Subjectivities

Creating subjectivities

by john cromby

Book Review: Tras la autoestima. Variaciones sobre el yo expresivo en la modernidad tardía

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Call for papers - La rivoluzione interiore (XVI e XVII secolo)

by Lo Sguardo - Rivista di Filosofia

Il numero X de Lo Sguardo ha come oggetto i secoli XVI e XVII. Il tema che si intende approfondire è quello dell'interiorizzazione del mondo e dello sviluppo di una interiorità individuale nel periodo compreso tra Rinascimento e prima età moderna. A questo scopo il numero esplorerà la psicologia cinque-seicentesca soffermandosi in particolare su alcune facoltà “ausiliari” dell'intelletto quali la memoria, l'immaginazione, la fantasia, in relazione al processo di apprehensio, alla pratica degli esercizi spirituali e all'ideale dell'homo faber sui.

Lingue accettate: Italiano, Inglese, Francese, Spagnolo, Tedesco.
Deadline: 10/09/2012

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Call for papers - The Inner Revolution (16th and 17th century) [English version]

by Lo Sguardo - Rivista di Filosofia

This tenth issue of Lo Sguardo will be dedicated to the “inner revolution” of he 16th and 17th century; in particular it will delve into the matter of the interiorization of the world” and the development of an “individual interiority” in the period included betweenthe end of the Renaissance and the early modern Age. With this purpose the issue will consider the “psychology of the soul” livering over the role of the “auxialiry faculties” –such as memory, imagination, fantasy – in relation to the notion of apprehensio, to the practice of spiritual exercises and to the concept of homo faber sui.

Accepted languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German
Deadline for the delivery: September, 10th 2012

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Animal Cultures, Subjectivity and Knowledge: Symmetrical Reflections Beyond the Great Divide

by Richie Nimmo

Society and Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2: 173-192.

This article reflects upon the implications for sociology of the steady accumulation of evidence in the sciences of... more This article reflects upon the implications for sociology of the steady accumulation of evidence in the sciences of animal behavior pointing to the existence of culture among nonhuman animals. With a particular focus on primatology, it explores how these developments challenge the notions of “culture” that continue to inform the study of human social life. The article argues that this growing challenge to the assumption of human uniqueness that has historically provided the core rationale for sociology cannot be ignored. The paper thus contributes to the overdue work of articulating a constructive response by tracing the issues involved in the encounter between these knowledges. Theoretical currents from science studies and actor-network theory are drawn upon in order to propose a reflexive and symmetrical realignment of this encounter, with significant implications for our understandings of human and animal being and subjectivity.

Rhetorical Maneuvers: Subjectivity, Power, and Resistance

by Kendall Phillips

Ritratto di una cortigiana del Cinquecento: Caterina de Medici da Verona e le sue vicende (1518-1582). In: Ritratti. La dimensione individuale nella storia (secc. XV- XIX), Hg. Seidel Menchi, S., Pierce, R. (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2008), 147-176.

by Cecilia Cristellon

S.Ashley - Museum Volunteers: Between Precarious Labour and Democratic Knowledge Community

by Susan Ashley

Editorial proof, in Jonathan Paquette (ed.) Cultural Policy, Work and Identity, Museum and Heritage Management series, Ashgate Publishing, UK. 2012
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“Communicate, communicate, communicate” - building ethical subjectivities within polyamory

by Daniel Cardoso

Paper presented at the Sexual Cultures Conference, London, 2012

Joint Panel with Meg Barker, Christian Klesse and Jamie Heckert

Though explicitly non-monogamous relationships are anything but new, the last 20 years have seen the rise and... more Though explicitly non-monogamous relationships are anything but new, the last 20 years have seen the rise and development of another identity: polyamory. This new identity brings with it a focus on feelings and emotions, and seeks to build itself around the ethical notions of frankness and communication. But what is frank communication, how is it supposed to be deployed and, most of all, how does it work in constituting an ethical practice and subjectivity? From the analysis of the conversations on the oldest mailing list on polyamory, we consider how this relates to Foucault’s writing of the self as an ethopoietic practice based on parrhesia - the courage of truth. By focusing on feelings, polyamorous subjects seek to improve themselves and be more autonomous by being able to better control and modify those same feelings.

