Mechanized Bodies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Iverson
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
The Relationship

This essay chronicles the relationship between electronica and the human voice in Björk’s oeuvre fromDebut(1993) toBiophilia(2011). It argues that Björk’s electronica constructs and manipulates bodies, which in some cases can be understood as cyborgs. Disability Studies literature and prosthestic theory help to interrogate the nature of these technological supplements. Even when Björk’s voice is not supplemented by technology, it is always already porous, a position further illuminated by the deconstructive writings of Derrida and Barthes. Björk’s music undermines the fiction that bodies can be whole or natural, in the ableist sense. Instead, Björk’s music asks listeners to accept that all bodies are in need of supplements. This prepares listeners to move out of the binary opposition between abled and disabled.

Predicting emotions in music using the onset curve

2021 ◽  
pp. 030573562110316
Author(s):  
Elena Saiz-Clar ◽  
Miguel Ángel Serrano ◽  
José Manuel Reales
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Musical Score ◽  
Musical Note ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Frequency Domains ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between parameters extracted from the musical stimuli and emotional response has been traditionally approached using several physical measures extracted from time or frequency domains. From time-domain measures, the musical onset is defined as the moment in that any musical instrument or human voice issues a musical note. The onsets’ sequence in the performance of a specific musical score creates what is known as the onset curve (OC). The influence of the structure of OC on the emotional judgment of people is not known. To this end, we have applied principal component analysis on a complete set of variables extracted from the OC to capture their statistical structure. We have found a trifactorial structure related to activation and valence dimensions of emotional judgment. The structure has been cross-validated using different participants and stimuli. In this way, we propose the factorial scores of the OC as a reliable and relevant piece of information to predict the emotional judgment of music.

scholarly journals Being Disoriented: Uncertain Encounters with Disability

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan C. Parrey
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Meeting Point ◽  
Open Question ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Disorienting encounter with disability are those in which the meaning of disability is an open question, and in which our relation to it is questionable. This essay explores the relationship between disability and disorientation on conceptual but also concrete levels. First, I examine the connection between disability and disorientation within disability studies. Second, I provide a preliminary sketch of disorientation through what I call <em>ontic disruption</em> and <em>ontological disorientation</em>. Third, I take up Leder's (1990) articulation of bodily disappearance and embodied dysappearance to address ableist violence. Finally, I develop the notion of <em>dysorientation — </em>a prolonged, persistent or recurrent sense of disorientation — as a useful concept for understanding experiences of ableism but also as a significant meeting point between impairment and disability. </p><p> </p>

scholarly journals The Politics of Eroticism: Political Writing and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Dharma Thapa
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Political Writing ◽  
Small Things ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Erotic

This article analyses the erotic relationships between sexes depicted in Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small things in the binary opposition: those based on bourgeois patriarchal dominance and that based on equality and mutual respect. It focuses on the relationship between Ammu and Velutha as love, in diametrical contrast with the former pattern, based on independent choices and guided and inspired by radical politics. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v1i1.10468 Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.1(1) 2013; 51-58

An Analytic Model of Conflict and Cooperation on the Terrain of Race

2016 ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Robert S. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Model ◽  
Binary Analysis ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Racial Stratification ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Conflict And Cooperation ◽  
Binary Model ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter offers an analytic model for understanding conflict and coalition on the terrain of race by discussing racialization and racial stratification. In this analytic model of first-, second-, and third-order racial analyses, the first-order binary model restates the duality of the primary racial opposition in U.S. history—black and white—and recognizes that many analyses of racial and ethnic conflict follow this basic majority–minority binary opposition. Meanwhile, second-order binary analysis stays within a group-to-group binary framework, but looks at the relationship between minority A and minority B. The chapter then shows how an understanding of racialization and racial stratification lends itself to third-order multigroup analysis. It concludes by discussing the limits of building coalitions in a purely oppositional mode, and explores the need for building common cause that extends beyond opposition to white capitalist patriarchy.

scholarly journals Imagination and the Political in Design Participation

Design Issues ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Daniel Opazo ◽  
Matías Wolff ◽  
María José Araya
Keyword(s):  
Design Problem ◽  
The Political ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
The Relationship

