The Instrumentality of Sense in Bruce Nauman’s Audio Video Piece for London, Ontario (1969–1970)

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 84-88
Author(s):  
Adi Louria-Hayon
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
American West ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Audio Video ◽  
Sensus Communis

Bruce Nauman’s installations have long served a literary and linguistic critique emphasizing the role of the body in relation to space and time. However, focusing on vision, phenomenology and semiotics, scholars of Nauman have paid little attention to the sounding body. The author weaves the political basis of audition into the making of sense while morphing the historical and philosophical roots through a close examination of Bruce Nauman’s Audio Video Piece for London, Ontario, a work executed soon after unrest on the American West Coast and in the streets of Paris. Unhinging the unity of sensus communis, Nauman’s work proposes new political trajectories for dispersed sounding bodies.

The role of cultural production in celebrity politics: Comparing the campaigns of Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura (1999) and Donald Trump (2016)

Politics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
David S Moon
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Celebrity Politics

This article draws out the significant similarities between the political insurgencies of Jesse Ventura in 1999 and Donald Trump in 2016, charting their own premillennial political collaborations as members of the Reform Party, before identifying wider lessons for studies of contemporary celebrity politicians through a comparison of their individual campaigns. Its analysis is based upon the concept of the ‘politainer’, introduced by Conley and Schultz, into which it incorporates Mikhail Bakhtin’s conception of the carnival fool. The heterodox nature of both Ventura and Trump’s political campaign styles, it argues, is in part explained by the nature of the cultural spheres within which their public personas were produced; specifically, the fact that these personas, which they carried over from the entertainment to political spheres, were produced within genres of popular culture generally positioned as having ‘low’ cultural value. This, it argues, furnished both with an anti-establishment ethos as ‘no bullshit’ straight-talkers, marking them as outsider candidates able to act as conduits for political protest by an electorate alienated from mainstream political elites. It concludes by emphasising the potential importance that political celebrities’ specific cultural production can play in shaping a subsequent political campaign in general.

scholarly journals Bodies and persons: The politics of embodied encounters in asylum seeking

2020 ◽  
pp. 030913252093844
Author(s):  
Jouni Häkli ◽  
Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Original Thinking ◽  
Sense Of Power

In this paper, we propose that there is a politics of encounters centered on the body at play in seeking asylum and refuge, and that it is critical to study how it unfolds from the point of view of both governing and agency. Building on existing work that looks at the role of embodiment in the political struggles of refugees, and leaning on Helmuth Plessner’s original thinking about social embodiment, we develop a theoretical understanding of this political dynamic, illustrating how it can help us make sense of power relations and forms of governance and (latent) resistance involved in it.

Zapovedniks or Tourist Resorts?

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-83
Author(s):  
Victoria Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Political Principles

This chapter addresses the role of cultural heritage in the drive to strengthen social solidarity and national unity in the ideologically unstable era of de-Stalinization. During the second, reconstitutive phase of de-Stalinization after 1961, the heritage of the Northwest played a strategic role in “imagining” the post-Stalin Soviet nation, a community founded on the political principles of socialist democracy, collectivism, and internationalism. The chapter shows how the creation of a touristic infrastructure in the region served as a means of exhibiting the heritage of the Northwest to the Soviet people. A key component in this enterprise is the body of touristic and kraevedenie materials focusing on the region's historic architecture. These texts reinforced a politically correct understanding of heritage as an integral part of Soviet modernity.

Asians in Small Business in the Russian Far East: A Historical Overview and Comparison with Asians on the American West Coast

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 566-575
Author(s):  
Valeri Patsiorkovsky ◽  
Stephen S. Fugita ◽  
David J. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
West Coast ◽  
American West ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
The Russian Far East

The historical role of Asians in the Russian Far East is examined, with particular attention paid to their involvement in small business activities. Similarities are identified between this experience and that of Asians on the American Pacific Coast.

scholarly journals "Communication in political discourse "body as a model: التواصل في الخطاب السياسي "الجسد أنموذجا"

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magda Ebah
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Decision

  The study is concerned with highlighting the role of the body in political discourse, which provides countless signs, extends in all aspects of life, and produces countless gestures, it is the identity which characterizes us, and we recognize through it, and the interface that shapes speech and progress. Hence, the importance of knowledge of its preparation, to be included within the bodies of successful, and active in society. As his presence was strong, attempts to approach him, to deal with him, and to engage him, appeared to discover his strengths. How can this be achieved? How can the power of the body affect the political decision? Political discourse, however, is not considered a beautiful body (as in sports advertising) nor is it a soft hair or a shiny complexion (as we see in cosmetics).

