scholarly journals When Memory is Cross-Cultural Translation: Eva Hoffman’s Schizophrenic Autobiography

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
Minority Literature ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Underlying Assumption

Abstract When Memory is Cross-Cultural Translation: Eva Hoffman's Schizophrenic Autobiography — This article approaches the question of what happens when the text to be translated or rewritten as a result of cross-cultural experience is the self — how is the resulting autobiography to be read? Its answer takes the form of the theorizing of Deleuze and Guattari. It is contended that the potentiality characterizing the position of linguistic alterity experienced by bilingual authors, such as Hoffman, is the underlying assumption in Deleuze and Guattari's work. By identifying the connections between schizophrenia and minor literature and by delineating minor from minority literature, one can better understand the dynamics necessitating self-translation and the forms which cross-cultural writing can take.

The Open Society and the Democracy to Come: Bergson, Deleuze and Guattari

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Baugh
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
The State ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The People ◽  
To Come ◽  
Polar Opposite ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Gain Access

In Bergsonism, Deleuze refers to Bergson's concept of an ‘open society’, which would be a ‘society of creators’ who gain access to the ‘open creative totality’ through acting and creating. Deleuze and Guattari's political philosophy is oriented toward the goal of such an open society. This would be a democracy, but not in the sense of the rule of the actually existing people, but the rule of ‘the people to come,’ for in the actually existing situation, such a people is ‘lacking’. When the people becomes a society of creators, the result is a society open to the future, creativity and the new. Their openness and creative freedom is the polar opposite of the conformism and ‘herd mentality’ condemned by Deleuze and Nietzsche, a mentality which is the basis of all narrow nationalisms (of ethnicity, race, religion and creed). It is the freedom of creating and commanding, not the Kantian freedom to obey Reason and the State. This paper uses Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, and Deleuze and Guattari's Kafka: For a Minor Literature, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy? to sketch Deleuze and Guattari's conception of the open society and of a democracy that remains ‘to come’.

Rasāsvāda: A Comparative Approach to Emotion and the Self

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 115-139
Author(s):  
Sthaneshwar Timalsina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Systematic Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Emotion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Rasa Theory

This paper explores the philosophy of emotion in classical India. Although some scholars have endeavored to develop a systematic philosophy of emotion based on rasa theory, no serious effort has been made to read the relationship between emotion and the self in light of rasa theory. This exclusion, I argue, is an outcome of a broader presupposition that the 'self' in classical Indian philosophies is outside the scope of emotion. A fresh reading of classical Sanskrit texts finds this premise baseless. With an underlying assumption that emotion and self are inherently linked, this paper explores similarities between the Indian and Chinese approaches.

Voluntourism as cartography of self: A Deleuzian analysis of a postgraduate visit to India

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Bone ◽  
Kate Bone
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Host Community ◽  
The Self ◽  
Postgraduate Student ◽  
Volunteer Tourism ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Student Association

Volunteer tourism takes place within neoliberal globalisation and reflects inequalities of privilege and mobility. This qualitative research examined the experiences of young female voluntourists who visited Delhi as part of a trip organised by an Australian University Postgraduate Student Association. The aim was to investigate the motives and potentialities embedded in their experience through interviews and journal contributions. Conceptualisations of mapping (cartography) and territorialisation informed the analysis. We found that participants mainly engaged with the experience on a superficial level within the known territory. This reflects ‘soft global citizenship’ as participants were uncritical about their interactions with the host community. Voluntourist experiences have the potential to destabilise the self in a process of deterritorialisation, and we contend that this is where change occurs. We bring the philosophical theorising of Deleuze and Guattari and their notions of territorialisation and cartography to the field of tourism and argue that their geophilosophical ideas lead to fruitful insights around negotiating volunteer expectations, tribulations and potential transformations.

On Cross-cultural Translation

1989 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Nazarova ◽  
Velta Zadornova
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Translation

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Decisions Application in Management, or How to Use the Experience of Workload Management of Technological System with Regard to Human Resources

Upravlenie ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Сморчкова ◽  
O. Smorchkova
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technological System ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Workload Management ◽  
System Administration ◽  
Managerial Decisions

To a modern executive officer enterprise management means challenging requirements in search of unconventional solutions in system administration organization. A whole spectrum of solutions is found when you use knowledge, traditions and managerial decisions existing in other spheres. This article contemplates concepts and philosophy that consider the problem from the other point of view and find new or specialized decisions from related areas. A comparison between workload management in technological system and human resources is used as an example. Based on this comparison implications are made about certain compatibility of these systems and possible adaptation of the existing management methods. At the end we come to the conclusion of benefit from using intersectorial and cross-cultural experience.

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