Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The Meeting Place asks what are the conditions of sociability in a globalized world. It argues that the social sciences take communication for granted and for this reason overlook the obstacles to ...
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The Meeting Place asks what are the conditions of sociability in a globalized world. It argues that the social sciences take communication for granted and for this reason overlook the obstacles to understanding between strangers and the importance of improvised performative tactics in overcoming these. While such disciplines as sociology, legal studies, psychology, political theory and even urban planners treat meeting as a good in its own right (identifying it with the democratic procurement of wellbeing), they fail to offer a model of what makes meeting possible and worth pursuing: a prior and always unfulfilled desire of encounter. To explicate the phenomenon of encounter, Carter stages a dialogue between recent and current theories of community put forward by European and North American cultural philosophers and the theory and practice of meeting in Australian Indigenous societies. The Australian material traverses the troubled history of misunderstanding characteristic of colonial cross-cultural encounter, using recent Indigenous and non-Indigenous anthropological research to throw light on the obstacles to understanding evident in the colonial record. When this literature is brought into dialogue with western ways of conceptualizing sociability, a startling discovery: that meeting may not be desirable and, if it is, that its primary object may be to negotiate a future of non-meeting or legally binding distances between people. This finding allows us to reformulate the Modernist trope, that true meeting is only possible between complete strangers, in terms of an ecological understanding of place-making and resource management.Less
The Meeting Place asks what are the conditions of sociability in a globalized world. It argues that the social sciences take communication for granted and for this reason overlook the obstacles to understanding between strangers and the importance of improvised performative tactics in overcoming these. While such disciplines as sociology, legal studies, psychology, political theory and even urban planners treat meeting as a good in its own right (identifying it with the democratic procurement of wellbeing), they fail to offer a model of what makes meeting possible and worth pursuing: a prior and always unfulfilled desire of encounter. To explicate the phenomenon of encounter, Carter stages a dialogue between recent and current theories of community put forward by European and North American cultural philosophers and the theory and practice of meeting in Australian Indigenous societies. The Australian material traverses the troubled history of misunderstanding characteristic of colonial cross-cultural encounter, using recent Indigenous and non-Indigenous anthropological research to throw light on the obstacles to understanding evident in the colonial record. When this literature is brought into dialogue with western ways of conceptualizing sociability, a startling discovery: that meeting may not be desirable and, if it is, that its primary object may be to negotiate a future of non-meeting or legally binding distances between people. This finding allows us to reformulate the Modernist trope, that true meeting is only possible between complete strangers, in terms of an ecological understanding of place-making and resource management.
Jérôme de la Gorce
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748635849
- eISBN:
- 9780748671120
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748635849.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Please Provide (as in Journal Copy) It was customary in the seventeenth century to assimilate court ballet with drama, as both art forms were seen to strive for a common aim: the imitation or ...
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Please Provide (as in Journal Copy) It was customary in the seventeenth century to assimilate court ballet with drama, as both art forms were seen to strive for a common aim: the imitation or representation of nature. However, critics were also keen to point out their essential differences, for, unlike tragedy, ballet disregarded the rules of new-classical aesthetics and its only concern seemed to be to please and to entertain. This was particularly evident in the court ballets written by Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin between 1639 and 1641. Unsurprisingly, they were singled out for special criticism by theorists of the ballet, who highlighted their dramatic shortcomings, and failed to see that they constituted another form of dramatic aesthetics, which was conspicuous precisely because of its emancipation from the structures of Aristotelian theory. It could be said that the ballets of Desmarets had all the hallmarks of contemporary tragicomedy: irregularity of construction, diversity of action, disregard for the unity of tone, etc., but in adapting the principles of this new aesthetics to the ballet, Desmarets ran the risk of transgressing the boundaries of tragicomedy and even of drama, approaching a genre which was no longer dramatic but narratice, i.e. epic poetry.Less
Please Provide (as in Journal Copy) It was customary in the seventeenth century to assimilate court ballet with drama, as both art forms were seen to strive for a common aim: the imitation or representation of nature. However, critics were also keen to point out their essential differences, for, unlike tragedy, ballet disregarded the rules of new-classical aesthetics and its only concern seemed to be to please and to entertain. This was particularly evident in the court ballets written by Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin between 1639 and 1641. Unsurprisingly, they were singled out for special criticism by theorists of the ballet, who highlighted their dramatic shortcomings, and failed to see that they constituted another form of dramatic aesthetics, which was conspicuous precisely because of its emancipation from the structures of Aristotelian theory. It could be said that the ballets of Desmarets had all the hallmarks of contemporary tragicomedy: irregularity of construction, diversity of action, disregard for the unity of tone, etc., but in adapting the principles of this new aesthetics to the ballet, Desmarets ran the risk of transgressing the boundaries of tragicomedy and even of drama, approaching a genre which was no longer dramatic but narratice, i.e. epic poetry.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Like Claddings (above), this chapter places the discourse of The Meeting Place in the context of other related work. The performative space constitutive of an encounter that will furnish a durable ...
