Humans, Heroes and Artists: (Re)Creating the Unexpected Situation

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Coessens
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Music Improvisation ◽  
Time Experience ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Urgent Action

Life is difficult, never the same, always challenging acquired patterns of behavior and expectation, urging the human being to improvise. Improvisatory acts in everyday life are the result of unexpected situations, where the encounter between self and environment suddenly disrupts the banal rituals of life. Over time, experience and knowledge enhance ways to cope with unexpectedness, and to 'improvise' better, or even 'less.' In music, improvisation is often a situation of choice. The unexpected situation is created, set up, purposively leading to an improvisatory encounter between body and environment. The musician knows he/she will 'improvise' the next hour. But it can also resemble life, by way of sudden unexpected moments which the musician still did not 'set up.' Experience and expertise enhance the fluidity of improvisational acts in the arts. This paper seeks to explore these tensions between improvisation in everyday life and in arts: between 'urgent action' and 'play,' between determined and created situations. It will be argued that the shift is not radical, and the tensions but a matter of degree. The 'artification' of improvisation originates in everyday life by play, tactics (de Certeau) and experience (Dewey) and reaches an aesthetic and ethic level of kairos (Aristotle) in art, exploring actions of choice and risking failure by (re)creating unexpectedness. The artist, like the human being in life, but now from his/her own free choice, is challenged to leave security and encounter the unexpected. But isn't that also the quest of the hero?

Physical environment and daily life in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia, Poros. The bioarchaeological remains

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arto Penttinen ◽  
Dimitra Mylona
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Over Time

The section below contains reports on bioarchaeological remains recovered in the excavations in Areas D and C in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia, Poros, between 2003 and 2005. The excavations were directed by the late Berit Wells within a research project named Physical Environment and Daily Life in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia (Poros). The main objective of the project was to study what changed and what remained constant over time in the everyday life and in both the built and physical environment in an important sanctuary of the ancient Greeks. The bioarchaeological remains, of a crucial importance for this type of study, were collected both by means of traditional archaeological excavation and by processing extensively collected soil samples. This text aims to providing the theoretical and archaeological background for the analyses that follow.

Precarity Unbound

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Ettlinger
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Hardt And Negri ◽  
Global Events ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Over Time

Departing from tendencies to bound precarity in particular time periods and world regions, this article develops an expansive view of precarity over time and across space. Beyond effects of specific global events and macroscale structures, precarity inhabits the microspaces of everyday life. However, people attempt to disengage the stress of precarious life by constructing the illusion of certainty. Reflexive denial of precarious life entails essentialist strategies that implicitly or explicitly classify and homogenize people and phenomena, legitimize the constructed boundaries, and in the process aim at eliminating difference and possibilities for negotiation; the tension between these goals and material realities helps explain misrepresentations that can be catastrophic at multiple scales, re-creating precarity. Reactions to 9/11 by the Bush administration represent a case in point of reflexive denial of precarity through strategies that created illusions of certainty with deleterious results. Normatively, the paradox of precarious life and reflexive denials prompts questions as to how urges for certainty in the context of precarity might be constructively channeled. the author approaches this challenge in the final section by drawing from a nexus of concerns about post-Habermasian radical democracy, individual thought and feeling, and network dynamics. Whereas Hardt and Negri reverse the direction of the Foucauldian concept of biopower from top-down to bottom-up, the author draws from Foucault's concept of governmentality in relation to resistance to imagine a cooperative politics operating within as well as across scales.

