The Surrealism of the Habitual: From Poetic Language to the Prose of Life

Paragraph ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-422
Author(s):  
Alison James
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Human Relation ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
A Current

This article argues that the later philosophy of Wittgenstein has significant affinities with surrealist approaches to the ordinary. It links the question of ordinary language first to the dilemmas of poetic speech after Mallarmé, then to a current of thought on everyday life that emerges in France in the wake of surrealism (Lefebvre, Blanchot, Certeau). Finally, a reading of prose texts by Breton and Aragon brings together these two lines of argument, demonstrating that surrealism appeals to ordinary language and everyday life as a remedy against the threat of scepticism. Surrealist manipulations of language are less a departure from the real than an attempt both to restore and to renew the human relation with the world. Obscured by its very familiarity, the everyday comes into view as what Cavell calls the ‘surrealism of the habitual’.

scholarly journals Colando fragmentos do mundo da vida social: recortes do cotidiano de camponeses do baixo tocantins paraense

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (57) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitória Mendes Alves ◽  
Israel Martins Araujo
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Life World ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Sensory Ethnography ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Technical Learning ◽  
The Relationship

Este ensaio visual trata do mundo da vida cotidiana de camponeses agroextrativistas no Pará, especificamente no baixo Tocantins, região das ilhas do município de Mocajuba. Segue o método da etnografia sensorial, discute a relação entre corpo, ambiente e formas de aprendizagem técnica com a virtuosidade dos indicadores socioambientais e argumenta que tais técnicas não são transmitidas, mas ensinadas e aprendidas por meio de um complexo engajamento sensorial com o ambiente.Palavras-chave: Camponeses agroextrativistas. Cotidiano. Trabalho. Etnografia Sensorial. Corpo. Ambiente.  Glueing fragments of the world of life: cuttings from the daily life of peasants from downtown Tocantins paraense Abstract: This visual essay deals with the respect of the everyday life world of agro-extractivist peasants in Pará, specifically in the lower Tocantins, region of the islands of the municipality of Mocajuba. It follows the method of sensory ethnography, discusses the relationship between body, environment and forms of technical learning with the virtuosity of socio-environmental indicators and argues that such techniques are not transmitted, but taught and learned through a complex sensory engagement with the environmentKeywords: Agroextractive peasants. Daily. Work. Sensory Ethnography. Body. Environment.

scholarly journals Cenas da precariedade de ontem e de hoje | Scenes of the precariousness of yesterday and today

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
José Edilson Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Politics

ResumoA partir de uma crônica de Bráulio Tavares, este artigo reflete sobre cenas da precariedade de ontem e de hoje. A primeira cena está em Lima Barreto, em Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha, ao referir a Revolta da Vacina no Rio de Janeiro do século XX, comparada às manifestações de 2013 e 2014 no país; a segunda é a espetacularização da mídia sobre as manifestações de rua em 2013 e 2014, e sobre o processo de impedimento do mandato presidencial de Dilma Rousseff em 2015; a terceira é uma cena da vida cotidiana de uma moça de Brasília em outubro de 2014. As três situações revelam o mundo da classe trabalhadora e seu desamparo em meio ao espetáculo midiático.Palavras-chave: Trabalho. Mídia. Política. Espetáculo. AbstractFrom a chronicle by Bráulio Tavares, this paper reflects about scenes of the precariousness of yesterday and today. The first scene is in Lima Barreto’s novel Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha (Memories of the scrivener Isaías Caminha), when referring to the Vaccine Revolt in the Rio de Janeiro of the 20th century, compared to the manifestations of 2013 and 2014 in Brazil; the second is about the media spectacularization of the street manifestations between 2013 e 2014 in Brazil, and also on Dilma Rousseff's impeachment process in 2015; the third one is from the everyday life of a girl from Brasília in October of 2014. All those three situations reveal the world of the working class and its helplessness in the face of the media spectacularization.Keywords: Work. Media. Politics. Spectacle.

scholarly journals Szerb hadifoglyok Bihar vármegyében, 1914–1920

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-41
Author(s):  
Oszkár Gorcsa
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Treatment ◽  
World War ◽  
The People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Great War

