Coda

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
María A. Vélez-Serna
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Film Exhibition ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Site

This brief chapter offers a final reflection on the future of film exhibition as a social practice, and returns to the ambiguous value of the ephemeral as a site of precarity but also of possibility and freedom.

Jazz Bubble

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Chapman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
A Site

Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism. The Jazz Bubble approaches the emergence of the neoclassical jazz aesthetic since the 1980s as a powerful, if unexpected, point of departure for a wide-ranging investigation of important social trends during this period. The emergence of financialization as a key dimension of the global economy shapes a variety of aspects of contemporary jazz culture, and jazz culture comments upon this dimension in turn. During the stateside return of Dexter Gordon in the mid-1970s, the cultural turmoil of the New York fiscal crisis served as a crucial backdrop to understanding the resonance of Gordon’s appearances in the city. The financial markets directly inform the structural upheaval that major label jazz subsidiaries must navigate in the music industry of the early twenty-first century, and they inform the disruptive impact of urban redevelopment in communities that have relied upon jazz as a site of economic vibrancy. In examining these issues, The Jazz Bubble seeks to intensify conversations surrounding music, culture, and political economy.

scholarly journals Writing on the Ground

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 19-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janna Klostermann
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Student Writers ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Recent Statement ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University

This essay responds to the recent “Statement on Writing Centres and Staffing” (Graves, 2016), making visible differing conceptualizations of writing in it. More particularly, I will make visible traces of the statement that position writing as a measurable skill, aligning with the priorities of university administrators, and traces of the statement that position writing as a complex social practice, aligning with the needs of student writers and writing centre tutors/specialists. I trouble understandings of writing that maintain the university as a site of exclusion, while pushing for future contributions that take seriously the everyday, on the ground work of student writers and writing centre tutors/specialists.

scholarly journals The fiction of History: recalling the past and imagining the future with Caesar at Troy.

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Richard Alston
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Site

This essay considers the nature of historical discourse through a consideration of the historical narrative of Lucan’s Pharsalia. The focus is on the manner in which Lucan depicts history as capable of being fictionalised, especially through the operation of political power. The discourses of history make a historical account, but those discourses are not, in Lucan's view, true, but are fictionalised. The key study comes from Caesar at Troy, when Lucan explores the idea of a site (and history) which cannot be understood, but which nevertheless can be employed in a representation of the past. yet, Lucan also alludes to a ‘true history’, which is unrepresentable in his account of Pharsalus, and beyond the scope of the human mind. Lucan’s true history can be read against Benjamin and Tacitus. Lucan offers a framework of history that has the potential to be post-Roman (in that it envisages a world in which there is no Rome), and one in which escapes the frames of cultural memory, both in its fictionalisation and in the dependence of Roman imperial memory on cultural trauma.

scholarly journals Architecture of memory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohra Akbari
Keyword(s):  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Successive Change ◽  
Successful Approach ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Way

Buildings and city forms are restructured and reused through time in response to evolving contexts, with each successive change leaving traces of the past that accumulate as layers. Collective knowledge and memory are strongly tied to these artifacts, which provide the depth and continuity necessary for the affirmation of identity. Dramatic changes in the contemporary city have prompted a reconsideration of the way architecture adapts, and highlights the need for a creative approach to change and advancement. A successful approach would meaningfully engage the past and memory to record and transmit vital aspects of culture and history while simultaneously using them to inform future actions. The palimpsest as an evolving record provides a productive framework for this kind of transformation, and uncovers the tangible and intangible layers of a site to protect and project the future layers.

The Mutual Presence of RP-7 and the Future of Virtual Collaborative Writing

2010 ◽  
pp. 374-399
Author(s):  
David W. Overbey
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Digital Writing ◽  
Virtual Collaboration ◽  
Writing Technologies ◽  
Digital Texts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Professional Contexts

This chapter examines virtual collaboration, including the production and use of writing, between doctors at different hospitals mediated by RP-7, a robot that enables a specialist at one hospital to evaluate the vital signs of and provide diagnosis for a patient at another hospital. Analysis of RP-7 is situated in a theoretical deliberation about the shift from print to digital texts and technologies. I argue that a consequence of this shift is the loss of mutual presence—the alignment of materiality, practice, and expertise—in the production and use of texts. This alignment is transparent and intrinsic to print texts but is lost in digital environments precisely because they afford access to texts irrespective of a user’s background, location, or access to and familiarity with other tools, technologies, or workplaces. Study of the writing used and generated during the collaboration between doctors mediated by RP-7 is grounds for the claim that the future of virtual collaborative writing in professional contexts will involve the re-alignment of mutual presence. In other words, the success of digital writing technologies in social practice will depend on the extent to which they bare similarity to, rather than differ from, print texts and technologies. The chapter concludes by emphasizing the value of this research to both academia and industry.

