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Fisher, Eran, and Yoav Mehozay. "How algorithms see their audience: media epistemes and the changing conception of the individual." Media, Culture & Society 41, no. 8 (March 7, 2019): 1176–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443719831598.
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The rise of digital media has witnessed a paradigmatic shift in the way that media outlets conceptualize and classify their audience. Whereas during the era of mass media, ‘seeing’ the audience was based on a scientific episteme combining social theory and empirical research, with digital media ‘seeing’ the audience has come to be dominated by a new episteme, based on big data and algorithms. This article argues that the algorithmic episteme does not see the audience more accurately, but differently. Whereas the scientific episteme upheld an ascriptive conception which assigned individuals to a particular social category, the algorithmic episteme assumes a performative individual, based on behavioral data, sidestepping any need for a theory of the self. Since the way in which the media see their audience is constitutive, we suggest that the algorithmic episteme represents a new way to think about human beings.
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Dwivedi, Om Prakash, and Roderick McGillis. "Introduction: Hope and Utopia in Global South Literature." Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8, no. 2 (December 19, 2022): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.01.
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Within academic disciplines, the category of Global South is highly contested with no agreements on the definition of the term. One cannot deny the amorphous nature of the term, yet its gravitational pull can be potentially effective in connecting the different forms of ongoing exploitation – both of humans and more-than-humans. This special issue aims to focus on how to think of the episteme of the Global South in ways that could be enabling, liberating, capacious enough to sharpen our imaginative and performative utopian lens.
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DE WIT, ASTRID, FRANK BRISARD, and MICHAEL MEEUWIS. "The epistemic import of aspectual constructions: the case of performatives." Language and Cognition 10, no. 2 (January 2, 2018): 234–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2017.26.
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abstractIn this study we chart the aspectual characteristics of performative utterances in a cross-linguistic sample of sixteen languages on the basis of native-speaker elicitations. We conclude that there is not one single aspectual type (e.g., perfectives) that is systematically reserved for performative contexts. Instead, the aspectual form of performative utterances in a given language is epistemically motivated, in the sense that the language will turn to that aspectual construction which it generally selects to refer to situations that are fully and instantly identifiable as an instance of a given situation type at the time of speaking. We use the method of Multidimensional Scaling to demonstrate this: whatever the exact value of a given aspectual marker, if it is used to mark performatives, then it also commonly features in the expression of states and habits, which have the subinterval property (they can be fully verified based on a random segment), demonstrations, and other special contexts featuring more or less predictable and therefore instantly identifiable events. On the other hand, our study shows that performative contexts do not normally feature progressive aspect, which is dedicated to the expression of events that are not fully and instantly identifiable.
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Kaufmann, Magdalena, and Stefan Kaufmann. "Epistemic particles and perfomativity." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 22 (September 3, 2012): 208. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v22i0.2635.
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The German discourse particles ‘ja’ and ‘doch’ both mark the information expressed by their host sentence as somehow given, obvious, or uncontroversial (McCready & Zimmermann 2011 call them ‘epistemic particles’). Two things are puzzling: (i) despite its ‘epistemic’ nature, ‘doch’ can appear in imperatives and with performative modals; (ii) despite their similarity, ‘ja’ is unacceptable in imperatives and forces a descriptive reading of modal verbs. We explain (i) by assuming that the performativity of modalized propositions depends on certain contextual constellations which may conflict with constraints imposed by the particles. To account for (ii), we offer an analysis for ‘ja’ and ‘doch’ that explains the inviolable ban against ‘ja’ (but not ‘doch’) from performative modal contexts in terms of defeasible inferences about the context.
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Kolinjivadi, Vijay, Gert Van Hecken, Diana Vela Almeida, Jérôme Dupras, and Nicolás Kosoy. "Neoliberal performatives and the ‘making’ of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)." Progress in Human Geography 43, no. 1 (November 1, 2017): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132517735707.
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This paper argues that Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) serve as a neoliberal performative act, in which idealized conditions are re-constituted by well-resourced and networked epistemic communities with the objective of bringing a distinctly instrumental and utilitarian relationality between humans and nature into existence. We illustrate the performative agency of hegemonic epistemic communities advocating (P)ES imaginaries to differentiate between the cultural construction of an ideal reality, which can and always will fail, and an external reality of actually produced effects. In doing so, we explore human agency to disobey performative acts to craft embodied and life-affirming relationships with nature.
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Parlanti, Paolo. "Epistemic Injustice in Political Discourses? The Problematic Concept of Authority in Langton’s Account of Pornography." Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy 10, no. 19 (June 7, 2021): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/ltdl.76465.
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Through her silencing thesis, Langton has contributed to the study of epistemic injustice by highlighting a possible cause of such a phenomenon: She asserts that the pornographic representation of (straight) sexual relationships affects the felicity conditions of speech uttered by women, so this speech is not understood as an illocution by men. This fact arguably undermines women’s credibility, since their testimony is not even registered in men’s testimonial sensibility. However, this thesis entails problematic consequences from at least two standpoints. From a theoretical perspective, it enacts a circularity when it comes to the empirical individuation of the subordinative effects of pornography. I will point out that this problem arises from Langton’s substantive conception of power, i.e. from her notion of authority as an attribute which can be ascribed to preexisting subjects. From a political perspective, such conception of power allows Langton to performatively rank women as credible when testifying sexual violence, but it also leads her to silencing alternative political strategies, e.g. the ones proposed by Butler. Hence, I propose to consider this form of silencing as a specific kind of epistemic injustice, one that neutralises the performative value of political discourses.
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Spry, Tami. "Bodies of/as Evidence in Autoethnography." International Review of Qualitative Research 1, no. 4 (February 2009): 603–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2009.1.4.603.
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Qualitative researchers are aptly positioned to address issues implicated in the politics of evidence in scholarship. Autoethnography in particular carries important methodological implications for how the body is sited in what constitutes knowledge, evidence, and the evidence of knowledge. I argue that if autoethnography is epistemic, then the evidence of how we know what we know must reside in the aesthetic crafting of critical reflexion upon the body-as-evidence. As we develop “post” methodologies we may be in danger of expecting the personal or emotional to stand in for literary acumen. Performative autoethnography resides in the intersections of knowledge construction and art, in the aesthetic articulation of the performative body, in a personally political reflection whose evidence is an epistemic/aesthetic praxis. I utilize autoethnographic writing on loss and hope to operationalize the epistemic/aesthetic praxis as an ethical imperative for performative autoethnography.
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Kockelman, Paul. "The Epistemic and Performative Dynamics of Machine Learning Praxis." Signs and Society 8, no. 2 (March 2020): 319–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/708249.
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Srinivas, Nidhi. "Epistemic and performative quests for authentic management in India." Organization 19, no. 2 (February 27, 2012): 145–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508411429398.
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Postiglione, Enrico. "QUESTIONS AND PERFORMATIVE ACTS OF LANGUAGE - COMMUNITIES OF INQUIRY AS CONVENTIONAL CONTEXTS." childhood & philosophy 14, no. 31 (September 12, 2018): 685–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2018.30843.
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‘Philosophy for Children’, firstly proposed by Matthew Lipman, aims to nourish both critical thinking and argumentative ability of participants. This model conceives of children as a crucial resource for social development: their thought is supposed to be free from undisputable dogmas and theories. Therefore, their questions about philosophical issues can shed new light on them, or even underline some contradictions of the adult-like society, that we unconsciously tend to disregard. The philosophical background of P4C pushes for an in-practice philosophy, highlighting the value of critical thinking and ambitious questioning against a docile acceptance of well-established theories (and social practices). Yet, a radical interpretation of this claim results in a widespread relativism that would mislead models such as P4C from their own goals. In this paper, resulting from the observation of several P4C sessions, I argue that, although they are supposed to be cross-sections of social environments, communities of inquiry as defined by Lipman are conventional (ceremonial) contexts: the sentences pronounced within the community, are highly performative. Moreover, the quality of research crucially rests on the epistemic openness of a jointly-chosen question, that influences the following discussion. However, sometimes social and cultural differences among participants are not completely erased within heterogeneous communities of inquiry. Hence, by rejecting the radical interpretation, I propose a methodological integration to the standard P4C model, that could assure both participation and epistemic openness even in heterogeneous communities.
