Naomi Head
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780719083075
- eISBN:
- 9781781706091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719083075.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Building on existing theories of communicative ethics and the limitations to Habermas's project identified in earlier chapters, this chapter articulates a series of communicative imperatives and a ...
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Building on existing theories of communicative ethics and the limitations to Habermas's project identified in earlier chapters, this chapter articulates a series of communicative imperatives and a set of issues regarding the relationship between theory and practice which strike at the heart of the emancipatory and evaluative orientation of critical theory. The communicative imperatives have two key purposes: to operate as an instrument of critique and to guide actors and participants in the normative development of practical dialogue. The chapter seeks to facilitate our understanding of the role of language in the construction of legitimacy and to contribute to the procedural argument that how we arrive at decisions may be as important as the substance of those decisions.Less
Building on existing theories of communicative ethics and the limitations to Habermas's project identified in earlier chapters, this chapter articulates a series of communicative imperatives and a set of issues regarding the relationship between theory and practice which strike at the heart of the emancipatory and evaluative orientation of critical theory. The communicative imperatives have two key purposes: to operate as an instrument of critique and to guide actors and participants in the normative development of practical dialogue. The chapter seeks to facilitate our understanding of the role of language in the construction of legitimacy and to contribute to the procedural argument that how we arrive at decisions may be as important as the substance of those decisions.
Matthew Gibson
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447344797
- eISBN:
- 9781447344841
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447344797.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter reviews and summarises the theory proposed throughout this book. It considers this theory within the context of the case-study site used as an example throughout. While all child and ...
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This chapter reviews and summarises the theory proposed throughout this book. It considers this theory within the context of the case-study site used as an example throughout. While all child and family social work organisations will interpret the wider systemic pressures individually and have their own regional needs and local idiosyncrasies, the case example provides an illustration of how pride and shame can be used in political attempts to shape, direct and control public services. In addition, it also demonstrates the complexity of the decision-making process, where experiences, or the anticipation, of pride, shame and other self-conscious emotions drive practitioners to comply with, or resist, such pressures. These processes are not reserved specifically for child and family social work, however. Indeed, the whole welfare state and governmental apparatus has been going through a transformation as neoliberal ideas, agendas and values have become embedded into political, media and public discourse. These ideas, therefore, relate to other disciplines and practices. This chapter sketches out the conditions needed for authenticity and pride in social work practice before concluding with possible future directions in the theory and practice of pride and shame in professional practiceLess
This chapter reviews and summarises the theory proposed throughout this book. It considers this theory within the context of the case-study site used as an example throughout. While all child and family social work organisations will interpret the wider systemic pressures individually and have their own regional needs and local idiosyncrasies, the case example provides an illustration of how pride and shame can be used in political attempts to shape, direct and control public services. In addition, it also demonstrates the complexity of the decision-making process, where experiences, or the anticipation, of pride, shame and other self-conscious emotions drive practitioners to comply with, or resist, such pressures. These processes are not reserved specifically for child and family social work, however. Indeed, the whole welfare state and governmental apparatus has been going through a transformation as neoliberal ideas, agendas and values have become embedded into political, media and public discourse. These ideas, therefore, relate to other disciplines and practices. This chapter sketches out the conditions needed for authenticity and pride in social work practice before concluding with possible future directions in the theory and practice of pride and shame in professional practice
Chris Gilligan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780719086526
- eISBN:
- 9781526128621
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719086526.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter draws on the work of Karl Marx to critique the Race Relations approach. The author argues that conventional social science (which underpins Race Relations theory) is, in its ...
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This chapter draws on the work of Karl Marx to critique the Race Relations approach. The author argues that conventional social science (which underpins Race Relations theory) is, in its methodological approach to understanding the world, inherently elitist. This is so because it artificially separates understanding the world (theory) and acting in the world (practice) and because it allocates a special role to experts. Race Relations theory and practice tends to view ordinary people as inclined towards racism and allocates a special role to enlightened experts in tackling racisms.Less
This chapter draws on the work of Karl Marx to critique the Race Relations approach. The author argues that conventional social science (which underpins Race Relations theory) is, in its methodological approach to understanding the world, inherently elitist. This is so because it artificially separates understanding the world (theory) and acting in the world (practice) and because it allocates a special role to experts. Race Relations theory and practice tends to view ordinary people as inclined towards racism and allocates a special role to enlightened experts in tackling racisms.
