Somatechnics最新文献_第4页

Somatechnics, Styles of Reasoning, and the Making of the Subject of Suicidology 躯体、推理方式与自杀学主体的建构

IF 0.9

Somatechnics Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2022.0375

S. Tack

{"title":"Somatechnics, Styles of Reasoning, and the Making of the Subject of Suicidology","authors":"S. Tack","doi":"10.3366/soma.2022.0375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2022.0375","url":null,"abstract":"Suicidology calls itself and is recognised as the science of suicide and suicide prevention. Findings from suicidological research are widely acknowledged as truth and inform some of our most profound ways of knowing and experiencing suicide today in the west: suicide is the result of mental illness, it is located in the interiority of the individual, and it is a problem that must be prevented. Suicidologists make these claims by using quantitative research methods, which they propose allow them to study suicide objectively and to find its truth. This paper investigates the somatechnics of research at play in suicidology that allow the field to maintain its position of authority in both academic and public discussions of suicide. It thus analyses how suicide has come to be known in suicidology, and how these knowledges are sustained as the truth of suicide. In bringing Hacking’s concept of ‘styles of reasoning’ to bear on suicidology, the paper identifies the ways in which suicidology puts in place narrow parameters for what can be known about suicide and how it can be known. In doing so, the paper argues that what has come to constitute neutral, evidence-based knowledge about suicide both in this field of research and in public understandings of suicide is the result of an elaborate somatechnic machinery aimed at the regulation of knowledge and at the preservation of an image of scientificity and the position of authority of the field, rather than being the truth of suicide. In doing so, the paper argues that the suicidological style of reasoning is a somatechnic that is implicated in in/trans/forming both the body of the suicidal person and that of the expert suicide researcher as particular kinds of subjects in mutually generative ways.","PeriodicalId":43420,"journal":{"name":"Somatechnics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49553146","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}

引用次数: 1

Wild Self-Care 野生的自我保健

IF 0.9

Somatechnics Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2022.0378

S. Clay

引用次数: 0

Geology as Somatechnics: Re-imagining Human and Technology Entanglements in Geologies of the Future 地质学作为本体：重新想象人类和技术在未来地质学中的纠缠

IF 0.9

Somatechnics Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2022.0377

Jianni Tien, Eloise Florence

{"title":"Geology as Somatechnics: Re-imagining Human and Technology Entanglements in Geologies of the Future","authors":"Jianni Tien, Eloise Florence","doi":"10.3366/soma.2022.0377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2022.0377","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we offer a textual analysis informed by feminist framings of the geologic as a somatechnic research practice. The turn to geology in recent feminist scholarship responds to the explosion of discourse on the Anthropocene (itself a geologic term) interrogating the power relations implicit in geology as a seemingly objective research practice and epistemology. We use this theoretical standpoint on geology to analyse two literary representations of geologies of the future – Dawn by Octavia Butler and Earth After Us by Jan Zalasiewicz. In Earth After Us, aliens of the future mine the depths of the earth to understand humans’ relationship with the planet and planetary annihilation. In Dawn, aliens mine the geology of human flesh and genetics to understand the same thing. Through our analysis we demonstrate the ways that geology, as a specifically Western epistemology and research practice, relies on the distinction between the body – ‘bio’ – and nature – ‘geo’ – that Povinelli has termed ‘Geontopower’ (2016). Geontopower traces the ways that the research practices and epistemologies of geology are built from Western perspectives, that in turn are built on the backs of bodies – the slave power that built empires, as well as the long fossilised bodies that have powered capitalism. Through a feminist lens we demonstrate how these text’s representations of future geologies articulate a somatechnics in which bodies and technologies are intertwined. We argue that thinking geologically is a somatechnical research practice that reveals the extractive epistemologies implicit in ‘the White Geology of the Anthropocene’ ( Yusoff 2018 ). We conclude by offering a somatechnic geology in which the entangled relationships between bodies and systems of colonialism and capitalism are acknowledged as imbricated in the layers of flesh of humans and the planet alike, in order to imagine more just futures in an era of ecological urgency.","PeriodicalId":43420,"journal":{"name":"Somatechnics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47081581","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}

