scholarly journals The Times of Caring in a Nuclear World: Sculpture, Contamination and Stillness

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Wallace Heim
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
Nuclear Site ◽  
The Times ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
Practice Care ◽  
Living Being

Care takes time. Caring, whether with, for, or about a living being or entity that is more-than-human, disrupts expectations of how a linear, human time should progress. To practice care for the contaminated, the lands, waters, and animate life altered by human industry, is to extend that indeterminacy into distant, deeper time. Aesthetic representation of the affective and ethical dimensions of care, in this extreme, offers an experience that can transfer the arguments about nuclear contamination into more nuanced and sensed responses and contributes to current thinking about care in the arts worlds. I was commissioned to make a sculpture exhibition in 2020 as part of an anthropological study into the future of the Sellafield nuclear site in West Cumbria, UK. The exhibition, ‘x = 2140. In the coming 120 years, how can humans decide to dismantle, remember and repair the lands called Sellafield?’, consisted of three sculptural ‘fonts’ which engaged with ideas of knowledge production, nuclear technologies, and the affective dimensions of care about/for/with the contaminated lands and waters. This article presents my intentions for the sculptures in their context of a nuclear-dependent locale: to engage with the experience of nuclear futures without adversarial positioning; to explore the agential qualities of the more-than-human; and to create a stillness expressive of the relationality of the human and the contaminated through which one could fathom what care might feel like. These intentions are alongside theories of time, aesthetics, and care across disciplines: care and relational ethics, science and technology studies, and nuclear culture.

scholarly journals Arts and Environmental Conservation: Study of Kentrung Art in Jepara

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 07002
Author(s):  
Alamsyah ◽  
Siti Maziyah
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Older Person ◽  
Old People ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
Ancient People ◽  
Nature Preservation ◽  
The Times

Kentrung art is one of arts that exist on Jepara coast. This is a speech art played by two people using beaten instruments such as terbang or tambourines. Kentrung is not only a fiction for entertainment, but also contains a pasemon (parable) or human life symbols. This art center is located in Ngasem village, Batealit, Jepara. Kentrung proponents are elderly or old people (wong lawas) who activate kentrung art in Jepara. Old people is as a representation of ancient people or the people who do not following the times. As the older person, one of their life view is to respect nature preservation. Their respect for the environment is reflected in the activities that are often asked to perform in earth alms events considered at the time of alms and the insertion of kentrung stories that are often delivered between the plays that are being performed. Even though it is not dominant, love expression of the performer and the arts towards the environment is seen in the insertion of the stage.

scholarly journals Moving Evidence: Patients’ Groups, Biomedical Research, and Affects

2020 ◽  
pp. 016224392094812
Author(s):  
Lisa Lindén
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Gynecological Cancer ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Lay Experience ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Affective Dimensions

Research in science and technology studies has analyzed how patients’ groups engage in practices that connect biomedicine and patient experience in order to become involved in the shaping of biomedical research. However, there has been limited attention to the affective dimensions of such practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with a gynecological cancer patients’ group in Sweden, this article focuses on practices that aim to influence researchers and research institutions to prioritize biomedical gynecological cancer research. It analyzes how “affects” are woven through these practices and pays attention to the entanglements of affects, biomedical research, and lay experience they involve. The article explores the relation between the gynecological cancer patients’ group and biomedical research as a set of material-semiotic practices of “moving evidence.” These practices of moving evidence (1) enact gynecological cancer as under-researched; (2) collect and produce new “evidence”; (3) “mobilize” the evidence at public events, in interactions with biomedical researchers, and in different online settings; and (4) entangle affects with biomedical and experiential evidence to enact (a lack of) gynecological cancer biomedical research as a matter of concern.

scholarly journals Musik Kesenian Tradisional Parrawana pada Era Modernisasi di Polewali Mandar

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
Syaribulan Syaribulan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Times

The existence of traditional art music parrawana in the era of modernization. This research uses qualitative descriptive approach supported by femonology approach through purposive sampling technique. Data collection is used by observation, interview, and documentation. The categories of informants used were key informants, key informants, and additional informants. Technique validity technique triangulation data, triangulation time and triangulation of data source. The results can be concluded that the existence of art Parrawana in the era of modernization according to the tradition of the ancestors and not affected by the flow of modernization is always demanding development. Although Polewali Mandar people have known modernization in their changing lives and mindset have been following the times, but they still maintain the preservation of traditional art as inherited by the ancestors in the era of modernization. Efforts made by the community, community and government is to invite young people to preserve the arts Parrawana.Keywords: Music, Parrawana, Modernization

scholarly journals Musical Legacies: The Contribution of the Music Association of Ireland to an Irish Musical Infrastructure

2015 ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Teresa O’Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Voluntary Organization ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
The Times ◽  
Youth Orchestra

