scholarly journals ENSAIO PARA O ACIDENTAL: A LOUCURA E A QUEDA EM RANCIÈRE, BAS JAN ADER E DOM QUIXOTE / Essay for the accidental: loucura and fall in Rancière, Bas Jan Ader and Dom Quixote

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (41) ◽  
pp. 233-250
Author(s):  
Daniela Cunha Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Rene Descartes ◽  
Causal Chain ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
The Body ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
The Status ◽  
René Descartes ◽  
Contemporary Artist ◽  
Modes Of Thought

A partir de duas figuras que marcam a modernidade – René Descartes e dom Quixote – pensamos como configuram modos de pensamento diversos e opostos. Entre o método que busca o encadeamento causal das coisas e a errância do corpo entregue às aventuras da imaginação, o filósofo e o cavaleiro instauram um embate que não é aquele entre a razão e o sensível, mas sim, entre dois modos da razão. Nosso intuito é pensar, especialmente a partir de Jacques Rancière, como o cavaleiro errante teria aberto um novo campo da experiência sensível que denominamos acidental, cujo gesto é a recusa da lógica do encadeamento causal cartesiano. Damos a ver, ainda, o modo como o gesto inaugurado por dom Quixote será reverberado nos gestos do artista contemporâneo Bas Jan Ader, com seu empenho em buscar a queda tal qual dom Quixote buscara a loucura. O que surgiria com a recusa da causalidade no cavaleiro e no artista, em nossa hipótese, é uma mudança de estatuto da própria noção de acidente ou acidental que, deixando de ser considerado erro a ser evitado, passará a ser experienciado como a única possibilidade para um mundo pautado na contingência da vida.Palavras-chave: Heterogêneo sensível; Experiência acidental; Jacques Rancière; Errância; Modos de pensamento. AbstractBased on two figures that marks the modernity − René Descartes and Don Quixote − we think about how they configure different and opposite modes of thought. Between the method that seeks the causal chain of things and the wandering of the body given over to the adventures of the imagination, the philosopher and the knight establish a clash that is not that between reason and sensible, but between two modes of reason. We think, especialy from Jacques Rancière, how the errant knight would have opened up a new field of the sensible experience that we call accidental, whose gesture is the refusal of the logic of the Cartesian causal chain. We also show how the gesture inaugurated by Don Quixote will be reflected in the gestures of the contemporary artist Bas Jan Ader, with his efforts to seek the fall just as Don Quixote sought madness. What would arise with the refusal of causality in the rider and in the artist, in our hypothesis, is a change in the status of the very notion of accident or accidental that, no longer being considered as an error to be avoided, will now be experienced as the only possibility for a world based on the contingency of life.Keywords: Heterogeneous sensible; Accidental experience; Jacques Rancière; Wandering; Forms of thinking.

scholarly journals O PAPEL DO CORPO EM DUAS CONCEPÇÕES DE SUJEITO: O COGITO CARTESIANO E O EXPERIENCIALISMO / The role of the body in two conceptions of subject: the cartesian cogito and the experientialism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Oliveira de Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Rene Descartes ◽  
The Body ◽  
René Descartes ◽  
Cartesian Cogito

Este artigo de natureza qualitativa tem como objetivo delinear a concepção de sujeito proposta pela Linguística Cognitiva, tendo em vista que a noção de subjetividade, para o constructo teórico em questão, nem sempre é explícita. Para levar a cabo tal empreitada, este estudo fundamenta-se no pressuposto de que, para se estudar a mente humana, não se deve excluir o corpo do processo analítico (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 1980; LAKOFF, 1987; JOHNSON, 1987). Assim sendo, acredita-se que a inserção da encarnação física humana no quadro teórico da razão, isto é, a teorização da promoção do corpo ao mesmo patamar ocupado pela mente, sem a possibilidade de dissociação entre eles, seja o fator crucial para se alcançar uma definição possível do que se trata o sujeito para a Linguística Cognitiva. Com o intuito de suscitar tal discussão, resgatam-se, inicialmente, as questões relacionadas ao sujeito engendrado no século XVII, influenciado por René Descartes com a intuição intelectual do cogito, no advento da Filosofia Moderna: o sujeito gerido pela substancialidade, universalidade e consciência. Como contraponto ao sujeito cartesiano, discute-se o paradigma filosófico da Hipótese da Corporificação, tornando possível o debate sobre o inconsciente cognitivo, a mente corporificada e o pensamento metafórico. Desse modo, pretende-se lançar mão do conceito de consciência, bem como os dualismos sobre mente/corpo, interioridade/exterioridade, racionalismo/empirismo e universalismo/relativismo.

