scholarly journals NEOLIBERALISM, A CULT WITHOUT DOGMA. NOTES ON MONEY, RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Micaela Cuesta
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Political ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
The Moment ◽  
And Inversion ◽  
Religion And Democracy ◽  
Society Today

Every thought that wants to be considered ас materialist begins with the characterization of its circumstances, aiming to abstract them and produce its critique. Our intention is not far from this expectation and, at the moment of defining the present, it shares Mario Tronti’s position that indicates that we are living in the “society of money”. Which are the consequences of these statements? Throughout this article, following some suggestions made by Walter Benjamin, we will investigate the cultic character that signs practices under the logic of neoliberal capitalism. We will try to identify some of his more relevant ideological operations: homogenization and inversion, supremacy of present, immanence and management dominance. The objective is to reflect on the political effects they produce on the configuration of the social bond and the democratic forms of life in our society today.

Defining Temptation

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-82
Author(s):  
Susan Henking
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Moment

In this chapter Susan Henking and Anne Koch debate the utility of definitions. Koch argues in her initial definition that the moment we attempt to define religion—by making it into “this” or “that” (e.g., the social, the political, and so on)—we automatically mislabel it. Such mislabeling, she adds, creates all sorts of epistemological and categorical confusion. Henking argues that, even though problematic, we must persevere in the task to define religion since all we have at our disposal is words. The subsequent debate is indicative of two radically different approaches to the study of religion—one that seeks to question normativity and one that ultimately seeks to reaffirm it.

Feudalism and the Tatar Polity of the Middle Ages

1958 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Krader
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nomadic Pastoralists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
The Middle Ages

During the first millenium A.D. a series of states were formed by Turkic and Mongol peoples, the nomadic pastoralists of the Asian steppes - the Tatars of European and Chinese record. These political enterprises enlarged their scope and power during the period of a millenium, reaching a climax in the empire of Chingis Khan in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; from this climactic achievement they have since declined. The social and political organization as well as the economy of these peoples are at once simple and complex, primitive and advanced. The characterization of this cultural world has been given focus in a sharp controversy, the controversy over the establishment and internal ordering of the political system.

scholarly journals Uma protopia para a universidade brasileira

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Naomar Almeida-Filho ◽  
Luis Eugenio Souza
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
University Reform ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The Future ◽  
Alternative Proposal ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The University

From a historical-critical perspective and based on the semantic series utopia-atopy-dystopia-protopy, we analyse the “Future-se”, a project presented by the Ministry of Education of Brazil for the reform of federal universities. From this perspective, firstly, we propose the characterization of two distinct models of the university, which emerged at the moment of the consolidation of the political power of the bourgeoisie, one of them being utopian and the other atopic. Secondly, we describe the historical evolution of the university in Brazil, until arriving at the “Future-se” proposal. Finally, we present an alternative proposal for university reform as part of the strategy of agglutination of forces to resist the “Future-se” and advance towards strengthening of the university as a necessary element for the sovereign, inclusive and sustainable development of the country.

The interpreter’s political awareness as a non-cognitive constraint in political interviews

Babel ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo Yijun
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Relevant Field ◽  
High Level ◽  
Experiential Meaning

High-level political interpreting in China is a specialized interpretation with distinct principles and requirements and among them the interpreter’s political awareness plays a critical role. In this article, the political awareness is investigated through a detailed examination of the interpreter’s experiential meaning transfer using former Chinese Premier Zhu’s debut press conference in 1998 as a case study. The study then identifies three types of political awareness-manipulated strategies employed by the interpreter at the conference: (a) the addition of experiential meaning to express political standpoint; (b) the omission of experiential meaning to eliminate potential negative political effects; (c) the correction of inaccurate experiential meaning to avoid political misunderstanding. Lastly, implications are drawn with reference to field as one of the contextual variables and the social institutional context. The article argues that political awareness on the part of the political and diplomatic interpreter in China is a paramount interpreting competence, that effective interpretation of the Chinese state leader’s speeches depends upon the interpreter’s high level of political awareness, and that such awareness is determined by the source text’s relevant field and Chinese specific social institutional context.