Drawing on archives preserved in the National Library of Ireland, Dublin, this article examines the history and significance of the Music Association of Ireland (MAI). During its sixty-year lifespan, from 1948 to 2007, the association contributed considerably to the musical life of Ireland, particularly in its educational initiatives and its efforts to influence national music policy and create an infrastructure for composers. Its voluntary efforts, especially its initiatives such as the Composers’ Group, Country Tours, Coming Out recitals, the Schools’ Recitals Scheme, the Irish Youth Orchestra and the Dublin Twentieth-Century Music Festival, grew into or influenced many of the independent, professional organizations prominent in Irish musical infrastructure today. At a time when government funding of the arts was limited, the MAI filled an important niche and acted as a voice for classical music, particularly in Dublin. The association’s initiatives, particularly the Schools’ Recitals Scheme (1967) and the Irish Youth Orchestra (1970), thrived in a climate which experienced pioneering developments in the arts and increased educational opportunities and leisure time. The times were marked by remarkable transformations in cultural, social and pedagogical practices which resulted in the opening up of access to the arts from the 1970s. The MAI benefitted greatly from this surge in cultural activity and the association became the Arts Council’s model in its pursuit of professionalizing the arts in Ireland. However, the MAI was unable, or unwilling, to make the transition from a voluntary organization to a professional one, and gradually went into decline. The long-term nature of a number of its projects meant that the MAI’s six objectives could not be achieved by one voluntary organization. Some sixty years later, many of these objectives are only now being realized through professional, government-funded agencies. The evidence of the MAI archive shows that the association played a valuable role in developing music and music education in Ireland—a notable achievement that deserves to be remembered.

The Future of European Festivals

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Faivre d’Arcier
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Society ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Arts Festival ◽  
Geographical Expansion ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Many

Even if we sometimes trace the word ‘festival’ back to its ancient root (calling to mind the traditional events of Bayreuth, Orange and Verona), the idea of the arts festival as we know it is relatively recent. The modern festival has evolved as part of the ‘leisure society’, with its extended summer holidays and its all-pervasive media. The theatre festival in Avignon, the oldest and best known of all the French festivals, was founded in 1947 by actor and director Jean Vilar. Yet Vilar would never have imagined the success and geographical expansion that the future would bring to the festival phenomenon. For him, the festival was just another one of the many methods he used to bring young people together to share his aesthetic and moral values. Immediately after World War Two, festivals sprang up simultaneously in several countries. At the same time as Avignon and Aix-en-Provence were started in France, similar events in Edinburgh and Recklinghausen were born. This synchronicity implies that the festival is both a social and a historical phenomenon, one both rooted in and responding to the spirit of the times and to our consumer society.

From Psychological Science to the Psychological Humanities: Building a General Theory of Subjectivity

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Teo
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Theories Of Subjectivity

The development of psychology as a science and the struggle for scientific recognition has disrupted the need to interrogate the discipline and the profession from the perspective of the humanities, the arts, and the concept-driven social sciences. This article suggests that some of the humanities contribute significantly to an understanding of human subjectivity, arguably a core topic within psychology. The article outlines the relevance of the psychological humanities by reclaiming subjectivity as a core topic for general psychology that is grounded in theoretical reconstruction, integration, and advancement. The argument relies on a variety of disciplines to achieve a deeper understanding of subjectivity: Philosophy provides conceptual clarifications and guidelines for integrating research on subjectivity; history reconstructs the movement of subjectivity and its subdivisions; political and social theories debate the process of subjectification; indigenous, cultural, and postcolonial studies show that Western theories of subjectivity cannot be applied habitually to contexts outside of the center; the arts corroborate the idea that subjective imagination is core to the aesthetic project; and science and technology studies point to recent developments in genetic science and information technology, advances that necessitate the consideration of significant changes in subjectivity. The implications of the psychological humanities as an important, justifiable tradition in psychology and for a general theory of subjectivity are discussed.

scholarly journals Understanding cinema: The avant-gardes and the construction of film discourse

Comunicar ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (35) ◽  
pp. 43-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirian-Estela Nogueira-Tavares
Keyword(s):  
New Paradigm ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Lumiere Brothers ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
The Times ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Film Discourse

This essay highlights the role of historical avant-gardes in shaping film discourse. This role was vital for the recognition of cinema as an art form, as well as for the constitution of a visual and textual discourse that came to be reflected in the Institutional Mode of Representation – Hollywood film from the 1920s to the 1940s. To realize the importance of artistic movements in the creation of new paradigms for art at large, it is necessary to understand their principles and the context in which a new way of looking and reflecting on the world came about. The promotion of authentic and efficient film literacy requires focusing on the era in which cinema began. Only by examining the 19th century more deeply can we perceive what lies beyond that invention of the Lumière brothers. The essay shows that cinema was not only inscribed in the times from which it emerged but that it also launched a new paradigm that the arts of the 20th century were yet to discover. A través de este ensayo se pretende resaltar el papel que las vanguardias históricas han desempeñado en la construcción del discurso cinematográfico. Dicho papel es fundamental para el reconocimiento del cine como arte y para la constitución de un discurso visual y textual que se va a reflejar en el cine del denominado «Modo de representación institucional»: el cine hollywoodiense que va de las décadas de los años veinte a los cuarenta. Para comprender el papel de los movimientos artísticos que crearon nuevos paradigmas para el arte en general, es necesario conocer sus principios y el contexto del nacimiento de la nueva forma de ver y de representar/reflejar el mundo. La promoción de una auténtica «alfabetización fílmica» requiere centrarse en el nacimiento del cine y de su entorno, porque sólo a través de una mirada más profunda en el siglo XIX, es posible leer todo que está más allá de la creación de los hermanos Lumière. En suma, en este trabajo se pretende destacar que el cine no sólo se inscribe en su propio tiempo, sino que al mismo tiempo está lanzando un nuevo paradigma, aun por descubrir, para todas las artes en el siglo XX.

