Nicolas Schöffer’s SCAM: An Aesthetic Perturbation in the Urban Field

Leonardo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Susan Holden
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
European Society ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Art And Architecture

In 1973 cybernetic artist Nicolas Schöffer drove his SCAM through the streets of Paris, passing by the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower, creating a curious urban spectacle and highlighting the confrontation between different concepts of urban monumentality that had been at stake in post-World War II European society. Part sculpture, part automobile, the SCAM utilized the cybernetic technique of feedback and Schöffer’s application of it in the aesthetic concept of perturbation, in which light, sound and movement effects were orchestrated to interrupt the increasingly rapid cycles of perceptual saturation that Schöffer associated with modern urban life. The following analysis considers Schöffer’s SCAM in relation to the development of the “space-time” concept in the arts and how the technology of cybernetics suggested a new kind of temporality that complicated the role of art and architecture in defining the urban realm. It also considers the appearance of the SCAM idea in Schöffer’s entry to the Plateau Beaubourg architectural competition and its significance as a counterpoint to the “new monumentality” of the completed Centre Pompidou.

THE ROLE AND ROLE OF OIL POLICY IN SAUDI ARABIA IN POST WORLD WAR II ECONOMIC LIFE

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Maftuna Sanoqulova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oil Policy

This article consists of the politics which connected with oil in Saudi Arabia after the World war II , the relations of economical cooperations on this matter and the place of oil in the history of world economics

States of Salvation: Wise Blood and the Rise of the Neoliberal Right

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (5) ◽  
pp. 1166-1180
Author(s):  
Myka Tucker-Abramson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
White Flight ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Wise Blood ◽  
The Aesthetic

Situating Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood in the changing racial geographies of post-World War II Atlanta, this essay argues that Hazel Motes's religious journey toward embracing Jesus as his Savior allegorizes a recuperative fantasy of the white Southern subject's journey from Jim Crowto white flight. Through this journey, Wise Blood offers an astute vision of the racial struggles over Atlanta, out of which neoliberalism emerged in the 1970s and 1980s; thus, we might reconsider O'Connor as a central participant in the aesthetic and political struggles over the making of postwar urban space and politics.

scholarly journals Fascism on display: the afterlife of material legacies of the dictatorship

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Flaminia Bartolini
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
World War ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Italian City ◽  
Conservation Projects ◽  
To Come ◽  
Art And Architecture

The year 2015 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of World War II, a commemoration that prompted Italy to reconsider the complexity of the Fascist phenomenon and how the artistic creations and urbanism of the regime contributed to shaping city landscapes across the country. Fascist material legacies are an unequivocal presence in any Italian city, but the ways in which they have been preserved or not, reused or abandoned, provokes consideration of the complexities of the country’s renegotiation of its Fascist past, shifting from iconoclasm to present-day heritage status. Heritage designation and the restoration of Fascist works of art and architecture have posed questions regarding selectivity in heritage and whether Italy has yet to come to terms with its Fascist past. This paper will look at how Italy’s approach to Fascist heritage, which has recently been framed as ‘difficult heritage’ following Macdonald’s work on Nazi Germany, is an expression of the conflicting narratives that surround any renegotiation of the Fascist past, and how some recent conservation projects and exhibition have failed to demonstrate reflexivity over Fascism. It will also deconstruct the role of restoration and the heritage practices of preservation and management and will question the link between conservation and changes of attitude regarding a ‘difficult’ past.

‘African philosophy’ The History of an Expression

2019 ◽  
pp. 291-302
Author(s):  
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
African Philosophy ◽  
World War ◽  
Democratic Transitions ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Souleymane Bachir Diagne’s text is on the history of what has been called ‘African philosophy,’ a phrase with origins in the early post-World War II period. Diagne begins by tracing the complex history and legacy of the book Bantu Philosophy (1949), which was written by the philosopher and theologian Placide Tempels, a Franciscan missionary and Belgian citizen. Diagne argues that that text represented an important break with the way in which Africa had been ignored and set aside in philosophical circles (a practice that Diagne traces to Hegel). From there, he outlines how currents in African philosophy first imitated, and then later broke with, Tempels’s model. He concludes with observations on current trends in African philosophy, which above all focus on democratic transitions, human rights, the future of the arts, citizenship, and languages in use on the continent today.

scholarly journals A Critical Analysis of the US Role in the World

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-360
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Tariq ◽  
Amjad Ali Khan ◽  
Ejaz Khan
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Democratic Peace ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Trump Administration

The US has played a significant role in the world particularly during the post-world War–II period. The changing role has been ascribed by some to the Trump administration while by others it has been attributed to the Obama administration. Democratic Peace Theory provides the basic theoretical framework for the study while four key factors of the US role have been elucidated. The focus of this paper is to investigate the role played by the US in the post-World War-II era to date coupled with the changing behavior of the US from time to time during different regimes. The main objectives of the paper include global leadership, defense, and promotion of liberal international order, freedom, democracy, and prevention of the emergence of hegemonic power. It is an important fact that the US has played the role of world hegemony, particularly in the post-World War-II era.

Consumer in Chief

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Balogh
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Presidential Leadership ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii

Chapter 2 discusses sweeping changes in the post-World War II U.S. as the nation became the world’s economic powerhouse. The author emphasizes the key role of presidential leadership in constructing the emerging “consumer’s republic.” With several examples, he illustrates how presidents utilized the “bully pulpit” to foster consumption.

scholarly journals The role of museum institutions in relation to research on Sámi culture, history, and society in Norway until the post World War II years

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Dikka Storm
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Academic Development ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Culture History

This article examines the roles of two Norwegian museums; the Ethnographic Museum in Oslo and Tromsø Museum in Northern Norway, in relation to the production of Sámi research from the end of the nineteenth century until the Post World War II years. By emphasising the academic development of Ole Solberg, Just Qvigstad, Gutorm Gjessing, Knut Kolsrud and Ørnulv Vorren and the development of professional networks, the article calls attention to the establishment of a research strategy in 1913, the establishment of the Institute of Comparative Research in 1923, and the effects of these for studies of Sámi culture and society. Moreover, the article argues that the ethnographer Ørnulv Vorren and Tromsø Museum became important contributors to the advancement of Sámi research and the bolstering of the Sámi ethno-political movement.

scholarly journals AL CAMPBELL AND THE LEFT: BUILDING UAW/CAW LOCAL 27

Just Labour ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Russell
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
World War ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Post War ◽  
Nature Ofthe

The role of the Left in unions, women’s activism, and the rise of industrialunions in the post-World War II decades have been the subject of valuableacademic scrutiny. This article seeks to add to our understanding of these topicsby looking at the role that one prominent activist—Al Campbell—played inbuilding UAW/CAW Local 27 from the mid-1950s to theearly 1970s. Campbellstrongly advocated an independent Canadian autoworkers’ union, supportedwomen’s activism, and was instrumental in helping expand a major compositelocal in the union. I argue in this article that,in order to understand the nature ofthe post-war Canadian labour movement, we need to devote greater attention tothe role of devoted leftists in building local unions.

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