Rough Cut

Janus Head ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-363
Author(s):  
Tanja Staehler ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Rough Cut ◽  
Constant Exchange ◽  
Pina Bausch

This essay interprets the work of the German choreographer Pina Bausch with the help of phenomenological examinations by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, and Martin Heidegger. Pina Bauschs choreography not only shares basic themes like the everyday, the body, and moods with phenomenology, but they also yield similar results in overcoming traditional dualist frameworks. Rather than being an instrument for expressing ideas, the body is in constant exchange with the natural elements, exhibiting vulnerability and passivity. Moods, in turn, are neither subjective nor objective; this also holds for longing, an essential constituent of Pina Bausch's work. Dance theater and phenomenology, each in their unique ways, are capable of acknowledging and accommodating the ambiguity of our human existence.

scholarly journals Responding to Dr Plant

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-236
Author(s):  
Michael Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Everyday

AbstractThis response to Dr Plant engages with important issues regarding the possibility of using the work of Emmanuel Levinas as a theological tool and resource. Levinas 'and' theology is both an important conjunction and disjunction. The distinction between a theology that is fundamental and a theology that is dogmatic needs to be stressed. Levinas' ethical metaphysics, and his recognition of the need for a theological recuperation of the ethics he espouses, opens up a possible and fundamental theological dialogue which recognizes the fundamental and salvific importance of the ordinary and the everyday in human existence.

Can’t wait to feel better: Facebook Live and the recalibration of downtime in tending to the body

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372110034
Author(s):  
Dang Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Body ◽  
Therapeutic Method ◽  
Temporal Space ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Temporal Structures

This article explores the temporality of liveness on Facebook Live through the analytical lens of downtime. Downtime is conceptualized here as multiscale: downtime exists in between the micro action and inaction of everyday life, but also in larger episodes of personal and health crises that reorient the body toward technologies for instantaneous replenishment of meaning and activity. Living through downtime with mobile technology enables the experience of oscillation between liveness as simultaneity and liveness as instantaneity. By juxtaposing time-as-algorithmic against time-as-lived through the livestreaming practices of diện chẩn, an emergent unregulated therapeutic method, I show how different enactments of liveness on Facebook Live recalibrate downtime so that the body can reconfigure its being-in-time. The temporal reverberation of downtime and liveness creates an alternative temporal space wherein social practices that are shunned by the temporal structures of institution and society can retune and continue to thrive at the margin of these structures and at the central of the everyday.

Home and Homelessness: Heidegger and Levinas on Dwelling

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-213
Author(s):  
Pieter Tijmes
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Helmuth Plessner ◽  
Systematic Point ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Revolutionary Period

AbstractThis paper discusses some cultural implications of technology for the place where we live. Two opposed thinkers, Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, give an account of the cultural impact of technology and articulate the meaning of the place we live in. The paper proposes a systematic point of view that might take their contradictory positions into account. Helmuth Plessner can serve as a mediator with his theory of eccentricity. First, I turn to Ernst Juenger who frames the fundamental issue of modem technology ushering in a revolutionary period of history. Juenger's work is important to consider since his influence on Heidegger is large and not well known.

The concept of the frame in philosophical terms – the role of time and memory in human existence

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 193-201
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Olewińska
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
First Century ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Time Frames

In The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner writes: “Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops, does time come to life.” The following words relate to the role of memory frames in human life. They also begin the analysis of the ideas of twentieth and twenty-first century philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Martin Heidegger, Paul Ricoeur and David Farrell Krell. Even though there is a strict reference to the Modernist thinkers, the author goes slightly deeper, reminding earlier concepts of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and Protagoras. The second part of the article has been devoted to the notions connected with time frames and memory such as experiencing of the passage of time, reminding, forgetting, forgiving as well as postmemory.

The Ordinary Contested, Laruelle contra Deleuze and Guattari

Paragraph ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-256
Author(s):  
Andrew Sackin-Poll
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship

This article addresses the question of the relationship between corporeality and the ordinary in the works of François Laruelle. This is done through the formulation of the ‘ordinary body’ that draws from across Laruelle's work on the ordinary, corporeality and photography in order to outline Laruelle's radically immanent account of embodiment. The critical outline of Laruellean corporeality and the ordinary body is drawn out via a critical posing of Laruelle in contrast to Deleuze and Guattari. In doing so, the article indicates the singular difference between Laruelle, on one side, and Deleuze and Guattari, on the other, with respect to corporeal immanence and the usage of the everyday and ordinary. The article concludes with an argument that the relationship between the body and the ordinary in Laruelle's thought implies a novel non-philosophical or non-standard ‘poetics’ and usage of the ordinary.

scholarly journals Kom Nærmere - Lugten i Galleriet

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anette Stenslund
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Foundational Ontology ◽  
Abstract Level ◽  
Museum Exhibition

