In art, intervention arises from its status, from the symbolic capital associated with the authorship, with the separation of the artist. This is a political statute that centers and turns the artist ...in a vocal. His perspective, his synthesis, his fantasy, all are means for mediation, towards a fundamental transformation and construction of one of the essential points of culture: the emancipated art. With the emancipation of art, a new referentiality is created, a decentering, an outward look, a human perspective on humanity, a political perspective mediated by forms and their thinking. This is the current proposal for the articles that were gathered at this issue number 13 of the Croma journal: articles about artists, written by artists, with an emancipatory intervention strand. Keywords: art / intervention / politics / Vasari / Croma Magazine. Na arte, a intervencao advem do seu estatuto, do capital simbolico associado a autoria, da separacao do artista. Este e um estatuto politico que centra o artista e tona-o vocal. A sua perspetiva, a sua sintese, a sua fantasia, sao meios para uma mediacao junto de todos, em direcao a uma transformacao fundamental e construtora de um dos pontos essenciais da cultura: a arte emancipada. Com a emancipacao da arte, cria-se uma nova referencialidade, um descentramento, um olhar exterior, um olhar do homem sobre o homem, um olhar politico mediado pelas formas pensadas. Esta e proposta dos artigos que se reuniram no numero 13 da Revista Croma: artigos sobre artistas, escritos por artistas, com uma vertente de intervencao emancipadora. Palavras chave: arte / intervencao / politica / Vasari / Revista Croma.
The aim is to examine the similarities and differences between the works of Alair Gomes and Rotimi Fani-Kayode. The central argument points out that both sought to exploit the subversive potential of ...homoeroticism by bringing to light the existence of dissident spaces and times that destabilize repulsive norms to homoerotic sociability. Gomes revealed subversive spaces in which the desire for the naked male body and the pleasure of the voyeur could be instigated and developed narratives that captured the spontaneity and sensuality of the moment. Fani-Kayode emphasized the spatial and cultural deplacement and the multiple temporalities that coexisted in the same environment. He questioned hierarchies based on the spiritual and homoerotic fantasy and the exaltation of cultural and sexual difference. Keywords: Photography. Homoeroticism. Alair Gomes. Rotimi Fani-Kayode. O objetivo e examinar as semelhancas e as diferencas entre as obras de Alair Gomes e Rotimi Fani-Kayode. O argumento central aponta que ambos procuraram explorar o potencial subversivo do homoerotismo ao trazerem a tona a existencia de espacos e tempos dissidentes que desestabilizam normas repulsivas a sociabilidade homoerotica. Gomes revela espacos subversivos em que o desejo pelo corpo masculino seminu e nu e o prazer do voyeur poderiam ser instigados, desenvolvendo narrativas que captavam a espontaneidade e a sensualidade do momento. Ja Fani-Kayode ressaltava o deslocamento espacial e cultural e as multiplas temporalidades que conviviam no mesmo ambiente, questionando hierarquias a partir da fantasia espiritual e homoerotica e da exaltacao da diferenca cultural e sexual. Palavras-chave: Fotografia. Homoerotismo. Alair Gomes. Rotimi Fani-Kayode.
Revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales, this book is an illuminating account bringing intellectual and ethical ...concerns to bear on the popular Fantasy form.
InCoincidence and Counterfactuality, a groundbreaking analysis of plot, Hilary P. Dannenberg sets out to answer the perennial question of how to tell a good story. While plot is among the most ...integral aspects of storytelling, it is perhaps the least studied aspect of narrative. Using plot theory to chart the development of narrative fiction from the Renaissance to the present, Dannenberg demonstrates how the novel has evolved over time and how writers have developed increasingly complex narrative strategies that tap into key cognitive parameters familiar to the reader from real-life experience.
Dannenberg proposes a new, multidimensional theory for analyzing time and space in narrative fiction, then uses this theory to trace the historical evolution of narrative fiction by focusing on coincidence and counterfactuality. These two key plot strategies are constructed around pivotal moments when characters' life trajectories, or sometimes the paths of history, converge or diverge. The study's rich historical and textual scope reveals how narrative traditions and genres such as romance and realism or science fiction and historiographic metafiction, rather than being separated by clear boundaries are in fact in a continual process of interaction and cross-fertilization. In highlighting critical stages in the historical development of narrative fiction, the study produces new readings of works by pinpointing the innovative role played by particular authors in this evolutionary process. Dannenberg's original investigation of plot patterns is interdisciplinary, incorporating research from narrative theory, cognitive approaches to literature, social psychology, possible worlds theory, and feminist approaches to narrative.
Fantasy fiction is an extremely popular genre that acts as easy and interesting reading material, also mostly acquired by parents or peers as a gift. Its availability may also be promoted by local ...bookstores or the School library. It has been shown by multiple studies that media that display violence adversely affects the mental health of children. Unlike movies and films, there is no censorship associated with literature. This article is designed to elaborate upon these effects. The media referred to in this article is print media. A large amount of research is focused largely on visual media like television, digital games as well as films. However, the way by which violent acts are projected on the psychology of children through print media still remains to be comprehensively researched. The genre of print media referred to in this article is popular fantasy fiction. This particular genre of fiction is vastly popular and conveniently available to children. The study includes primarily adolescents and early teenagers in the age group 10 years to 16 years. The consumption of media violence through fantasy fiction during the early and impressionable years has been known to predict aggression, aggressive behaviour and stress among children, especially when the children under study are school-going. It also may most likely result in facing peer rejection and socially unwanted consequences. The context of the “General Aggression Model” or GAM is a complex and multifactorial concept that forms the basis of the findings. The purpose of the study is to validate and create a clear awareness about the effect of short-term as well as the long- term exposure of violence, on young children who are of an impressionable mindset. The study also aims to propose some measures of intervention that may be undertaken to reduce the effects of this exposure that lead to aggression and stress, which could be of a long lasting nature. The finding and outcomes of the study undertaken through the data analysis clearly supports its objectives.
Real materials rarely behave like their digital counterparts. Stability of the compounds must be part of the burden of proof for predicting the complex properties of matter, urges Alex Zunger.
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