scholarly journals “I’m Trying to Give Them My Face.” Everyday Embodied Agency of the Muslim Other in Amsterdam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Shaker ◽  
Sander Lanen ◽  
Bettina Hoven
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Agency

Italian Futurism and the Explosive ‘Now’

Futures ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 100-116
Author(s):  
Laura Wittman
Keyword(s):  
Italian Futurism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Frederic Jameson ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Embodied Agency ◽  
Temporal Modality

This chapter examines the development and changing artistic and socio-political implications of a particular temporal modality—‘the present as history’—within a variety of Futurist texts. It draws on the work of Frederic Jameson to argue that the Italian Futurists sought to radically disrupt a particular representation of the present in their calls to destroy the past and attempts to endow futurity with the urgency of fully embodied agency. Wittman argues that the Futurists reject a specific, historicist, bourgeois understanding of history and seek to inaugurate a new sense of time, an explosive ‘now’. Comparing early and later texts by Marinetti and other Futurists, and identifying their debts to anarchist thought, the chapter demonstrates that their strategy of breaking into the present can only counter totalitarian appropriations if it remains anchored in embodied practices.

Beyond Monks and Mushrooms

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-60
Author(s):  
Sara Rushing
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Relational Autonomy ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Democratic Practice ◽  
Political Ethic ◽  
Political Vocabulary ◽  
Embodied Agency

This chapter lays the intellectual-historical groundwork for thinking about the “virtues of vulnerability,” by mapping the concept of humility inherited in Western thought from Christianity, and the concept of autonomy inherited from liberalism. After detailing what these inherited concepts are, it argues that they are problematic from the perspective of embodied agency and citizenship-subjectivity, and develops alternative versions that bolster, not undermine, democratic practice. Confucian political theory provides a nontheological but deeply relational conception of humility, including concrete practices for cultivating a distinctly political ethic that is not about lowliness, self-denial, or subordination to authority. Feminist philosophy’s concept of “relational autonomy” provides an account of autonomy as an ongoing process that requires supportive social conditions and networks of relations, not mere non-interference. Bringing these traditions together, this chapter develops the conceptual framework and political vocabulary of the project, and begins to flesh out an important new concept of humility-informed-relational-autonomy.

Eating to become ‘good’ citizens: exploring the visceral biopolitics of eating in Singapore

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110650
Author(s):  
Siew Ying Shee
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Consumer Agency ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
A Site ◽  
Self Formation ◽  
Embodied Agency

This paper develops a more-than-representational approach to consumer agency in food biopolitics that is sensitive to people’s everyday eating experiences. In recent years, studies of food biopolitics have engaged with questions of agency by examining how socially constructed ideas of ‘good’ eating and citizenship are engaged on the ground. Yet, there remain opportunities to depart from the evaluative mind as a dominant site of ethical self-formation, and engage with the body as a site of political action and agency. In this paper, I argue that people’s sense of citizen selves has long been, and continue to be, organised across the interplay of material, discursive, and visceral spaces of eating. I develop this argument by drawing on a critical analysis of historical and contemporary news forums related to public eating in Singapore. For many consumers, their disdain for certain food—ranging from the erstwhile state-vaunted meal plans to leftover food on public dining tables—express an embodied agency in negotiating the technocratic designs of citizenship. In developing a visceral biopolitics of eating, this paper aims to expand understandings of consumers’ capacity in negotiating the ethical tensions between hegemonic imaginings of ‘good’ citizens and the everyday pleasures of eating. Approaching consumer agency this way orientates critical yet oft-overlooked attention to the body’s capacity to act, and possibly effect change, within the broader workings of dietary bio-power.

Cognition in Practice

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Quéré
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Theories Of Action ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Embodied Agency ◽  
Do So

How may we conceive of cognition in practice? What kind of thinking and reflection animate the accomplishment of action? These problems are usually settled by an intellectualist argument: to perform an action is mainly to execute decisions, to carry out plans or intentions, or to follow instructions. According to that view, cognition produces action, but it does not take place in the accomplishment of action itself Such an intellectualist view has been taken up again and developed by recent trends in cognitive science. Why focus on such a view? Because, by its systematizing of current assumptions in most of (he theories of action, it makes the conceptual framework of those theories very clear and allows one to see the inconsistencies of its underpinning. The alternative view outlined in this paper is based on an externalist and pragmatic conception of mind. It considers cognition as a social process and reintegrates it into the performance of situated actions. To do so, it grasps performance as a genuine praxis and specifies the thinking and reflection which animate it in relation to the phenomenon of 'embodied agency.'

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