Challenging the Spatial and Temporal Constraints of the Body: The Online/Offline Presence of Bodybuilders in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiel Baas
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Temporal Constraints ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Real ◽  
Personal Trainers ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way ◽  
Being And Becoming

Abstract This article focuses on the way Indian bodybuilders negotiate spatial and temporal constraints offline (in “real” life) as well as online. These bodybuilders, who often make a living as personal trainers, display and advertise their bodies online in various stages of being and becoming, ranging from off-season/bulking stage to on-season/cutting stage when they start making the body ready for competition. This article discusses what it means to have an offline body that represents one temporal stage while at the same time maintaining a plethora of such (previous) stages online, to be consulted by others (e.g., aspiring bodybuilders, clients, and admirers). This article shows how these bodily representations and realities interact with various expectations and idealizations of the male body. The article proposes to think through the (re)presentation of these bodies via the dyad of im/mortality. The immortal body here is one that is multiple and can be accessed/consulted online by others at all times. The mortal body, in contrast, exists in or represents reality offline, referencing a state of becoming and eventual unbecoming. This article explores the tension produced through this opposition between questions of mortality offline and the quest for immortality online. While this article takes this oppositional structure as its point of departure, its ultimate aim is to upset the various dyads it builds on to show that the (bodybuilder’s) body always occupies multiple spheres across time and space, ultimately producing a hybridization of the real.

scholarly journals Consistency

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Kiki Rahmatika
Keyword(s):  
Body Movement ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Third ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

This choreography is started from Practice based Research. The research is about Dajang Rindoe’s manuscript which is deconstructed. In the process of cultivation of this work, the foundation of creation used text deconstruction, creativity, and choreography. Text deconstruction is implemented in finding the new point of view of the women freedom. Creativity approach is used for the reason that the artwork creation is not separated from the thinking process and work creatively. By this approach, the way of thinking and working creatively will be developed. The third approach that is choreography is used as the foundation in creating the dance aesthetic that involving the body movement, composition, unity, harmony, behaviour and other visual aspects. CONSISTENCY dance work is a description about woman toughness to get her freedom in order to maintain her integrity. The freedom that need the full struggle for her to get. Because the freedom itself has the meaning to be able to live independently and responsibly. In the real life, the freedom women who able to preserve her firmness independently and responsibly are very scarce. The imbalance of this firmness then fades the women integrity.

Let the People In! Lessons from a Modern Viking Saga

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-179
Author(s):  
Hélène Landemore
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
The People ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Electoral Democracy ◽  
The Way

This chapter assesses the real-life case study of Iceland to illustrate some of the principles of open democracy. It closely examines the 2010–13 Icelandic constitutional process from which many of the ideas behind this book originally stem. Despite its apparent failure — the constitutional proposal has yet to be turned into law — the Icelandic constitutional process created a precedent for both new ways of writing a constitution and envisioning democracy. The process departed from representative, electoral democracy as we know it in the way it allowed citizens to set the agenda upstream of the process, write the constitutional proposal or at least causally affect it via online comments, and observe most of the steps involved. The chapter also shows that the procedure was not simply inclusive and democratic but also successful in one crucial respect — it produced a good constitutional proposal. This democratically written proposal indeed compares favorably to both the 1944 constitution it was meant to replace and competing proposals written by experts at about the same time.

Surplus Repressive Punishment and Spirit’s Regressive (de-)Actualisation

2018 ◽  
pp. 212-240
Author(s):  
Wes Furlotte
Keyword(s):  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
The Real ◽  
Social Objective ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

This chapter begins with a provoking claim: the real problem here is not the natural dimension involved in criminality. Instead, it argues that the real threat to freedom’s social actualization is the way in which the state’s disciplinary apparatus reacts to violations of right. It shows that if criminality needs to be framed in terms of nature then so does punishment. If punishment functions to (re-)habituate transgressive persons, then one of its inherent risks is that it might operate as a brute externality, a natural force. In functioning as an external natural force, punishment actively mutilates the freedom constitutive of juridical personhood. Not only does this mutilation undermine the individual it also actively undermines spirit’s social (objective) expression as freedom because such a practice serves to (a) fragment and alienate the person and (b) the totality constituting the body politic. This threat is what the chapter calls “surplus repressive punishment.” This problem as a whole is what the chapter denotes with “spirit’s regressive (de-)actualization.” Consequently, the problem nature poses in Hegel’s system is even more complex when considered in terms of how the polis’ institutions frame, understand, and react to that very same problem.

