Sociohistorical Self-Choreography: A Second Dance with Castoriadis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Hall

Abstract Twentieth-century Greco-French philosopher, economist, psychoanalyst and activist Cornelius Castoriadis offers a creative new conception of imagination that is uniquely promising for social justice. Though it has been argued that this conception has one fatal flaw, the latter has recently been resolved through a creative dialogue with dance. The present article fleshes out this philosophical-dancing dialogue further, revealing a deeper layer of creative dialogue therein, namely between Castoriadis’ account of time and choreography. To wit, he reconceives time as the self-choreography of the sociohistorical, in which performance the sociohistorical plays two dancing roles simultaneously, both choreographer and choreographed dancer. More precisely, as interpreted by Castoriadis in a late essay, the creation and emergence of forms in time consists of a poetic “scansion” or “scanning” of time. Thus, the sociohistorical is both choreographer and dancer, poet and reader, reinterpreting the poetic text of time as the music for its evolving dance.

2015 ◽  
pp. 313-321
Author(s):  
Elvira del Carmen Acuña González ◽  
Magdalena Avila Pardo ◽  
Jane Elisabeth Holmes Lewendon

The present article describes how the development of the ‘conversation sessions’ in the self-access centre (SAC) fostered a Community of Practice (CoP) as theorised by Lave & Wenger (1991). Our SAC is at a government-funded university in Cancun, Mexico. The conversation sessions were implemented with the aim to offer our EFL students the opportunity to practice speaking on a regular basis to complement their English programme. These peer-run conversations, in turn, are one of the key elements that led to the creation of a CoP where SAC users and personnel share a repertoire of resources and conventions created over time in order to form, transmit and advance knowledge.


2021 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 44-58
Author(s):  
Chris Vance

Incarcerated workers across Canadian prisons have organized and conducted strike actions. These actions, however, have been rejected by the Canadian state, on the basis that the incarcerated workers are not legally employees. The court ruling ( Guérin et al. v. Canada 2018), while accepting evidence of the prisoners’ material hardships from their low pay and from reprisals for striking, excluded them from the legal protections of employees and thus devalued the prisoners’ labour. The self-organizing efforts reveal the levels of inequality experienced by incarcerated workers in the ruling order of global apartheid, “in which race and mobility feature as primary variables for which heightened security and militarization are the answer” ( Besteman 2020 , 1). This article discusses the effects of prisoners’ organizing in the larger context of social justice. In so doing it examines cultural texts that document interactions between organizers inside and outside prisons and their contribution toward alternatives to carceral cultures. This article argues that the cultural production by prisoners and their supporters express the conditions in which prisoner self-organizing is necessary for larger social transformation. The creation and nurturing of collective relationships with one another, both within and across prison walls, clarify common grounds for liberation struggles, and connect envisioned freedoms to overthrow the various forces that enclose communities and hold significant numbers of us captive.


2011 ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
José María Moreno Carrascal

