scholarly journals Homes for Canadians (II)

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-156
Author(s):  
DAVID BRIAN HOWARD
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
World War ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
Canadian City ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
At Home

Abstract According to Giorgio Agamben, the Greek term for ‘habitual dwelling place,’ or ‘habit,’ is ethos. The rise to prominence in the twentieth century of the modern idea of the suburb, or ‘suburbia,’ held open the door to the potential realization of the American (and Canadian) dream ethos of universal home ownership. The tantalizing appeal of a the ideal of ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ have become key terms in the Post World War Two pursuit of a mode of ‘dwelling’ linked to consumer capitalism. Yet for Frankfurt School critics such as Theodor W. Adorno, the pursuit of this suburban ideal induced a deep sense of ennui such that to feel ‘at home’ in such a suburban environment challenged the very foundations of the dwelling place of Western civilization. “It is part of morality,” Adorno concluded in his book, Minima Moralia, “not to be at home in one’s home.” This text is an exercise in examining this question of ‘dwelling’ and ‘home’ through an allegorical poetical focus (drawn from Walter Benjamin and Charles Baudelaire) focusing on a newly completed suburb in the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

scholarly journals Homes for Canadians (I)

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-216
Author(s):  
David Brian Howard
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
World War ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
Canadian City ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
At Home

Abstract According to Giorgio Agamben, the Greek term for ‘habitual dwelling place,’ or ‘habit,’ is ethos. The rise to prominence in the twentieth century of the modern idea of the suburb, or ‘suburbia,’ held open the door to the potential realization of the American (and Canadian) dream ethos of universal home ownership. The tantalizing appeal of a the ideal of ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ have become key terms in the Post World War Two pursuit of a mode of ‘dwelling’ linked to consumer capitalism. Yet for Frankfurt School critics such as Theodor W. Adorno, the pursuit of this suburban ideal induced a deep sense of ennui such that to feel ‘at home’ in such a suburban environment challenged the very foundations of the dwelling place of Western civilization. “It is part of morality,” Adorno concluded in his book, Minima Moralia, “not to be at home in one’s home.” This text is an exercise in examining this question of “dwelling” and “home” through an allegorical poetical focus (drawn from Walter Benjamin and Charles Baudelaire) focusing on a newly completed suburb in the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

scholarly journals Contemporaneidade e literatura: reflexões sobre uma possível literatura do contemporâneo

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Jefferson De Morais Lima
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Theodor Adorno

Este artigo analisa a ideia de contemporaneidade formulada por Giorgio Agamben, com base em filósofos que influenciaram o pensamento do filósofo italiano. Com a contribuição crítica de Walter Benjamin, reflete sobre Charles Baudelaire como um artista contemporâneo e propõe reflexões sobre quais seriam os traços de uma possível literatura do contemporâneo, com o suporte teórico de Theodor Adorno.

Cultures in Contact

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Watson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
World War ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Michel Leiris ◽  
Novel Of Manners ◽  
At Home

In this chapter I investigate the paradox that the writer who most vividly embodied the exchange between literature and anthropology during this period, Michel Leiris, worked hard to maintain separate identities and spaces for his life as an anthropologist (working at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris) and as a writer and memoirist (working at home). While Leiris came of age professionally and aesthetically during the fertile interwar period in France of “ethnographic surrealism,” his anthropological writings in the period after World War II show a surprising fidelity to disciplinary protocols. The chapter argues that Leiris’s ethnography of the Francophone Caribbean, Contacts de civilisations en Martinique et en Guadeloupe, tries to subvert those protocols, turning from a social science survey into something like a novel of manners by the end. Ultimately, however, this literary turn falls prey to tropes of imperial romance that Leiris ostensibly seeks to undercut.

Who Is a Bhakta?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil Ben-Herut
Keyword(s):  
Religious Behaviors ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
The Ideal

Chapter 2 considers the multiple ways in which the characters of the Ragaḷegaḷu embody the ideal of worshiping Śiva and seeks to identify the constitutive and recognizable component that is shared among the various model devotees that populate the corpus. I argue in the chapter that such a component can be located in the interiority of the Bhakta figure, an interiority that is indicated in the Ragaḷegaḷu through a specific set of key terms, the element that is most clearly shared among the text’s bewildering variety of Śaiva characters with their different religious behaviors, and is expressed through actions that point to an uncompromising devotional stance.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Harris
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Platonic Love ◽  
Close Friendship ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
At Home

This introduces the Marlborough-Godolphin partnership as not just a political alliance, but a close friendship founded on ideals of platonic love and heroic virtue. It reviews the various discourses of friendship, noting the cultural influences (the essayists Montaigne, Sir William Temple, Saint-Évremond, as well as heroic drama and opera) which carried the ideal forward, but with the growing sense that it must prove itself in actual human transactions. It suggests that studying the Marlborough-Godolphin friendship as it proved itself in war abroad and party conflict at home is revealing of two historical figures whom historians have often found enigmatic, though in the end their commitment to it contributed to their short-term failure as well as their longer-term success. The distinction between friendship and royal favour is also touched on.

