The Nietzschean Body and the Death of God

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Nibras Chehayed
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Moral Concept ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract “God is dead!” This is one of the most famous claims in Nietzsche’s philosophy, difficult to fully affirm. While the higher men fail to overcome the ghost of God, Zarathustra joyfully affirms God’s death. This affirmation deconstructs the metaphysical and moral concept of “divinity,” turning it into a metaphor. The new metaphor of the divine, mainly developed through the figure of Dionysius, expresses the capacity of affirming life beyond the old values, related to the dead God. It also involves the creation of a higher body beyond the body of despair, associated with these values. The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between the death of God and the body in Nietzsche’s account by analyzing the meanings of this death for the higher men, the question of the divine in Zarathustra’s account, and the status of the Dionysian body.

scholarly journals Espaços deslocados: poéticas de interação entre arte e tecnologia

REPERTÓRIO ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Regina Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
Scenic Design ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
Geometric Configurations ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Interactions ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="p1">Resumo:</p><p class="p2">Ao tomar como contexto teórico as pesquisas em Harmonias Espaciais desenvolvidas pelo teórico de movimento Rudolf Laban na primeira metade do século XX, este artigo considera o longo predomínio da visão de um <em>alguém</em> que habitava um <em>espaço vazio </em>separado do corpo e aponta perspectivas contemporâneas, que<em> </em>tornaram o<em> </em>espaço entre/em ambos mais fluido e plástico. A contribuição teórica aqui apresentada indicou a necessidade da inclusão de configurações geométricas mais instáveis no campo Labaniano e também a criação de percursos para a encarnação de conceitos, que pudessem representar essas novas interações. Como um dos territórios da pesquisa artística que fundamenta esta narrativa, o encontro com a tecnologia foi explorado, inicialmente, como uma forma de ampliar a experiência corpo-espacial dos atuantes formais e informais de uma performance, oferecendo a possibilidade de um desenho cênico que incluía a articulação entre espaços físicos e virtuais e de conexões espaciais de livre escolha. Mais recentemente, a relação se ampliou em uma experiência interdisciplinar de criação cênica e coreográfica em interatividade com processos computacionais. Nos exemplos apontados, o que rege a escolha das tecnologias é o interesse artístico e conceitual de investigar como cada tecnologia pode colaborar na criação, deslocamento e distorção de espaços performáticos.</p><p class="p3"><span class="s1">Palavras-chave: </span>Arte e tecnologia. Artes cênicas. Campo labaniano. Corpo-espaço. Performance imersiva.</p><p class="p3"> </p><p>SHIFTING SPACES: POETICS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN ART AND TECHNOLOGY</p><p class="p1"><em>Abstract:</em></p><p class="p5"><em>Embracing as theoretical context the Space Harmonies’ research developed by movement theorist Rudolf Laban during the first half of the 20th century, this paper considers the long predominance of the vision of someone who inhabited an empty space separated from the body, and points toward contemporary perspectives, which have made the space between/in both more fluid and plastic. The theoretical contribution presented here indicated the need to include more unstable geometric configurations in the Labanian field and the creation of paths for the incarnation of concepts, which could represent these new interactions. As one of the areas of artistic research that underlies this narrative, the encounter with technology was initially explored as a way to broaden the body-space experience of the formal and informal participants of a performance. It offered the possibility of a scenic design that included the articulation between physical and virtual spaces and free-choice spatial connections. More recently, the relationship expanded in an interdisciplinary experience of scenic and choreographic creation in interactivity with computational processes. In the mentioned examples, what defines the choice of the technologies is the artistic and conceptual interest to investigate how each technology can collaborate in the creation, displacement and distortion of performative spaces.</em></p><p class="p3"><span class="s1"><em>Keywords: </em></span><em>Art and technology. Performing arts. Labanian field. Body-space. Immersive performance.</em></p>

Schools and Paideia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Webb
Keyword(s):  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

Education (paideia) was central to the development of what is now called the Second Sophistic, but surprisingly little attention was paid to the subject in the contemporary texts. This omission may have been deliberate, a way of implying that the status of pepaideumenos or educated man was acquired through sociability rather than by tuition. This chapter outlines what we know about the teaching of grammar and rhetoric in the schools of the imperial period from witnesses, like Philostratus, Lucian, and Aelius Aristides, and from the surviving manuals. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between this teaching and its methods and the performances and writings of the sophists. Its role in the creation of a common culture shared by its recipients is also discussed.

scholarly journals A Biosemiotic Modeling of the Body-“Self” Synechism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Asuncion L. Magsino
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Recent Theory ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Body Self ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