Grafinscripties

Lampas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-65
Author(s):  
Onno van Nijf
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Archaic Period ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Frequent Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Funerary Inscriptions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article offers a brief introduction to the most frequent type of inscription: funerary inscriptions or epitaphs. The article offers a chronological overview from the Archaic period to late Antiquity, with an emphasis on Athens. It opens with a brief discussion of the archaeological and ritual contexts in which funerary inscriptions were set up, followed by a discussion of archaic epigrams and the social strategies that lay behind them. This is followed by a discussion of public and private graves that shows how epigraphic habits changed over time. The article continues with a discussion of funerary epigraphic habits outside Athens and closes with a few examples of Christian epitaphs.

scholarly journals Aboagora 2013: The Human Machine

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ruth Illman
Keyword(s):  
Joint Venture ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The editorial introduces the articles of the issue, all pertaining to the arts and sciences event, Aboagora, which gathered artists, academics and a wide range of interested listeners together to discuss the relationship between technology and the human being in Turku/Åbo in August, 2013. Aboagora is arranged as a joint venture between Turku Music Festival and scholars from the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University and the Donner Institute.

scholarly journals Gainful game, set-up, cyberworld

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Eldred
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Philosophical Orientation ◽  
Essential Nature ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
Set Up

There is a critique of capitalist market economy that consists in claiming not only that capitalist social relations are uncaring and alienating, nor only exploitative of the working class, but that the process of capitalist economy as a whole is a way of living, today globalized, that has gotten out of hand. Its essential nature is unmasked as a senseless circular movement that, besides ruthlessly exploiting natural resources, demeans human being itself and alienates it from the historical alternative of a purportedly authentic mode of human being rooted in collective, solidaric subjectivity. The present article offers an alternative hermeneutic cast for understanding capitalism as the gainful game that can serve as philosophical orientation in fighting for a free and fair social interplay in which the powers and abilities of free individuals are appropriately and reciprocally estimated and esteemed. This requires, first and foremost, seeing through the fetishisms inherent in the valorization of reified value that the mature Marx identified in his critiques of political economy as the essential nature of capitalism. Such critical insight is necessary for orientation also in today’s predicament of the ever more encroaching and ensnaring cyberworld.

scholarly journals Dampak Akulturasi Budaya pada Kesenian Rakyat

Panggung ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soemaryatmi Soemaryatmi
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Dead

The sub district of Selo lies between the slope of Merapi and Merbabu mountains. It has several arts which are still developing because of the support from the surrounding societies. Folk arts in Selo have been performed in second and forth weeks since 2008 in the Hall of Tourism Office, Selo sub district. Some of the dance forms have come to acculturation, for example, dances of Campur Bawur, Suro Indeng, Buditani and Prajuritan. Folk arts become a media for conveying feeling and thinking coming from the artist along with the supporting society. Involvemen of the arts in ritual as well as non ritual events shows that the arts have important role in the society’s life.The dances of Campur Bawur and Prajuritan  as the media of expression have been performed in onther areas such as Surakarta for the sake of appreciation and entertainment. Arts performance also represents the society’s legitimacy or belief of the dead spirit. The dead spirit as the embryo of human being and the societies is considered to be able to protect and give safety to the socienty. As an entertainment, the form of its movement is simple and the accompaniment is dynamic. Every per- formance is mostly affected by situation of the society.  The forms of make up, costums, movements, and accompaniment have mixed with moern performance. Keywords: folk dance, aculturation, entertainment.

scholarly journals Sie sammeln und sie tauschen. Schloss Ambras als Knotenpunkt eines europäischen Netzwerks kunstaffiner Fürstenhöfe der Spätrenaissance

2019 ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Ricarda Hofer
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Mutual Exchange ◽  
The Arts

This paper explores dimensions of cultural exchange, a research area that traces mutual exchange activities of various kinds in material culture, including portraits and statues, but also tools of everyday life. At the heart of this study is Castle Ambras, a centre of regional cultural exchange activities in Renaissance Tyrol. Since the days of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol, its proprietors cultivated relationships with other European princes interested in the arts. As will be shown in this paper, various objects found their way to Tyrol as part of this cultural exchange – and can still be found in the halls of Ambras’ present-day museum.

scholarly journals UPAYA MENGURANGI CHANGE OVER TIME PADA PROSES PENJAHITAN DI SEWING LINE A20 PT. DF

