Psychoanalysis as Innovative Technology

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-452
Author(s):  
Miles F. Shore
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
New Work ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Gathering Data ◽  
Personal Element

Although the early psychoanalysts tended to be protective of information about their personal lives, new work shows how their characters and relationships influenced the evolution of their profession. Yet, this personal element, significant and often overlooked as it is, offers only one approach to explicating this history. Psychoanalysis can also be understood as a technological innovation—in this case, a novel means of gathering data that completely disrupted traditional methods of analyzing human subjective experience. This view of psychoanalysis is a particularly effective way to show how events shaped practitioners' behavior, even as their behavior shaped events. Thus does it offer a complementary explanation for why the adherents of psychoanalysis so often assumed the contradictory roles of avant-garde revolutionaries and protectors of the true faith.

To Be or Not to Bop: Jack Kerouac's On The Road and the culture of bebop and rhythm 'n' blues

Popular Music ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Beat Generation ◽  
Social Deviance ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Road ◽  
Counter Culture ◽  
On The Road ◽  
And Bisexual

The appearance of On the Road in 1957 signalled the emergence of a new movement in American literature, soon to be called the Beat Generation (Kerouac 1957). Along with Allen Ginsberg's ‘Howl’ of 1956, Kerouac's work brought a new awareness of an intellectual counter-culture bubbling under the conservative surface of 1950s America. The content of these writers' poetry and prose, with its open and honest depiction of hetero-, homo-, and bisexual activity, drug abuse, petty crime, and social deviance was enough to create a sensation, but it is the style that gives the works their permanence and interest today. Kerouac himself used the term ‘bop prose’ to describe his efforts to reform fiction along the lines of avant-garde jazz, where immediacy of expression and technical fluency combine to open new possibilities, supposedly not present in more traditional methods of composition.

Social Context for Mobile Computing Device Adoption and Diffusion

2009 ◽  
pp. 472-486
Author(s):  
Andrew P. Ciganek ◽  
K. Ramamurthy
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Adoption And Diffusion ◽  
And Diffusion

The purpose of this chapter is to explore and suggest how perceptions of the social context of an organization moderate the usage of an innovative technology. We propose a research model that is strongly grounded in theory and offer a number of associated propositions that can be used to investigate adoption and diffusion of mobile computing devices for business-to-business (B2B) interactions (including transactions and other informational exchanges). Mobile computing devices for B2B are treated as a technological innovation. An extension of existing adoption and diffusion models by considering the social contextual factors is necessary and appropriate in light of the fact that various aspects of the social context have been generally cited to be important in the introduction of new technologies. In particular, a micro-level analysis of this phenomenon for the introduction of new technologies is not common. Since the technological innovation that is considered here is very much in its nascent stages there may not as yet be a large body of users in a B2B context. Therefore, this provides a rich opportunity to conduct academic research. We expect this chapter to sow the seeds for extensive empirical research in the future.

Coda

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alix Beeston
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
New Work ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
In Series ◽  
The Subject

Building on new work that acknowledges the abstract and self-reflexive elements of Walker Evans’s photography, as well as his contributions to avant-garde art practice in the 1930s, this chapter analyzes select images from his 1938 photographic sequence, American Photographs. Evans’s photobook represents the modern United States as a vast machine for constituting subjectivities—but a machine that might be recalibrated or reverse engineered. It therefore emblematizes the subversive power of the woman-in-series in composite modernist writing: a figure who upsets the subject–object relations of this writing, bidding us to enter into the “shared hallucination” that is initiated, for Roland Barthes, by photography.

Enhancing Researcher Reflexivity About the Influence of Leading Questions in Interviews

2021 ◽  
pp. 002188632110374
Author(s):  
Heather Cairns-Lee ◽  
James Lawley ◽  
Paul Tosey
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Qualitative Research Method ◽  
Knowledge Claims ◽  
Gathering Data ◽  
Epistemological Perspectives

