Why Work?

Author(s):  
Liam Gillick
Keyword(s):  

Art is a place where the rules of engagement are open to question. Art is a history of doing nothing and a long tale ​of useful action. It is always a fetishization of decision and indecision—with each mark, structure and, engagement. This book’s challenge to contemporary practitioners, or current artists, is that “contemporary art” no longer accounts for what is being made; it no longer is connected to what we have all become rather than what we might propose, represent, or fail to achieve. The challenge made is that artists today, whether they like it or not, have fallen into a trap predetermined by their existence within a regime that is centered on a rampant capitalization of the mind.

Author(s):  
Lucía Stubrin

ResumenEn este artículo se buscan desplegar los replanteos epistemológicos dentro de la historia de las ciencias biológicas que prepararon el  terreno para la apertura mental de los científicos y la apertura física de los laboratorios, dando lugar a la consolidación del bioarte. De esta manera, intentamos analizar el surgimiento de la biotecnología dentro de un entramado político, económico y social complejo donde los conocimientos se complementan dentro del ámbito científico, generando asimismo un  margen de conciencia sobre la falibilidad del método y la ciega especialización. El reconocimiento de las debilidades sirve como condición de posibilidad para la incorporación de actores artísticos que trabajan con los mismos materiales, desafiando las lógicas, preguntas y objetivos tradicionales de la tarea científica. El artículo, asimismo, se inscribe dentro de la investigación interdisciplinaria realizada en el marco de la tesis doctoral de quien escribe, titulada “Arte y ciencia: la práctica bioartística argentina en su relación con la escena internacional”.  Palabras clave: Biotecnología, bioarte, ciencia, epistemología, arte contemporáneo, técnica, Argentina.***************************************************Re-unifying power of technology. Reflections about the creation of a collaborative space between science and artAbstractThis article aims at displaying the epistemological statements within the history of biological sciences which prepared the terrain for the mind opening of the scientists and physical opening of laboratories,giving place to the consolidation of bio-art. In this manner, we intend to analyze the surge of biotechnology inside a complex interwoven political, economic and social context, where knowledge is complemented in the scientific field, generating a light of consciousness about the method fertility and blind specialization. Acknowledging weaknesses serves as a feasibility condition for the involvement of artistic actors who work with the same materials, challenging the traditional logics, questions and goals of the scientific task. The article in itself belongs to the inter-disciplinary research carried out within the framework of the doctoral thesis of the undersigning, entitled “Art and Science: the Argentinean bio-artistic practice in its relation with the international scene”. Key words: bio-technology, bio-art, science, epistemology, contemporary art, technique, Argentina.***************************************************O poder reunificador da biotecnologia. Reflexões em torno à confirmação de um espaço colaborativo entre arte e ciênciaResumoNeste artigo se buscam expandir os delineamentos epistemológicos dentro da história das ciências biológicas que prepararam o terreno para a abertura mental dos cientistas e à abertura física dos laboratórios, dando lugar à consolidação da bioarte. Desta maneira, tentamos analisar o surgimento da biotecnologia dentro de um entrançado político, econômico e social complexo no qual  os conhecimentos se complementam dentro do âmbito cientifico, gerando assim mesmo uma margem de consciência sobre a fiabilidade do método e a cega especialização. O reconhecimento das fraquezas  serve como condição de possibilidade para a incorporação de atores artísticos que trabalhem com os mesmos materiais, desafiando as lógicas perguntas e objetivos tradicionais da tarefa científica. O artigo também se inscreve dentro da investigação interdisciplinar realizada no marco da tese doutoral de quem escreve, titulada “Arte e ciência: a prática bioartística argentina na sua relação com a cena internacional”.Palavras chave: biotecnologia, bioarte, ciência, epistemologia, arte contemporânea, técnica, Argentina.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter DeScioli

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.


2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-427
Author(s):  
Csaba Pléh

Ádám György: A rejtozködo elme. Egy fiziológus széljegyzetei Carpendale, J. I. M. és Müller, U. (eds): Social interaction and the development of knowledge Cloninger, R. C.: Feeling good. The science of well being Dunbar, Robin, Barrett, Louise, Lycett, John: Evolutionary psychology Dunbar, Robin: The human story. A new history of makind's evolution Geary, D. C.: The origin of mind. Evolution of brain, cognition and general intelligence Gedeon Péter, Pál Eszter, Sárkány Mihály, Somlai Péter: Az evolúció elméletei és metaforái a társadalomtudományokban Harré, Rom: Cognitive science: A philosophical introduction Horváth György: Pedagógiai pszichológia Marcus, G.: The birth of the mind. How a tiny number of genes creates the complexities of human thought Solso, R. D.: The psychology of art and the evolution of the conscious brain Wray, A. (ed.): The transition to language


