Ordinary Sensibilia

In this paper, I propose some philosophical reflections arising from the encounter with a work of art, namely the Squatting Aphrodite, which is one of the Roman copies that is held in the same room as the Venus de Milo in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. From the description of this artwork and the effect it has on the spectator, I draw three main consequences: the conceptual difference between ordinary sensibility and everyday aesthetics; the criticism of aesthetic conformity, and the political implications of adopting an ordinary perspective towards aesthetic experience.

La Lecture comme geste

International audienceSur les postures du lecteur dans la peinture occidentale et sa représentation sur la scène chorégraphique contemporaine. Sur le geste du lecteur dans la situation de conférence. Extrait : "Lire relève d'une posture mentale autant que corporelle. C'est la nature chorégraphique de cette pratique qui nous intéresse ici : la dimension corporelle d'une activité que l'on ne peut réduire ni à son opération de déchiffrage, ni à une technique mentale permettant de prendre connaissance d'un texte, ni à son caractère linguistique. Lire, c'est d'abord du geste, c'est le mouvement des yeux sur un support pour en identifier les caractères inscrits. [Barbara Formis lit un temps le texte de Julie Perrin par-dessus son épaule.] Pour prendre connaissance d'un contenu le mouvement est en jeu et il ne se limite pas à celui des yeux. On ne peut certes pas séparer la pratique intellectuelle de la pratique corporelle qui constitue la lecture. Elles sont étroitement liées : l'action est pétrie de mots, la corporéité est traversée par le langage.

A Criação entre Dança e Instalação

This article aims to grasp the intellectual and practical similarities between the concept of installation, which is traditionally assigned to the visual arts, and that of dance-movement, which isoften considered as ephemeral and transitory. Through this comparison one can draw up an innovative definition of the concept of artistic creation. At first sight there is nothing in commonbetween the choreographer’s process of creation and the productive action of artistic installation. However, the distinction between the two is blurred in certain exemplary works by Anna Halprin, Trisha Brown, Christian Rizzo, Boris Charmatz and Mette Ingvartsen. This could be explained by the influence of practice of happenings (Allan Kaprow) on contemporary art, in which artistic creation takes the form of a process, an event, a work in progress. By following this association of installation and dance one discovers that the element of air is presented as a genuinely plastic matter, a source of inspiration for artists that generates creative procedures.Este artigo busca entender as similitudes, intelectuais e práticas ao mesmo tempo, entre o conceito de instalação, muitas vezes atribuído às artes visuais, e o de movimento dançado, muitas vezes considerado como efémero e transitório. Com a ajuda desta comparação, uma definição inovadora de criação artística poderia emergir. À primeira vista, nada associa o procedimento da criação coreográfica ao ato poiético de instalação artística. E, portanto, a linha se torna porosa em certas obras exemplares concebidas por Anna Halprin, Trisha Brown, Christian Rizzo, Boris Charmatz e Mette Ingvartsen. Isto poderia se explicar pela influência da prática dos happenings (Allan Kaprow) sobre arte contemporânea, onde a criação torna-se processo, work in progress, evento. Seguindo essa associação entre a instalação e a dança, é possível descobrir que o elemento do ar se apresenta como verdadeira matéria plástica, fonte de inspiração para os artistas e verdadeiro processo criativo

Thermoregulation of alpacas bred in Italy

The present study monitored daily and seasonal variations of rectal temperature in response to different environmental temperatures in alpacas bred in the Italian Apennines at 300 m a. s. l. In each season, the rectal temperature of 33 clinically healthy alpacas was measured three times/day (morning, midday, afternoon). Ambient temperatures were also recorded. Rectal temperatures ranged from a minimum value of 35.1 to a maximum of 39.4\ub0C, with a maximum daily thermal excursion (\u394Trec) of 3.2\ub0C. Temperatures increased throughout the day, with highly significant differences recorded in both young and adult animals between all the time bands (P<0.001). These differences were particularly dramatic for adults in summer, when the mean rectal temperature in the morning was 36.3\ub10.13\ub0C, probably as a consequence of recent shearing. Significant \u394Trec differences were recorded depending on the season in both young and adult animals (P<0.001), with the highest \u394Trec values recorded in summer (although the highest daily ambient excursion value was recorded in winter). In conclusion, similarly to alpacas bred in their natural environment, alpacas bred in Italy show a wide thermal neutrality zone, which is probably an adaptive response, that allows the animals to save energy. In the Italian Apennines, in order to prevent situations of hypothermia, with possible detrimental effects on alpacas' health and welfare, shearing should be carried out only in warm seasons

Critical Notice of Richard Shusterman, Ars Erotica. Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love

Reimagining Eroticism through Embodied Aesthetics: A Feminist Reading1. The Epistemological and Ethical Aspects of the Arts of LoveIn the debate of contemporary thought and its intersections with philosophy, aesthetics, and the politics of the self, Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica (AE) makes a significant and inspiring contribution. The book delves into the intricate relationship between aesthetics and eroticism, offering a unique perspective on the relation between the ancient notion of de..

