scholarly journals 'Visibility brings with it responsibility': Using a Pragmatic Performance Approach to Explore a Political Philosophy of Technology

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraint D'Arcy
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Ubiquitous Communications ◽  
Pragmatic Performance

With the emergence, suspicion and social acceptance of ubiquitous communications technology thoroughly plumbed and the digital age already wondering what it is going to rename itself in light of ever more fluid and complex technologies, this paper asks: what can theatre and performance provide to the production of a political philosophy of technology?� Using the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault and an analysis of a recent inter-cultural adaptation of Jean Genet's The Maids, this study examines the politics of visible theatre technologies in performance and offers a pragmatic, or instrumentalist, approach to developing a political philosophy of technology.

scholarly journals Good practices for the translation, cultural adaptation, and linguistic validation of clinician-reported outcome, observer-reported outcome, and performance outcome measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn McKown ◽  
Catherine Acquadro ◽  
Caroline Anfray ◽  
Benjamin Arnold ◽  
Sonya Eremenco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Patient Reported Outcome ◽  
Validation Process ◽  
Linguistic Validation ◽  
Performance Outcome ◽  
Industry Standard ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Clinical Outcome Assessments ◽  
Translation And Cultural Adaptation

Abstract Within current literature and practice, the category of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures has been expanded into the broader category of clinical outcome assessments (COAs), which includes the subcategory of PRO, as well as clinician-reported outcome (ClinRO), observer-reported outcome (ObsRO), and performance outcome (PerfO) measure subcategories. However, despite this conceptual expansion, recommendations associated with translation, cultural adaptation, and linguistic validation of COAs remain focused on PRO measures, which has created a gap in specific process recommendations for the remaining types. This lack of recommendations has led to inconsistent approaches being implemented, leading to uncertainty in the scientific community regarding suitable methods. To address this gap, the ISOQOL Translation and Cultural Adaptation Special Interest Group (TCA-SIG) has developed recommendations specific to each of the three COA types currently lacking such documentation to support a standardized approach to their translation, cultural adaptation, and linguistic validation. The recommended process utilized to translate ObsRO, ClinRO and PerfO measures from one language to another aligns closely with the industry standard process for PRO measures. The substantial differences between respondent categories across COA types require targeted approaches to the cognitive interviewing procedures utilized within the linguistic validation process, including the use of patients for patient-facing text in ClinRO measures, and the need to interview the targeted observers for ObsROs measures.

The role of information and communications technology in the transformation of government and citizen trust

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mahmood ◽  
Vishanth Weerakkody ◽  
Weifeng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Digital Government ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Survey Responses

We present an empirically tested conceptual model based on exit–voice theory to study the influence of information and communications technology-enabled transformation of government on citizen trust in government. We conceptualize and address the key factors affecting the influence of transformation of government on citizen trust, including government performance and transparency. Based on 313 survey responses from citizens in Bahrain, the top-ranked country in information and communications technology adoption in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, we test government performance and transparency as mediators between transformation of government and citizen trust. The resulting preliminary insights on the measurement and manifestation of citizen trust in the context of information and communications technology-enabled transformation of government have multiple policy implications and extend our understanding of how information and communications technology-enabled transformation of government can improve the government–citizen relationship and digital services adoption. Points for practitioners To fundamentally change the core functions of government, information and communications technology-enabled transformation of government must move beyond the simple digitization and web enabling of processes. Information and communications technology-enabled transformation of government has the potential to address declining citizen trust in government by improving transparency and performance. The success of information and communications technology-enabled transformation of government in Bahrain is attributable to its small size and demographic composition, the relative maturity of digital government initiatives, and the complete commitment of the government to information and communications technology-enabled transformation of government.

Sonic Sovereignty: Performing Hopi Authority in Öngtupqa

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-530
Author(s):  
TREVOR G. REED
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Sound Production ◽  
Grand Canyon ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
Indigenous Territories ◽  
Traditional Songs ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Many

AbstractIn this article, I explore the ways territorial authority or sovereignty emerges from within a particular mode of Indigenous creativity—the creation and performance of Hopi taatawi (traditional songs)—despite the appropriation of Hopi traditional lands by the American settler-state. Hopi territories within Öngtupqa (Grand Canyon) are just a sample of the many places where Indigenous authority, as expressed through sound-based performances, continues to resonate despite the imposition of settler-colonial structures that have either silenced Indigenous performances of authority or severed these places from Indigenous territories. Drawing on the work of Hopi composers and intellectuals, I explore how Hopi musical composition and performance are deeply intertwined with Hopi political philosophy and governance, resulting in a form of sovereignty that is inherently sonic rather than strictly literary or textual in nature. Recognizing that this interconnection between territorial authority and sound production is common across many Indigenous communities, I propose listening to contemporary Indigenous creativity not just as an aesthetic form but as a source of sonic sovereignty.

