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Work From Home: Lessons Learned And Implications For Post-Pandemic Workspaces, Beth L. Mcgee, Ryan J. Couillou, Kristjan Maalt

Interiority

The experience of working from home (WFH) has evolved due to the COVID-19 response. A concurrent mixed-methods approach was used to assess the experiences and needs of WFH during COVID-19 pandemic across eight countries. Input concerning office workspace modifications was also explored. Participants (n = 82) were from Asia, Europe, and North America. Participants were working from home more and indicated they were somewhat satisfied with WFH and saw no change in productivity. The most common experience was feeling distracted while others experienced focus or calmness. Most participants were challenged by the lack of appropriate furniture and equipment, as …

Adaptability In Interior Space: Public Housing For Lower-Middle Income Group In Dhaka, Dilruba Yasmin, Farida Nilufar

Interiority

This research examines the spatial characteristics of domestic spaces, their use, and adaptations to analyse their changing morphology. It also examines inhabitants' preferences and requirements for the functional utilisation of the interiority of dwellings. Fifteen apartments in Dhaka were analysed to compare the initial design with the later modifications by occupants. The research followed an ethnographical method to depict the lives and experiences of individuals. The research has identified significant changes in activity zoning and their pattern, thus creating a new spatial organisation of the house that is different from the original design. Activity analysis reveals that most spaces are …

Komponen Makna “Ikhlas” Dan “Rida” Dalam Alquran, Rofi Annur Fatimah, Basuni Imamuddin

Multikultura

Penelitian ini menganalisis makna kata “ikhlas” dan “rida” dalam Alquran yang dilatarbelakangi hasil pengamatan penulis di masyarakat dalam penggunaan kata ikhlas dan rida. Dalam masyarakat kata ikhlas dan rida digunakan untuk menyatakan rasa rela terhadap sesuatu. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode analisis komponen makna yang dikemukakan oleh Eugene Nida pada tahun 1975. Dalam bukunya yang berjudul Componential Analysis of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Structures, Eugene Nida menyatakan terdapat tiga bentuk komponen makna, ketiga komponen makna tersebut adalah komponen makna umum, komponen pembeda, dan komponen pelengkap. Dalam melakukan analisis komponen makna terdapat 4 langkah, yaitu: penamaan, parafrasa, pendefinisian, dan …

Femininitas Geisha Dalam Geisha, A Life Karya Iwasaki Mineko, Kaninda Rizki Indriani, Ilma Sawindra Janti

Multikultura

Geisha, sebagai salah satu pelaku seni yang menjadi ikon kebudayaan Jepang merupakan seseorang yang memiliki kemampuan dan keterampilan dalam bidang keseninan, terutama kesenian tradisional Jepang yang bekerja untuk menghibur orang lain berdasarkan kesenian yang mereka kuasai. Sebagai seorang geisha, femininitas merupakan hal yang harus dimiliki. Menurut Angela McRobbie, femininitas merupakan sebuah bagian dari ideologi dominan yang berperan untuk mendefinisikan kehidupan wanita. Femininitas ini dapat dilihat dari penampilan, cara berbicara, dan cara bertindak seorang geisha. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menunjukkan bagaimana femininitas geisha direpresentasikan dalam autobiografi yang berjudul Geisha, a Life karya Iwasaki Mineko dan Rande Brown. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode …

Hubungan Parasosial Idol Group Korea Selatan Treasure Melalui Aplikasi Weverse, Amalia Qoriana Nurfadilah, Euis Sulastri

Multikultura

Penyebaran budaya K-pop melalui idol group semakin sukses di berbagai belahan dunia. Hal ini tidak lepas dari pemanfaatan media sosial seperti Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, dan Youtube. Industri hiburan Korea Selatan membuat inovasi baru dengan menciptakan beberapa aplikasi media sosial. Inovasi yang dilakukan industri hiburan Korea Selatan adalah penggemar dapat mengunggah pesan untuk idola, lalu idola akan memilih beberapa unggahan penggemar untuk diberikan komentar atau cheer. Aplikasi yang memiliki fungsi tersebut bernama Weverse. Weverse mengumumkan bahwa TREASURE menjadi artis pertama naungan YG Entertainment yang bergabung. Melalui aplikasi ini, diharapkan penggemar di seluruh dunia dapat berkomunikasi dengan TREASURE. Intensitas komunikasi yang tinggi …