Susanne Gerber
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034654
- eISBN:
- 9780262336871
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034654.003.0022
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
In the early Internet, art history crossed the path of media history and both disciplines conveyed characteristics of each other. Net (based) art did not regain the utopian potential of art, but its ...
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In the early Internet, art history crossed the path of media history and both disciplines conveyed characteristics of each other. Net (based) art did not regain the utopian potential of art, but its social, aesthetic and conceptual approach referenced the future role of digital communication. This chapter documents and examines the role of the art network THE THING in early digital communication and art practice and how it anticipated the future potential to communicate, distribute, and produce. Including the theory and practice that informed the founding of THE THING, as well as an interview with THE THING founder, Wolfgang Staehle, and a concluding timeline of THE THING's history, this chapter also emphasizes how THE THING was both playful and far ahead of its time.Less
In the early Internet, art history crossed the path of media history and both disciplines conveyed characteristics of each other. Net (based) art did not regain the utopian potential of art, but its social, aesthetic and conceptual approach referenced the future role of digital communication. This chapter documents and examines the role of the art network THE THING in early digital communication and art practice and how it anticipated the future potential to communicate, distribute, and produce. Including the theory and practice that informed the founding of THE THING, as well as an interview with THE THING founder, Wolfgang Staehle, and a concluding timeline of THE THING's history, this chapter also emphasizes how THE THING was both playful and far ahead of its time.
Patrick Shade and John Lachs
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823256747
- eISBN:
- 9780823261390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823256747.003.0029
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
Lachs offers five reasons philosophers have a general obligation to make philosophy relevant to life, thereby unifying theory with practice—albeit in practice. The conviction that to believe ...
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Lachs offers five reasons philosophers have a general obligation to make philosophy relevant to life, thereby unifying theory with practice—albeit in practice. The conviction that to believe something is to have a tendency to act on it, for instance, obligates us to embody our commitments.Less
Lachs offers five reasons philosophers have a general obligation to make philosophy relevant to life, thereby unifying theory with practice—albeit in practice. The conviction that to believe something is to have a tendency to act on it, for instance, obligates us to embody our commitments.
Dale Dannefer and Jielu Lin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781447300908
- eISBN:
- 9781447307822
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447300908.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter presents a commentary on the foregoing chapters, beginning by underscoring the usefulness of the distinction made by Baars and Phillipson between contingent aging and existential ageing. ...
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This chapter presents a commentary on the foregoing chapters, beginning by underscoring the usefulness of the distinction made by Baars and Phillipson between contingent aging and existential ageing. This important distinction resurfaces in a number of complex ways throughout the chapters of this volume, and it is employed as the first organizing theme for the commentary. The second organizing theme concerns the tension between theory and practice which also arises in fresh ways in several of the chapters. These two sets of tensions are used as the primary frameworks within which to organize concluding comments on the informative and provocative chapters of the volume.Less
This chapter presents a commentary on the foregoing chapters, beginning by underscoring the usefulness of the distinction made by Baars and Phillipson between contingent aging and existential ageing. This important distinction resurfaces in a number of complex ways throughout the chapters of this volume, and it is employed as the first organizing theme for the commentary. The second organizing theme concerns the tension between theory and practice which also arises in fresh ways in several of the chapters. These two sets of tensions are used as the primary frameworks within which to organize concluding comments on the informative and provocative chapters of the volume.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Gestures is a collection of essays that proposes a daring and ambitious new conception of human behavior. Defining gesture as “a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there ...