The World War can be justifiably called the great seminal catastrophe of the 20th century, because the war that should have ended every further war, just disseminated the seeds of another cataclysm. From this point of view it is comprehensible why lots of historians deal with the named period. Numerous monographies and articles that deal with the destructing and stimulating eff ect of the Great War have seen the light of day. However, the mentioned works usually have serious defi cenceis, as most of them deal only with the battlefi elds, and a small proportion deals with the question of everyday life and hinterland, and the ordeals of the POWs are superfi cially described. In case of Hungary, the more serious researches related to POWs only started at the time of the centenary. This is why we can still read in some Serbian literatures about the people annihilating endeavors of the „huns” of Austria–Hungary. My choice of subject was therefore justified by the reasons outlined above. In my presentation I expound on briefly introducing the situations in the austro–hungarian POW camps. Furthermore, the presentation depicts in detail the everyday life, the medical and general treatment, clothing supply, the question of the minimal wages and working time of the prisoner labour forces. Lastly, I am depicting the problem of escapes and issues dealing POWs marriage and citizenship requests.

What Forms Can Do: The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st-century French Literature and Thought

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Opening Up

This introduction provides a context for the volume by opening up the question of the agency of form and the work it accomplishes in a range of texts — including fiction, life-writing, poetry and thought — that explore the everyday and the real. The chapter addresses the broad trajectory and some of the key articulations and tendencies of form in the period covered by the volume and argues that form is not simply about the nature of aesthetic objects but a term that can be linked to translation and to social and ideological constructs that work to pattern and shape the ways we act and think. Indeed, in engaging with the contents of the volume, the authors of the introduction argue that form is about the potential for transformation. As such, form transforms us and also serves to transform how we see and read the world. The introduction thus provides a set of key considerations to guide the reader through the book, and also beyond it.  

Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
Monastic Communities

Monasticism is a social and religious phenomenon that originated in antiquity, which remains relevant in the 21st century. Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction discusses the history of monasticism from the earliest evidence for it, and the different types that have developed. It considers where monasteries are located around the world, and how their settings impact the everyday life and worldview of the monks and nuns who dwell in them. Exploring how monastic communities are organized, this VSI also looks at how all aspects of life are regimented. Finally, it discusses what the stories about saints communicate about monastic identity and ethics, and considers what place there is for monasticism in the modern world.

Re-enchanting the World: The Role of Imagination in Perception

Philosophy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Lennon
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday World

AbstractThis paper defends what the philosopher Merleau Ponty coins‘the imaginary texture of the real’.It is suggested that the imagination is at work in the everyday world which we perceive, the world as it is for us. In defending this view a concept of the imagination is invoked which has both similarities with and differences from, our everyday notion. The everyday notion contrasts the imaginary and the real. The imaginary is tied to the fictional or the illusory. Here it will be suggested, following both Kant and Strawson, that there is a more fundamental working of the imagination, present in both perception and the constructions of fictions. What Kant and Strawson failed to make clear, however, was that the workings of the imagination within the perceived world, gives that world, anaffective logic. The domain of affect is that of emotions, feelings and desire, and to claim such an affective logic in the world we experience, is to point out that it has salience and significance for us. Such salience suggests and demands the desiring and sometimes fearful responses we make to it; the shape of the perceived world echoed in the shapes our bodies take within it.

scholarly journals Women on the Path of the Goddess: Sacred Technologies of the Everyday

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Åsa Trulsson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Peak Experiences ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Truth Claims

Contemporary spiritualties are often portrayed as a turn to a subjective and individualized form of religion, consisting of individually held truth claims or private peak experiences that are generated sporadically at retreats and workshops. The portrayal is ultimately related to a perception of everyday life in contemporary Euro-America as mundane, rationalized, and secular, but also the exclusion of practices centered on the body, the home and the everyday from what is deemed properly religious. This article explores the sacred technologies of the everyday among women in England who identify as Goddess worshippers. The purpose is to further the understanding of religion and the everyday, as well as the conceptualization of contemporary Goddess-worship as lived religion. Through examining narratives on the intersection between religion and everyday activities, the technologies of imbuing everyday life with a sacred dimension become visible. The sacred technologies imply skills that enable both imagining and relating to the sacred. The women consciously and diligently work to cultivate skills that would allow them to sense and make sense of the sacred, in other words, to foster a sense of withness through the means of a host of practices. I argue that the women actively endeavor to establish an everyday world that is experienced as inherently different from the secular and religious fields in their surroundings; hence it is not from disenchantment or an endeavor with no social consequences. The women’s everyday is indeed infused with different strategies where the body, different practices, and material objects are central in cultivating a specific religious disposition that ultimately will change the way the women engage with and orient themselves in the world.

