scholarly journals Poetic Phenomenology in Thierry De Mey's Screendances: Open Corporealities, Responsive Spaces, and Embodied Experiences

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Walon
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Poetic Vision

<p>De Mey&rsquo;s screendances are often praised for the extreme precision of their composition and framing, their dazzling editing, and their highly musical qualities. This undeniable technical virtuosity largely explains why his films often bewitch and hypnotize their spectators. However, the critical emphasis on this particular facet of his screendances portrays them as only being concerned with artful creativity, (over)stylization, and aesthetic perfection: through this lens, his films are seen merely as an expression of brilliant formalism. In this essay, I will try to point out another aspect of De Mey&rsquo;s films (including his collaborations with choreographers such as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker) as constructing a poetic vision of the world in which bodies and spaces closely interact and entwine.</p>

scholarly journals "TASTE THIS VIDEO!": FACEBOOK VIDEOS AS EMBODIED EXPERIENCES.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadas Schlussel ◽  
Paul Frosh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Embodied Interaction ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Physical Character ◽  
The World ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Media Formats

Videos are among the most widely used media formats on Facebook. Yet little research has been done on their aesthetic and formal attributes, and especially on how they operate within the frameworks of attention, interruption and embodied interaction specific to social media interfaces. This paper examines recipe videos published on Tasty, one of the most popular Facebook pages in the world. We analyze these videos through a novel three-dimensional model that integrates their semiotic characteristics (visual, auditory and textual), their interactive and haptic qualities, and their invitation to perceptual engagement and sensorimotor response. We conclude that Facebook recipe videos are exemplary of a broader category of social media videos which we call $2 : these create heightened multisensory experiences that take precedent over informational use or narrative involvement, revealing the deeply physical character of our connections to social media and a yearning for embodied presence in what we might call our online-life.

War, Labor, and Gasoline in “Carcassonne”

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Michael Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Poetic Vision

The story's poetic vision of a young man who sees a horse has often been associated with Faulkner's personal privacy, a mysterious and opaque realm that Faulkner criticism has long attempted to penetrate. In this chapter,Michael Zeitlin reads the story's representation of privacy and poetic subjectivity as an "ideological reflex and echo," in Marx's phrase, of material and economic realities dominated by the Standard Oil Company.A young vagrant, a veteran aviator of the Great War, lies in his garret and dreams of "a buckskin pony with eyes like blue electricity and a mane like tangled fire, galloping up the hill and right off into the high heaven of the world."The Pegasus pony, the knight-aviator, the dream of soaring free from earth toward apotheosis-these motifs from Faulkner circa 1918-1927 all promise a transcendence that never fully arrives, ultimately yielding to the exigencies of the mundane, the immanent, the economic:earthbound labor, earthbound energy, earthbound modernity.

Rilke on Formally Disclosing the Meaning of Things

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-101
Author(s):  
Rick Anthony Furtak
Keyword(s):  
Worth Living ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Vision ◽  
Affective Impact ◽  
Formal Techniques

Rilke claims that the poet’s task is to reveal the qualitative valences of existence, thus enabling his readers to become emotionally aware of its meaning—in spite of all that might threaten our sense that life is significant and worth living. Insofar as Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus enact this mode of vision, they embody an antinihilistic way of seeing. One who does not view the world in this manner must remain unaware of its axiologically rich features, because poetic vision brings tangible value to light for both poet and reader. This chapter discusses how this outlook is articulated in the musical aspects of the Sonnets—which heighten the affective impact of Rilke’s words, and often register powerfully felt shocks of recognition. The formal patterns of Rilke’s sonnets bring intense feeling and insight to voice: furthermore, the poet’s formal techniques contribute to his way of articulating a poetic vision of the world.

The Power of Poetic Vision

PMLA ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Henry Allen Moe
Keyword(s):  
Small World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Poetic Vision

Three weeks ago this evening, Edward R. Murrow, on his televised “Small World” program, asked two distinguished poets if they could cite any instance of a poem directly affecting history. The distingished poets had no answer, I am sorry to say. They had a chance, literally, to tell the world; but, in the language of baseball, they muffed it. Yet there is a wonderfully clear instance of a poem directly affecting history—making history, indeed—and this is the subject of my paper.

