scholarly journals A.I.R.: From Radical Individuality to Connected Subjectivity

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-91
Author(s):  
Elisa Cuesta Fernández ◽  
María Victoria De la Torre Luque ◽  
Pedro Arnanz Coll
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Systemic Thinking ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global Events ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Humans are part of an interlinked world crossed by overlapping flows: substances, beings and information. The major global events that have unfolded throughout 2020 have profoundly altered the social system, revealing deep structural weak spots, and pushed its resilience to the limit, nearly causing its suffocation. This context has called into question our anthropocentric mindset and has led us to critically revise how we think about the (eco)systems we are part of, how we act within them, what is our agency to drive meaningful shifts, and with which tools we can do so. For nine months during which life and art became part of a single space, we, three artists and designers in collaboration with a diverse team of researchers, explored the way in which our individual and collective agency is affected by how close – both emotionally and physically – we feel to others, whether human or not. By navigating through art and design approaches, we imagined perspectives to defy our dualist, linear and Cartesian point of view to question how, as our system regains its speed, we can move towards a more connected sense of being. A systemic thinking toolkit, dozens of conversations, a breathing body, a poem and a visual essay have unfolded during this time, giving shape to the project A.I.R. Air[noun, uncountable], the mixture of gases we breathe; air[noun, uncountable], the space that circulates everything; but also A.I.R., an acronym for “artists in residency”, or more accurately, artists in remoteness. Air that we have lacked too often during these nine months. Air that can be the deepest kind of embrace, in these times pierced by radical forms of isolation. We start weaving our ideas around the notions of systems, agency and closeness by asking: how close do you feel?

Emerson's Memory Loss

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Margaret Fuller ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Important Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Emerson’s Memory Loss is about an archive of texts documenting Emerson’s intellectual state during the final phase of his life, as he underwent dementia. It is also about the way these texts provoke a rereading of the more familiar canon of Emerson’s thinking. Emerson’s memory loss, Hanlon argues, contributed to the shaping of a line of thought in America that emphasizes the social over the solipsistic, the affective over the distant, the many over the one. Emerson regarded his output during the time when his patterns of cognition transformed profoundly as a regathering of focus on the nature of memory and of thinking itself. His late texts theorize Emerson’s experience of senescence even as they disrupt his prior valorizations of the independent mind teeming with self-sufficient conviction. But still, these late writings have succumbed to a process of critical forgetting—either ignored by scholars or denied inclusion in Emerson’s oeuvre. Attending to a manuscript archive that reveals the extent to which Emerson collaborated with others—especially his daughter, Ellen Tucker Emerson—to articulate what he considered his most important work even as his ability to do so independently waned, Hanlon measures the resonance of these late texts across the stretch of Emerson’s thinking, including his writing about Margaret Fuller and his meditations on streams of thought that verge unto those of his godson, William James. Such ventures bring us toward a self defined less by its anxiety of overinfluence than by its communality, its very connectedness with myriad others.

scholarly journals Reflective Understanding

Wisdom ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 176-202
Author(s):  
John Kekes
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
The Social ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Do So

Reflective understanding involves the evaluation of our personal attitude formed of our changing, often faulty, and frequently conflicting beliefs, emotions, desires, experiences, and evaluations. Their evaluation proceeds from two points of view. One is that of our personal attitude. The other is the point of view of the various modes of evaluations that jointly form the evaluative framework of the context in which we live. Both kinds of evaluations may be faulty. Reflective understanding involves the critical evaluation of the reasons for and against the prevailing social evaluations that follow from our personal attitude and of the reasons for and against our personal attitude that follow from the prevailing social evaluations. The test of the adequacy of our personal attitude is our satisfaction with our life. And the test of social evaluations is the continued long-term allegiance of those who follow the social evaluations, although they need not do so.

scholarly journals Female Language in Malati maitri’s Sankaraparani

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (S-1) ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Padmavathi R
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social System ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Maternal Rights ◽  
The Way

Morgan found that the adi from of the clans formed on the basis of maternal rights, from which the clans based on paternal rights later developed. In this way we understand that the castes we see among the people who are tired of the ancient Social civilization are based on paternal rights and before that there were Social clans with maternal rights. As important as Darwin’s theory of evolution way in biology and how important Marx’s Philosophy of surplus value was in the field of Political, Economy, so important is the discovery that there was a Primitive maternal right that preceded patriarchy in civilized populations. The Social system that forgot this historical background enslaved the woman. set her aside from production. She was stripped of her rights and made to kneel before the man the began to paint her limbs. Myths about women and literary evidence in written form spilled out of masculine thought. Thus, the women become the most physically vulnerable in the attack on the country. In his poems, he shows the way in which the Tamil community considers activities that are considered sacred and pure. Malati Maitri writes about Social liberation, questioning the sacred practices of sacrifice, family morality, domesticity, motherhood and affection.