scholarly journals Experiência existencial no pensamento freiriano

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Leoni Maria Padilha Henning
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Banking Education ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Educational Principle ◽  
Human Awareness

Estudo bibliográfico que visa compreender a experiência existencial no pensamento freiriano, atentando para três questões principais: 1. Em que consiste a experiência existencial em Freire? 2. Por que ela é fundamental ao trabalho que pretende ser realmente educativo? 3. Por que a experiência existencial, como princípio educativo, e educação bancária não se correspondem? Esses questionamentos conduziram ao aprofundamento do conceito, em torno do qual gravitam outras noções básicas da Pedagogia da Humanização. Pautada na educabilidade dos homens e das mulheres e no seu inacabamento, a teoria freiriana é esperançosa, amorosa em relação ao mundo. Trata-se de uma contínua busca da conscientização e libertação humana em relação ao império de ações afogadoras de suas experiências reais, desrespeitando homens e mulheres como intérpretes insofismáveis de sua própria existência. O modo existencial de viver é próprio aos humanos, configurando-se na busca de ser com os outros, possibilitando a comunicação, a convivência e a experiência compartilhada realizada na mediação das ações em torno do mundo. Na imediata leitura de mundo é que reside a experiência existencial primária e fundamental dos humanos, em que se experimenta o existir inédito e se apreende subjetivamente a realidade. Para o autor, é impossível a educação que desconsidere a cotidianidade transcorrida nessa esfera existencial. Por fim, a situação, que se constitui num dos aspectos indispensáveis relacionados à experiência existencial, não se constituem aspecto caro aos agentes educativos bancários que apresentam sua proposta em pauta pronta, padronizada, montada sobre premissas fixas cujos questionamentos são tidos por improdutivos.Palavras-chave: Experiência. Existência. Freire.Existential experience in freirian thoughtABSTRACTA bibliographical study in order to understand the existential experience in Freirean thinking, considering three main questions: 1. What is the existential experience in Freire? 2. Why is it fundamental to work that is meant to be truly educational? 3. Why do existential experience, as an educational principle, and banking education, do not correspond? These questions led to the deepening of the concept, around which basic notions of the Pedagogy of Humanization gravitate. Based on the educability of men and women and their incompleteness, the Freirian theory is hopeful, loving towards the world. It is a continuous search for human awareness and liberation in relation to the empire of drowning actions of their real experiences, disrespecting men and women as unmistakable interpreters of their own existence. The existential way of living is proper to humans, configuring itself in the search of being with others, enabling the communication, the coexistence and the shared experience realized in the mediation of the actions around the world. In the immediate reading of the world lies the primary and existential experience as humans, in which one experiences the unprecedented existence and subjectively grasps reality. For the author, it is impossible education that disregards the everyday life passed in this existential sphere. Finally, the situation, which constitutes one of the indispensable aspects related to existential experience, does not constitute an important aspect for the banking educational agents who present their proposal according to a ready agenda, standardized, based on fixed premises whose questions are considered as unproductive.Keywords: Experience. Existence. Freire. Experiencia existencial en el pensamiento freirianoRESUMENEstudio bibliográfico que pretende comprender la experiencia existencial en el pensamiento freiriano, respondiendo a tres cuestiones principales: 1. ¿En qué consiste la experiencia existencial en Freire? 2. ¿Por qué es fundamental para el trabajo que pretende ser realmente educativo? 3. ¿Por qué la experiencia existencial, como principio educativo, y educación bancaria no se corresponden? Estos cuestionamientos condujeron a la profundización del concepto, en torno al cual gravitan otras nociones básicas de la Pedagogía de la Humanización. En la educación de los hombres y de las mujeres y en su inacabado, la teoria freiriana es esperanzada, amorosa en relación al mundo. Se trata de una continua búsqueda de la concientización y liberación humana em relación al imperio de acciones ahogadas de sus experiencias reales, desatendiendo a hombres y mujeres como intérpretes insofi ables de su propia existencia. El modo existencial de vivir es propio a los humanos, configurándose en la búsqueda de ser con los demás, posibilitando la comunicación, la convivencia y la experiencia compartida realizada en la mediación de las acciones en todo el mundo. En la inmediata lectura de mundo es que reside la experiencia existencial primaria y fundamental en cuanto humanos, en que se experimenta el existir inédito y se aprehende subjetivamente la realidad. Para el autor, es imposible la educación que desconsidere la cotidianidad transcurrida en esa esfera existencial. Por último, la situación, que se constituye en uno de los aspectos indispensables relacionados con la experiencia existencial, no se constituye en un aspecto caro a los agentes educativos bancários que presentan su propuesta en pauta acabada, estandarizada, montada sobre premisas fijas cuyos cuestionamientos son considerados por improductivos.Palabras clave: Experiencia. Existencia. Freire.

