Poiesis

Author : Mihai Popa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527578746

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The Anthropology of Poiesis by Mihai Popa Pdf

The volume addresses a distinct field in the anthropology of culture, namely that of creativity. It defines the cultural field of poiesis, which includes not only the poetic creation, but also the scientific and philosophical one, and, above all, insists on the connection of creativity with the metaphysical spirituality, the mythological imaginary, and the sacred realm. Creation is primarily personal—this phenomenon is obvious both in the field of art and of theory. This book considers that it is necessary to emphasize, from the perspective of cultural anthropology, the importance and significance of the creative act that binds all fields of culture. To this end, it gives new meanings to the relationship between the symbolic and abstract in the field of cultural creation, a relationship considered from the perspective of three concepts—beauty, harmony and dynamic asymmetry—as well as the relationship between creative intuition and constructive reason. The book adopts a historical-comparative approach, from the perspective of the dialectic of the creative act, the becoming and synthesis of some opposite elements, coordinated by the abstract-creative principle: dynamis and symetros, rational and symbolic, immanent and transcendent. It shows that the meaning of experience as a creative synthesis is primordial and fundamental to human existence. The book is addressed both to specialists in the field of philosophy of art or cultural anthropology, and to the general reader who wants to approach the original meaning of spiritual creation, poiesis, which is the unification of all possible experiences, both feelings and knowledge.

Author : Xin Wei Sha
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262318921

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Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter by Xin Wei Sha Pdf

A groundbreaking conception of interactive media, inspired by continuity, field, and process, with fresh implications for art, computer science, and philosophy of technology. In this challenging but exhilarating work, Sha Xin Wei argues for an approach to materiality inspired by continuous mathematics and process philosophy. Investigating the implications of such an approach to media and matter in the concrete setting of installation- or event-based art and technology, Sha maps a genealogy of topological media—that is, of an articulation of continuous matter that relinquishes a priori objects, subjects, and egos and yet constitutes value and novelty. Doing so, he explores the ethico-aesthetic consequences of topologically creating performative events and computational media. Sha's interdisciplinary investigation is informed by thinkers ranging from Heraclitus to Alfred North Whitehead to Gilbert Simondon to Alain Badiou to Donna Haraway to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Sha traces the critical turn from representation to performance, citing a series of installation-events envisioned and built over the past decade. His analysis offers a fresh way to conceive and articulate interactive materials of new media, one inspired by continuity, field, and philosophy of process. Sha explores the implications of this for philosophy and social studies of technology and science relevant to the creation of research and art. Weaving together philosophy, aesthetics, critical theory, mathematics, and media studies, he shows how thinking about the world in terms of continuity and process can be informed by computational technologies, and what such thinking implies for emerging art and technology.

Author : Stephen K. Levine
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Limited
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020835539

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Poiesis by Stephen K. Levine Pdf

This work argues that poiesis, the creative act, as also the act by which we affirm our identity and humanity, and shows the essential affinity of the creative and therapeutic processes. The context in which modern therapy emerged is considered, as are various aspects of arts therapies.

Author : Xin Wei Sha
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262019514

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Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter by Xin Wei Sha Pdf

A groundbreaking conception of interactive media, inspired by continuity, field, and process, with fresh implications for art, computer science, and philosophy of technology. In this challenging but exhilarating work, Sha Xin Wei argues for an approach to materiality inspired by continuous mathematics and process philosophy. Investigating the implications of such an approach to media and matter in the concrete setting of installation- or event-based art and technology, Sha maps a genealogy of topological media—that is, of an articulation of continuous matter that relinquishes a priori objects, subjects, and egos and yet constitutes value and novelty. Doing so, he explores the ethico-aesthetic consequences of topologically creating performative events and computational media. Sha's interdisciplinary investigation is informed by thinkers ranging from Heraclitus to Alfred North Whitehead to Gilbert Simondon to Alain Badiou to Donna Haraway to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Sha traces the critical turn from representation to performance, citing a series of installation-events envisioned and built over the past decade. His analysis offers a fresh way to conceive and articulate interactive materials of new media, one inspired by continuity, field, and philosophy of process. Sha explores the implications of this for philosophy and social studies of technology and science relevant to the creation of research and art. Weaving together philosophy, aesthetics, critical theory, mathematics, and media studies, he shows how thinking about the world in terms of continuity and process can be informed by computational technologies, and what such thinking implies for emerging art and technology.

