Laura Helen Marks
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042140
- eISBN:
- 9780252050886
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042140.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book argues that pornographic film relies on a particular "Victorianness" in generating eroticism—a Gothic Victorianness that is monstrous and restrained, repressed but also perverse, static but ...
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This book argues that pornographic film relies on a particular "Victorianness" in generating eroticism—a Gothic Victorianness that is monstrous and restrained, repressed but also perverse, static but also transformative, and preoccupied with gender, sexuality, race, and time. Pornographic films enthusiastically expose the perceived hypocrisy of this Victorianness, rhetorically equating it with mainstream, legitimate culture, as a way of staging pornography’s alleged sexual authenticity and transgressive nature. Through an analysis of porn set during the nineteenth century and porn adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this book shows how these adaptations expose the implicit pornographic aspects of “legitimate” culture while also revealing the extent to which “high” and “low” genres rely on each other for self-definition. In the process, neo-Victorian pornographies draw on Gothic spaces and icons in order to situate itself as this Gothic other, utilizing the Gothic and the monstrous to craft a transformative, pornographic space. These neo-Victorian Gothic pornographies expose the way the genre as a whole emphasizes, navigates, transgresses, and renegotiates gender, sexuality, and race through the lens of history and legacy.Less
This book argues that pornographic film relies on a particular "Victorianness" in generating eroticism—a Gothic Victorianness that is monstrous and restrained, repressed but also perverse, static but also transformative, and preoccupied with gender, sexuality, race, and time. Pornographic films enthusiastically expose the perceived hypocrisy of this Victorianness, rhetorically equating it with mainstream, legitimate culture, as a way of staging pornography’s alleged sexual authenticity and transgressive nature. Through an analysis of porn set during the nineteenth century and porn adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this book shows how these adaptations expose the implicit pornographic aspects of “legitimate” culture while also revealing the extent to which “high” and “low” genres rely on each other for self-definition. In the process, neo-Victorian pornographies draw on Gothic spaces and icons in order to situate itself as this Gothic other, utilizing the Gothic and the monstrous to craft a transformative, pornographic space. These neo-Victorian Gothic pornographies expose the way the genre as a whole emphasizes, navigates, transgresses, and renegotiates gender, sexuality, and race through the lens of history and legacy.
Gary Goertz and James Mahoney
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691149707
- eISBN:
- 9781400845446
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691149707.003.0012
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Research and Statistics
This chapter examines the qualitative view of variable transformation using the Fundamental Principle of Variable Transformation. According to the Fundamental Principle of Variable Transformation, ...
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This chapter examines the qualitative view of variable transformation using the Fundamental Principle of Variable Transformation. According to the Fundamental Principle of Variable Transformation, all transformations of variables must be meaning preserving or increasing. Within the qualitative research tradition, transformations that do not conform to this principle are viewed as suspect. In the quantitative culture, variable transformations respond to the imperatives of statistics, whereas qualitative scholars work under a different set of norms and values that emphasize the importance of semantics and the meaning embodied in concepts. The chapter first considers standardization versus meaning retention as well as logging versus fuzzy-set transformations in qualitative and quantitative research paradigms before concluding with a discussion of rationales behind data transformations.Less
This chapter examines the qualitative view of variable transformation using the Fundamental Principle of Variable Transformation. According to the Fundamental Principle of Variable Transformation, all transformations of variables must be meaning preserving or increasing. Within the qualitative research tradition, transformations that do not conform to this principle are viewed as suspect. In the quantitative culture, variable transformations respond to the imperatives of statistics, whereas qualitative scholars work under a different set of norms and values that emphasize the importance of semantics and the meaning embodied in concepts. The chapter first considers standardization versus meaning retention as well as logging versus fuzzy-set transformations in qualitative and quantitative research paradigms before concluding with a discussion of rationales behind data transformations.
Cornelia Pearsall
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195150544
- eISBN:
- 9780199871124
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195150544.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Chapter Two examines Tennyson’s dramatic monologue “St. Simeon Stylites” from several angles. The first section, “Victorian End Times,” places St. Simeon’s desire for rapture in the context of ...
