Fetal Personhood and Voice in Medieval French Literature

PMLA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 136 (5) ◽  
pp. 696-710
Author(s):  
Julie Singer
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Human Development ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Medieval French Literature ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Fetal Personhood

AbstractThis essay examines medieval French literary representations of fetal speech and proposes a new understanding of medieval conceptions of personhood. Placing passages from the Roman de Fauvel, Histoire de Marie et de Jésus, Pelerinage de Jhesucrist, and Tristan de Nanteuil in conversation with elements of thirteenth-century theological, encyclopedic, and scientific discourses, as well as with contemporary sound studies and theories of the voice, this essay shows that emergent human personhood is constructed in medieval texts as an audible social phenomenon. Medieval personhood is a notion reliant on sound and speech, and thus on the presence of an audience: a person is a composite of body and soul occupying a social and vocalic space shared with other persons. This relational understanding allows for a redefinition of personhood: not as a quality originating at a fixed point in human development but as a social and sensory experience.

scholarly journals DOJO KYOKUSHIN KARATE KALIMANTAN SELATAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-117
Author(s):  
Adji Purnama Sandi ◽  
Gusti Novi Sarbini
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Training ◽  
Full Contact ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Linguistic Methods

Kyokushin karate in South Kalimantan is one of the martial arts that still applies a full contact fighting system. The kyokushin karate practitioners in South Kalimantan do not have their own practice sites, and are forced to rent a place to practice. The kyokushin karate dojo in South Kalimantan aims to create a special training ground for practitioners of kyokushin karate who have values from the kyokushin philosophy itself, so that they understand that the art of fighting is only a tool to perfect the body and soul, and can be a strong foundation for human development completely. The philosophy of Kyokushin as a concept will be combined with linguistic methods as the goal of solving problems in the design of this dojo.

Historic-Phenomenological Evaluation of the Christian Experience in the Threshold of Human Development in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-152
Author(s):  
Victor Bassey Edet
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
The People ◽  
Role Of Religion

Evolving discourses within the sphere of Christian experience and social development reveals that social transformation in the society cannot be separated from spiritual transformation. Religion as a social phenomenon has therefore become an acknowledged and strategic dimension in the development thinking and practice in contemporary society. But despite apparent contributions of religion to the development of many societies such as Nigeria, the role of religion, especially Christianity, has not been given due recognition in the history and development of a number of societies such as Ibesikpo Asutan of Akwa Ibom State. This study therefore examines the religious experience of the people towards development between 1912 when Christianity arrived and 2019. The method adopted for this work is the phenomenological and descriptive designs. Findings reveal that besides the consciousness of the transcendent and the question of God's existence, Christian missions in Ibesikpo Asutan have contributed immensely toward the development of the area.

scholarly journals Eavesmining: A Critical Audit of the Amazon Echo and Alexa Conditions of Use

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Neville
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Smart Environments ◽  
End User ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Acoustic Space ◽  
Personal Assistants ◽  
The Voice

The emergence of smart speakers and voice-activated personal assistants (VAPAs) calls for updated scrutiny and theorization of auditory surveillance. This paper introduces the neologism and concept of “eavesmining” (eavesdropping + data mining) to characterize a mode of surveillance that operates on the edge of acoustic space and digital infrastructure. In contributing to a sonic epistemology of surveillance, I explain how eavesmining platforms and processes burrow the voice as a medium between sound and data and articulate the acoustic excavation of smart environments. The paper discusses eavesmining in relation to theories of dataveillance, the sensor society, and surveillance capitalism before outlining the potential contributions offered by a theoretical alignment with sound studies literature. The paper centers on an empirical case study of the Amazon Echo and Alexa conditions of use. By conducting a discourse analysis of Amazon’s End User Agreements (EUAs), I provide evidence in support of growing privacy and surveillance concerns produced by Amazon’s eavesmining platform that are obfuscated by the illegibility of the documents.

Review. Medieval French Literature. Crosland, Jessie

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-168
Author(s):  
P. RICKARD
Keyword(s):  
French Literature ◽  
Medieval French Literature
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