scholarly journals The Cosmic & The Corporeal

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Cameron Macaulay
Keyword(s):  
Human Subjects ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Ontological Question ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Primary Channel

Under the Skin is a film deeply preoccupied with the human experience. Our protagonist is ‘Laura,’ an alien in disguise who stalks Glasgow in search of male prey. We are entirely situated with her throughout — seeing the streets through her eyes, sitting with her in the van during each hunt. Our proximity to her complicates the ontological question beyond a blunt dichotomy of Laura and the human subjects. Rather, it’s a dynamic continuum whereby Laura might glean empathy while ordinary people are estranged. The article argues that audiovision is the primary channel through which entanglements between the cosmic and the corporeal are explored in the film. Through director Jonathan Glazer and composer Mica Levy’s maintaining of the ‘alien lens’ (as well as an alien audition) the subject of humanity is ravelled.

Prescriptive Power: Biologism, Biopsychiatry and Drug-centred Psychopharmacology

Somatechnics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 291-309
Author(s):  
Francis Russell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
False Consciousness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Biological Ontology ◽  
Health Discourse

This paper looks to make a contribution to the critical project of psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff, by elucidating her account of ‘drug-centred’ psychiatry, and its relation to critical and cultural theory. Moncrieff's ‘drug-centred’ approach to psychiatry challenges the dominant view of mental illness, and psychopharmacology, as necessitating a strictly biological ontology. Against the mainstream view that mental illnesses have biological causes, and that medications like ‘anti-depressants’ target specific biological abnormalities, Moncrieff looks to connect pharmacotherapy for mental illness to human experience, and to issues of social justice and emancipation. However, Moncrieff's project is complicated by her framing of psychopharmacological politics in classical Marxist notions of ideology and false consciousness. Accordingly, she articulates a political project that would open up psychiatry to the subjugated knowledge of mental health sufferers, whilst also characterising those sufferers as beholden to ideology, and as being effectively without knowledge. Accordingly, in order to contribute to Moncrieff's project, and to help introduce her work to a broader humanities readership, this paper elucidates her account of ‘drug-centred psychiatry’, whilst also connecting her critique of biopsychiatry to notions of biologism, biopolitics, and bio-citizenship. This is done in order to re-describe the subject of mental health discourse, so as to better reveal their capacities and agency. As a result, this paper contends that, once reframed, Moncrieff's work helps us to see value in attending to human experience when considering pharmacotherapy for mental illness.

scholarly journals Hakikat Ilmu Pengetahuan dalam Perspektif Modern dan Islam

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-217
Author(s):  
Siti Makhmudah
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Coherence Theory ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Human Effort ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Structure Of Knowledge ◽  
Human Source

Science in a unity appeared in dimensional. Philosophy is an activity though human thought guided their efforts on finding cause for over everything and how human effort after learning of the matter. This research aims to understand: (1) knowledge and understanding of science in etymology and terminology; (2) perbedan of science, knowledge and religion in epistimologi; (3) the extent to which science in Islam; (4) the principal traits of science; (5) the theory of truth; (6) the sources of knowledge; (7) the boundaries of science; (8) the structure of knowledge. Results of the study can be described in several options, which are: first, science is the summary of a set of knowledge or the result of knowledge and facts. While religion is a belief or faith tata tata over something that is absolutely beyond human, appropriate and in line with the faith and worship. Second, with regard to the characteristics of the subject matter of science is as follows: 1) Systematically; 2) Generality; 3) Rationality; 4) Objectivity; 5) Verifiabilitas, 6) and Communality. Third, in Theory a theory of truth is no 3: the theory of correspondence, coherence Theory, theory of pragmatism. Fourth, human source of knowledge using two ways to obtain the correct knowledge, first through ratio and secondly through experience. Fifth, limiting his explorations in the science of human experience, thus embarking upon science exploration on human experience and stop on the human experience, and that is the limits of science. Sixth, the science is essentially a collection of knowledge that is explaining the various symptoms of nature which allows a human doing a series of actions to control these symptoms based on the explanation there is.

scholarly journals Podmiot w paradygmacie relacji ekosystemowej

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 305-316
Author(s):  
Krysytna Najder-Stefaniak
Keyword(s):  
Human Subjects ◽  
Ecological Paradigm ◽  
The Subject

The paper presents the notion of human subjects. The author emphasizes the fact, that the thinking in ecological paradigm demand of own notion of the subject so as to substantiate the notion of responsibility and creative possibility of man. Autor state that in thinking the metaphor of an ecosystem is indispensable the notion of subjectivity fits in with the nation of man.

scholarly journals Ethical implications of procedural or protocol adjustments to clinical research involving the participation of human subjects during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 181-195
Author(s):  
Anetta Jedličková
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Professionals ◽  
Trial Participants

Abstract The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to essential adjustments in clinical research involving human subjects. The pandemic is substantially affecting most procedures of ongoing, as well as new clinical trials related to diseases other than COVID-19. Procedural changes and study protocol modifications may significantly impact ethically salient fundamentals, such as the risk-benefit profile and safety of clinical trial participants, which raise key ethical challenges the subject-matter experts must face. This article aims to acquaint a wide audience of clinical research professionals, ethicists, as well as the general public interested in this topic with the legal, ethical and practical considerations in the field of clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic and to support the clinical researchers and study sponsors to fulfil their responsibilities in conducting clinical trials in a professional way that does not conflict with any legal or ethical obligations.

