Staging the Past in Cultural Theme Parks: Representations of Self and Other in Asia and Europe

2010 ◽  
pp. 57-92 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theme Parks ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Past

Posthuman Potential and Ecological Limit in Future Worlds

2018 ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Phoebe Chen
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ecological Disaster ◽  
Liberal Humanism

Phoebe Chen analyzes three representative YA dystopic novels in which characters face ecological disaster and finds them lacking, inadequate to address posthumanist possibilities. Ecological posthumanism stresses connections—between self and Other, human and environment, present and past—erasing borders that constitute liberal humanism. Earth Girl, Of Beast and Beauty, and Orleans all feature female protagonists living in ruined eco-systems whose subjectivities are massively influenced by their environments. Jarra, as an archaeologist on Earth, heals through recovery of the past; Isra reclaims the human traits of compassion and sacrifice to embrace the Other; and Fen survives (for a while) in the flooded streets of Orleans by embedding herself into the environment, thus losing her posthuman dignity. Chen describes such novels as being an “imaginative platform” for speculating about being human in ruined environments, a likelihood we all will face.

scholarly journals Approaching the Jazz Past: MOPDTK’s Blue and Jason Moran’s “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959”

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Tracy McMullen
Keyword(s):  
Direct Product ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Miles Davis ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Kind Of Blue

This article analyzes two approaches to the jazz past undertaken recently under the aegis of “jazz reenactment”: Mostly Other People Do the Killing’s 2014 release of Blue (a note-for-note re-performance of the Miles Davis Sextet’s 1959 album, Kind of Blue) and Jason Moran’s multi-media re-visiting of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall Concert, “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959.” I contend that rather than an ironic critique of the canonization of jazz, Blue is a direct product of the same tradition of understanding the past that informs such canonization. This tradition is based in an epistemology that privileges objectivity, logic, boundaries, and an obsession with naming while suspecting the subjective and what cannot be named.  Jason Moran’s “In My Mind,” however, offers a different understanding of the past, one rooted in ambiguity and connection rather than delineation and separation. I argue that this latter understanding offers a necessary critique of conceptions of the past and of self and other found in the dominant Western worldview.

scholarly journals Taiwan’s Mythological Theme Parks: Mnemonic Guardians and Uncanny Imaginaries

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian G. Brereton
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
Theme Parks ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
And Function

Cornell University This paper analyzes the mnemonic roles of mythological theme parks in contemporary Taiwan. I investigate two popular theme parks, Madou’s “Prefecture that Represents Heaven” (代天府) and its single Taiwanese precedent, the “Palace of Southern Heaven” (南天宮) in Zhanghua. I term these sites “mythological theme parks” because they differ significantly in form and function from other popular religious temples throughout Taiwan and China. Though both theme park and temple are loci of social production and reproduction, the nature of interaction at mythological theme parks resembles in many ways that which occurs at the imaginary realms manufactured by secular theme parks. These mythological theme parks feature moral imaginaries displayed in sculptural and animatronic depictions of the afterlife and acts of filial piety. My study addresses both textual sources and ethnographic data, collected while conducting fieldwork during the summers of 2004 and 2005, to evaluate how these mythological theme parks culturally convey the past into the present.

‘Auto-analyse’ and the Ethics of Memory in Assia Djebar's Nulle part dans la maison de mon père (2007)

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-342
Author(s):  
Lucy Brisley
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Self ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
New Model ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Literary Output

Recent transdisciplinary attempts to theorize an ethics of memory have centred on concepts such as melancholia, haunting and trauma. Despite being pathological states, they have paradoxically been posited as markers of ‘remembrance’ that signal the subject's ethical refusal to ‘move on’. If Algerian author Assia Djebar's literary output has, since 1995, been concerned with such tropes, I argue that her most recent narrative, Nulle part dans la maison de mon père (2007), marks a shift away from such thinking. Rather than focusing on the spectralized others of Algerian history, Djebar's autofictional narrative enacts a return to the self. In doing so, it postulates a new model of relationality between self and other that moves beyond the limitations of melancholic possession, haunting and the traumatic acting out of the past. Drawing on the recent work of Judith Butler, this article demonstrates how Djebar's narrative seeks an ethical mode of remembrance that refuses to fetishize the traumatic condition.

scholarly journals Are We Right about the Right TPJ? A Review of Brain Stimulation and Social Cognition in the Right Temporal Parietal Junction

