This article portrays the coherence of ethics and the dichotomy honour/shame, and she shows how the fantastic in literature is highly relevant in exploring ethics in literature. Takle's argument is supported by examples from the Norwegian trilogy The Raven Rings (2013–2015) by Siri Pettersen and the Shamer Chronicle (2000–2003) by Lene Kaaberbøl. Takle also demonstrates why the fantasy genre may play an important educational role for the individual and for democracy.
In Section I of this Note, I review the relevant literature and argue that the old moral and social externality arguments for banning or restricting fantasy sports do not hold up. While no particular path to regulation is the correct path, a comparative analysis of the functional structures of various speculative activities, and the legal and community control mechanisms apparent in each, provide some suggestions for what regulation should look like. In Sections II through V, I compare these speculative activities through four multidisciplinary lenses. In Section VI, I develop a recommended framework for legislation or regulation based on these comparisons and evaluate it against the laws recently implemented in New York and Massachusetts, the respective home states of FanDuel and DraftKings
Discusses the personal experience of coming to the realization of one's marginal status while occupying the roles of mother, wife, teacher, & woman. Little of the emerging feminist theorizing penetrated the life of one who graduated from Oxford U (England) in the late 1960s & quickly entered into the role of young motherhood. However, experience as a part-time instructor catalyzed a movement toward feminist & class concerns & allowed the development of female friendships that spurred a process of self-discovery. Helping revise an introductory class on feminist history offered an opportunity to reflect on the dilemmas & possibilities of embracing this marginalized status. This reflection has revealed a deep desire for belonging & corresponding fear of being an outsider, which are linked to a more generalized fantasy of stability. It is concluded that true intellectual freedom means facing such desires & fantasies & forging beyond them into the liminal state of marginality. 12 References. D. M. Ryfe
In the 1960s, George Lamming and Sylvia Wynter dismissed the highly successful novelist John Hearne, arguing that his work was weakened by its nostalgic focus on the plantocracy. Their assessment shaped scholarly opinion until the present. This chapter departs from Lamming and Wynter by claiming that Hearne's novels offer an importantly nuanced depiction of the middle class as well as an important vision of the Caribbean as part of a hemispheric American culture stretching from North to South America. While suggesting the critically misunderstood value of Hearne, however, the chapter ultimately argues that after his first novel, Hearne's focus on an Afro-creole planter class – depicted with an apparently unconscious nostalgia – constitutes a failure to engage with the region's political present and future.
Publisher's version (útgefin grein) ; Iceland has been one of the main destinations that have been incorporated into the discourse of overtourism. However, Iceland is different to many other supposed overtourism destinations in that its tourism is based on natural areas. Nevertheless, destination discourses can play an important part in influencing tourist decision-making and government and industry policy making. A media analysis was conducted of 507 online media articles on overtourism in Iceland that were published in 2018, with the main themes being identified via content analysis. The results indicated that the media discourse represented only a partial picture of overtourism and the crowding phenomenon in Iceland, with mechanisms to respond to crowding, the satisfaction level of tourists with their Icelandic nature experience, and local people's support for tourism being underreported. Some of the findings reflect that of other media analyses. However, there are considerable discontinuities between media representations and discourses of overtourism in Iceland, which highlight the importance of national- or destination-level media analysis. The media analysis illustrates the need for a better understanding of different destination discourses and their influence. View Full-Text ; This research received no external funding. We thank Sigríður Dögg Guðmundsdóttir at Promote Iceland for the assistance with the online search with the program Cision. ; Peer Reviewed
In this essay I explore the appeal of the psychoanalytic category of fantasy for critical political theory, by which I mean a theory grounded in a political ontology that offers a rationale for both normative and ideological critique. I draw on the work of William Connolly, Susan Faludi, Jacqueline Rose, and Judith Butler, among others, to consider the explanatory and critical implications of the concept of fantasy for questions of identity, and political identity in particular. I argue that fantasy is a useful device with which to explore and probe the political and ideological aspects of a practice or narrative because it foregrounds the combined significance of the symbolic and affective dimensions of life. Moreover, a psychoanalytic perspective can facilitate a move away from an epistemological or moralizing understanding of fantasy and political identity, shifting the emphasis instead toward a more ontological and ethical understanding.
