scholarly journals From Queer Necropolitics to Queer Eschatology: Reza Abdoh’s Unsettling Historiography

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Patricia Ybarra
Keyword(s):  
Gender Binary ◽  
Hiv Virus ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Frederic Jameson

The theatrical oeuvre of Reza Abdoh has been lauded for its reinvigoration of the avantgarde, its formal and political daring and its astute commentary about the violence of the HIV virus (Fordyce, Carlson, Mufson, Bell). More recently, Abdoh’s work has been taken up as a commentary on neoliberalism—in part because of its politicization of bricolage and pastiche, recalling the more radical possibilities of theorizations of scholars such as Frederic Jameson (Zimmerman). Others have called out the modes by which Abdoh expanded the possibilities of queerness in the early 1990s. Yet no scholar has commented on Abdoh’s engagement of eschatology as a mode of historiography. That is the purpose of this essay. It is under this rubric, rather than an idea of generic postmodern milieu, that I read the multiple and discordant temporalities in Abdoh’s performances. While drawing on theories of the necropolitical (Mbembe) and gore capitalism (Valencia) in relation to conceptions of queer eschatology and capitalist violence, my inquiry emerges from consideration of the structural and theoretical aspects of the art works (“object’s”) themselves. I consider how Father Was a Peculiar Man (1990), performed in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, exemplifies the historiographical possibilities of performance through its embodiment of an eschatological vision of the world in which the gender binary is performatively undone.

On the beginning of the world: dominance feminism, afropessimism and the meanings of gender

2021 ◽  
pp. 146470012110340
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Nash
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Commitments

Dominance feminism and afropessimist theory, despite their critical appearances three decades apart, are undergirded by similar rhetorical strategies, political commitments and argumentative moves. This is the case even as afropessimism’s citational trajectory rarely invokes dominance feminism, and often positions itself as a critique of feminism’s imagined conception of gender as white, one that is thought to be most emphatically announced in the work of scholars like MacKinnon who invest in a gender binary, and in women’s oppressed location in this binary. In this article, I insist on reading dominance feminism and afropessimism together. In so doing, I aspire to challenge afropessimism’s prevailing conception of gender, revealing that while it is often critical of feminist conceptions of gender – particularly conceptualisations of gender that are thought to insist on the shared experiences and positions of women – it actually relies on similar argumentative moves, and even rhetorical seductions, as dominance feminism.

scholarly journals Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Recent Update On Disease Status, Current Therapies And Advances In Treatment

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Jaskaran Singh ◽  
Thapa Komal ◽  
Sandeep Arora ◽  
Amarjot Kaur ◽  
Thakur Gurjeet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Hemorrhagic Fever ◽  
Disease Status ◽  
Clinical Test ◽  
Assessment Development ◽  
Hiv Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Virus Zika ◽  
Grade Methodology

Swiftly growing viruses are a major intimidation to human health. Such viruses are extremely pathogenic like Ebola virus, influenza virus, HIV virus, Zika virus etc . Ebola virus, a type of Filovirus, is an extremely infectious, single-stranded ribonucleic acid virus that infects both humans and apes, prompting acute fever with hemorrhagic syndrome. The high infectivity, severity and mortality of Ebola has plagued the world for the past fifty years with its first outbreak in 1976 in Marburg, Germany, and Frankfurt along with Belgrade and Serbia. The world has perceived about 28,000 cases and over 11,000 losses. The high lethality of Ebola makes it a candidate for use in bioterrorism thereby arising more concern. New guidelines have been framed for providing best possible care to the patients suffering from Ebola virus i.e Grading of Recommendation Assessment, Development And Evaluation (GRADE) methodology to develop evidence-based strategy for the treatment in future outbreak of Ebola virus. No drugs have been approved, while many potent drugs like rVSV-EBOV, Favipiravir, ZMapp are on clinical test for human safety. In this review we will discover and discuss perspective aspects that lead to the evolution of different Ebola variants as well as advances in various drugs and vaccines for treatment of the disease.

Ethics and the Sacred: Can Secular Morality Dispense with Religious Values?

