Dubbing Undone: Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessa Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Deliberate Strategy ◽  
Aesthetic Intervention

This chapter explores how dubbing has been deployed as a mode of deliberate, self-reflexive mistranslation. Can Dialectics Break Bricks? flaunts translation dysfunction as a deliberate strategy of political or aesthetic intervention, challenging the authority of authorship and ‘originals’ in the process. Engaging extensively with the notion of ‘abusive translation’ developed by Derrida and updated by Abe Markus Nornes, it demonstrates how errant forms of screen translation evade theoretical containment, and indicate a path for revaluation firmly grounded by the ‘practical’. Parodic mistranslation or deconstructive dubbing, it proposes, presents an overly abusive example of screen translation that indicates how quality considerations are insufficient for engaging with improper modes of practice. It also introduces issues relating to translation censorship and media piracy foreshadowed by the parody dynamics at play in Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

scholarly journals Can an “Aesthetic” Intervention (Braided Hair Coil) Cause Hair Loss After an Aesthetic Operation?

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 668-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Dionyssopoulos ◽  
Antony Papaconstantinou ◽  
Alexandra Stoltidou ◽  
Georgia-Alexandra Spyropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Hair Loss ◽  
Aesthetic Intervention

Normalized Heterotopia as a Market Failure in a Spatial Marketing System: The Case of Gated Communities in India

2020 ◽  
pp. 027614672095738
Author(s):  
Himadri Roy Chaudhuri ◽  
Sujit Raghunathrao Jagadale
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Gated Community ◽  
Marketing System ◽  
The West ◽  
Marketing Systems ◽  
Deliberate Strategy

This article explores the spatial marketing system in India. It highlights a case where market failure is institutionalized through the normalization of heterotopia in the consumption of gated communities (GCs). We build on the earlier work by Bargends and by Sandberg on spatial marketing systems to discuss the consumption of exclusive space. We find that the gated community leads to heterotopic relations, fantasized living and, the pursuit of identity through spatial purification. This research contributes to macromarketing research by offering three theoretical interpretations of our qualitative study of residents of a gated community in India. First, spatial inequality is found to be a defining process in this spatial marketing system. The creation of such disparities is a deliberate strategy by dominant consumers to ‘other’ the outsiders. This spatial segregation is seen as a market failure. Secondly, branded space emerges as a trope for decoupling with local lower class surroundings through a process of postcolonial mimesis. In the process of imitating the West, residents engage in self-captivity and voluntary seclusion to achieve spatial purification. Thirdly, we extend marketing systems theory by locating spatial purification-related processes and mechanisms at the heart of marketing systems formation and adaptive change.

Securing the Future for Arts Broadcasting

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitriona Noonan ◽  
Amy Genders
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Deliberate Strategy ◽  
Arts Programming

Research commissioned by Ofcom categorises arts television as a genre ‘at risk’ of disappearing as relatively small audiences are unable to offset increased production costs. A decline is also evident in Ofcom's own research which finds that in the five years to 2011, spending on arts programming by the five main terrestrial broadcasters fell by 39 per cent. This decline is the confluence of a number of factors. Decreases in commissioning and production budgets mean fewer resources for producers. Within specialist factual genres such as arts, this can have a limiting effect on the coverage of the subject, access to expertise, and the aesthetics of the final programme. Without a deliberate strategy to save it, the downward trajectory of arts content on British public service broadcasting is unlikely to be reversed.

scholarly journals Strategic Approach of Saudi Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: More of Emergent or Deliberate?

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mutab Z Alenzy
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Emergent Strategy ◽  
Strategy Model ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
High Flexibility ◽  
Deliberate Strategy ◽  
Indicators Of Success ◽  
The Impact

The impact of the strategic planning, especially in promising economies are significant indicators of success for the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Globally, the SMEs sector suffers from a very high failure rate and the most important reason for this is poor capacity in strategic management. The practice of SMEs in unstable environments, especially in oil-based economy like Saudi Arabia (SA), creates the need for more flexibility in building strategies. Therefore, as the aim of this study was to structurally examine the type of strategic management in SMEs, the adaptation of a high flexibility strategic theoretical framework based on the emergent strategy model by Mintzberg might be more suitable for SMEs’ needs and capabilities. In this research, forty-six SMEs were surveyed in SA. Unlike most previous research, whose variables focused on external issues (such as funding issues or government policies), this study focuses on internal issues (such as internal capabilities) that influence the choice of strategy in SMEs. Correlation and factor analysis were used because the data set was appropriate for factor analysis as the KMO value was greater than 0.50. The research concluded that SMEs tend to adopt a deliberate strategy more than the emerging strategy.

