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De vrijheid van misinformatie? Een discussie over het vrije gebruik van de geschiedenis als bron voor entertainment: (Hoog van de Toren)
No full textIn deze Hoog van de Toren behandelt redacteur Gijs Gommans het gebruik van de geschiedenis in populaire media. In de \u27digital age\u27 is er steeds meer sprake van misinformatie in alle hoeken van de samenleving, en het lijkt erop dat dit alleen nog maar zal toenemen. Ook mensen die aandacht liever besteden aan het verleden, de historici en archeologen, zullen niet ontkomen aan vordering van de tijd en alles wat dit met zich meebrengt.In deze Hoog van de Toren behandelt redacteur Gijs Gommans het gebruik van de geschiedenis in populaire media. In de \u27digital age\u27 is er steeds meer sprake van misinformatie in alle hoeken van de samenleving, en het lijkt erop dat dit alleen nog maar zal toenemen. Ook mensen die aandacht liever besteden aan het verleden, de historici en archeologen, zullen niet ontkomen aan vordering van de tijd en alles wat dit met zich meebrengt
Aesthetic Reconfigurations of the Political during the Pandemic: Group Representations in Covid19 Special Programmes on German Public Television
No full textWe analyse audiovisual media discourse on Covid-19 through the lens of the politicalin order to illustrate how discursive practices establish and reconfigure subject positionsand social orders in times of crisis. Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s understanding of thepolitical, we suggest that these reconfigurations can either stabilise existing (political)communities and power relations, or intervene in what is perceived as ‘normal’.Analytically, we approach these (re)configurations on the level of media-aesthetics (thetangible), language (the utterable) and audiovisual representation (the visible) todemonstrate how a sense of commonality is produced or revised through artistic mediapractice (Richard Rorty).We demonstrate our argument by means of Covid-19 ‘special programmes’ onGerman public television, as they can be considered cultural practices of making situatedsense of a global crisis. By analysing the tangible, the utterable and the visible in thebroadcast from 13 December 2020, our illustrative analysis reveals a constant strugglebetween reconfigurations of the political and stabilisations of (a new) normalcy. Weconclude with a plea for including a media-aesthetic perspective into the analysis of Covid19 discourse as it opens up a more comprehensive (multimodal) idea and experientialdimension of the discursive construction of the pandemic
Disciplinary Normalisation and the Biopolitics of COVID-19 Pandemic Discourse in Ghana
No full textConstructing normalised sociopolitical order during the COVID-19 pandemic appeared a common feature of countries across the globe, constituting identities and engendering political struggles. This study analyses the concrete discursive practices of the President of the Republic of Ghana during the pandemic. Foucault’s notions of discourse and power provide the framework for analysing the performances and realisations of disciplinary (power) normalisation and biopolitical practices during the pandemic. How do the discursive practices of the President of the republic of Ghana construct new normalcy, a normalised sociopolitical order, and managed the virus spread during the COVID-19 pandemic? The study revealed the deployment of disciplinary normalisation and the biopolitical constitution of subjects. It found out that there is a discursive link between the discursive practices of the President of Ghana and the pandemic discourse of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and funding support from the World Bank. The President’s discursive shift from disciplinary normalisation to self-discipline increased the chances of the ruling party towards winning the December 7, 2020, general election in Ghana. Also, this study provides a better understanding of the reconfiguration of the political and the similarities between Ghana’s pandemic discourse and some Global North countries
Discipline vs Vulnerability: A Biopolitical Look at COVID-19 Crisis Response
No full textBiopolitics has been widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic, to call attention to the discipline and control imposed to safeguard public health and the resultant normalization of states of exception. This limited reading of biopolitics, however, stands on a narrow understanding of politics and results in what Rancière (2004) has called disagreement (mésentente), a failure to hear or to understand. This essay explores the possibilities of reconfiguring the political and biopolitical, embracing affirmative potentials inherent in the work of Foucault (1978, 2003) and Butler (2022). It will, above all, touch on notions of vulnerability, interdependency, and care, as developed by feminist thinkers. The potential of vulnerability to reconfigure the political is also subjected to a critical lens, as it has also been successfully exploited by conservative movements (e.g., in the contexts of masculinity, marriage equality, immigration and race) to cement the power of dominant groups (Oliviero, 2018). Yet, despite this potential for cooptation, critical awareness of the recognition of the shared vulnerability as a source of agentive capacity has the potential to overcome the political impasses revealed by the COVID-19 policy response
Boekbesprekingen, boekaankondigingen
No full textBijbelwetenschappen: Bernd Janowski - Biblischer Schöpfungsglaube; Eep Talstra - De bijbel als biografie van God en mensen; Marvin A. Sweeney - Visions of the Holy: Studies in Biblical Theology and Literature; Michael Gerhardt - Firmament und Kosmos; Benedetta Rossi - Dominic S. Irudayaraj en Gina Hens-Piazza (red.), Unity in the Book of Isaiah; Wilson de Angelo Cunha/Andrew T. - Abernethy (red.), Isaiah and Intertextuality; Benjamin P. Laird - Creating the Canon: Composition, Controversy, and the Authority of the New Testament; Ruben A. Bühner - Messianic High Christology: New Testament Variants of Second Temple Judaism; Nico Riemersma - The Gospel of Luke as Masterpiece; Structure, Genre and Way of Telling; Tom Schepers - Legenden.
