information about himself personally, and open and willing to accept the opinions of others to trust someone to be a friend to share. This study aims to: 1) Knowing how the level of the Self Disclosure students at SMAN 2 Bengkulu city F Class X Mathematics and Natural Sciences before being awarded with Technical Guidance Services Group Plots Johari. 2) Knowing how the level of the Self Disclosure students at SMAN 2 Bengkulu city F Class X Mathematics and Natural Sciences after being awarded with Technical Guidance Services Group Plots Johari. 3) Knowing the success of the group with technical guidance services Johari plots in increasing Disclosure Self-student at SMAN 2 Bengkulu city F Class X Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The method used in the research was a class act. The subjects were students of class XI SMA N 2 F MIPA Bengkulu City. The procedure of classroom action research conducted through four (4) stages: 1) planning, 2) implementation, 3) observation, 4) Reflection. Once the data is collected and analyzed obtained the following results: (1) At each cycle of increased openness Yourself students, On Pre Test of 30 students there are eight students who have low levels of self openness as much as 5 students with a percentage of 62.5% and the level of openness Being self as much as 3 students with a percentage of 37.5%. (2) In the first cycle, the level of openness of students improve their self becomes Self Disclosure levels were as much as 6 students with a percentage of 75% and a high level of self Disclosure much as 2 people with a percentage of 25%. In the third cycle, the degree of openness of the Self increases to moderate as much as 1 students with a percentage of 12.5% and higher by 7 students with a percentage of 87.5%. (3) Implementation Guidance Services group with Johari plot technique can increase the level of self Disclosure students at SMAN 2 Bengkulu city F Class X Mathematics and Natural Sciences .

Introducing the Transformative Self

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-31
Author(s):  
Jack Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Over Time

This chapter introduces the main features of the transformative self—what it is and is not. For instance, the transformative self is not a person but, rather, a self-identity that a person uses to facilitate personal growth. The person creates a transformative self primarily in their evolving life story. This growth-oriented narrative identity helps the person cultivate growth toward a good life for the self and others. The chapter provides an overview of the book’s theoretical approach and topics. The book’s first section examines the components of personal growth, narrative identity, and a good life that culturally characterize the transformative self. The second section explores the personality and social ecology of the person who has a transformative self. The third section shows how the transformative self develops over time. The final section explores the hazards and heights of having a transformative self.

The Lady Vanishes: Dilemmas of a Feminist Historian after the “Linguistic Turn”

1998 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminist Historian ◽  
Hayden White ◽  
Over Time

History, Hayden White remarks, has no distinctively historical method, but borrows its models and methods from a variety of other disciplines. These disciplines, however, have varied over time. Latenineteenth-century German historiography looked to the rigorous procedures of the natural sciences to reconstruct the past “as it actually happened“; mid-twentieth-century historians turned to the social sciences, especially to anthropology and sociology, for their models and methods. More recently, historians' appropriation of (and experimentation with) concepts derived from literary and critical theory has occasioned much heated discussion within the field.

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