scholarly journals Equal and Different: Feminism as Radical Humanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (22) ◽  
pp. 374-391
Author(s):  
Petra Mitić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Social System ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Western Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
Equal Right ◽  
Do So

In its attempts to defend the right of women to claim their own subjectivity,as well as the equal right to participate in the social system institutions, the mainstream of feminist thinking has been marked crucially by the question of woman and her identity. This question could be said to occupy a central place in feminist texts and discussions which started even before the women’s movement was officially created. But since feminist disagreements about how these issues should be approached appropriately have already resulted in serious misunderstandings and mutually severe accusations, this paper aims at shedding light at the very nature of these polarities. In doing so, the focus has been placed on how the terms equal and different have been theorised. These dissenting voices have certainly proved productive in the context of theory itself, but have done much harm in the domain of social activism which failed to initiate truly substantial changes within western society and culture. The same countereffect is also visible in theory, which has generated a diversity of feminisms, but has definitely failed to offer a comprehensive critique of the perniciously repressive culture. The lack of gender equality has always been an important dimension of this culture, but still just a segment and one particular mechanism of the invisible matrix which has never actually stopped producing binary hierarchies. They are being manifested in different forms today but have retained fundamentally unchanged and unchallenged structures, promoting an ideologically induced perception of reality to appear natural and self-evident. The paper puts forward the claim that a humanistic and anti-capitalist feminism is a framework broad enough to overcome all exclusions and one-sided definitions and to head towards one such comprehensive feminism – bringing us back to the original radicalism of the women’s movement. To do so, it is necessary to reconsider the general confusion within postmodernist discourse, and especially the controversy related to what humanism should stand for today.

Il ruolo dei mondi vitali nella salute

2009 ◽  
pp. 114-134
Author(s):  
Francesca Guarino
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social System ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Formal System ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Life World ◽  
Aged People ◽  
The Way

- Achille Ardigň had the prominent role of introducing the concept of Lebenswelt in Italy. By the way, his point of view is nearly peculiar from the methodological individualism adopted by the phenomenological approach as it emerges in sociology and so on, in health sociology. In this contribute the aim is to give some keys to explicate this difference, that is first of all an epistemological difference, starting from the reason that life-world has never assumed by itself, but is always taken in an ideal-typical and historical interaction with social system, including health system. The concept of empathy is consequentially given. By that, the importance of social support in a positive connection with health and life quality can be observed for itself, or as strictly linked with the formal system possibilities, according with Ardigň suggestions. Actually new technology can be the way of doing that. e-Care project, as it is developed for the aged people and with the net support, is a practical example of an innovative interaction between informal social and formal care institutions. The result is an application of a sensate pact between life-world and system, for improving health.Key words: social support; life-world, social system, empathy, health, social capital.Parole chiave: supporto sociale, mondo della vita, sistema sociale, salute empatia, capitale sociale.

Constructing Glinka

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-353
Author(s):  
Daniil Zavlunov
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Social ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

After more than a century and a half of studying Glinka, we hardly know Glinka: he remains ever elusive and illusive. And that is because Glinka is a construct, one that came into existence in the stories of those who knew him. In this study I examine the posthumous construction of Glinka by the members of his circles, concentrating on the primary sources that originated as obituaries and commentaries to the publications of Glinka’s letters and his autobiography, the Zapiski. The enigmatic image that Glinka left behind compelled many of his acquaintances to rush in to control the damage, offer their correctives, preserve their perception of the true Glinka, and claim him for their ideological causes; they also aimed to uphold and partake in his legacy. The result was a series of astonishingly diverse and conflicting representations of Glinka that laid the foundation of the Glinka mythology, without which the subsequent canonization(s) of the composer would have been impossible. Although I consider in some detail the historiographic problems in the way the sources have been used in Glinka scholarship, my primary concern is with the sources themselves, with the questions of who speaks for Glinka, why they do so, and how. In answering these questions I seek to deconstruct and contextualize the hagiographies by looking at the writers who produced them, specifically through the lens of the social circles to which they and Glinka belonged.

scholarly journals The Myth of a State

1968 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Goody
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

That the distinction between myth and history is a tenuous one hardly requires elaborate documentation. Anthropologists have recorded the way in which accounts of the tribal past, recorded in genealogies, change with the organisation of the social groups to which they refer. In Malinowski's phrase, they serve as the ‘mythical charters’ of the social system. But this is a feature not only of non-literate societies.

scholarly journals Resiliensi Sosial Dari Perspektif Sosiologi: Konsep Dan Aplikasinya Pada Komunitas Nelayan Kecil

