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keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
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This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable
approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks's
original analyses - concerned with the lived detail of action and
language-in-interaction, discoverable in members' actual activities
- demonstrated a means of doing sociology that had previously
seemed impossible. In so doing, Sacks provided for highly
technical, detailed, yet stunningly simple solutions to some of the
most trenchant troubles for the social sciences relating to
language, culture, meaning, knowledge, action, and social
organisation. In this original collection, scholars working in a
range of different fields, including sociology, human geography,
communication and media studies, social psychology, and
linguistics, outline the ways in which their work has been
inspired, influenced, and shaped by Sacks's approach, as well as
how their current research is taking Sacks's legacy forward in new
directions. As such, the collection is intended to provide both an
introduction to, and critical exploration of, the work of Harvey
Sacks and its continued relevance for the analysis of contemporary
society.
Discover the art of finding more through having less: more time,
more calm, more energy, more money, more you. Filled with practical
tips and ideas, this book will guide you toward a simpler way of
life. Learn how to reduce your clutter and your stress levels, find
advice on mastering your schedule and making time for what matters,
and enrich your everyday by putting quality before quantity. From
time to time, we all get lost in the flurry of a busy life, but we
can always uncover a path back to our best and happiest selves. All
you need is focus, a slower pace and the simple power of "less".
Grounded in continental philosophy, The Conjectural Body: Gender,
Race, and the Philosophy of Music uses feminist, critical race, and
postcolonial theories to examine music, race, and gender as
discourses that emerge and evolve with one another.. In the first
section, author Robin James asks why philosophers commonly use
music to explain embodied social identity and inequality. She looks
at late twentieth-century postcolonial theory, Rousseau's early
musical writings, and Kristeva's reading of Mozart and Schoenberg
to develop a theory of the "conjectural body," arguing that this is
the notion of embodiment that informs Western conceptions of raced,
gendered, and resonating bodies. The second section addresses the
ways in which norms about human bodily difference-such as gender
and race-continue to ground serious and popular hierarchies well
after twentieth and twenty-first century art and philosophy have
deconstructed this binary. Reading Adorno's work on popular music
through Irigaray's critique of commodification, James establishes
and explains the feminization of popular music. She then locates
this notion of the feminized popular in Nietzsche, and argues that
he critiques Wagner by making an argument for the positive
aesthetic (and epistemological) value of feminized popular music,
such as Bizet and Italian opera. Following from Nietzsche, she
argues that feminists ought and need to take "the popular"
seriously, both as a domain of artistic and scholarly inquiry as
well as a site of legitimate activism. The book concludes with an
analysis of philosophy's continued hostility toward feminism,
real-life women, and popular culture. While the study of gender,
race, and popular culture has become a fixture in many areas of the
academy, philosophy and musicology continue to resist attempts to
take these objects as objects of serious academic study.
White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the
significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of
complicity, and how being a "good white" is implicated in racial
injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race
scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into
consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem
rather than simply restrict scholarship to the problem of white
privilege and white normative invisibility. Ultimately, the text
challenges the contemporary rhetoric of a color-blind or
color-evasive world in a discourse that is critically engaging and
sophisticated, accessible, and persuasive.
This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable
approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks's
original analyses - concerned with the lived detail of action and
language-in-interaction, discoverable in members' actual activities
- demonstrated a means of doing sociology that had previously
seemed impossible. In so doing, Sacks provided for highly
technical, detailed, yet stunningly simple solutions to some of the
most trenchant troubles for the social sciences relating to
language, culture, meaning, knowledge, action, and social
organisation. In this original collection, scholars working in a
range of different fields, including sociology, human geography,
communication and media studies, social psychology, and
linguistics, outline the ways in which their work has been
inspired, influenced, and shaped by Sacks's approach, as well as
how their current research is taking Sacks's legacy forward in new
directions. As such, the collection is intended to provide both an
introduction to, and critical exploration of, the work of Harvey
Sacks and its continued relevance for the analysis of contemporary
society.
While the earliest character representations in video games were
rudimentary in terms of their presentation and performance, the
virtual characters that appear in games today can be extremely
complex and lifelike. These are characters that have the potential
to make a powerful and emotional connection with gamers. As virtual
characters become more intricate and varied, there is a growing
need to examine the theory and practice of virtual character
design. This book seeks to develop a series of critical frameworks
to support the analysis and design of virtual characters. Virtual
Character Design for Games and Interactive Media covers a breadth
of topics to establish a relationship between pertinent artistic
and scientific theories and good character design practice.
Targeted at students, researchers, and professionals, the book aims
to show how both character presentation and character performance
can be enhanced through careful consideration of underlying theory.
The book begins with a focus on virtual character presentation,
underpinned by a discussion of biological, artistic, and
sociological principles. Next it looks at the performance of
virtual characters, encompassing the psychology of emotion and
personality, narrative and game design theories, animation, and
acting. The book concludes with a series of applied virtual
character design examples. These examples examine the aesthetics of
player characters, the design and performance of the wider cast of
game characters, and the performance of characters within complex,
hyperreal worlds.
