Debating the Jinn: Making and unmaking of the invisible beings in the discursive tradition of Malabar

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Central Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
History Of ◽  
Textual Representation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Invisible ◽  
A Performance

Abstract This article is an addition to the culture of 'debate as performance' in the Indian subcontinent as a research on the theological arguments through texts and performances on the existence of invisible creatures. It locates the space of the debates in Malabar, which has a long history of argumentative tradition. This article suggests that (in)visibility is the central point of contestation when one analyses the debating culture on Jinns. Textual representation of arguments and performance on the stage are two spaces where we can analytically explore the cases. The Jinn debate has undergone transitions in its development towards a core ideological point in Malabar. How do proponents and opponents corroborate their arguments based on texts or the logical understanding? When has this practice begun? Who were the leading Jinn debaters in Malabar? Malabar, as a discursive space for debates, has contributed to the making and unmaking of Jinns in the region. It is obvious that these debates were performative events, as a performance of the pure religion, and as a performative moment for distinctions for each ideology from the other.

The Feminization of Etiquette Literature: Foucault, Mechanisms of Social Change, and the Paradoxes of Empowerment

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Arditi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Space ◽  
The 19Th Century

This paper explores the opening of a discursive space within the etiquette literature in the United States during the 19th century and how women used this space as a vehicle of empowerment. It identifies two major strategies of empowerment. First, the use or appropriation of existing discourses that can help redefine the “other” within an hegemonic space. Second, and more importantly, the transformation of that space in shifting the lines by which differentiation is produced to begin with. Admittedly, these strategies are neither unique nor the most important in the history of women's empowerment. But this paper argues that the new discourses formulated by women helped forge a new space within which women ceased being the “other,” and helped give body to a concept of womanhood as defined by a group of women, regardless of how idiosyncratic that group might have been.

MYTH, CULT, AND PERFORMANCE: SIR JOHN SOANE'S CAWDOR VASE

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-123
Author(s):  
TYLER JO SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
The Other ◽  
Exact Location ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
House Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Funerary Ritual ◽  
Dining Room ◽  
And Performance

Abstract The Cawdor Vase was purchased by Sir John Soane in 1800, launching the London architect's career as a collector of antiquities. The Apulian red-figure volute-krater (4th c. BC) is displayed in the dining room of Soane's house-museum at no. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the exact location it occupied when Soane died in 1837. The krater appears in artistic representations and section drawings of the house, as well as in descriptions of the museum and its holdings. Prominent modern scholars (Vermeule and Trendall) studied the object, securing its place in the corpus of South Italian wares. As intriguing as its role in the history of collecting and reception is the Cawdor Vase's unique iconography. On one side is an enigmatic version of the preparations for the chariot race of Oinomaos and Pelops, and on the other a familiar type of naiskos scene. The decoration on the vase, taken as a whole, reveals the different stages of the famous myth and can be connected with textual accounts, the cult of Pelops, Apulian funerary ritual, and the foundation of the Olympic Games.

Blood, Thunder and Theory: The Arrival of English Melodrama

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
The Other ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Critical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Performance

One of the surest ways of registering disapproval of a play or a performance is to dismiss it as ‘melodramatic’, thus invoking a whole network of mistaken dramatic values and improper practice. In arts reviews, classrooms and text books, ‘melodrama’ recurs as the ‘other’ of ‘proper’ realist drama. In English Drama: A Cultural History, we describe the critical history of melodrama as ‘The Unacceptable Face of Theatre's importance and seriousness. One of the most influential interventions came from Peter Brooks, whose Melodramatic Imagination propounds two arguments in favour of melodrama'scultural centrality: first, Brooks shows how Diderot and Rousseau anticipated the French form of melodrama, then he makes connections between melodramatic gesture or sign and the work of Saussure or Barthes. My aim here is to develop the case further by suggesting that, in the case of English melodrama, the practice of the form as it emerged was very far from being non-intellectual, out of control or stupid. Indeed the dramatists themselves were well conscious of what they were doing formally: not only intelligence but also self-reflection were there from the start.

Herschel and the invisible end of the rainbow

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S367) ◽  
pp. 181-185
Author(s):  
Franz Kerschbaum ◽  
Madalena Brunner
Keyword(s):  
Infrared Radiation ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Infrared Camera ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Invisible

AbstractThe communication project “Herschel and the invisible end of the rainbow” features the year 1800 discovery and today’s application of infrared radiation through diverse methods and different media in order to reach a wide audience. The discovery of the sun’s infrared radiation by the Herschels is demonstrated in a creative way through the publication and performance of a theatre play and accompanying audio play. The documentation of the historical discovery, which changed both science and our daily life, is further supplemented by background information e.g. on the role of women in science in the late 18th and early 19th century. By this, the history of the discovery of infrared radiation becomes alive and easily comprehensible. Additionally, we carry out interactive experiments and demonstrations using a capable thermal infrared camera by which a mostly unknown and strange infrared world becomes visible for all generations. Our recent findings with the infrared space telescope Herschel are used to exemplify modern science use. With this colourful, diverse and interactive communication concept, which is easily extendable and adaptable, we already took part in several science festivals, workshops and training events.

scholarly journals Secularism and the State in Pakistan: Introduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUMEIRA IQTIDAR ◽  
DAVID GILMARTIN
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Religious Nationalism ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Site