El proceso de constante reelaboración y reagrupación en secuencias que D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) lleva a cabo en su obra en verso viene motivado no sólo por un afán formalista sino, muy especialmente, por una preocupación autobiográfica y un deseo de plasmar orgánicamente la conciencia individual o self del autor y su particular cosmovisión de la realidad. Este hecho, patente en todos los poemarios del poeta inglés, propició –por parte de un sector mayoritario de la crítica formalista a lo largo del pasado siglo– la aparición de ciertas ideas reduccionistas que llegaron a considerar la obra en prosa en general y la poesía en particular de este controvertido autor del High Modernism en lengua inglesa como una construcción ajena a las realidades y tensiones sociales de la Inglaterra de comienzos del siglo XX. El autor recrea la mutante realidad externa en su poesía mediante un lenguaje simbólico y mito-poético, basándose en el concepto de la polaridad antagónica y desde unos presupuestos y una mentalidad a-racional y anti-industrial (es decir, aparentemente pre-moderna) que entronca por un lado con la subjetividad del yo romántico y por otro con ciertas corrientes de pensamiento de la modernidad. Mediante el análisis de la forma, el contenido y las posibles influencias de la secuencia poética titulada «Transformations», perteneciente al poemario New Poems (1918), se pretende desmontar en este artículo algunas de las construcciones reduccionistas anteriormente citadas. El proceso de secuenciación arriba aludido así como la motivaciones externas más allá de las preocupaciones del yo consciente o self parecen quedar patentes en dicho análisis, con el que se intenta contribuir a la reivindicación de la poética y la poesía de un autor cuya obra en verso ha sido, durante un largo periodo de tiempo, insuficientemente valorada en el canon en lengua inglesa.The use of the poetic sequence and the constant process of elaboration and rearrangement of poems in clusters unsdertaken by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) in his books of poetry is the result not only of a formal concern on the part of the author but, more precisely, of the evidence of an autobiographical preocupation that stems from the need of the poet to express his individual conscience or self as well as from his particular vision of external reality. This fact, evident in all the books of poems published by the English poet, was somehow responsible for the existence (mostly among a vast section of the formalist criticism dominant throughout the twentieth century) of certain reductionist ideas and opinions which erroneously considered the works in prose in general and the poetry in particular of this controverted author of the English High Modernism as a literary construct alien to the realities and social tensions of early 1900´s England. in his poetry, D. H. Lawrence recreates the ever-changing outward reality by means of a symbolic and poetic language that generates his own myths. In order to achieve this objective, the author uses key ideas such as the relevant concept of antagonistic polarity and certain (apparently anti-modern) pre-rational and anti- industrial beliefs, which can be traced to the subjectivity of romanticism but that were also part of some modern currents of thought dominant in that time period. The present article intends to deconstruct some of the above mentioned reductionist ideas about the poetry of D. H. Lawrence through an analysis of both form and content and of the possible influences present in the poetic sequence entitled «Transformations » which the poet included in his book of poetry New Poems (1918). Such analysis also purports to evidence the above mentioned process of elaboration and rearrangement as well as the autobiographical intentionality and the motivations beyond the preoccupations of the self in an author whose poetical works were for a long period of time insuficciently valued within the English language canon.


Author(s):  
Natalie Wall

This article explores Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1967) and Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation (1994) through the effects that depression has on the creation and perception of self in young women. Depression is explored in terms of the barriers it erects around young women’s attempts to conceptualise selfhood as it forms in adolescence. This article particularly focuses on the problem of productivity in both texts as protagonists Esther Greenwood and Elizabeth Wurtzel appear to view productivity, particularly academic and literary, as the means through which they will create and establish a coherent self. This fetishised productivity is halted by their depressions, illustrating a further tension between the wider capitalist society which demands productivity and the destabilising nature of depression. Whilst Esther and Elizabeth have different experiences, due to the periods of composition, both characters and texts have striking similarities which suggest that there is a common thread which unites the experiences of female depression in the late twentieth century.


2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Romana Huk

What has lyric to do with any radical phenomenology's choreography? Maurice Scully in Several Dances asks that question, as he has for years now, alongside other poets of Ireland's avant-garde whose ‘distinguishing (not inhibiting) feature’, as Sarah Bennett writes (acknowledging the work of Alex Davis and Eric Falci before her) is that in it ‘the lyric subject persists’ – in tandem with, this essay argues, what she names ‘an interest in perception … [which] is perhaps the most compelling commonality in these poets' work’. What distinguishes Scully's from the lyric phenomenology of American poets from William Carlos Williams (invoked throughout the volume) to George Oppen (also invoked) is that he queries existentialism's ‘singular’ approach to phenomena, achieved as Heidegger thought through the phenomenological ‘bracketing’ of individual (and communal) preconceptions from the perception of things. Cosmic – even theological – speculation enters in as Scully's poems move out past both self-centered lyric and twentieth-century cancellations of all preconceptions in the ‘limit-thinking’ and being-toward-death that phenomenology proposed for seeing past the self. Yet Scully works with mortality always in his sights too as he sings ‘the Huuuman / Limit-at-tation Blues’ (p.118) and, more vertiginously, considers both the undelimitability and the fragility of us.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Sholeha Rosalia ◽  
Yosi Wulandari