2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-770
Author(s):  
Csaba Pléh

Danziger, Kurt: Marking the mind. A history of memory . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008Farkas, Katalin: The subject’s point of view. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008MosoninéFriedJudités TolnaiMárton(szerk.): Tudomány és politika. Typotex, Budapest, 2008Iacobini, Marco: Mirroring people. The new science of how we connect with others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2008Changeux, Jean-Pierre. Du vrai, du beau, du bien.Une nouvelle approche neuronale. Odile Jacob, PárizsGazzaniga_n


Author(s):  
Wakoh Shannon Hickey

Mindfulness is widely claimed to improve health and performance, and historians typically say that efforts to promote meditation and yoga therapeutically began in the 1970s. In fact, they began much earlier, and that early history offers important lessons for the present and future. This book traces the history of mind-body medicine from eighteenth-century Mesmerism to the current Mindfulness boom and reveals how religion, race, and gender have shaped events. Many of the first Americans to advocate meditation for healing were women leaders of the Mind Cure movement, which emerged in the late nineteenth century. They believed that by transforming their consciousness, they could also transform oppressive circumstances in which they lived, and some were activists for social reform. Trained by Buddhist and Hindu missionaries, these women promoted meditation through personal networks, religious communities, and publications. Some influenced important African American religious movements, as well. For women and black men, Mind Cure meant not just happiness but liberation in concrete political, economic, and legal terms. The Mind Cure movement exerted enormous pressure on mainstream American religion and medicine, and in response, white, male doctors and clergy with elite academic credentials appropriated some of its methods and channeled them into scientific psychology and medicine. As mental therapeutics became medicalized, individualized, and then commodified, the religious roots of meditation, like the social justice agendas of early Mind Curers, fell away. After tracing how we got from Mind Cure to Mindfulness, this book reveals what got lost in the process.


2021 ◽  
pp. 097206342110115
Author(s):  
Feryad A. Hussain

Integrative models of health care have garnered increasing attention over the years and are currently being employed within acute and secondary health care services to support medical treatments in a range of specialities. Clinical hypnosis has a history of working in partnership with medical treatments quite apart from its psychiatric associations. It aims to mobilise the mind–body connection in order to identify and overcome obstacles to managing symptoms of ill health, resulting in overall improved emotional and physical well-being. This article aims to encourage the use of hypnotherapy in physical health care by highlighting the effectiveness of hypnosis as an adjunct to medical treatment and identifying barriers preventing further integrative treatments.


1888 ◽  
Vol 34 (146) ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
G. T. Revington

I think that the foregoing statistics, and those which follow, together with the large number of cases which I quote, and which connect general paralysis with almost every form of neurotic manifestation, will prove conclusively that neurotic inheritance is a striking feature in the causation of general paralysis. I question whether a distinction between “the cerebral and the insane element” in general paralysis can be maintained. If general paralysis is not a degeneration of the mind-tissue, then the pathology of insanity has no existence, and I would say that the subtle influence for evil, which is transmitted from parents, whose brains are deteriorated by neurotic outbursts, or soaked in alcohol, or wrecked by physiological immorality, tends strongly towards such degeneration. If insanity is, as Dr. Savage says, a perversion of the ego, then a general paralytic is the in-sanest of the insane. We know that the children of a melancholic parent, for example, may develop any form of neurosis—in other words, it is not that melancholia or general paralysis, or any other definite disease, is transmitted, but that a certain tendency to deviate from normal development is transmitted. This tendency to deviate is the neurotic diathesis, and the form of its development is determined by collateral circumstances, and a certain series of collateral circumstances determine the development of general paralysis. Perhaps neurotic inheritance may mean in some cases a limited capital of nervous energy, and if this is wasted recklessly the individual breaks down suddenly and pathologically, as we all do slowly and physiologically. I would also point out that considering the number of histories of insanity which owing to ignorance or reticence we, do not receive, and considering that we never receive information as to the existence of the slighter neuroses, it is marvellous that we get so high a percentage as 51. Of the 145 general paralytics with a reliable history, 38 had a family history of insanity, 28 a family history of drink, 8 of both, 43 had a personal history of drink, 8 of a previous attack too remote to be considered, at least, according to our present ideas, as part of the disease, and the vast majority had a history of some physiological irregularity which must be considered as conducive to the creation of an acquired neurosis. We may now pass to some further statistics.


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