11. Goff man and the Everyday Experience of Surveillance

2022 ◽  
pp. 224-247
Author(s):  
Louise Eley
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Experience ◽  
The Everyday

Rereading Diaspora: Reverberating Voices and Diasporic Listening in Italo-Australian Digital Storytelling

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Daniella Trimboli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
The Everyday

Abstract The contemporary diasporic experience is fragmented and contradictory, and the notion of ‘home’ increasingly blurry. In response to these moving circumstances, many diaspora and multiculturalism studies’ scholars have turned to the everyday, focussing on the local particularities of the diasporic experience. Using the Italo-Australian digital storytelling collection Racconti: La Voce del Popolo, this paper argues that, while crucial, the everyday experience of diaspora always needs to be read in relation to broader, dislocated contexts. Indeed, to draw on Grant Farred (2009), the experience of diaspora must be read both in relation to—but always ‘out of’—context. Reading diaspora in this way helps reveal aspects of diasporic life that have the potential to productively disrupt dominant assimilationist discourses of multiculturalism that continue to dominate. This kind of re-reading is pertinent in colonial nations like Australia, whose multiculturalism rhetoric continues to echo normative whiteness.

Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction

Utafiti ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-153
Author(s):  
Stephen T. Ogundipe
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Religious Violence ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Literary Arts

Representations of neighbourhood in contemporary Northern Nigerian fiction are a departure point for scholars exploring the structures and sources of ethnic and religious violence. Using Edify Yakusak’s After They Left and Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday, Slavoj Zizek's analysis of the concept of neighbour is applied here, to engage theoretically with Northern Nigerian social conditions. This framework illuminates the links existing between the everyday experience of neighbourhoods in real life, and their imaginative representations in the literary arts.

Hypnosis and Will

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Multiple Personality ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Conscious Will

This chapter explains how hypnosis involves a significant departure from the everyday experience and exercise of conscious will. The hypnotized person experiences the causation of his actions in an unusual way, as being generated less by the self and more by the hypnotist. This is not only a feeling but involves a kind of actual transfer of control from person to hypnotist. What is equally odd, though, is that the range of what can be controlled changes during hypnosis. In this sense, while hypnosis may undermine the experience of will, it seems paradoxically to expand and alter the force of will. This is why hypnosis has been implicated in many of the curiosities of will, including possession, multiple personality, and automatisms.

scholarly journals EMAAN: An Evolutionary Multiverse Argument against Naturalism

Symposion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Ward Blondé ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Evolutionarily Conserved ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Cosmological Natural Selection

In this paper, an evolutionary multiverse argument against naturalism (EMAAN) is presented: E1. In an evolutionary multiverse, phenomena have variable evolutionary ages. E2. After some time T, the development of the empirical sciences will be evolutionarily conserved. E3. The phenomena with an evolutionary age above T are methodologically supernatural. Entities are classified according to whether they are (1) physical and spatiotemporal, (2) causally efficacious, and (3) either observed by or explanatorily necessary for the empirical sciences. While the conjunction of (1) and (2) is taken to be sufficient for existence in reality, the negation of (3) defines methodological supernaturalness. EMAAN uses a generalization of evolutionary theory, namely cosmological natural selection, to argue that phenomena evolve that fulfill conditions (1) and (2), but not (3). This shows that methodologically supernatural phenomena have a clear epistemology according to a theory that is grounded in the commitments of naturalism. Supernatural phenomena are not observed by the empirical sciences because the empirical sciences themselves are supernaturally guided and predestined to develop according to an evolutionarily conserved plan. In spite of this scientific plan, there is room for afterlives and supernaturality in the everyday experience.

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