6. The End of Representational Mimesis The Rise of the Individual Subject

2019 ◽  
pp. 158-179
Keyword(s):  
Individual Subject ◽  
The Individual

Stasis Anxiety

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew van der Vlies
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Black Writers ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Contemporary Writing

Two recent debut novels, Songeziwe Mahlangu’s Penumbra (2013) and Masande Ntshanga’s The Reactive (2014), reflect the experience of impasse, stasis, and arrested development experienced by many in South Africa. This chapter uses these novels as the starting point for a discussion of writing by young black writers in general, and as representative examples of the treatment of ‘waithood’ in contemporary writing. It considers (spatial and temporal) theorisations of anxiety, discerns recursive investments in past experiences of hope (invoking Jennifer Wenzel’s work to consider the afterlives of anti-colonial prophecy), assesses the usefulness of Giorgio Agamben’s elaboration of the ancient Greek understanding of stasis as civil war, and asks how these works’ elaboration of stasis might be understood in relation to Wendy Brown’s discussion of the eclipsing of the individual subject of political rights by the neoliberal subject whose very life is framed by its potential to be understood as capital.

scholarly journals Physical Activity and Redox Balance in the Elderly: Signal Transduction Mechanisms

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 2228
Author(s):  
Daniela Galli ◽  
Cecilia Carubbi ◽  
Elena Masselli ◽  
Mauro Vaccarezza ◽  
Valentina Presta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Vascular Tissue ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Redox Balance ◽  
Antioxidant Systems ◽  
Targeted Prevention ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Aged People ◽  
The Individual

Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) are molecules naturally produced by cells. If their levels are too high, the cellular antioxidant machinery intervenes to bring back their quantity to physiological conditions. Since aging often induces malfunctioning in this machinery, ROS are considered an effective cause of age-associated diseases. Exercise stimulates ROS production on one side, and the antioxidant systems on the other side. The effects of exercise on oxidative stress markers have been shown in blood, vascular tissue, brain, cardiac and skeletal muscle, both in young and aged people. However, the intensity and volume of exercise and the individual subject characteristics are important to envisage future strategies to adequately personalize the balance of the oxidant/antioxidant environment. Here, we reviewed the literature that deals with the effects of physical activity on redox balance in young and aged people, with insights into the molecular mechanisms involved. Although many molecular pathways are involved, we are still far from a comprehensive view of the mechanisms that stand behind the effects of physical activity during aging. Although we believe that future precision medicine will be able to transform exercise administration from wellness to targeted prevention, as yet we admit that the topic is still in its infancy.

Philosophy for Millions and Millions of Philosophers

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Alexander Rubtsov
Keyword(s):  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
The Political ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Closed Type ◽  
Ideological Struggle ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Internal Speech

In the article, the relationship between the highest professional specialization of philosophy and its involvement in the realities of everyday life consciousness, collective and individual, are considered. Karl Jaspers defines philosophy precisely through the natural need and ability of human being as such, from the piercing questions of children to the revelations of anomalous geniuses. Great philosophers only concentrate this sleeping ability in a person to see the world directly and every time anew. Rightly considered the most closed type of intellectual activity, philosophy at the same time provides examples of live communication and direct appeal to people and society.  The fact that each of us is the bearer of philosophical ideas (whether we are aware of it or not) leads to the problem of ideology. By analogy with the constitution of the political by Carl Schmitt through the opposition "friend — enemy", ideology is constituted by the opposition of "faith — knowledge" in a single continuum between the poles of "almost religion" and "almost philosophy". If ideology asserts the non-obvious as obvious, then the mission of philosophy is a systematic criticism of the obvious.  This conflict manifests itself both in society and in the consciousness of an individual.  The classic understanding of ideology as a purely external manipulation (“consciousness for the Other”) is challenged by the presence in the consciousness of the individual subject of “internal dialogue” and “internal speech” with the effects of ideological work and ideological struggle with oneself (the individual as a micromodel of society and the state).  Postmodern all the more accentuates the non-professional dimension of philosophy by rejecting the schemes of progress and hierarchy, the logic of binary oppositions, including high and low, center and marginal, specialized and amateur.  The ability to reflect is the most important feature of a sovereign personality in its resistance to the "penetrating" ideology and new mythology, degrading to intellectual barbarism and political savagery.