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Norman
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Moral Thinking ◽  
Religious View ◽  
Living Things ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Value ◽  
Individual Human ◽  
Roger Scruton

AbstractIn this paper I explore the role that the concept of the sacred can play in our moral thinking. I accept that the assertion that ‘human life is sacred’ can be one way of articulating the special value of individual human lives as in some sense inviolable. I cautiously allow that the idea of ‘sacred value’ might also apply to other things such as certain kinds of human commitments, uniquely precious art-works, and some other kinds of living things. In conclusion I offer reasons for resisting the claim, made especially by Roger Scruton, that the experience of the sacred, when properly understood, draws us ineluctably into a religious view of the world.

scholarly journals Influence of British Pottery on Pottery Practice in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Edem Etim Peters ◽  
Ruth Mataba Gadzama
Keyword(s):  
Study Design ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The pottery narratives of Nigeria majorly linked with the activities of a great British potter Michael Cardew who Established pottery centres in Nigeria, and trained many Nigerians in Pottery. Cardew studied under Bernard Leach (1887 – 1979) who travels extensively and taught pottery around the world.Leach studied pottery under Master Kenzan VI in Japan and returned to England in 1920 to establish his own pottery at St. Ives with Shoji Hamada. The impact in pottery created by Cardew in Nigeria from 1950 is a direct British Pottery influence imparted to him by leach at St. Ives. A British potter and artist, Kenneth C. Murray studied pottery under Bernard Leach at St. Ives in 1929 and returned back to Uyo in Nigeria to produce and teach students pottery. Murray produced pottery wares from the Kiln he built at Uyo and took his students to exhibit the ware along with other art works at Zwember gallery (Britain) in 1937. Chief Adam Joshua Udo Ema also studied pottery in 1949 in Britain and later returned to work as a pottery officer at Okigwe Pottery centre as well as established three pottery centres in Nigeria Namely; Ikot Abasi Pottery centre at Etinan, Pottery centre at Mbiafun Ikono, and pottery centre at Ikot Ntot in Abak. Many other Nigerian studied pottery in Nigeria. Lady Kwalii pottery experience was influenced by Michael Cardew. Her pottery influence seen pottery products exhibited in various parts of the world depicted a coordination of Niger and British Pottery influences. A case study design is considered for methodological approach. Data were taken from primary and secondary sources and analyzed respectively. British influence on Nigeria is indeed outstanding.

scholarly journals Carlo Crivelli: a strategy for the Marche rebirth

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedetta Castagna
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Italian Region ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

Carlo Crivelli’s work is dispersed around the world, but significant examples remain in the Italian region of the Marche. This article analyses the benefit of a collaborative approach between Crivelli’s exhibitions in the Marche to propose strategies that would follow a place-based approach and increase the attractiveness of cities and villages where Crivelli’s artworks are displayed. The paper analyses two case studies presenting different approaches to the Crivelli’s art works: the Museum of St Francis displaying the Triptych of Montefiore dell’Aso, and the Church of St. Martin Bishop exhibiting the Polyptych of Monte San Martino in the original location.

scholarly journals Homo Manifestans or Artistic Interpretation of Social Upheavals at the Beginning of the XXIst Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Butsenko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Diverse Background ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
Xxist Century ◽  
Alternative Principle

The paper analyses the interrelation between different methods of cognition of the modern world and its inward processes, in particular, social upheavals at the beginning of the 21st century which are enquired with varied tools: artistic interpretation, sociological analysis, philosophical insight and historical evaluation. Building on the pictorial suite Mani-Festa by well-known Catalan modern artist Antoni Miró (b. 1944), the paper addresses causes, nature and visible outputs of the global phenomenon named “people on streets” using thoughts, considerations, views and conclusions of such scientists, thinkers, writers and historians as Z. Bauman, L. Donskis, M. Castells, R. de la Calle, M. Shore, R. Dasgupta and others. The analysed Catalan artist reflects in faces of his protagonists the collective image of the struggle for human rights, paraphrasing R.de la Calle. It is a collective image of some spiritual unity which emerges around a common objective uniting people of diverse background, professions, nationalities, age. Analysing the creative interpretation of “social context” by the case of art works of the Catalan painter, Antoni Miró, the author demonstrates how the thoughts, suggestions and conclusions of related disciplines – sociology, philosophy and history, existing in a given social time, are condensed in artistic expressions. And sometimes, it is a work of art or a work of literature that could help to understand better the ongoing processes and phenomena of surrounding world providing deeper, more comprehensive and more emotional vision. Along with mentioned thinkers and writers, the artist puts the question: what would be then, after the building ground, as Z. Bauman coined, has been cleaned. Should it be a new – perhaps, creative – and better solution for the world affirming the “there-is-no-alternative” principle.

