scholarly journals Exploring the Craft of Exilic Thinking/Becoming

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-135
Author(s):  
Nicole des Bouvrie
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Ethical Problem ◽  
The Self ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
At Home

Abstract Being-at-home in a particular, determined, world is dangerous for thinking. For thinking to be thinking/becoming, one should not get too comfortable. For thinking is to not arrive back home, in the same place one begins. But how to escape the world that has created who you are, gave you purpose and a past? How to make sure the future is not a repetition of the Same? How to break away from something that you need? In this article, my aim is not to give one more solution to this fundamental problem that is in essence an ethical problem. For providing a refuge, a new theory, a new methodology, would be providing a new island for those who realise that a flood is endangering their own island. My aim is to exercise the craft of exilic thinking as a way to deal with the contradiction already pointed out by Heraclitus and Parmenides – “We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not.” Exilic thinking as a craft of fragilising the self establishes a matrixial borderspace through which the impossible becomes possible.

The Restoring of a Prophetic Community

Pneuma ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 460-476
Author(s):  
Jacqueline N. Grey
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Early Church ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Empowerment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Prophetic Community

Abstract The article discusses the future of global pentecostalism, focusing on the context of Australia. It first explores the self-identification of pentecostalism as a prophetic community in continuity with the narrative of Luke-Acts. In particular, the implications of the Isaianic mission of Jesus and the early church are discussed. The socially transformative nature of this mission includes not only miracles and healing, but also concern for the poor and marginalized. From this foundation, the article secondly addresses issues within contemporary Australian pentecostalism of individualism and self-reliance that are incompatible with the Isaianic vision. It presents, thirdly, a vision for the Australian pentecostal community that moves beyond a preoccupation with personal empowerment of the Spirit to participate with God in bringing healing and justice to the world.

scholarly journals Review Article: Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belongings (2016) by Rahul Gairola

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Home Economics ◽  
Review Article ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
Home Site ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
At Home

We all discover over and over again the kind of strange and violent stranglehold history has over us. We deploy histories to explain our pasts, identify the present, and orient us to the future. As Rahul K. Gairola shows in Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belongings, the multiple currents of history have dictated our methods for establishing our home-sites: who belongs and who does not belong in any given place. Our “at-home” practices, one dimension of “the double-bind of history as home…” (2016, xvi), have a deep and lasting impact on how we move about and participate in the world-at-large. Homelandings provides a timely intervention into the theoretical discourse on the “home-site” as the outcome of a “home-economics” that continually reenacts the persistent racism, classicism, sexism, and queerphobia of a neoliberal bio-political governmentality of the Anglosphere (Bennet’s term, cited in Gairola, 18). The project offers “homelandings,” Gairola’s neologism, as the process of resistance to and reappropriation of “home-sites”: “producing new homes in which alternative modes of community and belonging flourish and reproduce” (17). Homelandings—with “landings” as the demarcator of that which is in motion, always about to happen—then act as a series of transversal disruptors of the neoliberal sphere.

scholarly journals Améry, Arendt, and the Future of the World

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 128-139
Author(s):  
Anne O'Byrne
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Social Contracts ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
At Home

Of all the terms Jean Améry might have chosen to explain the deepest effects of torture, the one he selected was world. To be tortured was to lose trust in the world, to become incapable of feeling at home in the world. In July 1943, Améry was arrested by the Gestapo in Belgium and tortured by the SS at the former fortress of Breendonk. With the first blow from the torturers, he famously wrote, one loses trust in the world. With that blow, one can no longer be certain that “by reason of written or unwritten social contracts the other person will spare me—and more precisely stated, that he will respect my physical, and with it also my metaphysical, being.” In a vault inside the fortress, beyond the reach of anyone who might help—a wife, a mother, a brother, a friend—it turned out that all social contracts had been broken and torture was possible. His attackers had no respect for him, and no-one else could or would help.

The future: vision and challenges

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Omaswa ◽  
Nigel Crisp
Keyword(s):  
Clear Vision ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Vision ◽  
Global Solidarity ◽  
At Home

Chapter 24 draws together the major themes from throughout the book and identifies the lessons that can be learned for Africa and for the rest of the world. It concludes by offering a vision for the future, which can be achieved if Africans ‘claim their own future’, if there continues to be sufficient global solidarity to support health around the world, and if the countries of the continent develop a clear vision of ‘health made at home’.

Being Yourself

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Wall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cognitive Triad ◽  
Clinical Observations ◽  
Autonomous Decision ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Legal Test

This chapter discusses authentic decision-making as it relates to depression based on three parallel concepts found in philosophy, psychology, and the law. Since major depression is characterized (amongst other things) by ‘symptoms of sadness and diminished interest or pleasure’, ‘feelings of worthlessness/excessive/inappropriate guilt’ and a ‘cognitive triad of pessimism regarding the self, the world and the future’, the chapter explores whether an individual who has these symptoms can act on a judgment, thought, or belief in a way that lacks authenticity. It first explains, in philosophical terms, why autonomous decision-making presupposes a ‘personal identity’, before outlining a series of clinical observations suggesting that competence to make a decision requires an ‘appreciative ability’. It also considers whether the legal test for the capacity to make a decision has a component that is equivalent to ‘personal identity’ or an ‘appreciative ability’.

