scholarly journals Thinking Without Authority: Performance Philosophy as the Democracy of Thought

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Performance Theory ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Real ◽  
Empirical Fact ◽  
Fundamental Proposition

Performance philosophy commences with an impertinent gesture when it describes itself as inaugurating a ‘new field’ of study.  Accompanying that claim is a radical proposition that ‘performance thinks’; that it should be counted as a form of philosophising in its own right.  But in what sense can performance be construed as ‘genuinely’ philosophical thought?  Taking my cue from Laura Cull’s alignment of performance philosophy with Laruelle’s practice of ‘non philosophy’ – and specifically, with its introduction of ‘democracy’ into the dispositives of ‘standard’ philosophy in order to challenge its transcendental authority over the Real – I argue that performance philosophy might be seen to enact a similar disruption of the ‘dispositives’ of performance theory.  This, however, is only partly what is at stake in the fundamental proposition of performance philosophy, and I conclude by suggesting that a more radical proposal lies behind its assertion of a new ‘field’ – one that does not reduce it to an empirical fact, but grasps it as a radical ‘utopian’ hypothesis designed to ‘open up’ the philosophical dimension of performance itself; utopian because what performance offers – seen in this way - is not simply another system of representation but a possible democratic thought of the Real itself.

scholarly journals The Awareness of Indonesian Students Toward Autonomous Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Dony Marzuki
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Real Condition ◽  
The Real ◽  
On Line

This writing reports the finding of a quantitative study which sought to find out the awareness of Indonesian  students toward autonomous  learning.  This was a survey to twelve Indonesian  students at their first year at Flinders  University. The survey used adapted and revised questionnaire  about autonomous  learning which was answered on-line by respondents. Survey Gizmo was utilized for this purpose. Analysis of the data by using SPSS ver. 15.0 showed that most Indonesian students from various different background  such as gender, age, hometown, occupation,  and  field of study have already aware of autonomous  learning  at almost the same level. Little different of autonomous  learning  level appeared  on the comparison  to hometowns of respondents.  Respondents from Java  had higher level of autonomous  learning than those from outside Java. Since this study involved small proportion of Indonesian  students in a specific place of Australia, similar study needs to be conducted with wider scope to find out the real condition.

Self as political possibility: subversive neighbor love and transcendental agency amidst collective blindness

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin McCoy Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Real ◽  
Political Subject

ABSTRACTThe author investigates a notion of self as political possibility from a multi-displinary perspective that engages the psychoanalytic and philosophical thought of Jung, Žižek, Badiou and Heidegger. The political subject is one who has encountered the real of a particular societal void through the neighbor's unbidden appeal and is thus violently wrenched out of the indifference of banal **existence into a possibility of political action in a world gone mad. To illuminate her theoretical arguments, the author includes her own auto-ethnographic study into the conditions from which an egalitarian-based clinic of care emerged amidst the horror of the AIDS plague when there was no societal support in place. Lastly, the author engages Heidegger's (secondarily Jung and Badiou's) secular reading of the apostle Paul's Christian revolution as a means of elaborating on the transcendental dimension of thought and the conditions for its collective and co-experienced political possibility in today's moment in history.

Palimpsestus: Frank Wedekind's Theatre of Self-Performance

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (45) ◽  
pp. 50-64
Author(s):  
David F. Kuhns
Keyword(s):  
Performance Theory ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
The Real ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
Dramatic Writing ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Washington University ◽  
Complicated Nature

Frank Wedekind's theatre art is usually approached through his dramatic writing: but the argument of this article is that the clearest understanding of the dramatist's career is to be gained through an encounter with his work as a performer. The stage was for Wedekind always a deeply personal and reflexive arena: as he once wrote, ‘the critics have often reproached me that my dramas are about myself. I would like to show that it's worth the trouble to bring myself onto the stage.’ In the following article, David Kuhns seeks to demonstrate the complicated nature of ‘performance’ as the term is applied to Wedekind – for his controversial plays and essays, scandalous satirical poems, cabaret appearances, and acting for the legitimate stage were all eclipsed by the notorious public persona which they constituted. This persona, Kuhns argues, became, even for Wedekind himself, inseparable from his self-perceived identity: it was both the real subject of his dramatic art and the essential character he performed. In short, Wedekind's career from beginning to end pursued a performative autobiographical dialectic of self-inscription and self-revision. The author, David Kuhns, teaches theatre history, dramatic literature, and performance theory at Washington University in St. Louis.

scholarly journals Epistemological-Methodological and Applied Aspects of Georg Brutian’s Philosophy

wisdom ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-192
Author(s):  
Hovhannes O. HOVHANNISYAN
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Argumentation Theory ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Value System ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Further Development

The article presents a number of key episodes and elaborations of the philosophical legacy of the famous Armenian philosopher of the 20th-21st centuries Georg Abel Brutian, each of which is a valuable contribution to the treasury of world philosophical thought. In particular, the paper deliberates on the epistemological-methodological and applied aspects of the concept of polylogic, transformational logic as a non-classical logical value system, the principle of linguistic complementarity. The paper analyzes the main achievements of the famous thinker in the field of study of the semantic theory of knowledge, logical principles of translation art, issues of argumentation theory, methodological bases of Armenology, their methodological significance in the context of further development of science.