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Miglio, Nicole, and Giulio Galimberti. "Intra-Active Sense-Making. Towards a Performative Understanding of Biomedical Imaging." Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal 22, no. 39 (January 24, 2023): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2036-461x/17775.
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Our paper is situated within the broader exploration of the epistemic and aesthetic potential of biomedical imaging technologies on the human lived experience. Intra-Active Sense-Making is guided by the grounding thesis that imaging technology ought to be understood as a set of material, rhetorical and performative processes, and as a way to challenge the ocularcentric presuppositions. By drawing on the new materialistic theses that phenomena are not pre-existent to intra-action, and that agency should be understood as distributed on human, animal, objectual, and ‘physical’ levels, we offer a performative understanding of biomedical imaging operations complementary to the reflective paradigm. Biomedical imaging may be understood through our idea of intra-active sense-making; while much literature states that medical imaging establishes a view of the self as quantified, atomized, and governable, we argue that the co-configuration of human senses and digital sensors is a source of new sense-making capabilities.
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Español, Silvia. "Performances en la infancia: cuando el habla parece música, danza y poesía." Epistemus. Revista de Estudios en Música, Cognición y Cultura 1, no. 1 (December 17, 2010): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.21932/epistemus.1.2702.0.
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El foco de este trabajo es el modo de actuar de los adultos frente a los bebés, en un momento específico: cuando el bebé ronda el medio año de vida. En primer lugar, se argumenta que, en ese momento particular, la actuación adulta, generalmente conce-bida como Habla Dirigida al Bebé (Infant Directed Speech), es fundamentalmente una performance de sonido y movimiento que requiere ser contemplada al modo de las artes performativas. Se describen, entonces, análisis de sonido y movimiento de la actuación adulta dirigidas a bebés de alrededor de 6 meses, con las concepciones teóricas y las herramientas de análisis propios de la música y la danza. En segundo lugar, se exponen los rasgos de la Oralidad Primaria, en particular la trama de música, danza y poesía que constituyen su habla, se sugiere que el Habla Dirigida al Bebé puede considerarse un asombroso vestigio de Oralidad Primaria y se describe el campo de exploración que esta hipótesis abre.
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Efimova, Svetlana. "Die Vermessung des Schreibens. : Navid Kermanis ,,Dein Name“ als Poetologie der Großform." Zeitschrift für Germanistik 30, no. 3 (January 1, 2020): 561–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/92167_561.
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Abstract Der Aufsatz analysiert die performative Poetologie der Großform im Roman Dein Name (2011) von Navid Kermani. Zu dessen Leitmotiven gehören die Vermessung einer ausufernden Textmasse und die Suche nach einer literarischen Form, um die Wahrnehmung der Wirklichkeit in ihrer Endlosigkeit zu vermitteln. Davon ausgehend fokussiert der Aufsatz den Zusammenhang zwischen Großform und Komposition, eine ästhetische Werklogik und eine epistemische Ordnung der Großform sowie eine Poetik der Ausdehnung.The paper analyzes a performative poetology of the literary ,large form‘ in Navid Kermani’s novel Dein Name (2011). Its leitmotifs include the measuring of an overflowing written text as well as the search for a literary form in order to convey the perception of reality as infinite. Taking this into account, the paper focuses on the relations between the ,large form‘ and textual composition, on the aesthetic and epistemic orders of the ,large form‘ as well as on the poetics of textual extension.
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Parmawati, Aseptiana. "THE STUDY CORRELATION BETWEEN READING HABIT AND PRONUNCIATION ABILITY AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF IKIP SILIWANGI." ELTIN JOURNAL, Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia 6, no. 1 (April 24, 2018): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.22460/eltin.v6i1.p46-52.
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Language has central role on intellectual development, social, and emotional students to supported success student and learn all of lessons. Literacy level are performation, functional, informational, and epistemic. Performative level means students able to read, to write, to listen, and to speak using symbols. Reading habit refers to the automatic process as the readers read the textual material and deriving meaning unconsciously. A good reading habit is important for the development of personalities and mental capacities. Students reading habit plays an important role in pronunciation mastery. This research used the correlation research. The objectives of the study is to reveal correlation between students’ reading habit and their pronunciation ability at second grade students of IKIP Siliwangi. The finding was supported by the result of students’ scores. The minimum score of habit is 71 and 65 for pronunciation ability. The maximum score of reading habit is 109 and 92 for pronunciation ability. The mean of reading habit is 92.60 and 78.73 for pronunciation ability. Standard deviation of reading habit is 8.85 and 6.31 for pronunciation ability. The researcher finds that the Pearson Product Moment of both variable is 0.373. It means that the correlation between students’ reading habit in English and their pronunciation ability was in low correlation because in the range of 0.20-0.40. From the result of the statistical calculation, it can be synthesized that Null Hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. The researcher concluded that there is the correlation between students’ reading habit and their pronunciation ability. Keywords: Reading habit, Pronunciation, Correlation
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Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Erika, and Anna Ruskan. "Realizations of deonticity in Lithuanian: The case of particles." Vilnius University Open Series 16 (July 26, 2021): 171–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/sbol.2021.9.
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The present paper focuses on non-epistemic modal particles in contemporary Lithuanian that have received far less attention in the literature than epistemic particles. Based on authentic data drawn from the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language, the study aims to disclose the formal and functional features of the particles tegu(l), te and lai in spoken discourse and fiction. The study has shown that the particles under investigation occur in hortative constructions where they express the speaker’s desire to get a third person or the addressee to carry out some action. Although tegu(l), te and lai share a number of functions (e.g. hortatives, negative or positive performative optatives), functional extension is more typical of tegu(l) than of te and lai. The formal features of the particles (their co-occurrence with indicative or subjunctive forms) provide evidence for their functional variation.
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Schulze, Peter. "“Faço tábula da fábula rasa”. Decolonial rewriting of Brazil in Paulo Leminski’s Catatau." Veredas: Revista da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas, no. 36 (August 11, 2022): 8–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24261/2183-816x0136.
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As a particular form of historiographic metafiction dealing with the Dutch colonization of Brazil, Paulo Leminski’s “novel-idea” Catatau (1975) seems less concerned with factual history than with the epistemic dimensions of colonial discourse about Brazil. On the reading proposed here, Leminski’s novel is understood as a decolonial “thought instrument” (V. DAS) based on a performative aesthetic. Catatau’s textual strategies transform the protagonist, a fictionalised Descartes, into an echo chamber in which colonial rationalisms are denied by the appropriation of certain pretexts and genres and a prolific language of difference, resulting in a “de-interpretation” of Brazil as a way of “de-thinking” coloniality.
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Do Mar Pereira, Maria. "”Man kan känna utmattningen i luften”." Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 38, no. 4 (June 9, 2022): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v38i4.2887.
