Cyborg Labor and the Global Logistics Matrix

Inland Shift ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan D. De Lara
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narratives ◽  
The Body ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Logistics ◽  
Worker Identity ◽  
Warehouse Workers ◽  
A Site ◽  
Insight Into

Individual and collective stories provide insight into how people make sense of the world. Such narratives are laden with cultural meaning and can provide the seeds for opposition to dominant systems. In the case of logistics, personal narratives were critical to the construction of a warehouse-worker identity that challenged the dominant pro-growth discourse or the pro-logistics “regime of truth” by referencing devalued immigrant bodies as a foil against boosterish claims. The chapter uses warehouse workers’ stories as an epistemic bridge that connects Latinx Studies and the theoretical tools of the testimonio to Clyde Woods’s blues epistemology and Robin Kelley’s freedom dreams by turning the body as a site of deprivation into bodies as sites of counter-narratives and collective identities. These stories became the backbone of a campaign by the Change To Win labor federation to improve warehouse workers’ conditions in inland Southern California.

Between Us: Desire, touch and seduction as immaterial agents in augmented sonic artworks

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Jane Grant
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
New Media ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
The World ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
A Site

New media has expanded our experiences of art forms from the retinal to the immersive and embodied. This evolution offers novel experiences as we push the boundaries of these emerging technologies. Recently, I have been working with augmented reality headsets. These headsets sometimes separate us from the physical and the sensory, substituting the world of matter for the virtual. My research questions whether the exchange of the sensory for the digital provides an opportunity to redesign experiences that act upon the body? Developing sound design to create the illusion of touching, could our skin become a site where artworks are experienced?

scholarly journals Природные материалы в соматических представлениях тюркских и монгольских народов Внутренней Азии

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-302
Author(s):  
Marina M. Sodnompilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Soft Clay ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light

The aim of this article is to analyze traditional somatic ideas of the Turkic-Mongolians of Inner Asia that they formed as a part of their “theories” on the origin of the world and man. Data and methods. An important part of the studies of man as a social and biological being is the investigation of the human body conceptualizations of the Turkic-Mongolian peoples. When explored, the ideas that traditional societies had on the human body and its constituent parts, such as organs, muscles, and blood may give an important clue to understanding traditional medicine methods, attitudes towards the body, and the body potentialities. In this respect, one cannot overestimate the relevance of the nomads’ folklore texts dealing with the origin of the world and man as a research source. A variety of such stories relating how man was made of clay, wood, metal, bone, and stone may shed light on the invention and development of new materials by man, as well as on the technologies they used for their processing. The study is based on a comparative historical method that helps to identify commonalities characteristic of the Turkic-Mongolian world in understanding the human body; as well as the method of cultural and historical reconstruction, which gives an insight into the logic of archaic views. Conclusions. In the somatic conceptualizations of the Turkic-Mongolians, the key and stable correspondences of the natural and the human are such series as bone – wood, flesh – clay/earth /stone form. The associations of the human body and its parts with metals manifest to a lesser degree. The processes of maturing and aging of the human body were conceptualized by traditional societies in terms of both natural and cultural phenomena, such as the life cycles of a tree and ceramics making of raw/soft clay hardened in the process of its firing.

The Hybrid I/Eye

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Parks
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Critical Autoethnography ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Physical Changes ◽  
Insight Into

Hybridity, when related to identity research, points to a blending of difference in such a way that new performances of identity may appear in various social interactions. Exploring hybridity can create new perceptions of social life and reveal the complex ways that people’s diverse relationships and life stages construct people’s identities. In this critical autoethnography, I consider how disability and racial identities intersect. More specifically, I relate how my narrative experience with the disabling symptoms of Graves’ Disease impacted the ascription of Asian racial identity based on the reading of the physicality of my eyes. Grounded in these personal narratives, I theorize about ways that hybridity can cross boundaries of categorical difference in the ways that it is socially constructed, fluid, and changing. Some changes are expected, as age transforms all of us; others are unexpected, as the body and mind are surprised by illness and rapid physical changes impact avowed and ascribed identities. I offer this autoethnography of these intersecting spaces as one performance of evolving identity work that impacted my own and others’ imagination of race and disability. I hope to create new insight into how our social worlds are constructed (and privileged ideologies promoted) in everyday life.

scholarly journals The One with the Feminist Critique: Revisiting Millennial Postfeminism with Friends

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 692-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Hamad
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site

In the aftermath of its initial broadcast run, iconic millennial sitcom Friends (NBC, 1994–2004) generated some quality scholarship interrogating its politics of gender. But as a site of analysis, it remains a curious, almost structuring absence from the central canon of the first wave of feminist criticism of postfeminist culture. This absence is curious not only considering the place of Friends at the forefront of millennial popular culture but also in light of its long-term syndication in countries across the world since that time. And it is structuring in the sense that Friends was the stage on which many of the familiar tropes of postfeminism interrogated across the body of work on it appear in retrospect to have been tried and tested. This article aims to contribute toward redressing this absence through interrogation and contextualization of the series’ negotiation of a range of structuring tropes of postfeminist media discourse, and it argues for Friends as an unacknowledged ur-text of millennial postfeminism.

