Process Of Reification Research Articles

Traduction et paratraduction en tant que stratégies de résistance à la réification à l’ère de l’Intelligence Artificielle (IA)

Philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that we are living in a transition from the “era of things to the era of non-things”. According to his perspective, things do not determine the world we live in: information does. Consequently, the profession of translation has become increasingly mechanized to meet the high demand for “information”, turning readers into compulsive consumers of words. Thus, there is a significant risk of confusing the symbolic representation of words with essential reality, neglecting the importance of context and paratext in the construction of meaning. This phenomenon can lead to a loss of meaning in the act of translation, diminishing its role as a bridge between cultures and languages. Borrowing from the axiom of Portuguese intellectual Rui Pereira in a society of “non-thought”, it is crucial to reflect on how “translating in times of non-translation” operates. In this regard, the objective of this essay is to analyze how paratranslation, from the Vigo School, can be understood as a space of resistance against a process of reification of the other’s existence in the act of translating. In the “AI era”, where translation has become an increasingly mechanized act, the examination of the paratexts surrounding this process serves as a way to return to the fundamental condition of translation: the human condition.

Auftritt der KI. Zur Darstellung posthumaner Arbeitswelten in Sibylle Bergs <em>GRM Brainfuck</em>

The article deals with Sibylle Berg's novel GRM Brainfuck (2019), which focuses on a 'working world' that is being transformed by digitization processes. This world is anchored in a 'post-human system' in which non-human objects emerge as 'active' and humans recede into the background, which is why the text is examined against the background of critical post-humanist and neo-materialist approaches. In addition, media-theoretical and philosophical examinations form the framework for an analysis that first and foremost deals with the dystopian potential of the novel. It is then to be shown that the novel makes legible a gendered amalgamation of transhumanist ideology on the one hand and processes of reification on the other in a world 'populated' by artificial intelligences. Finally, it is argued that Berg's aesthetics unfolded within the narrative evoke what Günther Anders has called a "Promethean gap", meaning the inadequacy of human language and imagination with regard to man-made (technological) entities.

Reification, Curry-Howard Correspondence, and Didactical Consequences

The roles of languages, processes, and objects in mathematical thinking have led to many theories, yet no consistent big picture has evolved from this. This paper puts forth the hypothesis that the Curry-Howard correspondence from computer science and the theories it is built on provide a unification framework. This correspondence asserts that (formal) proofs and programs (in functional programming languages) do not only have some similarities, but can, at least if formalized in an appropriate way, be mapped to each other by an isomorphism such that proofs are programs and vice versa. Moreover, objects can be realized as function evaluation strategies, and this provides a model of the reification process. The paper explores all this and discusses the didactical relevance; especially, the reification theories are revisited. Computer-based realizations of concepts are used as a tool to show the consistency of ideas and the practicability of concepts.

THE HYBRID WORK OF JOURNALISTS AND THE REIFICATIONS OF COMMUNICATIVE CAPITALISM

Hybrid work emerges as a new modality formany journalists. This article seeks to reflecton how the digital gears of communicativecapitalism invade the spheres of productionand reproduction of journalists' lives on aglobal scale, demonstrating how forms ofremote work, consolidated in the pandemiclaboratory of technological experiments,intensify processes of reification in everydaylife. of the workers. The encounter betweenreified productive activity and fetishisticconsumption seems to hold hands in thedigital territory of capital metabolism. Thehybrid work of journalists expresses thecontradictions of this approach.