Kerk- en theologiegeschiedenis: J.N. Mouthaan - Belofte en bevel; Nina J. Koefoed/Bo Kristian Holm (red.), Reformation and Everyday Life; Donald K. McKim/Jim West, Theodore Beza; Arthur van der Weduwen/Malcolm Walsby (red.), Reformation, Religious Culture and Print in Early Modern Europa; Cornelis Jan Meeuse - De bestrijding van het cartesianisme door Jacobus Koelman; C. Houtman - Kerst, Pasen en Pinksteren in zondagsschoolboekjes en andere negentiendeeeuwse lectuur voor de jeugd; Cees Houtman - Een dominee die geen dominee wilde heten; A.A. van Ruler - Verzameld werk deel V-C; Merijn Wijma - Een menigte die men tellen kan; P.J. Vergunst (red.) - Eigendom van God.
Missiologie en oecumenica: Mitri Raheb/Mark A. Lamport (red.), Emerging Theologies from the Global South.
Dogmatiek: G. Clements/J.M.D. de Heer/A. Schreuder (red.) - Verzoening door voldoening: Een theologische verkenning; Andrew Davison - Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine: Exploring the Implications of Life in the Universe; Matthias Grebe/Johannes Grössl - T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil; Peter Harrison/Paul Tyson (red.) - New Directions in Theology and Science; Craig A. Hefner - Kierkegaard and the Changelessness of God: A Modern Defense of Classical Immutability; Hans Madueme - Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences.
Ethiek: Gary Chartier - Christianity and the Nation-State: A Study in Political Theology; Ad van der Dussen - De aarde en de hemel trouw blijven; M. Klaassen - Gods goede orde; James Laidlaw (red.) - The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics.
Liturgiek: Riemer Roukema - ’s Zondags ga ik naar de kerk – of niet; Katelijne Schiltz/Lucinde Braun (red.) - Orgelpredigten in Europa (1600–1800).
Praktische theologie: Bart van den Brink - Religion, Spirituality, and Suicidality: Modelling the Dynamics; Douwe Steensma - Geroepen tot de dienst.
Kerkrecht: Tineke Boele-Noort - Zicht op tucht.
Wijsbegeerte: Gijsbert van den Brink - Oriëntatie in de filosofie; Koen Holtzapffel - Erasmus en de vrije wil.
Cultuur: David P. Gushee - Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies.
Boekaankondiging:
Margriet van der Kooi - Goedheid voor het oprapen.
Hand-Reading: New Pointers for Life Writing
No full textThe discovery of two handprints of the Dutch journalist and travel writer Mary Pos (1904–1987) and Pos’ reports of her consultations with the Dutch hand-reader in question led to us to reflect on the potential use of such documents in a biographical project aimed at a reconstruction of the life and work of Pos. We first examined the possible reasons for Pos to consult the hand-reader and tried to determine if and how she responded to it in her diaries and correspondence. We also checked whether the hand-reader’s findings had an impact and if she followed his advice. Finally, we wanted to find out if the handprints and reports could perhaps complement the more conventional collection of historical documents already studied, such as Pos’ diaries and letters. We also asked ourselves the more methodological question if a close reading and contextualisation of handprints and their reports in general can contribute to a biographical project. This essay offers a contextualisation of hand-reading practices, a detailed reading of the recovered documents, and a set of considerations when using such sources in a biographical project
Inside the Lives of Comedians — Or Not: Signs of Constructedness and Referentiality in Stand-Up Comedy
No full textStand-up comedians, as public figures in a digitalised world, are necessitated to react to an increasing demand for authenticity in their performances. Arguably, this demand is a reaction to an increase in post-truth sentiments in contemporary media culture. Using two performances as case studies, this paper analyses the works to explore how different comedians respond to the imperative of authenticity permeating media culture today. Through the analysis of signs of constructedness and referentiality in the performances, it is shown that both performances occasionally seem so ‘real’ that they become uncomfortable and hyperrealistic. This is vital considering Roland Barthes’ concern that the reality effect, when constructed well, may result in audiences accepting narratives as unproblematically true. Moreover, an increased succumbing to the imperative of authenticity may result in this imperative’s reinforcement. This, in turn, might require performances to appear increasingly ‘real’ and bring with it a variety of consequences. As such, understanding the imperative of authenticity and different cultural figures’ reactions thereto is an important step in understanding how to engage with constructedness and truth in a post-truth era
Lily Robert-Foley, The Duty to Presence
No full textThis book is an extended and formally mixed prose poem on the experience of becoming a mother, and particularly on spending the everyday every day with a baby, observing their development and attempting to record what one perceives. The author, Lily Robert-Foley is an American writer; she is also a translator, university teacher, and artist, and she is a playful thinker with an interest in feminist and queer resistance. Her previous publications range from a novel to a book on experimental translation; this is her first published book of poetry
Teacher education in a virtual exchange between Brazil and the U.S.: Balancing preservice teachers’ guidance and affording autonomy
No full textThis paper shares a virtual exchange (VE) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project between second language acquisition (SLA) teacher education courses at a university in the U.S. and in Brazil, developed with different groups of learners in 2022 and 2023. The main aims were to support and investigate preservice teachers’ (PSTs): 1) intercultural communicative competence (ICC), 2) language practices, 3) local and global perspectives, and 4) collaboration through information and communication technologies (ICT). This paper examines how professors balanced guidance and autonomy for PSTs as teams (each team with PSTs from Brazil and U.S.) asynchronously and synchronously engaged in informal communication and projects to study international and regional cultural norms for SLA. Qualitative analyses of surveys, interactions, and projects informed patterns of PST autonomy and situations that required more professor support and guidance. Most PSTs engaged consistently, thoroughly, and needed almost no support with tasks, such as their introductions and responses to questions about readings. Some PSTs needed more guidance from professors, such as one-one scaffolding (in-person or Zoom) or text message reminders, than others for arranging open-ended tasks among teams of PSTs and setting up relevant ICT, such as WhatsApp groups to facilitate desired communications. Results were utilized to determine modifications for future VE