Performing States-Of-In-Between: Dogs, Parrots, and Other Humans in Recent Austrian Performances

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-310
Author(s):  
Sabine Wilke

Every late spring since 1951, the Wiener Festwochen bring performers from around the world to Vienna for an opportunity to share recent developments in performance styles and present them to a Viennese public that seems to be increasingly open to experimentation. These festival weeks solidify a specific form of Viennese self-understanding and self-representation as a culture that is rooted in performance. This essay seeks to link two recent Austrian performances—one of them was part of the Wiener Festwochen in 2016, the other was staged in downtown Linz during the past few years—to this Austrian and specifically Viennese culture of performance by reading them as contemporary articulations of a tradition of radical performance art that can be traced back to the Viennese Actionism of the sixties and later feminist articulations in the seventies and eighties. They play on the dramatic effect of these actions, specifically their joy in cruelty, chaos, and orgiastic intoxication, by staging regressions and thus making visible what has been dammed up and repressed in contemporary society.1 Just as their historical models, these two performances merge the performing and the fine arts and they highlight provocative, controversial, and, at times, violent content. But they do it in an interspecies context that adds an entire layer of complexity to the project of societal and cultural critique.

Fahm-i-Islam ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-95
Author(s):  
ڈاکٹر محمد سعید شفیق

The rise of Muslims is not only worthy example for the world among the countless features but it is also a good example of constructive as well as intellectual development. The glorious history of Islamic development of science and arts covers the early stages of Islam and lasts till the 18th century which is the longest period. The popularity of Islamic science and arts and discoveries are spread all over the world. Muslims not only gave first priority to the justice, education and learning during their reign but on other hand they also kept their attention on the intellectual and physical development, science and arts and awesome constructions, that is why in the past the development and progress of medicine and science is exemplary for the world, which is admitted by the experts of art and architecture. After the age of the Companions of Messenger of Allah Ummayyed constructed mosques in Kufa and Damascus, Bannu Abbas constructed Qurtaba’s mosque, bungalow of Khamra and Fatmi rulers built Mahdia and Qahra, which are the most significant and memorable deeds of fine arts. In this article the fantastic contribution of Muslims in the field of arts and architecture will be reviewed which will make it clear that this sector (Arts and Architecture) was also on track for growth and development like other sectors during the rules of Muslims and they performed such a feats in this field that even an advanced man of today is astonished by watching these feats.


2023 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Khan ◽  
M. H. Mushtaq ◽  
J. Muhammad ◽  
B. Ahmed ◽  
E. A. Khan ◽  
...  

Abstract There are different opinions around the World regarding the zoonotic capability of H3N8 equine influenza viruses. In this report, we have tried to summarize the findings of different research and review articles from Chinese, English, and Mongolian Scientific Literature reporting the evidence for equine influenza virus infections in human beings. Different search engines i.e. CNKI, PubMed, ProQuest, Chongqing Database, Mongol Med, and Web of Knowledge yielded 926 articles, of which 32 articles met the inclusion criteria for this review. Analyzing the epidemiological and Phylogenetic data from these articles, we found a considerable experimental and observational evidence of H3N8 equine influenza viruses infecting human being in different parts of the World in the past. Recently published articles from Pakistan and China have highlighted the emerging threat and capability of equine influenza viruses for an epidemic in human beings in future. In this review article we have summarized the salient scientific reports published on the epidemiology of equine influenza viruses and their zoonotic aspect. Additionally, several recent developments in the start of 21st century, including the transmission and establishment of equine influenza viruses in different animal species i.e. camels and dogs, and presumed encephalopathy associated to influenza viruses in horses, have documented the unpredictable nature of equine influenza viruses. In sum up, several reports has highlighted the unpredictable nature of H3N8 EIVs highlighting the need of continuous surveillance for H3N8 in equines and humans in contact with them for novel and threatening mutations.


1972 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
A. William Marchai ◽  
R.L. Longton

With the search for petroleum deposits in the world pushing farther offshore each year, the oil industry has answered the call with the development of dynamically positioned drill ships, hole re-entry techniques, and subsea completions. These developments are helping make deep water oil recovery a reality. Now, more than ever, there is a need for accurate, long-range radiopositioning systems so that deep water surveys and well locations can be conducted with the required accuracy.Radiopositioning systems of the past decade include land-based systems such as Shoran, Raydist, Decca and Toran and the self- contained Satellite and Integrated systems. Recent developments for work in deeper water further offshore include Loran-C in the Range-Range mode and Differential Omega.