Teacher educator learning to implement equitable mathematics teaching using technology through lesson study

PurposeThis paper examines how mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) learn to enact equitable mathematics instruction using technology through lesson study (LS).Design/methodology/approachA LS team with three MTEs conducted three iterations of LS on teaching the Pythagorean Theorem in an in-person, technology-mediated environment. Many forms of data were collected: Desmos activities, videos of research lessons (RLs), videos of MTE RL debriefings, artifacts of student learning in the Desmos Dashboard, and MTEs' written self-reflection. The authors investigate the teacher educators' learning through LS by analyzing the MTE debriefings of the RLs using Bannister’s (2015) framework for teacher learning in communities of practice.FindingsThe MTEs learned to enact equitable mathematics instruction using technology through addressing emerging issues related to intellectual authority and use of student thinking. Throughout the LS, the MTEs sought ways of promoting students' mathematical authority and using student thinking through features of the Desmos platform.Research limitations/implicationsThis study focuses on MTEs' learning without examining participating preservice teachers' learning. It demonstrates the benefits of LS for MTEs' professional learning.Practical implicationsThis study showcases how a research-based Desmos activity is used and refined to promote MTE learning how to implement equitable mathematics instruction.Originality/valueThe study contributes to better understanding of how LS could be used to develop MTEs' professional learning. Moreover, the dual process of participation and reification was concretized through diagnostic and prognostic frames in the LS context, which enriches the concept of community of practice.

Building a mosque. Reification and situated learning at the core of an immigrant community of practice

ABSTRACT This paper presents partial results of a broader investigation and focuses on describing a process of reification that took place at the heart of an immigrant community in Sant Mateu (Castelló, Spain), and that crystallised through the construction and management of a mosque. The theoretical framework draws on social learning theories, with a particular focus on situated learning and communities of practice. Regarding the method, the study follows an ethnographic, qualitative approach. We present the fieldwork procedures (participatory observation, interviews and focus groups) and analytical procedures (content analysis) followed in the research. The results recount the process this immigrant community followed to build the mosque, and the meanings for the community of the process followed and its culmination. Finally, the discussion and conclusions characterise this immigrant community as a community of practice where situated learning processes arise.

It is Hard for Journalists to Pray on Time: Commodification of Media Workers in the Digital Age

This study aims to explain the commodification practices of media workers in the digital era, more precisely on iNews TV Semarang, Indonesia. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method. Data collection techniques were carried out in the form of observations and interviews with people who work as journalists at iNews TV Semarang. This study shows that journalists experience commodification in the form of absolute exploitation and relative exploitation. Absolute exploitation is seen in the irregular working hours of journalists, resulting in chaos during their worship hours. At the same time, relative exploitation is in the form of intensification of the labor process for journalists, which is carried out by giving multiple assignments. Journalists also get another task: looking for clients for the company's benefit. The commodification that has occurred has also involved processes of alienation, mystification, naturalization, and reification.

Komodifikasi Pekerja dan Dampaknya pada Kualitas Pemberitaan di YouTube KompasTV

In the digital era, some media use YouTube to distribute their content to get new profit opportunities from social media. This study aims to determine the commodification of workers on YouTube KompasTV and determine its impact on the quality of the news. The research uses qualitative methods with a case study approach and data collection is carried out through observation and interviews. The results of this study found that the heavy work done by media workers and the low wages of media workers meant that the practice of commodification continued. Youtube KompasTV is one of the media's efforts to maintain its existence so that the creativity of creator content is proof of the commodification of workers which provides benefits for the media. Regarding the quality of news coverage, this study found that content creators generally only pursue what is the habit of public consumption, so the news that is broadcast is generally only carried out to meet normative quality standards. This study found that KompasTV content creators experience a process of exploitation, alienation, mystification, reification, and normalization.

Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry

#konstnärligfrihet: reifikation som förtryckshandling och motstrategi

In the autumn of 2017, more than 2,000 female and non-binary artists and designers in Sweden joined forces in the group #konstnärligfrihet [artistic freedom] to share experiences of sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual violence, and to write a joint petition. Using a media timeline and semi-structured interviews, this article aims to situate #metoo in a larger narrative and investigate how sexual harassment within the Swedish art industry is explained and understood by 13 activists and representatives of art institutions.Our results show that there is a strong connection between oppression and economic exploitation. The art industry is characterized by precarious economic and social relations, but also by the idea of the genius and elitist ambitions of standing outside the social order and embodying an unexploitable particularity. This combination is crucial to understanding sexual harassment in the industry. A central theme in the interviews was the feeling of grief and frustration of not being allowed to work freely as an artist but forced to constantly navigate invisible but tangible structures. These structures are maintained performatively through various acts of oppression that are part of a reification process, which systematically limits the livability of the exposed identities. During #metoo, this reification process was counteracted and turned against the oppressors themselves through an objectification of “men” as oppressors. Another finding relates to the interviewees’ understanding of sexual harassment as based upon power. Here, the positions of powerful and powerless were not univocal. As power intertwines with desire and vulnerability, oppressive acts can be multifaceted and ambivalent, and take place as part of a dynamic negotiation of positions in the informal economic system.

