scholarly journals Arte y Vida en Disolución: Aproximación a la Obra de Llorenç Barber

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
Isaac Diego Garci­a Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
John Cage ◽  
Common Space ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
The Common ◽  
Artistic Work

This article reflects on the nature of the creative act in relation to the everyday world. In opposition to the formalist conception of the artistic work as anautonomous object, during the 20th century various authors tried to spotlight the dialectical relationship established between art and life. Particularly important was John Cage, who started, from Dadaism, a profound transformation in the field of experimental music. His thinking had a greatinfluence on several generations of musicians and sound artists. A case particularly revealing is Llorenç Barber, interdisciplinary artist and composer. Its proposals, which developed outside of the traditional concert rite, intend todilute the artistic work in its context. These are essentially shared listening situations in everyday environments. From among its creations, the ‘plurifocal’ concerts for city stand out: gigantic compositions designed for each urban layout, which acquire a dimension of art public. The objective ofthe musician is to intervene artistically the common space to be returned to the community in the form of collective celebration. Ultimately, through the study of the work and thinking of Barber, this text aims to explore the boundaries between music and life.

The Common Place

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Lienhard
Keyword(s):  
Cottage Industry ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Wonderful Thing ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
Crank Mechanism

A contradiction swirls around invention. While invention flows from an uncommon quarter of the mind, it ultimately comes to rest in the day by day world where we live our lives. Invention defines the commonplace world that we all share. The creative imperative is a unique and wonderful thing, yet it grows in the common clay of coping and of play, and that is also where it comes to rest. We celebrate the magnificent steam engines, airplanes, and cathedrals. But look around your room for a moment. When I do that I see paper, windowpanes, wood screws, a pencil sharpener, paint, and carpeting. Everything but the cat sleeping on the window ledge came into being after long sequences of invention by many people. Even the cat’s subtle gestures and communications maybe partly the stuff of my own contrivance. When we look with the eye of the mind at the everyday world around us, we see how much human imagination has run riot through it. We realize how imagination has invested the basest elements of our lives with possibilities. Try counting the cost of the ordinary world in the coin of human ingenuity. Cartographers who invented the globe on my bookshelf gave me a way to visit Fiji, Chad, and Tibet—places where fortune is unlikely to take me. The simple crank mechanism on my pencil sharpener represents a huge leap of the mind that took place only about twelve hundred years ago (a matter we talk about in Chapter II). Imagination has enriched every corner of those common places where we all live out our lives. For example, a hassled secretary hacks out a living on a new IBM typewriter in 1951. The typewriter’s ribbon ink leaves nasty smudges when she erases an error. In a burst of creative frustration, she goes home and invents a liquid for painting out mistakes. Its base is white tempera paint, the woman’s name is Betsy Nesmith, and the liquid is an immediate hit with other typists. By 1956 she is running a cottage industry, mixing the brew for other secretaries.

Opening the (Muslim) woman’s space—The Soviet politics of emancipation in the 1920s–1930s

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Gradskova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Ural Region ◽  
Muslim Woman ◽  
Soviet System ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
Common Space ◽  
Region I ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Common ◽  
Volga Ural Region

The emancipation of the “woman of the East” constituted an important part of the Soviet cultural revolution campaign of the 1920s–1930s. This article has as its aim the exploration of the Soviet discourses and the practices of emancipation of the “woman of the East,” with a focus on the Muslim woman of the Volga-Ural region. I show that the Bolshevik attempts at transforming the everyday life of the “woman of the East,” in spite of their anti-colonial rhetoric, often followed the Russian imperial scripts and the logic of the civilizing mission. In contrast to Muslim modernism’s ideas on the compatibility of modernity with Islam, the Bolshevik secular and declaratively ungendered modernity aimed for the destruction of the separateness of male and female spaces and their conversion to the common space of the communist collectivity. However, the discourse on the special “backwardness” and “slave-like” situations of the Muslim woman contradicted these aspirations and led to her “Otherness” rather than emancipation and equality inside the Soviet system.

The History of Missed Opportunities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Galperin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Levels

This study is about the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event and about the practices of retrospection in which it came to awareness in the romantic period in “histories” of the missed, the unappreciated, the overlooked. Prior to this moment everyday life was both unchanging and paradoxically unpredictable. By the late eighteenth century, however, as life became more predictable and change on a technological and political scale more rapid, the present came into unprecedented focus, yielding a world answerable to neither precedent nor futurity. This alternative world soon appears in literature of the period: in the double takes by which the poet William Wordsworth disencumbers history of memory in demonstrating what subjective or “poetic” experience typically overlooks; in Jane Austen, whose practice of revision returns her to a milieu that time and progress have erased and that reemerges, by previous documentation, as something different. It is observable in Lord Byron, thanks to the “history” to which marriage and domesticity are consigned not only in the wake of his separation from Lady Byron but during their earlier epistolary courtship, where the conjugal present came to consciousness (and prestige) as foredoomed but an opportunity nonetheless. The everyday world that history focalizes in the romantic period and the conceptual void it exposes in so doing remains a recovery on multiple levels: the present is both “a retrospect of what might have been” (Austen) and a “sense,” as Wordsworth put it, “of something ever more about to be.”

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Seligmann
Keyword(s):  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Alcohol Intake ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
The Common

As this book has shown the common conception that ‘Churchill’s “radical phase” was cast to the winds’ when he was put in charge of the Navy in October 1911, although well established in the literature, is not, in fact, accurate.1 The radical President of the Board of Trade, eager to improve the lives of the poor, became the radical Home Secretary, no less enthusiastic for social reform, who then became the radical First Lord of the Admiralty, imbued with both a desire and, perhaps more importantly, a will to intervene in order to better conditions for those who served in the Royal Navy. Accordingly, he embarked upon a major programme of improvement across a wide range of different areas all of which affected the everyday life of sailors. Alcohol intake, sexual behaviour, religious practice, corporal punishment, as well as pay and equality of progression, all came under the spotlight while Churchill was First Lord. Of course, not all of the new measures were successful and not all were progressive in the modern understanding of the term, but all of them represented significant attempts to push forward a radical agenda for change....

Toward Neuroscience of the Everyday World (NEW) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 100272
Author(s):  
Alexander von Lühmann ◽  
Yilei Zheng ◽  
Antonio Ortega-Martinez ◽  
Swathi Kiran ◽  
David C. Somers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Near Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World

scholarly journals Widening the common space to reduce the gap between climate science and decision-making in industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 100237
Author(s):  
Luise J. Fischer ◽  
Heini Wernli ◽  
David N. Bresch
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Common Space ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals Historical materialism and international studies: theorising the politics of struggle in the everyday world

2021 ◽  
pp. 004711782199161
Author(s):  
Cemal Burak Tansel
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Historical Materialist ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Global War ◽  
Materialist Feminist

This forum brings together critical engagements with Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton’s Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis to assess the prospects and limits of historical materialism in International Studies. The authors’ call for a ‘necessarily historical materialist moment’ in International Studies is interrogated by scholars working with historical materialist, feminist and decolonial frameworks in and beyond International Relations (IR)/International Political Economy (IPE). This introductory essay situates the book in relation to the wider concerns of historical materialist IR/IPE and outlines how the contributors assess the viability of Bieler and Morton’s historical materialist project.

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