引用次数: 1

The Somatechnics of Cognition, Memory and Desire in Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte and Fury 论萨尔曼·拉什迪《喧闹与愤怒》中认知、记忆与欲望的身体技巧

IF 0.9

Somatechnics Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2022.0376

Swatee Sinha, A. Roy

{"title":"The Somatechnics of Cognition, Memory and Desire in Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte and Fury","authors":"Swatee Sinha, A. Roy","doi":"10.3366/soma.2022.0376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2022.0376","url":null,"abstract":"The accelerated use of technical prostheses as assistive devices has resulted in an externalisation of the site of cognition outside the sensory-motor neural apparatus. This has in turn problematised the notion of embodied cognition and corporeal integrity. Bernard Stiegler in For a New Critique of Political Economy (2010a) states that human beings not only evolve and mature genetically but ‘extragenetically’ and ‘epiphylogenetically’, that is through artificial prostheses or means which are not organic. The ‘exosomatization’ ( Stiegler 2019 ) of the cognitive processes of memory and desire through tools, language, artifacts and technical memory banks has resulted in the formation of hybrid milieus of cognition arising out of an enjambment of soma, that is the body with its neural circuits, and external technics or prostheses that are designed to augment neural receptivity through an amplification of sensory-motor experiences. If the act of memory entails a recapitulation and retention of the past, desire as protention involves a transmission of this past into the future. Such anticipations of the future are increasingly mediated through analogue and digital modes of transmission resulting in the emergence of trans-corporeal sites of cognition. As we adapt to the grammar of analogue broadcasting and navigate through grammes of computational data, we experience a heightened discretisation or fragmentation of the organic plane of consciousness into bits of information. This accelerated discretisation of our cognitive abilities results in a breakdown of the accretive nuances of memory and desire as embodied/somatic processes. Through a close reading of Salman Rushdie’s novels Quichotte (2019) and Fury (2001), this article explores synaptic connections between the human and the non-human as parts of multi-componential apparatuses of memory and desire. It puts forward the thesis that the welding together of an artificial digital memory and the organic biochemistry of cognition alters the preconditions of desire and intelligibility as somatic processes.","PeriodicalId":43420,"journal":{"name":"Somatechnics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69468362","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}

引用次数: 0

Willemijn Ruberg, History of the Body 威廉·鲁伯格，《身体的历史

IF 0.9

Somatechnics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2021.0370

Danielle Kinsey

引用次数: 0

The Ontopolitics of Mountain Bike Trail Building: Addressing Issues of Access and Conflict in the More-than Human English Countryside 山地车道建设的地理政治学:解决非人性化英国乡村的准入与冲突问题

IF 0.9

Somatechnics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2021.0363

J. Cherrington

{"title":"The Ontopolitics of Mountain Bike Trail Building: Addressing Issues of Access and Conflict in the More-than Human English Countryside","authors":"J. Cherrington","doi":"10.3366/soma.2021.0363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2021.0363","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years there have been calls for scholars working within sport and physical culture to recognise the (increasing) confluence of nature and culture. Situated within an emerging body of new materialist research, such accounts have shown how various activities are polluted by, fused to, and assembled with non-human entities. However, more work is needed on the political possibilities afforded by non-human agency, and by extension, the implications that such flat ontological arrangements might raise for the management and governance of physical culture. Building on research conducted with mountain bike trail builders, this article seeks to explore what it means to know, to be, and to govern a human subject in the Anthropocene. Specifically, I draw on James Ash’s (2019) post-phenomenological theory of space and David Chandler’s (2018) notion of onto-political hacking to show how the playful, contingent, and transformative practices of the mountain bike assemblage confront the linear and calculated governance of the English countryside. In doing so, mountain bike trails are positioned as objects of hope that allow for a collective re-imagining of political democracy in a more-than-human landscape.","PeriodicalId":43420,"journal":{"name":"Somatechnics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42694252","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}