Understandings of Colors: Varieties of Theories in the Color Worlds of the Early Seventeenth Century

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4-6) ◽  
pp. 515-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Rene Descartes ◽  
The Status ◽  
René Descartes

In the early seventeenth century, there existed a myriad of theories to account for color phenomena. The status, goal, and content of such accounts differed as well as the range of phenomena they explained. Starting with the journal of Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637), this essay inquires into the features and functions of conceptual reflections upon color experiences. Beeckman played a crucial role in the intellectual development of René Descartes (1596–1650), while at the same time their ideas differed crucially. Early corpuscular conceptions of colors cannot be reduced to the mechanistic variety of Descartes. Moreover, the optical rather than corpuscular features of Descartes’s understanding of colors were essential. A stratification of conceptualizations is proposed that is grounded in various problem contexts rather than philosophical doctrines, thus opening a way to interpret the philosophical parts of color worlds in a more diverse way.


When rivers go to court: The Anthropocene in organization studies through the lens of Jacques Rancière

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktorija Kalonaityte
Keyword(s):  
Political Decision ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
The Status ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Political Decision Making ◽  
Do So

The overarching purpose of this article is to add to the theorization of the Anthropocene in organization studies by investigating how long-term planetary concerns can be better accounted for in organizing. To do so, the article draws on the scholarship of Jacques Rancière to show how the dichotomy of nature and culture shapes the dominant framings of organizing, and to outline premises for artistic, scholarly and political interventions into the status quo that could aid the process of making our entanglements with the geo-biophysical politically viable. The article concludes that the Anthropocene can add to a renewal of organizational and political decision-making processes through a radical rethinking of the liberal humanist separation of nature and culture and related concepts such as democracy and political subjecthood.

scholarly journals Phantoms at the Helm

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-119
Author(s):  
Eleonora Joensuu
Keyword(s):  
Educational Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
The World ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Modes Of Thought ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Politics Of Location

Educational institutions have held a central role in utopian projects as the vehicle for implementing utopian principles and fashioning the utopian subject. As vehicles for utopian narratives or projects, educational institutions are simultaneously shaped by utopian modes of thought. Modes of thought are not neutral tools that are used as needed, but rather, they are active in how we understand ourselves, others, and the world. This paper draws out the implications and risks of nostalgic and utopian modes of thought to suggest that their mobilization is problematic in education as it directs education’s sight to a distant, illusory past and to an imagined future. The impact of this is an inadequate account for the lived realities of the present. By drawing on feminist epistemology and the work of Jacques Rancière, the paper proposes that a radical attending to the “now,” coupled with a politics of location, offers a way for educational theory and practice to engage its relationship to past, future, and present.

The Body of Light in Renaissance England

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Simon Cox
Keyword(s):  
Rene Descartes ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
The Body ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Mechanical Philosophy ◽  
Renaissance England ◽  
René Descartes ◽  
Body Concept ◽  
New Form ◽  
Cambridge Platonists

This chapter engages with the first Anglophone attestations of the term “subtle body.” It appears first in the contentious correspondence between Thomas Hobbes and Rene Descartes between whom there was some disagreement over who plagiarized the idea from whom. Most of the chapter is taken up with the Cambridge Platonists who came in their wake, who formulated complex philosophical and mythological views of the Neoplatonic vehicles of the soul, now under the English name “subtle body.” It ends with Lady Anne Conway, who fuses the Platonism of the Cambridge group with Kabbalah to create a new form of spiritual monism. This chapter is significantly about how the subtle body concept was employed by Renaissance Platonists arguing against the reductive materialism of Cartesian mechanical philosophy.

