scholarly journals The success of Adi Nes’s "ctional photographic portraits: "gures of alterity and the utilization of memories in visual self-portraiture

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (34) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Carrie Bettel
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Military ◽  
Use Of Models ◽  
The Way ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

Abstract. Bettel Carrie, The success of Adi Nes’s fictional photographic portraits: figures of alterity and the utilization of memories in visual self-portraiture. “Images” vol. XXV, no. 34. Poznań 2019. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Pp. 45–55. ISSN 1731-450X. DOI 10.14746/i.2019.34.03. This paper demonstrates the way an autobiographer shapes his/her identity in the creation of his/her narrative. The autobiographer’s struggle in his/her understanding of the self is sometimes evident in the work. This project focuses specifically on the work of Adi Nes, an Israeli photographer. His photographs demonstrate the ways in which he feels like an outsider in Israel, as both a member of the Sephardic community and a homosexual. His photographs are staged, and he uses figures of alterity by projecting himself into his images with the use of models, which may lead the viewer to question the referentiality, or truthfulness, of each image. While demonstrating his identity through personal experience and memories, his images are created in the context of a stratified society, demonstrating the power dynamics of the military and the different groups that reside within Israel. The paper draws on images from three series – “Boys” (2000), “Soldiers” (1994–2000) and “Prisoners” (2000).

scholarly journals Shaping the Lyric: Blank Space in the Poetry of Emily Berry and Ocean Vuong

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Carney
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
The Self ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Blank Space ◽  
New Form ◽  
Night Sky ◽  
The Way ◽  
Language Poets

Emily Berry and Ocean Vuong have each written about their fascination with the physical and linguistic arrangement of a poemon the page, and yet their poetry has typically been read as purely confessional, concerned primarily with emotion and the revelation of personal experience, rather than an attempt to interrogate the nature of language itself. This article examines Emily Berry’sStranger, Baby and Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds,analysing their use of blank space in these collections, and the way in which they use this space, in its physical, linguistic and metaphorical forms, to emphasise the constructed nature of their poems, to evoke a sense of absence, distance or detachment, presentingus with the emotional complexities of grief, abandonment and dislocation, whilst also demonstrating these emotional states to the reader. It will propose that this use of blank space creates, ineffect, a new form of lyric poetry, one which combines the experiential focus of the confessional lyric with the self-analysis of the Imagists and Language poets, so that Berry and Vuong interrogate the inevitable failure of their own poems, emphasising theimpossible gap between traumatic experience and its articulation through language.

scholarly journals DO OLHAR AO FAZER CRIATIVO NO UNIVERSO DAS #INSTAFITNESS

polemica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 087-104
Author(s):  
Bruna Madureira
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
The Self ◽  
Potential Space ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Virtual Screen ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Donald Winnicott ◽  
The Way

Resumo: O objetivo do presente artigo é analisar de que maneira o universo feminino se apropria da rede social, principalmente do Instagram, que funciona como um diário de tela para eliminar gordura. Para isso, traçou-se uma analogia entre os conceitos de Donald Winnicott, destacando a função do olhar do outro enquanto constitutivo da representação de si mesmo. Além disso, analisou-se, ainda, conceitos tais como a mãe suficientemente boa e o espaço potencial como metáforas para a experiência em rede proporcionada pela interação com as seguidoras virtuais que curtem, comentam e compartilham as imagens postadas nas redes sociais. Baseadas nas ideias winnicottianas e na observação acerca da comunicação entre as instafitness e suas seguidoras, concluiu-se que o olhar que se dirige para a autoimagem compartilhada é essencial no processo de perda de peso, sobretudo porque esse olhar virtual ganha uma dimensão extremamente positiva. Daí a criação do conceito de seguidoras suficientemente boas.Palavras-chave: Instafitness. Brincar. Espaço Potencial. Seguidoras suficientemente boas.Abstract: This article aims to analyze the way the female universe uses social media, especially Instagram, which functions as virtual screen journal of working towards thinness. For that we trace an analogy between Donald Winnicott’s concepts, highlighting the function of the followers' gaze as a constitutional representation of the self. We will also analyze the concepts "good enough mother" and "potential space" as metaphors for how the network experience comes from interacting with virtual followers who like, comment and share the images posted in social networks. Based on the Winnicottian ideas and observations of communications between the instafitness users and their followers, we come to the conclusion that the gaze upon one’s shared image is essential in the process of weight loss, especially because this virtual gaze becomes extremely positive. Hence the creation of the concept of good enough followers.Keywords: Instafitness. Playing. Potential Space. Good enough followers.

scholarly journals Decolonising the languages curriculum: linguistic justice for linguistic ecologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Alison Phipps
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Linguistic Justice ◽  
Community Programmes ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Way

What is it? Decolonising the languages curriculum is a radical requirement to critically re-examine the way in which the languages curriculum has been formed in any context. It requires the examination of the power dynamics which have led to the dominance of certain languages over others and which languages are and are not accorded resources in schools, universities, and colleges by the state, by the military, by community programmes, and in families. Decolonising the languages curriculum requires what is known as a phenomenological double break.

