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Speech-Act Theory in Feminist Thought
Authors: Antony Louise 
Published: May 2024

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In this chapter, I criticize attempts by Rae Langton, Jennifer Hornsby, and others to apply J. L. Austin’s theory of speech acts to accounts of the wrongs of pornography and rape. There are two main ideas: (a) that pornography is a verdictive or exercitive illocutionary act, and (b) that an assailant can “silence” a victim in their attempt to refuse sex by not providing “uptake.” The chapter argues that the first idea is inconsistent with Austin’s theory of illocutionary acts. The second idea requires a reading of Austin that commits him to a host of counterintuitive consequences. The chapter concludes by pointing out that the normative claims these authors want to make about the wrongs of pornography and rape can be developed and defended without any appeal to Austin.
Shakespeare’s Proper Names
Authors: Chanter Tina , Cutrofello Andrew 
Published: May 2024

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The article reflects on the contingency of proper names, and their fraught character in a range of Shakespeare’s plays. Differentiating between Shakespeare the “man” and Shakespeare the “author,” the article asks what it means to be the bearer of a proper name, and analyses how names function as part of one’s social anatomy. It discusses Juliet’s efforts to disentangle Romeo from his name, and the difficulty of undoing names, except in privileged, prescribed performances such as marriage ceremonies. Certain names, however, can and do migrate from one person to another, as when Richard can no longer name himself “King” in a play in which the accusation of traitor functions by way of unnaming. Confusion ensues when the name Dromio is shared by identical twins. Female characters often adopt other names, while disguising themselves in male clothing, as does Imogen in Cymbeline, a play which complicates the referentiality of the title king. Like many of Shakespeare’s plays, the drama has historical roots, so that names cut across the fiction–nonfiction divide. Caliban’s name is an approximate anagram of cannibal, thus serving to mark Caliban as a native of the new world. The racially fraught attribution—or lack thereof—of names and titles is evidenced when Iago prefers to refer to Othello not as “General,” but as “the Moor.” The contentious and fractious manner is which names can function in ways that honor and dishonor those named or not named is at the heart of Shakespeare’s language.
Bodily Aesthetics
Authors: Lennon Kathleen 
Published: May 2024

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Most women and an increasing number of men, people of all cultures, many people with disabilities, and many old people, dislike aspects of their bodies and are damaged by dominant aesthetic bodily norms from which they are excluded. This fuels demands for cosmetic surgery and other body modifications. It is often the spark for eating disorders but is also a component of many other mental health issues. Most of us at some time in our lives, and many of us for all of our lives, feel bad about our bodies. This chapter unpacks the role of damaging bodily imaginaries in generating this dislike and explores the role which artistic re-imaginings can play in countering such damage.
Sin, Justification, and Sanctification
Authors: Brunt John 
Published: May 2024

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Seventh-day Adventists believe that sin is a destructive power that enslaves human beings and separates them from God and from the quality of life God intended them to enjoy. In Jesus Christ, God has taken the initiative to offer salvation from sin as a free gift to all people. This salvation is based on God’s grace and not on human effort. It is received through faith, a commitment to place one’s trust in the work of Jesus Christ. Both justification, the sinner’s initial acceptance and welcome into God’s family, and sanctification, continued fellowship and growth within God’s family, are totally of faith. This fellowship produces growth toward unselfish love, a desire to bring peace and justice to this present world, and the promise of eternal life.
Epilogue
Authors: Ryrie Alec 
Published: May 2024

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This epilogue examines three key themes of wider Protestant history that illuminate and are illuminated by the Seventh-day Adventist experience. Adventist apocalypticism not only provides a telling example of how the apparent failure of apocalyptic expectations can be absorbed, but also reveals wider Protestant difficulties regarding imagined futures. Adventist anticlericalism picks up on deeper Protestant resistance to hierarchy and exemplifies a persistent egalitarian, republican, and autodidactic suspicion about priesthoods of learning. Finally, the Adventist tradition of apoliticism, and especially the two different expressions of it in the face of German Nazism, represents one strand of a wider Protestant apolitical tendency, a tendency that can at times be merely a form of submission but can in different circumstances have a distinctive theological and ethical integrity.
Buddhist Monasticism in North America
Authors: Clossey Luke , Ferguson Karen 
Published: May 2024