What is Time–Energy Uncertainty?

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
Gershon Kurizki ◽  
Goren Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Schrodinger Equation ◽  
Uncertainty Relation ◽  
Energy State ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
General Question ◽  
Energy Measurement ◽  
Quantum Observable ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Short Time

Henry scores a surprise win over Eve thanks to his quantum rocket that is powered by a quantum-chargeable battery. This gadget is subject to the time–energy uncertainty relation that may result in the battery having more energy than expected. This occurs if an energy measurement within a short time “collapses” the battery randomly to the highest energy state. Intriguingly, time is not a quantum observable. This raises the question that was hotly debated by Bohr and Einstein: how can time be uncertain and affect the energy uncertainty? The more general question is: what is the meaning of time, energy and their uncertainty in physics and in human experience? Attempts to define time have been the subject of philosophical controversy throughout millennia. The appendix to this chapter introduces the Schrödinger equation that governs the dynamics of quantum systems and their time–energy uncertainty.

The Kitchen God Returns to Heaven [Ông Táo Về Trời]

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-150
Author(s):  
Patrick McAllister ◽  
Thi Cam Tu Luckman
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Everyday Problems

In Vietnam, the Kitchen God is the subject of a special ritual that occurs in most households a week or so before Tết, the lunar new year, that is designed to facilitate this deity’s annual return to heaven. This ritual and its associated beliefs are the subject of the first part of this paper. We then turn to another Tết event, the annual TV comedy show based on the Kitchen God, called “Meeting Each Other at Year’s End.” This show satirises a wide variety of controversial everyday problems faced by ordinary people. We use an analytical framework derived from the anthropology of performance in combination with the sociology of humour to analyse the nature of this show and the ways in which it fulfils its aims of both entertaining a large audience and reflecting critically on the life of the nation.

Men of Steel? Rorschach, Theweleit, and Watchmen's Deconstructed Masculinity

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (01) ◽  
pp. 104-107
Author(s):  
Mervi Miettinen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Dysfunction ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Alan Moore ◽  
The Way

Watchmen(1987), written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, is a 12-part graphic novel that portrays real-life superheroes in a fictional United States of the 1980s. An alternate universe where ordinary people without superpowers were inspired by superhero comics and took on the crime-fighting in tights in the 1940s, the comic portrays an America vastly different from our reality. Since its publication more than two decades ago, the comic has been the subject of extensive study due to its breathtaking narrative structure as well as its acute deconstruction of the superhero genre itself. Indeed, one of the text's most brutal deconstructions comes from the way it addresses superheroic masculinity, from the misogynistic vigilante Rorschach to the emasculated ex-hero Nite Owl. Through its cast of male heroes,Watchmendeconstructs the superhero genre by rewriting masculine tropes such as vigilantism and patriotism and by exposing the inherent contradictions within these gender-bound tropes from the fascist undercurrents of violent patriotism to the often-hinted sexual dysfunction of the costume-fetish variety.

scholarly journals Sublimity & the Image: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-110
Author(s):  
Erika Goble
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Phenomenological Exploration

For over 2000 years, the sublime has been a source of fascination for philosophers, artists, and even the general public at times. We have written hundreds of treatises on the subject, put forth innumerable definitions and explanations, and even tried to reproduce it in art and literature. But, despite our efforts, our understanding of the sublime remains elusive. In this paper, the sublime is explored as a potential human experience that can be evoked by an image. Drawing upon concrete experiences, the phenomenon of sublimity suggests a compelling, embodied response to the visual object that can evoke a fundamental change of being.

What’s Wrong with Institutions? A Short History of the Clash between IRAs and Turkish Populists

Populism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-171
Author(s):  
Emre Balıkçı
Keyword(s):  
Public Procurement ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Short History ◽  
Political Will ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Neoliberal Policies

AbstractThe aim of this article is to reveal the institutional dimensions of populism, which tend to be ignored because of the hegemony of economic analysis of the subject. Whereas many researchers assume that populism is a result of the negative economic effects of neoliberal policies on the middle class, I argue that populism is also a corollary of neoliberal institutions’ effect on the political power of so-called ordinary people. To illustrate this, I focus on the rhetoric of Turkish populists concerning two important economic institutions in Turkey: the Public Procurement Authority and the Central Bank. This examination shows that Turkish populists view the independent institutions of neoliberalism as a barrier against the people’s political will and define themselves as fighters for democracy.

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