Bite the hands that feed you : retrieving material discourse from industrial culture

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Morrey
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Culture

Addicted to Christ

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Transformation Techniques ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Alternative Masculinities ◽  
Street Corner ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The U.S

How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? This book provides an in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that were founded and run by self-identified “ex-addicts,” ministries that are also widespread in poor Black and Latino neighborhoods in the U.S. mainland. The book melds cultural anthropology and psychiatry. Through the stories of ministry converts, the book examines key elements of Pentecostalism: mysticism, ascetic practice, and the idea of other-worldliness. It then reconstructs the ministries' strategies of spiritual victory over addiction: transformation techniques to build spiritual strength and authority through pain and discipline; cultivation of alternative masculinities based on male converts' reclamation of domestic space; and radical rupture from a post-industrial “culture of disposability.” By contrasting the ministries' logic of addiction with that of biomedicine, the book rethinks roads to recovery, discovering unexpected convergences with biomedicine while revealing the allure of street corner ministries.

scholarly journals Survival Research Laboratories: A Dystopian Industrial Performance Art

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Nicolas Ballet
Keyword(s):  
Performance Art ◽  
Mechanical Performance ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Performance Group ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
Industrial Performance ◽  
Machine Art ◽  
Group Survival

This paper examines the leading role played by the American mechanical performance group Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) within the field of machine art during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and as organized under the headings of (a) destruction/survival; (b) the cyborg as a symbol of human/machine interpenetration; and (c) biomechanical sexuality. As a manifestation of the era’s “industrial” culture, moreover, the work of SRL artists Mark Pauline and Eric Werner was often conceived in collaboration with industrial musicians like Monte Cazazza and Graeme Revell, and all of whom shared a common interest in the same influences. One such influence was the novel Crash! by English author J. G. Ballard, and which in turn revealed the ultimate direction in which all of these artists sensed society to be heading: towards a world in which sex itself has fallen under the mechanical demiurge.

An Art Historian Encounters a Hybrid Global History at Home: Alfredo Ramos Martinez’s Designs for Sacred Spaces

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 120-155
Author(s):  
Mary Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stained Glass ◽  
Global History ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Sacred Spaces ◽  
Stations Of The Cross ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
Post War

‭Southern California’s hidden treasures include two church interiors containing elements designed by Alfredo Ramos Martinez (1871–1946). This Mexican-born artist trained in France, returned to take an activist role in Mexican revolutionary culture, and migrated to the United States in 1929. For sixteen years, his talents were in demand among members of the Hollywood elite. In 1934, he produced the fresco murals at the Santa Barbara Cemetery Chapel, a jewel of Spanish Revival architecture. His images crossed over traditional boundaries between the sacred and the profane. He created odes to human rights and suffering humanity, depicting Christ and his mother as indigenous peasants with dark-skinned New World ethnicity. A decade later in 1946, Ramos sketched designs for his final projects at St. John the Evangelist Church in Los Angeles: a series of stained glass windows representing fourteen multiethnic saints as well as incomplete oil painted Stations of the Cross that recall his earlier pictures of suffering humanity. The architectural setting—a modernist church with stripped-down forms and materials of concrete, steel, and neon—announces a radically transformed post-war industrial culture. The contrast of these two aesthetics, the Spanish Revival and the modernist, demonstrates an evolution in liturgical forms as Californians came to grips with global migrations and an evolving modernist identity.‬

scholarly journals Industrial culture of former mining communities from Romania

GeoScape ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Bianca Radu
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Community Integration ◽  
The Self ◽  
Occupational Identity ◽  
Mine Closure ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Mining Communities ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
New Jobs

Abstract The paper aims to unfold the intangible elements that form the industrial culture based on the analysis of two former mining communities from Romania. Research conducted in 2014 in two former mining cities located in the northern part of the country highlights their particular characteristics and the strategies employed by individuals to cope with mine closure. The research found a strong occupational identity among former miners, which affected the way they perceived themselves, the surrounding environment and the opportunities they had after restructuring. The self-perception of what people could work hindered the economic redevelopment process. We found that after living and working for many years in a state-led regime, people expected the state to take care of them and to create new jobs in their communities. Even though many stakeholders acknowledged the importance of preserving industrial heritage for collective memory, few projects were implemented, and no mining museum was built. In both cities, a large number of people migrated abroad or returned to their hometowns to compensate for the job scarcity. Miners coming from other regions to work in younger mining communities experienced a lower level of community integration.

scholarly journals L’Italie au tournant du siècle : Paradis perdu des homosexuels dans la littérature décadente européenne

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Eric Thil
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Industrial Culture

The choice of Italy to reveal the homosexuality of the characters seems to be a recurring stereotype in the decadent European literature at the turn of the century. The present study examines the origins of such a literary mythology by confronting various linguistic sources in order to identify an intertextual and geocritical network. The choice of a country still untouched by an industrial culture allows for epiphanic encounters whose outcome is the rediscovery of oneself by each of the characters. Confronted with monsters and other secondary mythological deities, the protagonists will experience becoming one themselves.

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