The Cinematic Chiasm

Janus Head ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Nisha Gupta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Audience Member ◽  
Self And Other

This paper is a recommendation for phenomenologists to use film as a perceptually-faithful language with which to disseminate research and in­sights about lived experience. I use Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy to illus­trate how film can evoke a state of profound, embodied empathy between self-and-other, which I refer to as “the cinematic chiasm”. I incorporate a case study of my experience as audience member becoming intertwined with the flesh of the film “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.” I discuss four aesthetic techniques of this film through which I became enveloped in a state of visceral empathy towards the “other” on-screen. The cin­ematic chiasm offers exciting, creative possibilities for phenomenologists, particularly those who are interested in evoking widespread empathy for social justice purposes.

scholarly journals Massive and Microscopic Sensemaking During COVID-19 Times

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042096247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette N. Markham ◽  
Anne Harris ◽  
Mary Elizabeth Luka
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Planetary Scale ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Ongoing Experiment

How does this pandemic moment help us to think about the relationships between self and other, or between humans and the planet? How are people making sense of COVID-19 in their everyday lives, both as a local and intimate occurrence with microscopic properties, and a planetary-scale event with potentially massive outcomes? In this paper we describe our approach to a large-scale, still-ongoing experiment involving more than 150 people from 26 countries. Grounded in autoethnography practice and critical pedagogy, we offered 21 days of self guided prompts to for us and the other participants to explore their own lived experience. Our project illustrates the power of applying a feminist perspective and an ethic of care to engage in open ended collaboration during times of globally-felt trauma.

Is The Second Sex Beauvoir’s Application of Sartrean Existentialism?

1998 ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Simons
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
Choice Point ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Élan Vital

Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 feminist masterpiece, The Second Sex, has traditionally been read as an application of Sartrean existentialism to the problem of women. Critics have claimed a Sartrean origin for Beauvoir's central theses: that under patriarchy woman is the Other, and that 'one is not born a woman, but becomes one.' An analysis of Beauvoir's recently discovered 1927 diary, written while she was a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, two years before her first meeting with Sartre, challenges this interpretation. In this diary, Beauvoir affirms her commitment to doing philosophy, defines the philosophical problem of 'the opposition of self and other,' and explores the links between love and domination. In 1927, she thus lays the foundations of both Sartre's phenomenology of interpersonal relationships and of her own thesis, in The Second Sex, that woman is the Other. Her descriptions of the experience of freedom and choice point to the influence of Bergson, specifically his concepts of 'becoming' and élan vital. Tracing Beauvoir's shift from her apolitical position of 1927 to the feminist engagement of The Second Sex points to the influence of the African-American writer, Richard Wright, whose description of the lived experience of oppression of blacks in America, and whose challenge to Marxist reductionism, provide Beauvoir with a model, an analogy, for analyzing woman's oppression.

scholarly journals Imaginário e espacialidade vivida em narrativas quilombolas, Pimenteiras do Oeste – Rondônia, Brasil

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Zairo Carlos da Silva Pinheiro ◽  
Cicilian Luiza Löwen Sahr
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Federal Constitution ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Will ◽  
Sobre Todo