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Immigration reforms in the 1960s spurred Asian migration to North America, and the establishment of Buddhist institutions across the continent, serving mostly Buddhist migrants, but also a minority of converts. Laypeople meeting in private homes raised funds and invited monastics to found temples and monasteries so that they could serve as opportunities for lay generosity, perform religious functions, and meet migrants communities’ cultural and social needs. Given this focus on serving laypeople, only a small number of monastic institutions specialize in the training of monastics. The new geographical and cultural context has prompted some monastic traditions to adapt the strict rules that traditionally govern monks’ and nuns’ lives. Exceptionally, monasteries in the Chinese “humanistic” Buddhism tradition orient themselves more toward global networks than to American society. Missionary monks negotiated an alien cultural landscape to offer not only meditation lessons for well-being, but also a structured tradition for ultimate liberation.
American Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Authors: Helderman Ira 
Published: May 2024

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For over two centuries, so-called convert US Buddhist communities have taken a keen interest in the disciplines of psychology and psychotherapy. This chapter surveys the history of how these highly specific communities and their scholarly observers have explained their approaches to psychology. Buddhism has been described as having a “dialogue” with psychology or a “relationship” with psychotherapy that others believe is “developing” or even “maturing.” Ultimately, the way that Buddhist communities talk about their approaches to the psychological, and in particular the metaphors they use, often conveys differing opinions on whether it is positive or negative to mix the Buddhist with the psychotherapeutic, and how diligently boundary lines between the Buddhist and the psychological should be maintained in defining what it means to be Buddhist.
Identities I
Authors: Gleig Ann 
Published: May 2024

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Racism and whiteness have played a fundamental role in both the construction of the category of “American Buddhism” and the experiences of multiple North American Buddhist communities. Taking both a historical and ethnographic thick descriptive approach, this chapter demonstrates how racism and whiteness have functioned and been resisted within and across American Buddhist communities. Beginning with the experiences of Asian American heritage Buddhists before moving to Buddhists of Color in convert lineages, it identifies the themes of community, engaged Buddhist hermeneutics, intersectionality, and solidarity across marginalized Buddhists as core components of this resistance. Finally, it will reflect on emerging directions in Buddhist racial justice work across practice and academic communities and the role and responsibilities of scholars of Buddhism.
Identities II
Authors: Langenberg Amy Paris 
Published: May 2024

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This overview of gender and sexuality in contemporary American Buddhism starts from the premise that gender identities and sexual subjectivities are inextricable from other strong vectors of identity, especially race and ethnicity, but also ordained celibacy and survivorhood. Stepping around the narrative that white converts and their liberal feminisms have created a gender egalitarian Buddhism in America, it offers a different story by exploring the Buddhisms of Asian American and Asian immigrant lay women, Asian American ordained women, celibate women, Black women, trans and queer Buddhists, and sexual abuse survivors—often overlapping categories—at the seams of sex and gender. It argues that their innovative interpretations of Buddhist teachings and lifeways are shaped by their complex identities and experiences of violence and disruption. It concludes that the Buddhism of the multiply sexed and gendered individuals and communities profiled cannot be said to exist at the margins; rather, the rich multidimensionality of contemporary American Buddhism is now in large part their creation.
Social Rights and Social Relations
Authors: Brownlee Kimberley 
Published: May 2024

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Human rights identify a baseline of what we owe to each other as human beings and, in guaranteeing that baseline, human rights can both protect our agency and guard against oppression. The nature and significance of our social-connection rights, grounded in our needs for adequate social inclusion, have been largely sidelined in human rights debates, but they are in fact foundational to the human rights framework: they not only constitute essential priorities, but underpin almost all other rights. The defense of social rights thus understood rests on two grounds: (1) the growing body of evidence from social neuroscience and psychology showing that we are deeply social creatures whose agency, well-being, and survival depend on adequate protection of our sociality; and (2) a proper appreciation of the mechanisms of oppression, which are most effective when they use our social needs against us.
Ancient Andean Tattooing
Authors: Deter-Wolf Aaron , Auten Madison , Robitaille Benoît , Riday Daniel 
Published: May 2024

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Since the late nineteenth century, numerous tattoos have been identified on mummified human remains from archaeological sites in the coastal deserts of Peru and Chile. This chapter examines ancient Andean tattooing practices via an analysis of mummified human remains that are housed in the collections of four museums in the United States: the Arizona State Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, the Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Milwaukee Public Museum. Through documentation of those examples, comparison with published studies, and a reassessment of ethnographic, historical, and archaeological data, it addresses the evidence for techniques, pigments, and shared iconographic themes from pre-Columbian tattooing traditions of the region. In addition to sharing previously unpublished examples of tattooed Andean mummies, this effort provides a foundation for future scholarly documentation and study of ancient tattooing practices in western South America.
The Global African Novel
Authors: Hallemeier Katherine 
Published: May 2024