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Science and higher education have, in many countries, undergone profound changes in recent decades, often leading to the institutionalisation of academic cultures of performativity. These cultures reconceptualise academic work as labour which must aim to achieve the highest possible productivity and profitability, and whose quality can be assessed on the basis of amount of outputs and income generated. In several contexts, these changes transformed longstanding discourses about which kinds of scholars are “excellent” and which disciplines produce valuable knowledge. In this article, I examine how the institutionalisation of performative academic cultures affects the work and lives of scholars in women’s, gender, feminist studies (WGFS), often in paradoxical ways. Drawing on an ethnography of Portuguese academia (conducted between 2008 and 2016), I show that the emphasis on productivity can create possibilities for WGFS, but also make much WGFS work impossible. Many WGFS scholars have been able to use performative academic cultures to expand the space for WGFS. At the same time, however, they are finding several epistemic activities increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to sustain – that is, reading, thinking, peer reviewing, attending academic events – due to intensifying workloads and escalating productivity expectations. This produces a mood of exhaustion, depression and alienation, particularly among women, often disproportionately saddled with the demanding pastoral work that neoliberal universities require but do not reward. I examine this mood and its impacts, arguing that the performative university is both toxic and stimulating, both destructive and seductive, for WGFS. I draw on this paradox to call for debate in WGFS about our ambivalent personal investments in work, our collective working cultures, and our collegial working relationships with each other.
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Haugaard, Mark. "What is authority?" Journal of Classical Sociology 18, no. 2 (August 28, 2017): 104–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468795x17723737.
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This article theorizes authority from sociological and normative perspectives. It opens with the work of Weber, Arendt and Raz. This is followed by a sociological analysis of authority as a capacity for action, power-to and power-over, which are linked to felicitous performative action within epistemic interpretative horizons. Normatively, it confronts the anarchist challenge that authority is inimical to freedom by distinguishing between dispositional and episodic power. Bureaucratic and political power-over authority is theorized as normatively defensible when it confers dispositional power-to. This article concludes by discussing the mismatch between sociological authority, as a social fact, and normatively desirable authority: how the practices of charismatic, bureaucratic and democratic authority are often normatively problematic.
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Medadian, Gholamreza, and Dariush Nejadansari Mahabadi. "A More Explicit Framework for Evaluating Objectivity and (Inter)Subjectivity in Modality Domain." Research in Language 16, no. 1 (March 30, 2018): 65–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rela-2018-0003.
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In this paper we propose a more explicit framework for definition and evaluation of objectivity and (inter)subjectivity in the modality domain. In the proposed operational framework, we make a basic distinction between the modality notions that serve an ideational function (i.e., dynamic modal notions) and those with an interpersonal function (i.e., deontic and epistemic evaluations). The modality notions with ideational and interpersonal functions are content and person-oriented, respectively. While all dynamic modal notions are characterized by objectivity, deontic and epistemic modal notions may display a degree of (inter)subjectivity depending on their embedding context. Our main claim is that (inter)subjectivity can hardly be argued to be the inherent property of certain modality forms and types, but rather it is essentially a contextual effect. We functionally-operationally define (inter)subjectivity as the degree of sharedness an evaluator attributes to an epistemic/deontic evaluation and its related evidence/deontic source. (Inter)subjectivity is realized by (at least) one or a combination of three contextual factors, viz. the embedding syntactic pattern, the linguistic context and the extralinguistic context of a modality marker. Since both descriptive and performative modal evaluations involve a degree of (inter)subjectivity, performativity, which refers to speaker’s current commitment to his evaluation, is viewed as an independent dimension within modal evaluations and plays no part in the expression of (inter)subjectivity.
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Matei, Ştefania, and Marian Preda. "When social knowledge turns mathematical – The role of formalisation in the sociology of time." Time & Society 28, no. 1 (January 18, 2018): 247–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463x17752279.
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The paper argues that a mathematical approach might contribute to the consolidation of time as an epistemic object, while strengthening the sociology of time as a more influential domain in social sciences. This might be accomplished due to the performative role of mathematical formalisations. Also, it means appropriating the textual reality resulted in formalising processes as a space which researchers act through and upon. Thus, mathematical formalisations should be understood not only as modelling and data processing devices but also as relevant actors in networks of knowledge production. In this context, we reassess the practice of formalisation by proposing a vocabulary through which mathematical language might be used to meaningfully approach the socio-temporal order, with positive consequences in the reinforcement of a scientific community of practice.
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Sanchez, Michelle C. "Bonhoeffer's Lutheran assertions: Cataphasis as teaching responsibility to the ‘other’." Scottish Journal of Theology 70, no. 4 (November 2017): 390–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930617000369.
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AbstractStructural similarities have been noted between Dietrich Bonhoeffer's account of ethical responsibility and more recent accounts advocated by philosophers who emphasise responsibility to alterity. Yet, there remains one stubborn difference between Bonhoeffer and these philosophers: his unequivocal embrace of strongly cataphatic speech. This raises the following question: it is possible for contemporary Christian ethicists and theologians to enlist Bonhoeffer in the aim of reconceiving an ethic of responsibility to the ‘other’ when Bonhoeffer himself relies on such concrete, exclusive language? This article will argue that attention to Martin Luther's defence of theological assertions provides a lens through which the performative force of Bonhoeffer's cataphatic language can be better understood as a particular and traditional use of language that teaches an ethical posture of epistemic humility.
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Karpov, G. V. "Argument From Position to Know: The Problem of Identification and Evaluation." Siberian Journal of Philosophy 20, no. 2 (November 16, 2022): 43–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2541-7517-2022-20-2-43-56.
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The article shows how, by changing the formulations of habitual premises and critical questions for presumptive argumentation schemes, one can evaluate an argument even before its type has become known. The argument from position to know is used to justify the possibility of detecting types of classical presumptive schemes when we take into account the type of speech act used to implement them, and the speaker and listener’s awareness of each other’s propositional attitudes. The types of argument from position to know are distinguished with respect to their epistemic and illocutionary variety. Following Austin one of these types can be considered a performative argument from position to know. The article describes the principles of its usage and outlines the evaluation procedure.
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Mukharji, Projit Bihari. "Parachemistries: Colonial chemopolitics in a zone of contest." History of Science 54, no. 4 (December 2016): 362–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0073275316681803.
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The globalization of modern chemistry through European colonialism resulted, by the end of the nineteenth century, in the emergence of a number of parachemical knowledges. Parachemistries were bodies of non-European knowledge which came to be related to modern chemistry within particular historical milieux. Their relationship with modern chemistry was not necessarily epistemic and structural, but historical and performative. Actual historically located intellectuals posited their relationship. Such relationships were not merely abstract intellectual exercises; at a time when the practical uses of modern chemistry in statecraft were growing, the existence of these rival, competing parachemical knowledges challenged modern chemistry’s regulatory deployments. Colonial locations emerged then not as mere ‘contact zones’, but as ‘zones of conflict’ where colonial chemopolitics was interrupted by the continued legitimacy and practice of parachemistries such as rasayana, kimiya, and neidan.
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Martínez Ramírez, Anamaría, Angie Tatiana Yate Capera, Brayan Steven Fonseca Rey, Claudia Melissa Armero Moreno, Dayana Alonso Morales, and Juan David Tovar Pinilla. "El cuerpo como territorio de control: expresión del deseo desde lo femenino y lo masculino." Criterios 13, no. 1 (April 15, 2021): 205–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21500/20115733.5355.
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La relación entre el deseo y el cuerpo como territorio de control para la constitución de las ficciones políticas de feminidad y masculinidad exige el estudio de los postulados del siglo xx y su evolución contrastada con lecturas contemporáneas. Proponemos, así, las categorías de psicoanálisis Freudiano con la patologización del deseo femenino y el poder institucional de Foucault. Serán revisadas las visiones en virtud de la irrupción del fenómeno queer, lo performativo del género en Butler, el imperio excluyente de la heterónoma a partir de la relación consecuente entre sexo-género-deseo y las lecturas sociológicas de Connell y Sara Martín en la construcción identitaria de la masculinidad viril. Por último, en el intento de vislumbrar una episteme alternativa, se propone el modelo farmocopornográfico de Preciado, que converge dos industrias: la farmacéutica, puntualizando el análisis en la píldora anticonceptiva, y la pornográfica, como instrumento semiótico para la construcción y manipulación del placer. Los dispositivos biotecnológicos abordados permitirán transitar de las lógicas socioculturales al lente de lo bioquímico, concluyendo que lo molecular también es político.
