Character

Portrait ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 51-53
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Nancy
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Look

However the painter, the photographer, or the sculptor also works at pulling the other back from this abyss. But in this case it is a matter of an operation that is entirely different from that of a copy or a cast. The death mask shows nothing more than the look of a dead face—that is, a face that has become a stranger to itself. In certain respects, this look is instructive regarding the look of death—if we disregard the various techniques that must be used to make the cast both possible and acceptable—but it intensifies the enigma of the identity to self....

“Ọrọ, nwa, ẹkọ”, the talk, the look, the education: reflections on a pedagogy of cosmoperception

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roseane Santos Mesquita ◽  
Késia Dos Anjos Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Educational Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Look ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Present Text ◽  
The Way

The present text bets on the power of reflections on a pedagogy guided by cosmoperception. It is a collective call for the enchanted ways of perceiving and relating to the other. “Ọrọ, nwa, ẹkọ”, the talk, the look, the education, insurgent forces that grow in the cracks, just like moss, alive, reborn. That is the way we think about education, as a living practice, turned to freedom. Freedom understood as a force that enables us to question certain hegemonic truths entrenched in our ways of being, thinking and producing knowledge. In dialogue with the criticisms on the decolonial thought and by authors and authoresses who are putting themselves into thinking about an epistemology from a diasporic place, from the edges of the world, we will try to problematize the effects of the epistemic erasures promoted by the colonial processes and how that has affected our educative practices. The look at the educational experience that happens in the sacred territory of candomblé, will be our starting point to think about politically and poetically transformative educational practices.

Discovering Usher

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Target Audience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Audience Member ◽  
Emotional Intensity ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The Look ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Magic Lantern

This introductory chapter provides an overview of House of Usher (1960), which was a part of American International Pictures' TV series The Curse of Corman. This TV series introduced American International's Poe pictures to a new generation. It is the emotional intensity conveyed through the mise-en-scène that sets the Poe pictures apart from their immediate rivals. The Poe pictures appealed to AIP's target audience — teenagers — because their aesthetics were also akin to the look and feel of EC horror comics. More than any of the other Poe pictures, House of Usher is a work of pulp expressionism that appeals to the angst holed up inside the minds of many a teenage audience member. Like a magic lantern, the film projector reveals a series of beautifully crafted, colourful tableau that in sequence give expression to Edgar Allan Poe's vision of human frailty and corruption, and the void that awaits beyond the threshold of life. This book explains why House of Usher has attracted a cult audience for nearly 60 years.

scholarly journals Humanistic training in Medicine through dancing in the hospital: students’ perceptions

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Barbosa Lisboa ◽  
Marcela Rodrigues Ciccone ◽  
Marina Kadekaru ◽  
Izabel Cristina Rios
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
The Other ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Data Production ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Look

Abstract: Introduction: The humanization of assistance is associated to empathy, embracing, and effective communication, being part of the medical training. According to its nature, humanization requires methods that involve affections and stimulates critical thinking. Objective: Extensive literature shows the benefits of the arts in medical education; however, there are still few studies on dancing, the subject of this study, which was carried out by medical students and whose aim was to investigate hospital dancing in the teaching of humanization, from the perspective of medical students. Method: A qualitative action research study was designed, in which medical students performed choreographies for patients, companions and employees in three different wards of the teaching hospital. The action consisted of continuous cycles in the planning of interventions, performance, observing, reflection, and re-planning of subsequent actions, in a systematic manner and controlled by the researchers. Data production took place by direct observation, narratives and focal group. The data were analyzed using the content and thematic analysis methods. Results: For three months, 17 female and 7 male students between 18 and 24 years of age performed the action, producing data that was subsequently classified into 3 thematic categories: 1. Dimension of affection: contents of the student’s emotional character; 2. Care dimension: contents about caring for the patient; 3. Dance dimension: contents on dance in the humanistic training in Medicine. In the triangulation of the techniques, it was observed that joy, anxiety, and the perception of dance as an instrument of bonding were significant. The experience of changing socially-marked places for the student and the patient made the student face and overcome different feelings. The dance allowed the refinement of the look and the capacity to understand the other, taking into account perspectives that converge to or diverge from their own convictions. On the other hand, the students experienced the anxiety and joy of an encounter with themselves, perceiving dance as a pleasurable and humanizing activity. Conclusion: The dance in the hospital lead to experiences and reflections that stimulated the students’ self-knowledge, favored the student-patient relationship, and brought elements to understand the use of dancing in medicine, mainly for the teaching of empathy and humanized care.