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The global African novel, as a genre, describes realist fictions that map contemporary migrations of the African diaspora in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It has been understood as uniquely attuned to localized effects and regional experiences of global migration, particularly across the Black Atlantic. Focusing on the novelistic pairing of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names, this chapter investigates how the global African novel participates not only in structural critique but also in the theorization of realism as a genre. Both Dangarembga’s and Bulawayo’s fictions, narrated from the perspective of the dispossessed, Black, maddened, “nervous” child, exemplify how African realism is constitutively critical of (neo)colonial modes of representation, including those realist modes that privilege the implicitly objective critique of global systems. Literary predecessors are invoked to clarify how the global African novel offers a disorienting account of the violence of the contemporary global capitalist system.
Indigi-realism and “Aye!”sthetics
Authors: Watchman Renae 
Published: May 2024

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In this chapter, the author turns to Diné concepts and overall Indigenous community features (language, accessories, and epistemologies) to demonstrate that Indigenous televisual stories are restorative and evocative of Indigi-realism through Indigenous “‘Aye!’sthetics” as storytelling autonomy. “Aye!”sthetics fuses the Turtle Island Indigenous utterance “Aye!” that expresses joking and joy with the beauty and autonomy of on-screen presence and Indigenous existence. Two Indigenous-centered television shows, Reservation Dogs and Rutherford Falls, showcase Indigenous aesthetics, or what I explore as “Aye!”sthetics that offer a glimpse of Indigi-realism in visual storytelling. The author introduces Diné (Navajo) epistemologies as a framework to interrogate Indigenous realities on screen. By focusing on select scenes from the combined thirty-six episodes of each series, the author highlights the beauty, laughter, and resilience of Indigenous peoples, eclipsing heartbreak and adversity.
Journalism and Realist Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France
Authors: Birch Edmund 
Published: May 2024

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Are certain texts held to be realist simply because they adopt the patterns and structures typically associated with the account of everyday life offered in the pages of newspapers? Or, conversely, did newspapers themselves appropriate the familiar moves and motifs of realist fiction? This chapter will explore the relationship between realist fiction and the press in the context of nineteenth-century France. This was an era of radical growth for the newspaper industry, and many of the novelists we have come to know as realists published widely in newspapers and periodicals. With reference to some of the ways in which the idea of realism has occupied major critics writing on nineteenth-century culture, the chapter evokes a set of beginnings, contrasting introductory or prefatory texts by Balzac and Maupassant with the kinds of “prefaces” frequently published as part of the very first edition of nineteenth-century newspapers.
Computational Realism in the Digital Humanities
Authors: Mauro Aaron 
Published: May 2024

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Digital humanities (DH) is an interdisciplinary field of study that often blends data collection, processing, and analysis with cultural criticism to augment empirical studies in history, literature, and philosophy with computation. A realist approach to DH must be ready to describe the sociocultural consequences of computation by avoiding the layers of abstraction often used to describe technical processes like large language models and other nonhuman agents. DH researchers often occupy an important role as both users and developers of software. They must be ready to validate and even reverse-engineer technical systems to verify the results and impact of research methods and output data. This chapter suggests that the critical intuition of humanists must guide a practical and desirable intervention in particularly salient and culturally relevant layers of the ever-evolving technology stack.
Blend and Balance in Trans* Choral Musicking
Authors: Patch Holly 
Published: May 2024

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This chapter investigates what it means to blend in a trans* chorus. In a first step, the chapter deconstructs “blend” as the hegemonic choral sound quality, illustrating the social gendering enforced in choral singing at large. Utilizing ethnographic data, including in-depth interviews with members of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles and participant observations of the chorus, the chapter analyzes what happens to the gendering of blend and balance when trans* singers fill the choral form. The chapter neither seeks to evaluate the chorus’s tone quality nor tries to quantify or qualify what achieves a blended sound. Instead, it aims to understand the sound of the chorus with respect to gender and analyzes the practice and discourse of “blend” to do so. Furthermore, the chapter exposes other kinds of contingency in blend and its meaning for singers’ (gendered) experience.
Sacred Sounds and Social Justice
Authors: Whitmore Aleysia K. , Scott Marquisha L. 
Published: May 2024

