Follow the verbs! A contribution to the study of the Heidegger–Latour connection

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 775-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasper Schiølin
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Opening Up

Recently, various scholars have attempted to combine the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Bruno Latour, despite seeming contrasts between them. The present study adds a new perspective to the opening up of this theoretical borderland. In this article, I show how Heidegger’s dispute with the philosophical tradition’s essentialistic and substantialistic treatment of being, and Latour’s dispute with sociology’s hypostatisation of the social, share the expression of an epistemological battle against substances, which is most evident in both of their attempts to include technology and things in their thought. Substances are mostly expressed in nouns. Because of this, Heidegger’s and Latour’s disputes have a grammatical dimension, which in different ways aims to emphasise verbs rather than the nouns in their respective terminology. This grammatical dimension of their shared dispute with substantialism will be demonstrated in this article. I conclude by arguing that Latour’s a famous methodological injunction, ‘Follow the actors!’ can be rewritten as ‘Follow the verbs!’.

Promoting Mass Movements- A New Perspective On Japanese Wartime Imperialism In Korea

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Shinyoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Mass Movements ◽  
Japanese Imperialism ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Japanese Colonial ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Economic Bloc ◽  
Colonial Government

This article aims to explore the Japanese colonial government’s efforts to promote mass movements in Korea which rose suddenly and showed remarkable growth throughout the 1930s. It focuses on two Governor-Generals and the directors of the Education Bureau who created the Social Indoctrination movements under Governor-General Ugaki Kazushige in the early 1930s and the National Spiritual Mobilization Movement of Governor-General Minami Jirō in the late 1930s. The analysis covers their respective political motivations, ideological orientation, and organizational structure. It demonstrates that Ugaki, under the drive to integrate Korea with an economic bloc centered on Japan, adapted the traditional local practices of the colonized based on the claim of “Particularities of Korea,” whereas the second Sino-Japanese War led Minami to emphasize assimilation, utilizing the ideology of the extended-family to give colonial power more direct access to individuals as well as obscuring the unequal nature of the colonial relationship. It argues that the colonial government-led campaigns constituted a core ruling mechanism of Japanese imperialism in the 1930s.

Lorenzo at ‘The Theatre’ Meeting actors and audience

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-38
Author(s):  
N. Ceramella
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One

The article considers two versions of D. H. Lawrence’s essay The Theatre: the one which appeared in the English Review in September 1913 and the other one which Lawrence published in his first travel book Twilight in Italy (1916). The latter, considerably revised and expanded, contains a number of new observations and gives a more detailed account of Lawrence’s ideas.Lawrence brings to life the atmosphere inside and outside the theatre in Gargnano, presenting vividly the social structure of this small northern Italian town. He depicts the theatre as a multi-storey stage, combining the interpretation of the plays by Shakespeare, D’Annunzio and Ibsen with psychological portraits of the actors and a presentation of the spectators and their responses to the plays as distinct social groups.Lawrence’s views on the theatre are contextualised by his insights into cinema and its growing popularity.What makes this research original is the fact that it offers a new perspective, aiming to illustrate the social situation inside and outside the theatre whichLawrenceobserved. The author uses the material that has never been published or discussed before such as the handwritten lists of box-holders in Gargnano Theatre, which was offered to Lawrence and his wife Frieda by Mr. Pietro Comboni, and the photographs of the box-panels that decorated the theatre inLawrence’s time.

Characters Before Copyright

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Birkhold
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Unique Type ◽  
Collaborative Authorship ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Consumer Habits ◽  
Archival Work

How did authors control the literary fates of fictional characters before the existence of copyright? Could a second author do anything with another author’s character? Situated between the decline of the privilege system and the rise of copyright, literary borrowing in eighteenth-century Germany has long been considered unregulated. This book tells a different story. Characters before Copyright documents the surprisingly widespread eighteenth-century practice of writing fan fiction—literary works written by readers who appropriate preexisting characters invented by other authors—and reconstructs the contemporaneous debate about the literary phenomenon. Like fan fiction today, these texts took the form of sequels, prequels, and spinoffs. Analyzing the evolving reading, writing, and consumer habits of late-eighteenth-century Germany, Characters before Copyright identifies the social, economic, and aesthetic changes that fostered the rapid rise of fan fiction after 1750. Based on archival work and an ethnographic approach borrowed from legal anthropology, this book then uncovers the unwritten customary norms that governed the production of these works. Characters before Copyright thus reinterprets the eighteenth-century “literary commons,” arguing that what may appear to have been the free circulation of characters was actually circumscribed by an exacting set of rules and conditions. These norms translated into a unique type of literature that gave rise to remarkable forms of collaborative authorship and originality. Characters before Copyright provides a new perspective on the eighteenth-century book trade and the rise of intellectual property, reevaluating the concept of literary property, the history of moral rights, and the tradition of free culture.