scholarly journals Modern ideas about the psyche: changing of the paradigm

2020 ◽  
Vol LII (1) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Mikhail М. Reshetnikov
Keyword(s):  
Rene Descartes ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Biological Interface ◽  
Material Theory ◽  
René Descartes ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
The Brain

The problem of the psyche and consciousness has been the most mysterious one for a few thousand years and is still unresolved. It has been almost forgotten that Aristotle considered human psyche a structure that is not bound to the body. This idea did not persist, though. It was Hippocrates who ruined it and declared a different concept, which prevailed for many centuries, that the brain is a repository of all mental processes. Even such a genius as Rene Descartes took Hippocratess idea for granted and spent many months in attempts to find memory and emotions in gyrus and ventricles of the brain. This path the search of material structures of the psyche was followed by I.M. Sechenov, I.P. Pavlov and many others. Later, many other mistaken ideas were born, declared new and revolutionary ones and died prematurely. However, not only ideas died, but also patients, who were treated by methods developed on the basis of these hypotheses. The author formulates the idea of the brain as the biological interface and proves a non-material theory of the psyche, which is a discovery that requires a change in basic paradigms of human sciences.

scholarly journals La Fotografía de Ana Álvarez-Errecalde: el reciclaje de las formas en la construcción de sentido e identidad

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (56) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Isabel Imbaquingo ◽  
Carlos Hugo Aulestia
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Photographic Image ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Common Space ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Post Production ◽  
Contemporary Artist ◽  
The Aesthetic

El presente texto explora la obra visual de la artista contemporánea argentina Ana Álvarez-Errecalde en la que se opera una estrategia de transgresión de las representaciones aceptables, según los regímenes de comprensión del arte dominante. El trabajo de esta autora pretende exhibir ante los receptores ciertas representaciones de los femenino y la maternidad, que en un marco estrictamente estético serían deslegitimadas o desacreditadas como un discurso de reivindicación política.Para interpretar de manera pertinente este trabajo es necesario explorar las reflexiones  de Jacques Rancière sobre los vínculos entre los regímenes de comprensión de lo estético, de naturaleza excluyente, y la noción de política, que busca la igualdad en la producción y recepción del arte. Además, se examinan los conceptos propuestos por Nicolas Bourriaud como la reapropiación de las formas y la continuidad del relato en la categoría de postproducción.Como resultado de esta exploración, en las propuestas fotográficas analizadas ‘Tres gracias sangrantes’ y ‘Anunciación’, la artista consigue generar un espacio común para mostrar la trascendencia política en los fenómenos estéticos y por tanto generar un nuevo reparto de lo sensible, en palabras de Rancière. Palabras clave: repartición de lo sensible; regímenes de lo estético, imagen fotográfica; postproducción; cuerpo.  Ana Alvarez-Errecalde’s photography: the building of sense and identity thru recycling of shapes Abstract: This text explores the visual work of the Argentine contemporary artist Ana Alvarez-Errecalde, in which a strategy of transgression of acceptable representations is used, according to the systems of understanding of the predominant art. The work of this author is intended to exhibit to the viewers, certain representations of feminine and motherhood, which under a strictly aesthetic framework, would be discredited as a discourse of political vindication. In order to understand this work in an appropriate way, it is necessary to explore Jacques Rancière's reflections about the links between the selective nature of the systems of understanding the aesthetic and the political notion, which seeks equality in the production and public reception of art. In addition, we will examine the concepts proposed by Nicolas Bourriaud, such as the art of appropriation and the production of different story lines and alternative narratives in post-production notion.As a result of this arrangement, in the photographic proposals analyzed 'Three bleeding graces' and 'Annunciation', the artist manages to generate a common space to show political significance in aesthetic phenomena and, therefore, in the words of Rancière, create a new sensitive arrangement.Keywords: distribution of the sensible; esthetic regime; photographic image; postproduction; body.

scholarly journals Solutions to the Problems Concerning Descartes’ Interactionism

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Md. Ezazul Karim
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Rene Descartes ◽  
The Body ◽  
René Descartes ◽  
The Mind