Alif means the first, saying the Supreme Life and is Sturdy and has the element of fire and Alif is formed from Ulfah (closeness) ta'lif (formation). With this letter Allah mementa'lif (unite) His creation with the foundation of monotheism and ma'rifah belief in appreciation of faith and monotheism. Therefore, Alif opens certain meanings and definitions of shapes and colors that are in other letters. Then be Alif as "Kiswah" (clothes) for different messages. That is a will. "IQRO" is a revelation that was first passed down to the Prophet Muhammad. Saw. Read it, which starts with the letter Alif and ends with the letter Alif. The creation of a poem is influenced by the environment and the self-reflection of a poet where according to the poet's origin, in comparing in particular Alif's poetry from the two poets. The object of this research is the poetry of Zikir by D. Zawawi Imron and Sajak Alif by Ahmadun Yosi Herfanda. This study uses a comparative method and sociology of literature. Through a comparative study of literature between the poetry of Zikir D. Zawawi Imron and Sajak Alif Ahmadun Yosi Herfanda, it is hoped that the public can know the meaning of Alif according to the poet's view. With this research, the Indonesian people can accept different views on the meaning of Alif in accordance with their respective understanding without having to look for what is right and wrong. The purpose in Alif is like a life, in the form of letters like a body, a tree that is cut to the root, from the heart is split to the seeds, then from the seeds are split so that nothing is the essence of life. So, it is clear that Alif is the most important and Supreme letter. Talking about the meaning of Alif as the first letter revealed on earth. After the letter Alif was revealed, 28 other Hijaiyah letters were born. The letter Alif is made the beginning of His book and the opening letter. Other letters are from Alif and appear on him.


Author(s):  
George Pattison

This chapter sets out the rationale for adopting a phenomenological approach to the devout life literature. Distinguishing the present approach from versions of the phenomenology of religion dominant in mid-twentieth-century approaches to religion, an alternative model is found in Heidegger’s early lectures on Paul. These illustrate that alongside its striving to achieve a maximally pure intuition of its subject matter, phenomenology will also be necessarily interpretative and existential. Although phenomenology is limited to what shows itself and therefore cannot pass judgement on the existence of God, it can deal with God insofar as God appears within the activity and passivity of human existence. From Hegel onward, it has also shown itself open to seeing the self as twofold and thus more than a simple subjective agent, opening the way to an understanding of the self as essentially spiritual.


Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn ◽  
Mark Lipovetsky ◽  
Irina Reyfman ◽  
Stephanie Sandler

The chapter examines the emergence of literature from coteries and domestic routine. It describes how male poetic circles, held together by friendship and common intellectual interests, produced the interconnected institutions of literature necessary to literature. While early in the century, women writers mostly worked privately, they eventually moved into more public venues such as the salon. An interest in subjectivity, the self, and friendship networks, which were also reading communities, fostered the creation of a performative and reflective self that gave rise to literary heroes to satisfy the new interests and demands of writers and readers.


Author(s):  
Bonnie Effros

The excavation of Merovingian-period cemeteries in France began in earnest in the 1830s spurred by industrialization, the creation of many new antiquarian societies across the country, and French nationalism. However, the professionalization of the discipline of archaeology occurred slowly due to the lack of formal training in France, weak legal protections for antiquities, and insufficient state funding for archaeological endeavors. This chapter identifies the implications of the central place occupied by cemeterial excavations up until the mid-twentieth century and its impact on broader discussions in France of national origins and ethnic identity. In more recent years, with the creation of archaeological agencies such as Afan and Inrap, the central place once occupied by grave remains has been diminished. Rescue excavations and private funding for new structures have brought about a shift to other priorities and research questions, with both positive and negative consequences, though cemeteries remain an important source of evidence for our understanding of Merovingian society.


2020 ◽  
pp. 009164712097498
Author(s):  
John M. McConnell ◽  
Vincent Bacote ◽  
Edward B. Davis ◽  
Eric M. Brown ◽  
Christin J. Fort ◽  
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Multiculturalism, social justice, and peace are important aspects of the Christian faith. However, scholars in the literature seeking to integrate psychology and Christian theology have underrepresented them. In this present article, we review barriers to including them in our psychology–theology integration literature. Thereafter, we provide a trinitarian theology of multiculturalism, social justice, and peace with a hope that theological knowledge will help Christian psychologists begin to overcome barriers and to move this body of literature forward. We also offer implications for scholarship/research, education/training, and clinical work.


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