scholarly journals Spatially organizing future genders: An artistic intervention in the creation of a hir-toilet

2020 ◽  
pp. 001872671989972
Author(s):  
Annika Skoglund ◽  
Robin Holt

Toilets, a neglected facility in the study of human relations at work and beyond, have become increasingly important in discussions about future experiences of gender diversity. To further investigate the spatial production of gender and its potential expressions, we transformed a unisex single-occupancy toilet at Uppsala University into an all-gender or ‘hir-toilet’.1 With the aim to disrupt and expose the dominant spatial organization of the two binary genders, we inaugurated the hir-toilet with the help of a performance artist. We describe and analyse internal and external responses thereto, using Lefebvre’s work on dialectics and space. Focusing on how space is variously lived, conceived and perceived, our analysis questions the very rationale of gender categorizations. The results contribute to a renewed critique of binary thinking in the organization of workplaces by extending our understanding of how space and human relations mutually constitute each other.

Somatechnics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-38
Author(s):  
Michael O'Rourke ◽  
Kamillea Aghtan

This pair of texts, article and response – a performance poem of sorts – focuses on the sexual and textual erotics which circulate in the texts written by Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous for and about each other. It is based on Michael O'Rourke's ‘The Divivacities of Cixous and Derrida’, a keynote lecture delivered at the Bodies in Movement conference at Edinburgh in May of 2011 and Kamillea Aghtan's response to O'Rourke. It seeks to discuss the textual intimacies of Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida (and by reflection Michael O'Rourke and Kamillea Aghtan) and the various sensual bodies of text created between them. As O'Rourke enfolds his textual subjects, Aghtan repositions O'Rourke's conception of textual friendship and love in terms of her response and, by doing so, suggests a new kind of (un)balanced relationship in its writing, the creation of different amalgams and further bodies of text that are thoroughly contingent, multiplying and obstinately open-ended.


Author(s):  
Francesco Sacchetti

In this work I address creativity in the process of social sciences research, comparing quantitative and qualitative approaches. In discussing creativity I go back to Chomsky and his distinction between rule-governed and rule-changing creativity. In my analysis I suggest that the quantitative approach is characterized by rule-governed creativity, the qualitative one by rule-changing creativity: these are two models of creativity that the Chomskian vision links to a set of rules. Thus in the first case the creation of the tools by which the researcher collects information is submitted to a set of rules related to substantial and procedural competences. In the second case the creative phase does not have a place in the creation of a tool, but rather in a performance. The idea of performance as a constitutive part in qualitative research is analysed on a substantial basis, revealing the implications of distinct creative processes under different methodological choices. Whilst a quantitative approach requires using procedural and substantial competences, I suggest that in a qualitative enquiry the researcher’s fieldwork is considered as a ‘performance’ because of its adaptive character. The researcher is constantly confronted with unforeseen situations, surrounded by an unknown environment. Also, this use of the notion of ‘performance’ comprehends both elements of the process as well as of the outcome of fieldwork, as it recalls peculiar characteristics of qualitative work: action and interaction, personal involvement and, above all, orientation to a purpose (in this context, the teleological purpose of knowledge production).


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
Armand D’Angour

Abstract The fragment of the chorus of Euripides Orestes preserved on Pap. Vienna G 2315 leaves a host of unanswered questions. For whom was the papyrus inscribed? How much of Orestes was preserved on the roll? Whose music is it, and what melodic and harmonic sounds does it preserve? Can the gaps in the melody be filled so as to (re)create performable music based on the papyrus for the Euripidean text, and if so how? This article sets out in detail the steps that led to the creation of a score that has become part of a widely viewed Youtube video presentation of a performance in Oxford in July 2017.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Teguh Arafah