A dimensão humana do trabalho e do desemprego: uma análise do filme “O adversário”

by Vander Casaqui

Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o filme francês “O adversário” (2002, direção de Nicole Garcia), que apresenta... more Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o filme francês “O adversário” (2002, direção de Nicole Garcia), que apresenta no centro da narrativa uma reflexão crítica sobre os encadeamentos entre o mundo do trabalho, o desemprego e a produção de subjetividade. Os choques entre a dimensão humana e a econômica, entre desejo e determinismo, caracteriza a trajetória do protagonista – o desempregado que esconde sua situação da família com rituais diários que simulam uma vinculação empregatícia. Por meio da análise da narrativa audiovisual, buscamos compreender os significados do mundo do trabalho e do desemprego na produção cinematográfica – esta entendida como uma forma privilegiada de materializar pontos de vista sobre a condição humana em meio ao contexto sócio-cultural-econômico de nosso tempo.

Selftubes: Construction of Identities in Web Porn [Selftubes: konštrukcia identít vo webovom porne]

by Michal Bočák

Bočák, Michal. 2012. "Selftubes: Construction of Identities in Web Porn." Paper presented at conference Media and Text 3, Veľký Šariš (Slovakia), 21st – 22nd October 2010. [Paper in Slovak submitted for review.]

This study presents results of the qualitative analysis of constructions of identities in heterosexual pornographic... more This study presents results of the qualitative analysis of constructions of identities in heterosexual pornographic videos’ titles on pornographic websites (tubes). Conceptualising porn as a contemporary Western androcentric discourse of sexuality, the author argues that if porn ought to appeal to socially determined desires of its consumers, it can’t be done only by shooting the bodies in detail: it has to represent identities as “ready-made”, widely shared social categories – these are what assign the status of imaginable social situation to (otherwise “mechanical”) sex act. Moreover, in a pornographised culture which is accepting a pornographic logic also beyond the pornosphere it can be reasoned that the porn partakes on re-/defining of identities (meaning not only genders and desires) significantly. The analysis of porn videos’ titles clearly confirms an introductory theoretical conceptualisation of the identity/subjectivity as an unstable, situational entity as well as it proves the multiplicity and intersectionality of identity, stated by its present theories. It appears notably in the systematic power structuring of the intersections of gender, racial/ethnic, age and other social categories, which actually are, according to the author of the study, naturalising the central gender asymetry and the androcentric order.

Keywords: pornography – porn – web – subject – identity – construction – video’s title – intersectionality – asymetry – androcentrism

From Blindness to Blindness: Museums, Heterogeneity and the Subject

by Kevin Hetherington

On the Border between Abjection and the Third: The (Re) Birth of Narcissus in the Works of Julia Kristeva

by Pleshette DeArmitt

Savoir, pouvoir et inconscient : de la psychanalyse comme dispositif de subjectivation

by Jean François Bissonnette

Publié dans Phaenex; revue de théorie et culture existentialistes et phénoménologiques, Vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 28-44.

Farewell to the objective real world

by George Clarke

Policante, A. “Vampires of Capital: Gothic Reflections between Horror and Hope”, The Cultural Logic, 1, 2012.

by Amedeo Policante

At the beginning it is creativity, living labour. At the beginning, it is the free play of human beings transforming... more At the beginning it is creativity, living labour. At the beginning, it is the free play of human beings transforming the life-world of nature through the productive power of their minds and of their bodies. Through his own actions the worker “develops the potentialities slumbering within nature” and “subjects” the play of its forces to his own sovereign power.” At the end, it is capital: “dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.” Capital furtively rises among the living and, from then on, “sucks up the worker’s value creating power” “transforming the worker into a crippled monstrosity.” But how can a dead body rise up and live off the living, how can “le mort saisit le vif”? This is for us the fundamental question of Capital. This is also the juncture through which it will be possible to bridge discussions of political economy, subjectivity/subjectification and commodity fetishism into one gothic metastructure.

Superdiverse repertoires and the individual

by Jan Blommaert

'Enough is enough': the heuristics of authenticity in superdiversity

by Jan Blommaert

« Se jouer des corps pour se parer de liberté. Du bijou contemporain comme espace de normativité »

by Klein Alexandre

.dpi, n°17 « adhérence : résistance visqueuse », 2010

Superdiverse repertoires and the individual (2012, Blommaert & Backus)

by Jan Blommaert