Implementasi Electronic Document Management System Untuk Mendukung E-Government: Studi Kasus Sistem Naskah Dinas Elektronik (Sinde) Kementerian Pendidikan Dan Kebudayaan Ri, Vanya Dewanti Dwi Maharani, Ike Iswary Lawanda

Multikultura

Penelitian ini mengidentifikasi proses implementasi electronic document management systems (EDMS) mendukung pelaksanaan e-government di Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan RI menggunakan aplikasi Sistem Naskah Dinas Elektronik (SINDE). Implementasi ini mengatasi masalah pertukaran informasi dan data antar unit kerja, kinerja dan produktivitas layanan publik, dokumen berbasis kertas. Metode studi kasus digunakan untuk menganalisis data yang diperoleh melalui observasi dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa implementasi EDMS dalam aplikasi SINDE mendukung kegiatan kerja internal dan layanan publik ditinjau walaupun belum seluruh komponen dasar EDMS dalam praktiknya terpenuhi. SINDE mempercepat arus informasi birokrasi dan mendukung pengelolaan naskah dinas elektronik ditinjau dari dimensi layanan …

Sawah Sebagai Media Healing Pada Masyarakat Modern, Dani Setiawan, Siti Murtinigsih

Multikultura

Sawah merupakan salah satu lingkungan pertanian hidup yang terus menjadi perhatian berbagai pihak. Sawah tidak hanya menjadi suatu komoditas tempat penghasil pangan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan gizi makro. Sawah mempunyai makna tinggi secara metafisika yaitu sawah menyimpan kandungan partikel oksigen yang dibutuhkan tubuh setiap manusia termasuk sebagian orang yang sering melakukan bermain ke sawah. Sawah pada masa sekarang dimaknai sebagai tempat untuk berelaksasi psikis, bahkan untuk melakukan healing yang diyakini sawah mempunyai energi hijau dengan ketataruangan terbuka dengan udara bersih dan kesejukannya. Sawah bagi sebagian masyarakat modern dibutuhkan untuk mendapatkan ketenangan dan menggantikan suasana kota yang penuh dengan persoalaan dinamika kehidupan. …

Karmaphala Dalam Lakon Semar Lahir Karya Bima Setya Aji, Shintania Rahmadhika, Darmoko Darmoko

Multikultura

Tulisan ini membahas tentang karmaphala yang terkandung dalam lakon Semar Lahir. Lakon Semar Lahir yang dibawakan oleh Ki Dalang Bima Setya Aji memiliki konsep ajaran karmaphala sebagai salah satu hasil pemikiran Jawa yang menjadi dasar dalam bertingkah laku pada kehidupan sehari-hari. Penelitian dilakukan dengan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Penelitian terhadap lakon ini bertujuan untuk menguraikan konsep karmaphala melalui citra, magisitas, mitos, dan simbol dari tokoh Semar. Saratnya nilai filosofis yang interpretatif menjadi pertimbangan dan salah satu masalah dalam melakukan penelitian ini. Uraian terhadap konsep karmaphala menjadi tujuan penelitian. Metode deskriptif kualitatif digunakan dalam memudahkan pengumpulan data dan mendeskripsikan tulisan dengan jelas …

Recital: Jury Recognition, January 30, 2023, Illinois State University School Of Music

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Lanthorn, Vol. 57, No. 20, January 30, 2023, Grand Valley State University

Volume 57, August 1, 2022 - April 10, 2023

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

“For The Moment, I Am Not F*Cking,” I Am Tweeting: Platforms Of / As Sexuality, Jacob Johanssen

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This article develops the argument that digital platforms are significantly infused with originary (and unconscious) residues of the sexual. Drawing on Laplancheian conceptualizations of sexuality, I argue that the digital has always been sexual(ised) in itself – a process that precedes and exceeds the erotic or pornographic. For Laplanche, sexuality is constitutive of the human subject as such. Infantile sexuality is shaped and transformed in an enigmatic relation with the caregiver. Drawing on this model as an analogy, I claim that users are drawn to platforms because they (unconsciously) desire to return to infantile sexuality and a holding environment but …

Amazon Web Services, The Lacanian Unconscious, And Digital Life, Marshall N. Armintor