Many indigenous Muslims compose a book of interpretation with different types of languages ​​and methods used. Then came the mention of "native" interpretation, which is a term used to refer to the interpret. literature that arose/ appear from the creation of the Muslim of Archipelago, both the original and the descendants. For example Tarjumân Mustafîd by 'Abd Rauf Singkel using Malay Language, Al-Ibrîs li Ma'rifat at-Tafsîr Al-Qur’an al-'Azîz karya KH Bishri Musthafâ using Javanese Language, Tahrîf Qulûb al-Mu'minîn fî Tafsîr Sentences Sûrat Yâsîn creation of Ahmad Sanusi ibn 'Abd Rahim. In this article, attempt to reveal one of the literary interpretation of the archipelago from Tana Bugis AGH. Abd Muin Yusuf with his creation TapeséréAkorang Mabbasa Ogi with the Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI) of South Sulawesi. This book is called the book of Tapesere Akorang Mabbasa Ogi. Its Naming as a practical consideration to facilitate the reader to know and remember the book for the society of Bugis easily achieve the purpose of Al-Qur’an, both in the activities of religion and daily life.The Book of Tafsere Akorang mabbasa Ogi when viewed in term of its presentation belongs to the category of Tahlili Interpretation, but in the description does not use such a performance with interpretations using this method. By analyzing different aspects in detail, especially the linguistic aspect. It is intended to facilitate the reader Interpretation not to be preoccupied with his analyzes.


Author(s):  
Nemchenko I.V.

Purpose. Many writers from various epochs and countries have been admirers and propagandists of the bestiary space. The purpose of the work is to analyze the animalistic images and symbols in the Ukrainian poet Ivan Zlatokudr’s lyrics in the late of 20th and early 21st century.Methods. The elements of the following methods are used in the research: cultural and historical (helps to investigate the functions of poet’s lyrical images in the process of representation of the features of Ukrainian national nature and historical epoch), aesthetic (allows analyzing each text as a phenomenon of literature and art), miphological (for coverage of reproduction of miphological images by poet), hermeneutic (ensures free and open interpretation of texts with the possibility for new explanations), biographic (helps to describe autobiographic markers in the writer's literary works), descriptive (systematization of various elements of the animalistic space in the lyrics of the poet), intertextual (links between writer’s poems and folklore songs and literary general tradition), textual analysis (for coverage of the animalistic motifs and images of Zlatokudr’s collection). The research is based on the general methods of analysis, synthesis, observation, selection and systematization of the material.Results. The author of this article represented the results of literary analysis accomplished over the texts of Ivan Zlatokudr with animalistic motifs and images. The symbols of a horse, dog, cow, ox, sheep, cat, deer, wolf, fox, bear and other animals play an important role in the creation of the artistic image of the world in the writer’s version and show his psychology. The article finds out that Ivan Zlatokudr has delicate understanding of bestiarial space. The effect of a hero’s co-living with the environment depicted by the author, with the animalistic environment in particular, is characteristic of writer’s lyrical collection. Ivan Zlatokudr’s works combine real and fairy plans, have characteristics of legends, tales and mysteries. The poet’s bestiarial dimension deepens understanding of nature and difficult world of human relations and feelings and it has national and similarity sounding. Мета. Бестіарний світ приваблює багатьох письменників різних часів і народів – від давнини й до сьогодення. Метою нашої статті є висвітлення особливостей творення образів-символів звірів у ліричних текстах українського поета з Польщі Івана Златокудра кінця ХХ – початку ХХІ століття.Методи. У статті використано елементи таких методів: культурно-історичного (допомагає виcвітлити функції ліричної образності у процесі відтворення поетом рис українського національного характеру та історичної епохи), естетичного (забезпечує розгляд творів митця як літературно-мистецького феномену), міфологічного (використовується для відстеження репродукування поетом міфологічних образів), герменевтичного (пропонується вільна інтерпретація текстів із можливістю подальших витлумачень), біографічного (простежуються риси автобіографізму в поезіях співця), описового (здійснюється систематизація різноманітних елементів анімалістичного простору в текстах поета), інтертекстуального (звертається увага на зв’язки між віршами митця й українським та світовим фольклором і літературною традицією), текстуального аналізу (застосовується для окреслення анімалістичних мотивів та образів у Златокудровому доробку). Дослідження засноване на загально-науковій методиці аналізу, синтезу, спостереження, добору та систематизації матеріалу.Результати. Автор статті репрезентує результати аналізу текстів Івана Златокудра, присвячених анімалістичним мотивам та образам. Символіка коня, собаки, корови, вола, вівці, кота, оленя, вовка, лисиці, ведмедя та інших тварин виконує важливу роль у розбудові автором художньої картини світу, сприяє розумінню його психології. Для поетичної творчості Івана Златокудра досить характерним є ефект органічного вживання ліричного героя в зображуваний світ, зокрема простір фауни рідного краю. Митець поєднує в текстах реальний і феєричний плани, переплітає дійсність із легендою, казкою, містичними уявленнями. Бестіарний вимір у поета поглиблює й розуміння природної стихії, і складність людських взаємин і почуттів, має як національне, так і загальнолюдське звучання. Висновки. Анімалістична образність у поетичній творчості Івана Златокудра закорінена у світ міфології та фольклору укра-їнського та інших народів, ґрунтується на літературних традиціях. Анімалістичні образи-символи в доробку митця відбивають особливості української ментальності, історико-культурний досвід нашого етносу, віддзеркалюють естетичні цінності нації.Ключові слова: лірика, фольклор, міфологія, зооморфні образи, анімалістична символіка.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Anna Chadam

