Search Results for gesture

...Kim H. Kowalke 2005 by Kim H. Kowalke 2005 Kim H. Kowalke Seven Degrees of Separation: Music, Text, Image, and Gesture in The Seven Deadly Sins For Giselher Schubert on his sixtieth birthday I So let us invite all the sister arts...

...Mel Y. Chen This essay considers the possibilities of an embodied archive of political agitation through an expanded notion of gesture. It weaves a set of infrequently attested relations in productive comparison: the political gestures of resistance, the embodiment of disability, the expansion...

..., and potentially ruptures the scales of the empirical. Privileging performativity, gesture, resonance, and metaphor over the authority and purported veridicality of Western empirical science, the poetics of black feminism investigated here is instructive for a general theory of representation. Copyright © 2018...

..., the article posits the AKM as a short-lived exception, due to its construction process as a palimpsest, its potentially participatory stage design, and the temporary radical democratic gesture on its facade that emerged during the Gezi resistance. Detailing the vicious circle of building and demolishing...

... gift but one capable of destituting the gift‐debt system. Drawing from Giorgio Agamben's theorization of the witness, the final section shows how the subjective structure of martyrdom is that of the witness insofar as a gesturality occurs in it that takes the form of a desubjectification...

... gesture of refusal sought to respond to a historical conjuncture in which the integration of the working class into the circuitry of capital was a fait accompli. For Blanchot, refusal was a withdrawal from, and abandonment of, politics and representation, whereas for Marcuse it involved a transformation...

... cogito but also the Cartesian elevation of abstraction over the senses. In contrast, Kristeva's and Žižek's local histories are expressed through disidentification and self-Orientalization as a constitutive gesture of subaltern intellectual labor. Instead of exploring geopolitical ambiguity...

... on which earlier horror films were predicated. In one way, these films gesture to Jean Baudrillard's idea of “the transparency of evil,” in that they depict the collapse between the speaking self and the technologies of monstrosity against which the self might be defined. In another way, though, the films...

...Rebecca Scott Bray When her exhibition “Operativo” opened at New York's Y Gallery, in July 2008, Mexican artist Teresa Margolles said, “Everyone dies but not everyone is murdered. I want people to recognize that.” Ostensibly, with this call for recognition, Margolles simultaneously gestures toward...

..., but emancipatory rhetoric, too, has tended to cede to sentimental gesture and gesticulation, even though it benefits from the backwind of the disasters that were wrought by the Washington consensus. Moreover, the aggressive neoliberal discourse of the 1980s and 1990s conjured up a revival of nineteenth-century...

... (the assassinated Agamemnon) has been avenged. The poverty of words when compared with deeds or gestures is a cen- tral theme, almost an obsession, for Elektra 1 throughout...

... mainstream. Ballet in nineteenth-century Paris also provides new insights to ques- tions that have become central to musicology, in particular issues of musical 5 ‘‘meaning’’ and representation. The musical and gestural space between the often diegetic, patterned dance...

... revolutionary proletariat for Marx at least, if not for Benjamin capable of several grand theatrical gestures himself? Every revolutionary gesture is susceptible to theatrical parody or deformation, but when one group takes its performance seriously the others become all the more capable of taking advantage...

... of power” (Agamben 2015 : 275), raising the question of how to distinguish the historical coming to light of an anarchic structure of power from a political gesture that exposes and thereby destitutes that same structure. Agamben offers us two distinct senses in which anarchy may come to light...

... the political relation to it need not express itself through the history of philosophy or through the political categories of Marxism or the Left but, rather, through its own gestures and collective forms. Such emergence of destituent forms does take place historically, inasmuch as the epoch, throughout its...

... symptomal torsion, the element which belongs to the domain of Truth without being one of its acknowledged parts or subspecies? This would seem to confirm that the Truth-Event consists in the elementary ideological gesture of interpellating individuals (parts of a situation of Being) into subjects...

... Messiah who paves the way for renewal. Tiriel s commentary on Genesis and Paradise Lost, in terms of the reversal defined in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, proceeds through a chain of imagery snakes and serpents and a pattern of gestures cursings and blessings. IV Five years before the poem opens...

... itself to exploiting social roles 422 Stathis Gourgouris by embodying them in an externalizing gesture. This author originated in self-copying from life to stage a process that exploded both the original copying mold (the process of reproduction) and the framework of exhi­ bition. Thus did Genet...

... disposition of our times. As Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen argues in his contribution to this special issue, what is political in such moments is precisely the gesture of “refusing ordinary politics,” regarded by many as a realm of “shenanigans, detours, ruses and delays.” Importantly, such a refusal need not appeal...

... shift of emphasis that is worth remarking. The early essays are constantly urging some totalizing gesture or syndrome debt to Rousseau (10), desire for the imme­ diacy of natural objects (9) that might provide a truth of romanticism by a comparative path (49). In 1966, de Man is still worrying...