scholarly journals Somaestetyka, władza cielesna i mikrofizyka emancypacji

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Leszek Koczanowicz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Everyday

Somesthetics, somapower, and microphysics of emancipationThe aim of the article is to analyze the resistance to the oppressive power in the everyday life with the stress on bodily practices which become the vehicle of emancipation. The article explores two important, but never adequately researched, theoretical fields: the body as a vehicle of social critique and the relation between everydayness and politics. I would like to address these two issues by discussing the debates on them unfolding in the contemporary social sciences and humanities. This will enable me to identify the existing gaps and suggest how they could be bridged. The main argument of the article is that we need an adequate concept of the relations between the body and power, which can emerge from the pragmatist tradition, developed and improved in this respect by Richard Shusterman’s neo-pragmatism.

Can’t wait to feel better: Facebook Live and the recalibration of downtime in tending to the body

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372110034
Author(s):  
Dang Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Body ◽  
Therapeutic Method ◽  
Temporal Space ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Temporal Structures

This article explores the temporality of liveness on Facebook Live through the analytical lens of downtime. Downtime is conceptualized here as multiscale: downtime exists in between the micro action and inaction of everyday life, but also in larger episodes of personal and health crises that reorient the body toward technologies for instantaneous replenishment of meaning and activity. Living through downtime with mobile technology enables the experience of oscillation between liveness as simultaneity and liveness as instantaneity. By juxtaposing time-as-algorithmic against time-as-lived through the livestreaming practices of diện chẩn, an emergent unregulated therapeutic method, I show how different enactments of liveness on Facebook Live recalibrate downtime so that the body can reconfigure its being-in-time. The temporal reverberation of downtime and liveness creates an alternative temporal space wherein social practices that are shunned by the temporal structures of institution and society can retune and continue to thrive at the margin of these structures and at the central of the everyday.

scholarly journals Women on the Path of the Goddess: Sacred Technologies of the Everyday

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Åsa Trulsson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Peak Experiences ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Truth Claims

Contemporary spiritualties are often portrayed as a turn to a subjective and individualized form of religion, consisting of individually held truth claims or private peak experiences that are generated sporadically at retreats and workshops. The portrayal is ultimately related to a perception of everyday life in contemporary Euro-America as mundane, rationalized, and secular, but also the exclusion of practices centered on the body, the home and the everyday from what is deemed properly religious. This article explores the sacred technologies of the everyday among women in England who identify as Goddess worshippers. The purpose is to further the understanding of religion and the everyday, as well as the conceptualization of contemporary Goddess-worship as lived religion. Through examining narratives on the intersection between religion and everyday activities, the technologies of imbuing everyday life with a sacred dimension become visible. The sacred technologies imply skills that enable both imagining and relating to the sacred. The women consciously and diligently work to cultivate skills that would allow them to sense and make sense of the sacred, in other words, to foster a sense of withness through the means of a host of practices. I argue that the women actively endeavor to establish an everyday world that is experienced as inherently different from the secular and religious fields in their surroundings; hence it is not from disenchantment or an endeavor with no social consequences. The women’s everyday is indeed infused with different strategies where the body, different practices, and material objects are central in cultivating a specific religious disposition that ultimately will change the way the women engage with and orient themselves in the world.

scholarly journals The Importance of National Museums in Preserving Collective Memory

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 234-247
Author(s):  
Mateja Kos
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Original Function ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
National Museums

Research into memory, which has been carried out in recent decades by researchers in the fields of social sciences and humanities, is also important in the field of museology.Museums collect objects that, at the time of transition, lose their original function they have in previous everyday life and acquire a new one. Objects are generators of memory, and memory works through objects. However, the stories of individual objects are necessarily less comprehensive than stories that are made up of broader semantic wholes. At some stage of the narrative a transition from the collection of individual memories or memories of individuals to a wider whole appears – a collective memory. It is not composed of a multitude of individual memories, but is processed and transformed into a whole that corresponds a particular community. Memory is connected with time, and individual memories are fixed at the points of collective time.Museums are creators of collective memory. Collective memory is connected with the concepts of historical memory, (cultural) heritage and witnessing. The collective memory generated by objects creates an identity. This can be created at every level, from personal to local, from regional to national. Structuring a particular past has an extremely important role in structuring identity. The concepts of memory, heritage, witnessing and history in the field of cultural heritage refer to national museums in the purest form. Each national museum is a guardian, researcher and promoter of a professionally and scientifically transformed collective memory, and thus a constitutive element of national consciousness.

