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Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul by Anthony Graves Boston: Beacon Press (2018) 224 pp.
Get PDFEvery Picture Tells a Story: Framing and Understanding the Activism of Convict Criminology
Get PDFConvict Criminology (CC) consists of three major initiatives. Although scholarship and mentoring have been dominant activities, understanding the activism/policymaking of CC is less well known. This paper reviews the primary United States based activities that CC has done in this area and suggests what it needs to do to assist the interests of individuals who arebehind bars and those who are formerly incarcerated, as well as work towards the mission of the CC organization as a whole. Some of the areas where CC has participated politically include the news-making we have done (i.e. interviews with the news media) and the periodic statements released on social media by the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Convict Criminology. This paper will also consider the notion of praxis as applied to CC, in that some members consider their research, public speaking, and mentorship to be political actions worthy to be considered political activity
Imaginer une réalité post-pandémique à travers un cadre méthodologique basé sur les arts
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the precarity of artistic livelihoods across the arts and culture sector. With efforts to repair past harms and reimagine more equitable futures comes the need to center the lived experiences of artists in research and policy development. Sustainable pARTnerships: Collaboration and Reciprocity in Creative Cities is a participatory arts-based research initiative that brings together the cultural and academic sectors to jointly imagine futures in which artists can thrive. As part of this initiative, five researchers and five commissioned Toronto-based artists representative of a range of disciplines collaboratively documented challenges and potential next steps. This collaboration was framed with the methodologies of crystallization, crystal-scaping, and photovoice. Our objective is to artfully integrate artistic voices into the practice of knowledge creation and map out policy pathways for institutions and the community to create longer-term relationships built on equity and reciprocity. The visibility of local artists’ pandemic experience targets a broad public, including arts training institutes, policymakers, and academics and heightens the call for connection, conversation, and change.La pandémie de COVID-19 a exacerbé la précarité des moyens de subsistance des artistes dans l\u27ensemble du secteur des arts et de la culture. Les efforts déployés pour réparer les préjudices du passé et réimaginer des avenirs plus équitables s\u27accompagnent de la nécessité de centrer les expériences vécues par les artistes sur la recherche et l\u27élaboration des politiques. Partenariats durables : Collaboration et réciprocité dans les villes créatives est une initiative de recherche participative basée sur les arts qui rassemble les secteurs culturel et universitaire pour imaginer conjointement des avenirs dans lesquels les artistes peuvent prospérer. Dans le cadre de cette initiative, cinq chercheurs et cinq artistes commandités de Toronto, représentatifs d\u27un éventail de disciplines, ont documenté en collaboration les défis et les prochaines étapes potentielles. Cette collaboration a été encadrée par les méthodologies de cristallisation, d\u27échantillonnage de cristaux et de photovoice. Notre objectif est d\u27intégrer avec art des voix artistiques dans la pratique de la création de connaissances et de tracer des voies politiques pour les institutions et la communauté afin de créer des relations à long terme fondées sur l\u27équité et la réciprocité. La visibilité de l\u27expérience des artistes locaux en matière de pandémie vise un large public, y compris les instituts de formation artistique, les décideurs politiques et les universitaires, et renforce l\u27appel à la connexion, à la conversation et au changement
The Question of the New: Wittgenstein, Kuhn, Cavell
Get PDFThe editors of this special issue of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies invited contributors to write on Stanley Cavell and Thomas Kuhn. Unfortunately, this paper will end with Kuhn. The reason is simple: I found that I couldn’t begin writing anything on Cavell and the new before I had set up the literary and historical framework for the project, and before I had discussed Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work on aspect-seeing and Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). These are the parts of my work in progress that I’ll share here. 