引用次数: 2

Sport, Physical Culture, and New Materialisms: Part 2 体育运动、体育文化与新唯物主义:第二部分

IF 0.9

Somatechnics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2021.0362

Joshua I. Newman, H. Thorpe

引用次数: 0

‘Lines of Flight or Tethered Wings’?: A Deleuzian Analysis of Women-specific Adventure Skills Courses in the United Kingdom “飞行路线或系翼”？：英国女性专项冒险技能课程的德勒兹分析

IF 0.9

Somatechnics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2021.0369

Zoe Avner, E. Boocock, Jenny Hall, L. Allin

{"title":"‘Lines of Flight or Tethered Wings’?: A Deleuzian Analysis of Women-specific Adventure Skills Courses in the United Kingdom","authors":"Zoe Avner, E. Boocock, Jenny Hall, L. Allin","doi":"10.3366/soma.2021.0369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2021.0369","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we examine women-specific adventure sport skills training courses in the UK utilising a feminist new materialist approach. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's (1987) concepts of ‘assemblage’, ‘lines of territorialisation’, and ‘lines of flight’, we apply a new lens to ask: what type(s) of material-discursive assemblages are produced through human and non-human, discursive, and non-discursive intra-actions on women-specific adventure sport skills courses? To what extent do these courses enable participants to engage with an alternative praxis and ethics and to think, feel, practice, and become otherwise? Our Deleuzian reading showed that the affective capacity of these courses is currently limited by dominant understandings of these courses as bridges to the real outdoors and as primarily designed for women who lack the confidence to participate in mixed-gender environments. However, these courses also enabled productive lines of flight and alternative understandings and practices related to the self, the body, others, material objects, learning, movement, and physical activity to emerge. These were both characterised and supported by less instrumental and hierarchical flows of relations and an openness to not knowing.","PeriodicalId":43420,"journal":{"name":"Somatechnics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47569052","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}

引用次数: 5

Entangled Yoga Bodies 缠结的瑜伽体

IF 0.9

Somatechnics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2021.0364

Allison Jeffrey, K. Barbour, H. Thorpe

引用次数: 2

Skateboarders’ Representations of Materiality: A Case Study of Rodney Mullen and Spike Jonze 滑板运动员的物质性表征——以罗德尼·马伦和斯派克·琼斯为例

IF 0.9

Somatechnics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2021.0365

Bethany Geckle

{"title":"Skateboarders’ Representations of Materiality: A Case Study of Rodney Mullen and Spike Jonze","authors":"Bethany Geckle","doi":"10.3366/soma.2021.0365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2021.0365","url":null,"abstract":"Physical activity is commonly conceived of in terms of its human involvement – as a test of, and testament to, human ability. However, physical activity does not exist without the contributions of countless non-human agencies, such as equipment and environments, with which the athletes work closely and form relationships. As such, athletes have a unique understanding of non-human agency. In this article I analyse the power of non-human agency in skateboarding through the representations of the professional skateboarder Rodney Mullen and filmmaker Spike Jonze. I examine their lectures, interviews, and films to show the ways in which skateboarders experience, practice, and represent the principles of actor-network theory (ANT). Skateboarders utilise and manipulate the often-unanticipated potential of non-human tools and urban landscapes and translate them into a collaborative result. Skateboarding is a trial-and-error experiment of testing, innovating, and adapting possibilities and limitations set by a network of mediators including people and ‘things’. Mullen and Jonze commonly depict skateboarding as the product of networks rather than independent human action. Their representations reveal how skateboarders perceive and act out their role as humans within networks alongside non-human agencies such as skateboards and obstacles, and which combine to produce skateboarding.","PeriodicalId":43420,"journal":{"name":"Somatechnics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42370344","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}

引用次数: 0