scholarly journals Network capital dependent path-dependency

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-102
Author(s):  
Endre Sík
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Path Dependency ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Total Domination ◽  
Network Sensitivity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Post Communism ◽  
The Way

Path dependency is created and maintained by three intertwined influences of network capital, i.e. the inertia of the networks, the culture defining the proper use of network capital, and the way such a network capital fits into the local and global institutional setting. Following a brief introduction of the terms network capital and path dependency, I develop an extremely simplifying dual typology, to differentiate between network-sensitive and network-insensitive societies. These two extremes of a continuum characterize societies in which either the everyday life is under the total domination of network capital or where networks are auxiliary resources to be used in rare and special situations. I will show how both communism and post-communism have been a fertile institutional setting for the emergence of network-sensitivity and how does network capital under such conditions become so powerful that it shapes other institutions to its needs. In the last section I shall argue that the mechanisms I described in a network-sensitive institutional setting are present in a network-insensitive one as well and that there are signs that globalization increases the level of network-sensitivity all over the world.

scholarly journals СЕМАНТИКА І ПОЕТИКА СЛОВА-ОБРАЗУ ГЛЕЧИК У ВІРШОВІЙ МОВІ В. ГОЛОБОРОДЬКА

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-157
Author(s):  
Т. П. Беценко
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Artistic Image

The artistic-pictorial system of V. Holoborodko’s poetic works is based on his own – nationally marked words in every way. Each element of the linguistic-visionary poetic paradigm of the artist is imbued with national colour, national-linguistic art, related to ancient folklore sources. The poetic picture of ethnic existence in the vision of the artist – originally simple and understandable; Its cores are known, known to all realities. Attention is drawn to redefined in the artistic name of the dishes. In V. Holoborodko’s poetic universe the jug appears as an element (component) of the macrocosm. Therefore, the philosophy of the poetic thought of the artist is based on the notion that the designated object – the most ancient and universal in everyday use – contains the world and eternity in itself. The article analyzes the semantics and emotionally expressive colouring of the image word jug in the poetic speech of V. Holoborodko. The substantive significance of the pitcher lexeme in the artist’s poetic usage of the word is substantiated. It has been found that the connotative shades of the considered image word are connected with the traditional culture of everyday life of the Ukrainians. In the poet’s figuratively-associative linguistic map, the jug appears as an attribute of harmony of feelings, coherence, understanding, sympathy, as a symbol of the love of young hearts. The linguistic sign of the jug can be considered a poetic universality of Vasyl Holoborodko. This is the favorite artistic image of the writer. Consequently, the word-image of the jug in the poetic language of the writer is a significant and artistically significant reality. In the mind of the artist, he combines the seven «symbol of national existence», «the attribute of rural life», «the original remarkable decoration of the kitchen utensils of our ancestors», «the contents of the past and future, coming»; «Macrocosm and matter of eternity of ethnic existence». So the jug with milk is a symbol of femininity and motherhood, a jug for two is a «symbol of love». The linguistic and aesthetic poetic sign of the jug is marked by emotions of exaltation, solemnity, majesty. This is a symbol of Ukrainian rural life.

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