scholarly journals Plaintive Survival under Panoptical Surveillance: A Reading of Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear.

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Aparna Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
English Language ◽  
New World ◽  
Power Relation ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
The People ◽  
Identity Privacy

This paper is an attempt to explore how the powerful gaze of the panoptical power relation through the  technological aids of this neocolonial era which forms the ‘Self,’ distorts the identity, privacy and liberty of the  lives under this surveillance who becomes the ‘other’. The study is based on the reading of Rituparno Ghosh’s 2007 English–language film The Last Lear. The  film which won the National Award of India for the best feature film in English in 2007  is based on a 1985 Bengali play, Ajker Shajahan ( Today’s Shakespeare) written by Utpala  Dutt. The film unfolds the story of an aging Shakespearean actor persuaded by a young ambitious director to take up acting again. But the retired actor is unwilling to adjust the new world of cinema and its complex technical tricks. The film also expose how the powerful camera gaze and mobile phones turn as the new colonizer who distorts truth and induce fears in the minds of the people under surveillance. This study is carried out based on the Post-Panoptical theories of Surveillance.

scholarly journals Facing emergences: Past traces and new directions in American anthropology (Why American anthropology needs semiotics of culture)

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 114-168
Author(s):  
Irene Portis-Winner
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Field Worker ◽  
The People ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Closed Systems ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article considers what happened to American anthropology, which was initiated by the scientist Franz Boas, who commanded all fields of anthropology, physical, biological, and cultural. Boas was a brave field worker who explored Eskimo land, and inspired two famous students, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, to cross borders in new kinds of studies. After this florescence, there was a general return to linear descriptive positivism, superficial comparisons of quantitative cultural traits, and false evolutionary schemes, which did not introduce us to the personalities and inner worlds of the tribal peoples studied. The 1953 study by the philosopher David Bidney was a revelation. Bidney enunciated and clarified all my doubts about the paths of anthropology and his work became to some extent a model for a narration of the story of American anthropology. In many ways he envisaged a semiotics of culture formulated by Lotman. I try to illustrate the fallacies listed by Bidney and how they have been partially overcome in some later anthropological studies which have focused on symbolism, artistry, and subjective qualities of the people studied. I then try to give an overview of the school started by Lotman that spans all human behavior, that demonstrates the complexity of meaning and communication, in vast areas of knowledge, from art, literature, science, and philosophy, that abjured strict relativism and closed systems and has become an inspiration for those who want anthropology to encompass the self and the other, and Bahtin’s double meaning. This paper was inspired by Bidney as a call to explore widely all possible worlds, not to abandon science and reality but to explore deeper inner interrelations and how the aesthetic may be indeed be paramount in the complexities of communication.

Manners and Mustard: Ideas of Political Decline in Sixteenth-Century Scotland

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-263
Author(s):  
David Allan
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
National Culture ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
The Self ◽  
Moral Outrage ◽  
The People

With an acidity wholly typical of the Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Samuel Johnson was to observe that “oats,” which “in England is commonly given to horses … in Scotland supports the people.” It has not unnaturally been the assumption of posterity that most eighteenth-century Scotsmen, by then the self-confident inhabitants of a newly civilised and enlightened community, would have been suitably offended by what has since become a notorious imputation of national plainness and pauperism. Yet there are, I want to suggest, substantial grounds for doubting this apparently straightforward conclusion. The meagreness of the early-modern Scottish diet had in fact always been a matter for the most determined moral pride. The elderly Jacobite, Mackintosh of Borlum, for example, had as recently as the 1720s responded to the increasing sophistication of the post-Union table with open disdain: “Formerly I had been served with two or three substantial dishes of beef, mutton, and fowl, garnished with their own wholesome gravy,” the suspicious old laird complained, but “I am now served up little expensive ashets with English pickles, Indian mangoes, and anchovy sauces.” Robert Monro of Opisdale, too, writing nearly a century before, in the 1630s, had described with palpable moral outrage the flagrant indiscipline and consequent military weakness of those Scottish soldiers in the armies of Gustavus Adolphus whose “stomackes could not digest a Gammon of Bacon or cold Beefe without mustard, so farre [they] were out of use.” And in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814), surely the most influential examination of the national culture ever composed, it is also obvious that that patriotic pedant, the Baron of Bradwardine, offering hospitality to his young visitor at Tully-Veolan, the seat of ancient Scottish virtue, finds himself by no means embarrassed at being unable to “rival the luxuries of [his] English table.”

