scholarly journals Walking, Haunting, and Affirmative Aesthetics: The Case of Women without Men

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maud Ceuterick
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Gendered Space ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Patriarchal Narratives ◽  
Digital Sphere

The digital sphere overflows with platforms that gather women’s testimonies of being harassed, not feeling welcome, or not being accommodated in the urban spaces. The street is a gendered space. However, literature, films, and digital media have repeatedly denounced, challenged, and counteracted the unbalanced relations of power and how they affect people of different genders, sexualities, ages or ‘races’. Through the analysis of Shirin Neshat's film Women without Men (2009), I explore several forms of what I call 'affirmative aesthetics', the aesthetic and narrative reconfiguration of spatial and power relations. Haunting as a filmic form in particular serves as a way to create a space for oneself, to make visible what patriarchal narratives made invisible.

scholarly journals Walking, Haunting, and Affirmative Aesthetics: The Case of Women without Men

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maud Ceuterick
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Gendered Space ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Patriarchal Narratives ◽  
Digital Sphere

The digital sphere overflows with platforms that gather women’s testimonies of being harassed, not feeling welcome, or not being accommodated in the urban spaces. The street is a gendered space. However, literature, films, and digital media have repeatedly denounced, challenged, and counteracted the unbalanced relations of power and how they affect people of different genders, sexualities, ages or ‘races’. Through the analysis of Shirin Neshat's film Women without Men (2009), I explore several forms of what I call 'affirmative aesthetics', the aesthetic and narrative reconfiguration of spatial and power relations. Haunting as a filmic form in particular serves as a way to create a space for oneself, to make visible what patriarchal narratives made invisible.

THE ROLE OF URBAN AESTHETICS ON ENHANCING VITALITY OF URBAN SPACES

2021 ◽  
pp. xx-xx
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
Aesthetic Design ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Aesthetic

Several scholars have focused on the different approaches in designing convivial urban spaces, but literary evidence shows that the essence of aesthetic design in public urban spaces, by referring to the main dimensions involved in the shaping of urban vitality, has not been adequately researched. In this regard, this study, by hypothesizing that the quality of urban design leads to a vital urban environment, focuses on urban vitality from the aesthetic point of view. Thus, in using qualitative grounded theory as a main methodological tool and using a systematic review of the related literature as the main induction approach for collecting qualitative data, five main dimensions of urban vitality, which are necessary to attain a correlation with the aesthetic quality of urban design, were conceptualized. The study concludes that the aesthetic design of an urban setting has a direct effect on the active involvement of its users and that this, therefore, has a direct consequence on the level of public urban vitality, manifested. Integrating the complexity theory with the five main dimensions used for assessing urban vitality was suggested as a viable area for further research.

THE FREEDOM OF THE AESTHETIC: MONTSERRAT ROIG’S USE OF THE CITY IN RAMONA, ADÉU

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Caragh Wells
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Catalan Literature ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The City

This article suggests that over recent decades Catalan literary criticism has paid too little attention to the aesthetic attributes of Catalan literature and emphasised the social, political and cultural at the expense of discussions of narrative poetics. Through an analysis of Montserrat Roig’s metaphorical use of the city in her first novel Ramona, adéu, I put forward the view that the aesthetic features of Catalan literature need to be re-claimed. This article provides a critical analysis of the aesthetic importance of Roig’s representation of the city in her first novel and argues that she uses Barcelona as a critical tool through which to explore questions of both female emancipation and aesthetic freedom. Following a detailed discussion of Roig’s descriptions of how her female characters interact with particular urban spaces, I examine how Roig makes subtle shifts in her semantic register during these narrative accounts when her prose moves into the realm of the poetic. I conclude that this technique enables us to read her accounts of urban space as metaphors for aesthetic freedom and are inextricably linked to her wider concerns on the importance of liberating Catalan literature from the discourse of political nationalism.

scholarly journals Visual form beyond traditional media——On the expression and construction of watercolor art in digital painting

2020 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
pp. 03013
Author(s):  
Shan Li
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Traditional Form ◽  
Digital Painting ◽  
New Space ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

In the context of the development of digital image era and digital media art, watercolor art, as a traditional form of painting, will inevitably experience a subversive change and transformation of painting methods and ideas. By analyzing the artistic expression and construction process of watercolor art in digital painting, this paper finds out the aesthetic value and significance of watercolor art in digital painting, discusses the relationship between traditional watercolor painting and digital painting and the new space of watercolor development in the future.

Ottomentality as Technology of Self

2021 ◽  
pp. 417-438
Author(s):  
Hasan Turgut ◽  
Neslihan Yayla
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Mobile Games ◽  
Reproduction Process ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Day By Day

Extreme-right populist tendencies are getting stronger day by day. Although there are various factors that make the extreme-right populist tendencies stronger, the fact that cannot be ignored is that these tendencies must be reproduced discursively (history, culture, etc.) by the ruling power structures. Today, digital media and especially games are the primary areas where this reproduction process is most visible. Mobile games, in particular, turn into dominant cultural phenomena related to daily life beyond leisure, entertainment, and mind refreshing functions. Within this view, it is claimed that the mobile games based on the historical narratives in Turkey work as technology of self to contribute to the discourse of neo-Ottomanism. In order to test this claim, the three most downloaded mobile games (Game of Sultans, Magnificent Ottoman, and Age of Ottomans) in the Appstore and Android markets are selected as examples, and the aesthetic production realized through the structural elements of the game will be analyzed.

