Current societies are configured in such a way that relations with others are less defined and social conditions are complex and often nontransparent (e.g. Holmes, 2015; Bauman, 2003). There is never-ending uncertainty over how to act and how to feel. Set rules on how to feel no longer exist (Hochschild, 1983; Neckel, 2005; Wouters, 1999). These conditions also pose a challenge in migration processes: clear demarcations and unwavering sense of belonging are often not possible “just like that” (Albrecht, 2016, p. 1). This implies challenges for the individual. To this effect, emotions become increasingly important in navigating one’s own path through uncertain conditions (Holmes, 2015). The following paper addresses how emotional reflexivity processes are relevant for individuals in these situations. As such, emotional reflexivity must be defined as a process of internal adjustment between emotional activity and emotional passivity. The result of this process is visible through a level of action which can also consist in taking no action at all (Helfferich, 2012). Therefore, the paper suggests a modified definition of the terms agency and “emotional reflexivity”. The definition of emotional reflexivity includes several aspects of Holmes’s (2015; 2010) and Burkitt’s (2012) former definitions and expands on them. Emotional reflexivity – internal adjustments of emotional activity and passivity – will be illustrated using empirical data on current processes of migration to Germany.
当前社会的结构是这样一种方式，即与他人的关系不那么明确，社会条件复杂且往往不透明(例如Holmes, 2015;鲍曼,2003)。如何行动，如何感受，永远都是不确定的。设定如何感受的规则不再存在(Hochschild, 1983;Neckel, 2005;武泰,1999)。这些条件也对移民过程构成了挑战:明确的界限和坚定不移的归属感往往不可能“就像那样”(Albrecht, 2016, p. 1)。这意味着对个人的挑战。为此，情绪在通过不确定条件导航自己的道路时变得越来越重要(Holmes, 2015)。下面的文章讨论了情绪反射过程在这些情况下是如何与个体相关的。因此，情绪反身性必须被定义为情绪主动与情绪被动之间的内部调节过程。这一过程的结果是通过一定程度的行动可以看到的，这种行动也可以包括根本不采取行动(Helfferich, 2012)。因此，本文建议对代理和“情绪反身性”的定义进行修正。情绪反射的定义包括Holmes (2015;2010)和Burkitt(2012)以前的定义并对其进行了扩展。情绪反身性-情绪活动和被动的内部调整-将使用当前移民到德国过程的经验数据来说明。
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This article reflects on the developments of and concerning the museum as a dispositive. It argues why the museum must be considered a dispositive. Then it follows the developments of the modern museum as a dispositive from its rise in the 19th century towards its current digital form. A critical historical reflection shows how structures of power, working within the museum, have changed. This article presents how relations of power in the museum are being woven, and how they produce respectively forms of freedom and regulation, according to the socio-historical context of which the museum is a part. Openness, inclusion and participation appear as key concepts that facilitate a better understanding of the structures of power within the late modern digital museum. These key concepts will help explain why and how the museum as a dispositive connects and relates with late modern society. Corresponding dangers will be pointed out along 3 key dimensions that can be found in the museum – the museum as place of experience, the museum as place of individual effect and data extraction, and the museum as place of creative production and self-exploitation. As a conclusion, the article wants not only to point at important and critical aspects of the late modern museum, but also to provide suggestions for improvements in the future.
{"title":"Creativity, interactivity and the hidden structures of power: a reflection on the history and current reality of the museum with the eyes of Foucault","authors":"Swen Seebach","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i21.3124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i21.3124","url":null,"abstract":"This article reflects on the developments of and concerning the museum as a dispositive. It argues why the museum must be considered a dispositive. Then it follows the developments of the modern museum as a dispositive from its rise in the 19th century towards its current digital form. A critical historical reflection shows how structures of power, working within the museum, have changed. This article presents how relations of power in the museum are being woven, and how they produce respectively forms of freedom and regulation, according to the socio-historical context of which the museum is a part. Openness, inclusion and participation appear as key concepts that facilitate a better understanding of the structures of power within the late modern digital museum. These key concepts will help explain why and how the museum as a dispositive connects and relates with late modern society. Corresponding dangers will be pointed out along 3 key dimensions that can be found in the museum – the museum as place of experience, the museum as place of individual effect and data extraction, and the museum as place of creative production and self-exploitation. As a conclusion, the article wants not only to point at important and critical aspects of the late modern museum, but also to provide suggestions for improvements in the future.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"1 1","pages":"11-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44652682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Simmelian Legacy offers a wide and accurate overview of Simmel’s intellectual heirs throughout the 20th century, an excellent account of the whole of Simmel’s oeuvre and, furthermore, it proposes a contemporary rereading of this oeuvre that may awaken the interest of many sociologists and social theorists who are not particularly Simmel scholars. Thus, this book combines three great achievements: tracing Simmel’s legacy in contemporary social thought and sociology (a task which has been only carried out in a fragmented way until now), highlighting Simmel’s major achievements for philosophy and the social sciences, and proposing what elements of Simmel’s thought, which we have been inherited, remain the most interesting to explore as well as work and dialogue with.