<p><strong>Purpose</strong> – The research focuses on examining which characteristics can raise or diminish board effectiveness in the context of M&amp;A activities of companies.</p><p><strong>Design/methodology/approach</strong> – The nature of the research was quantitative, and the sample was selected purposefully. The data was retrieved from four databases: ThomsonOne, Eventus, Institutional Shareholder Platform (ISS) and Compustat. The final sample consisted of 2613 mergers and acquisitions and was selected by applying the following criteria: both the bidder and the target were US-based companies, the acquirer was a listed company, the acquisition announcement took place over the period 2008 – 2017, the deal value exceeded USD 1 million, the transaction resulted in a control gain over the target company. M&amp;A performance was assessed using cumulative abnormal return (CAR) method, while the board influence was examined using ordinary least square (OLS) regression. Five hypotheses regarding the influence of board independence, gender diversity, board size, CEO duality and type of elections were tested in the research.</p><p><strong>Findings</strong> – Two out of five hypotheses were confirmed in the study. Board independence and board classification increase bidders’ CARs over the deal announcement period.</p><p><strong>Research limitations/implications: </strong>The main limitation is related to the measurement of M&amp;A performance, which is relatively difficult to quantify. Moreover, the method of selection of the sample, especially a higher proportion of companies from certain industries could affect the outcomes and underestimate the impact of gender diversity. Further research could investigate the deals in the long-term perspective and apply different criteria in the sample selection process.</p><p><strong>Practical implications:</strong> The outcome of this study is of importance to acquisitive and non-acquisitive companies by aiding them in finding an optimal board structure, which can effectively monitor and motivate the CEO, leading to profitable decisions concerning not only M&amp;A but all major investments.</p><p><strong>Originality/value:</strong> The study investigates the topic of board effectiveness in the M&amp;A context, which the research coverage is still very limited. The study covers five board characteristics and several control variables to increase the robustness of the results and ensure their correct interpretation. Finally, the sample consists of the most recent data, which enables to draw up-to-date conclusions that consider constantly developing corporate governance law and trends regarding the board structure and composition.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 443-450
Author(s):  
N. Hoshida ◽  
T. Yanagita ◽  
T. Kajiyama

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 65-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhiro Jo

The author examines the role of mechanical reproduction in (what was formerly known as) analog records in the age of personal fabrication with an example from his recent project cutting record. He investigates the creation of records without inputting sound sources by utilizing a production technique and a variety of materials, in conjunction with a discussion of a performance and workshop extracted from the project.


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