Playing with tradition in communities of Swedish folk music: Negotiations of meaning in instrumental music tuition

The present article explores meaning in relation to musical learning. One starting point is the assumption that a meaningful music education is strongly related to the social domain of music-making. The aim of this article is to provide analytical tools to understand how meaning is negotiated within instrumental music tuition. Our interest lies in formal higher music education, an arena where the social dimension tends to be rather obscure, in contrast to the genre of Swedish folk music, which is our empirical context. There is a strong case for revaluing the social dimension in the study and creation of a meaningful music education. In line with this, our analytical framework draws primarily upon theories of situated cognition, situated learning, and communities of practice. In particular, our analytical focus is negotiations of meaning, which are understood as constituted by two reciprocal processes of participation and reification. Meaning negotiation can be defined as a process that is incomplete, ongoing, and open-ended. Since negotiations of meaning refer to a larger picture, they become a useful point of interest in understanding the dynamics between a single learning situation, the educational framing, and the wider musical world of the learner. We exemplify how this analytical perspective can be applied by referring to our ongoing research project, which investigates trajectories of learning within different communities of Swedish folk music. We focus on two analytical nodes that have bearing across the communities and serve as locus points for ongoing meaning negotiations: (i) the identity of spelman and (ii) the approach to notation. With these two examples, we hope to show the potential of the framework. We also present methodological considerations that come from applying the proposed analytical tools in our study. Using an ethnographic approach, we lean toward the ideas of “messy research,” musical research sensibilities, and stepwise-deductive induction. In the final section of the article, we elaborate on the educational implications that follow from a perspective that takes meaning as its point of departure.

A Poetics of Thingification: Dawn Lundy Martin and the Black Took Collective

Abstract In the last two decades, African American poets working in innovative and avant-garde forms have produced poetry focused upon the theme of racial objectification. Individual and collaborative projects by Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel E. Harris, and Ronaldo V. Wilson, who write and perform together as the Black Took Collective, practice what this article calls a poetics of thingification: a poetry that draws attention to language's capacity for reification in general and for racial objectification in particular. Drawing upon thing theory and recent scholarship on race and avant-garde poetry, this article focuses on Dawn Lundy Martin's poetics in order to demonstrate how poets combine innovative techniques with racial stereotypes to scrutinize hegemonic expectations at the level of poetic form, especially within the tradition of African American poetry. Rather than adopting the humanizing rhetoric and lyrical modes of conventional African American poetry, these poets use the trope of the objectified Black body to deconstruct linguistic processes of racial reification from within.

The active participation of elderly patients in traditional Chinese medicine consultations as means to creating a community of practice: A case study in Hong Kong.

Despite its historic role in Chinese society and its popularity with an elderly Chinese population, limited research has explored the discursive practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Our analysis of practitioner–patient interactions illustrated the reasons why TCM is widely welcomed by a specific patient group. This paper adopted the concept of Community of Practice (CoP) as a theoretical framework to document how patients interact with TCM practitioners to construct meaning through a process of participation and reification. This study aimed to explore how patients in a medical consultation context developed an understanding of their conditions and how they strategically used medical terminology to enact meaningful exchanges to realise their CoP. An inductive qualitative discourse analysis was conducted to for nine elderly patients (i.e., age > 65) in Hong Kong to demonstrate the role that a CoP played in a joint process of knowledge construction to promote a patient-centred practice and foster the active participation of the patients. TCM practitioners can develop specific communication skills to promote their patients’ CoP, which will improve patient-centred care, empower patients to actively engage in their treatments and result in higher levels of patient satisfaction.