The different traditions in design participation have overlooked the relationship between imagination and the political when discussing the sources of legitimacy in participatory projects. Whether it is in architecture, planning, or design, many practitioners and scholars base their approaches to participation on what we consider an artificial exclusion between the what and the how of design, respectively understood as results and procedures. We suggest that there might be an interesting opportunity in avoiding this binary opposition, and in considering the construction of the design problem as the true what of design.

scholarly journals The Relationship of Researcher and Participant in Qualitative Inquiry: From “Self and Other” Binaries to the Poststructural Feminist Perspective of Subjectivity

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinga Varga-Dobai
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Poststructural Feminist ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Whether approached from a positivist perspective or a more comprehensive postpositivist theoretical and philosophical grounding, the relationship between researcher and participant entails the strong binary opposition of the I-Thou (Buber, 1971) or Self and Other (Bhabha, 2004) within which I or Self is associated with the researcher and Thou or Other represents the research subject. The goal of this paper is to offer an overview of the various theoretical and ethodological approaches to the researcher-participant relationship in qualitative research. The author will first explore how traditional qualitative and emancipatory feminist research have addressed this issue, then she will investigate how poststructural feminists such as Butler (1992), Lather (1991), Pillow (2003), St. Pierre (2000), and Spivak (1993), as well as Wisweswaran (1994), mainly through the use of the notion of subjectivity and voice, stepped into the debate and explored the researcher-participant relationship from a poststructuralist perspective.

scholarly journals Choice of a Lifetime: Disability, Feminism, and Reproductive Rights

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
D.A. Caeton
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
The Body ◽  
Reciprocal Arrangement ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

<p>The prevailing understanding is that feminism, both as activism and theory, harmoniously overlaps with disability studies. This article, however, seeks to more closely scrutinize the relationship between the two fields. Through an examination of reproductive rights — a particularly divisive issue — this article argues that technocultural arrangements of the body reveal a potential disjuncture between feminism and disability. The rhetoric surrounding reproductive rights frequently focuses on choice, health, and control. Such terms function according to different valences when thought through from the vantage of disability. Moreover, it becomes difficult to understand how a generalized form of abortion can allow for the specific protection of fetuses that exhibit forms of disability. While not fatalistic about the possibility of a reciprocal arrangement between disability and feminism, this article does caution that disability must be understood on its own terms before it can form beneficial relationships with other fields.</p>

scholarly journals ‘Where Did That Voice Come From?’

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 8-25
Author(s):  
Melissa Morton
Keyword(s):  
Female Child ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
The Relationship

For the last two decades, the viewers of televised talent competitions have witnessed an intriguing phenomenon—singers with voices that fail to ‘match’ their bodies. With a particular focus on female child singers, this article explores the phenomenon of the ‘mismatched girl’. Combining theories from voice studies and musicology, the article examines the depiction of the relationship between voice and body within the talent competitions. Ultimately, mismatched girls prompt journalists, fans, and musicians alike to consider fundamental questions concerning the human voice—where do voices come from and what do they mean?

scholarly journals THE MYTHOLOGY OF KAMPUNG NAGA COMMUNITY

Al-Albab ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahyu Iryana
Keyword(s):  
Surface Structure ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Deep Structure ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Objective Analysis ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Linguistic Model ◽  
Model Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

In order to gain understanding of the meaning of symbolic variants of the myth in Kampung Naga, an objective analysis is required. Therefore, this paper applied the linguistic model study offered by Levi-Strauss as a new step for the objectivity of myth interpretation. The basic assumption of Levi-Strauss’ linguistic model is that myth often display a diverse surface structure, but in fact the diversity is the description of the human deep structure. The selection of this myth was solely based on the life of the Kampung Naga community as part of Sundanese Society. The results indicated that the myth in the religious life of the Kampung Naga community contains a various stories which include the revelation, the reincarnation, and the descent of revelation. These episodes can be constructed into the structure of a Levi-Strauss linguistic model, a binary opposition, namely the mandate giver (active) the mandate recipient (passive). The relationship between the giver and the receiver is vertical (structural) called “structure of three” (regular). From the “structure of three”, the “culinary triangle” can be constructed. From the “combined triangle”, the Batara Guru will also appear to become a central event that other figures have to go through. Finally, it can be stated that the deep structure construction that still refers to the aspect of Javanese cosmology in General.

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