{"title":"Book review of The Simmelian Legacy. A Science of Relations, by Olli Pyyhtinen (Palgrave, 2018)","authors":"Natàlia Cantó-Milà","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I21.3125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I21.3125","url":null,"abstract":"The Simmelian Legacy offers a wide and accurate overview of Simmel’s intellectual heirs throughout the 20th century, an excellent account of the whole of Simmel’s oeuvre and, furthermore, it proposes a contemporary rereading of this oeuvre that may awaken the interest of many sociologists and social theorists who are not particularly Simmel scholars. Thus, this book combines three great achievements: tracing Simmel’s legacy in contemporary social thought and sociology (a task which has been only carried out in a fragmented way until now), highlighting Simmel’s major achievements for philosophy and the social sciences, and proposing what elements of Simmel’s thought, which we have been inherited, remain the most interesting to explore as well as work and dialogue with.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"1 1","pages":"75-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43973169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article aims to give an account of the abstraction undergone by money since the beginning of modernity. Calling on both theoretical developments (such as Georg Simmel’s) and social practice and even technical aspects, one of its central objectives is to pose a series of questions regarding digital currencies, particularly bitcoin, which, despite initially promising to be anti-capitalist, has, in fact, become its most sophisticated tool. Starting with two general views of money (functional and historical-political), the article then zooms in on a number of ideas that have come about since the end of the nineteenth century regarding the “dematerialization” of currency. Finally, it outlines questions on bitcoin and concludes with a reflection on the autonomization of money in light of the alienation of contemporary subjectivity.
{"title":"The abstraction of money, emancipation or alienation?","authors":"H. Borisonik","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I21.3108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I21.3108","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to give an account of the abstraction undergone by money since the beginning of modernity. Calling on both theoretical developments (such as Georg Simmel’s) and social practice and even technical aspects, one of its central objectives is to pose a series of questions regarding digital currencies, particularly bitcoin, which, despite initially promising to be anti-capitalist, has, in fact, become its most sophisticated tool. Starting with two general views of money (functional and historical-political), the article then zooms in on a number of ideas that have come about since the end of the nineteenth century regarding the “dematerialization” of currency. Finally, it outlines questions on bitcoin and concludes with a reflection on the autonomization of money in light of the alienation of contemporary subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"1 1","pages":"01-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45922444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study looks at how people construct future imaginaries and how this has been influenced by the economic crisis of 2008/2009. Future imaginaries are conceived as a realm of plans and wishes for the future, which depend not only on an individual’s personal life history, but also on the given social/historical context (Canto-Mila and Seebach, 2015). The economic crisis, which affected all European countries, has been portrayed as a far-reaching societal event; therefore, it may have an impact on people’s future imaginaries. For this study, life story interviews were conducted in Germany and Spain, two countries with different experiences of the economic crisis. The interviews were analyzed using a grounded theory-inspired approach guided by the concepts of images of the future, figures, and imaginaries of the future developed by Canto-Mila and Seebach (2015). The economic crisis affected participants’ future imagination in Spain and Germany in different ways. While German participants’ outlook on the future remained unchanged by the crisis, Spanish interviewees’ accounts indicated three changes in mentality: the labor market is now perceived as less stable than before; young people have to be more prepared – meaning they need higher-level qualifications; younger Spaniards aim to live and work in foreign countries. The reasons and dynamics behind this mentality change are discussed.
