Interrupting the courtroom organism: screaming bodies, material affects and the theatre of cruelty

This article offers a method of reading the courtroom which produces an alternative mapping of the space. My method combines a reading of Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty with a Deleuzian theoretical analysis. I suggest that this is a useful method since it allows examination of the spatial praxes of the courtroom which pulsate with a power to organize, terrorize and to judge. This method is also able to conceptualize the presence of ‘‘screaming’’ bodies and living matter which are appropriated to build, as well as feed the presence and functioning of the courtroom space, or organism. By using a method that articulates the cry of these bodies in the shadow of the organism, it becomes clear that this cry is both unwelcome and suppressed by the courtroom. The howl of anxious bodies enduring the process and space of the law can be materialized through interruptions to the courtroom, such as when bodies stand when they should not and when they speak when they should be silent. These vociferous actualizations of the scream serve only to feed the organism they seek to disturb, yet if the scream is listened to before it disrupts, the interruption becomes-imperceptible to the courtroom. Through my Artaudian/Deleuzian reading, I give a voice to the corporeal gasp that lingers before the cry, which is embedded within the embodied multiplicity from which it is possible to draw a creative line of flight. The creative momentum of this line of flight produces a sustainable interruption to the courtroom process, which instead of being consumed by the system, has the potential to produce new courtroom alignments. My text therefore offers an alternative reading of the courtroom, and in doing so also offers a refined understanding of how to productively ‘‘interrupt’’ the courtroom process.

The prison-house unmasked : in a letter to Her Most Gracious Majesty shewing that arrest and imprisonment for debt are violations of Magna Charta, and therefore illegal : and also the cruelty and inutility of the present system.

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Rules and regulations of the Board of live stock commissioners of the state of Illinois, with extracts from the law in relation in live stock sanitation, cruelty to animals, meat inspection and other matters relating to live stock interests, 1908 ...

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Thirteen sermons : on I. Hypocrisy and cruelty--II. Drunkenness--III. Bribery--IV. The rights of the poor--V. Unjust judges--VI. The sluggard--VII. Murder--VIII. Gaming--IX. Public Robbery--X. The unnatural mother--XI. Forbidding marriage--XII. Parsons and tithes--XIII. Good Friday : to which is added An address to the working people, on the new Dead body bill /

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Sermons on 1. Hypocrisy and cruelty. 2. Drunkenness. 3. Bribery. 4. Oppression. 5. Unjust judges. 6. The sluggard. 7. Murder. 8. Gaming. 9. Public robbery. 10. The unnatural mother. 11. Forbidding marriage. 12. Parsons and tithes.

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The Wisconsin Humane Society : for the prevention of cruelty.

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The excellent history of the merchant of Venice. With the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh. And the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three caskets.

2d ed., falsely dated Pavier quarto; attributed date 1619.

A lesson in tension yet to be taut : a review

NOBEL prize-winning British writer Harold Pinter is best known for his social commentaries and for dark, sometimes violent "comedies of menace" that capture the cruelty at the heart of human relationships. It has been a while since a Pinter play was on the Brisbane stage, and it is exciting to see one of his lesser known early works, Betrayal, as part of Queensland Theatre Company's session. Betrayal moves backwards from a potentially scandalous moment. In a pub one night, Emma tells Jerry that his best friend Robert is divorcing her. Robert has been unfaithful. And, what's more, Robert now knows about their lengthy affair. What follows is a series of scenes that look back at the stages of that affair and the secrets that have lain unspoken at the heart of their comfortable middle-class lives for so long. Betrayal is characterised by the sparsity of action and language, dark humour, and sudden outbreaks of seemingly excessive cruelty that are a trademark of Pinter's writing for the theatre.