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Like Claddings (above), this chapter places the discourse of The Meeting Place in the context of other related work. The performative space constitutive of an encounter that will furnish a durable and just common place is defined in relation to Homi Bhabha and Edward Soja’s theorizing of the third space or the in-between. The identity of self-becoming with the performance of the in-between is illustrated by reference to the Vezo people of Mozambique. It is the emphasis on the historicity of performance that distinguishes our approach.Less
Like Claddings (above), this chapter places the discourse of The Meeting Place in the context of other related work. The performative space constitutive of an encounter that will furnish a durable and just common place is defined in relation to Homi Bhabha and Edward Soja’s theorizing of the third space or the in-between. The identity of self-becoming with the performance of the in-between is illustrated by reference to the Vezo people of Mozambique. It is the emphasis on the historicity of performance that distinguishes our approach.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The three previous chapters constitute the introduction to The Meeting Place. Illustrating the description of the book in the previous chapter, this chapter plunges the reader into the midst of an ...
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The three previous chapters constitute the introduction to The Meeting Place. Illustrating the description of the book in the previous chapter, this chapter plunges the reader into the midst of an erotic situation and a first person narrative: a man waiting for his lover to arrive. As she fails to arrive on time, the distinction between a chance encounter and a scheduled meeting emerges.Less
The three previous chapters constitute the introduction to The Meeting Place. Illustrating the description of the book in the previous chapter, this chapter plunges the reader into the midst of an erotic situation and a first person narrative: a man waiting for his lover to arrive. As she fails to arrive on time, the distinction between a chance encounter and a scheduled meeting emerges.
Eliza Larson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062662
- eISBN:
- 9780813051956
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062662.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter 3 assembles data and renders visible gender hierarchies among choreographers in concert dance in the United States today. Recent statistics in the field are explored to establish a baseline ...
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Chapter 3 assembles data and renders visible gender hierarchies among choreographers in concert dance in the United States today. Recent statistics in the field are explored to establish a baseline for understanding gender in dance on a broader scale. An analysis of gender representation among choreographers is presented through an examination of the 2012, 2013, and 2014 performance seasons at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the American Dance Festival, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The stratified programming of each venue provides a multi-case study for understanding how female choreographers fare within the various levels of public recognition in the dance field, creating a foundation for further discussion of gender in dance. The author’s primary questions ask whether men and women are represented in numbers that reflect their respective populations in the field of dance, and how the production of dance illuminates or undermines gender disparity among dance creators.Less
Chapter 3 assembles data and renders visible gender hierarchies among choreographers in concert dance in the United States today. Recent statistics in the field are explored to establish a baseline for understanding gender in dance on a broader scale. An analysis of gender representation among choreographers is presented through an examination of the 2012, 2013, and 2014 performance seasons at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the American Dance Festival, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The stratified programming of each venue provides a multi-case study for understanding how female choreographers fare within the various levels of public recognition in the dance field, creating a foundation for further discussion of gender in dance. The author’s primary questions ask whether men and women are represented in numbers that reflect their respective populations in the field of dance, and how the production of dance illuminates or undermines gender disparity among dance creators.
Gareth Belling
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062662
- eISBN:
- 9780813051956
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062662.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Regendered movement refers to a process where choreographic material is created or adapted with the intention that it may be performed by either male or female dancers with little or no change to the ...