Philosophy for Spiders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
McKenzie Wark
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Kathy Acker ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Body Building ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Phenomenology Of The Body ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The City

It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark adds a trans Acker. Wark recounts her memories of Acker (with whom she had a passionate affair) and gives a comprehensive reading of her published and archived works. Wark finds not just an inventive writer of fiction who pressed against the boundaries of gender but a theorist whose comprehensive philosophy of life brings a conceptual intelligence to the everyday life of those usually excluded from philosophy's purview. As Wark shows, Acker's engagement with topics such as masturbation, sadism, body-building, and penetrative sex are central to her distinct phenomenology of the body that theorizes the body's relation to others, the city, and technology.

scholarly journals Μισέλ Φουκώ: Η συγκρότηση του σύγχρονου πειθαρχικού υποκειμένου

Conatus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Θάνος Κιοσόγλου (Thanos Kiosoglou)
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Present Account ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Technology

In his seminal Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault aims at outlining the historical course that led to the promulgation and consolidation of the institution of imprisonment as a means of punishment as well as narrating how the corresponding human type, i.e. the contemporary disciplined subject, has been shaped. Obviously, the disciplined subject gradually took the place of the tormented subject. Consequently, this study aims at describing the sequential mutations of the imposed punishment as it progressively shifted from the spectacular slaughtering of the body to the strictly scientific manipulation of the non-material dimension of the human being. The reformation of the punitive practices “constructs” a docile body. It must be noticed, however, that this body is not necessarily guilty, since the disciplinary schemes concern everybody, even the most innocent sides of the everyday life as for example the hospital, the school or the barracks. Additionally, discipline is imposed through the division of the space, what Foucault calls the “art of allocation”, so that every working person is easily seen and supervised by the eye of the authority, while the disciplined subject is being forged gradually through the sense of responsibility before the flowing time. Foucault highlights the “political technology of the body”, that is its usurpation by the authorities, who aim at imposing to it adictated activity that produces palpable results in a binding frame of time. Although selective and brief, the present account of the punitive concepts of the three last centuries clarifies the fact that the authoritarian strategies are indissolubly interwoven with the different connotations of the human body, through the use of which they subdue human beings.

scholarly journals Insulin som trickster: Grænsearbejde i hverdagen med type 2 diabetes

Kulturstudier ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Aske Juul Lassen
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Blood Sugar ◽  
The Body ◽  
Font Size ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Type 2 Diabetic ◽  
Reducing Properties

<span style="font-family: MeliorLTCE; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: MeliorLTCE; font-size: x-small;"><p>The article focuses on the role of insulin in the everyday life of the type 2 diabetic. The diagnosis of type 2 diabetes is not merely the establishment of a chronic disease, it also alters the patient’s conception of his own body and his everyday life. For many patients, the diagnosis is their first encounter with the interiors of their bodies. It is attempted to regulate the diabetes by a number of practices; in the article, this is viewed as a bio-medical disciplinization, which deals with the body and life as objects. The biomedicine conquers the diabetic body and becomes part of the diabetic’s everyday life. Thereby, the body is problematized as a natural and delimited category. The limits of the body are broken down by the recurring penetration of the skin, when the blood sugar is measured or the insulin injected. Insulin is analysed as a trickster figure which exerts a boundary work on the body, plays with its categories and inverts the relations between poison and medicine, freedom and constraint, artificiality and naturalness, security and risk. Everyday life is changed and future put into perspective by the trickster, which at the same time makes both everyday life and the future possible by its blood sugar reducing properties.</p></span></span>

scholarly journals Everyday lives of middle-aged persons living with multimorbidity: protocol of a mixed-methods systematic review

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. e050990
Author(s):  
Ana Isabel Gonzalez-Gonzalez ◽  
Robin Brünn ◽  
Julia Nothacker ◽  
Truc Sophia Dinh ◽  
Maria-Sophie Brueckle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Sciences Citation Index