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In late 2011, ex-Amazon developer Steve Yegge’s rant about his former company described Amazon’s rapid transformation from an online bookstore to a web-services entity with a ruthlessly unified platform, all guided by the idea that the company’s effort to streamline its internal efficiency could be monetized, and the resultant software products sold through Amazon Web Services. The media consumerism that fed Amazon’s early years funded a surveilling behemoth, one that everyone feared Microsoft would become. As such, AWS has become a manifestation of the internet’s Lacanian unconscious (even providing the services and hosting for Reddit), structured around the optimization of …

Purloined Significance: How Recidivism Algorithms Capture, Transform, And Automate Our Intersubjective Unconscious As Data, Macy Mcdonald

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Ever since ProPublica published their groundbreaking analysis of Northpointe’s Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions Core Risk and Needs Assessment software (COMPAS) in 2016, this web-based decision support system (DSS) has spawned a wide range of critiques and charges of racial bias. COMPAS provides a full suite of decision support applications to the US prison-industrial complex, including algorithmically derived recidivism predictions that increasingly guide parole decisions. The larger conversation surrounding COMPAS raises the question of how we analyze powerful, and yet opaque, data assemblages. In this article, I model an allegorical analysis of data assemblages. I argue the skills …

Community Despite Connection: Resisting The Digital Logics Of Optimization And Failure, Irina Kalinka

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

If a certain brand of aspirational tech-utopian discourse is to be believed, those privileged enough to be plugged into digital information technology are living through a golden age of connection. Platforms claim to facilitate sharing and partaking, bring people together, and bestow upon them new and improved spaces to gather and build communities. While reality differs decidedly from such idealized conceptions, it is nonetheless crucial to ask what kind of guiding vision is being instituted through such representational efforts: namely, the figure of community made operational and optimizable. This project will reject such idealized visions of coherent communities drawn together …

The Social Sinthome, Ryan Engley

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Much of the critical discourse on social media misidentifies its problematic features as bugs, or problems to solve. Supposed solutions to these problems tend to focus on individual actions. We should delete the apps, own our own data, never click on recommended videos, and realize that we are the product. But if predatory algorithms succeed by individuating people—selling people “choice” and “options” as it harvests user data—then an entire online ecosystem arranged through the logic of that design can neither be meaningfully challenged nor effectively understood at the level of the individual alone. Transformative action addressing social media can only …

#Emotional: Exploitation & Burnout In Creator Culture, Sarah Thorne

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In recent years, a growing list of content creators have published videos announcing that they are leaving YouTube, taking a break, or reducing their upload schedule (Alexander). Many of these young creators state that their decision resulted from burnout, caused by a relentless schedule and obsession with YouTube’s algorithm and analytics— tools essential to success on this highly competitive creative platform (Srnicek). Its opaque algorithm, however, induces anxiety; an affect described as that which “arises when the subject is confronted by the desire of the Other and does not know what object he is for that desire” (Evans 12). Here, …

Everybody Wants To Be A Fascist Online: Psychoanalysis And The Digital Architecture Of Fascism, Anthony Faramelli, Imogen Piper

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Félix Guattari and Franco Berardi have both argued that media ecologies and psychic ecologies are intimately intertwined and as such, any exploration of the collective unconscious must engage with how the mind is formed with and through media. This understanding of networks of interdependence necessitates an exploration of how platformization has impacted users” collective psyche. Drawing from psychosocial theory, psychoanalysis and the work of Félix Guattari, this article analizes the micropolitics of desire of digital platforms, with an explicit focus on how algorithmic structures amplify extreme Right content, allowing fascisms to metastasis throughout digital spaces. It will first examine the …

“There Is No Pandemic”: On Memes, Algorithms And Other Interpassive Forms Of Right-Wing Disbelief, Scott Krzych

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This essay examines several prominent memes that have circulated on Right-wing social media during the Covid-19 pandemic. The memes coordinate what I describe as a mode of interpassive humor, which positions those who “believe” in the crisis as naïve dupes, infantilizing those subjects who have fallen prey to the idea that they should take the pandemic seriously, and thereby delegating fearfulness to the other so that reactionary Covid-19 denialists may continue with their lives unaffected. The essay thereby seeks to draw suggestive lines of affiliation between studies of digital memes, evolutionary mimetics, and psychoanalytic theory, pointing to the algorithmic …

