Notions Of Sociability Research Articles

Sharon Lockhart's Philosophy of the Casual: Toward an Eco-Cinema of Sociability

Abstract This article considers the cinematic works of the contemporary American artist Sharon Lockhart in the context of what it identifies as philosophies and practices of “the casual,” from the impact of Emersonian aesthetics on post – World War II American avant-garde cinema to Lockhart's unique version of “hanging out,” which resonates considerably with how Leo Bersani defines sociability. Viewing Lockhart's aesthetic signatures (her use of extreme long takes, static long shots, the natural settings of the majority of her films, and the anonymous identity and relations of her subjects, many of whom are children) first as manifestations of Emerson's and Heidegger's efforts to avoid the violence of Western thinking that they call “clutching” and “grasping” at the world, and then as instantiations of Bersani's notion of sociability as “a form of relationality uncontaminated by desire,” the article argues that her films manifest an eco-cinema that proposes living less invasively in the world. It goes on to show that, for Lockhart, this environmental ethos emerges from her use of the casual to delicately craft a cinema of social care that allows its subjects the freedom of not having their relations or identities defined by or within the cinematic frame. Lockhart's cinema is thus unique for deploying an aesthetics that can be described as casual, oblique, and nonchalant, toward ethical ends that have both sociological and environmental implications, what Bersani terms “queer ecology.”

VÍNCULOS CLUBÍSTICOS DE FUNCIONÁRIOS INFAMES NO FUTEBOL PROFISSIONAL DA REGIÃO SUL DO RS: NARRATIVAS, PERTENCIMENTOS E IDENTIDADES

Este artigo analisa a constituição dos pertencimentos clubísticos e a produção de identidades de funcionários infames que atuam ou atuaram em diferentes clubes do futebol profissional da Região Sul do RS. Tendo como metodologia a História Oral, foram entrevistados quatro funcionários de clubes distintos, possibilitando concluir que o seu pertencimento clubístico se constituiu de diferentes formas. Tais como: idas aos estádios durante a infância, noções de sociabilidade construídas no clube, necessidade de uma atividade remunerada e a influência, mesmo que indireta, da família. Além disso, percebeu-se a importância dos clubes na constituição das identidades dos sujeitos, visto que os narradores, ao construírem uma hierarquia, colocam os clubes atrás apenas de suas famílias. Também foi possível analisar que os funcionários infames empregam diferentes maneiras de torcer durante os jogos, em que o local escolhido e determinadas atitudes são marcadores interessantes de análise.

Tramas culturales. De las determinaciones sociales a la red intelectual

El presente trabajo se propone la revisión de diferentes nociones de la sociabilidad que entablan los intelectuales. A través de diferentes estudios realizados en torno a asociaciones, ateneos, epistolarios, revistas se intenta poner de relieve la capacidad heurística que posee la metodología de la red intelectual para el estudio de la elaboración de las ideas, los circuitos que generan y los radios de expansión que crean.

Mídias locativas e realidade mixada: a produção de sentidos sobre o digital-virtual a partir da cartografia com suporte das tecnologias digitais

This paper discusses the field of tension that has arisen from the emergence of a digital culture in public schools that participate in digital inclusion projects. Based on the theoretical and epistemological assumptions of cognitive ecologies and structural coupling, we discuss the production of meanings about the virtual-digital as a necessary path for the opening of new possibilities regarding the use of digital technologies in education. We performed an exploratory workshop with teachers of a statewide network of public education, involving local cartography supported by digital technologies, locative media and mixed reality. The workshop was designed to lead participants to an informational and aesthetic experience for the production of meanings about the virtual-digital on the basis of a dual – technological and symbolical – appropriation using technologies such as QRCode markers, digital media, geolocation and publishing in a blog. The teachers showed an understanding of the virtual-digital as a technology that can expand physical experience, the experience of time and protagonism among teachers and students. We conclude by discussing the “being part of” a digital culture on the basis of the demand for a reconfiguration of pedagogical practices and their cognitive regimes, regimes of authority and the very notion of sociability in relation to the educational process.Key words: locative media, mixed reality, cartography, cognitive ecology, digital inclusion.

Mídias locativas e realidade mixada: a produção de sentidos sobre o digital-virtual a partir da cartografia com suporte das tecnologias digitais

This paper discusses the field of tension that has arisen from the emergence of a digital culture in public schools that participate in digital inclusion projects. Based on the theoretical and epistemological assumptions of cognitive ecologies and structural coupling, we discuss the production of meanings about the virtual-digital as a necessary path for the opening of new possibilities regarding the use of digital technologies in education. We performed an exploratory workshop with teachers of a statewide network of public education, involving local cartography supported by digital technologies, locative media and mixed reality. The workshop was designed to lead participants to an informational and aesthetic experience for the production of meanings about the virtual-digital on the basis of a dual – technological and symbolical – appropriation using technologies such as QRCode markers, digital media, geolocation and publishing in a blog. The teachers showed an understanding of the virtual-digital as a technology that can expand physical experience, the experience of time and protagonism among teachers and students. We conclude by discussing the “being part of” a digital culture on the basis of the demand for a reconfiguration of pedagogical practices and their cognitive regimes, regimes of authority and the very notion of sociability in relation to the educational process.Key words: locative media, mixed reality, cartography, cognitive ecology, digital inclusion.

Designing for Social Engagement in Online Social Networks Using Communities-of-Practice Theory and Cognitive Work Analysis

New social networking and social web tools are becoming available and are easing the process of customizing online social environments for enterprises. With these developments, core design efforts have been extending beyond usability for individual users and are beginning to include notions of sociability for the engagement of communities of users. In an effort to make it easier to design for social engagement in an online social environment, the authors developed a domain-community model based on the communities-of-practice concept and the work domain analysis used in cognitive work analysis. Through a case study of University-Community Partnerships for Social Action Research, an international development leadership community of practice, the authors illustrate how the domain-community model could be used to design web components of an online social environment that integrate internal issues of social engagement and external issues of domain effectiveness. It is expected that this model can provide a basis for designers of online communities to more systematically account for social phenomena of collective efforts in a given work domain.