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Regendered movement refers to a process where choreographic material is created or adapted with the intention that it may be performed by either male or female dancers with little or no change to the original steps. This practice-led research project investigated the choreographer’s creative process for regendering contemporary ballet choreography and the dancers’ experiences of the rehearsal process and performance, and audience perception of meaning in the ballets. The research project sought to investigate the “in-born” and “natural” gender binaries of classical ballet by applying gender theory (Butler 1990, 2004; Polhemus 1993; Wulff 2008) and feminist critique of classical ballet (Daly 1987; Copeland 1993; Anderson 1997; Banes 1998). A mixed method, studio-based action research methodology was employed. Recent critical debate on gender in dance (Macaulay 2010, 2013; Jennings 2013, 2014), existing contemporary ballet, and its impact on the creative process of the choreographer are discussed.Less
Regendered movement refers to a process where choreographic material is created or adapted with the intention that it may be performed by either male or female dancers with little or no change to the original steps. This practice-led research project investigated the choreographer’s creative process for regendering contemporary ballet choreography and the dancers’ experiences of the rehearsal process and performance, and audience perception of meaning in the ballets. The research project sought to investigate the “in-born” and “natural” gender binaries of classical ballet by applying gender theory (Butler 1990, 2004; Polhemus 1993; Wulff 2008) and feminist critique of classical ballet (Daly 1987; Copeland 1993; Anderson 1997; Banes 1998). A mixed method, studio-based action research methodology was employed. Recent critical debate on gender in dance (Macaulay 2010, 2013; Jennings 2013, 2014), existing contemporary ballet, and its impact on the creative process of the choreographer are discussed.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The question of the status of Giacometti’s work is raised: does an aesthetic achievement like his have any historical value? Does it have an implications for a better practice of meeting. Examples of ...
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The question of the status of Giacometti’s work is raised: does an aesthetic achievement like his have any historical value? Does it have an implications for a better practice of meeting. Examples of ‘first contact’ negotiations (from Magellan’s voyage and from early Australian accounts of ‘corroborees’) are given to show that in non-western societies, the mimetic techniques used to broker contact are not purely theatrical: they are historical performances.Less
The question of the status of Giacometti’s work is raised: does an aesthetic achievement like his have any historical value? Does it have an implications for a better practice of meeting. Examples of ‘first contact’ negotiations (from Magellan’s voyage and from early Australian accounts of ‘corroborees’) are given to show that in non-western societies, the mimetic techniques used to broker contact are not purely theatrical: they are historical performances.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0012
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
We go back to the figure of Eros the Demiurge (announced above in Hollowed Out). A revivified public space depends on revitalizing the gods who preside over them Pallas Athene, for example, ...
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We go back to the figure of Eros the Demiurge (announced above in Hollowed Out). A revivified public space depends on revitalizing the gods who preside over them Pallas Athene, for example, associated with the democratic agora of ancient Athens has to be mobilized, given back her power to move. As mistress of the lance, she is the weaver of all the curvilinear paths that form the patterns of sociability. Again, following ‘Thirdings’, non-western examples of spear mastery are described, as these underline the point that the management of movement is essentially historical and political.Less
We go back to the figure of Eros the Demiurge (announced above in Hollowed Out). A revivified public space depends on revitalizing the gods who preside over them Pallas Athene, for example, associated with the democratic agora of ancient Athens has to be mobilized, given back her power to move. As mistress of the lance, she is the weaver of all the curvilinear paths that form the patterns of sociability. Again, following ‘Thirdings’, non-western examples of spear mastery are described, as these underline the point that the management of movement is essentially historical and political.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter draws together the threads of the previous chapters and places the encounter between northern (Eurocentric) and southern (Australian Indigenous and colonial) ideas of sociability in a ...
