Experience Of Subjectivity Research Articles

Dam(n)med Bodies: Disorderly Subjectivity and Sublime Experience in the Narmada Movement

This paper explores moments of democratising disorderliness that interrupt a vision of the sublime as a particular ordering of subjectivity. Situated within the context of the Narmada movement against the construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam in India in the mid-1990s, it argues that sublime regimes and ‘counter-sublime’ insurgences draw their energies from the figures of the dam and the bund, respectively. Where the dam’s walls establish the horizons of visibility, of who counts as subject, the bund’s curved surfaces reveal a pluralising depth that folds the visible with/in the invisible, constituting the possibility of novel modes of seeing/subjectification. Working through oral histories, films, images, archival materials and ethnographic studies alongside the work of Foucault and the later Merleau-Ponty, the paper argues that the Narmada movement enacts a counter-sublime that contests the invisibility imposed by the dam in favour of an imbrication of the human and non-human disclosing radically different constellations of visibility and subjectification.

The Jeju Massacre, National Allegory and Cultural Revolution in Kim Sok Pom’s <i>Karasu no Shi</i> (1957)

What can a spy story tell us about the effects of neo-colonial nation building on diasporic subjectivity? Kim Sok Pom’s 1957 <i>Karasu no Shi</i> [The Death of the Crow] illustrates the lived experience of postcolonial subjectivity in a contested site overrun by competing imperial powers. The novel focusses on the 1948 uprising on Jeju Island, the subsequent division of the Korean peninsula, exile and diasporic identity. It confronts official accounts of Korea’s post-war past and turns a forgotten history into cultural memory, a central task of national allegory; indeed, the article champions an allegorical reading of <i>Karasu no Shi</i>, despite divergent views outlined herein. In Kim’s text, principal characters are situated allegorically on the Korean stage after Japan’s defeat; they personify varying cultural and political attachments or paradigms. Each exists in a state of profound overlap, with the spy as the linchpin. The spy’s divided state of being resonates allegorically with the experiences of <i>zainichi</i> Koreans in early post-war Japan. Saturated with personal and political meaning, the novel contributes to the fabric of <i>zainichi</i> Korean history with threads that tie to the story of a continuing underclass and disrupts enduring notions of a homogenous Japan. Kim ultimately articulates possibilities for survival.

Интерпассивность как стратегия сохранения субъекта

The article is devoted to the analysis of paradoxical human behavior, which is expressed in the delegation of one's own pleasure or other personal experience to another. The concept of interpassivity developed by R. Pfaller and S. Žižek The concept of interpassivity, developed by R. Pfaller and S. Žižek, turns out to be directly related to the problem of preserving the subject in conditions where people outsource more and more of their functions, face the fragmentation of their own existence, and fall under the power of temptation to abandon awareness and responsibility. It is concluded that the spread of interpassive forms of behavior is associated with the dictate of activity in the modern experience of subjectivity. Man is forced to increase activity in order to meet the rhythm of life at high speeds. But at the same time, being overloaded with demands, he looks for ways to escape from this kind of pressure. Delegating experience to another is a way of coping with alienation, preserving oneself and asserting one's own subjectivity.

The unhomed data subject: negotiating datafication in Latin America

ABSTRACT Critical scholarship about datafication reveals the implications of algorithmically driven digital transformations for both social processes and human experiences of subjectivity. Digital transformations embed ontological beliefs in the information systems that drive new organizational processes and are accompanied by techno-positivist discourses that promote the benefits of these schemes. The dual power of new information systems plus strong discursive influences has led to fears that data subjects will come to be defined by data and information systems – that their subjectivity will be subordinated by the algorithm. However, in this paper, we argue that real experiences of data sharing offer a means to reveal actual experiences with subjectification, and that often these experiences are multiple and complex. Drawing on the results of five digital literacy interventions carried out by partner organizations in Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay in 2021, we consider participants’ lived experiences with datafication. Our work reveals how people experience, negotiate, reject, and accept data power’s multiple manifestations in ways that strategically mobilize data resources, constituting a fractured data subjectivity that overlaps the bounds of any one information system. This leads us to suggest the idea of the ‘unhomed’ as a useful concept for understanding data subjectification in the contemporary moment.