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Leschke, Rainer, and Norm Friesen. "Education, Media and the End of the Book: Some Remarks from Media Theory." MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung 24, Educational Media Ecologies (October 3, 2014): 183–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/24/2014.10.03.x.
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This paper sketches out an understanding of contemporary educational forms and practices from a vantage point afforded by recent German media studies. In so doing, it introduces a number of concepts from continental media theory. With the book – both as an artifact and an epistemic metaphor – in evident decline, what is taking its place is not any one new medium, but rather a radically new kind of media systematicity. By relentlessly reducing all content (e. g., music, film, text) to ones and zeros, digitization effectively erases the material characteristics of separate media forms, leaving behind only their conventionalized aesthetic qualities and forms. The paper builds on these arguments by concluding that the symbolic competencies which once constituted the core of all education (reading, writing, ‘rithmatic) are increasingly at odds with performative and stylistic abilities integral to this new mediatic order.
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Svetlova, Ekaterina, and Vanessa Dirksen. "Models at Work—Models in Decision Making." Science in Context 27, no. 4 (November 13, 2014): 561–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889714000209.
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In recent years, research on modeling in both the philosophy of science and the social studies of science and technology has undergone an acute transformation. Philosophers and social scientists have begun to realize that science, in the words of Carrier and Nordmann, has increasingly shifted its focus from “epistemic or truth-oriented” research to “application-dominated” research. “Science is viewed today as an essentially practical endeavor” (Carrier and Nordmann 2011, 1) and should be considered in the context of its application. In accordance with this re-orienting of science, research on modeling has also changed. Still considering models as genuinely scientific tools, philosophers and social scientists promoted the “practice turn” that suggests a sharper focus on pragmatic issues and the performative and productive role of modeling. Application of models for the resolution of practice-related problems is viewed as an extension of science.
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Šaulauskas, Marius Povilas. "DVILYPĖ FILOSOFINIO MODERNO SAVIGRINDA IN PECTORE – TVARUSIS HYPOKEIMENON IR ATOMON SĄJUNGOS TRAPUMAS." Problemos 83 (January 1, 2013): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2013.0.837.
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Modernusis epistemologinis metanaratyvas randasi kaip universalusis žmogiškojo pažinimo savigrindos projektas. Retrospektyviąją šio projekto pagrindų rekonstrukciją įgalina dekartiškojo subjectum kaip epistemologinio ego siejimas ne tik, sekant Heideggeriu, su hypokeimenon, bet ir, reinterpretuojant Habermaso įžvalgas, su atomon kaip performatyviąja moderniosios individualumo sampratos versme. Epistemologinis ego kaip atomon apnuogina solipsistinę moderniosios pažinimo teorijos agneologinę priedermę, o epistemologinis ego kaip hypokeimenon išreiškia dekartiškojo subjectum performatyvumą. Toks agneologinis performatyvumas ir yra agneologinis antropocentrinės epistemologijos branduolys, atskleidžiantis ir sisteminantis darnią jame ex necessitate rei slypėjusių pažintinių galių visumą galimos pažinti būties ir metafilosofinių ego cogito steiginių izomorfijos horizonte. Tad klausimas „Kaip įmanomas pažintinių patikimumo pretenzijų įteisinimas reflektyviosios epistemologinio ego savipratos ištekliais?“ laikytinas visos moderniosios, par excellence agneologinės, filosofijos ašimi. Būtent tokia nuolat replikuojama epistemologinio ego metafilosofinė performacija ir yra tvariojo moderniosios Vakarų filosofijos trapumo – jos agneologinio gymio – laidas, raiška ir lemtis.Bifurcating Foundationalism of the Philosophical Modernity in pectore: Persistent Lability of the Hypokeimenon-Atomon JointureMarius Povilas Šaulauskas SummaryThe primary desiderata of the modern epistemological metanarrative eventually hinges on the reflexively founded certainty and universality of human knowledge. The retrospective reconstruction of the conceptual underpinnings of this modernity’s project dwells on the reinterpretation of Cartesian subjectum, posited as an epistemological ego, in terms of not only Heideggerian hypokeimenon, but also of Habermasian atomon, understood as a performative constituent of the modern nuclear individuality. While hypokeimenon pinpoints the irreducible performativity of the epistemological ego, its atomon determinant unveils the agneological and solipsistic nature of modern epistemology. It is the agneological performativity of the modern anthropocentrical epistemology that serves as an ultimate basis for the systematic disclosure of the unified epistemic potential of modern knowledge, unfolded along the isomorphic lines of the metaphilosophical presumptions of ego cogito and universal pretensions of empirical natural philosophy. Thus the question how to establish the certainty of reliable human knowledge on the ground of reflexive self-understanding of the epistemological ego stands as the ultimate basis of the par excellence agneological modern philosophy. The metaphilosophical performation of the epistemological ego is unremittingly replicated as a warrant, expression and fortune of the persistent lability of modern Western philosophy, its ineradicably agneological posture.
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Wittingslow, Ryan. "Bloody-Minded Metaphysics: Barry Allen vs. the World." Contemporary Pragmatism 13, no. 2 (July 15, 2016): 129–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01302001.
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Barry Allen, in his 2005 Knowledge and Civilization and his 2008 Artifice and Design, argues in favor of an epistemic system that is both praxical and performative; knowledge, rather than being expressed propositionally, is a kind of performance that is expressed in artifacts of all kinds, of which propositions are but an example. However, although he makes a compelling case, it is rather less clear the extent to which we are able to make judgments about the world beneath the artifacts. That is to say: it seems clear that we need to provide some account of how the world is, if only so that we have some kind of coherent characterization of what it is exactly that an artifact captures. Accordingly, if we are to buy into Allen’s model, what can we subsequently say about Allen’s metaphysics? This paper is an attempt to tease out some of these concerns.
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Wind, Ariel. "Mexico City and its Monsters: Queer Identity and Cultural Capitalism in Luis Zapata’s El vampiro de la colonia Roma." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 38, no. 3 (April 10, 2014): 579–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v38i3.1698.
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Este ensayo investiga los conceptos interrelacionados del vampiro y prostituto, y su aplicación cambiante al protagonista urbano en El vampiro de la colonia Roma. Aunque se considera que la novela de Zapata forma parte del canon literario por ser un pilar principal de la literatura mexicana gay, este estudio propone que “queer” y “queerness” son epistemes más adecuadas para “leer” a su protagonista, Adonis García. “Queer”, más que gay, sugiere múltiples redes de resistencia que abarcan esferas económicas, políticas y espaciales, y se relaciona, asimismo, con la ubicación figurativa vulnerable y, al mismo tiempo, privilegiada de Adonis como “historiografeador” y como sujeto nebuloso que consume y/o produce bajo el capitalismo. El protagonista construye su identidad de vampiro y de prostituto de forma performativa y discursiva y, en este proceso, incorpora algunos de los estereotipos asociados a estas figuras, pero, ante todo, reinventa sus significados y con ello rechaza asimilarse a muchas normas de la sociedad dominante.
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Allo, Awol K. "The Courtroom as a Site of Epistemic Resistance: Mandela at Rivonia." Law, Culture and the Humanities 16, no. 1 (April 21, 2016): 127–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872116643274.
