scholarly journals Buddhist Surrealists in Bengal

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Per Kværne
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Time Space ◽  
First Millennium

Towards the end of the first millennium CE, Buddhism in Bengal was dominated by the Tantric movement, characterized by an external/physical as well as internal/meditational yoga, believed to lead to spiritual enlightenment and liberation from the round of birth and death. This technique and its underlying philosophy were expressed in the Caryāgīti, a collection of short songs in Old Bengali composed by a category of poets and practitioners of yoga, some of whom apparently had a peripatetic lifestyle. One of the peculiarities of Old Bengali is the presence of a large number of homonyms, permitting play on ambiguous images. This, it is argued in the first part of the chapter, is the key to understanding many songs that are seemingly meaningless or nonsensical, or that could be superficially taken to be simply descriptions of everyday life in the countryside of Bengal. By means of their very form, the songs convey the idea of the identity of the secular and the spiritual, of time and eternity. The second part of the chapter makes a leap in time, space, and culture, by suggesting a resonance for the Caryāgīti in the Surrealist Movement of Western art.

scholarly journals Living in digital space: Everyday life on Twitter

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Züleyha Özbaş-Anbarlı
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Production And Consumption

New media tools and the corresponding digital networks have begun to take part in the centre of our daily lives, thereby caused a practice of everyday life in digital space. In Twitter, a network in which users are involved through the machines, the concepts such as life, time, space, rhythm have developed. This study focuses on the constitution of everyday life in digital space. Twitter is a digital space that users do their everyday life practices in this network and are involved in through the machines. A sample of 10 Turkish users was selected with social network analysis to discover everyday life practices in this digital space. The content produced by this sample was observed employing digital ethnography and analysed by the sociology of everyday life. It is observed that Twitter creates its own rhythm. Observations show in Twitter that tactics have been produced, and strategies have been tried to be turned down with these tactics and acted rhythmic practices as forms of production and consumption in everyday life. People tend to follow similar others on Twitter, and accordingly, content is being produced for an imaginary community.

Time–space structuring in spontaneous play on educational percussion instruments among three- and four-year-olds

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Young
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Instrument Design ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Percussion Instruments

This article reports on a study which investigated the spontaneous instrumental music-making of three- and four-year-olds in typical pre-school educational settings in London, UK. It argues that many prior studies of children's music-making have analysed and evaluated such activity against models drawn from the practices of Western art music and its conventions of analytical theory, and suggests that this approach has certain drawbacks. The study adopted a grounded theory methodology moving through three phases in different nursery classrooms. Each phase was characterised by successive focusing and refinement of methodological tools in response to the emerging findings. Data were collected on videotape which was then repeatedly reviewed, transcribed and categorised. The children's music-making was analysed as relational processes in time and space involving the two-way interplay of child and instrument. Structures in space delineate the child's movement within the spatial potentials and constraints of the instrument design. Structures in time describe how movements and movement ideas were strung together in ever-lengthening portions.

scholarly journals The Regime of Memory in “The Museum of Innocence”: The Past as an Age of Innocence

2018 ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Gönül Eda Özgül
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
National History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Orhan Pamuk ◽  
Social Memories

In this paper, the regime of memory produced in The Museum of Innocence, a museum created and curated by the author Orhan Pamuk is discussed. The museum was opened in 2012 in Istanbul and it was based on Pamuk’s novel of the same title published in 2008. The intertextual novel-museum and the museum-novel blur the distinctions between fiction and reality, as well as the distinctions between individual and social memories and focus on everyday life and personal objects rather than the “monumental” national history. The regime of memory produced in this museum is discussed in this paper in relation with the process of modernization in Turkey. The understanding of time, space, reality and individual prevailing in the museum are evaluated in order to understand whether the museum produces a creative remembering that problematized the process of remembering or a regime of remembering that is based on absolutizing the past.

Recovering Maya Civilisation

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Maya Lowlands ◽  
The Third ◽  
Hieroglyphic Writing ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
First Millennium Bc

This lecture discusses three successive themes in relation to recovering Maya civilisation. The first is the origins of a settled society, and the second is the emergence of a complex literate civilisation in the latter part of the first millennium BC in the Maya lowlands. The third theme is the wider understanding of that culture's apogee in tenth century AD. The lecture sheds new light on the understanding of the Mayan culture. It looks at some factors of Mayan culture and everyday life, such as their hieroglyphic writing, rituals and structures. The information was based on the various archaeological digs and excavations conducted in the area where the Mayan civilisation was believed to exist.

scholarly journals ,,Na sałasie ni ma pani lekko“. Życie codzienne pasterzy wołoskich na szałasach na pograniczu polsko-słowackim w XXI wieku jako dziedzictwo kulturowe regionu Karpat (wybór zagadnień)

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 269-295
Author(s):  
Ewa Maria Kocój
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Global Solutions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Space

The purpose of this article is to present the preliminary results of the research on the shepherds' everyday life that I have been conducting since 2015 in the field of history, migration, and cultural heritage of the Vlach minority inhabiting the areas from Albania to the northern Carpathians. One of the research stages entails the studies of the daily life and rituals of the highlanders living in the huts on the Polish side of the Carpathians. The article describes the issues concerning the organization and the time-space symbolism of a modern hut, including their daily life and schedule of activities. The research was conducted in the selected huts of Spiš, Orava, Podhale, Żywiec region, and Silesian Beskids in Poland in 2015-2018. In all cases, I applied qualitative research, mostly structured and unstructured interviews with senior and young shepherds working in the huts, as well as covert and overt participant observations conducted during selected pastoral holidays and meetings in various spaces—in temples, during highlander's and Vlach conventions, in theme meetings, and in the huts. I supplement these techniques with the analysis of the visual sources that I made during the field research, received from the enthusiasts of this topic, or found on the Internet. The research has shown that modern pastoralism oscillates between two poles: the traditional, which has made it possible to retain many elements from the past (cultural heritage), and the modern, thanks to which shepherds introduce global solutions to their huts and traditions.

