scholarly journals “Heaps of scrap metal and defunct machinery”: Assemblages, Ethics and Affect in W. G. Sebald’s Orford Ness // "Montones de chatarra y maquinaria obsoleta”: Ensamblajes, ética y afecto en el Orford Ness de W. G. Sebald

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Pippa Jane Marland
Keyword(s):  
Affect Theory ◽  
Scrap Metal ◽  
World Views ◽  
Material Ecocriticism ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The Way

This essay explores aspects of the ‘material turn’ in contemporary thought and their incorporation into the emergent field of material ecocriticism. I tentatively suggest that although the ‘new materialisms’ have provided both posthumanism and ecocriticism with invaluable tools for decentring the ‘human’ and disrupting anthropocentric world views, they have at times deflected attention too far from the specificity of the human animal. I argue that while material ecocriticism has fruitfully engaged with concepts of material interrelatedness and its effects on bodies and environments, and begun to explore the ethical implications of such entanglements, it has, as yet, been less forthcoming on the subject of affect. Drawing on recent formulations of  ‘affect theory’ that characterise affect as operating within the context of material immersion and processes of becoming, as well as being potentially instrumental in the recalibration of ethical positions, I contend that there are significant parallels with material ecocriticism that signal the potential for further exploration of what we might call material affect.These arguments are explored further through a reading of W.G. Sebald’s account in The Rings of Saturn of a visit to the defunct military weapons-testing base at Orford Ness. I highlight Sebald’s evocation of the darkly disturbing, vitally affective power of the landscape’s assemblage of “scrap metal and defunct machinery” (237), which triggers a response in the narrator-figure that is integrally bound up with aspects of memory, conscience, and, ultimately, ethics. In the light of this reading, I argue for the need for an ongoing humanism within posthumanist ecocriticism that combines an understanding of our immersion in and dependence upon the nonhuman world with a continuing and specific investigation of the human animal and its affective sensorium, focused in particular on the way in which affect may play into the generation of ethical aspiration.ResumenEste ensayo explora aspectos del “giro materialista” en el pensamiento actual y su incorporación en el campo emergente de la ecocrítica materialista. Sugiero provisionalmente que aunque los “nuevos materialismos” han proporcionado tanto al posthumanismo como a la ecocrítica herramientas inestimables para descentrar “lo humano” y alterar las visiones antropocéntricas del mundo, a veces han desviado la atención demasiado lejos de la especificidad del animal humano. Sostengo que mientras que la ecocrítica materialista se ha dedicado fructíferamente a conceptos de interrelación material y sus efectos en los cuerpos y entornos, y ha empezado a explicar las implicaciones éticas de dichas relaciones, ha sido menos cooperativa, de momento, en el tema del afecto. Recurriendo a las formulaciones recientes de la “teoría del afecto” que caracterizan éste en la medida que funciona dentro del contexto de la inmersión materialista y de los procesos de llegar a ser, así como siendo potencialmente fundamental en la re-calibración de posiciones éticas, afirmo que existen paralelismos significativos con la ecocrítica materialista que señalan la posibilidad de una exploración más a fondo de lo que podríamos llamar afecto materialista. Estos argumentos es exploran en detalle por medio de una lectura de la narración de W.G. Sebald en The Rings of Saturn sobre una visita a una obsoleta base militar de pruebas de armamento en Orford Ness. Destaco la evocación de Sebald del poder del paisaje oscuramente perturbador y vitalmente afectivo de la colección de “restos de chatarra y maquinaria obsoleta” (237), que desencadena una respuesta en la figura del narrador que está integralmente unida con aspectos de la memoria, la conciencia y, por último, la ética. En base a esta lectura, defiendo la necesidad de un humanismo en desarrollo dentro de la ecocrítica posthumanista que combina la comprensión de nuestra inmersión en y dependencia del mundo no humano con una investigación continua y específica del animal humano y su sensorium afectivo, centrándose en particular en la manera en que el afecto puede influir en la creación de aspiración ética.