Time Estimation Performance Before, during and after Physical Activity

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (15) ◽  
pp. 985-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Mihaly ◽  
P.A. Hancock ◽  
M. Vercruyssen ◽  
M. Rahimi
Keyword(s):  
Interval Estimation ◽  
Time Estimation ◽  
Cycle Ergometer ◽  
Estimation Accuracy ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Knowledge Of Results ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Experimental Findings

An experiment is reported which evaluated performance on a 10-sec time interval estimation task before, during and after physical work on cycle ergometer at intensities of 30 and 60% VO2max, as scaled to the individual subject. Results from the eleven subjects tested indicate a significant increase in variability of estimates during exercise compared to non-exercise phases. Such a trend was also seen in the mean of estimates, where subjects significantly underestimated the target interval (10 seconds) during exercise. Subjects also performed more accurately with information feedback than without knowledge of results, but they were still not able to overcome the effects of exercise. As suggested by the experimental findings, decreased estimation accuracy and increased variability can be expected during physical work and is part of a body of evidence which indicates that exercise and its severity has a substantive impact on perceptual and cognitive performance.

scholarly journals JEG SER DE BØGELYSE ØER – OG DETTE FOLK ER VORT: Om emotionalisering, subjektivering og danske sange

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tine Damsholt
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Landscape History ◽  
Danish Population ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Emotional Bonds ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article deals with questions of subjectivation. The emotional bonds between a landscape and the individual as interpreted in Danish patriotic songs from the 19th-century are seen as crucial in the process of subjectivation turning the Danish population into a patriotic or selfconscious people. In the songs the sensing self is turned into a Danish self, an individual subject but part of a certain landscape, history and nation. Furthermore the Danish folkhigh-schools are seen as institutions of subject-ivation, since singing patriotic songs here became a natural part of everyday life. In the light of the Foucauldian perspective the emotional and bodily experiences at the folk-highschools (often staged outdoors in the Danish landscape) are interpreted as "technologies of the national self", since it is precisely via individuals’ work with themselves that the national subjectivation takes place.  

scholarly journals The Individualist Power and Adaptive New Religious Movement: Scientology Individual as an Ethical Subject

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Ofer Parchev
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Description ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Liberal Society ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Practical Operation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Religion

New religion movements are one of the most interesting social phenomena in recent decades. As an alternative communal and individualist way of life, these movements offer a transcendental, non-secular way of life that challenges the values of liberal society while remaining within its legal and normative boundaries. In the course of this paper, and by using an analytical description of Foucault’s assumptions, I will examine the discursive and practical operation of the Scientology Church as a new religion movement that transcends the individual subject. I will describe the themes of Scientology as pastoral techniques, and its neo-liberal subjective constitution as a part of the conservative, normative mechanism of modern Western society, while arguing that they pose, at the same time, a potential ethical alternative that subverts the epistemological boundaries of Western liberal society.

scholarly journals Consistency and Heterogeneity of Individual Behavior under Uncertainty

2007 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 1921-1938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syngjoo Choi ◽  
Raymond Fisman ◽  
Douglas Gale ◽  
Shachar Kariv
Keyword(s):  
Utility Function ◽  
Portfolio Choice ◽  
Individual Behavior ◽  
Parameter Estimates ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Study Behavior ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Two Parameter ◽  
Good Interpretation

By using graphical representations of simple portfolio choice problems, we generate a very rich dataset to study behavior under uncertainty at the level of the individual subject. We test the data for consistency with the maximization hypothesis, and we estimate preferences using a two-parameter utility function based on Faruk Gul (1991). This specification provides a good interpretation of the data at the individual level and can account for the highly heterogeneous behaviors observed in the laboratory. The parameter estimates jointly describe attitudes toward risk and allow us to characterize the distribution of risk preferences in the population. (JEL D11, D14, D81, G11)

Development of competency-based modular training programs in Kyrgyzstan

2021 ◽  
pp. 140-157
Author(s):  
М.И. Баширова ◽  
В.М. Гаськов ◽  
Н.Л. Шестакова
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Occupational Standards ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Training Modules ◽  
Assessment Requirements