IntroductionMultimorbidity is the simultaneous occurrence of several (chronic) diseases. Persons living with multimorbidity not only have complex care needs, but the burden of care often has a negative impact on their family lives, leisure time and professional activities. The aim of this project is to systematically review the literature to assess how multimorbidity affects the everyday lives of middle-aged persons, and to find out what abilities and resources help in the development of coping strategies to overcome the challenges of living with it.Methods and analysisWe will systematically search for studies reporting on the everyday life experiences of middle-aged persons (30–60 years) with multimorbidity (≥2 chronic conditions) in MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded, PSYNDEX and The Cochrane Library from inception. We will include all primary studies that use quantitative, qualitative and mixed methodologies, irrespective of publication date/study setting.Two independent reviewers will screen titles/abstracts/full texts, extract data from the selected studies and present evidence in terms of study/population characteristics, data collection method and the phenomenon of interest, that is, everyday life experiences of middle-aged persons with multimorbidity. Risk of bias will be independently assessed by two reviewers using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. We will use a convergent integrated approach on qualitative/quantitative studies, whereby information will be synthesised narratively and, if possible, quantitatively.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval is not required due to the nature of the proposed systematic review. Results from this research will be disseminated at relevant (inter)national conferences and via publication in peer-reviewed journals.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42021226699.

scholarly journals EVERYDAY LIFE OF VOLHYNIANS: FOOD, CLOTHES AND ETERTAINMENT (late 14th – mid-16th centuries)

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
M. Tarasiuk
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
The Body ◽  
Common People ◽  
Dance Communication ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
Body Care ◽  
Natural Preservatives ◽  
Selection Of

In the article some aspects of the everyday life of Volhynia burghers and peasants of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the end of the 14th and mid-16th centuries are considered. The variety and variations of food, the types of clothing available to ordinary people, the concept of body care and health care, as well as the entertainment of the common people and places of rest such as taverns and baths are explored. It was discovered that the Volhynians’ diet was rich and included meat products, such as fish like carp, pike, sturgeon, beluga and even Danzig herring, flour products, seasonings and natural preservatives, which were bought at city auctions and grown on their own. By the middle of the 16th century, Volhynians formed separate ideas about medicine, where approaching Jewish or Welsh doctors were common. Usually, medicines were herbal drinks and ointments Examination of the body was carried out to identify the causes of the disease. Activities of local people were analyzed, such as dice, chess, dance, communication with other residents of Volhynia cities and villages, usage of prostitutes. In fact, depending on the success of the production sphere, the citizen or the peasant could afford a standard of living. It was found out that the everyday life of the Volhynian was relatively bright and filled with events and included the choice of products for dinner, the selection of a new wardrobe item, the discussion of local news after work, participation in lawsuits in ham, playing games and taking the glass of a strong drink. The Volhynians’ ideas of «unprofitable people», which had analogies in Western European countries, were singled out.

scholarly journals Culture of the “new normal” - terminological meaning(s) and use(s)

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-530
Author(s):  
Vesna Trifunovic ◽  
Ivan Djordjevic
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities

This paper discusses the different meanings and uses of the term ?new normal? by taking into account the historical perspective and contemporary use of the term which has reemerged as a consequence of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors focus on the processes that through this term define everyday life in pandemic circumstances, determined by the need for adjusting and for (re)negotiating and (re)positioning of diverse actors in positions of power. The unpredictable outcome of the still-ongoing pandemic additionally gives importance to the study of these new circumstances within social sciences and humanities, to which this special issue is dedicated to.

scholarly journals Transbiological Re-imaginings of the Modern Self and the Nonhuman: Zoo Animals as Transbiological Entities

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Marianna Szczygielska
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Zoo Animals ◽  
Modern Self ◽  
Philosophical Ontology ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Biological and behavioral sciences rely heavily on a humanist discourse of species and matter that limits its inquiry to a set of phenomena that in some ways serve, resemble or define the ontology of the human self. In  this essay I explore alternative ideas of biology that seriously restructure our thinking about the modern self. If, as Foucault suggests, power-knowledge shapes identities, norms and politics through the medical appropriation of bodies and through the production of scientific theories and practices, then what is the possible challenge to these forms of knowledge? I look at transbiology as a new branch of science that offers an alternative to the mainstream biological exploration of the body and the self, and maps new institutional cartographies of science and most importantly philosophical ontology. Author(s): Marianna Szczygielska Title (English): Transbiological Re-imaginings of the Modern Self and the Nonhuman: Zoo Animals as Transbiological Entities Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 2013) Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje  Page Range: 101-110 Page Count: 10 Citation (English): Marianna Szczygielska, “Transbiological Re-imaginings of the Modern Self and the Nonhuman: Zoo Animals as Transbiological Entities,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 2013): 101-110.

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