Kumlbúa þáttr, an Eschatological Event: The Traumatic Ontology of Being in Time in Medieval Iceland

<i>Kumlbúa þáttr</i>, an Eschatological Event: The Traumatic Ontology of Being in Time in Medieval Iceland

Papuan Rivalry and Harmony in Indonesia; Papua Student Racism Case in Surabaya City

Rivalry and harmony always go hand in hand, moreover as a marker for a group of children of the nation that we can call the existence of Papua who are sometimes treated discriminatory in their own country. Rivalry and harmony in Papua in the context of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia is a serious problem, then it has the potential to pose a threat to social disparity and even national disintegration. The emergence of humanitarian incidents was motivated by the existence of discriminatory issues both carried out by fellow children of the nation themselves, as well as the civil apparatus of the state which should legally protect all children of the nation without exception. This research discusses cases of racism against Papuan students who live temporarily to carry out studies in the city of Surabaya, East Java in 2019. Therefore, this study uses a case approach from a phenomenological perspective. Phenomenological study is a thinking methodology (tools), the construction of ideas in viewing, understanding a phenomenon in an event in various experiences of subjectivity that is experienced by the subject himself, giving meaning and meaning to an event in the dynamics of everyday life (everyday life). Conclusion of the discussion states that ideology often appears spontaneously because it has penetrated into the joints of people's lives.

A review of computer-based methods for classification and reconstruction of 3D high-density scanned archaeological pottery

• A complete and critical analysis of the state-of-the-art until the 2021 is proposed. • It refers on methods for pottery analysis, classification, and reconstruction. • The review considers only the methods starting from a 3D discrete model. • The pros and cons of the most significant methods are critically discussed. • Some recommendations for future researches for each analysed field are provided. Ceramics analysis, classification, and reconstruction are essential to know an archaeological site's history, economy, and art. Traditional methods used by the archaeologists for their investigation are time-consuming and are neither reproducible nor repeatable. The results depend on the operator's subjectivity, specialization, personal skills, and professional experience. Consequently, only a few indicative samples with characteristic components are studied with wide uncertainties. Several automatic methods for analysing sherds have been published in the last years to overcome these limitations. To help all the involved researchers, this paper aims to provide a complete and critical analysis of the state-of-the-art until the end of 2021 of the most important published methods on pottery analysis, classification, and reconstruction from a 3D discrete manifold model. To this end, papers in English indexed by the Scopus database are selected by using the following keywords: “computer methods in archaeology”, “3D archaeology”, “3D reconstruction”, “3D puzzling”, “automatic feature recognition and reconstruction”. Additional references complete the list found through the reading of selected papers. The 125 selected papers, referring to only archaeological potteries, are divided into six groups: 3D digitalization, virtual prototyping, Fragment features processing, geometric model processing of whole-shape pottery, 3D Vessel reconstruction from its fragments, classification, and 3D information systems for archaeological pottery visualization and documentation. In the present review, the techniques considered for these issues are critically analysed to highlight their pros and cons and provide recommendations for future research.

Emergency Continued

This paper focuses on the themes expounded in Richard Rive’s novel, Emergency Continued. The novel is set in the heat of the State of Emergency sanctioned by the Apartheid state in the 1980s in response to the uprisings in Black and Coloured townships. Andrew Dreyer, a teacher and writer, is the protagonist of the story and is at odds with his sense of self, his belonging, his personal and social history, and his political agency. Using the theme of an uncertain subjectivity, this piece discusses the uneasy problematic that befalls the Coloured subject. There is a great deal that needs to be unpacked regarding Rive’s hint at an uneasy, traumatic and personalised past that his characters are at odds to face. These characters do, however, recognise that a historical reckoning is nonetheless necessary if any semblance of being is to be achieved. Colonialism and oppression have scared and corrupted the Coloured subject’s sense of self, belonging and political agency. This discussion has a relevance to the Coloured subject in a post-apartheid context as many of the complexities, histories and experiences that these individuals face are yet to be grappled with today. From a broader stance, this discussion is linked to theories of Afro-pessimism and the negated ontology beset upon Black bodies. The Coloured subject is however unique in that there is an implicit post-humanist aspect to being mixed race--the supposed product of colonial interaction. What is to be made of the unique experience of Coloured subjectivity? Can a sense of being be achieved through the seemingly impossible odyssey of historical reckoning?

ЗРИТЕЛЬ В ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ ВИРТУАЛЬНОЙ РЕАЛЬНОСТИ: ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ПЛАНЕТАРНОЙ ОПТИКИ

ЗРИТЕЛЬ В ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ ВИРТУАЛЬНОЙ РЕАЛЬНОСТИ: ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ПЛАНЕТАРНОЙ ОПТИКИ

The entanglements of the law, digital technologies and domestic violence in Seattle

This paper draws on a community-based participatory action research project located in Seattle - before and during the COVID-19 pandemic - to examine the unanticipated impact that the pandemic has had on reducing barriers for survivors of domestic violence seeking protection through the legal system. We draw on interviews with survivors and victim advocates, along with autoethnographic participant observation during Domestic Violence Protection Order (DVPO) hearings, to trace survivors’ experiences navigating the DVPO process before and after its transition from an analogue to digital system. We situate this research at the intersection of legal and digital geographic scholarship to analyze how the law and digital technologies reinforce the spatial operation of power and exclusion, while they simultaneously provide emancipatory potential for women’s experiences of security, legal subjectivity and emotional personhood. By focusing on how the courts’ transition to a digital system affects the emotional personhood and legal subjectivity of domestic violence survivors, this paper advances feminist calls within legal and digital geographies scholarship that encourage more sustained engagement with feminist thought to understand the varied effects of the law and digital technologies – respectively – on gendered bodies.

