Body in Performance Research Papers (original) (raw)

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- Performance Studies (Music), Greek Lyric Poetry, Body in Performance, Stesichorus

Movement and, more particularly, kinesthesia as a modality and as a metaphor has become of interest at the intersection of phenomenology and cognitive science. In this paper I wish to combine three historically related strands, aisthêsis, kinesthesis and aesthetics, to advance an argument concerning the aesthetic value of certain somatic sensations. Firstly, by capitalizing on a recent regard for somatic or inner bodily senses, including kinesthesia, proprioception and the vestibular system by drawing lines of historical continuity from earlier philosophical investigations on bodily background experience, initially from aisthêsis, Aristotle’s concept of the sensory faculty. Secondly, concepts of the sensate body are advanced through discoveries in the nervous system and related discussions of the ‘inner’ senses such as Charles Bell’s ‘muscle sense’ (1826), and what Charles Sherrington later termed ‘proprio-ception’ (1906). irdly, we consider the possibility of aesthetic status for those inner senses, where recently aesthetic arguments by Montero (2006) and Cole and Montero (2007) seek to determine aesthetic criteria for proprioception, and similarly in dance theory the aesthetic status of kinesthesia has been questioned (e.g. Foster 2011). Finally we consider whether previous exposure to a ‘grammar’ of movement is a factor in determining the relative aesthetic value.

Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira (1889-1943), Rebbe of the Polish Hasidic group of Piaseczna, was one of the outstanding Jewish mystics of the Twentieth Century. In an undated entry in his personal spiritual diary Tsav ve-ziruz, R. Shapira describes an occasion upon which he somersaulted at a Torah Scroll dedication ceremony. This remarkable passage, which has gone largely unnoticed in Piaseczner research, offers a unique insight into R. Shapira's mystical practices and aspirations. In this paper we will briefly survey the literature on Hasidic somersaults, and attempt to unpack the meanings of R. Shapira's description of his own experience. Lastly we will attempt to understand the nature of this mystical technique in the context of other Jewish mystical practices and, based upon the theory of syncope, offer a comparative explanation as to how a somersault can serve as a mystical technique.

- by zvi leshem
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- Psychology, Jewish Mysticism, Magic, Jacques Lacan

This is the brochure for the April 2018 conference “Corporeal Restrictions, Embodied Freedoms: Italian Interventions on the Body” organized by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, City University of New York.... more

- by Joseph Sciorra
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- Gender Studies, Art History, Italian Studies, Diasporas
- by Eric Parkins
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- Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Behavioural Science

De la naissance à la mort, nous habitons notre corps, qui est un révélateur de ce que nous sommes. Dans nos sociétés développées, et surtout depuis la libération sexuelle, il est devenu pour beaucoup d’entre nous une préoccupation quotidienne.
D’« accouchement » à « yoga », en passant par « body-building », « ivrogne », « lesbianisme » ou « jeux vidéo », plus de deux cents
articles cernent le corps, et donnent à voir ses diverses pratiques et ses représentations.
Cette troisième édition permet d’ouvrir ce dictionnaire à des problématiques actuelles, mais aussi à l’analyse renouvelée des objets, techniques et expériences du corps.

- by Giorgio Cipolletta
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- Anthropology of the Body, The Body, Body Image, Sociology of the Body

Disability Beyond Fabrication. Representation, Embodiment, and the Strategies of "Staring Back" The article analyzes the ways of producing cultural representations of disability in theatre, film, literature and society. It draws attention to their dialectical structure, which problematizes-as in the case of the figure of the disabled avenger from Malina Prześluga's drama "Debil"-a positive going beyond the oppositions of good and evil, agency and passivity. The author emphasizes the need to perceive not only metaphorical but also materialistic dimensions of disability in order to deconstruct and dislocate (and not only duplicate) ableist clichés. The key role in this process is played by the categories of embodiment and lived experience, as well as the strategies of "staring back" (R. Garland-Thomson) used by contemporary Polish artists with disabilities.

