scholarly journals Communication Pedagogy: The Coronavirus Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Ron Arnett
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Human History ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Theoretical Rationale ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Communication Pedagogy ◽  
Faculty And Administrators ◽  
Community Struggles ◽  
Historical Moment

In this historical moment defined by the coronavirus, the global community struggles with and against a seemingly invisible foe. Students, faculty, and administrators open the blinds on windows in the morning, witnessing the brightness of the sun and seemingly the clarity of a morning welcome. Yet, there lurks, not in the shadows, but in the brightness of the everyday sunshine, the possibility of sickness and death. This responsive essay weaves together my communicative rejoinders to the coronavirus and its implications for this challenging time in human history. I turn to the autoethnographic insights of Art Bochner and Carolyn Ellis (2016) to frame the theoretical rationale for a conversation that rests within the dialectic of fear and tenacious hope.

Veiled Theory: The Transmutation of Anthropology in T. S. Eliot's Critical Method

Paragraph ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Trexler
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Philosophical Investigation ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Human History ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Historical Moment

While literary criticism is often seen as an unself-reflective forerunner to literary theory, this article argues that T.S. Eliot's theory of critical practice was a philosophically informed methodology of reading designed to create a disciplinary and institutional framework. To reconstruct this theory, it enriches theoretical methodology with intellectual and institutional history. Specifically, the article argues that Eliot's early critical theory depended on the paradigms of anthropology and occultism, developed during his philosophical investigation of anthropology and Leibniz. From this investigation, Eliot created an occult project that used spiritual monads as facts to progress toward the Absolute. The article goes on to argue that Eliot's methodology of reading was shaped by anthropology's and occultism's paradigms of non-academic, non-specialist reading societies that sought a super-historic position in human history through individual progress. The reconstruction of Eliot's intellectual and institutional framework for reading reveals a historical moment with sharp differences and surprising similarities to the present.

Pretext

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Altschuler ◽  
Fernando J. Ballesteros
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Human History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lunar Craters ◽  
Scientific Achievements

The Moon is no longer the “in” thing. We see it as often as the Sun and give it little thought—we’ve become indifferent. However, the Moon does reflect more than just sunlight. The nomenclature of lunar craters holds up a mirror to an important aspect of human history. Of the 1586 lunar craters that have been named honoring philosophers and scientists, only 28 honor a woman. These 28 women of the Moon present us with an opportunity to meditate about this gap, but perhaps more significantly, they offer us an opportunity to talk about their lives, mostly unknown today. The women of the moon tell us stories of love, sorrow, and courage, of remarkable scientific achievements realized through perseverance, and of tragedies triggered by circumstances.

Weaving Through Weather on a Danish Caravan Site

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Vestergaard Madzak
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Embodied Experiences

The aim of this article is to study embodied experiences and negotiations with everyday weather on a Danish caravan site. I present a contrast to representations of certain types of weather as something you travel away from to seek out the sun. This is done by introducing a sensuous and embodied focus to mundane weather that is also encountered on holiday. Drawing on conceptions of embodiment, the everyday and sensuous, I argue that experiences of weather are relational and multisensuous. This article has three aims. First, to nuance discourses on weather by researching people’s embodied and sensuous negotiations of weather. Second, to broaden understandings of holiday weather beyond that of sunny destinations. And third, proposing the concept of “weathering” to inform the relatively neglected role of everyday weather in tourism research. In this article, my aim is to discuss forms of somatic, sensuous, everyday routines, and movements cultivated and performed with weather.

The Street as Locus of Collective Memory

10.1068/d55j ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hebbert
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Shared Memory ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Community Struggles ◽  
Physical Layout

In discussing the role of streets and urban spaces as a locus of collective memory, I draw a distinction between overt commemoration of public memory and the accumulation of group memories in the setting of the everyday street. Community struggles over postwar street clearances stimulated interest in the physical layout of the public realm as a gestalt for shared memory, a theme of earlier work on memory and urbanism by Maurice Halbwachs. I show how Aldo Rossi and colleagues put the concept onto a practical footing by making morphological analysis the basis for urban infill, repair, and extension, most ambitiously and controversially in the ‘critical reconstruction’ of modern Berlin.

scholarly journals The sky movement and Tamil thinking in Pattupattu

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Muthulakshmi A
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
The Law

We could see the rise and set of the planets starting with the Sun. Tamil had many thoughts and opinions on the rise and set of those planets. They had calculated not only Sun’s orbit but also various other stars, planets and their orbital relations as well. Through Sangam literature, one could know that there were experts in calculating the celestial bodies. Subbu Reddiyar explains the poem from  ‘puRanaanuuRu’  that there were people who had mastered for years and could tell the everyday measures of ‘the law of the sun and its movement, the orbit surrounding by its movement, the direction of the wind and the sky without an axile’ (puRam 30). Thus, it could be understood that the ancient Tamils were capable of measuring not only the sky but also the movements of Sun and the celestial bodies. That is how he poem mention details about the moon, stars and the movement of the Sun.