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The 1963–64 trial of Nelson Mandela and other leading members of the liberation movement was a political trial par excellence. In the courtroom, the Apartheid government was trying the accused for the crime of sabotage but in the court of public opinion, it was using the event of the trial to produce images and ideas aimed at slandering and discrediting the African National Congress (ANC) and the movement for a free and democratic South Africa. The defendants, on their part, used their trial to denounce the racist policies of Apartheid and to outline their vision of a post-Apartheid society. In this article, I want to read Nelson Mandela’s counter-historical mobilization of lived experiences and memories of Africans – the scars, chains, the rage and Apartheid’s unlivable juridical bind – as an act of epistemic resistance that re-opened epistemic battles and effected epistemic renegotiations. By submitting himself to the very law he denounces, strategically positioning himself at law’s aporetic sites and moments – those most fragile frontiers that are so heavily policed from transformative interventions – he bears witness to Apartheid’s rotten foundation. Drawing on modes of critique that are performative and genealogical, those that are possible within law’s frameworks and categories, Mandela both obeys and defies the law, uses and critiques it, resists and claims authority, at the very site he is called to account for charges of sabotage. The article will show, how, by attending to contradictions, discursive dynamics, and points of tension, Mandela the accused creates conditions of possibility for forms of critique that register without being co-opted or domesticated by the discourse and the system it resists.
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Englemann, Lukas, Caroline Humphrey, and Christos Lynteris. "Introduction." Social Analysis 63, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sa.2019.630401.
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This special issue moves beyond an understanding of diagrams as mere inscriptions of objects and processes, proposing instead to re-evaluate diagrammatic reasoning as the work that is carried out with, on, and beyond diagrams. The introduction presents this issue’s focus on ‘working with diagrams’ in a way that goes beyond semiotic, cognitive, epistemic, or symbolic readings of diagrams. It discusses recent research on diagrams and diagrammatic reasoning across disciplines and approaches diagrams as suspended between imagination and perception—as objects with which work is done and as objects that do work. Contributions to this issue probe diagrams for the work they do in the development of disciplinary theories, investigate their reworking of questions of time and scale, and ask how some diagrams work across fields and disciplines. Other authors shift the perspective to their own work with diagrams, reflecting on the practice and performative nature of diagrammatic reasoning in their respective fields and disciplines.
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Zammito, John. "A Problem of our own Making: Roth on Historical Explanation." Journal of the Philosophy of History 2, no. 2 (2008): 244–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187226308x315077.
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AbstractRoth claims that in constituting the sorts of events they want to connect, historians conceive matters that may not correlate with any inventory of elements eligible for admission by natural science. Given “the liabilities incurred by the very questions historians choose to ask,” the question of historical explanation is a problem of our own making. “Previous challenges to the epistemic legitimacy of historical explanations lose their point,” for no one can ask what kind of science or what kind of explanation history is, since it is none! This is, unsurprisingly, an unacceptable outcome for me. A case can be made for intersubjective assertability of a historical interpretation and the contestation of it – however tentatively, fallibly, partially – without a complete collapse into the aesthetics of form or the politics of the formulator. The task of the philosophy of history is to work out the reconciliation of the performative with the constative in historical writing and in historical appraisal.
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Lloyd, Annemaree. "Chasing Frankenstein’s monster: information literacy in the black box society." Journal of Documentation 75, no. 6 (September 26, 2019): 1475–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-02-2019-0035.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce and examine algorithmic culture and consider the implications of algorithms for information literacy practice. The questions for information literacy scholars and educators are how can one understand the impact of algorithms on agency and performativity, and how can one address and plan for it in their educational and instructional practices? Design/methodology/approach In this study, algorithmic culture and implications for information literacy are conceptualised from a sociocultural perspective. Findings To understand the multiplicity and entanglement of algorithmic culture in everyday lives requires information literacy practice that encourages deeper examination of the relationship among the epistemic views, practical usages and performative consequences of algorithmic culture. Without trying to conflate the role of the information sciences, this approach opens new avenues of research, teaching and more focused attention on information literacy as a sustainable practice. Originality/value The concept of algorithmic culture is introduced and explored in relation to information literacy and its literacies.
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Stauffer, Isabelle. "Grobian Trouble: Grobianism and “Invectivity” in Thomas Murner and Martin Luther." Journal of Early Modern Christianity 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 73–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jemc-2023-2038.
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Abstract Thomas Murner’s verse satire Von dem grossen Lutherischen Narren (1522) and Martin Luther’s pamphlet Wider das Papsttum zu Rom, vom Teufel gestiftet (1545) are known as particularly grobian texts. This paper examines the grobian as a historically new key figure in these two pamphlets and views it in relation to the concept of “invectivity.” Both are performative, violent, and in need of an audience. Moreover, their shared epistemic function is to question the existing order. The grobian also shows the contagiousness of “invectivity”: both Murner and Luther profess grobianism – which they say they were forced into because their opponents adopted it. These attributions of grobianism raise the debate to the level of the metainvective. As a transmedial figure, the grobian helps to make debates about religious conflicts more figurative and visual. As a ridiculous figure, he challenges not only pejorative ridicule but also liberating laughter, and ex negativo demonstrates the utopia of polite behavior – thus going beyond “invectivity.”
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Kurniawan, Heru, and Sri Rahayu. "KERJA SAMA SEKOLAH DENGAN KOMUNITAS LITERASI DALAM PENINGKATAN LITERASI UNTUK ORANG TUA DI MASA PANDEMI COVID-19." Jurnal Akrab 11, no. 2 (October 31, 2020): 20–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.51495/jurnalakrab.v11i02.346.
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During the Covid-19 Pandemic, children had a lot to learn from their parents because learning activities at school were carried out using a distance learning model. This situation creates many problems for parents, one of the problem is parents must have extensive knowledge and good writing literacy skill. This is where the cooperation program in writing literacy carried out by Wadas Kelir Literacy Community Purwokerto with MI Al- Falah UM East Jakarta be important solution in the field of community literacy. The writing literacy activity model for parents was developed in four interesting writing literacy activities. First, performative, carried out through conditioning reading and writing activities using language by parents through collaboration of Wadas Kelir Literacy Community and teachers of MI Al-Falah UM East Jakarta. Second, functional, conditioning parents to accustomed use written language to express their daily activity. Third, Informational, give skill for parents to access the knowledge from various sources with language and provide good reading technique in order to understand the scientific concept properly. Fourth, epistemic, provide skill in transforming knowledge in writing so that parents can write well.
AbstrakDi masa Pandemi Covid-19 ini telah mengkondisikan anak-anak untuk banyak belajar dengan orang tua, karena kegiatan belajar di sekolah dilakukan dengan model pembelajaran jarak jauh. Keadaan ini menimbulkan banyak persoalan bagi orang tua dan sekolah, salah satunya adalah persoalan komunikasi. Literasi dipandang sebagai sarana yang dapat digunakan untuk memperoleh dan mengkomunikasikan informasi. Di sinilah, program kerja sama yang dilakukan Komunitas Literasi Wadas Kelir Purwokerto dengan MI Al Falah UM Jakarta Timur menjadi solusi penting dalam mengatasi persoalan yang dihadapi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi kegiatan literasi orang tua selama mendampingi belajar anak di rumah. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskripsi kualitatif sebagai cara mengeksplorasi model kegiatan literasi orang tua yang dikembangkan dalam empat kegiatan literasi menulis yang menarik, yaitu (1) Performative, pengkondisikan kegiatan membaca dan menulis menggunakan bahasa yang dilakukan oleh orang tua; (2) Functional, mengkondisikan orang tua untuk terbiasa menggunakan bahasa tulis untuk mengekspresikan kegiatan sehari-harinya; (3) Informational, memberikan keterampilan pada orang tua untuk bisa mengangkes pengetahuan dari berbagai sumber dengan bahasa dan memberikan teknik-teknik cara membaca yang baik agar memahami benar konsep ilmu pengetahuan yang disajikan; (4) Epistemic, memberikan keterampilan dalam mentransformasi pengetahuan dalam tulisan sehingga orang tua bisa menulis dengan baik. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah wawancara terprogram terhadap orang tua dan dokumentasi berupa tulisan, foto, dan video. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan literasi orang tua mengalami peningkatan setelah melalui pendampingan kegiatan literasi pihak sekolah dan Komunitas Literasi Wadas Kelir. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan orang tua mampu menuliskan pengalamannya selama mendampingi belajar anak dan hasilnya dibukukan.