scholarly journals Evaluation of the role of lie in daily life and Turkish tale type Keloğlan/The Bald-boy in the frame of Other-directedness schema domain

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 967-973
Author(s):  
Özlem Demren ◽  
Bahar Köse Karaca ◽  
Çağdaş Demren
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Schema Theory ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The People ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Turkish Culture

Tales as an oral narratives gives us some ideas about the perceptions and attitudes of the people in a society. In this paper, we try to get your attention to the Keloğlan as a Turkish tale type who gives us some ideas about the psychological motivations and perceptions in Turkish culture. The Turkish tale hero Keloğlan is a timeless/fitting all-time character who gives clues for today with his personality from past narratives to the present.  In fact, fairy tales set boundaries and offer acceptable models. Actually Keloğlan isn’t really an ideal type but at the end of the tales, we come across with him as a type of winner. He always behaves against obstacles and inequity and he returns an ideal type. Lie is seen as a sympathetic trick in the Keloğlan tales. Keloğlan's lies and tricks are ignored by the society to the extent that he opposes injustice. Based on the Schema theory, we can say that the “other-directedness” schema domain is used in the tales of Keloğlan frequently, but in a way, related with lie. Keloğlan uses lie or manupilation for the reason of “approval seeking”, but as a way of defence against to the “self-subjugation” and “self-sacrifice”. In a sense, Keloğlan, as a Turkish tale type, shows us another aspect of society's approval mechanism.  

scholarly journals Harmoni Lintas Agama Masyarakat Tengger

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Mohamad Ali Hisyam ◽  
Wan Zailan Kamarudin Wan Ali
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Social Involvement ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Symbolic Interactionist ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
The People ◽  
Hindu Community ◽  
Interactionist Approach

This paper attempts to closely portray interreligious harmony, especially between Muslim and Hindu community in Tengger, East Java. Tengger community are ingrained with their own culture and practicing their unique tradition. Through symbolic-interactionist approach, this paper supposes that this reality represents a cultural process which is simultaneously and flexibly flowing and growing. In the name of brotherhood and humanity, Tengger people are running their daily activities, discounting subjective differences among them. Sociologically, they are focusing on facing the reality as objective necessities where the self and the other are mutually understanding and complementing each other. In this regard, they have improved the way of interaction, from <em>saya</em>-and-<em>mereka</em> perspective to <em>kami</em>-and<em>kita</em> approach. Social activities and religious/cultural rites symbolically become communicative device of inter-relation among the people. Muslim and Hindu harmony in this community denotes multicultural interaction that entails social involvement of members of community. Tengger people, as an animal symbolicum, strive to construct, expand and (re)interpret the symbols for building harmony.

scholarly journals Teacher Applicants' Self-Efficacy and English Proficiency

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Vanesa B. Dungog ◽  
Joefel T. Libo-on
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
High Performance ◽  
English Language ◽  
Proficiency Test ◽  
English Proficiency ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
Work Output ◽  
Teacher Applicants

Self-efficacy is a belief in one capability in accomplishing a particular task. Most of the related studies concluded that having a high self-efficacy has something to do with high performance at work. It has something to do with an individuals' work output/ production; however, some other literature revealed that it does not have something to do with an individual's performance. On the other side, the English language is the required medium of instruction yet the most feared. This study investigated the self-efficacy towards the English Proficiency Test of the teacher applicants from the Division of Romblon. Findings showed that respondents have Low Self- efficacy status towards English Proficiency Test. It concluded that proficient respondents have a Very Low Self-efficacy among the levels of English Proficiency compared to other levels that reached the Low level. Further, the overall English Proficiency of teacher applicants was at the Beginners level.