“Love Thy Social Media!”: Hysteria And The Interpassive Subject, Jack Black

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

According to the 2020 docudrama, The Social Dilemma, our very addiction to “social media” has, today, become encapsulated in the tensions between its facilitation as a mode of interpersonal communication and as an insidious conduit for machine learning, surveillance capitalism and manipulation. Amidst a variety of interviewees – many of whom are former employees of social media companies – the documentary finishes on a unanimous conclusion: something must change. By using the docudrama as a pertinent example of our “social media malaise,” and while remaining aware of the problems and unethical practices encompassing international digital/social media companies, this paper …

Stalking Oneself: The Fantasmatic Intersubjectivity Of Google, Alois Sieben

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This essay reads fictional and non-fictional accounts of digital stalking as signals of larger changes in intersubjectivity itself caused by Google. Most social media platforms trap users in imaginary relations, in which the other is encountered as a complete profile, but Google allows the searcher to locate an absence in the other in the form of a missing search result. As will be shown in an analysis of two contemporary novels whose first-person narrations center around Google-stalking, Caroline Kepnes’s You (2014) and Olivia Sudjic’s Sympathy (2017), Google’s mode of intersubjectivity amounts to an endless tunnel with no light at its …

Lacan And The Algorithm, Clint Burnham

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Exploring the development of algorithms in Lacanian theory, specifically the "R schema" in the 1950s, I argue that psychoanalysis, read through contemporary debates about the "algorithmic cult" of Netflix and other avatars of popular culture, can be said to reveal the inhuman, machinic essence of subjectivity. The etiology of algorithms, mathemes, and other formulae and diagrams in Lacan’s oeuvre has been under-studied, in part because for some readers they are not as attractive as his more bravura flourishes of word play as exegetical excess, and in part because they derive largely from the ‘hard’ structuralist moment of his work in …

Platform Psychoanalysis: What Does The Algorithm Want?, Matthew Flisfeder

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

When Sexuality Becomes Healing: An Interview With Elsbeth Fraanje On Her Documentary Sexual Healing, Johan Roeland

Journal of Religion & Film

This is an interview with Elsbeth Fraanje, the director of Sexual Healing.

Sexual Healing, Johan Roeland

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Sexual Healing (2022) directed by Elsbeth Fraanje.

Okay! (The Asd Band Film), Michele M. Desmarais

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of OKAY! (The ASD Band Film) (2022) directed by Mark Bone.

Where Words Cannot Express, Abigale E. Ernst

Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies

This research paper takes a closer look into art created during the Holocaust, specifically by children and its significance in terms of art therapy, and how expressions through the arts could have help/ provided comfort to children going through such a traumatizing experience.

A Conversation With Stephen Graham Jones: Horror, Weird Fiction And The Way Of Slashers, With Sopapillas For Dessert, Billy J. Stratton

English and Literary Arts: Faculty Scholarship

An interview/conversation between Stephen Graham Jones and Billy J. Stratton, which took place in Denver on October 24, 2022.

Animal Imagery In Eastern Han Tomb Reliefs From Shanbei 陝北, Leslie V. Wallace

Visual Arts

Wild and fantastical animals climb, fly, scamper, and prance across pictorial stone carvings decorating Eastern Han tomb doors in northern Shaanxi. Alongside dragons and other mythical animals, bears felicitously dance, tigers grin opening their mouths to roar, and other wild animals frolic in swirling cloudscapes. While the same animals can be found in Eastern Han tomb reliefs and mortuary art in other regions, their frequency, emphasis on plasticity and movement, and combination with the yunqi 雲氣 motif are unique to the region. Originating in a hybrid style of art that was created during the Mid-Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE–9 CE), …

On The Fictions Of Stephen Graham Jones And The Stories That Made Him, And Well, Us Too, Billy J. Stratton

English and Literary Arts: Faculty Scholarship

Introduction to the issue.

Since being honored in 2017 with a Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in Mapping the Interior—his 17th novel—by the Horror Writer’s Association, the work of Stephen Graham Jones has exploded onto the national scene as so many of his readers have long anticipated.

Honors Recital: Isu String Project, January 29, 2023, Illinois State University School Of Music

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January 29, 2023
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