{"title":"The economic crisis and future imaginaries: How the economic crisis has affected people’s future imaginaries","authors":"Helen Sophia Schönborn, B. Doosje","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I21.3112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I21.3112","url":null,"abstract":"This study looks at how people construct future imaginaries and how this has been influenced by the economic crisis of 2008/2009. Future imaginaries are conceived as a realm of plans and wishes for the future, which depend not only on an individual’s personal life history, but also on the given social/historical context (Canto-Mila and Seebach, 2015). The economic crisis, which affected all European countries, has been portrayed as a far-reaching societal event; therefore, it may have an impact on people’s future imaginaries. For this study, life story interviews were conducted in Germany and Spain, two countries with different experiences of the economic crisis. The interviews were analyzed using a grounded theory-inspired approach guided by the concepts of images of the future, figures, and imaginaries of the future developed by Canto-Mila and Seebach (2015). The economic crisis affected participants’ future imagination in Spain and Germany in different ways. While German participants’ outlook on the future remained unchanged by the crisis, Spanish interviewees’ accounts indicated three changes in mentality: the labor market is now perceived as less stable than before; young people have to be more prepared – meaning they need higher-level qualifications; younger Spaniards aim to live and work in foreign countries. The reasons and dynamics behind this mentality change are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"1 1","pages":"21-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46215506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the present text, we address the developments that Zygmunt Bauman formulated on modern genocide, linking them with his latest publications on liquid modernity. To do this (1) we explore the validity of the central hypotheses of Modernity and Holocaust and place them in our context. Bauman believes that the Holocaust is the archetype of modern genocides, which has as one of its necessary conditions the production of moral distance. We analyze the meaning of proximity and the “face of the other” as a source of presocietal moral relations. (2) Following the previous ones, we study the problems that imply the “face of the other” in the context of liquid modernity, especially those related to the challenges of fundamentalisms. (3) We then approach the phenomenon of the “religionization of politics” as a confrontation to the secularism of liquid modernity, its impact on our understanding of freedom and security. (4) Finally, we analyze, linking the reflections of Bauman to those of Horkheimer and Adorno, how the center of the “religionization of politics” is constituted by the “sacred fear” of death and the denial of contingency.
{"title":"Zygmunt Bauman and the return of the gods","authors":"Christian Hernandez","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I21.3102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I21.3102","url":null,"abstract":"In the present text, we address the developments that Zygmunt Bauman formulated on modern genocide, linking them with his latest publications on liquid modernity. To do this (1) we explore the validity of the central hypotheses of Modernity and Holocaust and place them in our context. Bauman believes that the Holocaust is the archetype of modern genocides, which has as one of its necessary conditions the production of moral distance. We analyze the meaning of proximity and the “face of the other” as a source of presocietal moral relations. (2) Following the previous ones, we study the problems that imply the “face of the other” in the context of liquid modernity, especially those related to the challenges of fundamentalisms. (3) We then approach the phenomenon of the “religionization of politics” as a confrontation to the secularism of liquid modernity, its impact on our understanding of freedom and security. (4) Finally, we analyze, linking the reflections of Bauman to those of Horkheimer and Adorno, how the center of the “religionization of politics” is constituted by the “sacred fear” of death and the denial of contingency.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"1 1","pages":"54-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43261085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper analyzes a series of discourses that promote the so called "emotional education", which rely on contributions from positive psychology, theories of intelligence and emotional competences. This inquiry enables exploration of the type of subject these discourses seek to shape, the characteristics and abilities promoted among students, as well as the way emotions are conceived and manners to deal with them. The paper hypothesizes that these discourses are part of what some authors refer to as "therapeutic ethos", which postulates that through knowing and managing one's emotions it is possible to take advantage of them in order to achieve success and emotional well-being. Additionally, this paper holds the view that by focusing on the individual and the development of specific competences, these approaches leave in the shadows institutional, socioeconomic and cultural conditions, therefore overlooking the relational nature of individuals’ emotions, both in general and in educational settings in particular. The paper concludes with a series of questions about the relationship between these approaches and the implications of their implementation when working with children and young people, as well as about their connection with processes of socio-educational inequality.