Socialist Domestic Infrastructures and the Politics of the Body

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-43
Author(s):  
Iulia Stătică
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Physical Transformation ◽  
Politics Of The Body

This article discusses the role of domestic infrastructure in the constitution of subjectivities through the concrete examples of two socialist cities: Bucharest and Havana. This comparative study investigates the manner in which socialist ideological intentions materialized explicitly and in nuanced ways through the physical transformation of domestic space. The domestic revolution initiated by Khrushchev is interpreted as a narrative that both cities share, generating—through the implementation of state socialism—a common archaeology of the politics of domesticity that goes back to the programs of the 1920s Russian avant-gardes. The article proposes that this manifold archaeology of domesticity reveals that the political agenda, manifested in both contexts as an aesthetic project, entered the sphere of private life, transforming the home into a vehicle through which the body was politically shaped.

Dinasti Politik dalam Pilkada di Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martien Herna Susanti
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
National Level ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
The Status ◽  
Party Elites ◽  
Dynastic Politics

The presence of political dynasties in power struggles from regional to national level is inseparable from the role of political parties and the regulation of the regional head elections. Oligarchy on the body of a political party can be seen from the tendency of candidates nominating by political parties based more on the wishes of party elites, not through democratic mechanisms by considering the ability and integrity of the candidates. Simultaneously, political dynasties continue to establish solid networks of power so they can dominate and kill democracy within political parties. In the context of society, there is also an effort to maintain the status quo in the region by encouraging families or people close to the head of the region to replace the incumbent. Weak regulation to trim political dynasties has contributed to the widespread political dynasty in the regional head elections. The practice of dynastic politics is also suspected to make the weakness of checks and balances function to the effect of corruption acts committed by the head of the region and their relatives. In the year 2017 is the second half of a new round of regional head elections, after the first half in 2015. The regional head elections system is new, but the old faces that are nothing but the continuity of the political dynasty characterize this Pilkada event which is feared could threaten the phase of democratic transition towards consolidation of democracy.Keyword: Political Dynasties, Democracy, The Regional Head Elections

scholarly journals Statens livsnødvendige cirkulation: Handel som livsvigtigt princip for den moderne stat

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (124) ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Mathias Hein Jessen
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
The Will ◽  
Economic Thinking

The article analyzes the role of trade in the constitution of the modern state in 17th century England. The article focuses on the metaphor of the body politic and especially the ideas on circulation from William Harvey and how these can be used to analyze Thomas Hobbes’ ideas on trade and circulation in Leviathan and the economic thought of William Petty. Harvey’s thoughts on circulation were revolutionary and highly influential on the political and economic thoughts of the time. Even though Hobbes is mainly focused on law and sovereignty, he still characterizes circulation and trade as a vital motion, not subject to the will of the sovereign. Combined with his notion that the sovereign is the holder of an office, who must administer the wellbeing of the state, this opens up for the analysis that what the sovereign is administering is in reality the necessary motions of trade and the economy in general. This is also seen in one of the most prominent of the mercantilist economic thinkers of the age, William Petty, who in his economic thinking contributed to the constitution of the economy as a given field with a given logic which the ruler could not fundamentally change, but had to understand and act in accordance with in order to govern well.

Theorizing emotions in world politics

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Hutchison ◽  
Roland Bleiker
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Political Emotions

Emotions play an increasingly important role in international relations research. This essay briefly surveys the development of the respective debates and then offers a path forward. The key challenge, we argue, is to theorize the processes through which individual emotions become collective and political. We further suggest that this is done best by exploring insights from two seemingly incompatible scholarly tendencies: macro theoretical approaches that develop generalizable propositions about political emotions and, in contrast, micro approaches that investigate how specific emotions function in specific circumstances. Applying this framework we then identify four realms that are central to appreciating the political significance of emotions: (1) the importance of definitions; (2) the role of the body; (3) questions of representation; and (4) the intertwining of emotions and power. Taken together, these building blocks reveal how emotions permeate world politics in complex and interwoven ways and also, once taken seriously, challenge many entrenched assumptions of international relations scholarship.

The Role of Polyphenols in the Modulation of Plasma Non-Enzymatic Antioxidant Capacity (NEAC)

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Serafini ◽  
Giuseppa Morabito
Keyword(s):  
Antioxidant Capacity ◽  
Dietary Intervention ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dietary Polyphenols ◽  
Enzymatic Antioxidant ◽  
Endogenous Antioxidant

Dietary polyphenols have been shown to scavenge free radicals, modulating cellular redox transcription factors in different in vitro and ex vivo models. Dietary intervention studies have shown that consumption of plant foods modulates plasma Non-Enzymatic Antioxidant Capacity (NEAC), a biomarker of the endogenous antioxidant network, in human subjects. However, the identification of the molecules responsible for this effect are yet to be obtained and evidences of an antioxidant in vivo action of polyphenols are conflicting. There is a clear discrepancy between polyphenols (PP) concentration in body fluids and the extent of increase of plasma NEAC. The low degree of absorption and the extensive metabolism of PP within the body have raised questions about their contribution to the endogenous antioxidant network. This work will discuss the role of polyphenols from galenic preparation, food extracts, and selected dietary sources as modulators of plasma NEAC in humans.

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