Patriotic Declaration of Democracy

Worldview ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 36-37
Author(s):  
Korean Christians
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Dark Shadow ◽  
At Home

Today we celebrate the fifty-seventh anniversary of the March First Independence Movement. Compelled by the aspirations of our people that resounded throughout the world on that day in 1919 and moved by the patriotic spirit of our forefathers, we take this occasion to make a solemn and patriotic declaration, both at home and abroad, concerning democracy.The division of Korea at the end of World War II shattered the hopes that had filled the hearts of our people at the time of Liberation from Japanese rule. This tragic division once more cast a dark shadow over the future of our nation. Yet to the end our people refused to give up their cherished hope. They rose up out of the ashes of the Korean War, they crushed the dictatorship of Syngman Rhee through the Righteous Uprising of April 19, and they reestablished in every heart the hope for realization of a free and democratic society.

scholarly journals Documenting the world at home and abroad : The Jacques Madvo collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Jokinen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Value ◽  
Found Footage ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Home Movies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
At Home

This thesis draws on the cataloguing and examination of the Madvo Collection at the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) as the basis to determine the value of his independent non-fiction films and resolve possible scenarios for their preservation. The collection contains 240 canisters of 16mm non-fiction films and production elements that LIFT intends to use as a resource for found footage films. This raises several concerns for the future of the materials, the most critical of which is the physical destruction of the films. This thesis aims to create a record of Madvo’s oeuvre so that his work can be protected from LIFT’s claim to use it as found footage. It offers different uses for the materials, as well as a broader perspective on the cultural value of the collection, paying particular attention to its importance for the history of amateur films and home movies.

‘Dying to Live’: Remembering and Forgetting May Sinclair

May Sinclair ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Raitt
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
May Sinclair

For Sinclair, the past was a wound. She feared being unable to escape it, and she feared in turn her own persistence in a form that she could not control. Mystic ecstasy – what she called the “new mysticism” – was a way of entering a timeless realm in which there was no longer any past to damage her. But she was also fascinated by what could never be left behind – hence her interest in heredity, the unconscious, and the supernatural. However, the immanence of the future can also emancipate us from the past, in Sinclair’s view, and this is the key to why mystical experience was so immensely appealing to her. Mystical experience could take the self out of the body and thus out of past traumas and into the future. False dying – like that which creates ghosts – traps the psyche in its own pain and forces it to re-experience the suffering of its life; real dying – mystical dying – involves forgetting the self and the world.

scholarly journals Rancang Bangun Gelang Locator Pasien Terkonfirmasi Covid-19 dengan Metode Haversine sebagai Pengidentifikasian Pelanggaran Zona Aman Isolasi Mandiri Menggunakan Komunikasi Lora (Long Range)

eLEKTRIKA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ahmad Afan Maulana ◽  
Riza Alfita ◽  
Achmad Fiqhi Ibadillah
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Safe Zone ◽  
Time Limit ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government ◽  
At Home

<p><em>Positive cases of COVID-19 continue to grow rapidly. This prompted the government to make new rules in the form of various types of health protocols. One of them is the implementation of the self-isolation protocol for confirmed COVID-19 patients. Self-isolation is a rule that requires confirmed patients to stay at home until the specified time limit to break the chain of COVID-19 development. However, it is suggested and as a rule that there are still many ODP and PDP who still violate the rules of self-isolation from the government. The ODP and PDP still roam freely without thinking about the impacts and risks to their surroundings. With the departure of confirmed patients, the risk of developing COVID-19 becomes greater. </em><em>In this study, a confirmed patient locator bracelet was made that can map the position of the patient based on latitude and longitude. The latitude and longitude data from the bracelet is sent to the gateway by LoRa communication. LoRa communication is also used to minimize the dimensions of the bracelet. In addition to mapping the location of the patients, by applying the Heversine method this system is able to identify when a safe zone violation occurs in the form of a change in the color of the marker. In the future, it is hoped that this system will be able to handle the problem of developing COVID-19 caused by confirmed patients who still violate the self-isolation protocol.</em></p>

scholarly journals The times and spaces of transplantation: queercrip histories as futurities

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2021-012199
Author(s):  
Donna McCormack
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Multiple Selves ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
The Past ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Times

With a focus on Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu, this article explores how transplantation is part of the ongoing transformation of being in a body that is of the world. That is, it examines how we may require other ways of thinking bodies as constituted by histories, spaces and times that may be ignored in the biomedical arena. The Tiger Flu, I argue, calls for an intra- and inter-connected way of thinking how we treat bodies, and thereby ways of working with bodies affected by environmental disasters (both acute and ongoing capitalist and colonial projects), multiple selves and time as more than linear. I turn to queercrip as a way of defying a curative imaginary that dominates transplantation and in so doing examine the colonial, capitalist violence of present day living. I move through Eve Hayward’s and Karen Barad’s work to examine how the cut of transplantation is a transformation, as integral to the ongoing experience of having a body in the world and yet potentially unique in its force of bringing inter- and intra-relatedness to the fore of one’s existence. Rather than sick or cured, I argue that transplantation is a transformation that captures our bodily changes, how the environment constitutes the self, how parts may feel integral to the self or easily disposed of, how viscera may tie us to others, and how the future may only be forged through a re-turn to the past (of the donor and a pre-transplant self). Transplantation is not about loss of self or gaining of an other, but rather about rendering apparent our multispecies, multiworld ties, and thus how we are bound by the histories we forge and the futures we re-member.

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