Author : Raúl García
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000429114

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The Event of Psychopoetics by Raúl García Pdf

The Event of Psychopoetics overviews and investigates the notion of psychopoetics, a sociopsychological event that involves re-creative slips and that emerges under certain cultural conditions and power relations in the context of everyday interaction and through certain modes of dialoguing and conversing. This transdisciplinary text takes the reader through the thought processes of Deleuze, Guattari, Agamben, Maffesoli, Foucault, Butler, Haraway, and Braidotti, among others, addressing debates that are integral to the critique of psychology and its devices of subjectivization and normalization. Garcia takes a unique approach by reflecting on how psychopoetics contrasts institutionalized dialogues, while constantly emphasizing the generative and transformative potency of social worlds effectuated in the impetuous play of poetics. The book combines the rigor of academic research with the creative display of ideas that open diverse, suggestive lines of reflection on everyday interlocution and its possibilities of reinvention, modes of social existence, and the relation between subjectivity and the designs of power. A truly unique reading experience, this book is ideal for students, instructors, and researchers in the fields of philosophy, social psychology and sociological thought, discourse studies, literary theory, and cultural analysis.

Author : Paolo J. Knill,Helen Nienhaus Barba,Margo N Fuchs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art therapy
ISBN : 0968533035

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Minstrels of Soul by Paolo J. Knill,Helen Nienhaus Barba,Margo N Fuchs Pdf

Paolo Knill, known as a founder of expressive arts therapy, has collaborated with his colleagues to produce an essential introduction to the philosophy and practice of this emerging field. Second Edition includes new Foreword by Paolo J. Knill.

Author : Elena Tzelepis,Athena Athanasiou
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438431017

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Rewriting Difference by Elena Tzelepis,Athena Athanasiou Pdf

A transdisciplinary reader on Luce Irigaray's reading and re-writing of Ancient Greek texts.

Author : João Biehl,Vincanne Adams
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478024378

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Arc of Interference by João Biehl,Vincanne Adams Pdf

The radically humanistic essays in Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman’s medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the essays advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human/nonhuman, self/other, us/them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book’s multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today’s world and a badly needed moral perch from which to peer toward just horizons. Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, Salmaan Keshavjee, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Adriana Petryna

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803824192

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Digital Humanism by Christian Fuchs Pdf

Digital Humanism explores how Humanism can help us to critically understand how digital technologies shape society and humanity, providing an introduction to Humanism in the digital age.

Author : Ellen G. Levine,Paul Antze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Arts
ISBN : 096853306X

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In Praise of Poiesis by Ellen G. Levine,Paul Antze Pdf

This volume is offered as a gift to the life and work of Stephen K. Levine and to the thinkers and the practitioners in the field. In the spirit of Levine's thinking, it offers a lively array of ideas about the current state of work in the expressive arts: therapy, coaching, education, consulting, and social change. This collection of writings, poems and visual images honours the thinking and the work of Stephen K. Levine, philosopher of the field of expressive arts therapy. Levine's work in this field over the past 25 years has focused on the central role of art and art-making in human experience, calling attention to the uniquely human act of shaping and its embodiment in artistic activity. Levine places the concept of poiesis at the center of his thinking and, by doing so, provides an important guidepost for practitioners of therapy, education and social change work through the arts. His ideas have influenced a whole generation of teachers and practitioners of expressive arts therapy and this volume is a testament to that influence. Levine has issued a series of challenges to the authors contained in this volume. Each writer, student or colleague, has responded from his or her own standpoint. In the longer articles, the writers were asked to address ideas at the forefront of their thinking in these times. For the medium-length pieces, they were summoned to respond to a concern: can the expressive arts move from its original focus on psychological disorder and its treatment to a broader social and political perspective? Finally, in the short responses, the writers were asked to consider what new directions are needed for the field of expressive arts.