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Chapter Two examines Tennyson’s dramatic monologue “St. Simeon Stylites” from several angles. The first section, “Victorian End Times,” places St. Simeon’s desire for rapture in the context of Victorian evangelicalism and millenarianism. Pearsall demonstrates the ways in which the theological arguments concerning rapture propounded by the evangelist Edward Irving (a controversial figure who deeply interested Tennyson’s fellow Cambridge Apostles, including Arthur Henry Hallam and Richard Chenevix Trench) influenced Tennyson’s portrayal of St. Simeon. The second section, “The Rapture of St. Simeon’s Stylites,” engages in a detailed reading of Tennyson’s monologue, examining the ingenious discursive strategies employed by St. Simeon as he labors to perform his own rapture. The chapter’s final section, “Simeon’s Afterlife: The Message of the Butterfly,” parallels Tennyson’s St. Simeon with contemporary environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill, probing the similarities in their strategies for attaining communal as well as personal transformation.Less
Chapter Two examines Tennyson’s dramatic monologue “St. Simeon Stylites” from several angles. The first section, “Victorian End Times,” places St. Simeon’s desire for rapture in the context of Victorian evangelicalism and millenarianism. Pearsall demonstrates the ways in which the theological arguments concerning rapture propounded by the evangelist Edward Irving (a controversial figure who deeply interested Tennyson’s fellow Cambridge Apostles, including Arthur Henry Hallam and Richard Chenevix Trench) influenced Tennyson’s portrayal of St. Simeon. The second section, “The Rapture of St. Simeon’s Stylites,” engages in a detailed reading of Tennyson’s monologue, examining the ingenious discursive strategies employed by St. Simeon as he labors to perform his own rapture. The chapter’s final section, “Simeon’s Afterlife: The Message of the Butterfly,” parallels Tennyson’s St. Simeon with contemporary environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill, probing the similarities in their strategies for attaining communal as well as personal transformation.
Di Wang
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501715488
- eISBN:
- 9781501715556
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501715488.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This book explores urban public life through the microcosm of the Chengdu teahouse. Like most public spaces, the teahouse was and still is an enduring symbol of Chinese popular culture, stemming back ...
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This book explores urban public life through the microcosm of the Chengdu teahouse. Like most public spaces, the teahouse was and still is an enduring symbol of Chinese popular culture, stemming back centuries and prevailing through political transformations, modernization, and globalization. The time period covered begins basically with the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949-50, goes through the end of the Cultural Revolution and into the post-Mao reform era. We see clearly that the role and importance of the teahouse changed abruptly, going from severe constriction in its operations to a time when public spaces flourished unrestricted. During the Mao era, the state achieved tight control over society generally, and it was able to penetrate to the very core of society in order to control almost all its resources. Thus, the spaces usually available for sociality and for the natural development of social activities were sharply limited. The post-Mao economic reforms were a turning point in public life because everyday life was dominated by sweeping “open-market” economic reforms that were structured within a unique type of socialist political system, and to a significant degree public life moved away from state control. This book can enhance our understanding of public life and political culture in Chengdu under the Communist state, with its political needs and agendas; from there we may reflect on the situation of other Chinese cities.Less
This book explores urban public life through the microcosm of the Chengdu teahouse. Like most public spaces, the teahouse was and still is an enduring symbol of Chinese popular culture, stemming back centuries and prevailing through political transformations, modernization, and globalization. The time period covered begins basically with the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949-50, goes through the end of the Cultural Revolution and into the post-Mao reform era. We see clearly that the role and importance of the teahouse changed abruptly, going from severe constriction in its operations to a time when public spaces flourished unrestricted. During the Mao era, the state achieved tight control over society generally, and it was able to penetrate to the very core of society in order to control almost all its resources. Thus, the spaces usually available for sociality and for the natural development of social activities were sharply limited. The post-Mao economic reforms were a turning point in public life because everyday life was dominated by sweeping “open-market” economic reforms that were structured within a unique type of socialist political system, and to a significant degree public life moved away from state control. This book can enhance our understanding of public life and political culture in Chengdu under the Communist state, with its political needs and agendas; from there we may reflect on the situation of other Chinese cities.
Hannah Grayson and Nicki Hitchcott (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781786941992
- eISBN:
- 9781789623611
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941992.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Over the past 25 years, Rwanda has undergone remarkable shifts and transitions: culturally, economically, and educationally the country has gone from strength to strength. While much scholarship has ...