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Rilus A. Kinseng
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractIn recent years, resilience has received the most attention from various parties. The concept which was initially better known in the ecological field, then also developed in the social field, so that the term social resilience is known. Some social scientists have made a definition of social resilience, but it still needs to be criticized from the standpoint of sociology. This paper aims to discuss the concept of social resilience from the perspective of sociology. Furthermore, the second purpose of this paper is to describe the resilience of small fishing communities in a village in Banyuwangi as an example application of the social resilience concept discussed. The method used to achieve the first objective is by reviewing relevant writings to discuss social resilience from a sociological point of view. Meanwhile, the second objective was discussed using data from the results of the field study, which was conducted using a qualitative approach. According to the author, social resilience can be defined as the ability of a social system to maintain its social integrity or integration, when and / or after being interrupted, both from within and from outside. Furthermore, at the empirical level, this study shows that the small fishing community in Lampon, Banyuwangi has a high social resilience, which is shown by remaining intact this community despite and has been experiencing various pressures and threats, including climate change and tsunami disasters.   Dalam beberapa tahun belakangan ini, resiliensi mendapat perhatian yang besar dari berbagai pihak. Konsep yang awalnya lebih dikenal di bidang ekologi ini, kemudian juga berkembang juga di bidang sosial, sehingga dikenal istilah resiliensi sosial. Beberapa  ilmuwan sosial telah membuat definisi resilensi social, namun terasa masih perlu dikritisi dari sudut pandang sosiologi. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk membahas konsep resiliensi sosial tersebut dari perspektif sosiologi. Selanjutnya, tujuan yang kedua dari tulisan ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan resiliensi komunitas nelayan kecil di satu desa di Banyuwangi sebagai contoh aplikasi dari konsep resiliensi sosial yang telah dibahas. Metode yang digunakan untuk mencapai tujuan pertama adalah dengan me-review tulisan yang relevan untuk membahas tentang resiliensi sosial ditinjau dari sudut pandang sosiologi. Sementara itu, tujuan kedua dibahas dengan menggunakan data hasil studi lapang, yang dilakukan dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Menurut penulis, resiliensi sosial dapat didefinisikan sebagai kemampuan suatu sistem sosial untuk mempertahankan keutuhan atau integrasi sosialnya, pada saat dan/atau setelah mendapat gangguan, baik dari dalam maupun dari luar. Selanjutnya, pada tataran empiris, penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa komunitas nelayan kecil di Lampon, Banyuwangi memiliki resiliensi sosial yang tinggi, yang ditunjukkan dengan tetap utuhnya komunitas ini sekalipun telah dan sedang mengalami berbagai tekanan dan ancaman, termasuk perubahan iklim dan bencana tsunami.

scholarly journals Balbúrdia: a polissemia enquanto interpretante do confronto entre vozes sociais (“Balbúrdia”: polysemy whilst interpreting of conflict between social voices)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 4459142
Author(s):  
Débora Luciene Porto Boenavides
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Current Management ◽  
Oppressed People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theory Of Discourse ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