Pastoral Perspectivism: A View from Altai

Inner Asia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludek Broz
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Single Idea ◽  
The Way

AbstractOne of the characteristic aspects ofViveiros de Castro’s perspectivismis the relative rather than absolute character of subject/object positions. In the Altaian context, animals are not attributed with subjectivity in the way found in Amazonian cosmologies. Still, the subject position is not particular to humans: the landscape is populated by masters of a both human and nonhuman kind. The terminological division of animals into wild (a?dar-kushtar) and domesticated (mal) in Altaian language is analogical to the human/animal division in Amazonia. Wildness and domesticity thus become relative categories defined with reference to the idiom of the master. What is wild for a human master is domesticated for a nonhumanmaster. Here, the common denominator is a sort of ‘livestock-morphism’:what for the human hunters looks like a deer is a cowfrom the point of view of the forest masters. If conducted improperly, hunting is thus analogous to livestock theft – morality transcends perspectivism in Altai. Exploring this ‘pastoralist perspectivism’ leads to questions about subjectivity and agency, ethics and ownership. The discussion is finally placed ‘into perspective’ by showing thatAltaians do not operate with a single idea of the animal and human–animal relationship.

scholarly journals Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More-than-Human Condition

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Redmalm
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Mass Noun ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The Way

<p>Edited by Kristin Asdal, Tone Druglitrö and Steve Hinchliffe (Routledge, 2017)</p><p>Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics captures the way a decentralized form of governing measures and mobilizes life itself through a number of technologies, such as demographics, surveillance and health initiatives, with the aim to prolong and enhance the lives of a population. According to Foucault, this biopolitical form of governing characteristic of modernity implies a detached and technical stance towards individual lives. In short, biopolitics turns individual lives into <em>life </em>as a mass noun. Interestingly, when human life is treated as a resource, human’s self-proclaimed position as the crown of creation is unsettled and humans find themselves part of the same biopolitical nexus as many other animals. The technologies and consequences of the biopolitization of humans and other animals is the subject of the volume <em>Humans, Animals and Biopolitics</em>, edited by Kristin Asdal, Tone Druglitrö and Steve Hinchliffe. It is a book that should be required reading for Foucauldian theorists and human-animal studies scholars alike.</p>

scholarly journals Material Ecocriticism: Materiality, Agency, and Models of Narrativity

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Serenella Iovino ◽  
Serpil Oppermann
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Material Ecocriticism ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
Intellectual Movement ◽  
Ethical Perspectives

        The proliferation of studies bearing on the intellectual movement known as the "new materialisms" evinces that a material turn is becoming an important paradigm in environmental humanities. Ranging from social and science studies, feminism, to anthropology, geography, environmental philosophies and animal studies, this approach is bringing innovative ways of considering matter and material relations that, coupled with reflections on agency, text, and narrativity, are going to impact ecocriticism in an unprecedented way. In consideration of the relevance of this debate, we would like to draw for Ecozon@'s readers an introductory map of the new paradigm and introduce what can be called "material ecocriticism." We will illustrate what we consider to be its main features, situating them in the conceptual horizons of the new materialisms. From this genealogical sketch, we will examine the re-definitions of concepts like matter, agency, discursivity, and intentionality, with regard to their effects on ecocriticism and in terms of their ethical perspectives.   Resumen   La proliferación de estudios procedentes del movimiento intelectual conocido bajo la rúbrica de "nuevos materialismos" pone de manifiesto que la materia está influyendo en el giro paradigmático de los recientes estudios medioambientales en el ámbito de las Humanidades. Desde los estudios científicos y sociales al feminismo, la antropología, la geografía, pasando por los estudios sobre animales y las filosofías del medio ambiente,  este enfoque incorpora formas innovadoras de aproximarse a la materia y a las relaciones materiales que, acompañadas de reflexiones sobre la agencia o capacidad de acción, el texto y la narración, van a producir un impacto considerable y sin precedentes en la ecocrítica.   En consideración a la relevancia de este debate queremos ofrecer a los lectores de Ecozon@ un mapa introductorio a este nuevo paradigma. En el presente artículo trataremos las que consideramos son las características fundamentales de la ecocrítica de la materia y las situaremos en el horizonte conceptual de los nuevos materialismos. A partir de este esbozo genealógico, examinaremos las redefiniciones de conceptos como materia, agencia en tanto capacidad de acción, discursividad e intencionalidad y las  relacionaremos con sus efectos en la ecocrítica y en la ética.  