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Over the past 25 years, Rwanda has undergone remarkable shifts and transitions: culturally, economically, and educationally the country has gone from strength to strength. While much scholarship has understandably been retrospective, seeking to understand, document and commemorate the Genocide against the Tutsi, this volume gathers diverse perspectives on the changing social and cultural fabric of Rwanda since 1994. Rwandan Since 1994 considers the context of these changes, particularly in relation to the ongoing importance of remembering and in wider developments in the Great Lakes and East Africa regions. Equally it explores what stories of change are emerging from Rwanda: creative writing and testimonies, as well as national, regional, and international political narratives. The contributors interrogate which frameworks and narratives might be most useful for understanding different kinds of change, what new directions are emerging, and how Rwanda's trajectory is ongoingly shaped by other global factors. The international set of contributors includes creative writers, practitioners, activists, and scholars from African studies, history, anthropology, education, international relations, modern languages, law and politics. As well as delving into the shifting dynamics of religion and gender in Rwanda today, the book brings to light the experiences of lesser-discussed groups of people such as the Twa and the children of perpetrators.Less
Over the past 25 years, Rwanda has undergone remarkable shifts and transitions: culturally, economically, and educationally the country has gone from strength to strength. While much scholarship has understandably been retrospective, seeking to understand, document and commemorate the Genocide against the Tutsi, this volume gathers diverse perspectives on the changing social and cultural fabric of Rwanda since 1994. Rwandan Since 1994 considers the context of these changes, particularly in relation to the ongoing importance of remembering and in wider developments in the Great Lakes and East Africa regions. Equally it explores what stories of change are emerging from Rwanda: creative writing and testimonies, as well as national, regional, and international political narratives. The contributors interrogate which frameworks and narratives might be most useful for understanding different kinds of change, what new directions are emerging, and how Rwanda's trajectory is ongoingly shaped by other global factors. The international set of contributors includes creative writers, practitioners, activists, and scholars from African studies, history, anthropology, education, international relations, modern languages, law and politics. As well as delving into the shifting dynamics of religion and gender in Rwanda today, the book brings to light the experiences of lesser-discussed groups of people such as the Twa and the children of perpetrators.
Robert Kirk
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198236795
- eISBN:
- 9780191679353
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198236795.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics/Epistemology
The whole idea of raw feeling may seem fishy, especially when linked with the Transformation thesis. Does it really make sense? Or is it just a symptom of confusion — a relic of a fundamentally ...
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The whole idea of raw feeling may seem fishy, especially when linked with the Transformation thesis. Does it really make sense? Or is it just a symptom of confusion — a relic of a fundamentally wrong-headed Cartesian outlook? This chapter examines two sets of considerations that might appear to reinforce these doubts. One is Wittgenstein's private language argument, which one might think would demolish the notion. It is argued that even the Transformation thesis survives Wittgensteinian assault. The other considerations are inspired chiefly by science. It seems reasonable to suppose that science has no use for the notion of raw feeling. If so, one might wonder how it can be worth taking seriously. But it is argued that the notion helps us to get clear about genuine problems, which would not vanish even if we gave up talking in those terms. The chapter aims is to show that it is not vulnerable to certain familiar types of objection. The lack of a satisfactory philosophical account of anything like that notion tends to make the objections seem more compelling than they are.Less
The whole idea of raw feeling may seem fishy, especially when linked with the Transformation thesis. Does it really make sense? Or is it just a symptom of confusion — a relic of a fundamentally wrong-headed Cartesian outlook? This chapter examines two sets of considerations that might appear to reinforce these doubts. One is Wittgenstein's private language argument, which one might think would demolish the notion. It is argued that even the Transformation thesis survives Wittgensteinian assault. The other considerations are inspired chiefly by science. It seems reasonable to suppose that science has no use for the notion of raw feeling. If so, one might wonder how it can be worth taking seriously. But it is argued that the notion helps us to get clear about genuine problems, which would not vanish even if we gave up talking in those terms. The chapter aims is to show that it is not vulnerable to certain familiar types of objection. The lack of a satisfactory philosophical account of anything like that notion tends to make the objections seem more compelling than they are.
Robert Kirk
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198236795
- eISBN:
- 9780191679353
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198236795.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics/Epistemology
Philosophy is not in the business of discovering the mechanisms of the brain. But it can aspire to understand how the workings of any mere mechanisms could produce something so mysterious as raw ...
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Philosophy is not in the business of discovering the mechanisms of the brain. But it can aspire to understand how the workings of any mere mechanisms could produce something so mysterious as raw feeling. If raw feeling involves only physical processes, those processes must determine not only that it occurs, but what it is like. Thus, the connection from physical processes to raw feeling must be an absolutely necessary one. Yet if the Transformation thesis is true, it is hard to understand how that can be so. This chapter defends two propositions which, taken together, will help to make this understanding possible.Less
Philosophy is not in the business of discovering the mechanisms of the brain. But it can aspire to understand how the workings of any mere mechanisms could produce something so mysterious as raw feeling. If raw feeling involves only physical processes, those processes must determine not only that it occurs, but what it is like. Thus, the connection from physical processes to raw feeling must be an absolutely necessary one. Yet if the Transformation thesis is true, it is hard to understand how that can be so. This chapter defends two propositions which, taken together, will help to make this understanding possible.
