A ABERTURA DO TUBO DIGEST�RIO: ENTRE A ARTE E O INTESTINO / The opening of digestive duct: between art and intestine

O texto faz uma introspe��o na no��o anat�mica de tubo digest�rio humano,�questionando a abordagem mecanicista e individualizada da digest�o. Para tanto, � realizado um percurso por trabalhos de artistas que desmontam a no��o de tubo digest�rio mediante elabora��es po�ticas sobre as fezes, proposi��es prost�ticas para o corpo vivo e estrat�gias relacionais. S�o abordados trabalhos de, entre outros, Anna Maria Maiolino, Wim Delvoye, Lygia Clark, Jorge Menna Barreto, bem como os aut�matos do s�culo 18 de Jacques Vaucanson. Nosso intuito aqui � reformular a digest�o como atividade imbricada ao campo da arte e vice-versa.Palavras-chave:Digest�o. Arte contempor�nea. Aut�mato. Pr�tese. Ecologia.�AbstractThis text examines the anatomic idea of the human digestive duct, challenging the mechanistic and individualized approach to digestion. A journey through the works of artists who disassemble the digestive duct, with poetic constructions about human waste, prosthetic propositions for living bodies, and relational strategies, is established.�Works of Anna Maria Maiolino, Wim Delvoye, Lygia Clark, Jorge Menna Barreto are mentioned, as well as the eighteen-century automata of Jacques Vaucanson. Our purpose is to reformulate digestion as a process interwoven with the field of the arts and vice versa.Keywords:Digestion. Contemporary art. Automaton. Prothesis. Ecology.

THE ANATOMY OF DIGITAL CLOUT(CHASING): BLACK AESTHETICS, ONLINE VISIBILITY AND RELATIONAL LABOR AMONG DIY HIP-HOP MUSICIANS ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE

Prior literature has suggested that it is through popular music that the social, professional and technological aspirations of Black youth often come together. Nowhere is this more evident than in the context of Hip-Hop music, where Black youth inventiveness with digital tools is celebrated and valued far more than any other genre of media entertainment. Though many scholars have theorized on the centrality of authenticity and masculinity to the communication of Hip-Hop artists in digital spaces, little academic work has paid very little attention to artist perspective of how this relational labor and visibility strategy helps them cultivate viable careers as influencers. Using interviews with artists, artist managers and independent label executives, I detail the career potentials for Hip-Hop artists engaging in social media self-branding strategies. I explore the content and character of their work on social media toward acquiring “clout”- a digital form of influence rooted in Hip-Hop that allows marginalized youth to leverage digital tools in build social status, maintain authenticity, cultivate connections with fans, connect to friends and other cultural producers. In this study, I detail examples of three relational strategies that our respondents utilized to acquire “digital clout:” a) Corralling b) Capping and, c) Co-Signing. To conclude, I argue Chicago’s Hip-Hop scene provides an example of why formal institutions need to rethink how race, class, gender and geography influence the digital practices of young people and how their practices add significantly to the understanding of the cultural and communicative diversity arising from globalizing social media.

Relational Practice in Multilingual Peer Discourse: Talk as a Marker of Gender Identity

This paper examines relational practice in multilingual peer discourse to inspect the distinct identity patterns of the male and the female participants involved in gender dynamics. There is a growing impetus of discourse studies as an emerging area of sociolinguistic and ethno methodological research. In this paper, talk as a marker of gender identity is explored in the light of the theoretical framework suggested by Holmes (2006) who studies the different relational strategies of male and female interlocutors in workplace environment. In the current study, conversations of six male and female postgraduate students of English language at Sargodha University, Pakistan are recorded and transcribed to see how the participants create team as a relational practice using gender specific norms via talk. The study has found that the males create team through humor in discourse while females tilt towards small talk and frequent verbal gestures of approval. Moreover, masculinities and femininities of the peers are manifested in their style and function of the conversations. The study is significant because it is going to lay a foundation for the study and exploration of gender integrated conversations in multilingual context in Pakistani English and other varieties spoken in casual talk in Pakistan.

The different shades of innovation emergence in smart service systems: the case of Italian cluster for aerospace technology

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence of innovation in smart service systems to conceptualize how actor’s relationships through technology-enabled interactions can give birth to novel technologies, processes, strategies and value. The objectives of the study are: to detect the different enablers that activate innovation in smart service systems; and to explore how these can lead dynamically to the emergence of different innovation patterns. Design/methodology/approach The empirical research adopts an approach based on constructivist grounded theory, performed through observation and semi-structured interviews to investigate the development of innovation in the Italian CTNA (Italian acronym of National Cluster for Aerospace Technology). Findings The identification and re-elaboration of the novelties that emerged from the analysis of the Cluster allow the elaboration of a diagram that classifies five different shades of innovation, introduced through some related theoretical propositions: technological; process; business model and data-driven; social and eco-sustainable; and practice-based. Originality/value The paper embraces a synthesis view that detects the enabling structural and systems dimensions for innovation (the “what”) and the way in which these can be combined to create new technologies, resources, values and social rules (the “how” dimension). The classification of five different kinds of innovation can contribute to enrich extant research on value co-creation and innovation and can shed light on how given technologies and relational strategies can produce varied innovation outcomes according to the diverse stakeholders engaged.