scholarly journals Artveillance: At the Crossroads of Art and Surveillance

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Mubi Brighenti
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Surveillance Society ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

In this article I review a series of artworks, artistic performances and installations that deal with the topic of surveillance. My aim is twofold. On the one hand, I want to look comparatively at how different artists interrogate, question, quote, or critise surveillance society. On the other hand, I take these artistic actions as themselves symptomatic of the ways in which surveillance interrogates contemporary society. In other words, my claim is that surveillance does not simply produce substantive social control and social triage, it also contributes to the formation of an ideoscape and a collective imagery about what security, insecurity, and control are ultimately about, as well as the landscape of moods a surveillance society like ours expresses.

Bodily Adornment and Modification in Byzantium

2021 ◽  
pp. 98-116
Author(s):  
Alicia Walker
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Material Sources ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

Focusing on Early and Middle Byzantine (fourth-to-twelfth-century) objects, images, and texts, this essay explores the tension between, on the one hand, efforts of the Byzantine church and state to discourage and control bodily adornment and modification and, on the other hand, the extensive evidence of widespread and immoderate engagement with these practices. The enhancement and manipulation of Byzantine bodies is considered as both a real and a metaphoric phenomenon. Evidence culled from secular and sacred, written and material sources demonstrates the importance of bodily adornment and modification to our understanding of Byzantine material and visual culture.

Paradoxes of Christian Solitude in the Seventeenth Century

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Louis Quantin
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The One

AbstractIn seventeenth-century religious discourse, the status of solitude was deeply ambivalent: on the one hand, solitude was valued as a setting and preparation for self-knowledge and meditation; on the other hand, it had negative associations with singularity, pride and even schism. The ambiguity of solitude reflected a crucial tension between the temptation to withdraw from contemporary society, as hopelessly corrupt, and endeavours to reform it. Ecclesiastical movements which stood at the margins of confessional orthodoxies, such as Jansenism (especially in its moral dimension of Rigorism), Puritanism and Pietism, targeted individual conscience but also worked at controlling and disciplining popular behaviour. They may be understood as attempts to pursue simultaneously withdrawal and engagement.

Scratch

2013 ◽  
pp. 316-335
Author(s):  
Eurídice Cabañes ◽  
Luca Carrubba
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Technical Competencies ◽  
The One ◽  
Digital Language ◽  
Education Field

Videogames, as a new and playful interactive language, have great potential in the education field. On the one hand, we can find educational videogames to cover almost the whole spectrum of topics offered by colleges and academies (although they are used mainly at home and not in the academic environment). On the other hand, playing videogames is in itself a recreational way to generate technical competencies and teach the use of a whole new “digital language.” Depending on different countries and cultures, there is a tendency to implement this technology in educational centres in varying degrees. In order to exemplify this implementation, the authors look at “Scratch,” a creative videogame program for children with a big community behind it. In the conclusion, they focus on the introduction of videogame language in the educational context, not as educational videogames but as a tool to learn digital literacy and contemporary society.

An Interview with Judy G. Barber: Prenuptial Agreements, Intimacy, Trust and Control

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew S. Mendoza ◽  
Sharon P. Krone
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Good Chance ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Family ◽  
Emotional Commitment ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

A business-owning family and a soon-to-be-wed couple often face two mutually exclusive goals that seem impossible to reconcile. On the one hand, a couple considering marriage wants to believe that love alone will keep them together. On the other hand, statistics today say there is a good chance the relationship will not last. A prenuptial agreement provides the protection an individual or the family may want against a possible divorce, but the process by which the document is introduced and negotiated can deplete the relationship of intimacy. How can a woman from a wealthy business-owning family express and reinforce the emotional commitment and trust she has for her partner while presenting a prenuptial agreement] How can a son administer a prenuptial agreement to his fiancee without controlling the process or outcome of his spouse's financial welfare] How can a family require a prenuptial agreement without jeopardizing their future relationship with the newlyweds] In the following interview, Judy Barber, a consultant and licensed marriage and family counselor specializing in the psychology of money, outlines several recommendations for families and couples who are considering a prenuptial agreement.

scholarly journals Leading and Working From Home in Times of COVID-19: On the Perceived Changes in Leadership Behaviors

2021 ◽  
pp. 154805182110074
Author(s):  
Janka I. Stoker ◽  
Harry Garretsen ◽  
Joris Lammers
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Exogenous Shocks ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Hierarchical Levels ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
Crisis Managers