Raising the ghosts of justice: Staging time and the memory of Empire inThe Trial of Governor Eyre

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-259
Author(s):  
Jason Allen-Paisant
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Problem Space ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Colonial Violence ◽  
And Performance ◽  
A Site

I examine the staging of time, justice and performance in The Trial of Governor Eyre, investigating what this site-specific performance reveals about the experience of time in the context of colonial violence. In doing so, I show that the work’s discourse on temporality reflects a vital sense of performativity within an Afro-diasporic context. The work’s use of temporality, besides reflecting a cultural adaptation, allows for a remoulding of forms, coupling law and theatre in confronting Eyre’s mass executions of 1865. This remoulding of forms (law as theatre, theatre as law) provides a potential for postcolonial witnessing not available when either performance protocol is used on its own. Using Blazevic’s and Cale Feldman’s concept of ‘misperformance’, I argue that this play-trial arises out of a Benjaminian sense of historicity, providing an experience of inchoate justice that finds fulfilment in the present. The Trial of Governor Eyre points, more broadly, to a new ‘problem-space’ in African diaspora political theory, where resistance against colonial structures of oppression is increasingly mounted on the ground of justice itself and through which the legal apparatuses of colonialism become a site of critical memory. Through the play’s deployment of ritual and its plastic moulding of time, 1865 is enlisted as a key historical conjuncture for thinking through the cultural disenchantment of race, but also of the formalist, creative resources that can be mobilised for reimagining humanness in the contemporary moment.

Resistance Is Futile

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter-Paul Verbeek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Marxist Tradition

Andrew Feenberg’s political philosophy of technology uniquely connects the neo-Marxist tradition with phenomenological approaches to technology. This paper investigates how this connection shapes Feenberg’s analysis of power. Influenced by De Certeau and by classical positions in philosophy of technology, Feenberg focuses on a dialectical model of oppression versus liberation. A hermeneutic reading of power, though, inspired by the late Foucault, does not conceptualize power relations as external threats, but rather as the networks of relations in which subjects are constituted. Such a hermeneutic approach replaces De Certeau’s tactics of resistance with a critical and creative accompaniment of technological developments.

Somatechnologies

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Lettow ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Body Technologies

Until now, the body has played only a minor role in the philosophy of technology. However, more elaborate reflections on the relation between technology and the body are needed because of the advent of somatechnologies – technologies intentionally geared toward modifying bodies and that use bodily substances as technological means. The article discusses some approaches within the philosophy of technology that prove to be fruitful in this context. The article argues thatsomatechnical modifications of bodies should be understood as elements of ‘body technologies’ and body politics in a broader sense. In such a perspective, concepts of the body developed by Judith Butler and Michel Foucault should be adopted by a praxeological philosophy of technology.

Touched by Machine?: Composition and Performance in the Digital Age

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Travis Pope ◽  
John Rahn ◽  
Carlos Cerana ◽  
Haruhiro Katayose ◽  
Frank Pecquet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals Performatywne rozpoznania medialności polityki w myśli Judith Butler

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (55) ◽  
pp. 212-225
Author(s):  
Marcin Sanakiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Visibility Politics ◽  
A Performance

Judith Butler, an American philosopher and performance theorist, sees the transformations of public sphere and democracy in the possibilities of making visible the human bodies. Butler interprets a performance as a setting boundary for belonging to a community. Public appearance requires the existence of the body and media technologies. In this way, the performative nature of political activities acquires the characteristics of biopower, according to Michel Foucault: control over the coupling of social and biological existence of man, taking into account his public visibility. Politics, by merging with what is media, obtains a performative (discursive/event) character.

scholarly journals A Study on E-Governance In India- A Simplifying Solution to Government Nationals and Organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 508-510
Author(s):  
Krishna Kulin Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
The Government

Today in the 21st century, the digitalization is the global trend, and it is the digital age. Today technology is a boon and has removed the global borders and has made the whole globe a small village. Technology has made the things easier, quicker, transparent, faster, efficient and so there is a need to adopt digitalization in every areas. E-Governance also known as Electronic Governance is the use of Information and Communications Technology for providing the government services to the nationals and organizations, for exchange of information transactions and other various services etc. and making the rules and procedure transparent. This Research paper focuses on the E-Governance in India which is a simplifying solution to all i.e. Government, nationals and organizations.

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