Deformance, Performativity, Posthumanism

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Radical Politics ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
City Mysteries ◽  
Mystery Genre

David S. Reynolds, “Deformance, Performativity, Posthumanism: The Subversive Style and Radical Politics of George Lippard’s The Quaker City” (pp. 36–64) The most interesting American example of the genre known as city-mysteries fiction, George Lippard’s The Quaker City (1844–45), while rich in characters, stymies the novelistic stability conventionally provided by the struggles of heroes against villains in the mystery genre. Lippard’s style thus gets foregrounded as the locus of morality and politics, displaying an acerbic, presurrealistic edge. The current essay surveys linguistic and generic deformations (alinear narrative, irony and parody, bizarre tropes, performativity, and periperformativity) and biological and material deformations (posthuman images, including animals, objects, sonic effects, and vibrant matter) in The Quaker City to suggest how Lippard stylistically reinforces his goal of satirizing literary and social conventions and of exposing what he regards as hypocrisy and corruption on the part of America’s ruling class.

Women's Participation in Politics: Ukrainian Case

2014 ◽  
Vol 2013 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Skovikov Alexey
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Democratic Transformation ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThe international practices takes into account the question of women's participation in the political life of modern Ukraine. The selection of the state was due to the dynamic process of democratic transformation - the separation of powers, the formation of multi-party competition among political actors in the electoral process, the activity women in the various institutions of civil society. The position was claimed on the basis of empirical data range of academic institutions and reputable sociological centers, and also interviews with experts who said that the creation of real conditions for self-realization by women's interest in politics is only possible for long term. The process is controversial and caused by political culture, traditions and interests of the ruling class represented mainly by men.

Dictatorship systems reading in theoretical content

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Asaad Tarish Abdel Reda
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Relationship

Authority in one of its concepts means the ability to influence and subjugation, and it is based on a set of foundations and principles that seek to regulate the relationship between the party is the ruling class, and the other is the category governed. In totalitarian or dictatorial regimes, this ability becomes an indispensable necessity, transforming from the foundations for regulating the relationship to its ultimate goal of ensuring the control of state resources, the continuity of government, and all that results from a social nature which is then a manifestation of the nature of this power.

Comments on the Ghost of the RAF

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Theweleit
Keyword(s):  
Radical Politics ◽  
The Given

The essay takes up the question of “radicality” in art in the context of the events of the so-called German Autumn. The author tries to show that it is the “claim to leadership of art,” and the fear of becoming caught up in the trivial, that pushes artists to align themselves with radical politics. He demonstrates that at the same time the most radical gestures – radical because they are based on an explicit acknowledgment of one’s own position in the given historical situation – are more likely to go unnoticed.

Architectural Fusion and Indigenous Ideology in Early Colonial Teposcolula. The Casa de la Cacica: A Building at the Edge of Oblivion

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (66) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Kirakofe
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
San Juan ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Early Colonial

The building known as the Casa de la Cacica, seat of the Mixtec leaders of San Juan Teposcolula, Oaxaca, around the middle of the 16th century, exhibits the complexity of architectural and ideological interplay during the first period of colonization. The use of European techniques of construction did not prevent the native leaders of Teposcolula from conceiving of space and its political meaning in pre-conquest terms. Indeed, the new technology and architecture were probably adopted in order to legitimize and reaffirm the power of the ruling class in Teposcolula within the new context of Spanish domination.

HISTORIAN AND PHILOSOPHER M.S. VOSLENSKY ABOUT THE RULING CLASS OF SOVIET SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
S.A. KOLESNIKOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Key Aspects

The purpose of the article is to present and substantiate the conceptual possibilities of theological histori-cism in considering the key aspects of spiritual and social history. As a result, the author comes to the conclusion about the scientific productivity and effectiveness of theological historicism in hermeneutic socio-historical projects.

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