scholarly journals Lexical-Semantic and Syntactic Peculiarities of the American Photographic Discourse of the Great Depression (as exemplified by the titles of the American photographs during the period of 1929-1942)

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-91
Author(s):  
Viacheslav D. Shevchenko ◽  
Andrei V. Komarov
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Personal Initiative ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Syntactic Status ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Times ◽  
Special Complex

The present article describes the analysis of the peculiarities of such a cognitive-communicative phenomenon as American photographic discourse. It contains sociolinguistic and cultural-semiotic particular features. The present complex discourse is analyzed in the context of linguistic synchrony during the period of the Great Depression, the economic crisis that influenced not only the American discursive space but also all the spheres of the American society from 1929 till 1942. The authors typify the photographic discourse as a synthesis of linguistic forms comparing it with the utterance (act of speech) by virtue of its peculiar structural components – persuasion, cognition and purposefulness. The authors conclude that the American photographic discourse combines the inner qualities of the visual, author and critical art (the arts) discourses because of its complex essence. Besides, the lexical representatives of the American photographic discourse of the times of the Depression are defined by a certain semantic peculiarity – absence of the words with the abstract meaning. According to the authors, such a consistency may be explained not only due to the presence of the semantic links with the main “Depression” macro-concept and also due to the certain socio-historical events. The majority of the representatives materializing the micro-concepts possess the negative evaluative connotation as evidenced by the commemoration of the “crisis” integral seme peculiar both for the macro Depression concept and all the micro-concepts (“Poverty”, “Manual Labor”, “Racism”, “Migration”, “Death”, “Disease” and “Protest”). However, the important characteristic of the “Manual Labor” micro-concept is a high frequency rate of the words denoting professions in the sphere of farming and mining. Such a tendency proclaims the US individualistic culture that is focused on the personal initiative and the active combating the difficulties. The analysis of the syntactic means objectified within the framework of the American photographic discourse has demonstrated that the titles of the photographs presented in the form of phrases (word clusters) have a sentence-like essence. Such a characteristic presupposes the presence of the predication and modality features specifically attributed to a sentence. As the result, there has been acknowledged the special complex syntactic status of the titles of the American photographs.

scholarly journals Inovasi Pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam Melalui Kegiatan Ektrakurikuler Di SMP Raudatut Tholabah Jenggawah Jember

Fenomena ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Mursalim Mursalim ◽  
Hatta Hatta
Keyword(s):  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Times ◽  
No Innovation ◽  
Modern Era

Innovation is a necessity, because there is no stagnant life. Times keep changing, only people or institutions continue to innovate for surviving. While institutions which have no innovation are slow or fast, they are abandoned, stale, not marketable and do not keep up with the times. The innovation of pesantren-based schools is an effort to ensure that an institution continues to withstand the onslaught of modern era. Above destructive reality if not responded quickly, precisely, and intelligently will have more severe impact. In educational context, innovative ideas about pesantren-based schools and PAI learning innovation are one of the solutions which must be taken. Generally, PAI is as a nomenclature in schools, but it is not in Junior High School of Raudatut Tholabah, PAI learning developed at the school are Al-Qur'an - Hadith, Fiqh, SKI, and Aqidah Akhlak. The innovation of Islamic Learning Education Through Extracurricular Activities in SMP Raudatut Tholabah Jenggawah of Jember. It is the strengthening of religious values through the activities of having Dhuha Prayer and Dhuhur together, Reading and writing, tahfidzul and reading Al Qur'an together, Academic Guidance and Counseling Services, Scouting, Sports and the arts.

“Technological Object” in Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 705-716
Author(s):  
Xavier Guchet ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Rational Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Technological Object ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Times ◽  
Empirical Turn

For the last twenty years, the philosophy of technology has firmly taken an “empirical turn” and has been strongly pervaded with Science and Technology Studies (STS) lessons, focusing on the social consistency of technical beings. In this context, Simondon’s approach to technology may appear a bit dated. A major issue of On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (MEOT) is indeed to theorize technology beyond any reference to social commitments: Simondon distinguishes “pure technicity,” amenable to rational analysis, from “psychosocial overdeterminations” that contaminate technical objects with exogenous concerns. Thus, Simondon may prove behind the times when he claims to analyze technology as a non-social realm. This article intends to demonstrate that Simondon can nevertheless fruitfully feed current debates related to technological developments. More precisely, the difference between several concepts of technological objects in MEOT proves to be of major interest for clarifying current issues related, in particular, to ethics.

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