A computer-based method for the accurate analysis of the trilobate spouts found in the cathedral of Amiternum

Abstract The traditional manual method of analysis of ceramic finds involves expert operators in long and routine activities whose results depend on their subjectivity, specialization, and professional experience. This implies that the analysis of sherds is carried out using few data affected by high uncertainty. These limitations are even more clear with fragments with small axially symmetric portions whose elements of the investigation are not axially symmetric, such as handles, spouts, decorations. In this way both the axis of symmetry of the original object and the reference planes and/or axes of the characteristic dimensions of the elements are identified with such approximations as to compromise subsequent analyses and comparisons. To overcome these limitations, in this paper a new computer-based procedure is proposed. As a case study, the analysis fragments of jugs/bowls with trilobed spouts found in the site of Amiternum, coming from 12th-13th century contexts are considered; their analysis is fundamental to analyze the site where they were found since there is no archival documentation about their use.

ABOUT CARE-NESS/LESS, THAT IS, ABOUT THE DUTIES OF THE PEDAGOGUE OF DIGITAL CIVILIZATION

The text raises the issue of the safety of children from primary school class I-III. Linguistic reflection of the word safety - ‘without care’, that is to say ‘unattended’ and safety in the meaning of ‘be safe to feel safe to be safe’, is meant ‘to be / feel surrounded by care’. The text encourages deep reflection on the teacher’s attitude towards the child in the context of constructivist-connectivity strategies. At the center of the problem is the child’s experience of subjectivity, closeness, safety and respect for the child and his/her world of values. It emphasizes the need for the teacher to have broad cognitive horizons, knowledge from various fields, and openness to creativity, that is, to thinking and actions of a divergent nature.

“I feel like the worst mother in the world”: Neoliberal subjectivity in Indigenous Australian oral health

Neoliberalism gained popularity during the post-Cold War period as a set of dominating ideologies, practices and policies that underpinned the movement towards globalisation. Neoliberalism champions competitive private markets, deregulation that facilitates economic activity, personal responsibility, and reduced public expenditure on infrastructure. A decade after the initial rise of neoliberalism, health inequities became concerns on the global stage. Oral health inequities aptly reflect social injustices due to the unique relation between material circumstances, access to health services and structural inequities. In Australia, Indigenous children experience early childhood caries at alarmingly higher rates than non-Indigenous children. Recently, neoliberalism has been suggested as an overwhelming contributor to Indigenous oral health disparities. This qualitative research is an extension of a single-blind parallel-arm randomised control trial that aimed to identify factors related to the increased occurrence of dental caries in Indigenous children. The objective of this constructivist grounded theory study was to generate an understanding of how neoliberal subjectivity exists for Indigenous peoples in the context of oral health in Australia. Experiences of ownership, guilt, failure, embarrassment, shame, and judgment were key in participants’ experiences of neoliberal subjectivity; these feelings were exacerbated by experiences of bullying, financial limitations, and institutional racism. We argue that individual responsibility for health, as a tenet of neoliberal ideologies, furthers Indigenous oral health inequities and that neoliberalism as a societal discourse perpetuates colonial values by benefitting the privileged and further oppressing the disadvantaged. Trial registrationAustralian New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry ACTRN12611000111976; registered February 01, 2011.

Buñuel’s Messy Law and the “Extimate” Image in El ángel exterminador and La Mort en ce jardin

Luis Buñuel’s notable Mexican film El ángel exterminador (1962) and his less familiar Mexican–French film La Mort en ce jardin (1956) coincide in their interest in portraying overbearing spaces of entrapment within which customs and rules of order reach points of exhaustion. With readings informed by elements of Lacanian thought, this paper explores the emergence of a messy, defective law and its implications for the mediatory qualities of language and the experience of subjectivity. I begin by arguing that the films make use of failures in communication to disrupt the paternal myth and the law of the signifier as these concepts are discussed in Lacanian thought. I then examine how these same disorienting forces also affect the imaginary support of the unified subject: Buñuel’s camera often reduces the prefigured image of subjects into piecemeal assemblages of partial objects or blends these images with surroundings. This paper concludes with a discussion of how El ángel generates visual lacunae that respond to this disorder. Unlike in La Mort, which portrays an authority that attempts to impose order in response to these gaps, El ángel produces sense through them, in a function understood by the term “extimacy.” This concept describes a foundation that is simultaneously intimate and exterior, and it is crucial to affirm the singularity of the subject before the mechanical operations of the signifier.