{"title":"On ‘emotional education’: subjectivity and psychologization in late modernity","authors":"M. Nobile","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I20.3089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I20.3089","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes a series of discourses that promote the so called \"emotional education\", which rely on contributions from positive psychology, theories of intelligence and emotional competences. This inquiry enables exploration of the type of subject these discourses seek to shape, the characteristics and abilities promoted among students, as well as the way emotions are conceived and manners to deal with them. The paper hypothesizes that these discourses are part of what some authors refer to as \"therapeutic ethos\", which postulates that through knowing and managing one's emotions it is possible to take advantage of them in order to achieve success and emotional well-being. Additionally, this paper holds the view that by focusing on the individual and the development of specific competences, these approaches leave in the shadows institutional, socioeconomic and cultural conditions, therefore overlooking the relational nature of individuals’ emotions, both in general and in educational settings in particular. The paper concludes with a series of questions about the relationship between these approaches and the implications of their implementation when working with children and young people, as well as about their connection with processes of socio-educational inequality.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"1 1","pages":"12-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43073315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article aims to study the impact that networks of contacts and circles of musicians have in generating work opportunities within the musical field of jazz. The research has been framed within the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's artistic field (1984, 1987) and the main characteristics of conformation of collaborative circles studied by Michael P. Farrell (2003). The methodology used is qualitative and is based on semi-structured interviews and participant observation conducted between 2015 and 2016 with musicians from the jazz scene of the city of Barcelona. From this fieldwork, we have analyzed the main contributions that contact networks and collaborative circles of jazz musicians offer to generate work opportunities within the musical artistic field. We have also studied how the collective work and the conformation of musical groups become a crucial artistic and creative platform both for the development of the individual careers of musicians and in the field of joint exploration of the musical language itself.
本文旨在研究接触网络和音乐家圈子在爵士乐音乐领域产生工作机会方面的影响。本研究是在Pierre Bourdieu的艺术领域(1984,1987)和Michael P. Farrell(2003)研究的协作圈构象的主要特征的视角下进行的。使用的方法是定性的，基于2015年至2016年与巴塞罗那市爵士现场的音乐家进行的半结构化访谈和参与者观察。从这次实地考察中，我们分析了爵士音乐家的联系网络和合作圈子为在音乐艺术领域创造工作机会所做的主要贡献。我们还研究了集体工作和音乐团体的构造如何成为音乐家个人职业发展和音乐语言本身共同探索领域的重要艺术和创作平台。
{"title":"An analysis towards the construction and the role of collaborative circles in jazz musicians of Barcelona","authors":"Marta Casals Balaguer","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I20.3100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I20.3100","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to study the impact that networks of contacts and circles of musicians have in generating work opportunities within the musical field of jazz. The research has been framed within the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's artistic field (1984, 1987) and the main characteristics of conformation of collaborative circles studied by Michael P. Farrell (2003). The methodology used is qualitative and is based on semi-structured interviews and participant observation conducted between 2015 and 2016 with musicians from the jazz scene of the city of Barcelona. From this fieldwork, we have analyzed the main contributions that contact networks and collaborative circles of jazz musicians offer to generate work opportunities within the musical artistic field. We have also studied how the collective work and the conformation of musical groups become a crucial artistic and creative platform both for the development of the individual careers of musicians and in the field of joint exploration of the musical language itself.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46161795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The extensive work of the Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has been characterized to addressing, among other topics, the ways in which we relate to the past and how our memory is mediated by various types of technology in the construction and conservation of our memories. In Remember (2015), his last feature film t to day, he returns to this topic aiming to represent the operation and the failures of memory. In the present essay, we will not carry out an aesthetic analysis but rather focus on the form and modes in which the memory is represented in this film. For this purpose, we propose to study it from an inquiry into the memory systems to account for its multiple layers and characteristics, just as we will account for some “sins” that will allow us to analyze not only its distortions but also its ways of working. Finally we will give space to think the place of the imagination in our relations with the past.
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Over the last century, the problems concerning the manifold relations between memory and imagination have become a major set of studies wherein a wide range of current approaches on social and cultural change are developing. This is the core idea of this section in the twentieth issue of Digithum. The confluence between both socio and temporal notions denotes a fertile realm of contemporary studies within humanities and social sciences. The articles below, each of them in their own way, present the idea that, in order to comprehend the past, its link with the future must be taken into account; otherwise, the two-dimensional character of the socio historical time, as well as the temporal connotation of all that is human, is being neglected. The articles that make up this section probe some of the essential characteristics of the process in which especially traumatic memory as well as utopian imagination, the former’s counterpart, have grown into a research interest within the so-called realm of memory studies. Needless to say that they focus on the 20th century, or as it has been called by those who study it, -and are only able of providing an account of subsequent humanitarian debacles which are still to be decried
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