Baseret på erfaringer hentet fra den allerførste museumsudstilling nogensinde dedikeret udelukkende til duft, problematiserer jeg i artiklen det abstrakte objek- tiverende niveau, dufte ofte håndteres på. Jeg viser, at objektiverende tilgange til duft fordrer en eksistentiel distance, og i et forsøg på at komme nærmere lugt- erfaringers ontologiske fundament introducerer jeg en alternativ tilgang udviklet med inspiration hentet hos Martin Heidegger. På baggrund af min ambition om at udvikle en fænomenologisk sensitiv tilgang til håndtering af det ontologiske spørgs- mål om, hvad lugt er, supplerer jeg allerede eksisterende lugtundersøgelser, og jeg foretager væsentlige justeringer af begrebet tilstedeværelse, som findes i værker af Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Ved at fremhæve den menneskelige eksistens som en del af olfaktoriske fænomener afdækker denne fænomenologiske undersøgelse lugtens grundlæggende ontologi. Lugt er altid „noget til nogen“. Lugtoplevelser er således universelt partikulære og kan alene objektiveres regionalt.Søgeord: Olfaktorisk æstetik, tilstedeværelse, nærværelse, Martin Heidegger. Based on experiences drawn from the very first museum exhibition ever dedicated solely to scent, this paper problematizes the abstract level of dealing with odour in terms of objectivity, which is defined at a distance from the experience of human existence. In an effort to move beyond objectified understandings of smell and get up close to the question of smell experiences I draw on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Striving to develop a phenomenological approach to smell that could complement already existing smell investigations, I also carry out essential adjustments of the concept of “presence” found in works by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. In emphasizing human existence as being part of the olfactory phenomena this phenomenological examination reveals the foundational ontology of odour. Smell is always “something to someone”; universally smell experiences are particular, and only regionally they can be objectified.Keywords: olfactory aesthetics, presence, Anwesenheit, Martin Heidegger 

scholarly journals CZŁOWIEK I ŚMIERĆ – MIĘDZY SEPARACJĄ A BLISKOŚCIĄ

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Piotr Ochotny
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Close Attention

The author, in his paper, pays close attention to the uncontrolled dialectics ofdeath within human existence; that which is actively experienced but passivelysustained; is the end of everything but the beginning of something new; is absolutecertainty but unpredictable uncertainty; is always and only personal for me but always and only personal for others, too. In fact, it is very difficult to explain themeaning of death from an ontological study of death: if and how death exists in thearea of human experience; if death is an immanent possibility for personal existenceor, is it introduced from outwith and occurs when we are not still living. To respondto these questions, the author proposes to use the bridging term, with which variousphilosophical positions can be qualified. This bridging term is ‘distance’ and ourdeath experience is defined as the distance between man (person acting) and hissubject (experience). The dialectical nature of this experience implies that deathmight be through an infinite separation or an infinite closeness to man. Driftingbetween those faraway shores, we can find in Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy. Herefers to death as Other (something else for man), but this does not mean that deathis strange or unknown within one’s life experience.

scholarly journals Living With Assistive Robotics: Exploring the Everyday Use of Exoskeleton for Persons With Spinal Cord Injury

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Lusardi ◽  
Stefano Tomelleri ◽  
Joseph Wherton
Keyword(s):  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
The Body ◽  
Assistive Robotics ◽  
Sensor Technology ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Cord Injury ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Assistive Robotic

Background: Recent advancements in sensor technology and artificial intelligence mechanisms have led to a rapid increase in research and development of robotic orthoses or “exoskeletons” to support people with mobility problems. The purpose of this case study was to provide insight into the lived reality of using the assistive robotic exoskeleton ReWalk.Method: We used ethnographic techniques to explore the everyday experience and use of the assistive robotic device.Results: We found that the appropriation and integration of the technology within the patient's everyday lives required a social and collaborative effort, which continued into use. The decisions to utilise the technology (or not) was closely tied to physical, social, cultural, environmental, and psychological factors. Consequently, there was much variation in patients' perception of the technology and opportunities for support. Four themes emerged:(a) Meaning of mobility—physical mobility represents more than functional ability. Its present socio-cultural meaning is associated with an individual's self-identity and life priorities.(b) Accomplishing body-technique—integration with the body requires a long process of skill acquisition and re-embodiment.(c) Adaptation and adjustment in use—successful use of the technology was characterised by ongoing adjustment and adaptation of the technology and ways of using it.(d) Human element—introduction and sustained use of the exoskeleton demand a social and collaborative effort across the user's professional and lay resources.Conclusions: This study highlights that the development and implementation of the technology need to be grounded in a deep understanding of the day-to-day lives and experiences of the people that use them.

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