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Kera, Denisa. "Science Artisans and Open Science Hardware." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 37, no. 2 (June 2017): 97–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0270467618774978.
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Open science hardware (OSH) are prototypes of laboratory instruments that use open source hardware to extend the purely epistemic (improving knowledge about nature) and normative (improving society) ideals of science and emphasize the importance of technology. They remind us of Zilsel’s 1942 thesis about the artisanal origins of science and instrument making that bridged disciplinary and social barriers in the 16th century. The emphasis on making, tinkering, and design transcends research, reproducibility, and corroboration in science and pushes to the forefront educational, emancipatory, and aesthetic and exploratory uses. I will use two recent projects, OpenDrop electrowetting platform and Open Source Estrogen that make but also reflect OSH’s playful, expressive, and performative strategies and define the present practices as “artisanal science.” These hybrid and ambiguous practices bridge divides between present disciplines and skills but they also define science as an everyday activity directly connected to the private and public interests of the citizens. To describe this epistemic and normative ambiguity of artisanal science, I employ Hannah Arendt’s 1958 critique of homo laborans and homo faber and claim that science artisans (citizen scientists, geeks, makers, and hackers) offer an alternative to professionalization of science as practiced in the university and R&D laboratories. Science artisans design and build instruments to engage in civic “vita activa” over instruments but also leisurely “otium” outside of the work and science labor. OSH in this sense empowers individuals and communities to explore new connections between scientific practices, public actions, and private interests (leisure). The science artisans strive for and explore sovereignty, dignity, and freedom in an age immersed in science and technology controversies by bridging the divides between art, science, engineering, and humanities.
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Poenaru, Florin. "The Knowledge of the Securitate: Secret Agents as Anthropologists." Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia 62, no. 1 (June 27, 2017): 105–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2017-0007.
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Abstract In this paper I regard the Securitate (the Romanian secret police) as an epistemic form through which the socialist state gathered knowledge about reality, while it also performatively sought to create reality in keeping with its ideological presuppositions. More generally I suggest that the Securitate was in fact a form of (social) science deployed by the state in relation to its subjects. Just as any instrument of knowledge, the work of the Securitate was not simply descriptive but also, in the process, it aimed to shape its very object of inquiry. The Securitate was one of the institutions, central no doubt, through which the Romanian socialist state sought to define and protect its own, new, version of reality and social order. From this perspective, far from being an outcome of the socialist power, the secret police was what constituted that power to define and bring into being a new reality. In this process the secret agents played the role of anthropologists of the new world.
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Heinrich, Falk. "(Big) Data, Diagram Aesthetics and the Question concerning Beauty." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 31, no. 59 (March 8, 2016): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v31i59.20084.
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<p class="falk1">The article investigates whether and in which way artistic artefacts deploying big data can be experienced as beautiful. The question is relevant, because the sentiment of beauty indicates besides an immediate sensory valuation also changes in cultural values and epistemic frameworks. The article focuses on artistic data visualisations. It applies concepts of philosophical aesthetics in order to trace an altered notion of beauty and its artistic and cultural implications.</p><p class="falk1">The article’s introductory part presents some examples of data visualisations and introduces relevant notions of beauty and big data. The main part discusses the changes in our concept of beauty by analysing data visualisation in the light of conceptual art and its aesthetics of the sublime. Data visualizations present potentially unfathomable and complex information that is associated with the sublime, but represent data in a way that allows for understanding by means of imaginations, which are aspects of beauty. The article elaborates on the simultaneity of and oscillation between aesthetic beauty and the aesthetic sublime, by introducing Deleuze’s understandings of the concept of the diagram that is able to mediate between visualisation as representation and diagrams as performative machine of formation and displacement of data relations.</p>
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Castro, Vanesa. "De la razón civilizatoria a las otredades epistémicas: análisis del discurso del desarrollo en América Latina en clave (de)colonial." Pacha. Revista de Estudios Contemporáneos del Sur Global 2, no. 5 (July 25, 2021): e21056. http://dx.doi.org/10.46652/pacha.v2i5.56.
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Este artículo analiza las construcciones discursivas en torno a la noción de desarrollo en las políticas que han tenido lugar en el contexto latinoamericano de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX en adelante. Se plantea un análisis crítico de discurso situado históricamente y desde una perspectiva de la genealogía decolonial, revisando los principales modelos de desarrollo territorial y sus discursividades legitimadoras. No se plantea efectuar un análisis meticuloso de la historia de las ideas latinoamericanas acerca del desarrollo, sino resaltar y desglosar las continuidades, diferenciaciones y rupturas discursivas en torno a este relato hegemónico, el cual tiene un potencial performativo de larga data y se nutre de la episteme capitalista, colonial y eurocéntrica cincelada desde el proyecto de la modernidad. Entre las principales conclusiones se destacan, por un lado, la fuerte legitimidad del discurso del desarrollo extractivo-exportador, que se mimetiza entre otras discursividades como la del del desarrollo sostenible, la cual a pesar de plantear una propuesta superadora, termina por (re)abonar la articulación geopolítica de los territorios en tanto centros y periferias, ratifica al modelo mercado-céntrico y abre espacio para una nueva colonialidad global sobre los territorios subalternos y sobre los bienes comunes. Por otro lado, es posible registrar la apertura a propuestas o discursividades disonantes a las hegemónicas, que emergen de las bases sociales, comunitarias y de la academia decolonial; y dislocan aseveraciones, concepciones e interpretaciones "otras" sobre la relación entre desarrollo y territorio y, en última instancia, configuran expresiones emancipatorias y prácticas decoloniales para una sociedad post-capitalista.
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Mirčev, Andrej. "Occupation of the Volksbühne or the missing figure of the proletariat." Maska 35, no. 200s3 (December 1, 2020): 110–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/maska_00048_1.
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Abstract When in early 2015 it was announced that long-time director of Volksbühne Frank Castorf would be succeeded by the curator and director of Tate Modern Chris Dercon, theatre circles across Germany were infuriated. The general opinion was that this decision would lead to a radical deviation from the production model and the politics of Berlin’s famous left-oriented theatre. In the autumn of 2017, after the artistic group Staub zu Glitzer squatted the building declaring a collective directorship and turning the Volksbühne into a performative-discursive stage for discussions on social inequalities and gentrification, the situation was further antagonized. However, the occupation lasted only a couple of days as the squatters were soon evicted by police. In an essay ‘Towards the liberation of theatre’ written in the early 60s, Darko Suvin derives the thesis of socialization as that which is ‘truly revolutionary’. Suvin’s intention was to formulate a production model which ‘would be socialist in its structure and tendencies’ and aligned with the ideology of self-management. Using this concept, my text aims to test its epistemic potentiality to reflect on the squatting of Volksbühne. Is it plausible to invoke socialization in an attempt to articulate a discourse critical of commodification and precarisation? Can the occupation of the building on Rosa Luxemburg Square be regarded as a contemporary example of self-management?