Resumo Esse artigo busca discutir o imaginário na espacialidade vivida levando em conta a oralidade de sujeitos quilombolas. Para tanto, estuda-se o caso concreto de Pimenteiras do Oeste em Rondônia (RO) à luz das narrativas de seus quilombolas e também de teóricos da fenomenologia. Acredita-se que a reivindicação de um espaço quilombola, a Fazenda Santa Cruz, esteja sustentada tanto pelo imaginário social e pela espacialidade construída e reconstruída ao longo da história do grupo, como também - e principalmente - pelo imaginário social recente, tornado visível a partir da Constituição Federal de 1988. A pesquisa demonstra que a vontade de “ser quilombola” perpassa pelo imaginário de diferentes discursos, e que este imaginário se mescla com as espacialidades do grupo, tornando-os um dependente do outro.Palavras-chave: imaginário; espacialidades; narrativas; quilombolas; Rondônia. Abstract This article is discussing the function of imaginaries in lived spatialities, based on an investigation on the orality of quilombolas. As such, it is directed towards a case study in Pimenteiras do Oeste in Rondonia (Brazil), a place which is understood through the narratives of its quilombola population as well as through phenomenological methods.  Its premises are that the claim for a quilombola space, in our case the Fazenda Santa Cruz, is based on a connection between social imaginary and its produced spatiality, on one hand grounded on a long-term lived experience of the group, and on the other referring to a more recent imaginary that is linked to the Federal Constitution of Brazil from 1988. Throughout the research it appears that the will to “be quilombola” is passing through the imaginary of several discourses, and that these imaginaries do mix within the lived spatialities of the group, turning each element dependent on the other.Keywords: imaginary; spatiality; narratives; quilombolas; Rondonia.  ResumenEl presente artículo discute lo imaginario en la espacialidad vivida a la luz de la oralidad de sujetos quilombolas (cimarrones). El caso de Pimenteiras do Oeste, Rondônia, es estudiado a partir de las narrativas de los quilombolas a través del análisis de la fenomenología. La demanda de un espacio quilombola, la Hacienda Santa Cruz, es apoyada tanto por el imaginario social y la espacialidad construida y reconstruida a lo largo de la historia del grupo, pero también -  sobre todo - por el imaginario social reciente, que se hizo visible desde la Constitución Federal de 1988. La investigación muestra que el deseo de "ser quilombola" está presente en los diferentes discursos, y éste imaginario está mezclado además, con la espacialidad del grupo estudiado, haciéndolos interdependientes. Palabras Clave: imaginario; espacialidad; narraciones; quilombolas (cimarrones); Rondônia. 

scholarly journals Fracture: The reception of the 'other' author in Aotearoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michalia Arathimos
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Event ◽  
Literary Identity ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Individual

The fracturing of cultural identity is a common trope in postcolonial literatures. Traditional binaries of 'self' and 'other' are now complicated by cultural hybridities that reflect the intersectionality of migrant identities, indigeneity and the postcolonial national 'self'. Where the binaries 'self' and 'other' do not hold, creative forms like the novel can go some way towards exploring hybrid and 'other' experiences, both as a reinscribing and reimagining of the centre, and as a complex 'writing back'. This thesis investigates the complex positioning of the hybrid or double-cultured individual in Aotearoa in the last forty years. While postcolonial models have been used to expose the exoticisation of the 'other' in fictional texts, Part One of this thesis goes a step further by applying these models to real authors and interrogating their representations as static objects/products in the collective 'text' of media items written about them. Shifts in 'our' national literary identity can be traced in changes in responses to 'other' authors over time. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the first part of this thesis proves that there are differences in the media‟s portrayal of six Māori and 'other' ethnic authors: Witi Ihimaera, Keri Hulme, Kapka Kassabova, Tusiata Avia, Karlo Mila and Cliff Fell, beginning with the 1972 publication of Ihimaera‟s Pounamu Pounamu and ending in 2009 with Tusiata Avia‟s Bloodclot. Part One of this thesis mixes media studies, postcolonial literary analysis, and cultural theory, and references the work of Ghassan Hage, Graham Huggan, Margery Fee, Patrick Evans, Mark Williams, and Simone Drichel. Part Two of this thesis is comprised of a novel, Fracture. While Part One constitutes an investigation of the positioning of the 'other' author, Part Two is a creative exploration of two double-cultured and dispossessed indigenous characters' lived experience. The novel follows a Greek-New Zealand woman and a Māori man who go to a rural pā to protest fracking, or hydraulic fracturing. While the first part of the thesis explores the positioning of the „other‟ outside of the white self, the novel aims to portray the effects of such 'othering,' on the individual and demonstrate how the historical/political event can be a real experiential locale for the 'other'.

