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‘We haven’t stopped working’: changing dynamics of youth and student organising in education at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic is a critical juncture that has impacted various social and political processes, including youth and student activism. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with youth and student activists who are part of a global movement on educational rights, this paper aims to explore their perceptions and experiences of the pandemic’s impact on their organising, movements, and activism. The pandemic has caused shifts in both the aims of and approaches to organising, presenting an opportunity for youths and students to centrally position themselves in important decision-making processes in education policy making and programming. These shifts could provide a window into the future landscape of youth and student participation in shaping the global education agenda
Self-Reported Psychological, Somatic, and Vasomotor Symptoms at Different Stages of the Menopause for Autistic and Non-autistic People
Get PDFBackground: There is growing awareness that the experiences of neurodivergent people during menopause are not well understood. Menopause may be particularly challenging for autistic people due to common co-occurring conditions such as depression and differences in sensory processing. The few (mostly qualitative) studies to explore autism and menopause suggest that autistic traits may be exacerbated.
Methods: In an online cross-sectional survey, we examined self-reported menopause symptoms of 342 people (autistic, n=242 and non-autistic, n=100) at different stages of their reproductive life (pre-menopausal (~20% of sample), menopausal (~30%), post-menopausal (~50%)).
Results: Autistic people reported significantly higher rates of bothersome psychological and somatic menopause symptoms than non-autistic people, but no differences were observed for vasomotor symptoms. Results indicated different patterns of psychological, somatic and vasomotor symptoms between the autistic and non-autistic groups. People in the menopause and post-menopause groups reported negative changes in symptoms, but nonautistic women report these as more negative than autistic women. Whether this finding is related to the observation that autistic people report more bothersome psychological and somatic symptoms before the menopause, requires further investigation.
Conclusion: This cross-sectional analysis suggests that autistic people may experience more bothersome symptoms during the menopause compared to non-autistic people. Longitudinal studies examining change are required to fully understand the variables that impact individual experiences for autistic people
Flair du temps
No full textText commissioned by Centre VOX Centre de l'image contemporaine in Montreal on the occasion of Janis Rafa's solo exhibition _Landscape Depressions_. Published in the gallery and online in English and in French.
VOX is a publisher engaged in research on image practices. It produces monographic works that have become references for art history research in Quebec. Grouped under the collection A Posteriori, it also publishes essays on artists and curatorial practice or offering analyses on current issues. VOX is a member of CÉAC, a collective of publishers dedicated to the dissemination of contemporary art, which has come together to reflect on all aspects of publishing, from distribution to its digital future.
Situated Bayes – Feminist and Pluriversal Perspectives on Bayesian Knowledge
Get PDFThis is the introduction and lead article to the Situated Bayes special issue of Computational Culture. The article introduces Bayes’ Theorem and aspects of its contemporary uses, for instance in machine learning. A mathematical discussion is developed alongside a consideration of Bayes Theorem in relation to critical theories of knowledge, specifically the discussion of situated knowledge in feminist theories of science, pluriversal knowledge in decolonial theory, and critical approaches to mathematics. We discuss whether there are possible resonances between Bayesian mapping of multiple functions and the idea of the subjective on the one hand and these theoretical propositions on the other and propose further lines of enquiry for future research. In closing the introduction, the contributions to the special issue are briefly described
Between Opposite Shores
No full textThis geopoetic exploration of grief, change and loss merges the personal and the planetary to hold space and make room for each other. Its experimental spirit is initiated by a visit to Lamu Island in Kenya, a long-term port of call in the Indian Ocean trade network and is an elegy to a friend Elleni Centime Zeleke (1972-2024) who was in Lamu with Hameed. It is also an ode to the melancholia felt in a changing, degenerating, warming assemblage of planetary Ocean space of which we are all connected. The artists consider the memorial, its tempos and negative spaces as site generative for shared and expanded spaces of mourning, love and trepidation in the face of unpayable debts
The Educational Turn: Rewriting the Hidden Curriculum
No full textNew Italian translation of 'The Educational Turn in Art : Rewriting the hidden curriculum', in Roberta Bernasconi , Giulia Crisci , Alessandro Tollari (eds), Performance and Pedagogy, Sossella Editore, published originally in Performance Research, 21(6), pp. 29-35. ISSN 1352-8165
In about 2006, the art world developed a prolonged fascination with questions of education, pedagogy and the art school. ‘The Educational Turn’ (Rogoff 2008 Rogoff, Irit (2008) ’Turning’, E-Flux Journal 1, http://www.e-flux.com, accessed 4 February 2016.), as it became known, produced a plethora of artistic and curatorial practices that engage with educational paradigms and problematics. Prompted in part by the European Union Bologna Process, The Educational Turn provided a critique of education as one-directional knowledge transfer, and the framing of education as a commercialized industry, reduced to the utilitarianism of training for working life. At the same time, it established ‘education’ as a thematic for the art world, in most cases divorced from its capacity for producing change in the fields of art or education. This article asks, what is the hidden curriculum (Illich) of this Educational Turn? Drawing from the writings of Colin Crouch, Wolfgang Streeck and Paulo Virno among others, it suggests that such ‘turns’ without a vital link to the realm of action, contribute to the broader problematic of public programming without a public sphere, through which formerly democratic institutions (like art galleries) operate as shells in a capitalist environment that is increasingly incompatible with democracy. We read The Education Turn here as a missed opportunity to re-shape art curricula and institutions, to develop a movement to oppose the Bologna Accord and the brutal changes imposed on art education through austerity politics. Finally, we argue—citing the writings of Paulo Friere, the mutualist movements in Europe of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the educational experiments of Celestin Freinet and Fernand Oury in France in the 1950s and the pedagogies of feminist and post-colonial struggle—for a deeper connection to radical education genealogies and their contemporary counterparts in contemporary public programming today