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2219
Author(s):  
Nathira Ahmad ◽  
Samantha Zorns ◽  
Katherine Chavarria ◽  
Janet Brenya ◽  
Aleksandra Janowska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ◽  
Brain Stimulation ◽  
Magnetic Stimulation ◽  
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ◽  
Type I ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Right

In the past decade, the functional role of the TPJ (Temporal Parietal Junction) has become more evident in terms of its contribution to social cognition. Studies have revealed the TPJ as a ‘distinguisher’ of self and other with research focused on non-clinical populations as well as in individuals with Autism and Type I Schizophrenia. Further research has focused on the integration of self-other distinctions with proprioception. Much of what we now know about the causal role of the right TPJ derives from TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation), rTMS repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation), and tDCS (transcranial Direct Cortical Stimulation). In this review, we focus on the role of the right TPJ as a moderator of self, which is integrated and distinct from ‘other’ and how brain stimulation has established the causal relationship between the underlying cortex and agency.

scholarly journals Theater/Performance Historiography: A Preamble

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Michal Kobialka
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Past Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Academic Practices ◽  
Anglo American

The introduction to the issue of Pamiętnik Teatralny which gestures towards current work on theater/performance historiography published in the Anglo-American academe. Reflecting on insights about the complex nature and the mediality of historical knowledge, we would like to offer a collection of essays which, in their singularity, draw attention to internal contradictions prompted by tensions between 1) time, space, and matter, which are used to frame academic practices, and 2) events and objects, which are determined historically not only by past and present imaginations but also by how time, space, and matter function within the field of theater/performance historiography. We ask the following questions: How are we to think about the ways of housing the past (the archive, the event, the object) and the experience of the past (time, space, matter)? How are we to think about historiography in ways that are not only not dualistic (e.g., self and other, mainstream and margin), but that facilitate seeing historical subjects as unsettled by (rather than settled in) time, as riddled with contradictions (rather than reflective of a status quo), and as constructs of meaning (rather than as regulated thought)? And finally, how are we to negotiate the dynamics and the contradictions between multiple temporalities and spatialities housed in one and the same object or event?

SPECIAL ARTICLE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 472-479
Author(s):  
John A. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Emotional Disturbance ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Emotional Disturbances ◽  
Similar Nature ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Childhood Mental Health ◽  
Schizophrenic Reaction

THE INCREASING USE of the diagnosis, "schizophrenic reaction," in the severe emotional disturbances of childhood is an evolutionary phenomenon. It is, in part, accounted for by the trend toward incidence of severe emotional disturbance in children at younger ages during the past 2 decades, which has eventuated in the current general problem of increasing severity in childhood mental health. Prior to the 1940's there was little demand for mental hospital beds for children, while today most of the states are engaged in construction of facilities for children, with no end to the demand in sight. Prior to the 1940's it was not believed that emotional disorders of early childhood could be severe enough to be identified as psychosis. In 1939, Kanner described a new syndrome of psychotic disturbance in childhood which he called "infantile autism." From this period on, a number of independent workers reported cases of similar nature. Kanner saw in the behavior of these children a quality that had been considered by Bleuler to be typical of schizophrenic reactions, in his now classic treatise published in 1911. Autism referred to the withdrawal of the schizophrenic from the world of human relationships and values into a self-created world. Kanner described two modes of behavior as typical: 1) alienation from social relationship with persons and 2) preference for sameness in the environment. In addition he cited the fact that the children manifested confusion between self and other; the child might call himself "you," or "lie," and his mother or other caretaker "me."

Contemporary Fabrication of Pasts and the Creation of New Identities?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Ludwig ◽  
Yi-Wen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theme Parks ◽  
Conservation Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Heritage Discourse

This chapter examines the selective usage of history, relics and practice to reconstruct specific versions of the past. The open-air Beamish Museum in Durham, UK and the historical theme parks in Hangzhou and Kaifeng, China are used as comparative case studies to unpack first, how ‘heritage’ is conceptualised in each context, and second, how particular versions of the past are selected, (re)invented, disseminated and consumed for contemporary purposes. Set within a theoretical framework of ‘living heritage’ and an analytical framework of the overlapping themes of authenticity, identity and national pride, tourism and education, the chapter examines the different ways in which the appropriation of cultural heritage takes place at each site. In doing so, we draw attention to the disparate interpretations of conservation practice and the idea of ‘living heritage’ in the UK and China and debate their continued relevance in the contemporary heritage discourse.

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