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This chapter draws together the threads of the previous chapters and places the encounter between northern (Eurocentric) and southern (Australian Indigenous and colonial) ideas of sociability in a historical context. The aestheticisation of performative cultures in the writings of Paul Valery is discussed because Valery puts forward a theory of poetry that is, in fact, very like the four-fold performances characteristic of Indigenous Australia: recognition of this enables us to reconnect Modernist poetics to the politics of giving and taking ground.Less
This chapter draws together the threads of the previous chapters and places the encounter between northern (Eurocentric) and southern (Australian Indigenous and colonial) ideas of sociability in a historical context. The aestheticisation of performative cultures in the writings of Paul Valery is discussed because Valery puts forward a theory of poetry that is, in fact, very like the four-fold performances characteristic of Indigenous Australia: recognition of this enables us to reconnect Modernist poetics to the politics of giving and taking ground.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0014
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
In this chapter we start to investigate the mechanics of encounter, the gestural and choreographic techniques used to mediate communication where no language exists in common. Australian ...
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In this chapter we start to investigate the mechanics of encounter, the gestural and choreographic techniques used to mediate communication where no language exists in common. Australian illustrations are given of the foundational role of mimicry. Then, mimicking the structure of the previous chapter is explained, these historical performances are shown to communicate their meaning in the same way that Valery says the Symbolists (and Mallarme in particular) create a poetic event. Finally, the recent discovery of ‘mirror neurons’ suggests a neurological mechanism for mimicry which collapses the aesthetic/historical, reflective/non-reflective distinction.Less
In this chapter we start to investigate the mechanics of encounter, the gestural and choreographic techniques used to mediate communication where no language exists in common. Australian illustrations are given of the foundational role of mimicry. Then, mimicking the structure of the previous chapter is explained, these historical performances are shown to communicate their meaning in the same way that Valery says the Symbolists (and Mallarme in particular) create a poetic event. Finally, the recent discovery of ‘mirror neurons’ suggests a neurological mechanism for mimicry which collapses the aesthetic/historical, reflective/non-reflective distinction.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0015
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
A new theme is introduced: the question of the motivation of meeting. Historically, meeting is precipitated by the migrant, the exile, the one who comes from another place. Therefore, meeting is ...
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A new theme is introduced: the question of the motivation of meeting. Historically, meeting is precipitated by the migrant, the exile, the one who comes from another place. Therefore, meeting is always a triangulation between those who meet and the historical (exceptional) circumstance in which they meet. Meeting is always shadowed by ambiguity, by a desire of avoidance at the heart of the approach. Writers like Levinas, Agamben, Nancy and others are discussed for their views about the politics and ethics of encounter: none of them considers the ontological significance of the dance as such.Less
A new theme is introduced: the question of the motivation of meeting. Historically, meeting is precipitated by the migrant, the exile, the one who comes from another place. Therefore, meeting is always a triangulation between those who meet and the historical (exceptional) circumstance in which they meet. Meeting is always shadowed by ambiguity, by a desire of avoidance at the heart of the approach. Writers like Levinas, Agamben, Nancy and others are discussed for their views about the politics and ethics of encounter: none of them considers the ontological significance of the dance as such.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0016
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The point has been made that ‘meeting’ is never between two people: it is always shadowed by the desire of encounter. This shadow can be the physical setting, the historical circumstance and the ...
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The point has been made that ‘meeting’ is never between two people: it is always shadowed by the desire of encounter. This shadow can be the physical setting, the historical circumstance and the mimetic nature of social behavior as such. In this chapter a new shadow/shade is introduced, that of the ancestors, whose death underwrites our plunge into the realm of change. A remarkable instance of this from colonial Australia is given, where the relationship between stepping out of oneself towards the other and dying is illustrated. Picking upon the migrant theme of the previous chapter, this insight is also attributed to the Australian-Iranian sculptor Hossein Valamanesh.Less
The point has been made that ‘meeting’ is never between two people: it is always shadowed by the desire of encounter. This shadow can be the physical setting, the historical circumstance and the mimetic nature of social behavior as such. In this chapter a new shadow/shade is introduced, that of the ancestors, whose death underwrites our plunge into the realm of change. A remarkable instance of this from colonial Australia is given, where the relationship between stepping out of oneself towards the other and dying is illustrated. Picking upon the migrant theme of the previous chapter, this insight is also attributed to the Australian-Iranian sculptor Hossein Valamanesh.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0017
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
A discussion of the philosophical significance of thinking dyadically, in terms of a fundamental relation across difference. (Meeting cannot be thought from one side or point of view.) ...