scholarly journals Defining human-animal chimeras and hybrids: A comparison of legal systems and natural sciences

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-114
Author(s):  
Szymon Bokota
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The Way

Abstract The article aims to present issues arising out of differences in the way that the terms chimera and hybrid are defined in legal systems and by natural sciences in the context of mixing human and animal DNA. The author analyses the different approaches to defining these terms used in various legal systems, dividing them into groups in light of conclusions reached from examining definitions used in natural sciences. The distinction is used to answer the question of which approach to definitions applied by legislators is the best way to handle the subject of human-animal organisms, given the need to balance their impact on medicine and the ethical concerns that arise.

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING THROUGH TWO STAY TWO STRAY STRATEGY

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dita Masyitah Sianipar And Sumarsih
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Way

This study deals with the way to improve students’ achievement in speaking particularly through Two Stay Two Stray Strategy. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of of the research was class X-AP SMK Swasta Harapan Danau Sijabut in Asahan Regency that consisted of 34 students. The research was conducted in two cycles consisted of three meetings in each cycle. The instruments of collecting data for quantitative data used Speaking Test and instrument for analysis of qualitative data used observation, interview and questionnaire sheet. Based on the speaking test score, students’ score kept improving in every test. In the test I the mean was 61,47, in the test II the mean was 67,41 and the test III the mean was 78,52. Based on observation sheet and questionnaire sheet, it was found that teaching learning process run well and lively. Students were active and interest in speaking. The using of Two Stay Two Stray Strategy is significantly improved students’ achievement in speaking.

Tanks in the Spa Town. The New Book about the Events of the Year 1968 in Czechoslovakia

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 278-282
Author(s):  
Kirill A. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Warsaw Pact ◽  
Scientific Event ◽  
The Social ◽  
Prague Spring ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Terms ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Regional Perspective ◽  
The Way

This review is devoted to the monograph by Jan Nedvěd “We do not decline our heads. The events of the year 1968 in Karlovy Vary”. The Karlovy Vary municipal museum coincided its publishing with the fiftieth anniversary of the Prague spring which, considering the way of the presentation, turned the book not only to scientific event but also to the social one. The book describes sociopolitical trends in the region before the year 1968, the development of the reformist movement, the invasion and advance of the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries, and finally the decline of the reformist mood and the beginning of the normalization. Working on his writing, the author deeply studied the materials of the local archive and gathered the unique selection of the photographs depicting the passage of the soviet army through the spa town and the protest actions of its inhabitants. In the meantime, Nedvěd takes undue freedom with scientific terms, and his selection of historiography raises questions. The author bases his research on the Czech papers and scarcely uses the books of Russian origin. He also did not study the subject of the participating of the GDR’s army in the operation Danube, although these troops were concentrated on the borders of Karlovy Vary region as well. Because of this decision, there are no materials from German archives or historiography in the monograph. In general, the work lacks the width of studying its subject, but it definitively accomplishes the task of depicting the Prague spring from the regional perspective.

AUX FONDEMENTS DE L’INSTITUTION ECCLÉSIALE: LA POSITION DE SAINT PIERRE PARMI LES APÔTRES (MT 16, 13–20) ET SON RETENTISSEMENT Á L’ÉPOQUE APOSTOLIQUE ET PATRISTIQUE