The intimate geographies of Anna Maria Maiolino

This article examines the intersection of identity and spatiality in the works of Brazilian visual artist Anna Maria Maiolino. It situates her within a broader discussion of artistic cartographies in Latin America and beyond, and charts Maiolino’s recurrent engagement with the map as a symbol and mapping as a process. Analysing the artist’s explorations of spatiality in political, psychological, and corporeal terms, this article proposes that Maiolino’s work articulates an experience of nomadic subjectivity and a destabilisation of ideas of national and continental belonging.

Beastly Modernisms: The Question of Animal Speech and Psychology in James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

This essay analyses the ways in which James Joyce and Virginia Woolf addressed from a very early stage key issues related to contemporary posthumanist theories such as the question of animal speech and psychology. Both Joyce’s description of human-animal encounters in Ulysses and Woolf’s depiction of a sentient animal subject in Flush: A Biography at first present, and then subvert, the idea of the use of language as evidence of a human surpassing of the animal. By challenging preconceived notions of species distinctions, these authors ultimately decenter the human to focus instead on the centrality of animal subjectivity and sensory experience. While the question of a sharp divide between human and nonhuman animals along the axis of speech can be traceable to the anthropocentric tradition of western humanism and not least to such a possible source as Cervantes (whose novella “The Dialogue of the Dogs” is listed as part of both Joyce’s Trieste library and the library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf), the idea of expanding the typically modernist focus on inner life by also including other forms of subjectivity may have derived from the coeval, burgeoning fields of zoology, ethology and comparative psychology. Drawing from these sources and popular areas of knowledge which formed part of the cultural climate of the time, both Joyce and Woolf explore cross-species intersubjectivity in ways that shift the terms of representation away from anthropocentric views in order to affirm, blur and deny the boundaries between the human and the non-human.

Styles of educational activities and teaching styles of teachers and the experience of subjectivity by students during remote lessons in grades 1-3 of primary school during the COVID -19 pandemic

The aim of the article was to present how teachers deal with managing online lessons. The author focused on the following categories: teacher learning styles, communications styles from teachers to students and lesson time. Results are based on observations of lessons conducted via the MS Teams during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was established that the dominant style of action of educators working with students of early childhood education is The instruction style is a dominant style of surveyed teachers. Most often they send directive messages to their students, and students spend an average of 22 minutes on learning new material during a whole lesson. The results were the starting point for answering the question about the opportunity to experience subjectivity during online lessons

Why Do I Need to Talk About ‘Culture’? Realising you are ‘Brown’ in Academia

ABSTRACT This reflexive piece explores racialised academic processes by grounding it firmly within the experiences of my researcher subjectivity. Often, research on people of colour uses culture as an analytic lens, which is not expected when writing or talking about White samples. This reproduces an orientalisation of other groups and reinforces the normativity of Whiteness within academic scholarship. However, my reflections illustrate that for scholars of colour these processes are deeply personal. When respondents are orientalised by colleagues and broader academic processes, this is also an orientalisation of one’s own subjectivity. The relationship between the academic and personal becomes obvious in these circumstances. Moreover, the colonial legacies of these scholarly processes echo the everyday experiences of racism and painful family histories of colonisation, which are a part of who we are as scholars of colour. This piece of writing is deliberately set out as a personal story as it best captures how these processes feel to people like me, and ultimately academia needs to grapple with our experiences.

Genesis 1–3 and the Formation of Subjectivity in the Hodayot and the Two Spirits Teaching

Abstract Although the lived experience of subjectivity for persons in antiquity cannot be known directly, one can study certain texts as tools for the formation of subjects. Among the Dead Sea Scrolls two compositions are particularly instructive, the Hodayot found in 1QHa 2–9, 18–28 (the Hodayot of the Maskil, also known as Hodayot of the Community) and the Two Spirits Teaching (1QS 3:13–4:26). Each develops an understanding of subjectivity based on subtle interpretations of creation traditions, developed through sophisticated intertextual readings. The Hodayot privilege Gen 2–3; the Two Spirits Teaching emphasizes Gen 1. Although mutually contradictory on the surface, the two accounts actually develop subjectivities that share many similarities. By analyzing these converging patterns one may get some sense of the lived subjectivity that was created by the various texts and practices of the Yahad community.

Review: The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics, by Robin James

Review: <i>The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics</i>, by Robin James