InscriptionsPub Date : 2021-01-28DOI: 10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.99
Simón C. Smith
{"title":"Life in the plague times","authors":"Simón C. Smith","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.99","url":null,"abstract":"In early 2020, Agamben asked a number of important moral and political questions concerning the global response to coronavirus. The response was heated; sufficiently so to prompt the editors of Inscriptions to ask whether that response had not, “put our ability to reason calmly and clearly in peril. ” Motivated by sympathy for all sides of the debate, the aim of our present, brief, rumination is to consider these concerns in light of the ways circumstances have actually unfolded since they were raised. While Agamben’s fears may not correspond very precisely with the reality of the situation, those fears are, nonetheless, entirely legitimate. Crucially, Agamben reminds us, there is much in our collective response to coronavirus to be ashamed of; not least, the ways in which isolation and separation have been used to reinforce a disastrous individualism. In sickness or in health, we abandon one another at our peril.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79551753","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}
InscriptionsPub Date : 2021-01-28DOI: 10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.92
Grace Weir
{"title":"In Parallel","authors":"Grace Weir","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.92","url":null,"abstract":"The film 'In Parallel' begins with the drawing of a straight line and is an exploration of Euclid’s Elements, a geometry book written in c.300BC. Second only to the Bible, in the number of editions published on the invention of the printing press, it has been influential in both mathematics and philosophy through the axiomatic structures that Euclid's work introduced.\u0000Referencing a particular edition by Oliver Byrne published in 1847 that involved for the first time a graphic conception, the film considers the history of the concept of a parallel line. Through a sequence of coloured drawn geometrical propositions including the vanishing point of linear perspective, the film reflects on how the shapes of thought in which our beliefs are expressed affect our perception of ourselves within our environment.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80038975","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}
InscriptionsPub Date : 2021-01-28DOI: 10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.89
Susan Cannon, Maureen A. Flint
{"title":"Drift and desire","authors":"Susan Cannon, Maureen A. Flint","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.89","url":null,"abstract":"In this commentary, we invite ourselves to create speculative fictions of the good life in academia. We take note of the ways that academic platforms and counting practices orient us, and perhaps other academics, toward a good life that is achieved through maximum production of citations, mentions, and connections. Through a close reading of N.K. Jemisin's Non-zero Probabilities, we consider the refrains and rituals that structure our interactions with academic platforms as junior tenure-track professors and our desire for recognition. Then, we put forward two innovatory practices, drift and desiring ambivalence, that prompt us to turn to other poles of valorization in a process of defamiliarization, turning affirmatively toward another good life.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84917716","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}
InscriptionsPub Date : 2021-01-28DOI: 10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.79
Frederik-Emil Friis Jakobsen
{"title":"The art of the good life","authors":"Frederik-Emil Friis Jakobsen","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.79","url":null,"abstract":"Plato’s Gorgias sees Socrates frequently compare justice to the practice of a techné. This comparison has traditionally been taken to express the so-called doctrine of Socratic intellectualism, according to which knowledge of the good necessarily leads to living a good life. But such interpretations overlook how crucial techn? is to Socrates’ conception of justice — justice is not merely analogous to techn? but governed by the same logos. What we find is thus not so much an argument for a particular moral psychology, as it is an account of an inherent technicity of ethics. This article uncovers Plato’s account of ethics’ relationship with artifice, both in Gorgias and The Republic as well as in the ethical philosophy of Aristotle, suggesting that the question of ethics and artifice has always held high importance in Western philosophy, and that we should regard it with the same importance today.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83835084","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}
InscriptionsPub Date : 2021-01-28DOI: 10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.96
Surabhi Saraf
{"title":"Awoke and The Awokened","authors":"Surabhi Saraf","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.96","url":null,"abstract":"Awoke & the Awokened (2018-Present) is an on-going multimedia project that includes a video sculpture, a VR experience, a series of live performances, short films and a concept album. The research and development of this project is rooted in my collaborative project called Centre for Emotional Materiality (CEM). Through study circles and workshops we experiment in collaboration, colearning and coexisting with digital technologies and their effects on our bodies and beliefs. As a poetic storytelling this project engages in the act of ‘waking up’ to imagine a technological future that privileges human and non-human agency above all. The techno-utopian myth of Awoke & the Awokened is centered on the relationship between a mythical artificial emotional intelligence [Awoke] and its believers [the Awokened]. It questions the risks and possibilities of technological solutionism as a dominant Silicon Valley ideology and its implications on our emotional lives.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90063324","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}
InscriptionsPub Date : 2021-01-28DOI: 10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.95
T. Fjeld
{"title":"After religion: the commitment and love of This Life","authors":"T. Fjeld","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.95","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Hägglund, Martin (2019), This Life: secular faith and spiritual freedom, Anchor Books: New York.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80554729","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}
InscriptionsPub Date : 2021-01-28DOI: 10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.90
Philippe Stamenkovic
{"title":"Defending nature to prevent both future pandemics and global warming","authors":"Philippe Stamenkovic","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.90","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Malm, Andreas (2020), Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: war communism in the twenty-first century, Verso: London.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84862518","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}
InscriptionsPub Date : 2021-01-28DOI: 10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.94
M. Vecchio
{"title":"Neverending answer","authors":"M. Vecchio","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v4i1.94","url":null,"abstract":"Three artists investigate the lived experience through science, play, ritual, and historical and futuristic reclamation.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74298515","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}
InscriptionsPub Date : 2020-07-01DOI: 10.59391/inscriptions.v3i2.62
Lukas Reimann
{"title":"Normativity and grammar of psychological concepts","authors":"Lukas Reimann","doi":"10.59391/inscriptions.v3i2.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v3i2.62","url":null,"abstract":"This essay aims to establish the claim that psychological concepts such as love, desire, depression, etc. have a normative dimension, to then explore the potential source of this normativity. Building on Wittgenstein’s social-constructivist approach, this essay argues that not only the psychological concepts that are available to us, but also our concepts’ normative dimension is a result of our communal life. In Wittgensteinian terminology, normativity should therefore be understood as a grammatical feature of the language-games we play with psychological concepts.","PeriodicalId":32883,"journal":{"name":"Inscriptions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81976740","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}
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