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The Spirituals Project (TSP) is a multicultural and multigenerational community choir centered on the spirituals and based in Denver, Colorado (USA). Originally created by enslaved Africans in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries, spirituals responded to pain, violence, and injustice while advocating for justice and fostering hope. TSP seeks to preserve spirituals, educate the community about these songs, and continue their social justice work—both within and outside of the organization. Members examine how the spirituals speak to contemporary inequities as well as their own life experiences and place in TSP. They ask, “how can we understand each other’s often painful experiences? Can we heal from this violence?” Conversations strengthen relationships and lay bare the false façade of harmony that singing together often projects. “We are farther apart than we realized,” one member noted after a community conversation. Illuminated by formal and informal interviews, this chapter shows how TSP members negotiate race, social justice, and personal histories as they seek to create humanizing and healing community musical experiences. TSP provides a unique model for how community music organizations might foster productive engagement with social justice work while embracing participants who have vastly different understandings of what work is needed and what that work entails.
A “Badge of Americanism”
Authors: Lohman Laura 
Published: May 2024

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National identity is frequently asserted through the collective singing of meaningful songs. While national anthems are the most prominent, many other types of repertoire—folk songs, “fakesongs” (imitation folks songs), popular songs, patriotic songs, and choral compositions—can also serve to construct and broadcast national identity. The act of collective singing impacts both the participant and the observer. The participant embodies text and sound that signify national identity, although they might do so either willingly or under coercion. The observer perceives a unified expression of national identity, voiced by a collective, that might inspire reactions ranging from pride to terror. As chapters in this section demonstrate, collective singing is employed to assert national identity in a wide variety of formal and informal settings.
By the Rivers of Babylon
Authors: Khalil Alexander K. 
Published: May 2024

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In Psalm 136, a people in diaspora asks, “How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” This question has resonated with many American communities throughout the nation’s history. For more than a century, Greek Orthodox parishes across the United States would appear to have been unable to answer this question, many of them featuring both traditional cantors and SATB choirs without integrating the two into a cohesive liturgical idiom. This long-standing discord, which comprises an effective acculturation strategy that incorporates forces of both assimilation and segregation, has not only muted congregational song but contributed to a sense of division within congregations. Over the past three decades, as community demographics shifted, new cataclysms unfolded, and new diasporas ensued, a new generation of church musicians is transforming the liturgical life of the parishes they serve in many parts of the country. In this chapter, which investigates the lives and work of these musicians, the author argues that this ongoing transformation, involving both a revival of the received tradition of Byzantine chant and the development of an English-based branch of this tradition, is enacted by affordances of and within congregational singing. These affordances, manifest in many ways, from ornamentation to repertoire choice are central to the process through which a community redraws affiliations, boundaries, and, ultimately, identity. Through the affordance of congregational singing, realized in a variety of ways, a community does not remember but re-members itself.
Coding and Expertise
Authors: Preda Alex 
Published: May 2024

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This chapter distinguishes two views on expertise: realist and relativist. It argues that coding expertise should be understood through a realist lens and from a relational perspective, defining it as bundles of operations anchored in group-supported discursive and nondiscursive skills. The chapter examines the relationship between coding and varied domains of social and natural science expertise, such as economics, financial economics, and biology, both from the viewpoint of ethnographic investigations on the ground and from that of historical, discursive rationalizations of coding expertise. The chapter argues that neither coding expertise nor the domains of scientific expertise should be treated monolithically, but rather as bundles of expert operations. Coding expertise entails rule-based systems of communication among human actors and machines. Additionally, the chapter makes the case that the expansion of machine-learning-based infrastructures raises conceptual challenges with regard to interaction as a key sociological notion. The chapter suggests the notion of interactions with incomplete intersubjectivity as a starting point for analyzing communication across machines and human actors.
Theoretical Challenges of Human-Machine Interaction
Authors: Lipp Benjamin , Mayer Henning 
Published: May 2024

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Machine learning systems and their interactions with humans challenge core assumptions of social theory. They are not completely defined by designers’ or users’ scripts. They hold an element of surprise and unpredictability. As a result, machines, similarly to humans, are increasingly able to produce contingency in their behavior. However, they achieve this through advanced techniques of information processing and pattern recognition, which are different from how humans relate to the world. Most notably, machines lack hermeneutic understanding. Despite this difference, they are becoming intelligible to humans as participants in communication—and vice versa. Sociology thus has to account for how humans and machines are able to interact with one another and recognize each other as intelligible agents despite operating in radically different ways. In practice, this is possible because of a specific kind of relation: the interface, which interconnects human and machine by keeping them apart. This chapter argues that a sociology of human-machine interaction requires a theory of interfaces. In response to these challenges and by drawing on an emerging interdisciplinary body of literature on interfaces, the chapter concludes by outlining three directions in which to study human-machine interaction at, through, and across the interface.