Resistance and Counter-Zones of Indistinction

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-45
Author(s):  
Funda Çoban
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The State ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Objective Time ◽  
Time Space

Agamben's concept, zone of indistinction, defines politically constructed, ambiguous time-space settings that are built by the sovereign, declaring the state of emergency, transforming the subjects into homo sacer. In this sense, a zone of indistinction is the space reproducing dominance and hierarchy. However, Agamben's analysis developed around this concept skips the reality of resistance zones which can be constructed by micro agents suspending the quasi-objective time-and-space settings organized in everyday-life practices. From this point of critical view, the article proposes a new concept, counter-zones of indistinction, which follows Agamben's analytical agenda from the side of non-dominant power relations. Thus, the article explains counter-zones of indistinction while it also analyzes the differences among counter-public spaces, heterotopias to make clear the conceptual boundaries. Hence, the article aims to contribute to Agamben's well-known study on the zone of indistinction.

1948 and Its Shadows

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beshara Doumani ◽  
Alex Winder
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Brown University ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Space Architecture

Seventy years after the Nakba, what does it mean to commemorate 1948? This introduction to three articles drawn from the 2018 New Directions in Palestinian Studies workshop at Brown University, “The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life,” examines the emergence of 1948 as the primary focus of Palestinian commemorative practices and guiding star of future political possibilities, as well as the promise and limitations of the settler-colonial framework. It argues that widening our lens to include the material histories of everyday life in the context of a generational struggle for survival, contextualizes moments of great trauma and violence within the larger dynamics of Palestinians society, and recasts the time/space architecture of narratives about Palestine and the Palestinians.

scholarly journals Act and event as a sociemic organization of the personality’s life path

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-168
Author(s):  
Oksana Furman ◽  
Anatolii Furman ◽  
Yaroslav Dykyi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Social Event ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Life Path

An interdisciplinary study is devoted to substantiating the psychosociemic connection of events in the action-covital format of a person’s life path. The object of study are the principles, forms, methods and means of scientific cognition and construction of person’s social everyday life as a consequence of social situations, actions and events, and its subject – sociema as an open phenomenal plurality and at the same time as a distinguishing unit of fluid social eventfulness in the vitacultural time-space of the action-packed life path of personality. As a result of an implemented fundamental search, the truthfulness of the basic hypothesis, which contains two interrelated statements, is proved. The first advocates logical-semantic dependence of normative-methodological nature: in the rational-humanitarian system of cognition a social event, as well as continuous covital eventfulness of human life in general, can be adequately explained and described using a conscious concept of sociema, which characterizes the ideal picture of filling with the content a specific social event as a specific unit of the existential presence of the social in human life, organizes its spherical flow of consciousness and enables the actionful presence-self-realization in the situational flow of everyday life as an inspired personality. In particular, in this reflexive-theoretical perspective it has been processed such problematic topics as the person’s life world in a phenomenal-eventful clarification, his life path as a sequence of social events that cause personal ways of deed, as well as space and time as sociemic categories and main coordinates of social eventfulness in the projection on the individual trajectories of a person’s life path. The second hypothetical statement, which has received substantiated confirmation, has a descriptive-methodological direction: in social life the decisive role for sustainable progressive development of the personality belongs to the sociemic connection of events from birth to maturity, which determines its action-event line both as an actual life (self-active) path and self-growth and psycho-spiritual development. The specification of this assumption concerns two author’s themes, namely the characterization of a separate covital event as a condition and stage of mental capacity building and implementation by a person the socially oriented action and socio-psychological interpretation of the action-eventful composition of his mastering the world.

scholarly journals Experiencing Change: Rhythms of Everyday Life Between Continuities and Disruptions

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah H. Awad
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Rupture Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
Constant Condition ◽  
Symbolic Resources ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Life Course

Change is a constant condition of everyday life that we experience and transition through while often maintaining a sense of stability and continuity. But inevitably we come across disruptive changes that call into question the meanings we take for granted and thereby rupture life as we know it. How do those changes affect our rhythms of living? How do we make meaning of the changes and subsequently act upon them? How do individual, social, and environmental changes reciprocally influence one another? These are the guiding questions of this paper. The questions are explored by means of a sociocultural psychological approach to ruptures in the life-course coupled with Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis. It is argued that those questions can be investigated within five interrelated analytical domains; time, space, the body, social others, and symbolic resources. Rather than primarily emphasizing adaptation to change, the analytical framework’s key focus is meaning-making, looking at how we integrate or resist new rhythms in our lives.

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