scholarly journals Based on the Current Situation and Thinking of Art Appreciation Education in Colleges and Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Li
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Art Appreciation ◽  
Art Educators ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Elective Course

The development and progress of society put forward higher requirements for the comprehensive quality of contemporary college students. As a public elective course to strengthen quality education and improve students' art accomplishment, art appreciation course has its own discipline characteristics and teaching rules. It enriches students' aesthetic concept and always cultivates their art appreciation ability through aesthetic education of excellent art works and in all over the world. How to face all the students to popularize art knowledge and cultivate their aesthetic ability is a problem that art educators think about. This paper makes an in-depth analysis of their own conditions of non art majors and expounds the coping strategies. It is hoped that it will help to broaden students' art vision, improve their art accomplishment, enhance their humanistic quality and promote their all-round development.

scholarly journals Studi Literatur: Hubungan Pengetahuan dengan Stigma pada Penderita HIV/AIDS (ODHA)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Nila Alfiani ◽  
Ahmad Rido'i Yuda Prayogi ◽  
Ayik Mirayanti Mandagi ◽  
Diansanto Prayoga
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Systematic Review Methods ◽  
Hiv Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Prevention Of Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

HIV/AIDS is a disease that has become a pandemic and worries people all over the world, because until now there has not been found a vaccine or drug for the prevention of HIV/AIDS. HIV positive cases in Indonesia from year to year have increased. The problems faced by people with HIV/AIDS are very complex. Every day the patient's condition will get weaker if he does not take medication regularly because the HIV virus will attack the patient's immune system. In addition, the stigma and discrimination of the surrounding community are also a burden that must be borne by people with HIV AIDS. The stigma makes HIV sufferers worse, with this stigma, HIV sufferers are ashamed to seek treatment at a health service. This writing is to determine the relationship between knowledge and stigma against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) through a review of various literature with the same theme. The method used in this paper uses rivew literature. This type of research uses systematic review. The study design used retrospective, prospective and systematic review methods. There is a relationship between knowledge and stigma against PLWHA. People with low knowledge tend to stigmatize people with HIV.

scholarly journals Law, criminalisation and HIV in the world: have countries that criminalise achieved more or less successful pandemic response?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. e006315
Author(s):  
Matthew M Kavanagh ◽  
Schadrac C Agbla ◽  
Marissa Joy ◽  
Kashish Aneja ◽  
Mara Pillinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Viral Suppression ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Status ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Hiv Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Living With Hiv

How do choices in criminal law and rights protections affect disease-fighting efforts? This long-standing question facing governments around the world is acute in the context of pandemics like HIV and COVID-19. The Global AIDS Strategy of the last 5 years sought to prevent mortality and HIV transmission in part through ensuring people living with HIV (PLHIV) knew their HIV status and could suppress the HIV virus through antiretroviral treatment. This article presents a cross-national ecological analysis of the relative success of national AIDS responses under this strategy, where laws were characterised by more or less criminalisation and with varying rights protections. In countries where same-sex sexual acts were criminalised, the portion of PLHIV who knew their HIV status was 11% lower and viral suppression levels 8% lower. Sex work criminalisation was associated with 10% lower knowledge of status and 6% lower viral suppression. Drug use criminalisation was associated with 14% lower levels of both. Criminalising all three of these areas was associated with approximately 18%–24% worse outcomes. Meanwhile, national laws on non-discrimination, independent human rights institutions and gender-based violence were associated with significantly higher knowledge of HIV status and higher viral suppression among PLHIV. Since most countries did not achieve 2020 HIV goals, this ecological evidence suggests that law reform may be an important tool in speeding momentum to halt the pandemic.

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