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Hong, Sun-ha. "Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society." Big Data & Society 10, no. 1 (January 2023): 205395172311641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20539517231164118.
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Post-truth tells the story of a public descending into unreason, aided and abetted by platforms and other data-driven systems. But this apparent collapse of epistemic consensus is, I argue, also dominated by loud and aggressive commitment to the idea of facts and Reason – a site where an imagined modern past is being pillaged for vestigial legitimacy. This article identifies two common practices of such reappropriation and mythologisation. (1) Fact signalling involves performative invocations of facts and Reason, which are then weaponised to discredit communicative rivals and establish affective solidarity. This is often closely tied to (2) fact nostalgia: the cultivation of an imagined past when ‘facts were facts’ and we, the good liberal subjects, could recognise facts when we saw them. Both tendencies are underwritten by a myth of connection: the still enduring narrative that maximising the circulation of information regardless of provenance or meaning will eventually yield a more rational public – even as data-driven systems tend to undermine the very conditions for such a public. Drawing on examples from YouTube-amplified ‘alternative influencers’ in the American right, and the normative discourses around fact-checking practices, I argue that this continued reliance on the vestigial authority of the modern past is a pernicious obstacle in normative debates around data-driven publics, keeping us stuck on the same dead-end scripts of heroically suspicious individuals and ignorant, irrational masses.
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Avelar, Maíra, and Beatriz Graça. "On counterfactuality: a multimodal approach to (apparent) contradictions between positive statements and gestures of negation." Languages and Modalities 1 (October 25, 2021): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/lamo.1.68236.
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Relying on discussions about recurrent gestures and gestures of negation, in this paper, we aim to demonstrate how the apparent contradiction between negative gestural utterances co-occurring with positive spoken utterances can be explained with the concepts of counterfactuality and epistemic stances, developed in the Mental Spaces Theory framework. To illustrate how gestures of negation can be analyzed as a case of multiple blends and be metaphorically interpreted, we chose three examples of co-occurrences of a positive verbal and negative gestural utterance. Specifically for the discussion proposed here, we selected three videos from the Brazilian TV show “What the hell is this story, Porchat?” (“Que história é essa, Porchat?”). To analyze the data we used the Linguistic Annotation System for Gestures (LASG) and focused on gestural forms and functions, as well as their semantic relation with the speech. The results showed that in all three videos gestures perform a metacommunicative function. Thus, they can be categorized as pragmatic and discursive gestures, realizing specific performative or operational functions. The sweeping away gestures found in two occurrences work on the discursive level to emphasize implicit counterfactuality of the verbal utterance. The throwing away gesture, found in one occurrence, works on the pragmatic level, also to dismiss the positive possibility created by the verbal utterance. In both cases the gesture operates to prevent any possibility of creating an alternative positive mental space, also demonstrating the implicit counterfactuality of the positive verbal utterances.
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Hovorka, Dirk S., and Sandra Peter. "Research Perspectives: From Other Worlds: Speculative Engagement Through Digital Geographies." Journal of the Association for Information Systems 22, no. 6 (2021): 1736–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00708.
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Our ability to predict, explain, or control sociotechnical realities is being increasingly called into question by unprecedented phenomena in surveillance, in markets, and in other social and political domains. The apparatus of research - our current categories, instruments, arguments, and epistemic choices - rely on what is empirically accessible, i.e., on the past. Our research orientation toward the future assumes continuity and the extension of past patterns into a predictable and thus manageable future. In this research, we propose speculative engagement through digital geographies to make visible the processes of technological and cultural reconfiguration that result in unprecedented change. After describing the conception of “the future” in widely used research methods, we describe speculative engagement as a research orientation to disclose new categories, relationships, and values and a commitment to the performative relationships of our current research practices with potential future(s). Digital geographies are internally consistent and coherent worlds that are cognitively plausible but estranging. They are carriers of meaning and culture that underpin a broad class of methods to provide richly experienced “other worlds.” We posit principles for effective digital geographies and provide an illustrative example of a digital human artifact that estranges us from current assumptions. Finally, we argue that our approach enables researchers to engage with the future on its own terms. In this way, researchers, designers, and policy makers can open current practices to new categories, relationships, logics, and values and make visible the unprecedented reconfigurations in which our research is implicated.
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Cicmil, Svetlana, and Eamonn O'Laocha. "The logic of projects and the ideal of community development." International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 9, no. 3 (June 6, 2016): 546–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb-09-2015-0092.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between project-based organizing and the initiatives labelled as “development” by critically engaging with some unchallenged assumptions inherent in the notion of both projects as a means through which social change can be achieved and the wider possibility of delivering social good as an objective of development. Design/methodology/approach – From a phenomenologically informed critical participatory perspective the authors focus on contradictions within the practices of community development (CD) by attending to the interplay between the dominant project form of organizing that frames those practices and the rhetoric of “development”. Findings – Drawing on two CD examples, the authors illustrate and discuss the contradictions and damaging consequences of the developmentalism-projectification double-act. The position is that social good is local and contextual and draws expediently and contingently on the means through which it can be achieved by the collective action of those who co-define and co-create the social good. Social implications – The authors propose that there is a need to open the dialogue with development practitioners, funders, project managers, project workers, and the recipients and stimulate multiple participation. Originality/value – The authors believe the critical participatory approach that the authors have taken to CD project management could be both novel and useful as it refocuses attention to non-performative aspects of CD, arguing for de-naturalization of project organizing logic and encouraging emancipation from dominant epistemic inequalities. With an uncompromising focus on embedded practices, the authors hope to spur further debate on the important issue of CD and the possibilities of creating “social good”.
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Motapanyane, Maki, and Irene Shankar. "Increasing Pathways to Leadership for Black, Indigenous, and other Racially Minoritized Women." Atlantis 43, no. 1 (February 27, 2023): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1096953ar.
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Leadership positions within post-secondary institutions (PSIs) remain elusive to women generally, and to Black, Indigenous, and other racially minoritized women in particular. In this paper, we argue that pathways to leadership, particularly for non-traditional, non-normative and critical approaches that can come from the differently situated epistemic positioning of Black, Indigenous, and other racially minoritized women, are important as beginning steps towards progressively dismantling standardized Eurocentric, androcentric, and corporatized academic workplace cultures. This type of reform is essential preliminary work in the process toward greater equity and inclusivity in academic institutions. Note then that we are writing of a significant amount of substantive change needed to enact crucial initial reform, in tandem with, and beyond which we should continuously push for more radical transformation (Dryden 2022; Patel 2021). As such, we propose initiatives that universities can take to address some of the common gendered, racialized, and class-related exclusions and inequities evident in academic workplaces. This is in acknowledgement that academic institutions, having demonstrated a predilection for the co-optative and performative, are barely able to reform meaningfully, let alone engage the “transformation” and “decolonization” with which reform is often confused and erroneously conflated. Grounded within institutional research, we detail the commitments required from governing bodies, the changes necessary in academic decision-making spaces, the need for timely and transparent data collection infrastructure, and other institutional changes required to enhance the recruitment, hiring, and retention of Black, Indigenous, and other racially minoritized faculty and academic leaders. Together, these practices constitute preliminary reform necessary to create opportunity for more meaningful practices of inclusion.
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Sabatino, Anna Chiara. "Audiovisual Means to Therapeutic Ends. The Cinematic Dispositive within Medical Humanities." Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal 22, no. 39 (January 24, 2023): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2036-461x/17748.