This article aims to analyse the polysemy as an interpreting of conflicts between social voices, and it is based on the dialogical theory of discourse and on the enunciation theory of Benveniste. To do so, it is verified the way polysemy marks the confrontation between social voices: a) as an oppressive designation given by dominant groups to the oppressed people and as a strategy of revaluation of the oppressive words by oppressed groups and b) as a critical designation of the dominated groups to their oppressors and as an attempt of the dominant group to revaluate/neutralize the critical dominations given to it by the oppressed groups. Then, it is observed a contemporary example of the mentioned phenomenon: the word revaluation of “balbúrdia”, in 2019, used by Brazilian university students, in response to a polemic statement of Abraham Weintraub, Minister of Education of the current management. It is found that the social contradictions do not enclose in one or other statement, they should be observed through the dialogue stablished between different social voices.ResumoEste artigo objetiva analisar a polissemia enquanto interpretante dos confrontos entre vozes sociais, tendo como base a teoria dialógica do discurso e a teoria enunciativa de Benveniste. Para isso, verifica-se de que modo a polissemia marca o confronto entre vozes sociais: a) como designação opressora dada pelos grupos dominantes aos oprimidos e como estratégia de revalorização de vocábulos opressores por grupos oprimidos; b) como designação crítica dos grupos dominados aos seus opressores e como tentativa do grupo dominante de revalorizar/neutralizar as denominações críticas dadas a ele pelos grupos oprimidos. Após, observa-se um exemplo contemporâneo do citado fenômeno: a revalorização vocabular da palavra “balbúrdia”, em 2019, por estudantes universitários brasileiros, em resposta a um enunciado polêmico de Abraham Weintraub, enquanto Ministro da Educação da atual gestão. Constata-se que as contradições sociais não se encerram em um ou outro enunciado, devendo ser observadas através do diálogo travado entre as diferentes vozes sociais.Palavras-chave: “Balbúrdia”, Contradições sociais, Polissemia, Revalorização vocabular. Keywords: “Balbúrdia”, Social contradictions, Polysemy, Word revaluation.ReferencesBAKHTIN, Mikhail Mjkhailovitch. Estética da criação verbal. Tradução feita a partir do francês por Maria Emsantina Galvão G. Pereira. 5ª Ed. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1997.BAKHTIN, Mikhail Mjkhailovitch. Estética da criação verbal. Tradução feita a partir do russo por Paulo Bezerra. 2ª Ed. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2010.BENVENISTE, Émile. Problemas de linguística geral II. Tradução Eduardo Guimarães. Campinas, SP: Pontes, 2006.BOENAVIDES, Débora Luciene Porto. Ressignificar e resistir: a Marcha das Vadias e a apropriação da denominação opressora. Revista Estudos Feministas, Florianópolis, v. 27, n. 2, e48405, 2019.BOURDIEU, Pierre. A Economia das Trocas Linguísticas: O que Falar Quer Dizer. Prefácio Sergio Miceli. 2. ed. São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2008CALVET, Louis-Jean. Linguistique et colonialisme: petit traité de glottophagie. Paris: Payot, 1974.ENGELS, Federico. Anti-Dühring. La revolución de la ciencia por el señor Eugen Dühring. Colección Clásicos Del Marxismo. Madrid: Fundación Federico Engels, 2014.VOLOCHÍNOV, Valentin Nikolaevich. A construção da enunciação e outros ensaios. São Carlos: Pedro & João Editores, 2013.VOLÓCHINOV, Valentin Nikolaevich. Marxismo e Filosofia da Linguagem: problemas fundamentais do método sociológico na ciência da linguagem. Tradução, notas e glossário de Sheila Grillo e Ekaterina Vólkova Américo; ensaio Introdutório de Sheila Grillo. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2017.Notícias, memes etc.Estadão, 30/04/2019. Disponível em: https://educacao.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,mec-cortara-verba-de-universidade-por-balburdia-e-ja-mira-unb-uff-e-ufba,70002809579Estadão, 15/05/2019. Disponível em: https://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,entenda-o-que-levou-a-balburdia-as-ruas-de-todo-o-pais,70002830399O Dia, 1º/05/2019. Disponível em: https://odia.ig.com.br/brasil/2019/05/5638622-mec-recua-de-punir-universidades-por--balburdia--e-propoe-corte-linear.html#foto=1e4459142

scholarly journals Plurality of Points of Views and knowing of a Plural Reality

2018 ◽  
Vol Épistémologies du pluriel (Articles) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Compagnone
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Interactional Features ◽  
The Way

International audience El objetivo de éste artículo es dar cuenta de la manera por la cual las concepciones plurales de la realidad son inherentes al proceso de conocimiento. Asimismo, el artículo apunta a mostrar de qué manera los distintos puntos de vista de los actores sobre ésta realidad son social y materialmente situados. Apoyándose en el enfoque de J.-P. Darré , el neo-pragmatismo de H. Putnam, así como en los aportes de lingüistas y psicólogos, el presente trabajo ilumina la manera en la cual la relación entre realidad y conocimiento puede establecerse. El artículo destaca que la verdad depende de la adecuación del conocimiento a la realidad y pone en relieve las propiedades interactivas de las cosas. Finalmente, permite revelar la naturaleza social de las concepciones y discute, a partir de la noción de punto de vista de A. Schütz, la caracterización social de estos puntos de vista. The purpose of this article is to report the way in which the plural understandings of reality are inherent to the process of knowledge production. It alsoaims to show what it means that actors’ point of view are socially and materially situated. Relying on J.-P. Darré’s approach, Putnam’s pragmatism, as well as on linguists’ and psychologists’ works, it highlights how the relationship between reality and knowledge may be understood. It underlines that truth depends on the adequacy of knowledge to reality and emphasizes the interactional features of things. Then, it focuses on the social nature of understanding and discusses the social characterization of points of view, drawing on A. Schütz’s works. Le but de cet article est de rendre compte de la façon dont desconceptions plurielles de la réalité sont inhérentes au processus de connaissance.Il vise aussi à montrer comment on peut entendre que les points de vue des acteurs sur cette réalité sont socialement et objectivement situés. S’appuyant sur l’approche de J.-P. Darré, sur le néopragmatisme de H. Putnam, ainsi que sur les travaux de linguistes et de psychologues, il éclaircit la façon dont on peut entendre le rapport qui peut être établi entre réalité et connaissance. Il souligne que la vérité dépend de l’adéquation de la connaissance à la réalité et met en valeur les propriétés interactionnelles des choses. Il fait ensuite apparaître la nature sociale des conceptions et discute, à partir de la notion de point de vue de A. Schütz, de la caractérisation sociale de ces points de vue.

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