Le texte, ou plutôt le pré-texte, apparemment toujours identique à lui-même, est là qui attend une lecture, une relecture, une reconstruction épigénétique, à travers des stades plus qu’interprétatifs, voire plastiques, construisant et reconstruisant le poème espace-temps. Dans le processus, la variabilité des conditions du contexte, chaque accident, les lumières et les ombres, les obstacles, les trébuchements, les pleins et les vides, les bruits et les silences, les phases d’interprétation, la verve de l’improvisation, la variabilité de l’action performative, donc la furor poetico à laquelle nous avons fait allusion tout à l’heure, conduisent à des résultats de temps en temps différents, tous attribuables en deuxième, troisième, énième mesure au pré-texte, qui en tire profit. Le pré-texte aurait donc la capacité de retenir les échos provenant de son analogue dynamique.

- by Giovanni Fontana
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- Performance Studies, Performance Art, Performativity, Body in Performance

Gotipua dance in Odisha - a substitute for Devdasi/Mahari dance after the latter was banned, gotipua dance emerged where young boys dressed like a female dance in the temple during festive season. The talk dealt with the subjective experiences of these dancers as to what happens to them when they have to leave this form of dance after they arrive at a certain age. How is their dancing as a female perceived in the society? What happens to their post-dance lives? What kind of negotiations and transitions they undergo in their lives?

- by Pranta P Patnaik
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- Body in Performance
- by Carla Mazzio
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- Labor Economics, English Literature, Marxism, New Historicism

In two experiments, we used an automatic car simulator to examine the steering control, speed regulation and response to hazards of young adults with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and limited driving experience. In Experiment 1 participants either used the accelerator pedal to regulate their speed, or used the brake pedal when they needed to slow down from a pre-set speed. In Experiment 2, we introduced an auditory distraction condition that shared similarities with maintaining a conversation. Overall, the DCD group produced a larger variance in heading and needed more steering adjustments on straight roads, compared to age-matched controls. When turning bends, the DCD group showed greater difficulty in controlling steering while regulating their speed with the accelerator pedal but this was less problematic when using the brake. The DCD group also responded slower than the control group to pedestrians who walked towards their path. The auditory distraction in Experiment 2 had no visible effects on steering control but increased the reaction times to pedestrians in both groups. We discuss the results in terms of the visuomotor control in steering and the learning of optimal mappings between optic flow and vehicle control.

- by Rita de Oliveira
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- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Driving, Behavioral Decision Making

The Coronavirus pandemic has once again placed the body at the center of political and social debate. However, questions about its status were already relevant before the virus and remain key issues in many conflicts that continue to have a decisive influence on the world. However, what does it mean for an individual body, for the body of a collective, to be safe or unharmed? How is the idea of the integrity of a body linked to how we imagine, experience, represent or define a body? To what extent is it also a matter of aesthetics, of performance? And, what is our responsibility when it comes to create visibility and agency for bodies that are under physical or symbolic attack? Here the question also arises of which bodies we deem worthy of ethical recognition and legal protection.
The online-series Unversehrtheit: Conversations on the Integrities of the Body, initiated by curator and scholar Sandra Noeth brings together international artists and researchers across different disciplines and fields of practice to take a close look at the body and its possible integrities. Discussion-based encounters between experts (In Conversation #1-#7) are combined with dramaturgical sessions (Dramaturgical Perspectives #1-#4) focusing on strategies and practices that artists develop in response to their specific experiences.

- by Sandra Noeth
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- Dance Studies, Performance Studies, Body in Performance, Politics of the Body