Eurocrisis and Beyond

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Şuay Nilhan Açıkalın
Keyword(s):  
Structural Effect ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Long Term Effect ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Eu

Eurocrisis can be considered the most remarkable challenge to the EU since it was founded by the inner six countries. There is no doubt Eurocrisis has a structural effect on Eurozone countries especially Greece. However, the social and political consequences of Eurocrisis are the most ignored dimension of crisis. In order to understand the long term effect of Eurocrisis and its implication on the EU multi-level governance, a brief analysis of social and political effects of Eurocrisis is crucial. That's why this chapter will analyze how Eurocrisis affected the political atmosphere of Greece and Greek people's daily life.

scholarly journals Surfing the Public Square: On Worldlessness, Social Media, and the Dissolution of the Polis

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 668-678
Author(s):  
Sue Spaid
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Private Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public

AbstractThis paper employs Hannah Arendt’s characterization of the social, which lacks location and mandates conformity, to evaluate social media’s: a) challenge to the polis, b) relationship to the social, b) influence on private space, d) impact on public space, and e) virus-like capacity to capture, mimic, and replicate the agonistic polis, where “everything [is] decided through words and persuasion and not through force and violence.” Using Arendt’s exact language, this paper begins by discussing how she differentiated the political, private, social, and public realms. After explaining how online activities resemble (or not) her notion of the social, I demonstrate how the rise of the social, which she characterized as dominated by behavior (not action), ruled by nobody and occurring nowhere, continues to eclipse both private and public space at an alarming pace. Finally, I discuss the ramifications of social media’s setting the stage for worldlessness to spin out of control, as the public square becomes an intangible web. Unlike an Arendtian web of worldly human relationships that fosters individuality and enables excellence to be publicly tested, social media feeds a craving for kinship and connection, however remotely. Leaving such needs unfulfilled, social media risks to trump bios politicos.

scholarly journals Tickling tensions: Gazing into the parallax gap of the multicultural imaginary

2021 ◽  
pp. 147059312110190
Author(s):  
Sofia Ulver
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market Communication ◽  
And Inversion ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Branding

This article explores why cultural branding – ideo-affective market communication addressing intense political tensions – paradoxically seems to lead to political inertia rather than political mobilization. I critically analyse advertising addressing political tensions related to race, ethnicity and immigration, but instead of only following the traced-out trajectory of postcolonial theory, I use the lens of Žižek’s radicalized Lacanian psychoanalysis and treat the therapeutic visuality in cultural branding as ideological fantasies of the market’s multicultural imaginary. Through critical visual methodologies, I situate four ‘multicultural’ commercials in their culture- and idea historical contexts, and juxtapose a postcolonial with a Žižekian reading for each of them. I come to argue that the market’s multicultural imaginary (unconsciously) serves important ideological functions in sustaining the political status quo not foremost because it placates anxiety, but because it doesn’t. Tapping into previous discussions in critical marketing on fetishistic disavowal and inversion, I offer yet another explanation. The political inertia following from ideo-affective dimensions of cultural branding does not primarily come from therapeutic sedation, but from the opposite, namely the parallax object’s upholding of gruesome tension and suspense; a fetishistic tickling. This article ends by critiquing the compulsory use of postcolonial theory in research on racial and ethnic relations. From the Žižekian reading, it appears that the postcolonial gaze is now a punishing agency like any dominant ideology, where the social inequality of global capitalism is deemed a more bearable alternative than the traumatic horror of visible racism, which, subsequently, closes the circuit from radical politics.

scholarly journals Diálogos a partir de Walter Benjamim: a figura de Maiakovski como elo de ligação entre o cubofuturismo e o formalismo russo

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Carolina Izabela Dutra de Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Vladimir Mayakovsky ◽  
Russian Formalism ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Russian Futurism ◽  
Critical Movement