At a time when the mass media insist on bombarding us with news about natural, political and economic disasters, words, ideas and images associated with such 'crises' and 'catastrophes' shape to a great extent collective memory and current imagination. "Fear and Fantasy in a Global World" seeks to stir the debate on the processes and meanings of, as well as on the relations between, fear and fantasy in the globalized world. Collective fears and fantasies are analysed from a number of cross-disciplinary perspectives, promoted by the epistemological underpinnings of comparative literature. In various ways and from different disciplinary angles, the 17 essays here gathered respond to and scrutinize key questions related to the imaginaries of fear and fantasy, as well as their relations to trauma, crisis, anxiety, and representations of both the conscious and the unconscious. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
UID/HIS/04666/2013 ; In the early 2010s, most Portuguese had to manage to keep their heads above the waters of a serious financial crisis, aggravated by the austerity measures imposed by the Troika in 2011. The Troika representatives left Portugal in 2014, after the bailout agreement had formally finished. There was a new horizon of economic prosperity, with prospects of improvement in the standards of living of the Portuguese. In the meantime, Portugal celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. O verdadeiro ator (2011) and O Coro dos Defuntos (2015) are two novels whose narratives use fantasy to represent the persistence of the late years of the New State and the Carnation Revolution as phantasmagoria in the collective memory. These narratives confirm that the legacy of the post-revolutionary discourse (Cardoso Pires and Lídia Jorge, among others) can shed light on the political, social and cultural tensions experienced in the 2010s, re-defining the Portuguese as the metaphor of the collectively-driven subject to overcome conflict. Ultimately, the memory of the Revolution in the 21st century shows that these are melancholic times, burdened by the lack of utopia, aggravated by the tensions between depoliticized collective memory policies and efforts to ignite hope to reverse melancholia. ; authorsversion ; published
Architecture can do many things and solve many problems of the local condition. For example, skyscrapers meet high demands of housing and offices; sustainable green buildings are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient. When it comes to bigger topics like dealing with social and cultural conflicts which influenced by national and political decisions, the usual architecture types may not resolve or help as much as expected. So, for dealing with these topics, we find that architecture has limitations. However, when we look through other fields like art, we can find an opportunities to address them. For example, Ben Shahn was American artist, He is best known for his works of social realism. His works are often critical of American life, but by exposing social problems. One of his works, "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" (1967, mosaics) is established on the wall of H.B Crouse Hall in Syracuse University. His works were generated based on the real story that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were framed by murdering in Massachusetts and executed in 1927. But even there was no enough evidences and government still insisted to arrest them because they were anarchist and Italian immigrants and placed them on the federal government's watch list of dangerous subversives. This sensational case captured the attention of people around the world, many of them protested against the convictions. The author translated the whole processes of arrest, trial and execution into ironic and sarcastic way to express on the paintings. He encourages people to understand the reality of the condition. Though architecture cannot solve large social and national conflicts, but it can review and expose the realities to public using symbolic forms and use theoretical approaches to draw people's attention for realizing the significant of some conflicts and realities. We choose the DMZ as out site because it is one of the most dangerous and high-militarised borders between two neighboring counties, North Korea and South Korea. They had been one county around 100 years ago, while they have many conflicts and differences now. There are many stories and secret beyond the DMZ and the two Koreas. We would like to use architecture as a media to make people realize and understand what kinds of conflicts they have by exposing them theoretically through architecture. Bridge is the name of our thesis. Our "Bridge" does not focus on deconstruction or emphasizing the DMZ, rather it frames the conflicts between the DMZ and two Koreas. There are three bridges for addressing three realities; first is lack of freedom to cross border between the North Korea and South Korea, second is that different social structure systems control and affect the two Koreas differently and last one is a large group of divided families will pass away without seeing their relatives once.
This chapter revolves around political discussions in forum discussion threads on the Swedish online LGBTQ community Qruiser. Political discussions in online forum threads are studied as cultural participation in an online cultural public sphere. The specific question the paper seeks to answer is what role lurkers play for active participants' meaning-making practices. Lurkers could be understood as a fantasy, an imagined audience willing to listen and be persuaded by active participants' arguments. However, applying a Lacan inspired analytical framework, the paper concludes that the fantasy is not so much about the lurkers themselves, but the belief in persuasion. Hence, the answer to the question of why users participate in verbal battles with each other online would be because they are driven by a fantasy of persuasion as a way to cope with the lack of enjoyment in terms of them being split from a harmonious world of political unity.