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, managers and employees in many organizations suddenly are forced to work from home. Although working from home (WFH) is not a new phenomenon, it is new in its current scale and scope because of COVID-19. Against this background, we investigate the effect of WFH during the COVID-19 crisis on changes in leadership behaviors, and associated changes in perceived manager quality and productivity, at different hierarchical levels in organizations. Based on the literature, we develop two predictions in opposite directions. On the one hand, implementing WFH may force managers to show less direction and control and especially more delegation. On the other hand, research into the effects of exogenous shocks such as COVID-19, suggests that managers may become more controlling and delegate less. Consistent with the first prediction, we find that managers perceive they execute significantly less control and delegate more. Employees also perceive a significant decrease in control, however they perceive on average no change in delegation. Furthermore, and in line with the second prediction, employees of lower-level managers even report a significant decrease in delegation. Finally, our results show that increased delegation is associated with increased perceived productivity and higher manager quality. Together, these results suggest that in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, the effectiveness of WFH might be hampered by the fact that required changes in leadership behaviors, in particular in delegation, are difficult to realize in times of crisis.

scholarly journals Apes and Elephants: In Search of Sensation in the Tropical Imaginary

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Creed
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World View ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Major Purpose ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

This paper will explore the tropical exotic in relation to the widespread European fascination with tropical animals exhibited in zoos throughout the long nineteenth century. Zoos became places where human animals could experience the chill of a backbone shiver as they came face to face with the animal/other. It will examine the establishment of the first zoos in relation to Harriet Ritvo’s argument that their major imperative was one of classification and control. On the one hand, the zoo fulfilled the public’s desire for wild, exotic creatures while, on the other hand, the zoo reassured the public that its major purpose was control of the natural world encapsulated by the stereotype of tropical excess. I will argue that these various places of exhibition created an uncanny zone in which the European subject was able to encounter its animal self while reaffirming an anthropocentric world view.

scholarly journals Vidas nas fronteiras do presente: da tentativa de controle curricular à diferença

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 367
Author(s):  
João Paulo Lopes dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
Pensamiento Filosofico

Meu objetivo, neste texto, é o debate acerca das tensões que envolvem o currículo, tensões provocadas numa arena de disputas entre forças desiguais. Se por um lado, o currículo é instituído a partir de políticas que respondem às demandas conservadoras e neoliberais, cujas tentam silenciar a diferença e controlar vidas; por outro, ele é o próprio lugar da diferença com possibilidades reais de rupturas. Para orientar o debate, utilizo o seguinte questionamento: que afetações os currículos pensados sob a égide dos princípios neoliberais/conservadores incidem na circularidade da existência da diferença no acontecimento escolar? Nesse movimento de análise, opto por trabalhar com as perspectivas pós-fundacional e pós-estrutural como instrumento metodológico, sobretudo com a epistemologia do pensamento filosófico butleriano com a noção de enquadramento.  Apesar da tentativa de controle, os currículos pensados com base nas vozes conservadoras e neoliberais são passíveis de escapes. Assim, a desejada qualidade da educação, via conhecimento monocultural, dificilmente se concretizará. O que os currículos seguem fazendo, portanto, é tentar controlar o incontrolável, desejo do imaginário neoliberal de assegurar sua própria hegemonia.Palavras-chave: Controle curricular. Demandas conservadoras e neoliberais. Diferença.Lives at the borders of the present: from the attempt at curricular control to the difference ABSTRACT My goal in this text is the debate about the tensions surrounding the curriculum, tensions provoked in an arena of disputes between unequal forces. If, on the one hand, the curriculum is instituted based on policies that respond to conservative and neoliberal demands, whose attempts to silence the difference and control lives; on the other hand, it is the proper place of difference with real possibilities of ruptures. To guide the debate, I use the following question: what affects the curricula thought under the aegis of neoliberal/conservative principles affect the circularity of the existence of difference in the school event? In this movement of analysis, I choose to work with the post-foundational and post-structural perspectives as a methodological instrument, especially with the epistemology of butlerian philosophical thought with the notion of frameworking. Despite attempting at control, curricula thought based on conservative and neoliberal voices are subject to escape. Thus, the desired quality of education, via monocultural knowledge, is hardly to materialize. What the curricula continue to do, therefore, is to try to control the uncontrollable, desire of the neoliberal imagination to ensure its own hegemony.Keywords: Curricular control. Conservative and neoliberal demands. Difference.Vidas en las fronteras del presente: del intento de control curricular a la diferenciaRESUMENMi objetivo en este texto es debatir las tensiones que rodean el currículum, tensiones provocadas en una arena de disputas entre fuerzas desiguales. Si, por un lado, el currículum se instituye en base a políticas que responden a las demandas conservadoras y neoliberales, cuyas pretenden silenciar la diferencia y controlar vidas; por otro, él es el propio lugar de la diferencia con posibilidades reales de ruptura. Para guiar el debate, utilizo la siguiente pregunta: ¿qué afectaciones los currículos pensados curricular bajo la égida de principios neoliberales/conservadores que afectan la circularidad de la existencia de la diferencia en el evento escolar? En este movimiento de análisis, elijo trabajar con las perspectivas post-fundacional y post-estructural como herramienta metodológica, especialmente con la epistemología del pensamiento filosófico de Butler con la noción de encuadre. A pesar del intento de control, los currículos pensados en base a las voces conservadoras y neoliberales están sujetos a escape. Así, la calidad de educación deseada, a través del conocimiento monocultural, es poco probable que se materialice. Lo que los currículos siguen haciendo, por lo tanto, es intentar controlar el incontrolable, deseo imaginario neoliberal para asegurar su propia hegemonía.Palabras clave: Control curricular. Demandas conservadoras y neoliberales. Diferencia.

