The Contemporary and Eccentric Position of ‘The Winnebago Man’

Sharpe, Scott; Hynes, Maria

doi:10.1080/13534645.2012.672240

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“…It is ultimately the act, as a contraction of repetition, rather than the actor, that matters, for it is in the act that we move beyond the subject's self-discovery to life's processual and inventive powers (Sharpe and Hynes, 2012). It is the strictest of repetitions and the act of ‘doing something which is close to nothing’ that gives Abramović's game of repetition in this performance maximal power.…”

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Public sociology for an emergent people: the affective gift in Marina Abramović’sThe Artist is Present

Hynes

2016

The Sociological Review

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In the face of increasing calls for sociology to demonstrate its public relevance, it is necessary to question cherished understandings of what so-called Public Sociology should look like. This paper advances an understanding of sociology that is ontologically oriented toward a world of rapidly emerging and often unfamiliar social realities, with an eye to producing new ways of understanding the discipline's authority vis a vis 'the public.' In experimenting with alternate conceptualisations of sociology, its public and their relation, I turn to a social, and specifically artistic, event for inspiration; namely, Marina Abramović's performance of The Artist is Present at the Museum of Modern Art. While the artist and the social scientist clearly work with differing possibilities and constraints, the performance indicates a novel way in which authority might be mobilised. Wheras the debate around public sociology normally centres on the figure of the expert, Abramović's performance give rise to a new authority, intimately bound up with the age old sociological concepts of charisma and the gift. This highly experimental performance points the way toward a more affectively open and productive relationship between author and public.

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Public sociology for an emergent people: the affective gift in Marina Abramović’sThe Artist is Present

Hynes

2016

The Sociological Review

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“…For me, it is the attempt to understand the ontology of affect that enables new ways of posing problems, which previous fields of enquiry, such as emotional geography, had not opened up (Hynes and Sharpe, 2009; Sharpe, 2014; Sharpe and Hynes, 2012). And certainly there is a growing body of literature in which affect and emotions are much more sharply distinguished than Anderson seems comfortable doing.…”

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