When Janitors Dare to Become Scholars

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Moreira ◽  
Marcelo Diversi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Narrative Space ◽  
American Academia ◽  
Systemic Oppression

In this performance autoethnography we re-present our experiences of disembodied knowledge construction in mainstream American academia. We claim that knowledge production about the Other still tends to reify the very oppression it intends to challenge. Can a janitor become a scholar without having to bury experiences under layers of theory and other technologies of justification? Or are marginalized humans relegated to a subordinate position of research subject in the process of knowledge production? Neither? Both? Troubling the recurring experience of “my bad English,” we try to show that folks lacking an educated upbringing can contribute to the decolonizing dialogue through something no technology of methods can provide: visceral lived experience of systemic oppression. We are insisting on narrative space for visceral knowledge to advance decolonizing discourses that may lead to more inclusive notions of social justice.

scholarly journals Fracture: The reception of the 'other' author in Aotearoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michalia Arathimos
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Event ◽  
Literary Identity ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Individual

<p>The fracturing of cultural identity is a common trope in postcolonial literatures. Traditional binaries of 'self' and 'other' are now complicated by cultural hybridities that reflect the intersectionality of migrant identities, indigeneity and the postcolonial national 'self'. Where the binaries 'self' and 'other' do not hold, creative forms like the novel can go some way towards exploring hybrid and 'other' experiences, both as a reinscribing and reimagining of the centre, and as a complex 'writing back'. This thesis investigates the complex positioning of the hybrid or double-cultured individual in Aotearoa in the last forty years. While postcolonial models have been used to expose the exoticisation of the 'other' in fictional texts, Part One of this thesis goes a step further by applying these models to real authors and interrogating their representations as static objects/products in the collective 'text' of media items written about them. Shifts in 'our' national literary identity can be traced in changes in responses to 'other' authors over time. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the first part of this thesis proves that there are differences in the media‟s portrayal of six Māori and 'other' ethnic authors: Witi Ihimaera, Keri Hulme, Kapka Kassabova, Tusiata Avia, Karlo Mila and Cliff Fell, beginning with the 1972 publication of Ihimaera‟s Pounamu Pounamu and ending in 2009 with Tusiata Avia‟s Bloodclot. Part One of this thesis mixes media studies, postcolonial literary analysis, and cultural theory, and references the work of Ghassan Hage, Graham Huggan, Margery Fee, Patrick Evans, Mark Williams, and Simone Drichel. Part Two of this thesis is comprised of a novel, Fracture. While Part One constitutes an investigation of the positioning of the 'other' author, Part Two is a creative exploration of two double-cultured and dispossessed indigenous characters' lived experience. The novel follows a Greek-New Zealand woman and a Māori man who go to a rural pā to protest fracking, or hydraulic fracturing. While the first part of the thesis explores the positioning of the „other‟ outside of the white self, the novel aims to portray the effects of such 'othering,' on the individual and demonstrate how the historical/political event can be a real experiential locale for the 'other'.</p>

scholarly journals Fracture: The reception of the 'other' author in Aotearoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michalia Arathimos
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Event ◽  
Literary Identity ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Individual

The fracturing of cultural identity is a common trope in postcolonial literatures. Traditional binaries of 'self' and 'other' are now complicated by cultural hybridities that reflect the intersectionality of migrant identities, indigeneity and the postcolonial national 'self'. Where the binaries 'self' and 'other' do not hold, creative forms like the novel can go some way towards exploring hybrid and 'other' experiences, both as a reinscribing and reimagining of the centre, and as a complex 'writing back'. This thesis investigates the complex positioning of the hybrid or double-cultured individual in Aotearoa in the last forty years. While postcolonial models have been used to expose the exoticisation of the 'other' in fictional texts, Part One of this thesis goes a step further by applying these models to real authors and interrogating their representations as static objects/products in the collective 'text' of media items written about them. Shifts in 'our' national literary identity can be traced in changes in responses to 'other' authors over time. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the first part of this thesis proves that there are differences in the media‟s portrayal of six Māori and 'other' ethnic authors: Witi Ihimaera, Keri Hulme, Kapka Kassabova, Tusiata Avia, Karlo Mila and Cliff Fell, beginning with the 1972 publication of Ihimaera‟s Pounamu Pounamu and ending in 2009 with Tusiata Avia‟s Bloodclot. Part One of this thesis mixes media studies, postcolonial literary analysis, and cultural theory, and references the work of Ghassan Hage, Graham Huggan, Margery Fee, Patrick Evans, Mark Williams, and Simone Drichel. Part Two of this thesis is comprised of a novel, Fracture. While Part One constitutes an investigation of the positioning of the 'other' author, Part Two is a creative exploration of two double-cultured and dispossessed indigenous characters' lived experience. The novel follows a Greek-New Zealand woman and a Māori man who go to a rural pā to protest fracking, or hydraulic fracturing. While the first part of the thesis explores the positioning of the „other‟ outside of the white self, the novel aims to portray the effects of such 'othering,' on the individual and demonstrate how the historical/political event can be a real experiential locale for the 'other'.

