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Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, "Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)."
No full textEmotion-Conveying Words in Polish Social Media
No full textA growing body of research has attempted to categorize emotions in social media text. However, emphasis on macro-scale trends does not provide a nuanced view of how those classifications are drawn. This article builds on Oberländer’s work on semantic role labeling in sentiment analysis, using their 2020 schema of cue word, target, cause, and experiencer to examine semantic roles in social media posts. Using a corpus of geopolitical Polish-language Facebook data annotated for the presence and intensity of 23 distinct emotions, we generate three hypotheses regarding the actors and emotions in our data. We use two subcorpora of posts containing contempt and admiration, emotions that are roughly bivalent and under-researched in the current literature. Our findings suggest that part-of-speech is not a relevant consideration, and that emotion-conveying words are monovalent–that is, they do not signal multiple emotions in different contexts. We also find differences in the semantic roles towards which our two bivalent emotions are directed, as well as the relative intensity with which they are expressed. We hope this exploratory study can inform future research on the integration of semantic role labeling and sentiment analysis.
Keywords: sentiment analysis; semantic role labeling; emotion; social medi
Confronting Colonial Imaginings of Tahiti: An Examination of Painted and Photographed Representations of Māhū and Raerae
No full textIn 1891, the French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin left France for Tahiti in search of a “primitive,” exotic, and utopian life that was untouched by European technological developments. Much to his dismay, the romanticized paradisiac idyll that Gauguin had imagined had been largely colonized by France. Therefore, Gauguin moved to the less populated village of Papeari, where he took to writing about and painting misinterpretations of the culture that he had observed. Several of Gauguin’s paintings from this period have been theorized to depict māhū subjects.
In Tahiti, māhū is recognized as a valuable third gender category used to describe those who draw on both masculine and feminine gender signs and practices. Māhū is often discussed alongside raerae, who are transgender women. This article analyzes both Gauguin’s portrayal of māhū subjects and the ways in which two contemporary artists have represented māhū and raerae subjects, specifically in response to Gauguin’s work.
In 2019, Kehinde Wiley, a Black American artist, painted a series of portraits for an exhibition in Paris entitled “Tahiti.” In this series, Wiley, and a group of māhū models worked together to counter-pose the visual codes within Gauguin’s paintings. Additionally, in 2019, Namsa Leuba, a Swiss-Guinean photographer, created a photo series entitled “ILLUSIONS: The Myth of the ‘Vahine’ through Gender Dysphoria.” In this collection of images, Leuba collaborated with māhū and raerae models to challenge Gauguin and his search for the “primitive.” This article applies queer theory and visual analysis to explore how Paul Gauguin propagated colonial hegemonic ideologies of gender and sexuality, and further how Wiley and Leuba’s painted and photographic representations of māhū and raerae subjects are capable of confronting, challenging, and resisting such portrayals and the narratives that they perpetuated
Peter E. Gordon, "Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization."
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Temporary Movement, Temporary Jobs: “Flexibility” of Food Delivery Workers in China’s Platform Economy
No full text“Working for a platform” has become an alternative way for making a living in urban China. Millions of rural migrant workers in China joined the emerging food-order and food-delivery platforms in the past decade, working as “riders” (qishou, aka food delivery workers). Despite the rise of the platform economy and the massive volume of working opportunities it brings to migrant workers, it has not alleviated the socio-economic inequality of this already-marginalized group. This article examines the notion of “flexibility” of gig work in contemporary China, specifically through studying the riders working for food delivery platforms. By investigating the details of working conditions, the recruiting and hiring system, as well as the notion “flexibility” largely used by migrant workers to justify for their motivations in becoming riders, I argue that the platform economy, such as the food delivery industry in China, governs migrant workers with its algorithm design and subcontracting system. Facing the limited options of a sustaining livelihood, rural migrant workers enter the platform economy with “flexibility” as their rationale to make ends meet. However, when examined within the broader socio-economic context, this notion of “flexibility” obscures the fact that platform capitalism further marginalizes rural migrant workers.