Interviewing is the most frequently used qualitative research method for gathering data. Although interviews vary across different epistemological perspectives, questions are central to all interviewing genres. This article focuses on the potential for the wording of interview questions to lead and unduly influence, or bias, the interviewee’s responses. This underacknowledged phenomenon affects the trustworthiness of findings and has implications for knowledge claims made by researchers, particularly in research that aims to elicit interviewees’ subjective experience. We highlight the problem of the influence of interview questions on data; provide a typology of how interview questions can lead responses; and present a method, the “cleanness rating,” that facilitates reflexivity by enabling researchers to review and assess the influence of their interview questions. This clarifies the researcher’s role in the production of interview data and contributes to methodological transparency.

scholarly journals De miskenning van Theo van Doesburg; zijn bijdrage tot de ontwikkeling van de konkrete poëzie

Literator ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
J. Van der Elst
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Concrete Poetry ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Visual Characteristics ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Theo Van Doesburg

More literary critics outside Belgium and the Netherlands have written about Theo van Doesburg than from inside these countries. The first important monograph on him appeared in English - Theo van Doesburg - Propagandist and Practitioner of the Avant-Garde, 1909-1923, by Hannah Hedrick. Van Doesburg’s poetry developed in the direction of concrete poetry - the type of poetry in which the spatial, acoustic and visual characteristics of language are maximally utilized towards the creation of the poem. Word as sound and as image is foregrounded in concrete poetry, while the imaging of persons and subjective experience is eliminated as far as possible. The anecdotal or the epic component of the concrete poem is minimal and the language of this sort of poem has been reduced to the minimum. In the spirit of the theory of concrete poetry Van Doesburg advocates the liberation of art from all the commitments imposed upon it. That with which Van Doesburg began was continued by other poets, especially in Germanic literature by poets of the so-called neo-realism.

scholarly journals Analysis of Problems and Optimization Countermeasures in the Transformation of Scientific Research Achievements in Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Lu Lu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Operation Mechanism

In the era of the macro-knowledge economy, together with the reform of marke operation mechanism, social development has become increasingly dependent on innovative technology, and it plays an important role in national strategic deployment. As the main base of scientific and technological innovation and scientific research development in our country, colleges and universities have become more diversified in their role positioning. Successful scientific research incubation will contribute to the release of their social functions and achieve self-sustainable development simultaneously. Based on the brief analysis of the problems in the transformation of scientific research achievements in colleges and universities, this article focuses on exploring the corresponding optimization strategies.

scholarly journals Technological innovation in a police organization: Lessons learned from the National Police of the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander Ernst ◽  
Hanneke ter Veen ◽  
Nicolien Kop
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Police Organization ◽  
Social Organizational ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
National Police

Abstract Police organizations internationally explore and experiment with new technologies to improve their performance and in response to new forms of crime. The police in the Netherlands experiment with various forms of innovative technology. Previous research has shown that social, organizational, and technological factors are important for effective use and deployment of technology by the police. However, the precise factors and mechanisms underlying the promotion or inhibition of technological innovations within the police are not clear. This study aims to provide empirical knowledge about these mechanisms by providing insight into the processes through which technological innovation develops within the police in the Netherlands. From January 2017 to February 2018, 13 technological innovation projects were subjected to a longitudinal process study. The results show that innovation processes within the police organization are often inhibited by organizational factors, whereas social factors can stimulate and promote these processes.

Social Context for Mobile Computing Device Adoption and Diffusion

2011 ◽  
pp. 675-693
Author(s):  
Andrew P. Ciganek ◽  
K. Ramamurthy
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Adoption And Diffusion ◽  
And Diffusion

The purpose of this chapter is to explore and suggest how perceptions of the social context of an organization moderate the usage of an innovative technology. We propose a research model that is strongly grounded in theory and offer a number of associated propositions that can be used to investigate adoption and diffusion of mobile computing devices for business-to-business (B2B) interactions (including transactions and other informational exchanges). Mobile computing devices for B2B are treated as a technological innovation. An extension of existing adoption and diffusion models by considering the social contextual factors is necessary and appropriate in light of the fact that various aspects of the social context have been generally cited to be important in the introduction of new technologies. In particular, a micro-level analysis of this phenomenon for the introduction of new technologies is not common. Since the technological innovation that is considered here is very much in its nascent stages there may not as yet be a large body of users in a B2B context. Therefore, this provides a rich opportunity to conduct academic research. We expect this chapter to sow the seeds for extensive empirical research in the future.

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