Experiments in Suchness: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Silk Shiki for Hermès

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomaï Serdari
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Work ◽  
Luxury Products

This chapter examines the artistic experimentations carried out by artist Hiroshi Sugimoto examining luxury products as part of a collaboration with Maison Hermès. When examined as part of Sugimoto's artistic and intellectual work, these items illuminate aspects of luxury production that have not been examined in the literature of the field, mainly because the frameworks that have already been developed rely heavily on subjective theories that shift with time. This chapter thus relies on a different argument — one which explains the power that luxury exerts over humans and why this is still relevant on both the experiential and discursive level.

Kreation und Zeit

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-133
Author(s):  
Renate Schlesier
Keyword(s):  
Central Position ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
Eine Analyse ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Poetic Creation

Das Inspirationskonzept ist für Prousts selbstreflexive Bestimmung künstlerischer Produktion von zentraler Bedeutung (dies läßt sich durch eine Analyse von Textstellen sowohl aus dem letzten Teil von Prousts Recherche als auch aus dem Kontext von Jean Santeuil und Contre Sainte-Beuve zeigen). Prousts spezifische Bestimmung der Inspiration als etwas, das auf intellektuelle Arbeit nicht verzichten kann, unterminiert jedoch antiintellektualistische platonische Dichtungslehren. Dies impliziert zudem, daß Proust die Kluft zwischen Künstlern und Nicht-Künstlern für unüberbrückbar erklärt. Inspiration ist für Proust etwas Verzauberndes, weil sie wiedergefundene Zeit ist, die jedoch erst im poetischen Kreationsprozeß Gestalt gewinnt. The concept of inspiration occupies a central position in the realm of Proust’s self-reflexive evaluation of artistic production (as can be demonstrated by an analysis of passages bothfrom the last part of Proust’s ›Recherche‹ and from the context of ›Jean Santeuil‹ and ›Contre SainteBeuve‹). Yet by evaluating inspiration as something that could not do without intellectual work, Proust undermines anti-intellectualistic platonizing poetics. In addition, this implies that Proust declares the gap between artists and non-artists as unbridgeable. For Proust, inspiration is enchanting because it is time regained, but takes shape only in the process of poetic creation.

Optimizing The Training Process Of Students From Physical Education And Sports Department Through Techniques Of Intellectual Work

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Elena Moldovan ◽  
Veronica Mindrescu
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Training Process ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
Work Style ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Positive Results

Projecting the educational and didactical work presumes using certain strict techniques, supported by methods and means of intellectual work. The high demand of education, permanent education, obliges students to revalue their principles, objectives, structure, methodology and work style, to adequately respond to the ever increasing requirements that society brings forward. The main purpose of this paper is identifying the influence of intellectual work techniques on the process of training by scientifically understanding the domain of physical education and sport, the transfer ability of skills in terms of situations and modalities of work within the physical education and sports domain. In this context, the positive results of evaluating distributive attention and psychological fatigue through the Prague Test, the Toulouse Pierron Test and the test for determining self-esteem, all have proven that the methods and techniques of intellectual work used here have been efficient confirming the hypothesis.

scholarly journals Which Bag? Predicting Consumer Preferences for a Luxury Product With a Discrete Choice Experiment

2021 ◽  
pp. 183933492199950
Author(s):  
Canie K.Y. Chu Lo ◽  
Suzan Burton ◽  
Regan Lam ◽  
Paul Nesbit
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Choice Experiment ◽  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Chinese Consumers ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Luxury Products

Limited research has described a segment of consumers who prefer subtly branded luxury products, rather than conspicuous consumption. However, in comparison with the enormous amount of research mentioning conspicuous consumption, there has been only very limited research into “inconspicuous consumption,” leading to calls for more research in the area. In this article, we describe a discrete choice experiment examining the luxury product preferences of Chinese consumers, the largest market segment for luxury products. We describe and test a theoretical model investigating how product characteristics (logo prominence, price, and brand), peers’ attitudes and behaviors, and other individual characteristics influence consumers’ choice of a luxury bag. For each brand, a prominent logo was preferred, but a very large minority preferred a subtle logo. However, the effect of price, attitudinal and social factors varied across luxury brands. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Factor Affecting Attitude and Purchase Intention of Luxury Fashion Product Consumption: A Case of Korean University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7497
Author(s):  
Maidul Islam ◽  
Bidhanchandra Nahakpam Singh
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Brand Attitudes ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Product Consumption ◽  
Luxury Products ◽  
Korean College Students

The purpose of this study was to look into the factors affecting South Korean college students’ luxury goods purchases and their intent to buy them. A conceptual model was proposed and was tested by several hypotheses. Data were collected from Seoul, Daegu, and Daejeon in South Korea. A total of 153 respondents took part in this survey, which was conducted on brand awareness, social contrast, acquisitive, innovation in fashion, engagement in fashion, buying luxury brand attitudes, and buying interest of luxury products. Factor analysis and regression analysis were done to test the hypotheses by using SPSS. The results of this study indicated a significant positive relationship between the buying intention of luxury products and brand awareness, social contrast, and innovation in fashion. This paper help manufacturer and marketing managers to make better marketing strategies for college students.

Doing politics by other means: Abdelmalek Sayad and the political sociology of a collective intellectual

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 999-1014
Author(s):  
Amín Pérez
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The One

This article proposes a new understanding of the constraints and opportunities that lead intellectuals engaged in different political and social fields to create alternative modes of resistance to domination. The study of the Algerian sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad offers insights into the social conditions of this mode of committed scholarship. On the one hand, this article applies Sayad’s theory of immigration to his transnational intellectual engagements. It establishes how immigrants’ intellectual work are conditioned by their trajectories, both before and after leaving their country, and by the stages of emigration (from playing a role in the society of origin to becoming caught up in the reality of the host society). On the other hand, the article illuminates the constraints and the spaces of possible action intellectuals face while moving across national universes and disparate political and academic fields. Sayad’s marginal position within the academy constrained him to work for the French and Algerian governments and international organizations while he was simultaneously engaged with political dissidents, unionists, writers, and social movements. In tracking Sayad’s roles as an academic, expert and public sociologist, the article uncovers the conditions that grounded improbable alliances between those fields and produced new forms of critique and political action. The article concludes by drawing out some reflections that ‘collective intellectual’ engagements elicit to the sociology of intellectuals.

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