Colonial Terror

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deana Heath
Keyword(s):  
Indian Population ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
World War ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
The Law ◽  
Colonial Police ◽  
First World

Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule—of some of the ways in which, in other words, extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of colonial states. Although enacted largely by Indians on Indian bodies, particularly by subaltern members of the police, the book argues that torture was facilitated, systematized, and ultimately sanctioned by first the East India Company and then the Raj because it benefitted the colonial regime, since rendering the police a source of terror played a key role in the construction and maintenance of state sovereignty. Drawing upon the work of both Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, Colonial Terror contends, furthermore, that it is only possible to understand the terrorizing nature of the colonial police in India by viewing colonial India as a ‘regime of exception’ in which two different forms, or levels, of exceptionality were in operation, one wrought through the exclusion of particular groups or segments of the Indian population from the law and the other by ‘petty sovereigns’ in their enactment of illegal violence in the operation of the law. It was in such fertile ground, in which colonial subjects were both included within the domain of colonial law while also being abandoned by it, that torture was able to flourish.

scholarly journals Empatía y extrañamiento en el concepto de aura de Walter Benjamin.

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-60
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ibarlucía
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Charles Baudelaire

El articulo propone una reconsideración de la concepción del aura en Walter Benjamin, a la luz de un recorrido teórico que lleva desde los “Protocolos de ensayos con las drogas” y consideraciones sobre la mímesis hasta “La obra de arte en la época de su reproductibilidad técnica” y sus estudios sobre Charles Baudelaire. La tesis central es que es el concepto de aura de Benjamin implica una dialéctica de empatía y extrañamiento que está profundamente arraigada en la historia de la percepción humana. La caracterización de la experiencia de lo bello de la naturaleza y del arte como aurática consiste, en último análisis, en una derivación de la relación interpersonal que constituye la base del mundo social o, más precisamente, en la transferencia de un proceso perceptivo originario en segunda persona a la actitud que los seres humanos manifiestan frente a entes y hechos experimentados en tercera.

scholarly journals Messianismo e política em Giorgio Agamben

Reflexão ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Oswaldo Giacoia Junior
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Giorgio Agamben

Contemporâneo é o que não coincide inteiramente com seu tempo, embora contenha a verdade dele; que é capaz de dividi-lo e interpolá-lo, para compreender, em sua gênese e vir a ser, o essencial próprio tempo em que se insere. Contemporâneo é, portanto, o arcaico, o que percebe o princípio genético, a arché daquilo que, no presente, nos constitui. Ser extemporâneo é colocar-se em condições de transformar seu próprio tempo, ao relacioná-lo com os outros tempos, de ler nele a história de maneira inédita, de “encontrar-se” com sua história segundo a força de uma necessidade que não é mero arbítrio individual, mas força de uma exigência humana à qual não se pode deixar de respond­er. É como se a escuridão do presente gerasse uma luz invisível, que projetasse sua sombra sobre o passado, e este, ao ser tocado por aquele feixe de sombras, adquirisse a capacidade de responder, de colocar-se em relação com trevas do agora. Palavras-chave: Giorgio Agamben. Messianismo. Política. Walter Benjamin.

scholarly journals At home with New Zealand in the 1960s

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Richard Thomson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
World War ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Second World ◽  
At Home

<p>Published by A H & A W Reed to immediate success late in 1961, New Zealand in Colour was the first of many large-format books of colour photographs of New Zealand. While they belonged to a tradition of scenic reproduction as old as European settlement, technological changes and the social and economic disruptions of the Second World War intensified the importance of the image in print culture. Drawing on recent historiographic approaches that seek to decentre New Zealand across transnational and city-hinterland relationships, this thesis argues that reproduction, through photography but also as a cultural practice, was intrinsic to a Pakeha conception of place. Looking at scenery was an activity thought to be peculiarly suited to New Zealand, but it was also a prime form of tourist consumption and was therefore essential to New Zealanders’ successful participation in modernity, which required ‘seeing ourselves’ but also awareness of recognition from other moderns. During the decades after the Second World War, modernity took on a more international character with greater mobility of people and goods and a strengthening consumer culture. The complex kinds of looking involved in being modern were increasingly expressed as a tension between modern and anti-modern impulses. The colour pictorial displayed New Zealand as a cultural landscape of cameras, cars, and holidays, but also as a refuge from modernity. The ‘coffee table book’ was a luxury consumer object of advanced technology, but the gift was the preferred method for its circulation. To be at home with this New Zealand may require a move to the suburbs, but it offers a view of nation and nationalism in which mobility, leisure, and consumption have become the chief explanatory tools.</p>

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