Unpacking musical beauty: Sound, emotion, and impact differences across expertise and personality
Get PDFBeauty is an aesthetic quality that many composers and performers strive to attain and that most listeners value highly in music. Yet, what listeners hear and feel when they find music beautiful, the impact this experience has on them, and wherein lie any potential individual differences remain unclear. To address these gaps, an online questionnaire was administered to 81 adults. They described their experience of listening to three self-selected “beautiful pieces of music” alongside three pieces they listened to a lot but did not consider beautiful; focusing on each piece’s sonic features, emotions induced, and any impact engaging with the pieces had had on them. Respondents’ personality traits and level of musical training were also collected to explore if these contributed significantly to variability in the data. Thematic analysis of text responses showed that participants consider intrinsic features of the music (mellow timbre, pleasing melodies and harmonies, slow tempo), cognitive factors (degree of change, complexity levels, and repetition), and aesthetic criteria (emotional effects, presence of a message, expressivity) when judging the beauty of a piece. It also showed that, beyond being calming and evoking pleasant sadness, pieces perceived as beautiful tend to move, transport and emotionally resonate with the listener, inspiring musical activities, and providing strong emotional support. Exploratory, quantitative analyses revealed that amateur musicians and open individuals reported a wider range of contributing musical features, while both amateur and professional musicians, along with conscientious individuals, reported a broader range of musical beauty’s influence on their musical activities. Our study suggests that musical beauty is a multifaceted phenomenon that has profound emotional impact on most individuals, while also displaying notable sensitivity to listeners’ personality and musical background. In doing so, our study contributes to a more comprehensive account of what it means to experience beauty in music
Museums and the Implicit Anthropocene: Witnessing in the Science Museum’s Energy Hall
Get PDFWhile the term and concept of the Anthropocene, our new geological epoch, has gained currency in academic discourse and the discourse of highbrow media publications, public understanding of the environment tends to focus on climate change (measured in extreme weather events), pollution, toxicity, species extinction and wildfire in the present. What is less understood are the long and myriad histories of human impact on the planet that created the conditions for the current catastrophes (no matter how indirectly). These are histories that encompass colonialism in the Americas and the institution of slavery, extractive capitalism, and globalisation; the Industrial Revolution; and the inauguration of the nuclear age and the Great Acceleration of oil consumption. These histories of conjoined social and environmental harms (and their terraforming effects) are often implicitly captured by British encyclopaedic and natural history and science museums that were founded in the Victorian era, the natural-historical and ethnographic collections of which are often rooted in British imperialism; the display of the history of science, technology and industry represents industrial revolution, extractive, fossil-fuelled capitalism, and signals the nuclear age; and Earth-science exhibits introduce the concept of deep time needed to measure epochal change, and their measurements of previous extinctions presage future loss. British museums have certainly pivoted towards environmental catastrophe over the last five to ten years, often through the installation of the visual and plastic arts, and major Anthropocene exhibitions are in the planning stages, but this proposed essay focuses instead on the implicit rather than curated presence of our new geological epoch. Using a selection of exhibits at London’s Science Museum, this essay reframes, reaccentuates and re-narrates a number of artefacts and objects to elicit their implication in the Anthropocene, along with the legacies of empire, race, and nation-building that such museums house. Unmoored from seemingly innocuous histories of the natural world, and technological and industrial progress, of which the museum visitor is often positioned as the beneficiary, these objects and artefacts will be positioned as witness to an unfolding catastrophe, a catastrophe to which British museums have only belatedly begun to testify. Moreover, this essay’s methodology disrupts the logic of museum planning in which the explicit turn to the Anthropocene can be exculpatory – in that representation of the environmental present and future supplants institutional implication in the origins of catastrophe
Book Review: Robert Zatorre (2024). From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It.
Get PDFBook review of Robert Zatorre (2024). From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It. New York: Oxford University Press, 368 p. ISBN 978-0-197-55828-7(hbk
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: A Meditation on Destituent Power
Get PDFThis short essay ponders themes of Giorgio Agamben’s corpus through the story of Colin Smith, the protagonist of the short story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959) by Alan Sillitoe and the film of the same name by Tony Richardson (1962). The essay considers how Smith’s infamous refusal to cross the finish line is paradigmatic of Agamben’s destituent power. The essay, as a sort of love letter to Smith, further engages questions of thought and feeling in the face of the contemporary apparatuses with which, as Agamben phrases it, we are in hand-to-hand combat