Pakistan occupies an uncertain and paradoxical space in debates about secularism. On the one hand, the academic consensus (if there is any), traces a problematic history of secularism in Pakistan to its founding Muslim nationalist ideology, which purportedly predisposed the country towards the contemporary dominance of religion in social and political discourse. For some, the reconciliation of secularism with religious nationalism has been a doomed project; a country founded on religious nationalism could, in this view, offer no future other than its present of Talibans, Drone attacks and Islamist threats. But on the other hand, Pakistan has also been repeatedly held out as a critical site for the redemptive power of secularism in the Muslim world. The idea that religious nationalism and secularism could combine to provide a path for the creation of a specifically Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent is often traced to the rhetoric of Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. But debate among Muslim League leaders specifically on the relationship of religious nationalism with secularism—and indeed on the nature of the Pakistani state itself—was limited in the years before partition in 1947. Nevertheless, using aspects of Jinnah's rhetoric and holding out the promise of secularism's redemptive power, a military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, was able to secure international legitimacy and support for almost a decade.

scholarly journals Independent Ireland in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
Full Effect ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Eu

This article surveys independent Ireland’s economic policies and performance. It has three main messages. First, the economic history of post-independence Ireland was not particularly unusual. Very often, things that were happening in Ireland were happening elsewhere as well. Second, for a long time, we were hampered by an excessive dependence on a poorly performing UK economy. And third, EC membership in 1973 and the single market programme of the late 1980s and early 1990s were absolutely crucial for us. Irish independence and European Union (EU) membership have complemented each other, rather than being in conflict: Each was required to give full effect to the other. Irish independence would not have worked as well for us as it did without the EU; and the EU would not have worked as well for us as it did without political independence.

scholarly journals Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin C. Karnes
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
The Other ◽  
John Cage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Student Club ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The One ◽  
Academic Year

This article traces a largely forgotten history of the 1980s Soviet disco craze by following the work of one of its pioneering figures, the Latvian DJ, musician, and performance artist Hardijs Lediņš (1955–2004). It documents how the movement coalesced amidst creative responses to the gradual opening of the USSR to Western popular culture on the one hand, and to the unique affordances of local political, social, and technological structures on the other. In Lediņš’s case, the response was also shaped by commitments to an ideal of Soviet socialism that persisted despite the grim realities of Brezhnev-era society. Drawing on archival research and oral history, I begin in the loosely monitored space of the Student Club at the Riga Polytechnic Institute, where Lediņš’s talents and ties to elites enabled him to found a wildly popular discotheque in the 1974–75 academic year, one of the first of its kind in the USSR. I follow his increasing investment in a distinctly Soviet form of experimentalist performance art in the early 1980s, in which—inspired in part by local readings of John Cage—the ritualized trek into the countryside became a vehicle for attaining spiritual enlightenment in communion with others. Finally, I consider ways in which his ritual journeys inflected his disco operation in subsequent years, when he reframed his events as experiments in communality—specifically, as means of experiencing, at least for an evening, the enlightening promise of Soviet socialism undelivered by the state itself.

Theatricality. Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Thomas Postlewait. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. 236. $55 cloth; $23.99 paper.

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
Janelle Reinelt
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Hierarchical Relationship ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The One ◽  
History Of Use

The concepts of theatricality and performativity have been enormously productive sources of recent scholarship in the fields of theatre and performance studies. While the former term has a long history of use and abuse, the latter has gained contemporary currency in connection with the emergence of performance studies, on the one hand, and new interpretations and applications of J. L. Austin's 1950s philosophy, on the other. As scholars have reexamined theatricality and probed performativity, a number of new uses of these terms have developed, and depending on the scholar's viewpoint, a binary or sometimes hierarchical relationship between these terms has prevailed.

Embodied Scholarship: A Performance History of William Richard Waldron’s Lizzie Leigh; or, The Murder Near the Old Mill (1863)

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-67
Author(s):  
Thomas Recchio
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Performance History ◽  
Infrastructure Planning ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Theatrical Culture ◽  
A Performance

Through a reflective account of the process by which William Richard Waldron’s Lizzie Leigh was staged by the Theatre Caucus at the 2018 North American Victorian Studies Association conference held in St Petersburg, Florida, I hope to present a picture of what it might mean to figure scholarship as an act of embodiment through performance as both a stimulus for and a mode of inquiry. Towards that end, I offer a process narrative that tracks the selection, editing, infrastructure planning, rehearsal, and performance of the play in an effort to capture the intentional, inadvertent, and retrospective avenues of inquiry that emerged through that process, with an emphasis on tracking as fully as possible the performance history of the play, of which the North American Victorian Studies Association performance became a part. In addition to documenting the performance history of the play in Victorian Britain, I will also document the career of the play’s author in relation to the changes in decade and in venue of performances of the play in order to suggest the appeal and staying power of an under-valued piece of Victorian theatrical culture that still can speak to audiences today.

scholarly journals FAST, PARALLEL AND SECURE CRYPTOGRAPHY ALGORITHM USING LORENZ'S ATTRACTOR

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 365-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDERSON GONÇALVES MARCO ◽  
ALEXANDRE SOUTO MARTINEZ ◽  
ODEMIR MARTINEZ BRUNO
Keyword(s):  
Chaotic System ◽  
Numerical Experiments ◽  
Operation Mode ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
The Other ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Performance

A novel cryptography method based on the Lorenz's attractor chaotic system is presented. The proposed algorithm is secure and fast, making it practical for general use. We introduce the chaotic operation mode, which provides an interaction among the password, message and a chaotic system. It ensures that the algorithm yields a secure codification, even if the nature of the chaotic system is known. The algorithm has been implemented in two versions: one sequential and slow and the other, parallel and fast. Our algorithm assures the integrity of the ciphertext (we know if it has been altered, which is not assured by traditional algorithms) and consequently its authenticity. Numerical experiments are presented, discussed and show the behavior of the method in terms of security and performance. The fast version of the algorithm has a performance comparable to AES, a popular cryptography program used commercially nowadays, but it is more secure, which makes it immediately suitable for general purpose cryptography applications. An internet page has been set up, which enables the readers to test the algorithm and also to try to break into the cipher.

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