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-105
Author(s):  
Jacek Wojda
Keyword(s):  
Special Role ◽  
Church Community ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Big activity passed Popes, with the least Francis Bergoglio, is a question about receptiontheir lives and action, especially in times of modern medium broadcasting. Sometimes presentedcontent could be treated as sensation, and their receptiveness deprived of profound historical andtheological meaning. This article depends of beginnings of the Church, when it started to organizeitself, with well known historically-theological arguments. Peter confessed Jesus as the Christ andgot special place among Apostles. His role matures in young Church community, which is escapingfrom Jewish religion.Peter tramps the way from Jerusalem thru Antioch to Rome, confirming his appointing to thefirst among Apostles and to being Rock in the Church. Nascent Rome Church keeps this specialPeter’s succession. Clement, bishop of Rome, shows his prerogatives as a successor of Peter. Later,bishop of Cartagena, Cyprian, confirms special role both Peter and each bishop of Rome amongother bishops. He also was finding appropriate role for each of them. Church institution, basedon Peter and Apostles persists and shows truth of the beginnings and faithfulness to them innowadays papacy.Methodological elements Presented in the introduction let for the lecture of Gospel and patristictexts without positivistic prejudices presented in old literature of the subject.

A view on Practical Utility of Paradi Gunas

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachin Bagali ◽  
Umapati Baragi ◽  
M. R. Sajjanshetti
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Clinical Activity ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Practical Utility ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

In the present day scenario prime need of Ayurveda is practical applicability of Ayurvedic fundamental principles and research should be more focused on all aspects where scientific inputs should confirm Ayurveda’s principles and philosophy. In Ayurveda, Gunas are described as the way of presentation of action without which no Karma (action) can be possible. Ayurveda has provided significance to every Guna so that they become useful in clinical practice. Clinical practice or research is a continuous process including a series of events which need to be performed in a sequential manner. Though there are many factors on which accomplishment of treatment depends, among these Charaka has given prime importance to Paradi Gunas. In clinical practice, Guna which are to be with Bhishak are mainly the Paradi Gunas which can also be called as miscellaneous Gunas. As rightly quoted by Acarya Charaka, for getting success in the treatment Paradi Gunas are the best. The Sutra quotes "Sidhyupaya Chikitsayam" which means that Chikitsa i.e. Dhatusamya will be done mainly with the help of Paradi Gunas. Knowledge of Paradi Gunas are required to be present in pharmacists, physicians and Researchers. Acharya Charaka says that Chikitsa Siddhi i.e. successful management of disease is not possible without the knowledge of Paradi Gunas. Paradi Gunas play an important role in selection, adaption and manifestation of drug as per condition of the disease and the patient in particular Desha and Kala. The ultimate goal of any clinical activity is to contribute in the knowledge domain and to improve professional practice. Thus this literary review of Paradi Gunas serves to explore the subject of the clinical practice.

Assembling Archaeology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Cobb ◽  
Karina Croucher
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective

This book provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologist in the twenty-first century. The issues addressed here are global and are applicable wherever archaeology is taught, practiced, and researched. In short, this book is applicable to everyone from academia to cultural resource management (CRM), from heritage professional to undergraduate student. At its heart, it addresses the undervaluation of teaching, demonstrating that this affects the fundamentals of contemporary archaeological practice, and is particularly connected to the lack of diversity in disciplinary demographics. It proposes a solution which is grounded in a theoretical rethinking of our teaching, training, and practice. Drawing upon the insights from archaeology’s current material turn, and particularly Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblages, this volume turns the discipline of archaeology into the subject of investigation, considering the relationships between teaching, practice, and research. It offers a new perspective which prompts a rethinking of our expectations and values with regard to teaching, training, and doing archaeology, and ultimately argues that we are all constantly becoming archaeologists.

scholarly journals Evolution of university governance in Morocco: Which impacts?

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Khalid Ayad ◽  
Khaoula Dobli Bennani ◽  
Mostafa Elhachloufi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
University Governance ◽  
General Review ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The concept of governance has become ubiquitous since it is recognized as an important tool for improving quality in all aspects of higher education.In Morocco, few scientific articles have dealt with the subject of university governance. Therefore, we will present a general review of the evolution of governance through laws and reforms established by Moroccan Governments from 1975 to 2019. The purpose of the study is to detect the extent of the presence of university governance principles in these reforms.This study enriches the theoretical literature on the crisis of Moroccan university and opens the way to new empirical studies to better understand the perception of university governance concept in the Moroccan context and to improve the quality of higher education and subsequently the economic development of the country.The findings of this study show an increasing evolution of the presence of university governance principles in reforms and higher education laws.

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