Passing Through the Body: Recent Exercises of Memory and Collectivity, Forty Years After the Dictatorship in Chile

The military dictatorship in Chile (1973–1989) promoted an ideology of the individual body, dismantling all social and collective matrices. The various artistic expressions discussed in the following text can be seen as practices of situated memory, that link the violence of that period to the exercise of a necessary intersubjectivity between different spaces of intervention and bodies. In doing this, and by taking as a starting point collective and the notion of alienated space, the aim is to reconstitute a conscious corporeality of memory and collectivity. This paper seeks to revise interpretations of these performative and photographic exercises and to ask how meaning can be produced without subjecting memory to a process of reification or immobilisation.

From a spontaneous community of practice to a piloted community of practice: A longitudinal study of resilience construction

The article focuses on piloted communities of practice (PCoPs), which have evolved significantly in recent years in the knowledge-based economy. These social structures represent real difficulties in terms of management, particularly with regard to the possibility of reconciling two apparently contradictory logics, self-organization and control. Although recent empirical work in the literature provides a general picture of these PCoPs, they do not provide details of how this piloting is implemented over the long term. This paper uses a flexible pattern matching approach on a longitudinal case study to analyze the shift from a spontaneous community to a piloted community. The community studied here is the sound engineers of Radio France. The results highlight that piloting can only be relevant if it is presented as a reification process that makes sense to those involved. The study also emphasizes that self-organization and control can be harmonized through the creation of an ad hoc structure and that some PCoPs can be ambidextrous. In this study, we underline in which conditions the piloted community allows to maintain the resilience of an organization.

Reification in tourism: An investigation of visitors’ interpretation of omamori

Omamori are one-of-a-kind products provided at Japanese religious sites and are popular among visitors from all over the world. Drawing on the theoretical lens of reification, this study explored how visitors with different cultural and religious backgrounds interact with the world through material products in the context of religious tourism. A qualitative approach was taken to analyze online reviews through inductive thematic analysis. Findings revealed a ‘world-object-human’ framework of reification, in which visitors' interpretation (i.e. perceived religious power, secular value, and the mixture of religion and secular life) and meaning-making with omamori are explored. Results further showed the reification process manifested in omamori contributes to tourism experiences and cross-cultural understanding. Theoretical and practical implications were provided, followed by limitations and suggestions for future research. • Explored visitors' interpretations of and meaning-making with omamori. • Findings revealed a ‘world-object-human’ framework of reification. • Reification contributes to tourism experience and cross-cultural understanding. • Contributed to existing research in reification and cultural and religious tourism.

Moving from Accounting for People to Accounting with People: A Critical Analysis of the Literature and Avenues for Research

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of the ‘accounting for people’ literature and to suggest avenues for research that encourage this literature to take a radical emancipatory turn by using dialogic accounting. Our review covers the past five decades and concentrates on a corpus of 109 articles published in 22 accounting journals. Although the social agenda was initially central to the rise in the accounting for people literature, it was quickly supplanted by economic and financial objectives. The more recent focus on Human Capital (HC), driven by the emergence of a new spirit of capitalism, appears to have breathed new life into the accounting for people literature. However, the HC concept also (i) simplifies humans’ subjective qualities by overquantification through a reification process that extends the sphere of commodification to humans and (ii) reinforces labor control processes. We highlight the need for future literature to move from the ‘accounting for people’ approach to an ‘accounting with people’ approach to really give a voice to humans, and outline the potential of dialogic HC accounts for achieving that aim.

