Embodying Charismatic Affect(If): the Example of Bruce Lee (Translation into Russian)

While the concept of charisma is widely used in the social sciences, its embodied nature is less thoroughly explored and theorised. This paper revisits the key embodied characteristics of Weber's sociology of charisma and re-interprets these using Shilling's (2005, 2013) umbrella notions of the body as a source and location of and means for society as a way of analysing the idea of the charismatic body as a force for social change. It then draws on a range of embodied concepts to illuminate how charisma is significant channel of infra and inter-corporeal affective interaction between “leaders” and their followers. In particular, Freund's (2009) social synaesthesia and bio-agency, Massumi's (2002) perspective of affect and the moving body, Thrift's (2010) charismatic celebrity, allure and glamour, Mellor and Shilling's (1997) sensual solidarities, and Seyfert's (2012) conception of affectif. To develop and illustrate this perspective of the charismatically affective body in action, the life of film star and martial artist Bruce Lee (1940–1973) is utilised.

Cinema in Tanzania

Moving pictures have a long history in Tanzania. The first cinema shows appeared in the region at the turn of the 20th century. Indian entrepreneurs established tent shows before World War I and built permanent cinemas in the interwar period. Colonial officials feared cinema images would undermine their authority and attempted to censor films and segregate audiences. During and immediately following World War II Tanganyika and Zanzibar experienced a boom in cinema building as the popularity of going to the movies soared among urban Africans. Tanzanian audiences developed cosmopolitan tastes, embracing Bollywood actors, Elvis Presley, and Bruce Lee alike. After independence the new Tanzanian government adopted policies that ultimately encouraged the decline of cinema-going as a public leisure activity. Films have been made in Tanganyika and Zanzibar since the first decade of the 20th century. Under German rule, visitors to Tanganyika made ethnographic and wildlife films. After World War I the new British administration in Tanganyika continued to allow commercial and documentary filmmakers to operate in the territory. In the 1930s the British government considered several initiatives to make educational films for African audiences. During World War II the Colonial Office created a film unit to produce and disseminate educational and propaganda films throughout Africa, including in both Tanganyika and Zanzibar. This work continued up until Tanganyika became independent in 1961. After independence the government of the new nation of Tanzania continued producing didactic movies for its citizens. They also made a handful of feature films for commercial distribution. In the 1990s a new video industry emerged in Dar es Salaam, in part inspired by the importation of inexpensive video films from Nigeria. Dubbed “Bongowood,” this new industry has been extremely prolific, producing hundreds of low-budget videos annually. These Swahili-language videos are consumed avidly within the country, as well as in Swahili-speaking areas of neighboring nations, and throughout the Swahili diaspora.

Releasing Masculinity for a More Just World: Lessons on How to “Be Water” in Hong Kong

This article develops a feminist reading of the biographical action series featuring Ip Man, the Wing Chun grand master lionized for mentoring Bruce Lee, as a set of culturally inflected practices in order to probe the sociohistorical structure that embeds and overdetermines these productions and allows for new, subversive potentialities. Building upon situated engagement, my analysis traces how the hypermasculine violent yanggang aesthetic tradition takes on new life by reclaiming women's voices in the Ip Man film franchise. I also identify the ways in which this filmic remaking of Ip's life story builds an alternative embodiment that unsettles musculature as the ground of colonialist/nationalist dominance and lays the basis for a new horizon of justice encapsulated by the flexible and elastic “Be Water” sensibility. As human beings are facing the common threat posed by prevailing toxic masculinity, these lessons, I argue, are crucial for us to find a path through the turbulence and build a more peaceful world.

DE NO SER NADIE A SER BRUCE LEE. CASO CLÍNICO

1. Objetivos: con este caso clínico se pretende evaluar la repercusión del consumo de cannabis en paciente con diagnóstico de Trastorno Bipolar. 2. Material y métodos: Se expone el caso clínico de un varón de 32 años, con diagnóstico de Trastorno Bipolar tipo 1 desde hace 10 años y consumo de cannabis. En tratamiento actual con valproato, olanzapina, rivotril y lormetazepam, tras varias opciones terapéuticas sin resultados favorables. Cuenta con varios ingresos en la Unidad de Hospitalización Breve de Psiquiatría por cuadros de manía y episodios depresivos de larga duración. Cuando se encuentra clínicamente estable, mantiene una vida social y laboral dentro de la normalidad, aunque estos períodos de estabilidad clínica son de corta duración. Refiere consumo de cannabis durante los periodos de descompensación de su enfermedad, justificando este consumo como una forma de mejoría anímica, sin reconocer las repercusiones que le ocasiona esta conducta en el plano social y laboral. 3. Resultados: el consumo de cannabis en pacientes con Trastorno Bipolar, se asocia a peor pronóstico, mala adherencia a tratamiento y peor respuesta a fármacos, así como mayor riesgo de suicidio. Además, se asocia a mayor riesgo de episodios mixtos, episodios anímicos más prolongados (remisión más lenta) y más graves, menores períodos de estabilidad intercrisis, mayor riesgo de ciclaje rápido, mayor riesgo de viraje por antidepresivos, mayor riesgo de agitación psicomotora y mayor riesgo de 3º comorbilidad. 4. Conclusiones: Todo esto, pone de manifiesto, la importancia de saber abordar y manejar los trastornos del ánimo en pacientes con trastorno por abuso de sustancias, así como, tener en cuenta que al evaluar y tratar pacientes con trastornos anímicos se debe indagar y tratar el consumo de sustancias.

Keeping a Healthy Figure Scientifically

In a paper published on scientific American, February 2017, proposed that physical exercising does no help to energy expenditure so is useless to losing obesity. However, this is unbelievable and rebels the fact that exercising consume energy; furthermore, those who keep exercising and are good at sports are always very healthy with good figure, and their abilities to learn are remarkably higher than those who don’t exercise, such as Bruce Lee and many athletes on Olympics. It is a puzzle how the result in this paper was got. Read the paper carefully, noticing that the comparison is between the European people who think more and the Hadza people who only live on hunting and gathering, a relatively primary stage of the society, Hadza people have physical exercising while hunting but they don’t think therein, they just try every place out to find the poisoned giraffe without thinking where had it gone, without any theory or certainty. The way how Hadza people live is mechanical, like the sheep who only eat, drink and reproduce the next generation who live in same way as their ancestors, they don’t think to pursue what they like and to live better; therefore, it is their cutting down their thinking and learning that made their same expenditure as Europeans who don’t exercising, not their physical exercising itself doesn’t increase their energy expenditure. Using more nutriology, exercising exactly helps to losing obesity and it has better effect thereto as combined with learning, learning consumes the blood glucose first which is advantageous to fat burning in physical exercising. Learning and exercising make oneself be better so that he lives better thereby, physical exercising also has many other beneficial effects to human’s health and cleverness etc., it is a perfect way for man to lose obesity and keep healthy to combine proper physical exercising with more thinking and learning. One should learn as well as exercise to lose obesity and keep healthy, so that one could have a healthy figure as well as be better and live better thereby.