A Conceptual Outline of Contemporary Magic Practice

Consistent implementation of hand‐washing within the hospital environment remains a challenge in infection prevention (IP) procedures. IP is one of a number of measures to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). A cross‐disciplinary team was assembled to experiment with different ways of visualising the microbial. The paper details a comparative experimental design where nurses (n = 2) performed a series of routine care procedures in a mock‐ward setting where traces of coloured ultra‐violet glow‐powders had been purposely placed, first with routine hand‐washing and second without routine hand‐washing. The results presented as a series of photos, video‐clips, ethnographic observations and nurse interviews explore nurse–microbial relations and the potential for affective and embodied encounters with microbial worlds to generate new insight in IP. We argue for creating unfamiliar aesthetics that engage the sensate as an intervention in established IP education. The aesthetic rendered invisible microbes visible through techno‐artistic practice. The performance term “devising” was used to analyse the cross‐disciplinary methodological process. Finally, we consider the potential for nurses to act as microbial citizens as they extend their care for the human to entail the need to care for the microbial, perhaps not to kill but to relocate the risky pathogen, as part of a commitment to multispecies living in a world with AMR.

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“…Magic does not only or mostly obscure; magic works as much through what is shown as what is hidden. (Rolfe, , p. 1605)…”

Section: Enhancing the Multispecies Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping microbial stories: Creative microbial aesthetic and cross‐disciplinary intervention in understanding nurses’ infection prevention practices

Roe

Veal

Hurley

2019

Geography and Environment

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“…; Byron and Punter ; Laws ; Pile ; Wylie ). In 2008, Matless contrasted the ‘academic fascination for the spectral’ (2008, 349) with the lack of attention given to the ‘magical or spiritual or demonic’ (2008, 337; see also Rolfe ). Today this imbalance is no longer so evident, in part because of the overlap between the two areas of interest, but also because the debate has broadened.…”

Section: Geographies Of Modern Magic and Walkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The enchanted path: magic and modernism in psychogeographical walking

Bonnett

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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Geographers have a developing interest in the place of enchantment and the 'extra-ordinary' in the modern city. The paper shows that magic has a significant role in the work of many psychogeographical writers, artists and activists, and argues that this phenomenon needs to be understood in the context of the wider use of magic as a site and symbol of creativity and subversion in modernist cultural expression. Drawing on a survey of British psychogeographical forms and a more detailed study of three London literary examples, it examines how psychogeographical walkers have expanded and developed 'magical modernism'. Across the varied terrain of psychogeographical walking, magic is used to conjure an openness and vulnerability to voices 'hidden' in the landscape. As well as providing more in-depth discussion of these themes, the three examples of London psychogeography that I explore complicate them by illustrating further specific and diverse uses of magic -namely, magic as environmentalist critique, magic as humour/humour as magic and magic as activism.

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“…Upon reflection, however, this curious "extravaganza" acted as something far more than a mere backdrop or prop, and rather embodied and reflected precisely the event's mantra: that of possibility -the commercial "dronepossible". The circus-scape is one filled with "techniques of illusion" (Bouissac, 2012:50) and magicians "doing the impossible" (Aronson, 2013, in Rolfe, 2014:1608. Like the circus with its illusions, the trade show presents the drone as that which makes the seemingly impossible [task] possible.…”

Section: "The Best Possible Awaits"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhetorics of possibility and inevitability in commercial drone tradescapes

Jackman

2016

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. Drones have been posited as the "signature device of the present moment" (Noys, 2014). Whilst research into the proliferation of drones in military and defence spheres is gaining notable momentum, drones in commercial and "civilian" contexts "have remained widely unnoticed in academic research" (Klauser and Pedrozo, 2015:285). Complementing emergent scholarship in this area, this paper seeks to both explore and assert the trade show as a valuable site of (industry and advocacy) community "copresence" (McCann, 2011). Drawing upon empirical data, this paper unpacks the rhetorical framing of the commercial drone in the tradeshow environment. In so doing, it explores two dominant rhetorical framings, or "techniques of imagination" (Kinsley, 2012(Kinsley, :1559, of the commercial drone: those of possibility and inevitability. Such an analysis seeks to respond to calls advocating further attention to the "making of the drone", prior to its "functioning" (Klauser and Pedrozo, 2015) and end-point applications.

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A Conceptual Outline of Contemporary Magic Practice

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Mapping microbial stories: Creative microbial aesthetic and cross‐disciplinary intervention in understanding nurses’ infection prevention practices

Mapping microbial stories: Creative microbial aesthetic and cross‐disciplinary intervention in understanding nurses’ infection prevention practices

The enchanted path: magic and modernism in psychogeographical walking

Rhetorics of possibility and inevitability in commercial drone tradescapes

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