On the crisis of criticism and public art

At the turn of the millennia, the politically unbiased analytical thought of the world describes the total humanitarian entropy, which has unsafely plunged the theory and practice of art into a deep crisis. Accordingly, academic scientists, and primarily philosophers and culturologists, as well as art historians who have not lost their independent critical thinking ability, are consolidating into an ever-increasing front of those analysts who resist the current situation, because they tend to see behind the superficial statistics of a sharply increasing number of glossy magazines, exhibition reviews and other printed materials, including circulations of ordinary booklets that massively accompany any art projects of all kinds of galleries or public art actions, which go to significant investment funds from private foundations and centers — the premature death of art criticism, which, in the figurative expression of James Elkins, has become “like a trackless thicket, tangled with with unanswered questions”. Artistic practitioners, accustomed to servile survival in the conditions of the global art market, which imposes the rules for the production of a creative product solely in their own interests, are in a state of crisis no less severe than criticism. Manipulative interpretations of the concept of publicity, as well as the orientation of public art towards the function of socio-political and socio-educational regulatory action, like a mediator between society and power, legitimizes and strongly supports the phenomenology of things. Without a transcendental goal, the reification of the community’sthinking leads to a slide of creative consciousness and formal vocabulary of art expression to the level of kitsch, which was sharply criticized back in 1939 by Clement Greenberg. The fetishization of an art object as a commodity contributes to the steady cultivation of an instrumentalized consciousness by artists. Public visual practices, formally inheriting the idea of dissolving in the stream of everyday life, first proclaimed by the historical avant-garde, actually dissolve in consumerism, turning art objects into objectified political and sociocultural invectives, or, according to D. Lukacs’ terminology, such invectives that have undergone the process of reification. Meanwhile, visual public projects also actively use conceptualized clichés in the form of neutral abstract design objects, where the dominant criterion of conformity to the spirit of the times as quasi-modernity is the uncommonness of an innovative solution to lexical expression. The phenomenology of a thing legitimizes any experimentation, but it is not able to overcome the deepening crisis of theory and practice, drawing the cultural and artistic existence of society into a prolonged state of hysteresis. Analysts see the only way out of this situation in the return to the culture of the theory and practice of the traditions of Kantian-Hegelian philosophy, and in particular the postulates of transcendental aesthetics.

O Chão da Fábrica da Avaliação do Trabalho Docente Universitário: The Factory Floor: the Evaluation of Teaching Labor in Universities

The present article investigates how Federal Public Universities in Brazil are reorganizing themselves in the form of Social Organizations – OS, emulating country’s historical and social itinerary, as well as synthesizes and develops reification processes. The paper exposes the constitutive nexuses of the UFP’s reorganization amidst political ramifications within the Brazilian nation, with the mediations and historical processes that these changes have been hiding and developing in the teaching occupation. The reification emerges as an explanatory category of this process, presenting, as its substance, policies such as teaching performance evaluation and career progression as defining aspects of the academic production. Keywords: Teaching Labor; Reification; Evaluation Policies.

Deconstruction as Repair

Deconstruction as Repair: An ecological perspective on the Six Viewpoints is a co-authored article by Josh Armstrong and Meryl Murman. The writing is carried by the personal and subjective experiences of the authors aiming to understand how postmodern deconstruction is an act of ecological repair. The experiences and thoughts that arise are informed by ecological and postmodern philosophy, by Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints — both as phenomenological and philosophical theory and practice — and culminate in reflections on practice-led research through the facilitation of becoming-Botanical somatic movement laboratories. Drawing on the personal observations and reflections from regular participants in weekly somatic movement laboratories held in New Orleans from the Summer of 2018 through the Autumn of 2019, including a residential retreat in rural Mississippi, this article focuses on the restorative qualities which emerge as common themes. According to Overlie, the proper deconstruction of the Six Viewpoints should not be confused with ‘mistaken postmodernism’ and the resulting deconstruction that appears as collage, pastiche or Kitsch Art. Overlie’s deconstruction emphasizes the need for a sharp tool and an observant mind to disassemble the materials of performance with a view to better understand them and ultimately to free them from the hierarchical structures that act upon them. This is not a deconstruction of demolition or damage, but of discovering that which was once hidden or unknown — a process of reification that Overlie champions as the basis for both art and science. Through the becoming-Botanical movement laboratories, we apply this performance-based deconstruction in contexts outside of theatre and performance and find that the Six Viewpoints as phenomenological and somaesthetic training can enable participants to mend psychic and emotional relationships with more-than-human life and make reparations and preparations for the inevitable end of the world.