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‘DÉ-COÏNCIDING’ Igbo Masquerade Aesthetics: Rethinking Ecological Sustainability in Southeast Nigeria
The aesthetics of Indigenous Igbo masquerade are critically examined in this article using François Jullien's dé-coïncidence theoretical paradigm, which holds that when routine behaviours deviate from the normative or habitual, authenticity and renewal must take place. Masquerade in southeastern Nigeria has historically represented metaphysical presence and communal renewal, but its material practices today increasingly undermine this philosophical underpinning. There is growing conflict between spiritual symbolism and environmental cost due to high-level ecological extraction involved in costume creation, which includes animal species depletion and deforestation for raffia, bark and wood. Instead of being an agent of de-coincidental innovation, masquerade in its current form looks more like extractive economies of unsustainable cultural reproduction. The argument proposed in this article is that Igbo masquerade must reconsider its ecologically exploitative material conditions and rethink its aesthetic and ritual frameworks in order to remain valid and relevant in the face of ecological disaster. Based on a transdisciplinary methodology that balances environmental field observation, Indigenous ecological morality and performance analysis, the work identifies important avenues for sustainable dé-coïncidence, including the use of biodegradable materials, regenerative costume making, the enforcement of environmental laws and community-based conservation strategies. Finally, Igbo performance art (especially the masquerade) must undergo de-coincid-ental change that strikes balance between ecofriendliness in Southeast Nigeria and historical respect for ancestors. François Jullien's dé-coïncidence ideals provide a profound lens which indigenous Igbo performances could leverage on in the teeming search and yearning for post-humanist consciousness as planetary health assumes universal concern.
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The Aesthetics of Transience in Japanese Culture: Wabi-sabi, Impermanence, and the Philosophy of Décoïncidence
The article examines the concept of wabi-sabi as the foundation of Japanese aesthetics, emphasizing its role in art and everyday life. Wabi-sabi celebrates the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and natural decay, which is expressed in practices such as the tea ceremony (chanoyu). In the context of art, this aesthetic allows for reflection on the transience of existence, contrasting with the Western tradition of vanitas. The wabi-sabi aesthetic evokes an emotional response akin to Julien’s notion of dé-coïncidence – the experience of contradiction between what is enduring and what is ephemeral, a key element of the Japanese approach to impermanence. The article juxtaposes these manifestations of transience, showcasing both universal and culturally specific ways of coping with the passage of time.
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The aesthetic mind : philosophy and psychology
The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of aesthetics and the experience of art. An eminent international team of experts presents new research in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and social anthropology: they explore the roles of emotion, imagination, empathy, and beauty in this realm of human experience, ranging over visual and literary art, music, and dance. Among the questions discussed are: Why do we engage with things aesthetically and why do we create art? Does art or aesthetic experience have a function or functions? Which characteristics distinguish aesthetic mental states? Which skills or abilities do we put to use when we engage aesthetically with an object and how does that compare with non-aesthetic experiences? What does our ability to create art and engage aesthetically with things tell us about what it is to be a human being? This ambitious and far-reaching volume is essential reading for anyone investigating the aesthetic and the artistic.
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The Psychology of Static Imagery in the Book of Al-Mab’ath and Al-Maghazi: A Narrative Semiotic Study
The text represents a network of signs interconnected with each other, and this interconnection is determined by the nature of the elements composing the text. These may be grammatical, rhetorical, or structural relations, represented by metaphor, metonymy, and other techniques that help in uncovering threads of meaning and tracing its movements within that structure. This representation is \"a verbal activity where the speaker's role is not to control the use of semantic systems but to utilize them in light of the appropriate conditions for the discourse event\" (Al-Badi, 2024, p. 70), which is determined by the general context of the sentence and its integrated structural construction. The components of narration and their coherence within a single work, being an aesthetic feature, are based on the ideologization of reality as imaginative and its connection to levels of language to make it more realistic through interpretive relationships that generate new meanings. These meanings transcend the superficial appearance to the deeper level, which can only be grasped by delving into the backgrounds that shape the literary work (Khamri, 2024, p. 244). It explores the aesthetics of structure, which is considered a characteristic of everything that indicates beauty, is attributed to it, or is connected to what is beautiful and what is not beautiful (Alloush, 2024, p. 62).
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Sensibility and sense : the aesthetic transformation of the human world
\"Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the stone of the earths surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of social experience. The guiding idea of pervasive interconnectedness, both social and environmental, leads to an aesthetic critique of the urban environment, the environment of daily life, and of terrorism, and has profound implications for grounding social and political values. The aesthetic emerges as a powerful critical tool for appraising urban culture and political practice.\"--BOOK JACKET.
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Herder
Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged the idea that anyone - even the philosophers of the Enlightenment - could have a monopoly on truth.
InHerder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, John K. Noyes plumbs the connections between Herder's anti-imperialism, often acknowledged but rarely explored in depth, and his epistemological investigations. Noyes argues that Herder's anti-rationalist epistemology, his rejection of universal conceptions of truth, knowledge, and justice, constitutes the first attempt to establish not just a moral but an epistemological foundation for anti-imperialism. Engaging with the work of postcolonial theorists such Dipesh Chakrabarty and Gayatri Spivak, this book is a valuable reassessment of Enlightenment anti-imperialism that demonstrates Herder's continuing relevance to postcolonial studies today.
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