scholarly journals Art as Human Practice: An Aesthetics by Georg W. Bertram

2021 ◽  
Vol LVIII/XIV (2) ◽  
pp. 179-183
Author(s):  
Lydia Moland
Keyword(s):  
Human Practice

scholarly journals The identification and analysis of making-do waste: insights from two Brazilian construction sites

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Torres Formoso ◽  
Lucila Sommer ◽  
Lauri Koskela ◽  
Eduardo Luís Isatto
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Exploratory Case Studies

Abstract Making-do has been pointed out as an important category of waste in the construction industry. It refers to a situation in which a task starts or continues without having available all the inputs required for its completion, such as materials, machinery, tools, personnel, external conditions, and information. By contrast, the literature points out that improvisation is a ubiquitous human practice even in highly structured business organizations, and plays an important role when rules and methods fail. The aim of this paper is to provide some insights on the nature of making-do as a type of waste, based on two exploratory case studies carried out on construction sites. The main contributions of this research work are concerned with the identification of different categories of making-do and its main causes. This paper also discusses some strategies for reducing making-do on construction sites.

scholarly journals The Matter at Hand: A Practice-Theoretical Model of Digital Gaming

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-26
Author(s):  
Milan Jaćević
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
General Model ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Digital Gaming ◽  
Human Practice

Investigations into the nature of the activity of gaming have been made difficult by virtue of the plurality of possible forms this activity may take. In this paper, I address this problem by examining (digital) gaming under the heading of practice theory, in an attempt to shed more light on the practical aspects of ludic literacy. Building on the theoretical and conceptual frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu, I present a general model of digital gaming as a form of situated human practice, followed by details of a case study, conducted in order to test and adjust the initial version of the model. Though further research with a greater population of players is needed in order to expand the scope of the model, the findings of the study lend credence to its validity as a conceptual framework for delineating and framing different practices generated by digital game artefacts.

The New Philosophy

Anxiety ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 36-76
Author(s):  
Bettina Bergo
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Pure Reason ◽  
Unity Of Consciousness ◽  
Inner Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Logical Condition ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
Transcendental Apperception

Kant’s transcendental revolution temporarily cut through debates between Humian skeptics and rationalists of a Leibniz-Wolffian stripe. It established reason as an immanent tribunal, judging its possibilities and errors. Through an analysis of the structure of intuition and the deduction of the categories intrinsic to judgement, largely scientific, the edifice of the first Critique raised epistemology out of metaphysics and psychologism. Together, the Antimonies and Paralogisms of pure reason indicated the contradictions and misuse of concepts into which rational speculation had hitherto fallen. The paralogisms of the erstwhile rational psychology had argued in favor of the simplicity, substantiality, and the personality of the soul, thereby following a logic of substance and accidents where passions and affects were the latter, attaching to that soul. By showing the errors of the paralogisms, Kant effectively “dispatched” virtually all affects to his “science of man and the world,” the anthropology of human practice. However, the solution to Kant’s Paralogisms of the soul opened a new circle, such that our inner sense and its logical condition, transcendental apperception preceded, but could only be thought thanks to, the categories of understanding. At stake was the intrinsic unity of consciousness within the transcendental project. Although the Critique of Practical Reason retained a crucial intellectual affect, Achtung (attention and respect), Kant’s epistemology required clear distinctions between understanding, reason, and affects. In a sense, ontology and epistemology bifurcate into the domains of a transcendental approach to experience as representation and what lays outside it (including pre-reflective sensibility and affects).