Robert Kirk
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198236795
- eISBN:
- 9780191679353
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198236795.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics/Epistemology
The inverted spectrum appears to be a serious threat to the book's broadly functionalist approach. The two different ways of seeing colours would seem to perform exactly the same functions. At any ...
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The inverted spectrum appears to be a serious threat to the book's broadly functionalist approach. The two different ways of seeing colours would seem to perform exactly the same functions. At any rate, like the positive and the negative of a film, they would perform exactly the same informational functions. So how could there really be two different ways of seeing colours? This apparent dilemma has forced some theorists into uncomfortable intellectual contortions. In fact, though, far from being a difficulty, the inverted spectrum idea, properly understood, flows naturally. It helps us towards a satisfyingly unified grasp of how raw feeling can have different characters — without involving an impenetrable privacy, or ‘figment’, or any kind of Cartesianism. So if there are independent reasons for accepting the inverted spectrum idea, or more strictly the Transformation thesis, they tend if anything to reinforce the validity of the approach. After stating the problem, this chapter examines what seems to be the most popular way of dealing with it among those who accept the inverted spectrum idea: the ‘bald’ psychophysical identity theory. It also examines a version of this position which exploits a notion of ‘inner sense’. In spite of its popularity, this position is untenable. The rest of the chapter will be chiefly concerned to show how the approach outlined earlier provides for an unproblematic treatment of the Transformation thesis.Less
The inverted spectrum appears to be a serious threat to the book's broadly functionalist approach. The two different ways of seeing colours would seem to perform exactly the same functions. At any rate, like the positive and the negative of a film, they would perform exactly the same informational functions. So how could there really be two different ways of seeing colours? This apparent dilemma has forced some theorists into uncomfortable intellectual contortions. In fact, though, far from being a difficulty, the inverted spectrum idea, properly understood, flows naturally. It helps us towards a satisfyingly unified grasp of how raw feeling can have different characters — without involving an impenetrable privacy, or ‘figment’, or any kind of Cartesianism. So if there are independent reasons for accepting the inverted spectrum idea, or more strictly the Transformation thesis, they tend if anything to reinforce the validity of the approach. After stating the problem, this chapter examines what seems to be the most popular way of dealing with it among those who accept the inverted spectrum idea: the ‘bald’ psychophysical identity theory. It also examines a version of this position which exploits a notion of ‘inner sense’. In spite of its popularity, this position is untenable. The rest of the chapter will be chiefly concerned to show how the approach outlined earlier provides for an unproblematic treatment of the Transformation thesis.
David Lewin
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195317138
- eISBN:
- 9780199865413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195317138.003.0010
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
This chapter applies the network concept in a variety of ways to passages from Mozart, Bartók, Prokofieff, and Debussy.
This chapter applies the network concept in a variety of ways to passages from Mozart, Bartók, Prokofieff, and Debussy.
Jean-Luc Nancy
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823256105
- eISBN:
- 9780823261314
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823256105.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
In chapter 3, Nancy argues that to engage a debate on national identity in this way is a “deadly process” (processus mortifère), in the sense that it closes off identities from what makes them alive. ...
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In chapter 3, Nancy argues that to engage a debate on national identity in this way is a “deadly process” (processus mortifère), in the sense that it closes off identities from what makes them alive. To enclose an identity on itself is to kill it. That closed identity of an alleged “French identity” is the model of “an identity as it were given or established. One does not ask whether there is such an identity: one asks what it is. Nancy even suspects that this assumed identity implicitly points towards the deadly notion of an “earth,” a lineage or family coming from our ancestors “the Gaulois”. Nancy takes to task this conception of an identity already given, and into which one must enter. In fact, identities are “always metastable.” An identity is not bound to imitate itself; rather its force consists in displacing and transforming figures. An identity is an open process, not the abstract identity of which Hegel spoke, but the place in which an alterity is internal to the identity itself.Less
In chapter 3, Nancy argues that to engage a debate on national identity in this way is a “deadly process” (processus mortifère), in the sense that it closes off identities from what makes them alive. To enclose an identity on itself is to kill it. That closed identity of an alleged “French identity” is the model of “an identity as it were given or established. One does not ask whether there is such an identity: one asks what it is. Nancy even suspects that this assumed identity implicitly points towards the deadly notion of an “earth,” a lineage or family coming from our ancestors “the Gaulois”. Nancy takes to task this conception of an identity already given, and into which one must enter. In fact, identities are “always metastable.” An identity is not bound to imitate itself; rather its force consists in displacing and transforming figures. An identity is an open process, not the abstract identity of which Hegel spoke, but the place in which an alterity is internal to the identity itself.