scholarly journals Community Photographs

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Janne Seppänen
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Look ◽  
The Town

Abstract The research subject of this article is formed by a project with the title Two Pictures of My Town. The project was carried out during spring 2002 in the town of Tampere, Finland, when town district or suburb communities, and in one case a sixth-form class, were asked to ‘get to the bare essentials’ of their town district and present them in two photographs with short captions. The following research questions were asked: What kinds of visual orders can be found in the paired photographs? What kind of politics of representation is included in these orders? What kind of identity work is expressed by the photographs’ visual orders and politics of representation? The photographs were interpreted through a theoretical researcher reading. Photographs in which the local identity was constructed on the basis of familiar and safe visual orders offered a relatively solid and legitimate basis for local identities. These photographs repeated the visual orders of traditional tourist photographs and nature photography. If the two photographs commented the changes in the look of the neighbourhood, for example the differences between old and new architecture, they offered a more discontinuous basis for local identity construction. On the other hand, they provided alternative surface of identification for those who do not accept prevailing visual orders of the neighbourhood.

POWER AND ALTERITY OF A WOMAN: A BREATH ON THE LOOK

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (45) ◽  
pp. 152-172
Author(s):  
Maria Alice Nunes Costa
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Trajectory ◽  
The Look

This article aims to analyze the power of a woman associated with her otherness as a human being and photographer, who has an expanded aesthetic vision of looking. Her way of looking at the world, life and people is inspiring and has an energy where she is able to look at the other in what is in her, in us. This text was written from interviews with the photographer and editor Arlete Soares, who made herself available to talk about her looks and knowledge. The analytical perception of his photographic work and her life trajectory demonstrate the power of her images to reveal, visualize and translate experiences and knowledge subalternized by hegemonic power.

scholarly journals The body marked by the arteriovenous fistula: a phenomenological point of view

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 2869-2875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejanilton Melo da Silva ◽  
Rose Mary Costa Rosa Andrade Silva ◽  
Eliane Ramos Pereira ◽  
Helen Campos Ferreira ◽  
Vanessa Carine Gil de Alcantara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Arteriovenous Fistula ◽  
Venous Access ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
The Look ◽  
Social Phenomenology ◽  
Phenomenological Point

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the experience of people with chronic kidney disease using arteriovenous fistula. Method: Qualitative and exploratory study based on Social Phenomenology, conducted on 30 adults undergoing hemodialysis by using the fistula, interviewed in 2017. The interviews were analyzed according to the empirical-comprehensive model proposed by Amedeo Giorgi. Results: We found the categories “The changed body aesthetics”; “The perception of the other about my body”; and “The fistula as an inseparable condition for life maintenance.” Final considerations: The experience of people using fistula showed that this venous access leaves marks that change the body aesthetics, making the body imperfect. Such changes cause low self-esteem and attract the look of the other, causing embarrassment in those who have the body changed. Thus, they react by camouflaging the fistula, without which there is no life. This perception arises from the fear that works as a catalyst for self-care.

scholarly journals Love as Seeing in Truth: Sartre and Stein on Self-Constitution

Lumen et Vita ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chase Cloutier
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Edith Stein ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Look ◽  
Intersubjective Experience

Realizing who I am and who I am called to be depends in part on my relation to others. Others empathizing with me significantly impacts my self-understanding and character formation. The possibility of a positive encounter is vital because of its role in self-constitution. Both Jean-Paul Sartre and Edith Stein recognized the great import of the gaze of another in the realization of one's own personhood and personal development. However, due to different appraisals of the meaning of human life, Stein evaluates the ultimate import of intersubjective experience as positive whereas Sartre deems it negative. Sartre characterizes interpersonal relations as necessarily combative and conflictual: in order to realize one's full stature and freedom, one must objectify the other so as to escape the other's dominating look. For Sartre the only look one can receive is a look of hatred which attacks and steals one's dignity. On the other hand, Stein proposes that the look of the other has the power to reveal the true and full potential of the self, even counteracting false self-appraisal. A look or attitude of love from another can reveal one's capacity for virtue and initiate one along this path of virtue. In order to overcome the wounds of cultural commodification of the person, we must approach one another in love. Though Sartre offers a particularly incisive diagnosis of “fallen” intersubjectivity and interpersonal relations of objectification, Stein's thought can work to correct and complete his insights on the look of the other, offering a basis for understanding “redeemed” interpersonal relationships in a civilization of love. 

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