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A discussion of the philosophical significance of thinking dyadically, in terms of a fundamental relation across difference. (Meeting cannot be thought from one side or point of view.) Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the chiasm attempts to deal with this inhibition of western metaphysics. In societies that are organized into moieties (Australian Aboriginal societies, but also the Amazonian Bororo), thinking the self doubly, as a social relation, is unproblematic. In trying to bring these insights into a place-making practice the experiments of Arakawa and Gins are exemplary. In any case the difficulty of defining meeting suggests a ‘chi complex’, a philosophical aporia focused on the place where lines cross and instead of fusing cancel out.Less
A discussion of the philosophical significance of thinking dyadically, in terms of a fundamental relation across difference. (Meeting cannot be thought from one side or point of view.) Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the chiasm attempts to deal with this inhibition of western metaphysics. In societies that are organized into moieties (Australian Aboriginal societies, but also the Amazonian Bororo), thinking the self doubly, as a social relation, is unproblematic. In trying to bring these insights into a place-making practice the experiments of Arakawa and Gins are exemplary. In any case the difficulty of defining meeting suggests a ‘chi complex’, a philosophical aporia focused on the place where lines cross and instead of fusing cancel out.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0018
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Even in meeting places very few people meet: most pass by. In Aboriginal Australia, the choreography of non-meeting is institutionalized. There follows a discussion of a famous episodein the ...
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Even in meeting places very few people meet: most pass by. In Aboriginal Australia, the choreography of non-meeting is institutionalized. There follows a discussion of a famous episodein the anthropological literature – a meeting between two clans outside Alice Springs reported by Spencer and Gillen. In his critique of their account, T.G.H. Strehlow makes it clear that this was an exceptional performance ‘put on’ for a third person (Gillen). The ceremonies performed at that time and place aimed to maintain existing boundaries and minimize illicit contact.Less
Even in meeting places very few people meet: most pass by. In Aboriginal Australia, the choreography of non-meeting is institutionalized. There follows a discussion of a famous episodein the anthropological literature – a meeting between two clans outside Alice Springs reported by Spencer and Gillen. In his critique of their account, T.G.H. Strehlow makes it clear that this was an exceptional performance ‘put on’ for a third person (Gillen). The ceremonies performed at that time and place aimed to maintain existing boundaries and minimize illicit contact.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0019
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Here some problems of nomenclature addressed. Implicit in our thesis the possibility of a ‘fit’ between people and place: sociability is always a social performance, a matter of timing and spacing. ...
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Here some problems of nomenclature addressed. Implicit in our thesis the possibility of a ‘fit’ between people and place: sociability is always a social performance, a matter of timing and spacing. The Greek term hedra, referring to the natural fit of things, is revived and compared with the Arrernte term utyerre, tie or string. The ‘crowd’ that inhabits these places is not the one conjured up by Canetti and le Bon but self-organising, pluralist and relational.Less
Here some problems of nomenclature addressed. Implicit in our thesis the possibility of a ‘fit’ between people and place: sociability is always a social performance, a matter of timing and spacing. The Greek term hedra, referring to the natural fit of things, is revived and compared with the Arrernte term utyerre, tie or string. The ‘crowd’ that inhabits these places is not the one conjured up by Canetti and le Bon but self-organising, pluralist and relational.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0020
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The synthesis of the remarks in the previous chapter is the idea that an ‘algorithm of sociability,’ a composite movement form governing the etiquette of the in-between. But how is this desire space ...
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The synthesis of the remarks in the previous chapter is the idea that an ‘algorithm of sociability,’ a composite movement form governing the etiquette of the in-between. But how is this desire space written, remembered or reproduced? This question allows another traverse across the personal material introduced earlier, as well as a further amplification of the character of Eros in public space. The notion of the erotope is introduced and the question of its persistence in private and public memory.Less
The synthesis of the remarks in the previous chapter is the idea that an ‘algorithm of sociability,’ a composite movement form governing the etiquette of the in-between. But how is this desire space written, remembered or reproduced? This question allows another traverse across the personal material introduced earlier, as well as a further amplification of the character of Eros in public space. The notion of the erotope is introduced and the question of its persistence in private and public memory.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0021
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The question of writing public space is raised: how are the historical performances that potentially reconfigure social relations written into law? How is the graphic extracted from choreography? It ...