scholarly journals Earthrise

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-117
Author(s):  
Julia McClure
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Body ◽  
Global History ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Vision ◽  
A Site

This article uses Franciscan history to explore an alternative approach to global history. Following Benjamin Lazier’s observations about ‘Earthrise’, which showed that images of the world have been entangled with intellectual and political discourses, this article explores the Franciscans’ own Earthrise perspective which can be traced in the spiritual and mystical writings produced in the late Middle Ages. The aim of this article is not only to contest the kind of periodisation which has seen the global turn and ‘global era’ as peculiarly ‘modern’, but to suggest that any study of the ‘global’ must incorporate an analysis of the multilayered nature of that concept. It suggests that the global is not so much a scale as an idea, and considers how the hyper-local place of the body can be a site for realising a global vision.

scholarly journals Order, Joy, Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
S. Alexander Reed
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
The Body ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Insight Into

This talk identifies in popular music a common but largely untheorized phenomenon. Parade aesthetics are marked by an implied permeability between performers and audience, and the jubilant instrumentalization of individuals toward collective identity for its own sake. As a connoted medium (per Marshall McLuhan) the parade extends the body, rendering its participants larger, louder, and more opulently visible. It simultaneously miniaturizes the world, reducing it to the status of model, token, and toy. Such aesthetics then invite young pop audiences to step into roles with grownup attributes of instrumentalization, bigness, and access. These attributes are structural within parade aesthetics and largely independent of specific content. The talk concludes with an insight into the parade-like nature of first-wave hip-hop.

Contesting Contingency

Inland Shift ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan D. De Lara
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Social Movement Organizations ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Port Development ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Global Logistics ◽  
Warehouse Workers ◽  
Movement Organizations

Chapter 6 provides an overview and critical analysis of the Warehouse Workers United organizing campaign to show how labor and immigrant social-movement organizations crafted spatial narratives that connected global logistics to regional struggles for racial and economic justice. The ensuing struggle over port development illustrates the important role that competing cognitive mappings can play in actively shaping how space is contested, defined, and produced. Logistics and warehouse work give us a chance to see how workers challenged the dehumanizing nature of capitalist space by producing regional counter-narratives. These counter-narratives illustrate one way that social movements organize against hegemonic development norms. Struggles over the production of space often involve multiple spatial layers. Recounting everyday moments and learning to frame them within an economy of power was a key part of the organizing process. These alternative mappings challenged the dehumanizing relationships of warehouse work, because they created spaces for workers to imagine that another world was possible.

The Dancing Ground

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniella Santoro
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
The Body ◽  
Second Line ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
The Public ◽  
Musical Traditions ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

The performative traditions of New Orleans second line parades offer profound insight into localized expressions of health and disability. As public, festive, and symbolic spaces of music, dance and movement, second lines privilege the body as a site of knowledge production and individual improvisation within a collective tradition. This essay focuses on the relationship between dance and disability as observed during second line parades in New Orleans from 2010 to 2013. The narratives of those participants who are marked as disabled by age or circumstance reveal how the public space of dance and embodied movement at a second line parade enables a rewriting of ableist scripts about the body and its potential. This research focuses on the corporeal landscape and how musical traditions inscribe embodied knowledge, and embolden social commentary on the wider workings of race and disability in contemporary New Orleans.

scholarly journals COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF NABHI IN BRUHATRAYI AND ITS CORRELATION WITH MODERN SCIENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol p5 (03) ◽  
pp. 2837-2842
Author(s):  
Shipra Katiyar
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
New World ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embryonic Stage ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Ayurveda is an intricate and detailed science, which provides great insight into the importance of every part of the body. One of the most important part is Nabhi. The Nabhi plays the most important role in development of body from the very beginning of life even at the embryonic stage. In ancient Indian tradition, the navel of the god Vishnu is consider as the center of the universe and the source of life. From his navel, a new world emerges. It not only has aesthetic importance but also tells the health status. It is a site of various treatments too which makes it worthy to consider its anatomical concepts and applied aspects. The literary review of Nabhi and modern studies suggest it as umbilicus. Keywords- Nabhi, Marma, Sira, umbilicus

scholarly journals Coronavirus and Cardiovascular System

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (02) ◽  
pp. 099-101
Author(s):  
Sandeep Parekh ◽  
Kewal Krishan Talwar
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Disease ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Cardiovascular Complications ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cardiac Complications ◽  
Virus Surface ◽  
The World ◽  
Complications And Mortality ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractWith the pandemic of COVID-19 infection spreading throughout the world leading to unprecedented serious burden on healthcare, our understanding of the virus continues to grow on a daily basis with the whole world united to find a vaccine/cure to combat the disease. Clinical experience with growing number of cases has provided us with insight into the pathophysiology of the disease and the various systems of the body it affects. The growing experience shows that cardiovascular complications occur in significant number of cases and contribute to increased mortality. The complications and mortality is also higher in those with pre-existing cardiovascular disease. The pathogenesis of increased cardiac complications is possibly related to the action of virus surface spike proteins through ACE2 receptors expressed in the myocardium. Although various drugs/therapies are being tried currently, no effective therapy is still available. It is emphasized that those with existing cardiac disease should optimally take their medicines, and religiously follow preventive measures like social distancing, self-isolation and hand hygiene.

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