From Automatism to Autonomy
Get PDFWhen we refer to something as automatic in ordinary language, we tend to speak of it as unconscious and working by itself —machinic, repetitive, needing no intervention or control from others to move along its natural course. If a process is automatic, we regularly assume that it happens independently of the human will. What is automated, in other words, will go on until non-human physical constraints prevent it from further labor, such as when the battery is dead in the robot or when the electricity goes out as the washing machine is running its usual course, or when one of its parts is worn out and needs repair. But if the machine “decides” that it is too tired or having a moody afternoon and wants to stop working mid-way through a task, we can’t help feeling very alarmed. Usually, we see automatism as precluding autonomy. Its automatic nature seems to suggest that it is, or ought to be, heteronomous in the sense that its course of action remains the same until it is told otherwise, e.g., when someone else turns the switch on or off. The contrast between the two statuses is prevalent in philosophical discourses as well, notably Descartes’ thought experiment that an automaton designed to look like an animal would be hard to distinguish from the real thing, but a machine that imitates humans would be far easier to detect, due to the latter’s language and general reasoning abilities, which reflect the fact that it is guided by immaterial mind
Cavell and the Art of Revolution
Get PDFCavell traced his own philosophical beginnings to his encounter, while a graduate student at Harvard in 1955, with J. L. Austin and to his reading, a few years later, of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. The heart of his inheritance from these two thinkers is an account of language, at odds with then dominant positivism-influenced accounts, on which the referential function of language is subordinate to speakers’ feel for what can be meaningfully done with words. In the 1960s, Cavell drew on this legacy in giving an appealing and distinctive interpretation of aesthetic modernism that would become one of his philosophical signatures. He argued that the departures from established artistic forms that were modernism’s hallmark should be seen as efforts “not to break but to keep faith with tradition.” This was not a perverse willingness to count rule-breaking as rule-following. Given the view that understanding draws on our sense for coherent expression and action, it appears that individual procedures’ significance may differ in different contexts. So, we can allow not only that artists may encounter crises, in which previously helpful procedures come to obstruct what they most want to express, but also that a decisive break in procedure may enable new expressive freedom and so may be recognizable as the tradition’s smoothest and most natural continuation
Cavell\u27s Critical Afterlives
No full textJames Helgeson advances that “Cavell can hardly be called a mainstream influence on current literary-critical practice.” Yet Cavell is at once a significant and a marginal figure, currently in the ascendant, perennially out of step. Cavell notes the fact that his work is untimely and freshly resonant by turns, observing that he is somewhat protected from the sense that all that is happening intellectually, or intellectually happening, is the latest eventuality. Being odd, and staying odd, of course has its pains, but surprisingly, even increasingly, its pleasures, even that of remaining, however precariously, contemporary. When the breakers of canons discover that they have themselves become repetitive in their newer authorities, the older, modified out of their old authority, can have another hearing. The intellectual “revolutions” referenced in this quotation span a number of movements in literary studies and philosophy since the late 1960s, and I will look further at Cavell’s relation to these developments, as well as the question of Cavell’s own canon, in the course of this essay
A Scoping Review of Challenges and Existing Tools: How to Support Patient-Provider Communication During Telemedicine Consultations?
No full textIn light of the COVID-19 public health restrictions, the use of telemedicine has been on the rise. This care delivery model is valued for its potential to increase care access while providing safe care. However, it changes the way patients and providers interact. Communication during video consultations requires embodied engagement to compensate for the physical distance. This study aimed to identify patient-provider communication challenges during video consultations and assess the tools developed to support patient-provider communication according to the published literature from 2019 to 2022. Searches of eight databases (Medline (Ovid), PubMed, ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, PsychInfo, and Social Services Abstracts), and a Google search for grey literature were conducted. Nineteen articles met inclusion criteria. Findings show that patients and providers share the same concerns, such as a lack of trust relating to physical distance, the ability to establish a meaningful relationship, and a lack of confidence in clinical assessment. The available tools, however, are based on guidelines that are difficult to adapt to the diversity of interaction contexts. There is a need for tools that consider the complexity of patient-provider communication in order to address the challenges stemming from the lack of trust in the context of video consultations. These findings can inform strategies for effective patient-provider communication during video consultations to improve the quality of care and optimize outcomes in this context.
“Heureux qui, comme… ” Parcours initiatique, chamanisme et mutation identitaire dans Naufragios d’Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Get PDFComo la Odisea de Homero, Naufragios de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542-1555) construye, entre otros enfoques, un viaje que se parece a un trayecto iniciático, es decir, un camino hacia una profunda conversión interior. Esta transformación ontológica pasa por tres etapas o secuencias (fases de separación, de margen y de agregación), que este artículo se propone analizar a la luz de los datos antropológicos. Si la escritura de la obra corresponde, sobre todo, a una empresa de autoglorificación de su autor a través de una “heroización” y de una “mesianización” discursiva de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, una lectura simbólica que estudia las estructuras antropológicas del imaginario permite mostrar que algunos de los componentes de la iniciación afloran en la superficie del texto como en un palimpsesto.À l’instar de l’Odyssée d’Homère, Naufragios d’Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542-1555) retrace, entre de multiples autres angles d’approche, un voyage qui s’apparente à un parcours initiatique, c’est-à-dire un cheminement vers une conversion intérieure profonde. Cette transformation ontologique passe par trois étapes ou séquences (phases de séparation, de marge et d’agrégation) que cet article se propose d’analyser à la lumière, notamment, des apports de l’anthropologie. Si l’écriture de l’œuvre relève essentiellement d’une entreprise d’auto-glorification de son auteur à travers, notamment, une “héroïsation” et une “messianisation” discursives d’Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, une lecture symbolique s’attachant aux structures anthropologiques de l’imaginaire permet de montrer que certains des composants de l’initiation affleurent à la surface du texte comme dans un palimpseste