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By Margaret Price
Published: 03 May 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9399-2
... accompaniment embodied technology bodymind relationships human-object relations ...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373391-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7339-1
..., and the challenges that science poses to the so-called new materialism), the chapter makes good the point that concepts, too, are objects—and not just objects but objects in relation, objects in conflict. That point is essential, the chapter argues, for counteracting the incoherence generated, in the first place...
Published: 03 May 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059370-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9399-2
... that accompaniments can enhance but also complicate or impede a disabled academic’s efforts for access. accompaniment embodied technology bodymind relationships human-object relations ...
Published: 11 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374374-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7437-4
... the dominant thesis leans heavily on a set of claims about human embodiment: that human bodies have shared motor schema, similar relations to objects, and shared phenomenological experiences of the world, all of which facilitate the automatic transfer of intersubjective information about what the other...
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059318-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5931-8
... of public safety practices. Serres’s long-standing interest in the manner in which death serves as the “first object” through which the collective collects itself is explored, along with his critique of property relations as “soiling gestures.” This culminates in the idea of “Panbiota,” the necessary global...
Published: 06 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060246-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6024-6
..., as suggested by Tina Campt, reveals these photographs of objects as transmitters of sorrow and as pointing to the humanity of migrants. Through an analysis informed by Alfred Frankowski's interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois's reading of the Sorrow Songs, these photographs can be understood as pointing...
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By Salar Mameni
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Published: 04 August 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2704-1
...Crude Aesthetics Part 5 focuses on crude oil as an agent in enabling aesthetic relations to the Earth. It argues that aesthetics cannot be reduced to human sensibility and must be theorized from the position of objects that impress themselves upon the senses and build relations...
Series: Art History Publication Initiative
Published: 19 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372790-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7279-0
... accounts of the archival impulse in contemporary art, Horton emphasizes fluid exchanges between human bodies and sensuous objects—what she calls “performing props”—throughout Luna’s performances and installations. She focuses in particular on woven baskets, which reintegrate a colonial binary of “archive...
Published: 01 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375494-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7549-4
... recognizability as a human activity (performance), object (inscription), and sensibility (mode of listening) can work to elevate its conceptual status above scrutiny. This entry highlights how music has been naturalized in three principal ways: as science, as art, and as performance. In relation to sound studies...
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059318-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5931-8
... lives lived as the object of colonial racism and those lived as its beneficiaries. This chapter reflects on how one might understand the social and political stakes of Serres’s attempt to find a universal ground for the variations of the body by putting Serres’s writings in conversation with those...
Published: 17 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7339-1
... but objects in relation, objects in conflict. That point is essential, the chapter argues, for counteracting the incoherence generated, in the first place, by thing-politics’ overemphasis on the “cooperative potential of concepts” and, in the second, by its reduction of humans to things. Not only are humans...
Published: 23 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5931-8
... boundaries between the “soft” semiotic and “hard” social distancing aspects of public safety practices. Serres’s long-standing interest in the manner in which death serves as the “first object” through which the collective collects itself is explored, along with his critique of property relations as “soiling...
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By R. A. Judy
Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
Published: 02 October 2020
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1255-9
... of performative poiēsis in black . Here is where the theory of para-semiosis is developed as the dynamic constitution of the world in the recombinant fluidity of multiple enactments of referentiality, whereby being human is enunciated in the flow. It is also where poiēsis in black is discussed...
Published: 06 December 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6024-6
... and become archives of feeling. Listening to photographs, as suggested by Tina Campt, reveals these photographs of objects as transmitters of sorrow and as pointing to the humanity of migrants. Through an analysis informed by Alfred Frankowski's interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois's reading of the Sorrow...
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By Agon Hamza
Series: [sic] Series
Published: 06 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7547-0
..., materialism, etc. void real subject object gaze This chapter deals with the example of cats in the work of Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Derrida. Their theorization of animals, and its relation to anthropocentrism, can help us understand the “inhuman core of the human.” The aim here...
Published: 13 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7436-7
... and can build them to a new level where a stand-alone unit is able to more effectively profile an alternative vision of equity and human rights. restructuring equity studies antiracism agency resistance This essay explores the relation of critical ethnic studies to the neoliberal corporate...
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By Russell Sbriglia
Series: [sic] Series
Published: 10 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7338-4
... and antithesis in perpetual relation and forestalls any final Aufhebung ) and, on the other hand, by the gap in the Symbolic inscribed in the Lacanian process of sublimation (a gap embodied by the objet petit a ), Žižek’s ridiculous sublime, Alfrey demonstrates, is comprised not of grandiose objects...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-091
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
.... The movement also pursued grand international objectives: to extend the revolutionary cause around the continent from the strategic center of Bolivia, at the heart of South America. Guido Alvaro “Inti” Peredo Leigue (1937–69) was the highest-ranking Bolivian and the second in command overall in the guerrilla...
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By Paul Amar, Editor
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
...Futurity This autobiographical chapter describes the revolutionary trans activist who founded CasaNem, an LGBTQIA+ urban squatter effort that occupies unused buildings to repurpose them as trans housing collectives and centers for community education, health, and human rights promotion...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-136
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... council of Sucre, gives a local version of the events of 2007 and glorifies the broader sucrense campaign for regional autonomy and a return to political preeminence. The campaign was ultimately unsuccessful in its objective—although Article 6 of the Bolivian Constitution of 2009 does declare that “Sucre...