Julia Round
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496824455
- eISBN:
- 9781496824509
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496824455.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter examines the presence of Female Gothic concepts and identity positions in Misty. It focuses on the abject, the grotesque and the uncanny and discusses the ways in which these are ...
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This chapter examines the presence of Female Gothic concepts and identity positions in Misty. It focuses on the abject, the grotesque and the uncanny and discusses the ways in which these are informed by transgression and transformation. It argues that Misty’s use of the supernatural often twists these themes into metaphors for the experiences of a female teenage audience: for example through grotesque bodies, uncontrolled growth, and the exclusion of male characters. It demonstrates that the Misty serials in particular are often set in an uncanny atmosphere of mystery and provide a space for uncertainties about family figures and patriarchal authority to be explored. Outcomes are uncertain and the options available to the protagonists frequently comment on the limitations placed on women.Less
This chapter examines the presence of Female Gothic concepts and identity positions in Misty. It focuses on the abject, the grotesque and the uncanny and discusses the ways in which these are informed by transgression and transformation. It argues that Misty’s use of the supernatural often twists these themes into metaphors for the experiences of a female teenage audience: for example through grotesque bodies, uncontrolled growth, and the exclusion of male characters. It demonstrates that the Misty serials in particular are often set in an uncanny atmosphere of mystery and provide a space for uncertainties about family figures and patriarchal authority to be explored. Outcomes are uncertain and the options available to the protagonists frequently comment on the limitations placed on women.
Heather Martel
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813066189
- eISBN:
- 9780813058399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066189.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
According to early European understandings of the body and identity, love could cause a fundamental transformation: a personality change or a change of cultural, spiritual, and political allegiance. ...
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According to early European understandings of the body and identity, love could cause a fundamental transformation: a personality change or a change of cultural, spiritual, and political allegiance. With a change in hygienic customs, the human body would change form, color, and even gender. This chapter explains the larger framework of health and identity common to all early modern Europeans, humoralism (or Galenic medicine), an ancient science that defined human bodies as mutable and expected to change with the environment, diet, behavior, and emotion. Seemingly ethnographic descriptions of Indigenous people applied this framework in order to anticipate and prevent the transformation of Christians by Indigenous people and the environments of the Atlantic world and Florida.Less
According to early European understandings of the body and identity, love could cause a fundamental transformation: a personality change or a change of cultural, spiritual, and political allegiance. With a change in hygienic customs, the human body would change form, color, and even gender. This chapter explains the larger framework of health and identity common to all early modern Europeans, humoralism (or Galenic medicine), an ancient science that defined human bodies as mutable and expected to change with the environment, diet, behavior, and emotion. Seemingly ethnographic descriptions of Indigenous people applied this framework in order to anticipate and prevent the transformation of Christians by Indigenous people and the environments of the Atlantic world and Florida.
John Tulloch and Belinda Middleweek
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190244606
- eISBN:
- 9780190244644
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190244606.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Within the domain of film studies, the recent surge in films depicting graphic and high-impact sex and sexualized violence has been variously classified under the terms transgressive, brutal, ...