Stepping Inside: On Participant Experience and Bodily Presence in the Held

1986 ◽  
Vol 168 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ton Beekman
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Life Form ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Ground Structure ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Life World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Participant Experience

In this article the author argues for participant experience as a research method which is dialogically based on respect for the child. The researcher steps inside the landscape of the child to share a life-form. It is through an engaged body-presence that the researcher can experience the atmosphere and meanings from within as they are perceived in a common horizon. It is by sharing the intentions of children that the researcher can experience time and space relations as concrete life-world dimensions, with social and personal meanings. It is in this concreteness of experience that the human drama can become visible if the researcher is able to express his or her experiences in a thoughtful narrative. While it is important that the researcher reflects on the narrative experiences and situates them in a broader historical and socio-economic context, he or she should not lose sight of the inspiration embedded in the real life-world of the children. The life-world reality should form a ground structure for all interpretation.

scholarly journals Decrypting the Real Life Escape Room Experience

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lim Qian Pink ◽  
Mohd Ridzuan Darun ◽  
Gusman Nawanir
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Real ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Revisit Intention ◽  
Specific Goal ◽  
Inherent Nature

An escape room is a game that requires a group of players to solve a variety of tasks within a given amount of time in order to fulfill a specific goal, typically escaping a locked room. Despite gaining tremendous popularity of the game in Malaysia, there is no study being conducted in this area. Existing customer experience frameworks offer a limited explanation of this rising phenomena due to the unique inherent nature of Escape Room. Towards this end, the present paper aims to identify the key constructs of Malaysian Escape Room customer experience and determinants of the players revisit intention with respect to the Escape Room. The research is conducted on 20 players who have played at least one game in any Escape Room establishment in Malaysia. This study adopts the sequential incident technique, a qualitative approach to unearth the hidden perception of players. Thematic analysis was subsequently used to analyse the data which revealed fifteen determinants of which 9 are related to the model of goal-directed behaviour. Our research contributes to the body of knowledge in mapping customer experience in this fair nascent industry. Insights from this study are aimed at benefiting Malaysian Escape Room business operators in designing and enhancing the customer experience in their escape rooms.

scholarly journals REVOLUSI MENTAL DALAM MENERAPKAN SISTEM EKONOMI ISLAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sappeami Sappeami
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
The Real ◽  
Daily Behavior ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Way

This paper examines the mental revolution in applying the Islamic economics system which is expected to open the horizon of humans’ thought, especially Muslims, so as they are always careful in carrying out all economics activities. The significance embodied in the idea of the mental revolution is the transformation of the ethos, namely the fundamental change in the mentality, the way of thinking, the way of feeling, and the way of believing that is proven in daily behavior and actions. The mistake which occurs in the economics system of this modern era vastly needs a mental revolution to restore the consciousness of economics actors that the world is only an intermediary towards the real life in hereafter so that the economics activities will constantly be performed with good and correct actions dealing with Al-Qur’an and As-Sunnah.

scholarly journals Life of Pi: A Visual Feast by Digital Cinema

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Divya Walia
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
Hard Drive ◽  
The Real ◽  
Digital Cinema ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Visual Impact ◽  
Realistic Scenes ◽  
The Way