scholarly journals Integrative and Complementary Health Practices Building a New Health Paradigm

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Gemeli ◽  
H Silva ◽  
M Kato
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Health It ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective

Abstract This work arose from the need to broaden the therapeutic approach and offer a differentiated health intervention proposal based on the understanding that the illness process has repercussions on all integrated systems of Being. Since 2019, the Health Center for the Elderly in Blumenau (SC-Brasil), specialized multi-professional service, offering support for biopsychoenergetic transformation with the practice of Yoga and Meditation, through a holistic and comprehensive view of health. It begins with the Multidimensional Assessment of the Elderly, with a guideline in welcoming and qualified listening, which considers the subject and all subjectivity. From there, the expanded diagnosis and the Singular Therapeutic Project are built and the consultations with the team and the 'Re-Conhecer group' begin. The activity is weekly, aimed at the elderly and their family, takes place in an appropriate place and lasts two hours. Welcoming, pranayama, mantras, kriyas and meditation are made, as well as reflections on free themes. The professionals who conduct the practice are the dentist, trained in yoga, and the social worker, the welcoming process continues individually after the activity. Due to subjectivity, results are routinely collected in a qualitative way from the participants' report. There is a perception on the part of the participants, therapists and members of the multidisciplinary team that this work provides improvement in cognitive abilities, self-care, well-being, self-confidence, creativity, improved sleep, autonomy, balance, strengthening bonds, joy, vitality. Key messages This initiative builds new models of health care, transcending the traditional biomedical model, according to the operational guideline for comprehensiveness, universal access and equity. Provokes reflections and builds a new perspective of life with quality and participation of the elderly as subjects of their health.

Surface Media: McLuhan, the Bauhaus and the Tactile Values of TV

2021 ◽  
pp. 1357034X2110089
Author(s):  
Henning Schmidgen
Keyword(s):  
Media Use ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Sense Of Touch ◽  
Light Beams ◽  
Digital Computers

Marshall McLuhan understood television (TV) as a tactile medium. This understanding implied what Bruno Latour might call a ‘symmetrical’ conception of tactility. According to McLuhan, not only human actors are endowed with the sense of touch. In addition, TV, digital computers and other ‘electric media’ use light beams and similar scanning techniques for ceaselessly ‘caressing the contours’ of their surroundings. This notion of tactility was crucially shaped by the holistic aesthetics of the early Bauhaus. To get at the specific features of the TV image, McLuhan relied on the writings of László Moholy-Nagy and Sigfried Giedion, in particular their use of photography for capturing and highlighting the ‘texture’ of surfaces. However, he hardly reflected the social and political factors that, in the age of electric media, contribute to the ‘symmetricization’ of touch.

The Younghusband-Waddell Collection and Its People: the Social Life of Tibetan Books Gathered in a Late-colonial Enterprise

Inner Asia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-171
Author(s):  
Hildegard Diemberger
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Cultural Biography ◽  
The Social ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIn this paper I follow the social life of the Tibetan books belonging to the Younghusband-Waddell collection. I show how books as literary artefacts can transform from ritual objects into loot, into commodities and into academic treasures and how books can have agency over people, creating networks and shaping identities. Exploring connections between books and people, I look at colonial collecting, Orientalist scholarship and imperial visions from an unusual perspective in which the social life and cultural biography of people and things intertwine and mutually define each other. By following the trajectory of these literary artefacts, I show how their traces left in letters, minutes and acquisition documents give insight into the functioning of academic institutions and their relationship to imperial governing structures and individual aspirations. In particular, I outline the lives of a group of scholars who were involved with this collection in different capacities and whose deeds are unevenly known. This adds a new perspective to the study of this period, which has so far been largely focused on the deeds of key individuals and the political and military setting in which they operated. Finally, I show how the books of this collection have continued to exercise their attraction and moral pressure on twenty-first-century scholars, both Tibetan and international, linking them through digital technology and cyberspace.