Intimate Distances: an artwork made on opposite sides of the world

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110205
Author(s):  
Susanna Castleden
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Creative Project ◽  
Creative Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Embodied Experiences

Intimate Distances is an art project created in two parts – 6 months and 20,000 km apart. As a creative research project, it was conceived as a way to physically and conceptually explore distance through the intimate gesture of touch. It sought to visually communicate the spatial, temporal and embodied experiences of being on opposite sides of the world through the humble process of frottage. Grand ideas were intended to be galvanised by even grander distances. However, as this article recounts, the 12-month project took unexpected turns, which were generated by a series of failures and finally resulted in an embracing of uncertainty. Rather than following the proposed script, my tacit knowledge led the project in unforeseen ways that were ultimately more productive than expected. Through this article, which itself is a form of enacting an ephemeral experience, I outline how Intimate Distances unfolded and how non-representational theory and performative research entwine in this creative project.

scholarly journals Genre and stylistic features of poems written by young poets of the Moscow State Psychological and Pedagogical University

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Qin Lin Liu
Keyword(s):  
State University ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Vision ◽  
Moscow State University

The article discusses the features of the poetic vision of the world by students of the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.

scholarly journals A Quest for Idyllic Beauty in the Land of Mystery: A Comparative Discussion of Rabindranath Tagore’s ÒAimless JourneyÓ (ÒNiruddesh YatraÓ) and Robert Frost’s ÒStopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningÓ

IIUC Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed ◽  
Sultana Jahan
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
The West ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Considerable Portion ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Poetic Vision ◽  
The Ideal

A study in poetic affinities between Rabindranath Tagore and Robert Frost seems a bit strange to the reader as both the poets belong to two different nations. Apparently there is no connection between the two great poets – one belongs to America and the other belongs to India with a poetic career spanning the last four decades of the 19th century and the first four decades of the 20th century. The affinities between Tagore and Frost are clearly seen in their works. In respect of their poetic vision, their attitude to nature, the world, sense of beauty and wonder, yearning for the ideal, both the poets share a considerable portion of similarities. However, a sense of divergence from each other prevails beneath the similarities as Tagore is a devotee and his appreciation, particularly in the West, refers to him as a mystic poet, while Frost is an agnostic. This paper attempts to make a comparative study of Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and Tagore’s “Aimless Journey” with a view to unfolding the astonishing similarities and differences between the poets.IIUC Studies Vol.12 December 2015: 27-40

scholarly journals Affect and Effect in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Line Hillersdal ◽  
Astrid Pernille Jespersen ◽  
Bjarke Oxlund ◽  
Birgitte Bruun
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Cholesterol Lowering ◽  
The World ◽  
Embodied Experiences

Research across disciplines is often described as beset with problems of epistemological hierarchies and incommensurable categories. We recognize these problems working in two large interdisciplinary research projects on obesity and cholesterol lowering medicine in Denmark. We explore the affective tensions that arise in concrete situations when we meet other researchers around a shared research object. We propose that sensitivity towards such differences, and exploration of the affects they foster, can generate new epistemological and political openings. Analysing four interdisciplinary situations we suggest that embodied experiences of amusement, awkwardness, boredom and doubts are signposts of both differences and connections between people and concerns. Inspired by Haraway’s notion of “response-ability” (1997) and Verran’s concept of “generative critique” (2001) we propose that attention to affective tensions in interdisciplinary research collaboration can be generative of effects not only on modes of collaboration, but also on the ways we engage the world as researchers.

scholarly journals The Performative Force of Cultural Products: Subject Positions and Desires Emerging From Engagement with the Manga Boys’ Love and Yaoi

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Lilja ◽  
Cathrin Wasshede
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Surface Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
The World ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Performative Power

This article deals with questions about the performative power of cultural products that travel the world. The Japanese manga genre Boys’ Love and Yaoi has gained a broad readership outside of Japan during recent decades. This has cultivated an image of Japan as sexually radical and ‘as more than Japan’, something which has produced alternative subject positions and practises regarding gender and sexuality among Swedish Boys’ Love/Yaoi followers. With the help of the concept hyperreality and elaborations on materiality within feminist theories, this article discusses: Which images of Japan and Sweden are produced as manga Boys’ Love/Yaoi – as cultural products – travel from Japan to Sweden? Which subject positions and forms of desires emerge? In order to understand how cultural products create new subjectivities, images and desires, we also ask: What can a sharper focus on materiality and the agency of matter add to the understanding of the concept of hyperreality and the construction of new realities? We argue that embodied experiences of certain subject positions and desires challenge the idea of the hyperreal as a surface phenomenon. Further, the article shows how the image of “Japan” is often coloured by the desires that West cultivates about the ‘other’.

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