Recensione di: Lindsay Myers, Making the Italians. Poetics and Politics of Italian Children's Fantasy, Bern, Peter Lang, 2012, 251p., ISBN: 9783039113613, € 38,80.
This exegesis has developed from my visual research that comes in the hybrid form of public feminist performance art, installations, photography and printmaking. It details the enactment of three feminine fantasies that stem from repressed political and ideological desires. Theoretical models that relate to activist and Surrealist performance art are the focus of the first section of the exegesis. I explore theorists such as Stephen Duncombe, Elizabeth Grosz, Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir, and Laura Mulvey to understand the levels of self-scrutinisation and shame experienced when considering performing acts that involve returning the gaze onto the "Other," and to determine which set of precepts should be chosen in order to construct an ethical spectacle. In keeping with Surrealist methodology, Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis becomes a key component of my work. I tie Lacan and Freud through an exploration of Surrealist creative techniques and notions such as Andre Breton's "Mad Love," Salvador Dali's "paranoiac critical method," "convulsive beauty," and particularly Claude Cahun's method of "indirect political meaning," simulation tactics, and use of "alter egos" to challenge binaries between 'us' and 'them.' I describe such techniques to show how I delineate the emotions surrounding the several stages of fantasy fulfilment whilst ethically resisting and defying repressive cultural ideologies in the creation of my work. As the central component of my research, I then explain how such Surrealist techniques are consciously used to provide the audience with an indirect level of political meaning so that I can maintain my role as an invisible provocateur without experiencing any negative repercussions. Artists and films that exemplify such creative models including Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Sophie Calle, Roberto Matta, Cindy Sherman, Amelie from Montmarte, Possessed and The Purple Rose of Cairo are referenced. Through a discussion the ideas of Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault I then show how I have adapted cultural stereotypes formed by discourses such as psychoanalysis and film to the performance of each fantasy. I do this in order to see how much such notions of the feminine contribute to the repression of feminine desires. The idea of erasing gendered binaries through Surrealist methodology is discussed largely to detail how this has helped me to achieve the fantasies that I wanted to fulfil.
What is it in nationalism that lends itself to such continuous permutations and repetitions, to its perpetuum mobile? Why are 'we' continuously investing in it despite its failures and indeed its darker side of exclusions, xenophobia and even genocide? This chapter reflects on the power and form of nationalism in (late) modernity by offering a Lacanian-psychoanalytical reading of nationalism's recurrences and its affective appeal. Specifically, this chapter develops three mutually enabling machineries that drive and animate projects of nationalism. These are (1) the ontological fissure at the heart of the nation/state and indeed the national subject/object (the split subject), (2) the fantasmatic nature of national narratives of utopian closure and wholeness, and (3) the jouissance (enjoyment) in nationalism, namely the temporal nature of affective belonging and the sense that this mode of enjoyment was lost and/or stolen by an Other.
Abstract Both an assessment of the political present and a deliberation on feminist desires for a transformed future, this essay draws on nearly three decades of the author's engagement with Women's Studies and its academic institutionalization in order to identify both new and ongoing challenges to the intellectual and political life of the field.RésuméConstituant à la fois une évaluation du présent politique et une réflexion sur les souhaits féministes pour un avenir transformé, cet essai s'appuie sur près de trois décennies d'engagement de l'auteure dans les Études sur le genre et les femmes et leur institutionnalisation universitaire afin de cerner les défis à la fois nouveaux et persistants de la vie intellectuelle et politique dans ce domaine.
"The Politics of Space and Importance of Rebuilding the Master's Residence" and "Postfeminism as Fantasy: Feminism is Ongoing, Political, and Personal" were assignments for Dr. George Grinnell's ENGL 309 course titled "Modern Critical Theories." These essays critique social structures such as sexism and racism that historically and currently exist, and their lasting legacies, by highlighting the transformative words of theorists interested in intersectional feminism as well as racial and social justice. In relation to the theme of Re-creation, the works interrogate what it might look like to reimagine a world without these pervasive and oppressive structures.