Nell'ultimo secolo i progressi della tecnologia applicata alla biologia, alla robotica, alle neuroscienze so- no confluite nel paesaggio algoritmico, “liberando” spazi di ibridazione e contaminazione. Le nuove pratiche artistiche hanno rimesso in discussione alcuni assiomi storici, come il concetto di autorialità e di unicità dell’opera. Si apre un “futuro anteriore" di comunicazione, di connessione, sempre più pronto a consegnarci un immaginario collettivo capace di interpretare cambiamenti epocali. Le sperimentazio- ni tecnologiche hanno “attivato” nello sguardo caleidoscopio dell’arte un’azione performativa connet- tiva dove arte, vita e politica si integrano in una “battaglia” tra processi di democratizzazione della rete e dell’informazione, mediata da corpi “liberati”. Questa è una storia di tante storie possibili, dove la cu- ra assolve la sua funzione nella connessione fra media e vissuto amplificato dalla pratica artistica di un Nuovo Abitare per una cultura ecosistemica. Il corpo-dispositivo con tutte le sue possibilità si dissemina nella rete, reinventando il reale e la malattia e creando spazi “aumentati” per la critica, per l’espressione, per l’azione e per una “salvezza ubiqua”. La grande opportunità dell’esistenza è quella di esprimersi “po(i)eticamente” attraverso i dati per generare un dibattito esistenziale nella cultura.
In the last century the progress of technology applied to biology, robotics, neuroscience have flowed into the algorithmic landscape "freeing" spaces of hybridization and contamination. Multimedia arts and new artistic practices have called into question some historical axioms, such as the concept of authorship and uniqueness of the work. An "earlier future" of communication and connection is opening up, increasingly extended and ready to give us a collective imagination capable of interpreting epochal changes. Techno- logical art and its experiments have "activated" in the kaleidoscopic gaze of art a performative connective action where art, life and politics are integrated in a "battle" between democratization processes of the network and information and mediated by "liberated" bodies. This is a story of many possible stories, where care fulfills its function in the connection between media and experience amplified by the artistic practice of a New Living for an ecosystemic culture. The body-device with all its possibilities is disseminat- ed in the network, reinventing the real and the disease and creating "augmented" spaces for criticism, for expression, for action and for a "ubiquitous salvation". The great opportunity of existence is to express oneself "po(i)etically" through data to generate an existential debate in culture.

- by Giorgio Cipolletta and +3
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- Media and Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Anthropology of the Body, Body Image

"Unter dem viel beschworenen Stichwort des iconic turn galt die wissenschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit der jüngsten Zeit verstärkt den Bildwelten und visuellen Wandlungsprozessen von Kultur. Über diese einseitige Tendenz hinausgehend fragen die Autoren dieses Bandes nach dem kulturprägenden Potential akustischer Phänomene. Exemplarisch widmen sich die Beiträge dabei einer Figur, deren interdisziplinäre Bedeutung bislang wenig Beachtung fand: der Resonanz.
In der Physik wird Resonanz als Mitschwingen eines Systems verstanden, wenn dessen Eigenfrequenz mit der Anregungsfrequenz einer äußeren Kraft annähernd übereinstimmt. Von ihrer Erforschung in Akustik, Instrumentenbau und Kompositionslehre ausgehend, schlägt die Resonanz aber auch in anderen Disziplinen Wellen. Das Potential der akustischen Figur eröffnet vielfältige modellhafte, metaphorische und methodologische Dimensionen. Der Band verfolgt, wie die Resonanz in Wahrnehmungs- und Körpertheorie, Ästhetik, künstlerischer Praxis sowie naturwissenschaftlicher Evidenzproduktion zwischen Eigen- und Fremddynamik changiert. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der durch den New Historicism angeregten Debatte um Kultur- und Resonanzräume, in der sich die Frage nach der Architektonik synchroner wie diachroner Entwicklungen in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Technik stellt. Das Ziel des Buches ist, entfernte Kulturfelder und bislang unbeachtete historische Bezüge in Resonanz zu versetzen."

- by Rebecca Wolf
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- Cultural History, Music Theory, Performance Studies, Radio And Sound Studies

In this paper I will discuss some concerns that the creative team of Umbilical , a collaborative multimedia arts project of which I am conceptual director, faced regarding the portrayal of female sexual identity through the embodied and representational media of dance and digital image. Representing the erotic raises creative challenges for any artist. Representing the female erotic raises particular conceptual and aesthetic challenges, provoking concerns regarding the ubiquitous, yet often apocryphal and arbitrary, nature of cultural and social signifiers inscribed upon female sexual identity. Visual and embodied media which are marked by such cultural signifiers inscribed upon female sexual identity often belie or fail to do justice to the immanent and intimate nature of individual female sexual and erotic experience. As representational, embodied and performative media, dance and digital image risk an over exposition of the intimacy of sexual experience: the intrinsic is made extrinsic. In this paper I will address some of the most challenging conceptual and aesthetic concerns that the creative team have attempted to address in Umbilical such as how to negotiate with such manufactured signifiers for the sexual/sexualised, erotic/eroticised female viewed body.

