scholarly journals Violently Peaceful: Tibetan Self-Immolation and the Problem of the Non/Violence Binary

Open Theology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Soboslai
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Immolation ◽  
Ethical Systems

AbstractThe paper investigates the conceptual dichotomy of violence and nonviolence in reference to the self-immolations that have been taking place in Tibet for the last several years. First using the insights of Hannah Arendt to distinguish between the categories of violent, nonviolent and peaceful, I approach the question of violence as the problem of acts that transgress prohibitions against causing harm. Using that heuristic, I examine the ways multiple ethical systems are vying for recognition regarding the selfimmolations, and how a certain Buddhist ambivalence around extreme acts of devotion complicate any easy designations of the act as ‘violent’ or ‘nonviolent’. I conclude by suggesting how any such classification inculcates us into questions of power and assertions of appropriate authority.

scholarly journals Human on fire as a gesture of self-offering in Polish documentary films

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (34) ◽  
pp. 172-179
Author(s):  
Urszula Tes
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Burning Man ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Common Man ◽  
Self Immolation ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

Tes Urszula, Human on fire as a gesture of self-offering in Polish documentary films “Images” vol. XXV, no. 34. Poznań 2019. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Pp. 172–179. ISSN 1731-450X. DOI 10.14746/i.2019.34.12. One of strongest acts of personal protest in the communist era was self-immolation, which was the subject of two Polish documentaries. Maciej Drygas in Hear My Cry invoked the figure of Ryszard Siwiec, who immolated himself on September 8, 1968 as a sign of protest against the Soviet army invasion of Czechoslovakia. In his documentary, Drygas shows a fragment of the film with the burning man, juxtaposing it with the testimony of witnesses to the tragedy and the account of the family. This documentary restores the memory of the whole society, who due solely to the film, learned about the radical gesture of a common man. Holy Fire by Jarosław Mańka and Maciej Grabysa in turn invokes the heroic but forgotten Walenty Badylak, who immolated himself in March of 1980 in Cracow as an expression of his objection to distortion of the truth about Katyń. Both acts of self-immolation had for many years been perceived as totally futile acts, while the directors show that the self-immolation of these now has a deep and symbolic meaning. In my analysis, I shall invoke historic and cultural contexts, conduct a multifaceted interpretation of self-immolation act and discuss the complex imagery included in the films.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL FOREWORD

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-623
Author(s):  
Beth Baron ◽  
Sara Pursley
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Guest Editor ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Self Immolation ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Editorial Foreword

We are thrilled to present this special issue of IJMES on “Maghribi Histories in the Modern Era” with guest editor Julia Clancy-Smith. The issue was conceived as an effort to bring scholarship on the Maghrib and Mashriq into closer dialogue. We issued the call for papers in December 2010, weeks before the self-immolation of Muhammad al-Buʿazizi in Tunisia triggered the string of upheavals often referred to as the Arab Spring. That North Africa took the lead in upending authoritarian regimes makes this issue especially timely. Although none of the pieces deals directly with contemporary events, they provide innovative ways for thinking about historical transformations and genealogies.

An activatable anticancer polymer–drug conjugate based on the self-immolative azobenzene motif

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (24) ◽  
pp. 4574-4578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taejun Eom ◽  
Wonjae Yoo ◽  
Yong-Deok Lee ◽  
Jae Hyung Park ◽  
Youngson Choe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anticancer Drug ◽  
Cellular Uptake ◽  
Graft Copolymer ◽  
The Self ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Synthetic Graft ◽  
Drug Conjugate ◽  
Self Immolation ◽  
Azobenzene Groups

Triggered cellular uptake of a synthetic graft copolymer carrying an anticancer drug is achieved through self-immolation of the side-chain azobenzene groups.

A comparative study of the self-immolation of para-aminobenzylalcohol and hemithioaminal-based linkers in the context of protease-sensitive fluorogenic probes

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Meyer ◽  
Jean-Alexandre Richard ◽  
Bruno Delest ◽  
Pauline Noack ◽  
Pierre-Yves Renard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Self ◽  
Fluorogenic Probes ◽  
Self Immolation

scholarly journals Post-Synthetic ‘Click’ Synthesis of RAFT Polymers with Pendant Self-Immolative Triazoles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Forder ◽  
Peter Maschmeyer ◽  
Haoxiang Zeng ◽  
Derrick Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Polymer System ◽  
The Self ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Polymer Backbone ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Functional Part ◽  
Self Immolation ◽  
Raft Polymers ◽  
Efficient Mechanisms ◽  
Click Synthesis

<div> <div> <div> <p>Self-immolative linkers offer efficient mechanisms for deprotecting ‘caged’ functional groups in response to specific stimuli. Herein we describe a convenient ‘click’ chemistry method for introducing pendant self-immolative linkers to a polymer backbone through post-polymerization modification. The intro duced triazole rings serve both to anchor the stimuli-cleavable trigger groups to the polymer backbone, while also forming a functional part of the self-immolation cascade. We investigate the polymerization kinetics, post-synthetic modification, and self-immolation mechanism of a model polymer system, and discuss avenues for future studies on poly-pendant self-immolative triazoles as a modular, stimuli-responsive macromolecule platform. </p> </div> </div> </div>

scholarly journals I Breathe, You Breathe, We Breathe: How a daily habitual movement appears as an action and grows into a gesture through listening

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-89
Author(s):  
Leonie Persyn
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The Self ◽  
Chantal Akerman ◽  
Speak Up

In this article I wonder whether the non-breath in-between inhalation and exhalation and inherent to breathing equals what Hannah Arendt calls a space of appearance. Can the non-breath be considered as a place where human plurality and the self emerge (Arendt 2015, 160-163)? Or in other words, can a daily and habitual movement like breathing provide the space for action to appear? Can our breathing act? And if so, do we speak (up) through our breathing? Through listening to the breathing bodies in Grey (Kinga Jaczewska, 2018), Toute une nuit and Rendez-vous d’Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1982 1978) I search for answers to these questions.

scholarly journals Plurality is a conditio per quam of all political life

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-145
Author(s):  
Sanja Bojanic
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Phenomenological Tradition

The book Phenomenology of Plurality: Hannah Arendt on Political Intersubjectivity is a contribution not only to the phenomenological tradition of thought and Hannah Arendt studies, but also political science and, most importantly, political philosophy. Sophie Loidolt advances an intervention that stands in contrast to contemporary phenomenological research which in certain times have had the tendency to perform depoliticized examination of the self and sociality, actually revealing the intention of Phenomenology of Plurality to articulate the numerous elements that comprise the methodological novelty with which Arendt changes the theory of the political.

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