Jean Baudrillard: Critical Practice as Core Extraction

Paragraph ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Trexler

While literary criticism is often seen as an unself-reflective forerunner to literary theory, this article argues that T.S. Eliot's theory of critical practice was a philosophically informed methodology of reading designed to create a disciplinary and institutional framework. To reconstruct this theory, it enriches theoretical methodology with intellectual and institutional history. Specifically, the article argues that Eliot's early critical theory depended on the paradigms of anthropology and occultism, developed during his philosophical investigation of anthropology and Leibniz. From this investigation, Eliot created an occult project that used spiritual monads as facts to progress toward the Absolute. The article goes on to argue that Eliot's methodology of reading was shaped by anthropology's and occultism's paradigms of non-academic, non-specialist reading societies that sought a super-historic position in human history through individual progress. The reconstruction of Eliot's intellectual and institutional framework for reading reveals a historical moment with sharp differences and surprising similarities to the present.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Farida Rachmawati

<p>This paper aimed to discusses the activity of preaching (dakwah) as being part of the imaging world. The phenomenon is about dai as the advertisement representative from moslem fashion in media. The existence of media behind preaching makes it as a part of media industry. Therefore, consumerism appears as the excesses of capitalism intangible in a spectacle which no longer serves as a guide. This paper employs hyperreality theory of Jean Baudrillard to examine media constructions of reality beyond media. Media act as the bridge of communication in viewing the reality to bring the popular culture, consumerism, and consider it as significant image. We also compare the movement of preaching in media from uswah hasanah concept. However, the activity of preaching in the advancement of technology always faced with challenges, so its movement would be changing and should be adjusted without separated from the Islamic dakwah ethics. Therefore, dai as an actor in preaching does not be predominance by advertisement. Beside that, the important thing, that be supposed to give attention from dai and mad’u, is Islamic substantial not Islamic symbol.</p><p align="center"><strong>***</strong></p><p>Tulisan ini membahas tentang aktivitas dakwah yang menjadi bagian dari dunia pencitraan. Yakni tentang keberadaan dai sebagai agen atau bintang iklan sebuah busana muslim. Dengan adanya media yang berada di balik layar dakwah menjadikan dakwah bagian dari industri media. Sehingga tampak konsumerisme sebagai ekses kapitalisme yang berwujud pada tontonan yang tak lagi menjadi tuntunan. Teori hyperrealitas Jean Baudrillard digunakan untuk membaca konstruksi media terhadap realitas di luar media. Media mempunyai peran sebagai jembatan komunikasi dalam melihat realitas, sehingga mampu memunculkan budaya populer, sikap konsumerisme, dan menganggap penting citra. Di sini juga digunakan konsep uswah hasanah sebagai salah satu cara pandang terhadap fenomena dai media. Sebab bagaimanapun, aktivitas dakwah pada perkembangan teknologi sekarang ini selalu dihadapkan dengan berbagai perubahan, namun perubahan tersebut harus tetap disesuaikan dengan etika dakwah. Oleh karena itu, dai sebagai ujung tombak aktifitas dakwah jangan sampai didominasi oleh iklan. Selain itu juga diperlukan kesadaran baik dari dai ataupun mad’u agar tidak hanya mementingkan simbol Islam seperti formalisasi jilbab, tetapi juga memperhatikan substansi dari ajaran Islam. </p>


Temática ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamilla Avelar ◽  
Nair Prata
Keyword(s):  

Jean Baudrillard cunhou os conceitos de simulação e simulacro como substitutos da realidade. Para o autor, o que existe são representações que assumem por vezes o caráter da neo-realidade ou hiper-realidade. A construção da hiper-realidade é mediada pela máxima exploração do significante resultando em fragmentos da realidade. A partir da explanação dos conceitos, este artigo pretende apresentar o aplicativo Rádio Disney e analisar o game Divertida Mente, que integra o aplicativo da rádio. A pesquisa se desenvolve à luz das ideias cunhadas por Baudrillard e pela pesquisa exploratória. A partir desses elementos é possível concluir que o aplicativo é um suporte com capacidades de criar e recriar situações que representam a magia em um exercício autor-referencial.Palavras-chave: Simulacro. Simulações. Dispositivos móveis. Rádio Disney. Games.


Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Camila Maroja

During the 2017 Venice Biennale, the area dubbed the “Pavilion of the Shamans” opened with A Sacred Place, an immersive environmental work created by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto in collaboration with the Huni Kuin, a native people of the Amazon rainforest. Despite the co-authorship of the installation, the artwork was dismissed by art critics as engaging in primitivism and colonialism. Borrowing anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s concept of equivocation, this article examines the incorporation of both indigenous and contemporary art practices in A Sacred Place. The text ultimately argues that a more equivocal, open interpretation of the work could lead to a better understanding of the work and a more self-reflexive global art history that can look at and learn from at its own comparative limitations.


2016 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Marcus ◽  
Heather Love ◽  
Stephen Best

Universally practiced across the disciplines, description is also consistently devalued or overlooked. In this introduction to the special issue “Description Across Disciplines,” Sharon Marcus, Heather Love, and Stephen Best propose that description is a critical practice more complex (and less contradictory) than its detractors have taken it to be. They argue that turning critical attention toward description’s nuances gives us access to the ways that scholars conventionally assign and withhold value and prestige. The authors set forth a number of principles (using their contributors’ essays as a guide) toward the end of “building a better description.”


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