Nature’s Own Remedies

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-409
Author(s):  
Tamara Venit Shelton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Close Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Natural Medicine ◽  
The Many ◽  
Deliberate Strategy

This article examines American perceptions of Chinese herbalism as natural medicine in the Progressive Era. In doing so, it uses the lens of environmental history to consider three meanings of nature for Chinese medicine in the United States: First, as a material, trans-Pacific environment where medicinal ingredients were procured, distributed, and consumed; second, as part of the evolving distinction between modern, scientific “regular” medicine and anti-modern, unscientific “irregular” medicine that reached a moment of crisis at the turn of the twentieth century; and third, as a reflection of the racialization of Chinese health practices co-created by Asian practitioners and their American patients, who were conditioned by Orientalist stereotypes to perceive Chinese culture as close to a pastoral or primitive nature. The close association between herbs and nature enabled Chinese doctors to thrive as “irregular” or “alternative” practitioners in the American medical marketplace. While American patients may have perceived Chinese medicine as closer to nature, the many meanings of nature reveal the extent to which the association was a deliberate strategy for survival and success adopted by Chinese doctors in the United States.

scholarly journals Aesthetic Intervention: Lines of Flight

2020 ◽  
pp. 194084472096820
Author(s):  
Susan Mackay ◽  
Gabriel Soler ◽  
Tessa Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
European Congress ◽  
Aesthetic Intervention

During the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh, 2019, we offered an esthetic intervention: two spaces open to delegates in which they could explore and express their interactions with the conference through the assemblage of paper, paint, crayons, scissors, glue, glitter, bodies, breath, memories, thoughts—ineffable and effable. Delegates were invited to produce either individual journals, individual pieces, or contribute to large collective pieces of art. In this article, we follow the lines of flight to create the event and reflect on the process that led up to and continued after the esthetic intervention.

scholarly journals The curious death – and life? – of British transport policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 1458-1479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Docherty ◽  
Jon Shaw ◽  
Greg Marsden ◽  
Jillian Anable
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Relative Influence ◽  
Transport Planning ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Future ◽  
Deliberate Strategy

This article analyses the transport policy record of the 2010–2015 Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition and 2015–2016 Conservative majority UK governments. We argue that the style of policy making under these administrations departed significantly from that of previous decades, which had been characterised by the ascendancy of specific technical disciplines and decision-making norms about how transport planning should be carried out. Our key contention is that despite abandoning the idea of a single, overall narrative for transport policy, these governments (perhaps unwittingly) gave new life to broader debates about what transport investment is actually for and how investment decisions should be made. We interpret this as a shift away from the longstanding idea of a ‘deliberate’ strategy of intervention to a more ‘emergent’ approach, which raises important new questions about the future of transport policy both in terms of the objectives it seeks to realise and the relative influence of professional/technical and political actors in the policy process.

The Cliffhangers

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Hillenbrand
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Empirical Base ◽  
A Site ◽  
Wage Arrears ◽  
Aesthetic Intervention

Over the last couple of decades, workers in China’s vast and poorly regulated construction industry have increasingly turned to suicidal performance as a radical means of securing wage arrears. These so-called suicide shows have drawn attention as expressions of escalating labor unrest in China, and thus have mostly been read through a political science prism. But these displays, precisely in their dramatic dimension, also open themselves up to a culturalist, even aesthetic analysis: they braid together mixed threads, from the Chinese tradition of suicide as righteous remonstrance to present-day forms of creatively embodied protest in the era of Occupy. At the same time, though, these workers have also fashioned an aesthetic intervention that is very much of their own devising. This article draws on an empirical base of two dozen suicide shows posted on video-sharing sites to argue that these performances force a visual rupture in the narcotically identikit Chinese cityscape, as the nation’s new poor, so often invisible to their social others on the street, climb to the highest urban summits and command extreme attention. Once there, they turn the rooftop into a site of performance that acts out the excruciating distinction between those who belong within the polis and the dispossessed: those who are cast out from the circle of humanity and are thus excluded from all avenues to legal and economic redress when they are wronged. As such, “cliffhanging” in China exemplifies what I call the fractious form, in which a tense encounter between different class actors under the regime of precarity becomes the genesis for a volatile cultural practice.

“Treat Insiders and Outsiders Differently”: The Use and Control of Foreigners in the PRC

2000 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 943-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Brady
Keyword(s):  
Deliberate Strategy ◽  
China Today ◽  
And Control

Nei waiyou bie, neijin wai song“treat insiders and outsiders differently,” “be strict internally, relaxed to the outside world,” so goes the Chinese authorities' line on managing foreigners. For historical and nationalistic reasons, foreigners occupy an extremely sensitive position in China today. To the outside world China's leaders talk of “friendship” (youhao guanxi) and celebrate “foreign friends” (waiguo pengyou). But in their internal documents these catch-phrases are simply the tropes of a deliberate strategy to control and manage foreigners' presence and activities in China.

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