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Gestures is a collection of essays that proposes a daring and ambitious new conception of human behavior. Defining gesture as “a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation,” Flusser moves around the topic from different points of view, angles and distances: sometimes he zooms in on a modest, ordinary movement like taking a photograph, shaving, or smoking a pipe. Sometimes he pulls back to look at something as vast and varied as human “making,” embracing everything from the fashioning of simple tools to mass manufacturing. Holding firmly to basic phenomenological principles – that consciousness is always consciousness of something, that we know others by reference to ourselves, he claims that we constantly “read” states of mind, i.e. thoughts, intentions, emotions, from gestures; still we lack a theory about how this happens. Gestures takes a first step. It offers alternatives to theories by now so veiled by habit and myth that we are hardly conscious of them, and so hardly realize that they are failing. These include the assumption that we can “know” something without being affected by it, the belief that science is value-free, and the common conviction that science and art are fundamentally different activities.Less
Gestures is a collection of essays that proposes a daring and ambitious new conception of human behavior. Defining gesture as “a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation,” Flusser moves around the topic from different points of view, angles and distances: sometimes he zooms in on a modest, ordinary movement like taking a photograph, shaving, or smoking a pipe. Sometimes he pulls back to look at something as vast and varied as human “making,” embracing everything from the fashioning of simple tools to mass manufacturing. Holding firmly to basic phenomenological principles – that consciousness is always consciousness of something, that we know others by reference to ourselves, he claims that we constantly “read” states of mind, i.e. thoughts, intentions, emotions, from gestures; still we lack a theory about how this happens. Gestures takes a first step. It offers alternatives to theories by now so veiled by habit and myth that we are hardly conscious of them, and so hardly realize that they are failing. These include the assumption that we can “know” something without being affected by it, the belief that science is value-free, and the common conviction that science and art are fundamentally different activities.
Buchanan Sandra
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780719088230
- eISBN:
- 9781781706879
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719088230.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
The conclusion returns to the conceptual and theoretical examination outlined in Chapter 2 which initially informed and shaped the book's assessment, Lederach's exploration of the interdependence, ...
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The conclusion returns to the conceptual and theoretical examination outlined in Chapter 2 which initially informed and shaped the book's assessment, Lederach's exploration of the interdependence, justice and process-structure gaps, to assess the extent to which they have been narrowed by the three programmes examined. While the middle-range is certainly critical to sustaining change, this book has also found that the nature of the three programmes ensured the valuable capacity existing within the grassroots was as equally instrumental as that of the middle level in delivering and sustaining conflict transformation, particularly when the political failed, clearly demonstrating the intrinsic importance of participative democracy to representative democracy. Because of the practice perspective of this book, the conclusion acknowledges the need to marry the theoretical to the practical. It challenges governments to take up the recommendations, cognisant that this is a considerable challenge: as today's world faces growing social and economic conflict, building peace without the inclusion of social and economic development in the conflict transformation matrix as a strand of the web as necessary as the political, cultural, spiritual or psychological, will be devastating.Less
The conclusion returns to the conceptual and theoretical examination outlined in Chapter 2 which initially informed and shaped the book's assessment, Lederach's exploration of the interdependence, justice and process-structure gaps, to assess the extent to which they have been narrowed by the three programmes examined. While the middle-range is certainly critical to sustaining change, this book has also found that the nature of the three programmes ensured the valuable capacity existing within the grassroots was as equally instrumental as that of the middle level in delivering and sustaining conflict transformation, particularly when the political failed, clearly demonstrating the intrinsic importance of participative democracy to representative democracy. Because of the practice perspective of this book, the conclusion acknowledges the need to marry the theoretical to the practical. It challenges governments to take up the recommendations, cognisant that this is a considerable challenge: as today's world faces growing social and economic conflict, building peace without the inclusion of social and economic development in the conflict transformation matrix as a strand of the web as necessary as the political, cultural, spiritual or psychological, will be devastating.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Moving between the speaking of a word and silence, Flusser identifies speech here as reaching out toward others, an effort to expand the sphere of human freedom.
Moving between the speaking of a word and silence, Flusser identifies speech here as reaching out toward others, an effort to expand the sphere of human freedom.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Here Flusser raises the question of evil, defining it as disinterested destruction, an act without intention. Carefully distinguishing it from acts of frustration and rebellion, he declares it ...
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Here Flusser raises the question of evil, defining it as disinterested destruction, an act without intention. Carefully distinguishing it from acts of frustration and rebellion, he declares it “terrifying”.Less
Here Flusser raises the question of evil, defining it as disinterested destruction, an act without intention. Carefully distinguishing it from acts of frustration and rebellion, he declares it “terrifying”.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Flusser’s analysis of film centers on the possibility of manipulating the perception of time. He notes a growing tendency to prefer a montaged, projected version of events to actual, four-dimensional ...