White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the
significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of
complicity, and how being a "good white" is implicated in racial
injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race
scholarship and critical whiteness studies to take into
consideration what it means specifically to be a white problem
rather than simply restrict scholarship to the problem of white
privilege and white normative invisibility. Ultimately, the text
challenges the contemporary rhetoric of a color-blind or
color-evasive world in a discourse that is critically engaging and
sophisticated, accessible, and persuasive.
While the earliest character representations in video games were
rudimentary in terms of their presentation and performance, the
virtual characters that appear in games today can be extremely
complex and lifelike. These are characters that have the potential
to make a powerful and emotional connection with gamers. As virtual
characters become more intricate and varied, there is a growing
need to examine the theory and practice of virtual character
design. This book seeks to develop a series of critical frameworks
to support the analysis and design of virtual characters. Virtual
Character Design for Games and Interactive Media covers a breadth
of topics to establish a relationship between pertinent artistic
and scientific theories and good character design practice.
Targeted at students, researchers, and professionals, the book aims
to show how both character presentation and character performance
can be enhanced through careful consideration of underlying theory.
The book begins with a focus on virtual character presentation,
underpinned by a discussion of biological, artistic, and
sociological principles. Next it looks at the performance of
virtual characters, encompassing the psychology of emotion and
personality, narrative and game design theories, animation, and
acting. The book concludes with a series of applied virtual
character design examples. These examples examine the aesthetics of
player characters, the design and performance of the wider cast of
game characters, and the performance of characters within complex,
hyperreal worlds.
The Lost Ethnographies reports on the methodological lessons learnt
from ethnographic projects that, viewed superficially, failed.
Experienced researchers write about projects they planned, and were
excited about, which then never began, had to be abandoned, or took
such unexpected directions that it became a different piece of work
altogether. The topics and settings are varied and disparate, but
the lessons learnt have important similarities. This collection
focuses on absences; topics and settings that remain under
researched; taken for granted aspects of social life that have not
been scrutinized, and finally the potential insights that are
gained when absences are carefully examined and explored. Readers
will learn a great deal about research design, fundraising, writing
up, access negotiations, serendipity in the field, and the complex
interaction between the body and the brain of the ethnographer and
the realities of ethnographic research. Maximising learning from
the 'failings' of ourselves and of others is the positive message
of the collection. The most poignant chapters are those in which
the author 'returns' to reread and reflect on a past project;
something that is not done often enough, partly because it can be
painful. The accounts of projects which had to be abandoned or
radically changed offer hope to researchers facing difficulties in
their own investigations. These reflections, on projects that were
never even begun, show how to gain fresh energy and social science
insight from apparent rejection, and the collection approaches the
whole concept of lost ethnography in provocative ways.
Why longevity? For a number of years, the Fondation IPSEN has been
devoting considerable effort to the various aspects of ageing, not
only to age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, but also to the
Centenarians, the paragon of positive ageing. The logical
continuation of this approach is to address the question of
longevity in global terms. Behind the extreme values, what span is
accessible to all of us and likely to directly concern most of our
contemporaries? The individual and col lective increase in the
duration of life is one of the most striking phenomena of our time.
It could be one of the most significant events in the "bio-social"
history of humanity. The increase in life expectancy at old age,
which started a few de cades ago only, is going on. The most
well-advised observer had not foreseen or even dared hope for this
increase which will drastically affect our everyday life, our
habits and our behavior. In the fragment of human history we are
living in, it is our responsibility to deal with this major
transformation for the species. Such a transformation needs an
effort from all to adapt to the new conditions. This transformation
has to be managed rather than simply experienced, anticip ated
rather than followed, in order to avoid any attempt to pervert this
major step forward. All that was present during the first symposium
of the new series on longevity of the Colloques Medecine et
Recherche convened by the Fondation IPSEN."
When most people think that "little girls should be seen and not
heard," a noisy, riotous scream can be revolutionary. But that's
not the case anymore. (Cis/Het/White) Girls aren't supposed to be
virginal, passive objects, but Poly-Styrene-like sirens who scream
back in spectacularly noisy and transgressive ways as they "Lean
In." Resilience is the new, neoliberal feminine ideal: real women
overcome all the objectification and silencing that impeded their
foremothers. Resilience discourse incites noisy damage, like
screams, so that it can be recycled for a profit. It turns the
crises posed by avant-garde noise, feminist critique, and black
aesthetics into opportunities for strengthening the vitality of
multi-racial white supremacist patriarchy (MRWaSP). Reading
contemporary pop music - Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Calvin Harris - with
and against political philosophers like Michel Foucault, feminists
like Patricia Hill Collins, and media theorists like Steven
Shaviro, /Resilience & Melancholy/ shows how resilience
discourse manifests in both pop music and in feminist politics. In
particular, it argues that resilient femininity is a post-feminist
strategy for producing post-race white supremacy. Resilience
discourse allows women to "Lean In" to MRWaSP privilege because
their overcoming and leaning-in actively produce blackness as
exception, as pathology, as death. The book also considers
alternatives to resilience found in the work of Beyonce, Rihanna,
and Atari Teenage Riot. Updating Freud, James calls these
pathological, diseased iterations of resilience "melancholy."