As a counterargument to the Cartesian split that has impacted both speculative and practical fields of knowledge and culture, we propose Peirce’s doctrine of synechism to show the continuity in the semiotic activity that moves from the body as an Interpretant to the emergence of another Interpretant called the “self.” Biosemiotics, a nascent field of interdisciplinary research that tackles inquiries about signs, communication, and information involving living organisms is used as the framework in the discussion. The main question of whether a non-material “self” can emerge from a material body is tackled in many stages. First, the biosemiotic continuum is established in the natural biological processes that takes place in the body. These processes can be taken as an autonomous semiotic system generating the “language” of the body or the Primary Modeling System (PMS). Second, synechism is also observed in the relationship between the mind and the body and this is evident in any physician’s clinical practice. The patient creates a Secondary Modeling System (SMS) of how she perceives what the body communicates to her regarding its state or condition. Finally, the question about whether the emergence of “self” is synechistic as well is tackled. There is one organ from which emerges an Interpretant that is capable of generating a dialog between a Subject, that is the “self,” with its Object, and that is the brain. It is the primordial seat of specifically human activities like thought and language. The recent theory on quantum consciousness supports the doctrine synechism between the body as Interpretant to the “self” as Interpretant. This synechism is crucial for the creation of Secondary Models of “reality” that will, in turn, determine the creation of Tertiary Models more familiarly called culture.

scholarly journals How to Undo Things with Codes: New Writing Mechanisms and the Un/archivable Dis/appearing text

2014 ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Athina Markopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Major Change ◽  
The Body ◽  
William Gibson ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Writing Tools ◽  
Book Of The Dead ◽  
The Relationship

The discourses of criticism are being transformed at the same time that our writing mechanisms are undergoing a major change. Reflecting on the relationship between our writing tools and our perceptions and taking programmability and interactivity as the main characteristics of new writing media, this essay attempts an approach to how that which is new in scriptural techniques, that is to say, programmability and interactivity, are undoing our perception of such notions as the archive and embodiment. The two works which are here commented contain the conditions of unwriting their written trace; the interactor who makes the text appear paradoxically also causes its disappearance by acts of destruction or dispersion. In the case of AGRIPPA (A Book of The Dead), William Gibson reserves for the reader the role of the destructor of the text through an extreme gesture of interaction which destines the work to erasure and calls for the retrieval of a text that contains the conditions of its own death. In the case of Garry Hill‘s Writing Corpora, the body‘s acts are created of, create and are turned against writing, they embody and disperse the writing traces, while the body experiences the shift from inscription to embodiment.

Legal Entitlements, Changing Circumstances and Intertemporality: A Comment on the Creation of Israel and the Status of Palestine

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-408
Author(s):  
Yuval Shany
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Status ◽  
General Assembly Resolution ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
State Of Israel

The events surrounding the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and the ensuing Palestinian naqba (disaster) have generated an abundance of legal literature. It is beyond the ambitions of this article to revisit all or most of the existing literature, or to strive and comprehensively discuss the various legal propositions they consider. Instead, it offers a critical assessment of some of the legal conclusions offered by one of the most influential experts in the field – Professor James Crawford – who, in the second edition of his seminal treatise The Creation of States in International Law, discusses at some length the events surrounding the creation of Israel and the status of Palestine. Section 2 of the article offers some general observations on the continued relevance of the events surrounding the creation of Israel. In particular, it raises the question of the relationship between the principles of ex injuria non oritur jus and ex factis oritur jus in the Israeli–Palestinian context. Section 3 examines the legal significance of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate and Crawford's position concerning its validity. Sections 4 and 5 adopt a similar examination with regard to two other historic events of potential legal significance, namely the 1947 UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (the Partition Resolution) and Israel's 1948 Declaration of Independence. Section 5 also briefly examines Crawford's conclusions relating to the status of Palestine, and Section 6 concludes.

scholarly journals From Odd Encounters to a Prospective Confluence: Dance-Philosophy

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojana Cvejić
Keyword(s):  
Concept Formation ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
The Body ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
The Status ◽  
General Ontology ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

This text inquires into the relationship between Western philosophy and Western theatre dance from their odd encounters in modernity to the current affiliations between contemporary choreographic poetics, critical theory and contemporary philosophical thought. The point of departure for the inquiry is a discussion of the three problems that have structured the historically vexed relationship between dance and philosophy: dance’s belated acquisition of the status of an art discipline, the special ontological status of the work of dance, and the limits of dance’s meaning-production set by the theme of bodily movement’s “ephemerality” and “disappearance.” After critically examining the approaches of Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière in whose philosophies dance is relegated to a metaphor or, even worse, to an ahistorical conduit for a general ontology, the author makes a case for another movement of thought that arises in dance practice and is at the same time philosophical, rooted in Spinoza’s (and Deleuze’s) principle of expression. Demonstrating how choreographers, like Xavier Le Roy and Jonathan Burrows, create by “posing problems,” Cvejić presents a theory of “expressive concepts,” whereby choreography contributes to a philosophical rethinking of the relationship between the body, movement and time. This points to the new prospects of a kind of “dance-philosophy,” in which the epistemic hierarchy is reversed: the stake is no longer in what philosophy could do for dance, but how an experimental, radically pragmatic orientation in dance offers a practical framework for theorizing perception, concept-formation and other philosophical issues.