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Flusser’s analysis of film centers on the possibility of manipulating the perception of time. He notes a growing tendency to prefer a montaged, projected version of events to actual, four-dimensional history.Less
Flusser’s analysis of film centers on the possibility of manipulating the perception of time. He notes a growing tendency to prefer a montaged, projected version of events to actual, four-dimensional history.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Skin is the boundary that separates a person from his environment, and a person shaving himself is simultaneously a subject acting and an object being acted upon. The gesture, or its absence, becomes ...
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Skin is the boundary that separates a person from his environment, and a person shaving himself is simultaneously a subject acting and an object being acted upon. The gesture, or its absence, becomes an expression of the way a given person orients himself with respect to others.Less
Skin is the boundary that separates a person from his environment, and a person shaving himself is simultaneously a subject acting and an object being acted upon. The gesture, or its absence, becomes an expression of the way a given person orients himself with respect to others.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0017
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Video is here sharply distinguished from film, notably in its potential for immediate playback, allowing those behind the camera to change places with those before the camera, and opening ...
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Video is here sharply distinguished from film, notably in its potential for immediate playback, allowing those behind the camera to change places with those before the camera, and opening opportunities for visual dialogue.Less
Video is here sharply distinguished from film, notably in its potential for immediate playback, allowing those behind the camera to change places with those before the camera, and opening opportunities for visual dialogue.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
“Making” here becomes the movement of two hands coming together, approaching a sameness that they can never fully achieve. The two forces are metaphorically associated with “practice” and “theory”.
“Making” here becomes the movement of two hands coming together, approaching a sameness that they can never fully achieve. The two forces are metaphorically associated with “practice” and “theory”.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0015
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This detailed analysis of the reasons for smoking a pipe opens up a lengthy discussion of ritual, a broad category of gesture that applies both to religious ritual and to art.
This detailed analysis of the reasons for smoking a pipe opens up a lengthy discussion of ritual, a broad category of gesture that applies both to religious ritual and to art.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
The introductory chapter defines gesture, noting in particular that it is something deliberate, performed, and therefore one of the ways people give meaning to their “actions and sufferings”.
The introductory chapter defines gesture, noting in particular that it is something deliberate, performed, and therefore one of the ways people give meaning to their “actions and sufferings”.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
The discussion, centering on the example of the administration of the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, treats the act of programming such a theatrical event as post-historical, and potentially a new field ...
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The discussion, centering on the example of the administration of the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, treats the act of programming such a theatrical event as post-historical, and potentially a new field for creativity.Less
The discussion, centering on the example of the administration of the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, treats the act of programming such a theatrical event as post-historical, and potentially a new field for creativity.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
In the mesh of human beings and machines Flusser calls, here and elsewhere, the “apparatus,” work, in the sense of changing the world, is no longer possible: we can neither escape the apparatus, nor, ...
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In the mesh of human beings and machines Flusser calls, here and elsewhere, the “apparatus,” work, in the sense of changing the world, is no longer possible: we can neither escape the apparatus, nor, at least at the moment, make our lives meaningful within it.Less
In the mesh of human beings and machines Flusser calls, here and elsewhere, the “apparatus,” work, in the sense of changing the world, is no longer possible: we can neither escape the apparatus, nor, at least at the moment, make our lives meaningful within it.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Writing, the concrete gesture of forcing vague thoughts to form lines on a page, is under threat: “technical images” – new technologies since photography, require a different gesture. Some people, ...
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Writing, the concrete gesture of forcing vague thoughts to form lines on a page, is under threat: “technical images” – new technologies since photography, require a different gesture. Some people, whose consciousness is related to writing, must write nevertheless.Less
Writing, the concrete gesture of forcing vague thoughts to form lines on a page, is under threat: “technical images” – new technologies since photography, require a different gesture. Some people, whose consciousness is related to writing, must write nevertheless.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Detaching the gesture from a sexual act with great effort, and mindful of the effect of ubiquitous depiction of sex, especially in advertisements, Flusser expresses concern that we may be losing our ...
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Detaching the gesture from a sexual act with great effort, and mindful of the effect of ubiquitous depiction of sex, especially in advertisements, Flusser expresses concern that we may be losing our capacity to love.Less
Detaching the gesture from a sexual act with great effort, and mindful of the effect of ubiquitous depiction of sex, especially in advertisements, Flusser expresses concern that we may be losing our capacity to love.