В статье обсуждается проблема применения профессиональных стандартов (ПС) при разработке программ профобразования на основе требований, предъявляемых к специалистам. Мировой опыт показал, что преподаватели профобразования не подготовлены к содержательной интерпретации ПС и применению их положений в процессе обучения. Имеющиеся в ряде стран национальные образовательные стандарты также не базируются на требованиях, сформулированных в профстандартах, что вносит дополнительные трудности при разработке адекватных программ профобразования. Статья описывает пилотную методологию формирования программ профобразования на основе профессиональных стандартов. Методология была разработана с учетом доступного мирового опыта и апробируется в настоящее время в Республике Кыргызстан в трех отраслях экономики применительно к квалификациям рабочих и техников. Методология привязана к формату профстандартов, применяемому в экономически развитых странах, что обусловило и характер процессов, предлагаемых для интерпретации требований ПС с целью обучения и оценки результатов обучения. Статья определяет формат и категории, используемые в зарубежных профстандартах (стандартах компетентности). Методология нацелена на использование преимуществ детального формата профессиональных стандартов, позволяющего трансформировать единицы стандарта в учебные модули и учитывать в дальнейшем требования ПС в качестве обязательных тем в содержании учебных планов по отдельным дисциплинам. Методология способствует разработке сложных программ профессионального образования, включающих преподавание нескольких или многих индивидуальных дисциплин. В этом смысле модульная учебная программа становится механизмом координации и синхронизации преподавания отдельных дисциплин на основе требований к содержанию и оценке результатов обучения, сформулированных в профстандартах. В статье также излагаются предварительные результаты продвижения новых программ в лицеях и колледжах Кыргызстана. The article focuses on the issue of developing competency-based vocational training programs on the basis of workplace requirements. International experience suggests that vocational education teachers lack capabilities for interpretation and application of occupational standards in training. Some countries which opted for developing national educational standards failed to base them on the requirements of occupational standards. This has brought additional dislocations to taking adequate account of the workplace requirements in the development of vocational education programs. This write-up describes a pilot methodology for developing programs of vocational education on the basis of occupational standards. The methodology has incorporated some elements of the world practice and is currently being piloted in Kyrgyzstan in three industries at the qualification levels of certified worker and technician Diploma. The methodology is bound by the template of occupational standards, applied in the economically advanced nations, what has determined the working processes applied for their interpretation for the purpose of skills training and assessment. The paper explains the format and the categories inherent to the advanced occupational standards, which in some countries are also named “the competency standards”. The methodology takes advantage of the detailed template of occupational standards, which lends itself to organic transformation of units of standards into training modules and, further down, to the individual subject-based courses within the modular program. The methodology permits developing complex vocational education programs, which involve teaching of a few or many individual disciplines. А modular program functions as a mechanism for integration and synchronisation of these individual disciplines on the basis of the skills assessment requirements drawn from the occupational standards. The article describes some preliminary results of piloting of the new programs in lyceums and colleges of Kyrgyzstan.

SOME PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY OF THE MODERN SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Daurenbek Kusainov ◽  
◽  
Ainur Sadyrova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sociology Of The Family ◽  
The Individual

Marriage and the family are important institutions of human society. As we know, they include different private institutions: the institute of kinship, the institute of motherhood and fatherhood, the institute of property, the institute of social protection of childhood and guardianship, and others. The process of family formation is the process of assimilation of social norms, roles and standards that regulate courtship, the choice of a marriage partner, family stabilization, sexual behavior, relations with the parents of spouses.The sociology of the family in a narrow sense, as part of general sociology, as a theory of the “middle level”; considers a special sphere of life and culture of families. The sociology of the family deals with a group, and not with an individual subject of life activity. A group of people connected by family and kinship relations forms that part of the social reality that is studied by the sociology of the family, where the family lifestyle is at the forefront. The sociology of the family considers the individual as a member of the family, integral part of the society. The sociology of the family correlates with the sociology of the individual; it studies personality, first of all, through the prism of socio-cultural intra-family ties, family identity of the individual. In any societythe family has a dual character. On the one hand, it is a social institution, on the other-a small group that has its own laws of functioning and development.

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