- by Dr Tina Kinsella
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- Gender Studies, Ethics, Performing Arts, Sex and Gender
- by Charlotte Kroløkke
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- Cultural Studies, Environmental Sociology, Gender Studies, Ecotourism

The relations between body, space, and time are of interest for many architects and
theorists. Body and space, considered separately, form discrete wholes. However,
bringing the two together reveals their interdependence. This research emerges
from that perspective: that body and space must be considered in relationship.
They are also affiliated with time through performance: specifically for this paper,
art and architecture. Body disturbs the order of the space, and space violates and
ruins the body.1 Both are apt to violate and ruin the expected behaviour of the other
one. This relation is termed ‘manipulation tension’ in this research. Space tends to
manipulate the body using its spatial compulsivity and intangible aura. Body also
has the same tendency on space and positions itself using methods such as
movement, perception, sensation, and events. Body and space come into balance
using their own manipulation methods. This balance is not a mutual reversion to
the neutral state. It is an equilibrium based on stress, which comes from their
natural tendencies. The purposes of this research are to study the aforementioned
subjects (body and space), reveal their methods (perception, sensation, movement,
kinesis, events, and spatial configuration), and highlight the ‘performance
moments’ that can be correlated with time. In this research, space is considered as
a structure in relation with body. It is built through experience and performatives.
Body is acknowledged as a concept - from a perspective of physical and
intellectual integrity - which sustains its contextual relation to the space it exists.
This research explicates an analogy of artistic and architectural examples, which
approach ‘performance’ using body (contemporary art) and space (architecture).

- by damla duru and +1
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- Performance Art, Body in Performance, Architectural Design
- by Larissa Schindler
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- Tacit Knowledge, Ethnography, Sociology of Knowledge, Ethnomethodology
- by Heather L Corwin
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- Creativity, The Body, Body in Performance, Acting

""From the Theology of the Robe to the Atheology of Nudity. An Essay in Interpreting a Theme from Agaben's Philosophy" Abstract A short essay presenting Agamben's discussion of the theological concept of nudity in the context of his... more

""From the Theology of the Robe to the Atheology of Nudity. An Essay in Interpreting a Theme from Agaben's Philosophy"
Abstract
A short essay presenting Agamben's discussion of the theological concept of nudity in the context of his general critique of the political theology and the metaphysical notion of a mute voice."

- by Mikołaj Ratajczak
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- Theology, Political Theory, Sexuality, History of Sexuality

The PhD dissertation Cyberpunk and New Media Art: Digital Art and Performance aims to examine the literary and visual legacy of the Cyberpunk movement and to explore its ideas, concepts and methodologies in the context of New Media artistic practices. The goal of this work is to comment on a multidisciplinary level on the influence of Cyberpunk theory and aesthetics. Furthermore, it seeks to identify its practice in the construction of the creative mechanisms of contemporary digital art and media performance.
The Cyberpunk phenomenon is approached through the definition of its socio- historical, philosophical and aesthetic context as a science fiction genre. Likewise, New Media Art is defined through the characteristics of its language, its precursors, its pioneers and the state of the digital art currents. By focusing on the terminology and the creative expression of Cyberpunk and Media Art, this thesis sets off to examine the artistic results that emerge from their union. Special emphasis is given to the fields of virtual technologies, technology and mythology and the body as a technologically enhanced interface.

- by Afroditi Psarra
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- Mythology, New Media, Virtual Environments, Posthumanism

"In this study we examined the timing of optical information pick-up in basketball jump shooting using an intermittent viewing technique. We expected shooters to prefer to look at the basket as late as possible under the shooting style used. Seven experts with a high shooting style and five experts with a low shooting style took 50 jump shots while wearing liquid crystal glasses that opened and closed at pre-set intervals. In principle, under this constraint, the participants could control
when they saw the basket by actively modulating the timing of their movements. Analyses of the phasing of the movements relative to the events defined on the glasses revealed that low-style shooters preferred to see the basket just before the ball passed their line of sight, whereas high-style shooters tended to view the basket from underneath the ball after it passed their line of sight. Thus, most shooters preferred to pick up optical information as late as possible given the adopted shooting style. We conclude that, in dynamic far aiming tasks such as basketball jump shooting, late pick-up of optical information is critical for the successful guidance of movements."