Faits et valeurs en esthétique: approches et enjeux actuels

Inspired by the text entitled The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays (2004) of Hilary Putnam, the volume focuses on the theory and practice of knowledge, but one can legitimately extend it to other fields, most especially in aesthetics. Certain observable features in the fields of aesthetics, practice and artistic creation show that old evaluation criteria may now be obsolete. This is because upon further consideration, the definition of value remains opaque : should the artwork be judged according to its moral value, its market value, or its formal value ? To side with or against the concept of value in art and aesthetics does not preclude a certain number of differences concerning the very nature of what is meant by value. If traditionally the ‘fact’ was the work, taken in all its tangibility, currently the materiality of the object no longer seems to play such a major role. Art is increasingly populated by so-called ‘immaterial’ or ‘ephemeral’ works and is therefore rarely, or badly, quantifiable according to old aesthetic and economic evaluation criteria. The progressively pragmatic contextualization of works within the social space puts forward a new definition of aesthetic value, no longer eternal and ideal, but rather anchored in the sensible and the politico-economic issues of a culturally specific situation. The current changes too support the idea that the question of ‘value’ and its confrontation with the concept of ‘fact’ is urgent. What role do artistic practices and aesthetic theories play ? A role of emancipation, of liberation, escape, or transformation ? Or on the contrary, could art become another means to subject individuals to the status quo ? As can easily be noticed, the question of maintaining or rejecting the dichotomy of facts and values is at the heart of the most pressing issues

Ultra-Low Power and Green TSCH-Based WSNs With Proactive Reduction of Idle Listening

Wireless sensor networks are characterized by low power consumption because motes are typically battery-powered. Time slotted channel hopping (TSCH) relies on a fixed transmission schedule, which enables the receiver module of wireless motes to be switched off every time it is not needed. Unfortunately, in many practical contexts most of the reserved slots remain unused, which leads to appreciable energy waste. For periodic traffic, proactive reduction of idle listening (PRIL) techniques have been proven able to mitigate this problem. In this paper, PRIL multi-hop (PRIL-M) is introduced with the aim to improve existing PRIL techniques, by lowering energy waste further in large real-world mesh networks. PRIL-M is advantageous in all those contexts where ultra-low power consumption is more important than end-to-end latency. Applications that can benefit from PRIL-M include, e.g., environmental monitoring, where sensors are deployed over the target area and must operate for years without maintenance. A thorough simulation campaign showed that, in these scenarios, energy consumption of PRIL-M is 75% less than standard TSCH, while the average latency is about 20 times larger

Agentes de mudança na biodiversidade e serviços ecossistêmicos na APA Sistema Cantareira: Uma análise prospectiva da implementação de políticas públicas