New worlds versus scaling: From van Leeuwenhoek to Mandelbrot

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Lovejoy
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Emergent Property ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great Books ◽  
Second Nature ◽  
Self Similar ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Influential Book

We just took a voyage through scales, noticing structures in cloud photographs and wiggles on graphs. Collectively, they spanned ranges of scale over factors of billions in space and billions of billions in time. We are immediately confronted with the question: How can we conceptualize and model such fantastic variation? Two extreme approaches have developed. For the moment, I call the domi­nant one the new worlds view, after Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632– 1723), who developed a powerful early microscope. The other is the self- similar (scaling) view by Benoit Mandelbrot which I discuss in the next section. My own view— scaling but with the notion of scale itself an emergent property— is discussed in Chapter 3. When van Leeuwenhoek peered through his microscope, in his amazement he is said to have discovered a “new world in a drop of water”: “animalcules,” the first microorganisms (Fig. 2.1). Since then, the idea that zooming reveals something completely new has become second nature. In the twenty- first cen­tury, atom- imaging microscopes are developed precisely because of the promise of such new worlds. The scale- by- scale “newness” idea was graphically illustrated by K. Boeke’s highly influential book Cosmic View, which starts with a photograph of a girl holding a cat, first zooming away to show the surrounding vast reaches of outer space, and then zooming in until reaching the nucleus of an atom. The book was incredibly successful. It was included in Hutchins and Adler’s Gateway to the Great Books, a ten- volume series featuring works by Aristotle, Shakespeare, Einstein, and others. In 1968, two films were based on Boeke’s book— Cosmic Zoom and Powers of Ten (1968, re- released in 1977), encouraging the idea that nearly every power of ten in scale hosts different phenomena. More recently (2012), there’s even the interactive Cosmic Eye app for the iPad, iPhone, or iPod, not to mention a lavish update: the “Zoomable Universe.”

Writing the Precarious Self in Falling Man

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Aliette Ventéjoux
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Don Delillo ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Potential Victim ◽  
The Will ◽  
Falling Man

The terrorist attacks on American soil of 11 September 2001 have reminded people how easily they can be submitted to the will of the other. This article will analyse how literature, and more particularly post-9/11 literature, deals with a new world order where the self seems to have become subjected to terrorism, being today its potential victim rather than a subject. More precisely, how have American novelists dealt with the demise of the sovereign self after the attacks of 11 September 2001 and what is the role played by memory? Focusing on Falling Man (2007) by Don DeLillo, this article will demonstrate the importance of art and literature to fight against the demise of the sovereign self.

“Of Barbarouse People and What Miserable Lyves They Leade” – William Thomas’s Tana and Persia and the Cultural Techniques of Early Modern Translation

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-162
Author(s):  
Susanne Bayerlipp
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
English Language ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Travel Accounts

Abstract The article analyses early modern cultural techniques of translation focusing on the example of William Thomas’s Travels to Tana and Persia, one of the first travel accounts of the Middle and Far East in the English language. It argues that cultural techniques of translation are constituted by multiple operative practices, such as writing, reading, and gift making, which provide the aesthetic and material-technical foundation for abstract concepts including the self and the other.

scholarly journals Thinking the Political with Jean-Luc Nancy

Stasis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-38
Author(s):  
Janar Mihkelsaar
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
The People ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

In this article, I argue that at the center of Jean-Luc Nancy’s approach to the political lies the thinking of subject as that of relation. Throughout the historical actualizations of, for example, the individual, the state, or the people as a subject, the problematic of relation is one that has retreated and now demands to be subjected to a retreatment. When the arche-teleological presuppositions that constitute subject as that which is given enter the phase of deconstruction, subject comes to present itself as nothing but the activity of relating itself to itself. I respond to Nancy’s call to invent “an affirmation of relation” by way of rethinking the logics of sovereignty and democracy. While sovereignty unites, posits, finitizes, and finishes the self of the people, a post-68 democracy pluralizes, infinitizes, and disfigures the identity of the people. Between sovereignty and democracy, notwithstanding their conflicting tenets, the relation is not that of reciprocal exclusion. One is rather the correlative of the other. Without the one, the other would not make any sense. Through this Janus-faced economy of the political, the people can experience its own “reality”—to experience relation itself. The affirmation of relation is what gives and keeps free the voided site of the political for the infinite self-institution of the people, and for that reason is political par excellence.

Working With Interpreters to Support Students Who Are English Language Learners

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 15-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henriette W. Langdon ◽  
Terry Irvine Saenz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
First Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Language ◽  
Second Best ◽  
Support Students

The number of English Language Learners (ELL) is increasing in all regions of the United States. Although the majority (71%) speak Spanish as their first language, the other 29% may speak one of as many as 100 or more different languages. In spite of an increasing number of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who can provide bilingual services, the likelihood of a match between a given student's primary language and an SLP's is rather minimal. The second best option is to work with a trained language interpreter in the student's language. However, very frequently, this interpreter may be bilingual but not trained to do the job.

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