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Mind your Manners : Agamben and Phish

2021

In the final volume of his Homo Sacer series Giorgio Agamben develops the concept of destituent power, a power that unworks itself in every constitution and renders itself inoperative in its every operation. This concept helps elucidate Agamben’s more enigmatic notion of form-of-life. Whereas the power of sovereign biopolitics is constitutive, i.e. constituting a determinate actual bios out of the indefinite potentialities of zoe, form-of-life exemplifies the power of rendering actual and determinate forms inoperative or destitute. Rather than attempt to devise a ‘proper’ form of life, Agamben seeks to free life from the gravity of all tasks or vocations imposed on it by privileged forms. W…

Aesthetic imagination and animate peace

2017

This chapter discusses the nature crisis through looking at how one might work towards dynamic coexistence with non-human nature through communicating and bonding with domestic mammals, thereby anchoring ourselves in the world. It explores the negative and positive peace between humans and non-human nature, and introduces 'animate peace' to suggest that peace is a dynamic, complex and challenging, in addition to rewarding, state of affairs. The chapter focuses on the multimodal, holistic character of communication; how it is temporally layered and emerging in a relationship that transforms both parts; and how it marginalises verbal language as a means of communication. It expresses that the…

Jyväskylän yliopiston kirjallisuudentutkimus yhdistää monialaisesti esteettisen ja poliittisen

2017

Jyväskylän yliopiston kirjallisuusoppiaineen esittely

On the aestheticization of technologized bodies : a portrait of a cyborg(ed) form of agency

2017

Discussions revolving around cyborgs seldom include aesthetics, let alone propose aesthetics as an inextricable part of the phenomenon of the cyborg. Rather, the term “cyborg”, a contraction of “cybernetic organism”, evokes a figure of the (hu)man- machine. In the field of social and political sciences, the cyborg is designated a human-machine hybrid, a metaphor of humans becoming machinelike, or a portrait of (political) agency in an era of high technology. These approaches promote a figure of technologized bodies, that is, the cyborg as a figure of technologically dominated and altered bodies. I will sustain that the cyborg contributes to our understanding of agency in the age of high tec…

Constituents of Music and Visual-Art Related Pleasure - A Critical Integrative Literature Review.

2017

The present literature review investigated how pleasure induced by music and visualart has been conceptually understood in empirical research over the past 20 years. After an initial selection of abstracts from seven databases (keywords: pleasure, reward, enjoyment, and hedonic), twenty music and eleven visual-art papers were systematically compared. The following questions were addressed: (1) What is the role of the keyword in the research question? (2) Is pleasure considered a result of variation in the perceiver’s internal or external attributes? (3) What are the most commonly employed methods and main variables in empirical settings? Based on these questions, our critical integrative an…

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Graffiti

2020

Emotions play an essential role in aesthetic and art experience. Graffiti is an example of urban visual communication, and it can also be understood as a form of art. Like other works of art, graffiti can evoke different aesthetic emotions in its audiences, such as pleasure, wonder, interest and pride but also disinterest, disappointment or embarrassment, and even anger and disgust—further impacting, for example, how they value this art form. However, few studies have explored what kinds of emotions people feel when they appraise graffiti. This chapter discusses emotions in graffiti using examples from participant interviews in the Purkutaide study. Interview quotes are assessed against the…

Constituents of music and visual-art related pleasure : A critical integrative literature review

2017

Audience experience of commercial videos and feature length films : are they universal or culturally mediated?

2017

Audiovisual contents constitute one of the most common ways of communicating information. However, audiovisual products are difficult to study because they integrate a lot of complex communication and artistic elements. Meaning and emotions are conveyed by combining film elements but also narrative elements, music and other audio aspects, which unfold over time and can be used to impact the audiences. Here, the user experience approach is taken to try to understand the relation between the video’s elements and the emotions produced in the audience. Emotions are understood within an appraisal framework where elements of the audiovisual format and content are integrated in memory with previou…

Apperceiving visual elements in human-technology interaction design

2017

Visual design of technological artefacts is an integral part of peoples’ experiences in technology-interaction. Visual product properties are capable of eliciting affective responses and multisensorial experiences in human- technology interaction. Current research in the field of human-technology interaction focuses on visual, emotional and multisensory aspects of interaction in addition to functionality and usability. However, the focus has not been on how performative aspects of visual elements affect technology-interaction as a cognitive sense making process shaping human experiences. To design technological contact points to be made sense of, the substance of visual representations requ…

Syleilyn figuuri : pyhyyden ja haurauden liitto esteettisessä kokemuksessa

2015

Käsittelen pro gradu -tutkielmassani eksistentiaalisesti merkittävän esteettisen elämyksen syleilynkaltaisuutta aineistoni omaelämäkerrallisissa teksteissä. Pohdin kahden maailman tai vastaparin yhtäaikaista läsnäoloa ja toistaan kohti rientämistä hetkessä, jota koetaan esteettisesti. Erityisesti syvennyn elämän murtuneisuutta ja rosoisuutta vasten näyttäytyvään pyhän kokemukseen sekä kokijan ja koetun suhteeseen tässä polariteettien välisessä jännitteessä. Keskeisen ajatuksen löydän Simone Weililtä, joka kuvasi kauneuden olevan vastakohtien, kuten tuokion ja ikuisuuden, yhtymistä. Pyrin ymmärtämään tutkielmani omaelämäkerrallista ykseyden hetkeä emotionaalisen ja elämää hahmottavan syleily…