Vérités et Mensonges

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-224
Author(s):  
Erik Gunderson
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Self ◽  
Faithful Representation ◽  
Political Subject ◽  
Concrete Reality ◽  
Hermeneutic Process ◽  
The Way

This is a survey of some of the problems surrounding imperial panegyric. It includes discussions of both the theory and practice of imperial praise. The evidence is derived from readings of Cicero, Quintilian, Pliny, the Panegyrici Latini, Menander Rhetor, and Julian the Apostate. Of particular interest is insincere speech that would be appreciated as insincere. What sort of hermeneutic process is best suited to texts that are politically consequential and yet relatively disconnected from any obligation to offer a faithful representation of concrete reality? We first look at epideictic as a genre. The next topic is imperial praise and its situation “beyond belief” as well as the self-positioning of a political subject who delivers such praise. This leads to a meditation on the exculpatory fictions that these speakers might tell themselves about their act. A cynical philosophy of Caesarism, its arbitrariness, and its constructedness abets these fictions. Julian the Apostate receives the most attention: he wrote about Caesars, he delivered extant panegyrics, and he is also the man addressed by still another panegyric. And in the end we find ourselves to be in a position to appreciate the way that power feeds off of insincerity and grows stronger in its presence.

Native Americans and the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
LaNada War Jack
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Third World ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

The author reflects on her personal experience as a Native American at UC Berkeley in the 1960s as well as on her activism and important leadership roles in the 1969 Third World Liberation Front student strike, which had as its goal the creation of an interdisciplinary Third World College at the university.

Attention Sustainability Impact on Social Status in the Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Stanislava Varadinova
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Early School ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way ◽  
Positive Environment

The attention sustainability and its impact of social status in the class are current issues concerning the field of education are the reasons for delay in assimilating the learning material and early school dropout. Behind both of those problems stand psychological causes such as low attention sustainability, poor communication skills and lack of positive environment. The presented article aims to prove that sustainability of attention directly influences the social status of students in the class, and hence their overall development and the way they feel in the group. Making efforts to increase students’ attention sustainability could lead to an increase in the social status of the student and hence the creation of a favorable and positive environment for the overall development of the individual.

Makna Alif dalam Puisi Zikir D. Zawawi Imron dan Sajak Alif Ahmadun Yosi Herfanda

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Sholeha Rosalia ◽  
Yosi Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
The Self ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Creation

Alif means the first, saying the Supreme Life and is Sturdy and has the element of fire and Alif is formed from Ulfah (closeness) ta'lif (formation). With this letter Allah mementa'lif (unite) His creation with the foundation of monotheism and ma'rifah belief in appreciation of faith and monotheism. Therefore, Alif opens certain meanings and definitions of shapes and colors that are in other letters. Then be Alif as "Kiswah" (clothes) for different messages. That is a will. "IQRO" is a revelation that was first passed down to the Prophet Muhammad. Saw. Read it, which starts with the letter Alif and ends with the letter Alif. The creation of a poem is influenced by the environment and the self-reflection of a poet where according to the poet's origin, in comparing in particular Alif's poetry from the two poets. The object of this research is the poetry of Zikir by D. Zawawi Imron and Sajak Alif by Ahmadun Yosi Herfanda. This study uses a comparative method and sociology of literature. Through a comparative study of literature between the poetry of Zikir D. Zawawi Imron and Sajak Alif Ahmadun Yosi Herfanda, it is hoped that the public can know the meaning of Alif according to the poet's view. With this research, the Indonesian people can accept different views on the meaning of Alif in accordance with their respective understanding without having to look for what is right and wrong. The purpose in Alif is like a life, in the form of letters like a body, a tree that is cut to the root, from the heart is split to the seeds, then from the seeds are split so that nothing is the essence of life. So, it is clear that Alif is the most important and Supreme letter. Talking about the meaning of Alif as the first letter revealed on earth. After the letter Alif was revealed, 28 other Hijaiyah letters were born. The letter Alif is made the beginning of His book and the opening letter. Other letters are from Alif and appear on him.

Monkey on My Back. An Autoethnographic Narrative of a Therapeutic Experience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Wiesner
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Self ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Therapeutic Experience ◽  
Postmodern Philosophy ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Global Uncertainty

With a conscious attempt to contribute to contemporary discussions in mad/trans/queer/monster studies, the monograph approaches complex postmodern theories and contextualizes them from an autoethnographic methodological perspective. As the self-explanatory subtitle reads, the book introduces several topics as revelatory fields for the author’s self-exploration at the moment of an intense epistemological and ontological crisis. Reflexively written, it does not solely focus on a personal experience, as it also aims at bridging the gap between the individual and the collective in times of global uncertainty. There are no solid outcomes defined; nevertheless, the narrative points to a certain—more fluid—way out. Through introducing alternative ways of hermeneutics and meaning-making, the book offers a synthesis of postmodern philosophy and therapy, evolutionary astrology as a symbolic language, embodied inquiry, and Buddhist thought that together represent a critical attempt to challenge the pathologizing discursive practices of modern disciplines during the neoliberal capitalist era.

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