scholarly journals Expressive Enlightenment: Subjectivity and Solidarity in Daniel Garrison Brinton, Franz Boas, and Carlos Montezuma

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Carr
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Human History ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Main Obstacle ◽  
Ethical Attitude ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Race War

This chapter considers Franz Boas's affiliations with American ethnologist Daniel Garrison Brinton and Yavapai doctor, pamphleteer, and founding member of the Society of American Indians, Carlos Montezuma. Boas saw Brinton as having fostered a project known as “the philosophy of expression.” He also credited Brinton's attempt to conduct the human sciences from a first-personal perspective with putting their common discipline on a “firm footing.” Montezuma's efforts to make expressive enlightenment the basis of a pan-Indian social movement led to his adoption of an ethical attitude toward history and language that faced the same direction as that of Boas. For both Boas and Montezuma, the main obstacle facing the global community they envisioned was the widespread conception of human history as an unending race war.

Enoch’s Interactions with Angels

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Reeves ◽  
Annette Yoshiko Reed
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Human History ◽  
Angel Of Death ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter collects various traditions which attest that Enoch enjoyed an intimate relationship with the angelic world. These include texts which describe how Enoch ascended to the heavenly realm and was entertained there by one or more named angels, or was shown certain sights by the angels which gave him insight into the workings of the cosmos and the course of human history. Alternatively, other texts depict certain angels who admire Enoch’s exemplary piety and who therefore descend to earth to befriend him and encourage him in his service to God. Thematic divisions include assemblages of texts which illustrate how Enoch served as a confidant and apprentice to the angels, other texts which depict Enoch wielding powers similar to those often associated with angels in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim texts, and testimonies about how Enoch functioned as an intermediary between certain angels and God or served as a witness against certain reprehensible behaviors exhibited by one angelic class known as ‘the Watchers.’ Two particular angels with whom Enoch/Idrīs enjoyed a special bond were the Angel of the Sun and the Angel of Death, and a number of texts which discuss their interactions are brought together in order to facilitate their further comparative study.

Imagining Racial Equality

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (132) ◽  
pp. 96-125
Author(s):  
Carol Quirke
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
United Auto Workers ◽  
Auto Workers ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Warehouse Workers ◽  
Community Struggles ◽  
District 65

Abstract Local 65 United Warehouse Workers Union (1933–1987), which became District 65 United Auto Workers, promoted photography with a camera club, and a member-edited newspaper New Voices, featuring photographs taken by members. This left-led, New York City distributive industry union began in 1933 on the Lower East Side, and it became the city’s second largest local. The union utilized photography to normalize the role of African American members within the union and to advance a civil rights and anti-racism agenda. This article includes photographs taken by member-photographers, and photo-reproductions of New Voices. New Voices’ photographs included African Americans in the everyday life of the union, challenged race-based labor segmentation, supported community struggles, and defied racial norms in midcentury America.

scholarly journals Work of Art of the Han Dynasty Unearthed in China and Observations of Solar Phenomena

1987 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Xu Zhen-tao
Keyword(s):  
Solar Activity ◽  
Han Dynasty ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Limited Knowledge ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Solar Eclipses

In Chinese ancient times the Sun worship was in vogue. Mainly there were two sorts of the worship rites: 1) for rising and setting Sun; 2) for solar eclipses. Many evidences for Sun worship have been found in Chinese ancient books and bone inscriptions (Xu Zhentao et al.1985).The everyday worship to the Sun certainly caused spontaneous observations for solar phenomena. Since the ancients only had a limited knowledge they could not understand what were these phenomena and they, however, created many wonderful myths to describe them. These myths about Solar phenomena have vividly been expressed in the works of art of the Han Dynasty recently unearthed. So analysing the works of art we may trace the original phenomena of solar activity.

Can Sunlight Revolutionize the Light Therapy Technique

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ali O Islam ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Light Therapy ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Human History ◽  
Therapy Technique ◽  
Life On Earth

Throughout human history, the role of sunlight to sustain life on earth has been recognized. The contribution of sunlight starts with photosynthesis, promoting the growth of plants and crops, which then feed the entire lifecycle, humans being an integral part of the natural process. Interestingly, over 100 years ago as the plastic revolution began and everything natural started to be replaced with their artificial version, sunlight didn’t lose its appeal. Only recently, scientists started to think of the sun as a liability.

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