Philosophy ◽  
1930 ◽  
Vol 5 (20) ◽  
pp. 502-515
Author(s):  
A. Wolf

Arthur James Balfour was born at Whittinghame, East Lothian, on July 25, 1848. He was barely ten years old when his father died, and he succeeded to the estate. He entered Eton in 1862, and there met Lord Rosebery. In 1866 he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied philosophy under Henry Sidgwick. In 1869 he obtained a second-class in the Moral Sciences Tripos. In an autobiographical note, written long afterwards, Lord Balfour made the following reference to his mental attitude as an undergraduate: “I went to Cambridge with a very small equipment of either philosophy or science, but a very keen desire to discover what I ought to think, and why. For the history of speculation I cared not a jot. Dead systems seemed to me of no more interest than abandoned fashions. My business was with the groundwork of living beliefs: in particular with the groundwork of that scientific knowledge whose recent developments had so profoundly moved the world.” Considering his attachment to the past in matters of Church and State, Lord Balfour's contempt for the history of philosophy seems to betray a curious limitation. Unfortunately for him, the history of philosophy was not an important feature in the Cambridge philosophical curriculum, and the defect avenged itself by marring his subsequent philosophy in various ways. No doubt Sidgwick did all he could to encourage and develop Balfour's critical powers. Cambridge philosophy, under the influence of Sidgwick, was critical rather than imaginative, just as Oxford philosophy, under the influence of Green, was imaginative rather than critical.


2020 ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
Miss Huma

The article acquaints and explains the consideration of Margaret Atwood’s novels: ‘Surfacing’ (1972), ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ (1985), and ‘The Robber Bride’ (1993), which presents the role of patriarchal myths in the era of post-modern. She tried to represent the situation of women in contemporary society, where society demands mute acceptance from a woman considered as “weaker sex” or “inferior sex”. Feminism both as a concept and a movement has emerged as a reaction against the atrocities of patriarchy. By myth-making, Margaret is testing her identity, perception, recording the world, and value systems projected is the past.


Author(s):  
Б.А. Битиев

В традициях любого народа особое место занимают обряды, связанные с рождением ребенка. Высокая женская и особенно детская смертность у многих народов мира предопределили формирование комплекса родильных обрядов, основанных на древних религиозных представлениях и предохранительной магии. Рассматриваемый цикл обрядности обстоятельно описан у осетин, с привлечением архаичного полевого материала, который успели зафиксировать исследователи 19501960 гг. Однако реконструкция родильной обрядности, ее глубокий анализ требуют привлечения дополнительных источников. В настоящей статье ставится задача рассмотрения родильной обрядности осетин с применением метода визуальной антропологии. Визуальные свидетельства дают яркое представление о традиционном аспекте жизни народов, открывают новые пути к пониманию прошлого, обогащая способы анализа данных. В качестве визуального источника, как правило, используются фотографии, фото и киносъемки. Мы предлагаем рассмотреть информационные возможности зарисовок и графических рисунков как визуального этнографического источника. Зарисовка как документ, зафиксированный текст, который создавался в реальности и повествует о ней, требует прочтения символов и знаков, сублимирующих в себе информацию. В статье предпринимается попытка исследования комплекса родильных обрядов осетин через призму этнографических зарисовок Махарбека Сафаровича Туганова первого профессионального осетинского художника, основоположника реалистического направления в изобразительном искусстве осетин. Созданные им в конце 20х начале 30х гг. ХХ в. зарисовки Роды в хлеву и Торжественный ввод невесты с новорожденным из хлева в хдзар рассматриваются в контексте обрядности детского (родильного) цикла осетин. Зафиксированные художником детали, их корреляция с полевыми и письменными этнографическими источниками существенно дополняют имеющиеся представления о родильной обрядности. Отдельные черты зарисовок, которые пока не удается прочитать , стимулируют дальнейший научный поиск, формируют новые вопросы к информантам и подтверждают возможность использования зарисовки как этнографического источника. In the traditions of any people, the rites associated with the birth of a child occupy a special place. High female and especially child mortality rate predetermined the formation of complex maternity rites based on ancient religious beliefs and protective magicamong many peoples of the world. The cycle of rites under consideration was substantially discussed and described in the Ossetian studies, with the involvement of field materialretaining archaic notions, which was recorded by researchers of 19501960. However, reconstruction of the maternity rite, its indepth analysis requires the involvement of additional sources. This article aims to consider the maternity rite of the Ossetians using the method of visual anthropology. Visual evidence gives a vivid picture of the traditional aspect of peoples lives, opening up new ways to understand the past, enriching the way data is analyzed. Photography and filming are usually used as a visual source. We propose to consider the information potential of sketches and graphic drawings as a visual ethnographic source. Sketching as a document, as a fixed text created in reality, is a narrative, which requires interpreting its symbols and characters sublimating the information. The article attempts to study the complex of maternity rites of Ossetia through the prism of ethnographic sketches by Makharbek Safarovich Tuganov the first professional Ossetian artist, the founder of the realistic direction in the Ossetian fine arts. His sketches of the late 20s early 30s of 20th century: Childbirth in the barn and The ceremonial entry of the bride with a newborn from the barn to the hdzar are considered in the context of the rites of the childbirth cycle of the Ossetians. The details recorded by the artist, their correlation with field and written ethnographic sources significantly complement the existing ideas of the maternity rite. Individual features of sketches, which have not been unveiled so far, stimulate further scientific search, pose new questions to informants and confirm the possibilities of using of sketch as an ethnographic source.


