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Desire Lines: Quantified-Self-Portraits Produced with a Fitness Tracking Watch
No full textI am an artist and researcher examining self-tracking practices to understand how these forms of measurement and judgement employ an ideology of health to produce particular (gendered) neoliberal subjects. My fitness tracking watch records bodily movements and presents data as indicators of health. The watch encourages self-optimisation and competition. In contrast, the performances I track do not focus on health or self-improvement but bring attention to hidden labour, often gendered and unpaid, such as admin, cleaning and care. In Desire Lines, the geolocation diagrams produced when working at home are reproduced in linocut prints. These prints, and my body of work on quantification, aim to contextualise self-tracking data within the personal, social and political environment, undoing the propensity of neoliberal capitalism to present health as a personal responsibility and consumer choice. This chapter discusses some positive and negative aspects of self-tracking practices and the Quantified Self movement to outline the position from which I appropriate self-tracking techniques as creative practice-based research methods. By viewing quantification through a queer, feminist lens I hope to draw attention to the inequalities that are concealed by neoliberal notions of health. Using a phenomenological approach, I describe some of the preliminary findings of this ongoing research, including the augmented and outsourced ways of looking and varying temporalities of self-tracking
Small bites
No full textan essay on desiring modalities of eating (and not eating) in the form of short accounts of psychoanalytic case studies and fictional narratives
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Sadong 30: The Animistic Domestic in the Work of Heague Yang
No full textIn 2006 artist Haegue Yang installed a series of sculptural works in an
abandoned house in Incheon, South Korea. Yang produced and installed highly considered, and sympathetic artworks in response to, and in relation with, the temporal and material realities of this space. The dilapidated house had for many years prior to Yang’s installation, been home to the kinds of feral fauna and flora that inhabit the spaces vacated by humans. Yang did not attempt to eradicate the traces of these non-human dwellers but rather sought to illuminate their occupation and the temporality
inherent in the processes of decay, through carefully placed objects that led visitors from room to room in a manner that prompted humble contemplation. Building on Tim Ingold’s (2011) exploration of animacy as material reciprocity, this chapter analyses Sa-dong 30 as an artwork that through its object-to-object relationality subtly questions the nature of belonging (or not belonging)
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Spirits, liquid bodies, and more-than-human entities in Indigenous cosmologies
No full textThis chapter examines how Indigenous artists in Latin America reengage
animism as a decolonial strategy, challenging the Western nature/culture
divide and dominant extractivist narratives. Drawing on Amerindian
perspectivism and multinaturalism, it explores the interconnectedness
between human and more-than-human entities in Amazonian and Mapuche
cosmologies. Through close analysis of works by Sueli Maxakali and Seba
Calfuqueo, it demonstrates how Indigenous artistic practices articulate
spiritual, ecological, and political resistance to colonial and neoliberal
violence. Maxakali’s film and photography highlight Tikmũ’ũn relationships
with spirit-beings and ancestral land, while Calfuqueo’s installations and
performances develop a critical approach to water commodification and
binary modes of existence. These practices not only preserve cultural
knowledge but also enact alternative onto-epistemologies rooted in kinship, reciprocity, and resistance. The essay calls for deeper engagement with Indigenous perspectives in postcolonial theory and environmental
humanities, proposing Indigenous art practices as a site of countervisual
resistance and a radical reimagining of human–nonhuman relations
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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