Philosophy of mind in its essence philosophizes about the mind. And among many questions that it raises, the question regarding the relation between the body and the mind is of paramount importance. Among various theories considering the relation between the body and the mind, interactionism shines brightly. Advocated by the philosopher Rene Descartes it is one of the oldest and the most talked about theories. The aim of this paper is to propose some solutions to the problems concerning Rene Descartes’ interactionism. In order to do that at first interactionism is going to be discussed. Then the main points concerning Descartes’ interactionism along with the initial problems will be discussed. And finally, the solution to these problems will be proposed.

scholarly journals Rancièrean Atomism: Clarifying the Debate between Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-121
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Essential Point ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Negative Judgment ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Status ◽  
Implicit Response ◽  
Shed Light

In the late 1970s and the 1980s, a number of radical left political theorists focused their philosophical attention on the relevance of ancient atomism, revitalizing a tradition that went back to Karl Marx's work on his dissertation. This essay looks at the uses of atomism by two thinkers in particular, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, in order to see how their discussions of and references to ancient materialism help to shed light on their fundamental disagreements about the nature of community and equality.First, this paper argues that what Badiou and Rancière most obviously share in their assessments of atomism is a negative judgment regarding the post-swerve constitution of the world, while what most obviously distinguishes their positions is their differing judgments regarding the preswerve rain of the atoms in the void (which Badiou assesses negatively and Rancière positively). Becoming clear both about how Badiou and Rancière respond to what comes before and after the atomistic swerve helps to clarify an implicit response on Rancière’s part to what has become Badiou’s chief objection to Rancière’s political theory. Second, this paper argues that the fact that Badiou assesses both what comes before and what comes after the swerve as negative, while Rancière assesses only what comes after the swerve as negative (because he assesses the pre-swerve rain of the atoms in the void positively), makes clear that their most essential point of difference concerns the status of the swerve that mediates between before and after. Working through the complexities of Badiou’s analysis of the swerve and uncovering Rancière’s extremely subtle analysis of the swerve helps to clarify a major aspect of what has become Rancière’s chief criticism of Badiou’s conception of philosophy.

scholarly journals O lugar de encontro nas praças públicas do DF: as intervenções artísticas pelos afetos

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (56) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena Da Silva Figueiredo ◽  
Gabriela Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Federal District ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Cartography ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
The People ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Artistic Interventions

A partir de uma reflexão sobre a Praça do Povo (Brasília – DF) e da Praça do Cidadão (Ceilândia – DF), o artigo pretende fazer associações entre os saberes filosóficos, sociais e arquitetônicos que se unem na compreensão da produção de subjetividades das intervenções artísticas. O aporte teórico da “partilha do sensível”, de Jacques Rancière, nos ajuda a pensar sobre um conjunto comum partilhado pela via dos afetos. Como metodologia, utilizamos uma cartografia social que abrange o conceito de corpo, proposto pela filosofia de Spinoza, e assim vemos como resultado a tomada de consciência do espaço público no tecido urbano que pertence à população, e não à esfera privada. As praças mencionadas, neste sentido, são pensadas como um lugar de encontro proporcionado pela atuação deste espaço público em decorrência das interações entre as pessoas e o meio urbano.Palavra-chave: Afeto. Espaço urbano. Praça do Povo. Praça do Cidadão. Subjetividades.  MEETING PLACE IN PUBLIC SQUARES ON THE FEDERAL DISTRICT: THE ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS BY AFFECTIONS Abstract: Through the analysis about the People Square (Brasília) and Citizen Square (Ceilândia), the article has been associating with Philosophy, Social Studies and Architecture knowledge to understand the production of subjectivities for artistics intervention. The theoretical contribution is related to an idea of “distribution of the sensitive” of Jacques Rancière to think of a common set shared by means of affection. As methodology we have used Social Cartography to include the idea about the body proposed by Spinoza Philosophy. Then, as a result, to be aware of public space as urban fabric that belongs to the population and not to the private sphere. The squares mentioned are thought of as a meeting place provided by the performance of this public space by interactions between people and the urban environment.Key words: Affection. Urban space. People square. Citizen Square. Subjectivities.

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