<p><em>The world of media today is undergoing substantial transformation and advancement with various media forms making the most of it to attract the audience. Digital cinematography since 2010 has been enhancing not only the visual impact of the movies but also redefining the way they are produced and created. Silver screen, the most popular form of media too keeps resorting to new innovations to increase the marketing value of its productions by exploiting the technological advancements be it in the form of graphic effects or animations to appeal the watchers. Moreover, the digital world has revolutionalized the way movies are captured thus rendering refinement to its projection on the screen. Even the distribution of the movies, these days, is done via Internet or hard drive.</em><em> </em></p><p><em>In the genre of cinema, Hollywood animated movies amply exemplify the improvement that has resulted because of the contribution of the digitized world. The animated movies have now come a long way from being mere caricatures to real life characters, from being conception to concrete and surreal to real, so much so that these graphic projections are admired as well as emulated as the real life actors.</em><em> </em></p><p><em>One of the masterpieces of digitised visual effects that left the world awestruck was Ang Lee's Life of Pi, a 2012 American Adventure. It was soon perceived as a visual wonder by audiences all over the world for the use of animated technology and the realistic scenes created in 3D. The paper would be an attempt to examine the way visual effects have been exploited by the makers of this movie to create a successful story and a realistic depiction of imaginary on the screen. <br /></em></p>

Math For Real:The Half-Lives of Medicines

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Alyssa Hoslar
Keyword(s):  
Active Ingredient ◽  
Half Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Real

Calculating a half-life, the approximate time it takes for the body to remove one-half the active ingredient in a medicine, provides the real-life tie-in to this activity.

“Something I Can’t Quite Articulate”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Friedlander
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Awareness Campaign ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Us ◽  
La Leche League ◽  
The Way

This chapter extends explorations of representations of the human body into an examination of two prominent discursive sites concerning contemporary practices of breastfeeding, the US government’s 2004 National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign and La Leche League International. It suggests, against expectation, that Hannah Rosin’s controversial piece in The Atlantic, “The Case Against Breastfeeding,” (2009) might turn out to provide one of the most compelling public accounts of how breastfeeding can be appreciated for its engagement with the Real. Here, rather than in an overt engagement with reality and deception, we encounter the way in which the Real haunts accounts of the body that aim to firmly ground themselves within the Symbolic realm (the national campaign) and the Imaginary realm (La Leche).

scholarly journals OLHAR PARA O CORPO QUE DANÇA - UM SENTIDO PARA A PESSOA PORTADORA DE DEFICIÊNCIA VISUAL

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Valéria M.C. De Figueiredo ◽  
Maria Da Consolação G.C.F. Tavares ◽  
Silvana Venâncio
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Real ◽  
Visually Handicapped

Buscamos, neste trabalho, compreender o significado da Dança para pessoas portadoras de deficiência visual, na perspectiva de uma abordagem fenomenológica. Para isso, coletamos os discursos de 13 (treze) sujeitos que experimentam a vivência da Dança no presente momento de suas vidas. Não nos preocupamos com estilos prédeterminados de Dança, mas sim com a vivência e o olhar do sujeito em relação à sua experiência na Dança. A partir dos discursos coletados, orientados por nossa interrogação: "O que é isto, vivenciâr a Dança para você?", trilhamos nossos entendimentos e reflexões visando compreender o significado do corpo que dança com seus próprios olhares. De modo coerente com os fundamentos da pesquisa fenomenológica, procuramos encontrar uma perspectiva particular, em um determinado momento, e olhamos para o fenômeno situado, buscando aprofundar-nos na essência desse universo. A study was carried out to investigate the understanding of the significance of Dance for visually handicapped persons, using a phenomenologicaí approach. We collect the discourses of 1 3 (thirteen) subjects, ali of them being involved in a Dance experience at the time of the study. Our concern was not about pre-determined dance-styles, but about the real-life experience and the point-of-view of the subjects about their dance experience. The question to be answered by the subjects was: "What does it mean foryou do experience dance?", and it was based on the collected discourses that we traced our understanding and reflections, aiming to understand the significance of the body that dances, wíth their own eyes. Therefore, according to the rationale of the phenomenologicaí research, we aimed to find a particular perspective, at a certain moment,- we looked at the situated phenomenon, trying to enter the essence of this unique universe.

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