scholarly journals Figures of Postwar Sliding: Utopia and Violence in the Extreme Sport Performances of James Bond

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Jonnie Eriksson ◽  
Kalle Jonasson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Extreme Sports ◽  
James Bond ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Fixed Set

This article investigates the utopian visions of extreme sports as a postwar phenomenon by contrasting it to the violence of the extreme sport practitioner par excellence in postwar/cold war cinema: James Bond. Continental philosophy and cultural studies furnish extreme sport as a manifold of wholesome, meaningful, sustainable, life-enhancing, and environmentally intimate practices, less orientated toward human rivalry than its traditional namesake. Certain attention is thus paid to the movement of sliding in extreme sports that thrive on powerful natural forces such as air, wind, snowy slopes, and big waves, creating an ambivalent field between mastery and letting oneself go. Sliding, or glissade, is treated as a “figure of thought” that Bond is mustered to embody and enact with his extreme athletic repertoire. The analysis of James Bond’s extreme sport sliding is contrasted to the musings of glissade philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Serres. It is concluded that if there is utopianism in James Bond’s extreme sport performances, it is in the sliding itself, while the attaining of that state is paved with violence towards everything material. The article reinforces the concept of the extreme in relation to sport as a processual tool, rather than a category describing a fixed set of characteristics adhering to a certain practice.

scholarly journals ‘A Kind of Critique that Works by Allegorising’: An Interview with Patrick Wright

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel King
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Educational Formation

In the following interview Patrick Wright discuses the research for and critical receptions of his books, Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War, A Journey Through Ruins, On Living in an Old Country and Tank. He also discuses his educational formation in the UK and Canada, and his relation to the field of cultural studies and cultural criticism as these are currently constituted.

scholarly journals Educação e saúde: ensino e cidadania como travessia de fronteiras

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Burg Ceccim ◽  
Alcindo Antônio Ferla
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
Humberto Maturana

O artigo procura construir, a partir de uma memória da Reforma Sanitária Brasileira e de aproximações entre as áreas científicas da Educação e da Saúde, uma micropercepção (matéria para o pensar, aprender, conhecer) emergência de um domínio de conhecimento designado por Educação e Ensino da Saúde. Esse domínio emergente estaria bastante associado invenção da Saúde Coletiva, no campo científico da saúde, e com à invenção do Controle Social em Saúde, no campo da intervenção política nesse setor. O novo domínio de conhecimento seria caracterizado por uma implicação singular do ensino com a cidadania, permitindo a travessia de fronteiras entre educação e saúde pela via da educação permanente em saúde. Os temas do ensino e da cidadania são problematizados com o auxílio explícito ou não (via seus leitores) de alguns pensadores da filosofia e do contemporâneo, como Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Francisco Varela, Humberto Maturana e Ilya Prigogine.

Hybridising Knowledge: Some Considerations on the Epistemology of Contamination in the Works of Deleuze and Serres and Its Reception in Bio Art

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-318
Author(s):  
Amanda Núñez García
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hybrid Processes ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
Creative Production

In this article I investigate the necessarily interdisciplinary nature of our contemporaneity, from the perspective of works by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Bruno Latour and Michel Serres. While we often find that academia, society and governments push us towards interdisciplinarity, it is also true that those same institutions and powers (and therefore the epistemological systems on which they are based), distance us from that purpose. Opposing this aporetic situation we come up against the Deleuzian concept of ‘contamination’, or the well-known ‘science of Venus’ concept of Michel Serres. In doing so, we attempt ‘to put the tracing back on the map’, as Deleuze and Guattari suggest, and try to see the epistemological becomings that we find in contemporary culture. The main indicators which we use to study these contaminations and hybridisations are cinema and Bio Art. In both cases we observe that the real creative production is closer to ‘contamination’ than to the ‘purification’ and deletion of metabolic and hybrid processes criticised by Bruno Latour.

Encounters with Deleuze

Symposium ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-174
Author(s):  
Constantin V. Boundas ◽  
Daniel W. Smith ◽  
Ada S. Jaarsma ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Il Y A

This interview, conducted over the span of several months, tracks the respective journeys of Constantin V. Boundas and Daniel W. Smith with the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Rather than “becoming Deleuzian,” which is neither desirable nor possible, these exchanges reflect an array of encounters with Deleuze. These include the initial discoveries of Deleuze’s writings by Boundas and Smith, in-person meetings between Boundas and Deleuze, and the wide-ranging and influential philosophical work on Deleuze’s concepts produced by both Boundas and Smith. At stake in this discussion are key contributions by Deleuze to continental philosophy, including the distinction between the virtual and the actual and the very nature of a “concept.” Also at stake is the formative or pedagogical impact of a philosopher, like Deleuze, on those who find and fully engage with his texts, concepts, and project. Cette interview, menée sur plusieurs mois, suit les parcours respectifs de Constantin V. Boundas et Daniel W. Smith avec la philosophie de Gilles Deleuze. Au lieu de « devenir Deleuzien, » ce qui n’est ni souhaitable ni possible, ces échanges reflètent un éventail de rencontres avec Deleuze. Il s’agit notamment des premières découvertes des écrits de Deleuze par Boundas et Smith, des rencontres en personne entre Boundas et Deleuze, et du travail philosophique vaste et in􀏔luent sur les concepts de Deleuze produit par Boundas et Smith. L’enjeu ici étant les contributions clés de Deleuze à la philosophie continentale, y compris la distinction entre le virtuel et l’actuel, et la nature même d’un « concept. » Mais il y a aussi l’impact formateur ou pédagogique d’un philosophe, comme Deleuze, sur ceux qui trouvent et s’engagent pleinement dans ses textes, ses concepts et ses projets.

scholarly journals Clinâmen, eidôlon e o infinitesimal

Intelligere ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Ana Elisa Antunes Viviani
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Michel Serres

Para os filósofos Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari a ciência nômade é um modelo que corre às margens dos paradigmas científicos tradicionais, identificados por eles como ciência de Estado. É como ciência nômade que compreendemos a trajetória empreendida pelo pensador francês Michel Serres e sua leitura da obra de Lucrécio, seguidor da filosofia epicurista e considerado um dos pais da física. Para Serres, é por meio dos conceitos de clinâmen, que explica a formação dos turbilhões e espirais, de eidôlon, sobre o qual se delineia uma razão engendrada pela percepção, e do cálculo infinitesimal, que se esboça um outro modelo de ciência. É nos caminhos das curvas e na fluidez da água que podemos encontrar explicações para o mundo, em contraposição à ciência moderna, baseada na suposição de um mundo estático e em equilíbrio. Diante disso, é necessário perguntar: é possível conciliar essa ciência nômade com a chamada ciência de dados, o Big Data, que por meio de algoritmos pretendem tornar previsíveis e padronizáveis os comportamentos humanos, tão incertos e fluidos?

scholarly journals Understanding Socialist Television

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Mihelj
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Cold War

This article develops a number of conceptual and methodological proposals aimed at furthering a firmer agenda for the field of socialist television studies. It opens by addressing the issue of relevance of the field, identifying three critical contributions the study of socialist television can make to media, communication and cultural studies. It then puts forward a number of proposals tied to three key issues: strategies of overcoming the Cold War framework that dominates much of existing literature; the importance of a multilayered analysis of socialist television that considers its cultural, political as well as economic aspects; and the ways in which we can challenge the prevalence of methodological nationalism in the field.

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