Texere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Martina ◽  
Nur Rofiqoh Utami ◽  
Pratiwi Wulansari
Keyword(s):  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Over Time

Pada industri pakaian jadi pelayanan dan kepuasan buyer menjadi hal penting dalam menghadapi persaingan agar dapat terus tumbuh dan berkembang. Order produksi setiap tahun terdiri dari berbagai macam style yang akan berganti setelah selesai diproduksi. Perusahaan akan melakukan penetapan waktu yang harus dicapai dalam menyelesaikan satu order, sehingga dapat berpengaruh pada efisiensi waktu proses dikarenakan seringnya aktivitas change over. Change over merupakan pergantian aktivitas produksi disuatu lini produksi dari satu produk ke produk lainnya. Metoda yang akan digunakan untuk mengurangi change over time (COT) pada lini produksi yaitu menggunakan Quick Change Over (QCO). Tujuan mengurangi COT untuk mengefisiensikan waktu proses produksi walaupun tidak untuk menambah kapasitas produksi. Waktu yang dibutuhkan selama set up mesin dalam QCO menjadi faktor yang paling lama sehingga beberapa proses set up harus disederhanakan sesuai dengan prinsip lean manufacturing. Upaya mengurangi COT pada proses penjahitan yaitu dengan penerapan pemeliharaan mesin yang terjadwal, menempatkan operator sesuai dengan skill matrix dan mempersiapkan aksesoris ketika diperlukan bagian produksi. Hasil setelah penerapan metoda QCO untuk style yang repeat order menunjukan bahwa COT line A20 mengalami penurunan, walaupun belum memenuhi standar target yang ditetapkan oleh perusahaan. Penurunan COT ini akan berdampak pada peningkatan produktivitas dan efisiensi di line A20.

Spray-on Ceramic Insulation up to 450°C and Encapsulating existing corrosion without sandblast

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Pritchett
Keyword(s):  
Heat Load ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
System Research ◽  
Coated Film ◽  
Resin Solution ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Ceramic Compounds ◽  
Hot Surface ◽  
Over Time

Ceramic compounds have been around for many years, but the research to find which compounds, what size, crystalline structure and density would perform to block “heat load” is the keys the selecting the correct compounds to use. “Blocking heat load from radiation or resisting the absorption and loading of heat when used over a hot surface” is determined by the aspects stated above. None of this could be determined from the ceramic catalogs of listed compounds stating referenced characteristics. To determine how a compound would react in a paint/coating form could only be realized by trial and error when the compound is mixed in a resin solution with other compounds to see the result. This process has taken 23 years and over 3600 compounds to find 12 compounds that will continue to work when wet and mixed with other materials. As to the corrosion encapsulation without the need for sandblasting, this was studied after finding that most all corrosion protection specifications require sandblast, primers and top coats which over time did not perform as theory had projected. Part of the reason is due to the time frame after the blast is performed before the paints are applied. By the time the paints are applied a flash rust or bloom has set up and the surface is now out of specification and the result is a failure of the system. Research was applied on how a corrosion coating could be made to first penetrate deep into the pores of metal or rust, then swell and encapsulate the pores and/or surface rust before it sets up to 6780 psi surface tensile strength. In this way, the surface rust is used as the profile needed to anchor the coating and add to the strength of the coated film.

From ‘Sustainability’ to ‘Competitive Industry’

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Competitive Industry ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

Although from the moment the Film Council was set up, it was clear that the intention was to found an organisation focused on bringing ‘sustainability’ to the British film industry, the Council gradually retreated from this term in favour of a wider set of priorities and the way in which it articulated its mission also gradually shifted. Drawing on a wealth of original interviews with senior politicians, film executives, independent producers, industry experts and leading filmmakers, this chapter examines the key players, forces and assumptions which drove the Film Council’s agenda, how the weighting of priorities shifted over time and why the Council’s sense of mission changed over its lifetime.

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