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The question of writing public space is raised: how are the historical performances that potentially reconfigure social relations written into law? How is the graphic extracted from choreography? It is suggested that the answer lies in recognizing the materiality of writing, the fact that it involves making an impression. Tracks, writing or hunting, can be read: they are avenues of desire. A non-imperialistic writing, which Nicole Loraux finds in the female management of the Metroon, allows a different kind of desire to surface in public space, one that recuperates Pallas Athene.Less
The question of writing public space is raised: how are the historical performances that potentially reconfigure social relations written into law? How is the graphic extracted from choreography? It is suggested that the answer lies in recognizing the materiality of writing, the fact that it involves making an impression. Tracks, writing or hunting, can be read: they are avenues of desire. A non-imperialistic writing, which Nicole Loraux finds in the female management of the Metroon, allows a different kind of desire to surface in public space, one that recuperates Pallas Athene.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0022
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
An Australian example of an erotic encounter stabilized as a discursive meeting place (or site of exchange) is given: the language notebooks of First Fleet Surgeon, William Dawes, which mainly record ...
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An Australian example of an erotic encounter stabilized as a discursive meeting place (or site of exchange) is given: the language notebooks of First Fleet Surgeon, William Dawes, which mainly record a conversation with an Eora woman called Patyegarang. The discussion that follows shows that the recovery of this erotope involves a parallel performance, embodied in this case in a sound installation I made based on the notebooks and installed in a new commemorative museum.Less
An Australian example of an erotic encounter stabilized as a discursive meeting place (or site of exchange) is given: the language notebooks of First Fleet Surgeon, William Dawes, which mainly record a conversation with an Eora woman called Patyegarang. The discussion that follows shows that the recovery of this erotope involves a parallel performance, embodied in this case in a sound installation I made based on the notebooks and installed in a new commemorative museum.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0023
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
We return to the vexed question of the role Eros plays in sociability (and democracy): without Eros there would be no drive to meet, but Eros also drives apart, fostering competition and imperial ...
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We return to the vexed question of the role Eros plays in sociability (and democracy): without Eros there would be no drive to meet, but Eros also drives apart, fostering competition and imperial violence. These points are illustrated from de Tocqueville’s account of American society, from the rich mythological history of Athens, and are compared with the non-imperialist dynamics of desire evident of border (sea/land) negotiations in Australia. The idea of a ‘different encounter’ involves a self-doubling of the kind James Hillman describes in his account of Pothos.Less
We return to the vexed question of the role Eros plays in sociability (and democracy): without Eros there would be no drive to meet, but Eros also drives apart, fostering competition and imperial violence. These points are illustrated from de Tocqueville’s account of American society, from the rich mythological history of Athens, and are compared with the non-imperialist dynamics of desire evident of border (sea/land) negotiations in Australia. The idea of a ‘different encounter’ involves a self-doubling of the kind James Hillman describes in his account of Pothos.
Paul Carter
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816685363
- eISBN:
- 9781452949147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816685363.003.0024
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Pothos is an expression of Eros, and in this chapter both deifications of desire are subjected to critical scrutiny. The platonic characterization of them is questioned and an alternative genealogy ...
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Pothos is an expression of Eros, and in this chapter both deifications of desire are subjected to critical scrutiny. The platonic characterization of them is questioned and an alternative genealogy offered, one that reconnects their vitality to the natural world and the interfusing of its essential elements. Here Chaos elides with life-giving pneuma – a connection that confirms the creative connection between breathing and the articulation of the world of things (see Echo Location above). The new public space that emerges from this revision might be something like the old ‘common place.’Less
Pothos is an expression of Eros, and in this chapter both deifications of desire are subjected to critical scrutiny. The platonic characterization of them is questioned and an alternative genealogy offered, one that reconnects their vitality to the natural world and the interfusing of its essential elements. Here Chaos elides with life-giving pneuma – a connection that confirms the creative connection between breathing and the articulation of the world of things (see Echo Location above). The new public space that emerges from this revision might be something like the old ‘common place.’