The lack of implementation of well-designed public policies aimed at the conservation of natural ecosystems has resulted, at a global level, in the decline of ecosystem functioning and, consequently, of the contributions they make to people. The poor enforcement of important environmental legislation in Brazil-for instance, the “Atlantic Forest Law” (Law n.11.428/2006) and the “Forest Code” (Law n.12.651/2012)-could compromise the overall maintenance of ecosystems and the services they provide. To explore the implications of different levels of federal laws’ enforcement within the Cantareira System Protected Area (PA)-a PA in southeastern Brazil that provides fresh water for 47% of the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area-, we developed a conceptual framework to identify indirect and direct drives of biodiversity and ecosystem changes. We also projected four land-use scenarios to 2050 to test the effects of deforestation control and forest restoration practices on biodiversity and ecosystem services maintenance: the “business-as-usual” scenario (BAU), which assumes that all trends in land-use cover changes observed in the past will continue in the future, and three alternative exploratory scenarios considering the Atlantic Forest Law implementation, the partial implementation of the Forest Code and the full implementation of the Forest Code. Using the land-use maps generated for each scenario, we assessed the impacts of land-use changes on biodiversity conservation and soil retention. Our results revealed all alternative scenarios could increase biodiversity conservation (by 7%; 12%; and 12%, respectively), reduce soil loss (by 24.70%; 34.70%; and 38.12%, respectively) and sediment exportation to water (by 27.47%; 55.06%; and 59.28%, respectively), when compared to the BAU scenario. Our findings highlight the importance of restoring and conserving native vegetation for the maintenance and improvement of biodiversity conservation and for the provision of ecosystem services.A falta de implementação de políticas públicas voltadas para a conservação ambiental, tem resultado, em nível global, em impactos sobre a biodiversidade e o funcionamento dos ecossistemas e, consequentemente, na contribuição da natureza para as pessoas. A aplicação inadequada de importantes de leis ambientais no Brasil, como por exemplo, a “Lei da Mata Atlântica” (Lei nº 11.428 / 2006) e o “Código Florestal” (Lei nº 12.651 / 2012), podem comprometer a manutenção dos ecossistemas e dos serviços que eles fornecem. Neste estudo, nós desenvolvemos um mapa conceitual que busca identificar causas diretas e indiretas de mudanças – agentes de mudança – na biodiversidade e na provisão de serviços ecossistêmicos relacionados ao solo e à água, na Área de Proteção Ambiental (APA) Sistema Cantareira. A APA Sistema Cantareira, localizada no sudeste do Brasil, fornece água potável para 47% da Região Metropolitana de São Paulo. Além da abordagem conceitual, nós projetamos quatro cenários de mudança no uso da terra para o ano de 2050, a fim de analisar o impacto de diferentes níveis de aplicação de leis federais: o cenário “business-as-usual” (BAU), que pressupõe que as tendências na mudança de uso da terra observadas no passado continuarão no futuro, e três cenários alternativos, considerando a implementação da Lei da Mata Atlântica, a implementação parcial do Código Florestal e a implementação completa do Código Florestal. A partir dos mapas de uso da terra gerados, avaliamos os impactos de cada cenário na conservação da biodiversidade, na retenção de solos e na exportação de sedimentos para os corpos d’água. Nossos resultados mostraram que os três cenários alternativos podem aumentar a conservação da biodiversidade (em 7%; 12%; e 12%, respectivamente), reduzir a perda de solo (em 24,70%; 34,70%; e 38,12%, respectivamente) e reduzir a exportação de sedimentos para a água (em 27,47 %; 55,06%; e 59,28%, respectivamente), quando comparados ao cenário BAU. Este estudo destaca a importância da restauração e conservação da vegetação nativa para a manutenção da biodiversidade e melhoria na provisão de serviços ecossistêmicos relacionados ao solo e à água, em uma região estratégica para o abastecimento de água no Brasil.Fil: Dib, Viviane. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; BrasilFil: Nalon, Marco Aurélio. Estado de São Paulo. Secretaria de Infraestrutura e Meio ambiente. Instituto Florestal; BrasilFil: Amazonas, Nino Tavares. Universidade de Sao Paulo; BrasilFil: Vidal, Cristina Yuri. Universidade do Sao Paulo. Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz; BrasilFil: Ortiz Rodríguez, Iván A.. Scuola Normale Superiore. Classe di Scienze; ItaliaFil: Danek, Jan. Czech Academy of Sciences; República ChecaFil: Oliveira, Maíra Formis de. Estado de São Paulo. Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento; BrasilFil: Alberti, Paola. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical. Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical; ArgentinaFil: Silva, Rafaela Aparecida da. Universidade Federal de Goiás; BrasilFil: Precinoto, Raíza Salomão. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; BrasilFil: Gomes, Taciana Figueiredo. Universidade de Sao Paulo; Brasi

Dancing in the office: A study of gestures as resistance

Following the art-body-ethics turn in management studies we use dance as an analogy in order to explore how the body can resist organisational control in office work contexts. We argue that in office work gestures can be a site of post-recognition resistance. Drawing on two art videos and on dance studies, we explain that this is operated either through arrest or through flow. In fact aesthetic experiments in gesturing disrupt the work rhythm needed for organisational efficiency and enforced by organisational control. This allows us to contribute primarily to the literature on resistance in organisation studies and relatedly to the growing literature on dance in organisation studies through demonstrating how dance can be a source of resistance

Estética da indiferença: o tédio, sentimento paradigmático da arte contemporânea

O presente texto trata do caráter ordinário da arte contemporânea, segundo o qual a técnica tem valor menor no conjunto da obra de arte, assim como esta não traduz de alguma maneira a essência da beleza, e o tédio e a insensibilidade são seus elementos fundamentais. A essa estética poderíamos chamar, de acordo com a autora, de estética da indiferença. Desse modo, na estética da arte contemporânea o sentimento está ausente e o que permanece é a indiferença. O sentimento de anestesia da sensibilidade tem sua expressão máxima no tédio. Não obstante a indiferença, a insensibilidade e o tédio serem constitutivos da arte contemporânea, esses aspectos não a fazem algo absolutamente dispensável à vida. Palavras-chave: Arte; estética; indiferença; tédio; arte contemporânea. ABSTRACT The actual text deals with the ordinary character of contemporary art, in which its technique has less value than the art itself as well as it does not translate the essence of beauty whatsoever, boredom and insensibility are its fundamental elements. According to the author, this aesthete can be called as aesthete of indifference. So, in the aesthete of contemporary art, feeling is absent and what remains is indifference. The anesthetic feeling in its sensibility has its main expression in boredom. Despite indifference, insensibility and boredom are part of contemporary art, these aspects do not however, make of it something unessential to life. Key words: Art; aesthete; indifference; boredom; contemporary art