Implementing the Mixed Instrumental Ensemble Practice in Japan

2016 ◽  
pp. 188-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shizuka Sutani ◽  
Taichi Akutsu ◽  
Richard K. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
Instrumental Ensemble ◽  
Affective Component ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
Musical Context ◽  
Flow Experiences

This chapter investigates the cases of implementing the mixed instrumental ensemble practice in the field of music education in Japan; it rests on the believe that considering music as social phenomenon and human practice with interaction. This study sets two specific aims as follows: to blend various different kinds of musical instruments in ensemble settings. Particularly, in the process of implementing the practice, researcher designed Instructional Template (Gordon, 2015) was applied as a tool to foster and organize classroom interaction among learners and teachers. This study also explores the possibility to assess the affective component of music learning in practice. Custodero's (1998, 2005) Flow Indicators in Musical Activities was cited to examine learners' flow experiences. Implementation of the mixed instrumental ensemble practice fostered interaction among learners; thus, students experienced flow in more varietical ways in their social/musical context.

scholarly journals Blindness and Hindsight

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1557-1566
Author(s):  
Alexander Somek
Keyword(s):  
Public Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Power ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Ontological Commitments ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Practice

My book claims that constitutionalism is about constraining the exercise of public power in a legal manner. What it studies are different renderings of this idea and how one can arrive move from one to the next. What is essential to the success of the enterprise is, first, elaborating the relevant ideal types; second, analyzing how the transitions are made from one to the other; and third, taking public law as a way of conceiving of human practice, namely as activity that is essentially amenable to normative guidance and constraint. The people working and thinking in the world of public law use language that betrays ontological commitments to conspicuous entities such as “powers,” “values,” or “conventions.”

Sources in the Scholastic Legacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabel Brett
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Ius Gentium ◽  
Modern Sense

This chapter observes that the ‘sources of international law’ is a complicated concept for later scholastic authors. This is because they have no doctrine of ‘sources’ and because the phrase ius gentium, as they employ it, is not appropriately translated by ‘international law’. When they write about the ius gentium, they are engaged in an exercise of hermeneutic reconstruction of a law that has already been legislated, a reconstruction that is also a legitimation of their own position in the present. They draw their materials from scholastic authorities, from natural law, and from human practice and history. The possibility of abrogation, however, puts pressure on even their most innovative thinking about the ius gentium. This shows yet again how difficult they find it to conceptualize making international law in the present, and thus to conceive of sources of international law in anything like the modern sense.

Strange Prosthetics: Rachel Rosenthal’s Rats and Rings

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Rohman
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Human Power ◽  
Human Exceptionalism ◽  
En Face ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
Aesthetic Practice

Rosenthal’s book, Tatti Wattles: A Love Story, reveals her aesthetic practice itself to be animated by the discourse of species. The drawings in this text, especially, suggest that Rosenthal’s self-identification as an artist is mediated by animality. The images also efface the human yet “en-face” the rat, de-emphasizing human power and privilege. These images are also marked by Rosenthal’s “auto-graphy” as a mover or dancer, by an alimentary tropology highlighting the body, by the concept of mediation, and by the taming of human exceptionalism. The argument follows that all of these elements in Rosenthal’s view of her artistic practice, self, and process are mediated by animality, and they challenge our received notions of art as a centrally human practice.

scholarly journals Languaging evolved

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Cowley
Keyword(s):  
Human Ecology ◽  
Chinese Character ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
Language And Cognition ◽  
Linguistic Models

Abstract Taking a unified view of life, language, and cognition, the Special Issue contests linguistic (or enactivist) models that grant “reality” to symbolic entities. Rather than focus on texts, utterances, or communication, language is traced to living in the extended human ecology. On a distributed view, languaging arises as, alone or together, people act while orienting to denotata and (physical) wordings. Languaging requires, not linguistic bodies, but skills based in common ways of understanding. While verbal entities are of immense value, they draw on a history of reflecting on languaging from a language stance; people need only imagine “symbols.” Accordingly, languaging is part of acting, observing and imagining. Using a language stance suffices for reflecting on human practices and written marks as if linguistic entities were “real.” The deflationary view extends to semiotics. As Ho and Li (2019) document, languaging-and-action enables a learner to grasp a Chinese character as a sign. While, in principle, semiosis might draw from physics or life, signs are also likely to derive from human practice. Coming to read Chinese may require not a semiotic ontology, but a human ability to self-fabricate new powers. By deflating linguistic models one can avoid appeal to observer-independent signs.

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