Resumo: O presente trabalho aborda as especificidades do futurismo russo, nomeado cubofuturismo, a partir das colocações de Walter Benjamim, presentes nos textos “A nova literatura Russa” (1927) e “O agrupamento político dos escritores na União Soviética” (1927). Embasando-se na discussão desses textos, pretende-se esclarecer a relação deles com o formalismo russo, importante movimento crítico que ocorreu contemporaneamente ao cubofuturismo. Para tanto, pretende-se explicitar como a figura de Vladimir Maiakovski estabeleceu um elo de ligação entre esses dois movimentos – o crítico e o literário – e de que forma o poeta tornou-se importante marco para ocubofuturismo russo e para engajamento político social do movimento literário. Este trabalho pretende expandir as informações e as visões apresentadas por Benjamim em seus textos, sobretudo em relação à atualização acerca do progresso destes movimentos literários e à importância deles, que dificilmente poderiam ser antevistos pelo teórico alemão no momento de produção de seus escritos.Palavras-chave: Cubofuturismo; Futurismo; Formalismo russo; Maiakovski.Abstract: This study aims to deal with the singularities of Russian futurism, named Cubo-Futurism, based on the writings of Walter Benjamin, exposed in the texts “New Russian Literature” (1927) and “The Political Groupings of Russian Writers” (1927). Based on the discussion of these texts, it is intended to clarify their relationship with Russian formalism, an important critical movement which happened contemporaneously with Cubo-Futurism. For this purpose, it aims to explain how the figure of Vladimir Mayakovsky established a connecting link between these two movements – the critic and the literary – and how the poet became an important symbol for Russian Cubo-Futurism and also for the social and political engagement of the literary movement. This study intends to expand the information and the aspects exposed by Benjamin in his texts, especially in relation to the update on the progress of these literary movements and the importance of them, which could hardly be foreseen by the German theorist at the time of his writings.Keywords: Cubo-Futurism; Futurism; Russian formalism; Mayakovsky.

scholarly journals FROM MYSTICAL QUEST TO POLITICAL MOVEMENT: A LACANIAN ANALYSIS OF SHIA ISLAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-10
Author(s):  
Thierry Lamote ◽  
Dina Germanos Besson ◽  
Marie-Jean Sauret
Keyword(s):  
Social Ties ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychoanalytic Perspective ◽  
The Moment

ABSTRACT: After the Occultation, the moment when the shiites’ messiah disappeared, Shiism broke into two tendencies: the traditional-quietist and the rationalist-political. These two tendencies coexisted for centuries; only quite recently has their balance tilted towards the rationalist-political side, which brought about (principally) the Khomeini revolution in Iran. This article seeks to explore the mode of the social ties in Shia Islam from a psychoanalytic perspective, in terms of its original mystical practices as well as of the political and religious consequences of the decline of traditionalist discourse and the political emergence of “jurist-theologian” with its corollary, the Adversary.

scholarly journals “TUMBLR TOLD ME…”: THE POLITICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CONCEPTUALIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AS LIVING ACTORS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Morgenstern
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Political ◽  
Screen Capture ◽  
The People ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Moment

This paper takes up the question of how “platform” can be understood when it comes to studies of digital discourse. I posit that this is an empirical and ethnographic question, rather than a purely theoretical one. Regardless of how scholars theorize social media platforms and other technologies, the people interacting with those technologies already have their own emic conceptualizations of what that technology is and how it functions and those understandings shape their social media experiences. This paper aims to explore the stakes of such local conceptualizations. I argue that many of tumblr.com's most active users conceptualize the social media platform as a living actor — a dynamic and agentive entity $2 whom these young people interact, rather than a space $2 which they interact or a medium $2 which they interact. Attending to this particular understanding of Tumblr-as-actor is crucial because it has so intimately shaped the processes by which my research participants have come to take up new political-ethical commitments and identities through their engagement with the platform. However, I suggest that new methodological approaches for the study of digital discourse are required if scholars are to truly take seriously an understanding of platform as agentive figure. To this end, I argue for the use of audio-visual screen capture technologies that concurrently record the content on a screen alongside the bodies of users themselves for analyzing in-the-moment interactions between user and platform.

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