Housekeepings

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-163
Author(s):  
Arnold Michael
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Articulation Work ◽  
Good Working ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Relations Of Power

This chapter focuses on the significant and often invisible forms of “articulation work” (the work to keep things working) needed to maintain digital media in good working order and fit-for-purpose in the domestic media ecology. It considers the labor of investigating options for, making decisions about, and purchasing and setting up new technologies as well as their ongoing maintenance. This chapter examines both the work and who does the work of maintaining and managing digital media. It also examines the relations of power, authority, gender, labor, and expertise that go into decision making, appropriating, maintaining, and using household digital technologies. In doing so, it furthers empirical developments concerning the notion of domestic media ecologies.

PREDADORES: quando a literatura narra as relações de poder em Angola

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
SILVIO DE ALMEIDA CARVALHO FILHO
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Criticism ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
Relations Of Power

Este artigo esquadrinha as relações de poder, em Angola, emergentes em Predadores, romance escrito por Pepetela, um dos mais instigantes intelectuais angolanos da atualidade. Ao delinear como o autor narra o ”outro”, em especial, a apropriação do público pelo privado, assim como o oportunismo polá­tico, detectamos os contornos de seu posicionamento polá­tico. As principais temáticas sobre as relações de poder, recortadas nessa obra, comprovam que a sua literatura estrutura uma crá­tica sócio-polá­tica, extremamente perspicaz, da sociedade e dos Estados angolanos contemporá¢neos. Palavras-chave: Angola. Pepetela. Relações de Poder.  PREDADORES: when literature recounts the relations of power in Angola Abstract: This article discusses the power relations in emergent Angola inPredadores, a novel written by Pepetela, one of the most intriguing Angolan scholars nowadays. By analyzing how the author narrates the ”other”, in particular, the appropriation of the public by the private sector, we can identify the contours of his political stance. The main themes on the power relations focused on the novel evidence that his literature structures extremely clever socio-political criticism of both Angolan contemporary society and State. Keywords: Angola. Pepetela. Power relations.  PREDADORES: cuando la literatura narra las relaciones de poder en AngolaResumen: Este artá­culo explora las relaciones de poder en Angola emergentes en Predadores, novela escrita por Pepetela, uno de los más importantes intelectuales angoleños hoy. Para esbozarcómo el autor dice el "otro", en particular la apropiación de público para el oportunismo privado, asá­ como polá­tica, detectamos su posicionamiento polá­tico. Las principales temáticas sobre lasrelaciones de poder recortadas en este trabajo vienen comprobar que la literatura estructura una crá­tica sociopolá­tica bastante perspicaz de la sociedad y de los Estados angoleños contemporáneos. Palabras clave: Angola. Pepetela. Relaciones de poder.  

The Royal Sign and Visual Literacy in Eighteenth-Century London

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Koscak
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Aesthetic

AbstractThis article argues that the commercialization of monarchical culture is more complex than existing scholarship suggests. It explores the aesthetic dimensions of regal culture produced outside of the traditionally defined sphere of art and politics by focusing on the variety of royal images and symbols depicted on hanging signs in eighteenth-century London. Despite the overwhelming presence of kings and queens on signboards, few study these as a form of regal visual culture or seriously question the ways in which these everyday objects affected representations of royalty beyond asserting an unproblematic process of declension. Indeed, even in the Restoration and early eighteenth century, monarchical signs were the subject of criticism and debate. This article explains why this became the case, arguing that signs were criticized not because they were trivial commercial objects that cheapened royal charisma, but because they were overloaded with political meaning. They emblematized the failures of representation in the age of print and party politics by depicting the monarchy—the traditional center of representative stability—in ways that troubled interpretation and defied attempts to control the royal image. Nevertheless, regal images and objects circulating in urban spaces comprised a meaningful political-visual language that challenges largely accepted arguments about the aesthetic inadequacy and cultural unimportance of early eighteenth-century monarchy. Signs were part of an urban, graphic public sphere, used as objects of political debate, historical commemoration, and civic instruction.

scholarly journals The Language of Street Signs in Dualist Transylvania and the Banat

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Ágoston Berecz
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Complex Power ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Half

AbstractTwice in the history of late Habsburg Austria, local conflicts over the languages used on street signs spilled out into all-out political crises on the imperial level – first in 1892, when the Prague municipality’s decision to replace the city’s bilingual signs with Czech-only ones and to rename a multitude of streets after Czech national heroes sparked violent demonstrations across the Empire’s German-speaking cities. Then in 1911, a plan to display street names in three scripts in Sarajevo led to a tug of war between the Bosnian parliament and the imperial authorities. If there were no such high-profile symbolic fights over urban spaces in the contemporary Kingdom of Hungary, that was not because Magyarizing policies had successfully purged the linguistic cityscape, as the earlier literature on the era may lead one to believe. The picture that unfolds from the sources employed here is indeed diverse. But unlike in the western half of the Empire, city fathers were more interested in papering over rather than playing up national conflicts. The story of street signs in Dualist Transylvania and the Banat is one of resistance and consensus, of complex power relations and of subtle ways to signal them.

scholarly journals Digital Revolution and Ideologies of Thought and Creativity in Graphic Arts

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-171
Author(s):  
Gamal ElDin Elkheshen
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Graphic Arts ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Digital Product ◽  
Interactive Application ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Venice Biennale

What the scientific tide and digital revolution presented of methods and ideas for the structural and aesthetic construction of the workspace is what we will notice in this research by standing on one of the contemporary arts, which I borrowed from the digitization, which is the digital art that means the set of means that a person uses to reach a dramatic result using the computer Automated, The researcher has developed an equation to elicit the aesthetic concept of graphic artwork through the digital media used (digital art x digital environment) =the resulting digital product=new visual values, digitization has become as a technique in graphic arts based on digital materials, as the French philosopher "Pierre Levy" explains, and the researcher here represents "Art project”, ”Augmented reality” interactive application, shown at Venice biennale 56th, Egyptian pavilion as a practical Methods of the research in those digital experiments.

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