The Role of Money in Plato’s Republic, Book i

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Noutsopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Real

Seaford’s recent work has revived and further substantiated a line of argument that had been developed by Marxist scholars claiming a central role for money in the genesis of philosophical thought. In a nutshell, this line of argument holds that beneath the abstractions in which philosophy breathes and with which philosophy works we can trace the real abstraction of the money form as embodiment of abstract social labour. Following this perspective, I will try to demonstrate the role money plays in Plato’s Republic, focusing on Book i.

Interplay between the Political Ideal and Reality

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Chan
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Real ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Dual Character ◽  
Political Ideal ◽  
The Ideal

This introductory chapter discusses how Confucian political philosophy can be modernized and enrich liberal democratic theories and political practices. It examines Confucian political thought from a perspective that explores the intricate interplay between political ideal and reality. Political philosophy has a dual character: viewed as a philosophical field of study, it searches for an ideal social and political order that expresses the best aspects of humanity; viewed as a political field of study, it aims to present an understanding of the real world and give principled guidance as to how people should act. The challenge of such two-track theorizing is twofold: to demonstrate the attractiveness of the ideal even though it is unlikely to work in the real world, and to show that a feasible nonideal conception of order still tallies with the ideal conception.

Perceiving Socially and Morally: The Question of Triangulation

Philosophy ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-75
Author(s):  
Edmond Wright
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Species ◽  
The Real ◽  
Empirical Fact ◽  
Evolutionary Advantage ◽  
Species Member ◽  
Living Creature

One evolutionary advantage is that, because of sensory and perceptual relativity (acknowledged as an empirical fact), the tracking of portions of the real relevant to the living creature can be enhanced if updating from species-member to species-member can take place. In human perception, the structure is therefore in the form of a triangulation (Davidson's metaphor) in which continual mutual correction can be performed. Language, that which distinguishes human beings from other animals, capitalizes on that structure. The means by which updating of adaptiveness takes place in the human species is shown to involve a covert hypothesis of singularity in co-reference, a structure that brings the idea of mutual faith and its character to the fore.

scholarly journals A thought of performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tero Nauha
Keyword(s):  
Main Argument ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Real ◽  
Karen Barad ◽  
Artistic Research

In this article I attempt to trace the path of my artistic research, which began from the application of schizoanalysis in performance and which now explores the possible limits of thought in order to regard how performance thinks in specifically different ways from discursive forms of thought, such as philosophy. The main argument starts from the notion – borrowed from French thinker, François Laruelle - that philosophical thought does not tell us more about the Real than any other gestures of thought. I begin from a speculative relationship between the apparatus of cognitive capitalism. I conclude by superpositioning the post-humanist thought of Laruelle and Karen Barad with the concept of ‘non-standard’ performance as fictioning. As a whole, the article aims to propose a performative approach to artistic research in these terms.

scholarly journals Damaging Similarities in Highly Skilled Signature Simulations - Their Detection and Authorship

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-220
Author(s):  
Mahesh C. Joshi ◽  
Mohinder Singh ◽  
Trilochan Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Professional Skill ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Real ◽  
Detection And Identification ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Real Person ◽  
Document Examiners ◽  
Work Done

Questioned document examination is a highly specialized and challenging field of study, because of the variety and complexity of problems that are referred to document examiners. Detection and identification of practiced simulated forgeries is an area of forensic science which requires the professional skill, capability and acumen of an examiner, every time he (or she) is called upon to examine and report a case of this nature. This is because firstly, the practiced simulations bear a striking semblance to the copied model and usually contains the handwriting features of the writers, the real person as well as the forger, though in varying degrees.Secondly, the skilled forger rarely leaves his own imprint in the forgery he committed. Most authorities on the subject have advised that the identification of authorship, in such cases, may be considered as an exception rather than the rule. Besides discussing and reviewing the work done in this regard, the authors have also presented and illustrated an intricate case study where the authorship of simulated signatures could be associated with the known handwriting of the suspected forger

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