2019 ◽  
pp. 38-60
Author(s):  
Jennie Bristow

This chapter illustrates how the ‘Boomer’ of the cultural imagination is a cipher for long-running anxieties about the past, present, and future. In attempting to explain why the Boomers are such a problem today, Blamers go back as far as their limited historical imaginations will take them — to that moment known, simply, as ‘the Sixties’. Boomers have become fall guys for the Sixties, and everything that is seen to have gone wrong since. In addition, the concept of generation is mobilised here as a static, determining force, which needs to be corrected in favour of other generations. The over-inflation of this imagined generational agency denies any sense of individual agency amongst members of the Boomer generation, let alone those that followed. The Boomers are dehumanised as a demographic lump, propelled by their historical moment into screwing up the world for everybody else. The only solution, as some of the Blamers see it, is to wipe the slate clean and start again.


2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janina Boughey

AbstractIt is trite to observe that the past three decades have seen an ‘explosion’ in comparative law. Equally well-worn territory is the fact that constitutional law has been a particular beneficiary of the comparative trend, despite the fact that for much of the twentieth century comparative lawyers tended to avoid public law topics. However, one field of law that has been conspicuously absent from the boom in comparison, at least outside of Europe, is administrative law. This article analyses why the use of comparison has been so vastly different between the two areas of public law. It then surveys some recent developments in administrative law and points to a number of aspects of the field that would benefit from the wider use of comparative methods across the world.


Author(s):  
Peter Addai-Mensah

The Akans of Ghana have a proverb that says, tete wo bi ka, tete wo bi kyere nti hwe na sua - which literally means - the past has something to say, it has something to teach, therefore, learn from it. It emphasizes the importance and significance of History. History enables humanity to look at the past with the view to understanding the present in order to make projections into the future. Jesus Christ is one person who has influenced humanity very significantly. However, Jesus Christ lived in a different era. In order to understand him and see his relevance, there is the need to enter the world in which he lived and see whether his life and teachings make sense today. This necessitates the fusion of two horizons. It calls for deconstruction and construction again of the life and ministry of Jesus to make his teaching more meaningful and significant for people of today. This article discusses the search for the Jesus of History; whether this quest is possible and the relevance for this quest for contemporary society. The purpose of writing this article is to retrieve the significance of Jesus Christ in Salvation History and make Him relevant in contemporary society. Keywords: Deconstruction, Demythologize, Fusion of Horizons, Historical Jesus, Reconstruction and Quest


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-448
Author(s):  
Michael MacGregor-Fairlie ◽  
Samuel Wilkinson ◽  
Gurdyal S. Besra ◽  
Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer

Rapid, sensitive, accurate and portable diagnostics are a mainstay of modern medicine. Tuberculosis is a disease that has been with us since time immemorial and, despite the fact that it can be treated and cured, it still remains the world's biggest infectious killer, taking the lives of millions annually. There have been important developments in the diagnostic devices for tuberculosis however, these are often prone to error, expensive, lack the necessary sensitivity or accuracy and, crucially, not sufficiently portable and thus not applicable in the remote, rural areas, where they are most needed. Modern solutions have been emerging in the past decade, seeking to overcome many of the inhibiting issues in this field by utilising recent advances in molecular biology, genetics and sequencing or even completely ‘reinventing the wheel’, by developing novel and unprecedented diagnostic techniques. In this mini review, the issues and challenges arising from the historical methods of diagnosing tuberculosis are discussed, followed by outlaying their particular lack of appropriateness for regions of the world where tuberculosis still remains endemic. Subsequently, more recent developments of new methods and technological advancements as ‘modern weapons’ in the battle to defeat this disease and associated challenges are reviewed, and finally an outlook is presented, highlighting the future of the modern solutions under development, which are envisioned to lay the platform for improvements in delivering timely intervention, reduce immense expense and burden on healthcare systems worldwide, while saving millions of lives and eventually, may enable the eradication of this ancient disease.


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