Understanding differing conceptions of violence through Self–Other relations in Gandhi and Fanon

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-232
Author(s):  
Aparna Devare
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clear Separation ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Earth

This article compares and contrasts Gandhi’s and Fanon’s views on violence by placing these ideas within a larger framework of how each viewed the Self and its relationship with the Other. I argue in the article that Gandhi did not view the Self as clearly separable from the Other; the Self was internal to the Other and hence violence to the Other would also affect the Self. This was one of the underlying reasons behind his adopting a philosophy of non-violence. In the case of Fanon, I argue that one can identify a “dominant” Fanon who makes a clear separation between Self and Other in contrast to Gandhi and hence can justify violence inflicted on the colonizer. But, the article also teases out a “marginal” or “Other” Fanon who comes much closer to Gandhi in the manner in which he views the Other as implicated within the Self particularly through his own lived experience, his activism, his views on psychiatry, and his other writings apart from Wretched of the Earth.

Social Justice Through Fiction: Intersectionality of Religion, Caste, and Gender in Mohammed Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-235
Author(s):  
Freya Dasgupta
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This article explores the plight of Pakistan’s Christian minorities as depicted by author and journalist Mohammed Hanif in his novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti. Literature has the ability to inspire immense empathy for the other by lending voice to the forgotten and marginalized, which is the first step to any dialogue for social justice. Examining the so-called fictional depictions against scholarship on the subject, the article studies the complex intersectionality of religion, caste, class, and gender that manifests in the mistreatment of Christian minorities. Through the framework of fiction, it brings to light the lived experience of Pakistani Christians, and in the process, demonstrates the evocative power of literature towards understanding those who find their human dignity threatened by power and privilege.

scholarly journals Fracture: The reception of the 'other' author in Aotearoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michalia Arathimos
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Event ◽  
Literary Identity ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Individual

<p>The fracturing of cultural identity is a common trope in postcolonial literatures. Traditional binaries of 'self' and 'other' are now complicated by cultural hybridities that reflect the intersectionality of migrant identities, indigeneity and the postcolonial national 'self'. Where the binaries 'self' and 'other' do not hold, creative forms like the novel can go some way towards exploring hybrid and 'other' experiences, both as a reinscribing and reimagining of the centre, and as a complex 'writing back'. This thesis investigates the complex positioning of the hybrid or double-cultured individual in Aotearoa in the last forty years. While postcolonial models have been used to expose the exoticisation of the 'other' in fictional texts, Part One of this thesis goes a step further by applying these models to real authors and interrogating their representations as static objects/products in the collective 'text' of media items written about them. Shifts in 'our' national literary identity can be traced in changes in responses to 'other' authors over time. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the first part of this thesis proves that there are differences in the media‟s portrayal of six Māori and 'other' ethnic authors: Witi Ihimaera, Keri Hulme, Kapka Kassabova, Tusiata Avia, Karlo Mila and Cliff Fell, beginning with the 1972 publication of Ihimaera‟s Pounamu Pounamu and ending in 2009 with Tusiata Avia‟s Bloodclot. Part One of this thesis mixes media studies, postcolonial literary analysis, and cultural theory, and references the work of Ghassan Hage, Graham Huggan, Margery Fee, Patrick Evans, Mark Williams, and Simone Drichel. Part Two of this thesis is comprised of a novel, Fracture. While Part One constitutes an investigation of the positioning of the 'other' author, Part Two is a creative exploration of two double-cultured and dispossessed indigenous characters' lived experience. The novel follows a Greek-New Zealand woman and a Māori man who go to a rural pā to protest fracking, or hydraulic fracturing. While the first part of the thesis explores the positioning of the „other‟ outside of the white self, the novel aims to portray the effects of such 'othering,' on the individual and demonstrate how the historical/political event can be a real experiential locale for the 'other'.</p>

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