Body, Soul and Person

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-41
Author(s):  
John Parker
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Western World ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Physical Body ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines how the African peoples of the Gold Coast and its hinterland conceived the body, the soul and the person. It investigates what was seen to constitute a human being and what happened to those elements after death. To think historically about death, we need too to think about being alive. Just as the living know that one day their bodily existence will come to an end and they will join the ranks of the dead, so the dead — whether they are aware of the fact or not — were once living people. The chapter argues that the ideas about what constitutes a person, about the relationship between the person and the physical body, and about what remains of that personhood once the body itself is dead and buried are fundamental to how any society approaches matters of mortality. These issues have been of considerable interest to scholars of many parts of Africa and elsewhere in the non-Western world: first to colonial-era ethnographers and sociologists wishing to establish typologies of so-called primitive thought, and more recently to those concerned to interrogate and destabilize these typologies. The chapter aims to sketch a set of normative logics, drawing on some key seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources, together with later ethnographic works and secondary scholarship. The task will then be to insert these logics into history.

scholarly journals Analysis of literature data on the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and type 1 diabetes mellitus

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Victoriia Fylymonenko ◽  
Liubov Galuzinska ◽  
Tetiana Briukhanova ◽  
Olena Chumak ◽  
Olena Yatsenko
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Vitamin D ◽  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Vitamin D Deficiency ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship

Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a chronic autoimmune disease in which genetic predisposition and environmental factors play a major role. Vitamin D deficiency is becoming a pandemic in the world and is observed in type 1 diabetes mellitus. The aim. Analytical review of available literature data on the relationship of vitamin D deficiency with the development and course of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Materials and methods. Analysis of open sources of scientific literature. Results and discussion. Clinical observations and experimental studies show that vitamin D deficiency is one of the risk factors for the development of type 1 diabetes, and is a consequence of this disease. The status of vitamin D in the body is determined not only by the intake of vitamin from the outside, but also by the activity of tissue transport and metabolism systems, which have a high degree of polymorphism. Numerous studies show the positive effect of the use of vitamin D preparations in the prevention and treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus. However, there are works in which there is no protective effect. Conclusions. Thus, the optimization of the status of vitamin D in the body is a promising measure to prevent the development of type 1 diabetes and facilitate its course, but requires further research.

scholarly journals corpo, técnica e jogo na infância: notas da teoria crítica de theodor w. adorno

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 01-27
Author(s):  
Mara Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Affective Disorders ◽  
The Body ◽  
Real Contact ◽  
The Status ◽  
Electronic Games ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses the status of about childhood in Theodor Adorno’s critical theory, focusing on his reflections on the body, on technique and on play that mark childhood as another form of reason. Childhood is portrayed by Adorno as a place of the “first utopia,” that longed for and permanently uninhabited homeland that resists any rescue attempt, but illuminates the desire we once experienced, in a play between body and thought, dream and reality. Adorno’s child evokes the experience of another order of reason that feeds on the memory of the human’s animal nature, without, however, being exempt from the dominant historical forces that affect the processes of subjectivation. These reflections start with the writings of Adorno and what his dialogues with interlocutors, such as Benjamin, Freud, and Huizinga, contribute to the analysis of the topic. In the second part of the article, in an effort to understand the potential and the limits of technologically-mediated play, we discuss several studies of virtual reality, especially electronic games. Conjectures about how contact with reality is already damaged in childhood by the relationship with technology, which establishes a desire for instant gratification, suggest a critique of  the quality of attention that children receive in their education, and provide clues about the increasing appearance of socio-affective disorders, which culminate in the preference to dispense with time, the body, and real contact with other children in favor of electronic play.

Lazarus and the Sickness Unto Death: An Allegory of Despair

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon D. Podmore
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
Religious Symbolism ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Raising Of Lazarus

AbstractThis article explores the religious symbolism of death and resurrection in works by Dostoevsky, Holbein, Kazantzakis, and Kierkegaard, examining the imaginative correlation between the death of God and the sickness of the soul. Exploring the symbolic analogy between the death of the self and the death of God evoked by these works, I offer an existential reading of the death and raising of Lazarus as an allegory of despair over the possibility of salvation. I illustrate this existential dis-ease via a symbolic reading of two artistic depictions of death and resurrection. Beginning with reference to Nikos Kazantzakis’s account of the death of Lazarus in The Last Temptation, and proceeding to Fyodor Dostoevsky’s famous description in The Idiot of Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521), I endeavor to articulate a constructive existential and psychological analogy between the death of the self and despair over the death of God (interpreted as an expression of the loss of hope in salvation). Finally, by reading such despair with imaginative-symbolic reference to Lazarus, I return to Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death in search of hope in the “impossible possibility of salvation.”

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