Resisting Colonialism through Nature: An Ecopostcolonial Reading of Mahmoud Darwish's Selected Poems

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamoud Yahya Ahmed ◽  
Ruzy Suliza Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Theories Of Reading ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Opening Up

Resisting colonialism remains the main theme of the poetry of the Arab Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. This paper explores how Darwish employs nature as a new way for resisting the occupation of his homeland. His poems, throughout his writing life that spans fifty years, can be used to demonstrate how an ecopostcolonial perspective might contribute to an understanding of the poet's resistance through nature to the colonisers in his homeland. The theoretical framework used in this study is derived from both the ecocritical and postcolonial theories of reading literature. It is termed as ecoresistance as a new perspective of analysing resistance in the Arab literary studies, a non-western viewpoint and an original analytical lens for reading Darwish's work. The analysis reveals that Darwish uses the various forms of nature that range from the forms of the pure nature to the forms that have been cultivated. Through the ecopostcolonial perspective of the study, the employment of nature for resistance and the indication of Darwish as an ecopostcolonial poet of the Arab world are played out. The paper further proposes new insights into man's connection to land and is a step towards opening up the field of ecocriticism as a way of reading Arab poetry of resistance.

scholarly journals Living in-between the Phenomenology of the Corridic Space

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnab Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Dwelling ◽  
New Perspective

The ubiquitous corridor in contemporary multi-storied buildings, evince a strong liminal presence as a threshold space. Albeit its passivity, such a space exhibit a potential for playing a determining role in how the social forces shape the structure of community in such systems. The aim of the thesis is to extrude the liminal aspect of a corridor through a phenomenological investigation and determine a new threshold dialectics; the ‘corridic place’. The idea of the corridic place is to introduce a new perspective of social dialectics, place-building etc. and recompose the notion of dwelling in a threshold space. By giving material and expression to the dynamism of human dwelling, the corridic place transcends the physical and psychological constraints of a corridor and generates a transformative space conducive to community building.

scholarly journals ¿Orientan los aparatos tecnológicos las acciones humanas? Una postura praxeológica

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Manuel Leonardo Prada-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
John Searle

En la sociedad actual, el uso que las personas hacen de los aparatos tecnológicos no parece intencional, sino dirigido por el aparato mismo. Como esta situación es recurrente, este artículo busca contestar la pregunta de si los aparatos tecnológicos orientan las acciones humanas. Para ello se emplea un marco metodológico de enfoque cualitativo, empezando con una revisión de los antecedentes representados por las posturas de John Searle, Martin Heidegger y Bruno Latour. Después, se revisa la bibliografía fundamental de Antonio González-Fernández para seleccionar algunas premisas praxeológicas, y sentar una postura al respecto, a partir del concepto de realidad, al que denomina alteridad, relacionado con los aparatos tecnológicos, en tanto son cosas reales que pueden afectar las acciones humanas. Los resultados indican que los aparatos tecnológicos no dirigen las acciones humanas, asunto que corresponde a las estructuras de la praxis denominadas actuación y actividad. Así, la postura praxeológica no es mero intencionalismo ni puro dominio de la técnica, ni mucho menos una síntesis de ambas posturas. Más bien se puede proponer la coexistencia de la intencionalidad humana y la influencia del aparato tecnológico que, en tanto que cosa real, afecta al ser humano y lo obliga a dar una respuesta ante su presencia real. De esta manera, la implicación filosófica más importante consiste en derivar una postura praxeológica que supera las limitaciones de sus predecesores.

scholarly journals Living in-between the Phenomenology of the Corridic Space

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnab Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Dwelling ◽  
New Perspective

The ubiquitous corridor in contemporary multi-storied buildings, evince a strong liminal presence as a threshold space. Albeit its passivity, such a space exhibit a potential for playing a determining role in how the social forces shape the structure of community in such systems. The aim of the thesis is to extrude the liminal aspect of a corridor through a phenomenological investigation and determine a new threshold dialectics; the ‘corridic place’. The idea of the corridic place is to introduce a new perspective of social dialectics, place-building etc. and recompose the notion of dwelling in a threshold space. By giving material and expression to the dynamism of human dwelling, the corridic place transcends the physical and psychological constraints of a corridor and generates a transformative space conducive to community building.

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