scholarly journals “FLORA CAPILAR” Y OTRAS TRANSGRESIONES FANTÁSTICAS DEL PELO EN LA NARRATIVA HIPERBREVE DEL COLECTIVO MICROLOCAS

2022 ◽  
pp. 183-199
Author(s):  
Ada CRUZ TIENDA
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

Pelos (2016), del colectivo Microlocas, es un libro de microrrelatos cuyas autoras despliegan un imaginario compartido donde el vello, denominador común del conjunto, a menudo cobra vida propia, en sentido figurado o literal. Este artículo se centra en los relatos propiamente fantásticos de la obra, con el objetivo de analizar las diversas formas de distorsión imposible que experimenta el cuerpo en sus narraciones, especialmente en aquellas en que dicha distorsión no solo transgrede lo humanamente posible, sino que también pone en entredicho las convenciones sociales tradicionalmente impuestas a una parte del cuerpo de naturaleza tan cambiante como es el pelo.  Abstract: Pelos (2016), by Microlocas collective, is a book of flash fictions whose authors display a shared imaginary where hair, the common denominator of the whole, often takes on a life of its own, figuratively or literally. This article focuses on the actual fantastic stories of the collection, with the aim of analyzing the various forms of impossible distortion that the body experiences in its narratives, especially those in which such alteration not only transgresses what is humanly possible but also questions the social conventions traditionally imposed on a part of the body with such a changeable nature as the hair.

scholarly journals Messianism and UFO Sightings as Counterfactual Strategies of Enchantment of the World

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Piotr Urbanowicz
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
New World ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World Order ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
New World Order ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

Summary In this text, I argue that there are numerous affinities between 19th century messianism and testimonies of UFO sightings, both of which I regarded as forms of secular millennialism. The common denominator for the comparison was Max Weber’s concept of “disenchantment of the world” in the wake of the Industrial Revolution which initiated the era of the dominance of rational thinking and technological progress. However, the period’s counterfactual narratives of enchantment did not repudiate technology as the source of all social and political evil—on the contrary, they variously redefined its function, imagining a possibility of a new world order. In this context, I analysed the social projects put forward by Polish Romantics in the first half of the 19th century, with emphasis on the role of technology as an agent of social change. Similarly, the imaginary technology described by UFO contactees often has a redemptive function and is supposed to bring solution to humanity’s most dangerous problems.

scholarly journals Doing nothing does something: Embodiment and data in the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395172093393
Author(s):  
Mickey Vallee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Current Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
A Current

The COVID-19 pandemic redefines how we think about the body, physiologically and socially. But what does it mean to have and to be a body in the COVID-19 pandemic? The COVID-19 pandemic offers data scholars the unique opportunity, and perhaps obligation, to revisit and reinvent the fundamental concepts of our mediated experiences. The article critiques the data double, a longstanding concept in critical data and media studies, as incompatible with the current public health and social distancing imperative. The data double, instead, is now the presupposition of a new data entity, which will emerge out of a current data shimmer: a long-sustaining transition that blurs the older boundaries of bodies and the social, and establishes new ethical boundaries around the (in)activity and (im)mobility of doing nothing to do something. The data double faces a unique dynamic in the COVID-19 pandemic between boredom and exhaustion. Following the currently simple rule to stay home presents data scholars the opportunity to revisit the meaning of data as something given, a shimmering embodied relationship with data that contributes to the common good in a global health crisis.

Presa della parola: A review and discussion of oral history and the Italian 1968

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Bonomo
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
1960S And 1970S

Among the common definitions of 1968, the most telling is that of a collective presa della parola (the capture of speech, or the act of starting to speak). Students, workers, women and ‘ordinary’ people began to speak out and speak for themselves, refusing the established systems of representation and delegation in the name of participation and direct democracy. In Italy, the development of oral history owed much to the participatory and democratising ethos of 1968, and oral history has long been viewed as a methodology enabling a collective presa della parola. Exploring the body of historical works on the Italian 1968, this article looks at the contribution oral history has made to a better understanding of the student revolt and the social movements in the late 1960s and 1970s. Attention is directed to the diversity of ways in which oral sources are used in historical research, to their potential and limits for studying past events, experience, subjectivity and memory, and to some key theoretical and methodological issues raised by their use.

Post-hibernation behavior of a population of garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis)

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith E. Bramble ◽  
Owen J. Sexton
Keyword(s):  
Ground Surface ◽  
Small Population ◽  
The Body ◽  
Thamnophis Sirtalis ◽  
Garter Snakes ◽  
Anterior Portion ◽  
Behavioral Mechanism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Blocking Activity ◽  
The Common

AbstractThe post-hibernation breeding activities of a small population of the common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) were followed in the vicinity of their hibernaculum or den in St. Louis Co., Missouri, USA during the springs of 1981-85, inclusive. Individual males could emerge as early as mid-February and remain at the den and its immediate vicinity for three or more weeks. Each day, after elevating their body temperatures, males patrolled the ground surface within 2-3 m of the den entrance. During patrolling activities, males investigated each other at frequent intervals and often returned to re-enter the den briefly. Upon partial re-emergence, one or more males would assume a position such that the head and anterior portion of the body were elevated. This "blocking" activity may be a behavioral mechanism that controls access to the den by competing males and egress by females. Numerous males simultaneously court a single female. The social organization of garter snakes is compared to that typified by lek species and several similarities are noted.