Melancholy makes resilience unprofitable, that is, incapable of
generating enough surplus value to keep MRWaSP capitalism healthy.
Investing in the things that resilience discourse renders
exceptional, melancholic siren songs like Rihanna's "Diamonds"
steer us off course, away from resilient "life" and into the death.
In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century
conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the
social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support
white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Drawing on fields ranging
from philosophy and sound studies to black feminist studies and
musicology, James shows how what she calls the sonic episteme-a set
of sound-based rules that qualitatively structure social practices
in much the same way that neoliberalism uses statistics-employs a
politics of exception to maintain hegemonic neoliberal and
biopolitical projects. Where James sees the normcore averageness of
Taylor Swift and Spandau Ballet as contributing to the sonic
episteme's marginalization of nonnormative conceptions of gender,
race, and personhood, the black feminist political ontologies she
identifies in Beyonce's and Rihanna's music challenge such
marginalization. In using sound to theorize political ontology,
subjectivity, and power, James argues for the further articulation
of sonic practices that avoid contributing to the systemic
relations of domination that biopolitical neoliberalism creates and
polices.
All you need to know about the theory and practice of teaching
primary science. If you are training to be a primary school
teacher, a knowledge of the primary science curriculum is not
enough, you need to know HOW to teach science in primary schools.
This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary
science. It takes a focused look at the practical aspects of
teaching and covers the important skills of classroom management,
planning, monitoring and assessment, and relates them specifically
to primary science. This new edition now includes a new chapter on
creative curriculum approaches.
In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century
conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the
social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support
white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Drawing on fields ranging
from philosophy and sound studies to black feminist studies and
musicology, James shows how what she calls the sonic episteme-a set
of sound-based rules that qualitatively structure social practices
in much the same way that neoliberalism uses statistics-employs a
politics of exception to maintain hegemonic neoliberal and
biopolitical projects. Where James sees the normcore averageness of
Taylor Swift and Spandau Ballet as contributing to the sonic
episteme's marginalization of nonnormative conceptions of gender,
race, and personhood, the black feminist political ontologies she
identifies in Beyonce's and Rihanna's music challenge such
marginalization. In using sound to theorize political ontology,
subjectivity, and power, James argues for the further articulation
of sonic practices that avoid contributing to the systemic
relations of domination that biopolitical neoliberalism creates and
polices.
In 1989, an Ohio radio station called WOXY launched a sonic
disruption to both corporate rock and to its conservative home
region, programming an omnivorous range of genres and artists while
being staunchly committed to local independent art and media. In
the 1990s, as alternative rock went mainstream and radio grew
increasingly homogeneous, WOXY gained international renown as one
of Rolling Stone's "Last Great Independent Radio" stations. The
station projected a philosophy that prioritized such
independence—the idea that truly progressive, transgressive,
futuristic disruptions of the status quo were possible only when
practiced with and for other people. In The Future of Rock and
Roll, philosopher Robin James uses WOXY's story to argue against a
corporate vision of independence—in which everyone fends for
themselves—and in favor of an alternative way of thinking and
relating to one another that disrupts norms but is nevertheless
supported by communities. Against the standard retelling of the
history of "modern rock," James looks to the local scenes that made
true independence possible by freeing individual artists from the
whims of the boardroom. This philosophy of community-rooted
independence offers both a counternarrative to the orthodox history
of indie rock and an alternative worldview to that of the current
corporate mainstream.
In 1989, an Ohio radio station called WOXY launched a sonic
disruption to both corporate rock and to its conservative home
region, programming an omnivorous range of genres and artists while
being staunchly committed to local independent art and media. In
the 1990s, as alternative rock went mainstream and radio grew
increasingly homogeneous, WOXY gained international renown as one
of Rolling Stone's "Last Great Independent Radio" stations. The
station projected a philosophy that prioritized such
independence-the idea that truly progressive, transgressive,
futuristic disruptions of the status quo were possible only when
practiced with and for other people. In The Future of Rock and
Roll, philosopher Robin James uses WOXY's story to argue against a
corporate vision of independence-in which everyone fends for
themselves-and in favor of an alternative way of thinking and
relating to one another that disrupts norms but is nevertheless
supported by communities. Against the standard retelling of the
history of "modern rock," James looks to the local scenes that made
true independence possible by freeing individual artists from the
whims of the boardroom. This philosophy of community-rooted
independence offers both a counternarrative to the orthodox history
of indie rock and an alternative worldview to that of the current
corporate mainstream.
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