Primates Socially Transmit Tool Practices, but Humans Share Meaning-Laden Customs

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
Bart J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Symbolic Thought ◽  
Moral Force ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

The custom of property emerges out of the social practice of tool use in primates when symbolic thought is applied to it. Primates socially transmit tool practices, but humans share meaning-laden customs. The thingness of property as a custom comes from tools. Tool use is embodied knowledge, and property embodies the claim, “This is mine!” Humans socially transmit property with moral force. With symbolic thought, we can think about our actions, or others’, in the past and in the future, and we can evaluate them to be good or bad. We contemplate our conduct and our character in regards to the connections we make with things.

Panic-Struck Senators, Businessmen, and Everybody Else

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-76
Author(s):  
John M. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Site

Chapter 3 explores TR’s decision in late 1903 to encourage and support Panama’s secession from Colombia, in order to secure a site for the future Panama Canal, and the subsequent debate regarding the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. It examines how he and his allies overcame substantial criticism to harness public support for the treaty, and the extent to which concerns about domestic political implications influenced his handling of relations with Bogotá. The intervention occurred against the backdrop of the upcoming 1904 election, with TR facing dissent from anti-imperialists, conservative Republicans, including the influential Ohio senator Mark Hanna, and Democrats who hoped that the controversy would damage the president’s political standing.

Foreign Language Film Exhibition and Distribution in Australia

1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Frank De Chiéra
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Film Exhibition ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Future

A report on foreign language film exhibition and distribution in Australia was commissioned by the Research Unit of the Australian Film and Television School in late 1979. The report, which includes a directory of over 200 individuals and organizations associated with foreign language film services, will be published by the AFTS as a monograph. Presented here is a comprehensive summary of the report (excluding the directory) which indicates that although the future of ‘ethnic’ film theatres is in doubt, exhibition at alternative venues appears to have increased. Similarly, many more distributors (mainly small) have entered the market.

Research on translation review in China from the perspective of Bourdieu’s Sociology

FORUM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-238
Author(s):  
Jun Wen ◽  
Shaojing Wang ◽  
Wenhe Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
The Future ◽  
Made In

Abstract Translation review, as book review on translated works, aims to introduce, recommend and review translated works. In China, while great achievements were made in translation criticism since the 1990s, translation review was quantitatively understudied in translation studies, though it is, as a social practice, more practical and enjoys wider readership. Based on Bourdieu’s sociological theory of practice, namely, field, capital and habitus, this paper examines translation reviews in China Reading Weekly from 2010 to 2014 and argues that China fails to establish a translation field of its own, and translation review in China is subject to the multiple influences of the economic and cultural capital of the country, the symbolic capital of translators and reviewers, and the cultural capital and habitus of reviewers. The paper also puts forward some suggestions for the development of translation review in the future.

scholarly journals Risk evaluation of the climatic change impact on secondary Norway spruce stands as exemplified by the Ktiny Training Forest Enterprise

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 256-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Čermák ◽  
L. Jankovský ◽  
P. Cudlín
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
Norway Spruce ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spruce Stands ◽  
Medium Risk ◽  
Climatic Change Impact ◽  
A Site

The paper proposes a method of assessing the potential risks of the future development of stands in relation to a climatic change. To assess risks of the future development of a stand simple point scales have been worked up based on primary properties of a site and a stand according to data of the forest management plan (FMP). In assessing the health condition, the risk of damage to stands by Armillaria sp. in the felling age was evaluated on the basis of a present attack by Armillaria sp. and also defoliation of the crown primary structure assessed during a simple field examination. The evaluation was carried out in the region of the Křtiny Training Forest Enterprise (TFE) Masarykův les, ranger district Proklest, in 2002. The study was conducted in <br />118 Norway spruce stands aged more than 20 years. The majority of evaluated stands ranked among the category of high and medium risk from the viewpoint of site and stand risks and among the category of high Armillaria sp. attack. &nbsp; &nbsp;

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