The body mechanical: Building a caring community, crafting a functioning body

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-408
Author(s):  
Yiling Hung
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sick Role ◽  
Hansen's Disease ◽  
Sick People ◽  
Hansen’S Disease ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Active Patients

When Hansen’s disease became treatable in Taiwan in the mid-20th century, a group of Hansen’s disease patients lost their sick role despite still having lingering symptoms that continued to evolve. While sociologists have explored in-depth situations in which the social role of the sick is ambiguous, few studies have investigated body experiences under liminality that requires sick people to find a new sick role. Living with lingering symptoms in a post–Hansen’s disease world, the Hansen’s disease patients I have studied face the conundrum of having to find an alternative sick role. Ethnographic fieldwork demonstrates how patients develop a specific set of body techniques that shape and are shaped by their membership in a patient community. Exploring the reinforcing projects of re-embodiment and sociality around Hansen’s disease, I argue that patients are able both to legitimate each other’s feelings of sickness and to use those feelings to manage their illness and, as such, to collectively acquire an alternative sick role. Adding to existing discussions of active patients, this article identifies the body mechanical as a way of practicing active patienthood organized around fixing, trials, mending and functionality.

The European Nations and Their Jihadis

2021 ◽  
pp. 272-290
Author(s):  
Farhad Khosrokhavar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
European Country ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
The Political ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Uk

The comparative analysis of jihadis in different European countries is of major significance. Chapter 5 focuses on the ethnic and national origin of migrants and their sons in Europe, the political culture of the host European country, and the social and economic process of the integration of migrants’ progenies within each European country. In France, for instance, laïcité is a distinguishing feature compared to the rest of Europe. Likewise, English multiculturalism is a characteristic that affects immigrants in the UK differently from those in other countries. These differences in political culture among various countries may provide important information regarding the factors that led to jihadism. Still, the common denominator among disaffected youth in Europe was a strong sense of non-belonging among the European jihadis. IS was quick to exploit the enduring malaise of young Muslims, middle-class or disaffected, into a massive fascination through its promises of reconquered dignity, economic promotion, and the status of hero in the war against the Infidels.

scholarly journals Nove komponente u teorijama socijalno neprihvatljivih vidova ponašanja mladih

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Branko Milosavljević
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
The Self ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

Theories already known (like subculture) as well as the new ones (theories of the social control and the self-rejection) of socially unacceptable aspects of behaviour of the youth are discussed in this work. Theories are based on the social-psychological categories which serve as the common denominator. In such a way socialization of the youth has been placed in the center of discussions dealing with explanations of the socially unacceptable aspects of belaviour of the youth.In the theories discussed some topics (like over-emphazized role of the social-psychological components) are discussible. It seems possible that such defects could be overcome if the theories were based more on the basic components (dependent on the technology of class life and labour) than on correlations with the social -psychological categories exclusively. Moreover, the social-psichological categories derive from the technology of class life and labour in the contemporary society. For this reason further theoretical researches are necessary in this field.

Performative Eating as Edutainment on YouTube

2022 ◽  
pp. 266-297
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Food And Drink

On the Social Web, on the leading social video sharing site YouTube, some of the most popular videos (with millions of views each) show “performative eating,” described here as “consuming food as a form of entertainment.” The performances occur in various locales and in various ways: Mukbang eating shows and their derivatives show individuals, pairs, groups, and families in feats of food and drink consumption. ASMR (autonomous [auto] sensory meridian response) eating videos show individuals and small groups eating copious amounts of food with an emphasis on listening pleasures. In restaurants, individuals and small groups take on (un)timed eating challenges. Outdoors, persons harvest food and prepare it, or they hunt wildlife and butcher the kill and prepare the animal proteins. Travel eating occurs in various locations around the world, with a focus on local specialties. The common denominator in these are spectacle. Viewed another way, performative eating videos are a form of edutainment, with positive and negative lessons.

RECENT OBSERVATIONS ON PATHOGENESIS OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS OF THE PANCREAS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-321
Author(s):  
Paul A. di Sant'Agnese
Keyword(s):  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Chemical Structure ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
The Body ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Exocrine Glands ◽  
Heterozygous State ◽  
Respiratory Involvement ◽  
Clinical Events ◽  
The Common

The pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis, the common denominator responsible for the widespread dysfunction of so many or perhaps all exocrine glands, is not known. The basis defect, whatever its nature, is genetically transmitted and there is suggestive evidence that it may be present in varying degrees and so affect the variety and severity of clinical manifestations in different individuals. There are accumulating data to indicate that the heterozygous state may be identified by biochemical or physiologic tests. The abnormal chemical structure of mucoproteins in duodenal contents of patients with cystic fibrosis tends to decrease the solubility, while the abnormal physicochemical behavior shows that these mucoproteins are easily denatured and rendered insoluble. If this were true of mucous secretions throughout the body it would be possible for a change in the physicochemical environment of these mucous secretions to cause irreversible precipitation of mucoproteins in organs such as the pancreas, liver and others, thus initiating the chain of clinical events and leading to many of the symptoms manifested by patients with the disease. Despite the almost constant and striking association of Staphylococcus aureus and the respiratory involvement in cystic fibrosis, the distribution of bacteriophage types of this microorganism resembles that found in other hospitalized patients.

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