Cosa significa protestare per le strade, perché occupare uno spazio nella città? Veniamo da un recente risveglio, da anni che hanno riportato la politica nelle piazze e nelle strade. In tutto il mondo uomini e donne sono scesi in piazza manifestando un'urgenza condivisa di resistenza, di riappropriazione degli spazi e della capacità di agire e fare politica a partire dalle vite. Come comprendere la specificità di queste esperienze? Perché chiamarle rivolte urbane e non rivoluzioni? Quali sono gli strumenti per leggere una rivolta senza astrarre, generalizzare, neutralizzare? Stare per le strade è la pratica di 'stasis' che crea lo spazio per la rivolta e contemporaneamente dispone un modo affettivo di vivere lo spazio urbano. Durante una protesta, la corporeità è esposta in tutta la sua intensità appassionata e vulnerabile. Il corpo al centro permette di cogliere la relazione che questi eventi intessono con gli spazi urbani, il nuovo senso della politica che propongono e i rapporti tra uomini e donne nel momento della protesta.

- by Federica Castelli
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- Political Sociology, Social Movements, Gender Studies, Political Philosophy

RESUMEN - ABSTRACT
Las investigaciones aquí desarrolladas buscan una aproximación interdisciplinaria al fenómeno de la salud y la enfermedad, así como a la naturaleza de la práctica médica en la posmodernidad. La filosofía de la medicina se inspira fundamentalmente en la actual filosofía de la ciencia, que ha abandonado la idea de una realidad objetiva o de un orden natural inmutable, reemplazándola por la representación de nuestro conocimiento, adquiriendo así uno de sus rasgos fundamentales, el carácter holístico e interpretativo.
Enfermedad, Biopolítica y Salud pública
Las investigaciones aquí desarrolladas buscan una aproximación interdisciplinaria al fenómeno de la salud y la enfermedad, así como a la naturaleza de la práctica médica en la posmodernidad. La filosofía de la medicina se inspira fundamentalmente en la actual filosofía de la ciencia, que ha abandonado la idea de una realidad objetiva o de un orden natural inmutable, reemplazándola por la representación de nuestro conocimiento, adquiriendo así uno de sus rasgos fundamentales, el carácter holístico e interpretativo.
Llevado al extremo de la irracionalidad, el esfuerzo de la medicina por preservar y cuidar la salud de las personas ha demostrado que es capaz de volverse en contra de aquellos a quienes pretende proteger. Cuando los médicos se empecinan en extender la vida aún más allá de las posibilidades fisiológicas y del deseo de sus pacientes, aparece lo que se ha dado en llamar el encarnizamiento terapéutico. Pero prolongar la vida innecesariamente no sólo perjudica a quienes se les priva del derecho a una muerte digna. En un mundo donde los recursos públicos que se destinan al cuidado de la salud no sólo son finitos, sino que muchas veces resultan insuficientes, su uso irracional parece cercenar aún más el acceso de la población en general al cuidado de su salud. Hoy se acepta el establecimiento de un límite en la asistencia médica, pero la cuestión es definir cuál es y quién establece, y aun más, cómo se valida este límite. Un punto de partida puede ser la observación de casos y el cambio actitudinal frente al manejo de estos conceptos.
Dr. ADOLFO VÁSQUEZ ROCCA

- by Adolfo Vasquez Rocca
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- Critical Theory, Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory

This paper examines various depictions of the female body on-screen in Haseena Atom Bomb (dir. Saeed Khan, 1990), by a close reading of the picturization of the three main female characters: Haseena, Shabana and Reshma (with an emphasis upon Haseena). The paper explores the physicality of these characters, the various factors that accompany or aid the depiction of their bodies on screen (including the roles of camera, editing, and mise-en-scène), and the broader narrative themes intertwined with the depiction of the female body in a rape-revenge film. It also investigates the female body's various transitions from being recipient of violence to a perpetrator of violence and vice versa, discussing the implications of these various representations alongside each other-and whether they allow for us to observe changing representations of the female body on-screen in Pakistani cinema.

- by Syeda Nida Hasan
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- Gender and Sexuality, Body in Performance, Cinema Studies, Male Gaze

Investigación del performance art -arte acción- en Chile, desde 1974 al 2000.