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Dominant narratives across Medical Humanities have been focused on the cultural construction of the notion of medicine as epistemic discourse and social practice, on the role of humanities in medical design of the disease as well as on the humanization of the clinical encounter in order to facilitate the anamnesis, the therapy and the care. Among the main declinations, a more complex point of view arises, suggesting the critical integration and exploitation of a variety of methodologies, previously used by art and humanities research, into a peculiar human-centered dispositive, both narrative and therapeutic, in which audiovisual practices and languages acquire new healing potential and activate bias for unprecedented processes of subjectivization for particular target of suffering human beings. Based on the aforementioned premises, the essay aims at investigating the therapeutic set as performative and methodological model, consistent with art-therapy and narrative-based medical approaches, applicable in specific pathological conditions and health-care contexts. Within such reflexive and operational framework including documentary studies and visual anthropology, self-representational and amateur theories, the therapeutic set becomes a media environment where the formative encounter, both technical and pragmatic, finally ethical, between the self and the world, the action and the awareness takes place. My purpose is to explore the theoretical pillars of the therapeutic set as transformative interplay between profaned cinematic dispositive and psychotherapy setting, dwelling on bodily involvement, audiovisual gestures and amateur self representation to which active participants, storytellers of their own illness and treatment, are called in the making of therapy and narrative. The paper finally intends to illustrate selected interdisciplinary case studies in order to discuss the healing potential of creative participatory processes and self-representations, occurring thanks to the relocation and amateurization of the contemporary cinematic experience.
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Demirel , Erturk. "“Ought” as a speech-act"." Journal of Otolaryngology-ENT Research 11, no. 1 (2019): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.15406/joentr.2019.11.00413.
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Justification of moral judgments subsists as one of the recalcitrant question marks of philosophy; are they somehow unlike the so-called factual judgments; do they have a cognitive value; what, if anything, could possibly justify them despite the assumed chasm between facts on one hand and values, on the other? I believe it is, at least in the early modern era, the Humean legacy in ethics to have eyes for the naturalistic fallacy and sometimes despair over the seemingly inexplicable bridge between “Is” and “Ought.” I shall investigate whether Nietzsche has a solution of his own to the problem and if he has, whether it is indeed a Humean one. In what follows I shall try to produce a brief exegetical reading of Nietzsche’s main texts to reflect on the parallels between moral critique of Nietzsche and Hume’s epistemic understanding of moral judgments. With this aim, I shall connect Hume’s insights with Nietzsche’s related remarks, dwelling on three books by Nietzsche mainly: Human, All Too Human, Beyond Good and Evil, and Will to Power. Nietzsche avers that causality of free will is no more than an associative feeling to connect an idea with another. In sum, the inferential guide that links “Is” with “Ought” is based on a social need to hold individuals morally responsible on the basis of their behaviour. Therefore the link traditionally provided between the I-sentences and the O-sentences is not a metaphysically necessary one, as implied by the causality of free will, but an outcome of societal forces that attribute free will to human beings.In other words, the relation between the I-sentences and the O-sentences is not metaphysically necessary according to the transcendental law of morality, but socio-political laws that changes empirical beings into moral beings. Furthermore, he claims that there are diverse canons of morality that apply to diverse characters.To put it into modern jargon, the moral judgments and arguments can be seen as performative statements, since they do not express the relations among facts which are independently and intrinsically moral, but acts on and constitute them as moral and the persons those facts are attributed to morally responsible.I argue that the O-sentences comprise a sub-set of speech-acts. They do not only express moral facts, but also constitute them as moral.
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Гавриленко, Станислав Михайлович. "THE CARTOGRAPHIC DISPOSITIF: FEW REMARKS ON “GLOBES” OF PETER SLOTERDIJK." ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics, no. 2(24) (July 27, 2020): 131–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.23951/2312-7899-2020-2-131-150.
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Отталкиваясь от предположения, что второй том «Сфер» Питера Слотердайка содержит концепцию того, что можно было назвать картографическим диспозитивом, автор предпринимает попытку реконструировать отдельные положения этой концепции и соотнести их с рядом идей, высказанных в современных специализированных исследованиях по истории картографии. Одно из главных положений, которое Слотердайк разделяет с большинством исследований карт и картографии, заключается в том, что карты слишком сложны, чтобы быть «всего лишь» простым выражением пространственных фактов. Вписывая рассуждения о картографии в контекст своей исторической теории наземной глобализации, Слотердайк показывает, что картографы выступали среди главных ее агентов, а карты и глобусы Земли стали одними из основных ее репрезентационных механизмов и практических инструментов. В статье рассматривается, что именно было высказано Слотердайком о картографии и картографических представлениях – картах и глобусах, этих мощнейших средств визуализации и эпистемологического накопления, но и политико-экономического контроля и переупорядочивания пространства. The author starts from the premise that the second volume of Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres contains the conception of what could be called cartographic dispositif and tries to reconstruct separate provisions of this conception and relate them with some ideas made by contemporary specialized studies on the history of cartography. One of the main points, which Sloterdijk shares with these studies on maps and cartography, is that maps are too complex to be simple expression of spatial facts. Inscribing arguments about cartography in context of own theory of terrestrial globalization, Sloterdijk shows that cartographers were among its main actors and maps and globes of Earth were among its basic representational mechanisms and practical tools. The article provides description of what exactly was said by Sloterdijk about cartography and cartographic representations, extremely powerful tools of visualization and epistemic accumulation, but at the same time of political and economical control and of re-ordering of space. The main conclusion of the article is that Sloterdijk’s conception of cartography is in a unique position to support the sense of dizzying and intriguing complexity of cartographic representation and its historical types and forms (their very diversity is good enough reason for dizziness). This sense stands against deceptive obviousness (“we all know what a map is”), generated by equally deceptive “democratization of maps”, their pervasive presence and everyday uses. And if, as Matthey Edney says, “a map is representation of space complexity”, the very map is complex, being a strange hybrid of intelligible and empirical, theoretical and obvious, imaginary and real, what is seen and what is read, scientifical and political, actual and virtual, representation and performativе. But maybe this principal complexity of cartographic representation makes it a worthwhile object of research and fascination.
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Bååth, Jonas. "Towards a unified theory of market prices: turning to pricing in practice." Socio-Economic Review, February 18, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwac010.
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Abstract This article proceeds from the question: how do prices in markets work? In socio-economic theories, I find two answers to this question. The structural-coordinative approach explains prices as outcomes—coordinative effects of pricing scripts installed by exogenous, institutionalized social structures. The performative-epistemological approach explains prices as market devices—endogenous performative-epistemological tools of marketization. While not necessarily antithetical, the two theories define market knowledge, pricing and price in distinct ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from the Swedish meat industry, this article examines the merits of the two aforementioned theories and the prospects for unifying them. The conclusion presents an empirically grounded proposal for such a unification, emphasizing that prices, in practice, simultaneously express embedding social structures and mobilize marketization. A unified theory of market prices allows for identifying and analysing the recursive relation of social structures and performed episteme in pricing; how prices both express and realize market organization.
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Kuo, Yueh Hsin. "From deontic modality to conditionality." Journal of Historical Pragmatics, September 26, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.19002.kuo.
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Abstract While epistemic modality has been suggested to be a modal source of conditionality, deontic modality has been generally overlooked. Using data from Classical Chinese and the Invited Inferencing Theory of Semantic Change, this study demonstrates that the deontic modal bi tends to invite inferences of conditionality in contexts where it is used teleologically and performatively as an indirect speech act of advice. That is, conditionality can emerge out of an interaction of teleological and performative meanings. Furthermore, three conditions are identified as where teleological, performative and conditional meanings enable the inferencing of the deontic modal bi as a conditional protasis connective. The absence of one or more of these conditions is shown to be less likely to invite inferences of conditionality.