Search results for "Materiality"
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Materialisme et linguistique chez Leopardi
1982
SUMMARYIn several of his letters Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), much better known as a poet and a man of letters than as a linguist, says that he is writing a book on the theory and history of language. Its title should have been Paralelo delle cinque lingue. As it happens, he did not write the book, but left a considerable number of notes in his intellectual diary, the Zibaldone, which he kept from 1817 to 1832. The paper investigates the relationship between Leopardi's linguistic theory and his materialistic philosophy. Leopardi, who was acquainted with the theories of Locke, Condillac, and Destutt de Tracy, envisaged the formation of words as an inseparable part of the formation of ideas …
Traveling material↔semiotic environments of disability, rehabilitation, and physical activity.
2020
In this article, we apply narrative dialogism and new materialism to health research. We examine how material↔semiotic environments (MSEs) affect the rehabilitation process of Patrick, a man who exercised with the aim to recover from spinal cord injury. The MSEs are considered embedded subcases within the overall holistic case of Patrick. Three MSEs were identified: the hospital gym, the personal gym, and the adapted gym. These are examined using the analytical lens of assemblages. First, the mutually affecting components of each MSE are described. Second, a larger environmental assemblage is identified, which is termed exercise-is-restitution assemblage. This composite assemblage illumina…
Belonging and Home
2021
AbstractIn this chapter, the authors discuss artifacts in which children explore belonging and home. The chapter defines the sense of belonging as a core feature of humanity and living together. The feeling of having a home and being at home is both an intimate and a socially shared aspect of belonging. The children expressed belonging to a wide range of spaces in their artifacts. This spatial span extends from macro to micro scale and indicates belonging based on spaces, social relations, and materiality. Even very young children can see and depict their belonging as multiple and including spatial and social dimensions. The analyzed artifacts reveal both concrete and symbolic approaches to…
La utilidad de los informes de sostenibilidad en entidades públicas y privadas en Colombia
2021
El aumento en la divulgación de información social y medioambiental (de sostenibilidad) genera preguntas sobre su utilidad y materialidad, lo que implica conocer las expectativas de los stakeholders. El stakeholder engagement permite señalar que la participación de los grupos de interés no solo debe centrarse en la producción de la información en las empresas, sino también en la definición de los marcos y estándares que estructuran estos reportes. Este trabajo busca caracterizar las expectativas y la percepción que tienen diversos stakeholders, sobre la utilidad de los informes de sostenibilidad emitidos por organizaciones públicas y privadas en Colombia. A partir de dos cuestionarios respo…
Introduction: classroom discourse at the intersection of language education and materiality
2021
This special issue provides a collection of research that examines the relationships between classroom materials and discourse in various second language education contexts. Together, these studies...
Art and Science in Word and Image
2019
Art and Science in Word and Image investigates the theme of ‘riddles of form’, exploring how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently between art, literature and the sciences. Using the impact of evolutionary biologist D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form on Modernist practices as springboard into the theme, contributors consider engagements with mysteries of natural form in painting, photography, fiction, etc., as well as theories about cosmic forces, and other fields of knowledge and enquiry. Hence the collection also deals with topics including cultural inscriptions of gardens and landscapes, deconstructions of received history through word and image artworks and texts,…
Die Objektivierung der Dinge.Wissenspraktiken im mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Schulunterricht / Objectifying Things. Epistemic Practices in S…
2015
Zusammenfassung Auf Grundlage ethnografischer Daten beschäftigt sich der Aufsatz mit Experimenten und Anschauungsobjekten im mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Schulunterricht der Sekundarstufe. Die Unterrichtsteilnehmer transformieren dabei vieldeutige Dinge in eindeutige und von ihnen als unabhängig gefasste Objekte. Diese Objektivierung der Dinge erfolgt im Schulunterricht in drei Phasen: Nach der Vorbereitung im schulischen Archiv werden die Dinge bei der Durchführung von Experimenten im Unterrichtsraum in Aktion versetzt und schließlich in die sprachliche bzw. schriftliche Form an der Tafel und in den Heften überführt. Diese praktische Transformationsleistung ist durch eine asymmetri…
The Nature of Our Becoming: Genealogical Perspectives
2020
In the light of Philipp Sarasin's work in 'Darwin und Foucault: Genealogie und Geschichte im Zeitalter der Biologie', the article delineates a genealogically articulated naturally produced culture and a cultured nature and discusses the genealogical implications of a carnal, becoming self in a world that could rightly be justified "as an aesthetical phenomenon." The article demonstrates the historicity and processual materiality as a conceptual platform for a combination of the notions of experienced carnality and a socially constructed body, demonstrating such a historically embedded carnal body as a binding agent for the "social constructivist" and "biologist" approaches in sciences. Thus…
Digital materialities in the diasporic mourning of migrant death
2019
This article examines memorialization among the family and friends of those who have died at the world’s deadliest border in the Mediterranean Sea. Digital media platforms are central spaces for new, innovative forms of coping with ambiguous loss or the inability to mourn over a dead body. The analysis focuses on the role of digital media technologies and the relationship between digital and material elements in memorialization. I examine the creation and circulation of digital objects of memorialization: visual assemblages in which the material and digital intertwine. The analysis demonstrates that digital media practices are not separate from the material world, nor do they make mourning …
A lack of meaning?
2020
This article explores the ‘lack of meaning’ in contemporary society as a consequence of Western dualist thought paradigms and ontologies, via Gilles Deleuze’s concept of ‘reactive nihilism’ following the colloquial murder of God. The article then explores processual and new materialist approaches in the understanding of the lived and carnal self, arguing for immanent and senseful materiality as an ethical platform for religious, environmental, and societal solidarity for tomorrow. For the theoretical justification of the processual approach in understanding the enfleshed self, the article employs John Dupré’s processual approach in the philosophy of biology, as well as Astrida Neimani’s cri…