Hollow institutions: Merleau‐Ponty and the possibility of coordinated action
Abstract This article addresses the phenomenon of political powerlessness, understood—following Hannah Arendt—as the separation of “words and deeds,” a condition in which words become “empty” and actions lose their overall intelligibility, increasingly relying on coercion. I take up Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology of institution to explore this condition.
Daniil Koloskov
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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Psychedelic minimalism: the case against music in psychedelic therapy settings. [PDF]
Nader SA.
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Virtuoses Gitarrenspiel im Rock und Metal: Zum Einfluss von Verzerrung auf das ‚Shredding’ [Virtuoso solo guitar in rock and metal music: About the influence of distortion on ’shredding'] [PDF]
Jan-Peter Herbst
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Street Cries and Public Space Noise Abatement in 19th‐20th Century Barcelona
Abstract Focusing on Barcelona, this paper explores the historical and contemporary dynamics of street cries that allow traders to attract customers and make themselves heard in public spaces. While still common in marketplaces in southern Europe, there is a growing trend towards silencing these street cries in the name of reducing urban noise levels ...
Maria Lindmäe
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Simulating and stimulating performance: developing a next-generation music performance simulator. [PDF]
Waddell G, Bland R, Williamon A.
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Integrating cognitive behavioral therapy into music therapy methods using a flexibility within fidelity framework. [PDF]
Head JH, Vasquez NN.
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