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Within the domain of film studies, the recent surge in films depicting graphic and high-impact sex and sexualized violence has been variously classified under the terms transgressive, brutal, provocative, real sex, and extreme cinema. These classifications, however, tend to underplay the films’ sociohistorical contexts and reflexive struggle for meaning. We argue that the similarities and differences between these real or simulated sex films are determined and mediated within geographical space and historical time. But every film book has its own personal historical starting point: in our case, this is the coming together as intertexts of the real sex film Intimacy with a major academic text, The Transformation of Intimacy, and as authorial agents of a television and documentary film producer and a media academic. This book argues that the meanings we attach to “real sex” cinema are discursively constructed not only by academic experts but by filmmakers, performers, audiences, and film reviewers. Debates about the meaning of real sex cinema are best understood in dialogue, and for the first time in interdisciplinary studies, we foster “mutual understanding” and “critical extension” among new risk sociology, feminist mapping theory, feminist film studies, and film reviewers, while also embracing film/media studies concepts of production, social audiences and spectators, genre, narrative, authorship, and stars. Above all, this is an interdisciplinary book, which engages with, supports, critiques, and extends each of these professional fields of discourse, each with its own schema of filmic understanding.Less
Within the domain of film studies, the recent surge in films depicting graphic and high-impact sex and sexualized violence has been variously classified under the terms transgressive, brutal, provocative, real sex, and extreme cinema. These classifications, however, tend to underplay the films’ sociohistorical contexts and reflexive struggle for meaning. We argue that the similarities and differences between these real or simulated sex films are determined and mediated within geographical space and historical time. But every film book has its own personal historical starting point: in our case, this is the coming together as intertexts of the real sex film Intimacy with a major academic text, The Transformation of Intimacy, and as authorial agents of a television and documentary film producer and a media academic. This book argues that the meanings we attach to “real sex” cinema are discursively constructed not only by academic experts but by filmmakers, performers, audiences, and film reviewers. Debates about the meaning of real sex cinema are best understood in dialogue, and for the first time in interdisciplinary studies, we foster “mutual understanding” and “critical extension” among new risk sociology, feminist mapping theory, feminist film studies, and film reviewers, while also embracing film/media studies concepts of production, social audiences and spectators, genre, narrative, authorship, and stars. Above all, this is an interdisciplinary book, which engages with, supports, critiques, and extends each of these professional fields of discourse, each with its own schema of filmic understanding.
Amaleena Damlé
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748668212
- eISBN:
- 9781474400923
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748668212.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter investigates the concept of becoming otherwise in Ananda Devi’s writing as a form of resistance to socio-cultural hierarchies of difference in Indo-Mauritian and Indian contexts. The ...
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This chapter investigates the concept of becoming otherwise in Ananda Devi’s writing as a form of resistance to socio-cultural hierarchies of difference in Indo-Mauritian and Indian contexts. The chapter begins by exploring metamorphoses as examples of Deleuzian becoming-animal, before proceeding to analyse the space in between subjects as a transformative encounter that collapses transcendent relations between characters, as well as between writer and text. In its analysis of Devi’s work, the chapter also opens out dialogues between Deleuze and Irigaray, looking in particular at the concept of mutual engenderment, as a means of shaping an affective philosophy of polyphony through the interlacing of embodied and creative lines of flight.Less
This chapter investigates the concept of becoming otherwise in Ananda Devi’s writing as a form of resistance to socio-cultural hierarchies of difference in Indo-Mauritian and Indian contexts. The chapter begins by exploring metamorphoses as examples of Deleuzian becoming-animal, before proceeding to analyse the space in between subjects as a transformative encounter that collapses transcendent relations between characters, as well as between writer and text. In its analysis of Devi’s work, the chapter also opens out dialogues between Deleuze and Irigaray, looking in particular at the concept of mutual engenderment, as a means of shaping an affective philosophy of polyphony through the interlacing of embodied and creative lines of flight.
Brian M. Reed
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801451577
- eISBN:
- 9780801469589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451577.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter discusses criticism on three volumes published by Atelos Press on American poetic avant-garde. The books in question—Laura Moriarty's Ultravioleta (2006), Jocelyn Saidenberg's Negativity ...
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This chapter discusses criticism on three volumes published by Atelos Press on American poetic avant-garde. The books in question—Laura Moriarty's Ultravioleta (2006), Jocelyn Saidenberg's Negativity (2006), and Juliana Spahr's The Transformation (2007)—are all well worth reading insofar as they “critique the imperatives of identification and categorization constituting our social, cultural, and political lives.” However, despite being held up as the latest offerings from the avant-garde, they show no signs of allegiance to a “coherent political and intellectual program,” nor do they engage in “combative and territorial posturing.” These types of reviews reflect the emergent critical consensus—the tendency to declare obsolete the late twentieth century's fractious divide between “mainstream” and “oppositional” poetries.Less
This chapter discusses criticism on three volumes published by Atelos Press on American poetic avant-garde. The books in question—Laura Moriarty's Ultravioleta (2006), Jocelyn Saidenberg's Negativity (2006), and Juliana Spahr's The Transformation (2007)—are all well worth reading insofar as they “critique the imperatives of identification and categorization constituting our social, cultural, and political lives.” However, despite being held up as the latest offerings from the avant-garde, they show no signs of allegiance to a “coherent political and intellectual program,” nor do they engage in “combative and territorial posturing.” These types of reviews reflect the emergent critical consensus—the tendency to declare obsolete the late twentieth century's fractious divide between “mainstream” and “oppositional” poetries.