Author : Adrian Coates
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725272392

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The Aesthetics of Discipleship by Adrian Coates Pdf

Discipleship is embodied. Formation in the Christian life is not an otherworldly exercise but one that plays out in this world, interwoven with everyday sensory experience in ordinary life. The Aesthetics of Discipleship explores this dynamic through Kierkegaard’s framing of “aesthetic existence”—the sensory experience of being “in the moment”—further developed by Bonhoeffer, as operating within a realm of freedom, encompassing not only art but play, friendship, and cultural formation. In addition to Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer, the work of Iain McGilchrist, Graham Ward, and Nicholas Wolterstorff is employed to offer a fresh perspective on discipleship, “from below”: Everyday sensory experiences are integral not only to being human but to the practice of discipleship, such that discipleship integrates aesthetic, ethical, and religious existence. Aesthetic existence unhinged from a life of faith or fueled by distorted Christendom creates and sustains aestheticized pseudorealities centered on the self. Mature aesthetic existence, however, anchored in love for God, plays a fundamental role in the Christian life, both as the incarnational celebration of being fully human, and also through the preconscious formation of imaginaries by which we live.

Author : Berel Lang
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838750303

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Philosophy and the Art of Writing by Berel Lang Pdf

Author : Yuk Hui,Pieter Lemmens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000396362

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Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui,Pieter Lemmens Pdf

This volume is initial reflections on the meaning and the implications of Yuk Hui’s notion of cosmotechnics, which opens up an anti-universalist and pluralist perspective on technology beyond the West. Martin Heidegger’s famous analysis of the essence of technology as enframing and as rooted in ancient Greek techne has had a crucial influence on the understanding and critique of technological society and culture in the twentieth century. However, it is still unclear to what extent his analysis can also be applied to the development of technology outside of ‘the West’, e.g. in China, Africa, and Latin America, particularly against the backdrop of receding Western domination and impending global ecological disaster. Acknowledging the planetary expansion of Western technology already observed by Heidegger, yet also recognizing the existence of non-Western origins of technical relationships to the cosmos, Yuk Hui’s notion of cosmotechnics calls for a rethinking – in dialogue with decolonial studies and the so-called ontological turn in contemporary anthropology – of the question concerning technology which challenges the universality still present in Heidegger (as well as in Simondon and Stiegler) and proposes a radical technological or rather cosmotechnical pluralism or technodiversity. The contributors to this volume critically engage with this proposal and examine the possible implications of Hui’s cosmotechnical turn in thinking about technology as it becomes a planetary force in our current age of the Anthropocene. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Author : Mervyn Hartwig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317420712

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Dictionary of Critical Realism by Mervyn Hartwig Pdf

Dictionary of Critical Realism fulfils a vital gap in the literature, Critical Realism is often criticised for being too opaque and deploying too much jargon, thereby making the concepts inaccessible for a wider audience. However, as Hartwig puts it 'Just as the tools of the various skilled trades need to be precision-engineered for specific, interrelated functions, so meta-theory requires concepts honed for specific interrelated tasks: it is impossible to think creatively at that level without them.' This Dictionary seeks to redress this problem; to throw open the important contribution of Critical Realism to a wider audience for the first time, by thoroughly explaining all the key concepts and key developments. It includes 500 entries on these themes, and has contributions from major players in field. However this text does not stop there, it goes further than simply elucidating the concepts and includes a number of essays which use the notions in important areas, thereby demonstrating the appropriate use of the concepts in action to encourage their wider use. This book will become a requisite reference tool for Critical Realist scholars and Philosophers and Social scientists alike will enjoy this vital introduction and explanatory text of the indispensable ideas contained within the dynamic and vibrant school of Critical Realism.

Author : Yasuo Imai,Christoph Wulf
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 3830967616

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Concepts of Aesthetic Education by Yasuo Imai,Christoph Wulf Pdf