- by Brian Smith Hudson and +1
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- Performance Studies, Performance Art, Performance, Body in Performance
- by Petra Kuppers
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- Dance Studies, Disability Studies, Performance Studies, The Body
- by Ashley Chin-Mark
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- Mathematics, Physics, History of Mathematics, Body in Performance

京都学派の哲学者たちは、後の現象学的身体論を先取りするような身体観を提示した。本稿は、こうした京都学派の身体論の生成と展開を西田幾多郎や田辺元のテキストに沿って内在的に読解しながら、その本来の近代認識論批判の立場（日本的「身体論」）が文化本質主義的イデオロギー（「日本的身体」論）へと転じる機制を明らかにした。そのうえで、20世紀後半になって古典芸能の身体性や世阿弥の能楽論を安易に「日本文化」に還元して解釈する「日本的身体」論が横行する言説状況が到来したことを批判した。
The Kyoto School philosophers, Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime, etc., produced theoretical discourses of the body in 1930's, which foreran Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body. This paper reveals the process of their discussion and examines how those metaphysical debates on the body that appeared in modern Japan(日本的「身体論」) fell into cultural essentialism(「日本的身体」論).

- by Taro Yokoyama
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- Japanese Philosophy, Noh, Phenomenology of the body, Body in Performance

Most contemporary scholarly work on posthumanism and transhumanism rests on the idea that both perspectives are part of an ontological continuum. This article, however, acknowledges and explores the differences between them. In order to prove that evident theoretical –and, therefore, practical– differences exist between both positions, a genealogy of their development from the 1980s is proposed. The definition of the two different ontologies associated to each of the discussed positions is followed by an analysis of the consequences that this theoretical separation would have for research. This paper also lays out a revision of their epistemologies and their ethical and practical implications. To conclude, we offer a contextualized justification of why the two discussed positions are actually antithetic, and how considering them as such would be useful for future research in the field.

- by Nicola Zengiaro
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- History, Ontology, Ethics, Epistemology
- by Thomas Nail
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- Creative Writing, Critical Theory, History, Cultural History
- by Jessie Eggers
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- Dance Studies, Performance Studies, Body in Performance

Ritual has pride of place in the oral religions of Africa. It is the primary medium through which religious thought is expressed and transmitted. Before launching into a discussion of any particular rituals, however, there are two common... more

Performanso meno laukas, kartu su vizualiųjų menų lauku, Lietuvoje patiria itin didelę atskirtį, nes yra
subordinuotas tiek meno, tiek kitų laukų atţvilgiu. Neretai performanso menas, apskritai, nėra laikomas meninio
diskurso dalimi. Galima manyti, jog tai vyksta dėl performanso meno apibrėţimo nesklandumų. Nors sąvokos
„performansas“ ir „performatyvumas“ naudojamos skirtinguose menuose, svarbu nepamiršti, kad jos taip pat plačiai
diskutuojamos ir sociologijoje, filosofijoje bei kitose disciplinose. Analizuojant mokslinę literatūrą ir įvairius šaltinius,
ima ryškėti šių sąvokų konceptualizavimo skirtumai ir panašumai bei jų vartojimo ypatybės. Šiame darbe, siekiama
išsiaiškinti kokiais bruoţais pasiţymi performanso menininkių kūniškasis hexis. Remiantis P. Bourdieu teorinėmis
prieigomis, pastaroji koncepcija išryškėja analizuojant santykį tarp performanso meno lauko ir šios meno srities
menininkių habitus.

- by Renida Baltrušaitytė
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- Performance Studies, Contemporary Art, Performance Art, Live Art

ההלכה היהודית מתמקדת בעיקר במעשה עצמו (ופחות בכוונה). מכאן החשיבות הגדולה של הגוף כמי שמוציא אל הפועל את המעשה ההלכתי. במאמר זה אני משתמש בפנומנולוגיה של הגוף ובעיקר במרלו-פונטי, על להאיר בחירות מסוימות של מעצבי ההלכה. במה המעשה ההלכתי... more

- by Yakir Englander
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- Religion, Sociology of Religion, Jewish Law, Hebrew Literature

This article unpacks the production and impact of the Foley punch in David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) to theorize the sonic transmission of affect in cinema. It advocates transduction as a model for a soundtrack analysis that acknowledges the already-mediated nature of aural subjectivity and allows for authenticity in electronically mediated experiences.

- by Mack Hagood
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- Media Studies, Film Music And Sound, Sound studies, Sound

Plastic surgery, obesity, anorexia, pregnancy, prescription drugs, disability, piercings, steroids, and sex re-assignment surgery: over the past two decades there have been major changes in the ways we understand, treat, alter, and care... more

- by Marin Kosut
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- Sociology, Queer Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Cultural Sociology
- by Faezeh Mahmoudzadeh
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- Performing Arts, Performance Studies, Performance Art, Costume and Identity