Larry L. Rasmussen
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199917006
- eISBN:
- 9780199980314
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199917006.003.0013
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter presents the warp and woof of the whole book as the interplay of three assumptions: that our lives are “startlingly moral” (Thoreau) now; that the unit of human survival of human society ...
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This chapter presents the warp and woof of the whole book as the interplay of three assumptions: that our lives are “startlingly moral” (Thoreau) now; that the unit of human survival of human society is not human society but nature comprehensively; and that the interacting threesome of religion, ecology, and the economy merits more attention and offers more contributions than are presently considered. The deep religious traditions of asceticism, sacramentalism, mysticism, prophetic/liberative practices, and wisdom counter the destructive downside of consumerism, commodification, alienation, oppression, and folly. Not, however, apart from the “conversion” to the Earth of these traditions so that they are Earth-honoring. A critique of these traditions is offered, as well as a statement of their riches as a “Song of songs.”Less
This chapter presents the warp and woof of the whole book as the interplay of three assumptions: that our lives are “startlingly moral” (Thoreau) now; that the unit of human survival of human society is not human society but nature comprehensively; and that the interacting threesome of religion, ecology, and the economy merits more attention and offers more contributions than are presently considered. The deep religious traditions of asceticism, sacramentalism, mysticism, prophetic/liberative practices, and wisdom counter the destructive downside of consumerism, commodification, alienation, oppression, and folly. Not, however, apart from the “conversion” to the Earth of these traditions so that they are Earth-honoring. A critique of these traditions is offered, as well as a statement of their riches as a “Song of songs.”
Oliver Davies
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199685950
- eISBN:
- 9780191765872
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685950.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Philosophy of Religion
Significant advances in science bring new understandings of the human as a unity of mind, body and world and calls into question the deep-seated dualistic presuppositions of modern theology. The ...
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Significant advances in science bring new understandings of the human as a unity of mind, body and world and calls into question the deep-seated dualistic presuppositions of modern theology. The author argues that the changing framework allows a return to the defining question of the Easter Church: ‘Where is Jesus Christ?’. This is a question which can bring about a fundamental re-orientation of theology, since it gives space for the theological reception of the disruptive presence of the living Christ as the present material as well as formal object of theology in the world. At the centre of this study therefore is a new theology of the doctrine of the exaltation of Christ, based upon St Paul’s encounter with the exalted or commissioning Christ on the road to Damascus. This places calling and commissioning at the centre of systematic theology. It provides the ground for a new understanding of theology as transcending the Academy-Church division as well as the divide between systematic and practical theology. It points also to a new critical theological method of engagement and collaboration. This book begins to explore new forms of world-centred theological rationality in the contexts not only of scripture, doctrine, anthropology, ecclesiology and faith, but also of Christian politics and philosophy. It is a work of contemporary and global Christological promise in Fundamental Theology, and is addressed to all those concerned, in whichever denomination, with the continuing vitality of Christianity in a changing world.Less
Significant advances in science bring new understandings of the human as a unity of mind, body and world and calls into question the deep-seated dualistic presuppositions of modern theology. The author argues that the changing framework allows a return to the defining question of the Easter Church: ‘Where is Jesus Christ?’. This is a question which can bring about a fundamental re-orientation of theology, since it gives space for the theological reception of the disruptive presence of the living Christ as the present material as well as formal object of theology in the world. At the centre of this study therefore is a new theology of the doctrine of the exaltation of Christ, based upon St Paul’s encounter with the exalted or commissioning Christ on the road to Damascus. This places calling and commissioning at the centre of systematic theology. It provides the ground for a new understanding of theology as transcending the Academy-Church division as well as the divide between systematic and practical theology. It points also to a new critical theological method of engagement and collaboration. This book begins to explore new forms of world-centred theological rationality in the contexts not only of scripture, doctrine, anthropology, ecclesiology and faith, but also of Christian politics and philosophy. It is a work of contemporary and global Christological promise in Fundamental Theology, and is addressed to all those concerned, in whichever denomination, with the continuing vitality of Christianity in a changing world.
Marc W. Steinberg
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226329819
- eISBN:
- 9780226330013
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226330013.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The final look at labor law and control involves a top-down analysis, examining the ways in which embeddedness at the national level became the stage for significant transformation. One of the signal ...
