Organic Metaphors and Urban Causalities

2013 ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Benedikte Zitouni
Keyword(s):  
Organic Metaphors

Allusion and Metaphor

2021 ◽  
pp. 196-211
Author(s):  
Jane de Gay
Keyword(s):  
Between The Acts ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
Night And Day ◽  
Organic Metaphors ◽  
Room Of One's Own

This chapter demonstrates that Woolf’s allusive practice involved transforming and interrogating texts rather than invoking the authority of earlier texts or their scholarly interpretations. It shows how Woolf’s allusions are often supported by metaphors that draw attention to the longevity of past literature that is essential to the act of allusion. These include organic metaphors such as the growth of seeds, plants, and flowers; familial metaphors of conception, birth, and reproduction; and the ethereal metaphor of haunting. The chapter examines how Woolf uses allusion and metaphor to articulate relationships with the literary past in A Room of One’s Own and in her representation of characters who are female writers in Night and Day, Orlando, and Between the Acts.

scholarly journals How do data come to matter? Living and becoming with personal data

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205395171878631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Lupton
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Human Data ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Organic Metaphors ◽  
Feminist Materialism

Humans have become increasingly datafied with the use of digital technologies that generate information with and about their bodies and everyday lives. The onto-epistemological dimensions of human–data assemblages and their relationship to bodies and selves have yet to be thoroughly theorised. In this essay, I draw on key perspectives espoused in feminist materialism, vital materialism and the anthropology of material culture to examine the ways in which these assemblages operate as part of knowing, perceiving and sensing human bodies. I draw particularly on scholarship that employs organic metaphors and concepts of vitality, growth, making, articulation, composition and decomposition. I show how these metaphors and concepts relate to and build on each other, and how they can be applied to think through humans’ encounters with their digital data. I argue that these theoretical perspectives work to highlight the material and embodied dimensions of human–data assemblages as they grow and are enacted, articulated and incorporated into everyday lives.

Metaphorical Recurrence and Language Symbolism in Arabic Metalanguage Discourse

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaoqun Lian
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Language Perception ◽  
Organic Metaphors ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Language Academies ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This article, written by Chaoqun Lian, begins by pointing out that in Arabic metalanguage discourse one often encounters metaphors associating the form and situation of Arabic to non-linguistic entities and activities. Many of these metaphors, according to Lian, belong to ‘organic metaphors’, as they depict Arabic and its varieties as living organisms. In his article, Lian investigates the recurrence of ‘organic metaphors’ in language policy discussions within the Arabic language academies in Damascus and Cairo. By carefully analysing selected cases of metaphor-making, Lian unearths the normally covert link between language perception and socio-political circumstances in the Arabic-speaking world. According to Lian, when these socio-political circumstances are taken into consideration, academic research will be able to produce a more nuanced, dialectic understanding of the ‘organic’ perception of languages.

Boundary Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-35
Author(s):  
Julie Thompson Klein
Keyword(s):  
Climate Modeling ◽  
Academic Reform ◽  
Genetic Toxicology ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Trading Zones ◽  
Organic Metaphors ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sector Work

The first chapter lays a foundation for the book by defining boundary discourse in crossdisciplinary and cross-sector work. It begins by distinguishing spatial and organic metaphors of boundaries, with initial emphasis on disciplines. It then combines the two metaphors in a composite concept of an ecology of spatializing practices, illustrated by the evolving nature of disciplines as well as trading zones and communities of practice. The chapter then describes structures for interdisciplinary work, followed by the concept of heterarchy, changing character of higher education, platforms for communication and collaboration, and role of the built environment. It turns next to boundary objects, illustrated by construction of a natural history museum, an academic reform initiative, a project on waste management, and the relationship of objects and their description in climate modeling, regulatory discourse, genetic toxicology, and human ecology. The chapter ends by examining boundary organizations and agents in two cross-sector case studies.

Marx's Critique of Economic Reason

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Freudenthal
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Economic Reason ◽  
Social Form ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Commodity Production ◽  
Commodity Money ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Organic Metaphors

The ArgumentIn this paper I argue first that Marx's Critique of Political Economy employs “critique” in the Kantian meaning of the term—i.e., determining the domain of legitimate application of the categories involved and maintaining that outside these borders understanding is led into error and entangled in metaphysics.According to Marx, his predecessors in political economy transgressed these boundaries of application, and therefore conceived of all different modes of production as being essentially similar to commodity production, and thus implied that commodity production and the bourgeois form of life corresponding to it are “natural” not historical and transitory. In Marx's conception there are no super-historical economic categories or laws.I argue moreover that Marx's methodology of reconstructing the “development” of socioeconomic entities and categories from their “germ” or “cell” also serves his critical intention. Whereas social theorists of the time referred with organic metaphors to human collectives (“family,” “community,” etc.), Marx referred with such metaphors to economic entities only (“commodity,”“money,” etc.). The difference is crucial, since the first carries deterministic consequences for the development of society while the latter does not: Social form and historical development in Marx are contingent and not necessary, historical and not natural, transitory and not eternal.I also stress that Marx's procedure of critique is internal. He uses only such assumptions, observations, and arguments as could in principle also be used by the scholars criticized. Nevertheless the outcome of the critique is not merely a new theory but an entirely different one — i.e., a historical conception of the discipline of political economy and of its laws.

Imperial Ruins and Resurgence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Fojas
Keyword(s):  
Natural Order ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
Organic Metaphors ◽  
Boom And Bust Cycles ◽  
The City

Detroit became a symbol of the economic freefall, and its ruins, deserted factories, abandoned houses, were a harbinger of the end of capitalism and a sign of “urban death.” Organic metaphors inform and drive the story of capitalism as the natural order of things, subject to the forces of entropy but always renewable. Even without infusions of capital, Detroit’s recovery was afoot, not in actual terms, but in the phantom speculations of storyville. The city became an emblem of death and rebirth in capitalism. Stories of recurrence and return are part of the mythos of capitalism. The boom and bust cycles of capitalism are merely moments in an ongoing and endless cycle of ruin and resurgence and of death and rebirth.

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