Citizenship and Technology

2017 ◽  
pp. 766-788
Author(s):  
Costica Dumbrava
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

Technological developments have complex, ambiguous and sometimes contradictory effects of on the institutions, norms and practices of citizenship. The chapter investigates the relationship between technology and citizenship by exploring the tensions between inclusion and emancipation, on the one hand, and exclusion and control, on the other hand. It discusses inclusionary and exclusionary aspects of developments in the areas of digital and biotechnologies in respect to access to legal status, political participation, and identity. It also examines the emancipatory potential of technologies at the level of citizenship practices and issues related to social and political control, which are triggered by increased and pervasive surveillance. The chapter suggests that the tensions between citizenship and technology are not inherent but rather derived from the circumstances in which technologies are adopted, the ways in which they are used, and the ongoing political struggles over citizenship.

scholarly journals Internet y el discurso islámico

2018 ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Farouk Ait Nasser
Keyword(s):  
Internet Access ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Islamic Terrorism ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

Internet está produciendo cambios muy importantes a nivel de intercambiode información entre personas. De hecho, a través de internet, el accesoa la información útil ha pasado de ser un privilegio a un derecho garantizado. Sinembargo, en esta era digital, la circulación de todo tipo de información no siempretiene un lado positivo.Internet tiene la capacidad de modernizar la percepción de la religión y el islamno es una excepción. Por lo que es importante conocer, por un lado, la influenciaque ejerce internet en el desarrollo del discurso islámico y, por el otro, losdiscursos islámicos que cuentan con más apoyo. El tema de la presencia de unosdiscursos islámicos financiados por parte de algunos actores llama la atención porel hecho de que demuestran la intención clara de querer manipular y controlar a losmusulmanes. Además, la radicalización de los musulmanes a través de internet esun tema que cada vez cobra más importancia, de ahí la necesidad de indagar en losfactores que separan la radicalización del terrorismo islámico.Internet is producing very important changes in the exchange ofinformation between people. In fact, through the internet, access to useful informationhas gone from being a privilege to a guaranteed right. However, in thisdigital age, the circulation of all kinds of information does not always have a positiveside.The Internet can modernize the perception of religion and Islam is no exception.Therefore, it is important to know, on the one hand, the influence of the interneton the development of Islamic discourse and, on the other hand, the Islamicdiscourses that have the most support. The issue of the presence of some Islamicspeeches financed by some actors draws attention to the fact that they demonstratethe clear intention of wanting to manipulate and control Muslims. Also, the radicalizationof Muslims through the internet is an issue that is becoming increasingly more important, hence the need to investigate about the factors that separateradicalism from Islamic terrorism.

The Political Economy of Empire

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-220
Author(s):  
John Haldon
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

Empires are both simple and complex, since on the one hand they are broadly identifiable through a small number of key elements in common, yet on the other hand, no single “version” of empire exists. The political economy of traditional empires can be approached through certain key features, even if their forms and their “cultural geography” vary widely—in particular, the acquisition of and control over resources, and the closely associated issue of how rulers or governments maintain control over those who manage resources on their behalf. Understanding these entails analysis of many other features, including the ways in which central and local elites were formed or transformed and the ways in which identities and loyalties evolved or were created, compromised, or transformed to generate what we might call “imperial capital” (in kind and in ideas). Their importance is crucial to understanding how empires rise, reproduce themselves, and fail or transform.

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