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The final look at labor law and control involves a top-down analysis, examining the ways in which embeddedness at the national level became the stage for significant transformation. One of the signal works that raised the question of how economic activity is embedded in societal institutions and has been the touchstone of many subsequent debates is Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation. Social scientists of disparate intellectual persuasions credit The Great Transformation and Polanyi’s subsequent work with spurring the examination of the economy as an ‘instituted’ process. The ambiguities in Polanyi’s writings have spawned a series of debates over the intellectual lineage of his vision and its affinities with other macro perspectives on capitalist development, as well as over core concepts such as embeddedness. This chapter engages these issues in so far as they facilitate a rethinking of the narrative of the English Industrial Revolution and its consequences depicted in the The Great Transformation.Less
The final look at labor law and control involves a top-down analysis, examining the ways in which embeddedness at the national level became the stage for significant transformation. One of the signal works that raised the question of how economic activity is embedded in societal institutions and has been the touchstone of many subsequent debates is Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation. Social scientists of disparate intellectual persuasions credit The Great Transformation and Polanyi’s subsequent work with spurring the examination of the economy as an ‘instituted’ process. The ambiguities in Polanyi’s writings have spawned a series of debates over the intellectual lineage of his vision and its affinities with other macro perspectives on capitalist development, as well as over core concepts such as embeddedness. This chapter engages these issues in so far as they facilitate a rethinking of the narrative of the English Industrial Revolution and its consequences depicted in the The Great Transformation.
David Fitzgerald
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804785815
- eISBN:
- 9780804786423
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804785815.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
This chapter examines how Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s quest for ‘transformation’ of the US defense establishment affected Army approaches to counterinsurgency and what was now known as ...
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This chapter examines how Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s quest for ‘transformation’ of the US defense establishment affected Army approaches to counterinsurgency and what was now known as stability operations, and how these considerations informed the planning and execution of what was to be to be the largest stability operation attempted since Vietnam – the invasion of Iraq. By examining both the doctrine in place prior to the war and the specific planning and execution of the war, we can see how thirty years of accumulated doctrinal neglect of counterinsurgency in Iraq in the spring of 2003. This chapter first outlinez some of the intellectual origins of ‘the Revolution in Military Affairs’ and examine how Rumsfeld’s related vision of defense ‘transformation’ interacted with the Army’s ideas on war before considering how the tension between these two ideas manifested itself in the planning for the invasion of Iraq.Less
This chapter examines how Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s quest for ‘transformation’ of the US defense establishment affected Army approaches to counterinsurgency and what was now known as stability operations, and how these considerations informed the planning and execution of what was to be to be the largest stability operation attempted since Vietnam – the invasion of Iraq. By examining both the doctrine in place prior to the war and the specific planning and execution of the war, we can see how thirty years of accumulated doctrinal neglect of counterinsurgency in Iraq in the spring of 2003. This chapter first outlinez some of the intellectual origins of ‘the Revolution in Military Affairs’ and examine how Rumsfeld’s related vision of defense ‘transformation’ interacted with the Army’s ideas on war before considering how the tension between these two ideas manifested itself in the planning for the invasion of Iraq.
Jennifer Rachel Dutch
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496818751
- eISBN:
- 9781496818799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496818751.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
From the tedium of open-hearth cooking to the convenience of the microwave, home cooking in America has rapidly transformed from a time-consuming chore to a simple task. In so doing, the meaning of ...
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From the tedium of open-hearth cooking to the convenience of the microwave, home cooking in America has rapidly transformed from a time-consuming chore to a simple task. In so doing, the meaning of “home cooking” also changed into an idea infused with symbolic meanings related to home, family, and community. The changes to the kitchen sparked by the Industrial Revolution and fed by an increasingly consumerism-driven economy led to anxieties that created the notion that the only solution to the nation’s problems was a return to traditional cooking practices. However, this chapter demonstrates that the golden age of home cooking never really existed.Less
From the tedium of open-hearth cooking to the convenience of the microwave, home cooking in America has rapidly transformed from a time-consuming chore to a simple task. In so doing, the meaning of “home cooking” also changed into an idea infused with symbolic meanings related to home, family, and community. The changes to the kitchen sparked by the Industrial Revolution and fed by an increasingly consumerism-driven economy led to anxieties that created the notion that the only solution to the nation’s problems was a return to traditional cooking practices. However, this chapter demonstrates that the golden age of home cooking never really existed.