‘Supersize me’ : on equine obesity

There’s nothing like travel to broaden the mind. As a young man living in Britain during the 1980s I thought I knew about human obesity, but it took a visit to the US to show me what an epidemic looks like. Nowadays I live in Australia, where human obesity is rife. We have plenty of fat horses too (Sillence et al., 2006), but they are noticeable. In fact, it was only recently during a return visit to Britain, that I was finally sold on the concept of an equine obesity epidemic. It seems that in the UK, the fat horse or pony is now so commonplace that it has come to represent the norm in the eyes of many owners. I met clinicians who claim to have forgotten what a fit horse looks like, and heard anecdotes of a responsible owner who kept their animals in a healthy body condition, only to be reported to the RSPCA for ‘cruelty’. Round and shiny have become the order of the day and, as we have learned from the tsunami of human obesity, once a problem reaches a certain scale it can seem unstoppable, despite the attendant risks, costs and consequences.

La consideración de lo griego en el Satyricon de Petronio : ¿un caso de filohelenismo?

Resumen: La crueldad, el prejuicio y los estereotipos eran algo común en la mirada que tenían los romanos de los demás pueblos. En el caso particular de los griegos, la visión que los romanos tenían de ellos era ambivalente: por un lado, admiraban a los escritores, a los filósofos, a los artistas, pero, por el otro, tenían en muy baja consideración al resto de los griegos. Marcaban una gran diferencia entre la Grecia clásica y su herencia y sus sometidos, los griegos contemporáneos. El Satyricon de Petronio, aunque no es una excepción dentro de la tradicional xenofobia contra los restantes pueblos, presenta con relación a los griegos una peculiaridad que lo distancia de la mayoría de los escritores latinos. La causa de esta singularidad quizá podría hallarse en el espíritu filohelénico de la corte de Nerón, de la que Petronio era el elegantiae arbiter.

Gizarte hezitzailea lanbidez : korapiloak askatu nahian

[Es] En las últimas decadas ha saltado a luz el debate en torno a la profesionalización, en el campo de la Teoría de las Profesiones. Este debate ha tenido su reflejo en el campo de la Educación Social, donde se perciben carencias a la hora de dar una imagen completa y global de la profesión. Siendo esto así, vemos la necesidad de ir dando respuesta a varias preguntas, para poder avanzar en el esclareciemiento y propio proceso de profesionalización de la Educación Social. El proposito del trabajo que se presenta a continuación es realizar una síntesis de las aportaciones sobre la conceptualización de la Educación Social y la situación profesional en ese ámbito. Para ello, se comenzará por analizar el concepto de Educación Social; seguidamente se trabajará los conceptos de profesión y profesionalización, que nos ayudarán a entender las características de la Educación Social como profesión. En la tercera parte del trabajo se pasa de un nivel más abstracto a un nivel más real, y se trabaja el tema de los educadores sociales. En la última parte nos adentraremos en la situación profesional que viven los educadores sociales, porque creemos que es desde ese nivel de donde hay que partir para poder articular pautas y mejoras.

Ressonâncias de heróis e reis medievais na (re)construção dos personagens da Pedra do Reino por Ariano Suassuna

A presente tese está calcada na análise da obra de Ariano Suassuna, o Romance dA Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta, considerado pelo autor como a sua obra maior e, a princípio, o primeiro volume da trilogia A maravilhosa desaventura de Quaderna, o decifrador, e no primeiro volume da segunda parte da trilogia, O rei degolado ao Sol da Onça Caetana. O trabalho consiste, fundamentalmente, em examinar o diálogo estabelecido entre a obra de Suassuna com textos representativos da tradição literária ocidental, mais propriamente com os que remontam ao medievo. Para isso, fez-se um recorte nas relações que o romance trava com a matéria cavaleiresca, principalmente com a Demanda do Santo Graal, na sua estrutura e no desenho psicológico e moral dos personagens, notadamente de Sinésio, que encarna o mito do herói prometido, cujos paradigmas se assentam na figura lendária do Rei Artur, além de Galaaz, e na histórica de D. Sebastião, o rei desaparecido de Portugal. Sabe-se que esses reis e heróis míticos, considerados salvadores, uma vez que retornariam para restituir ao povo a dignidade e a liberdade perdidas, povoaram o imaginário ibérico e chegaram ao Brasil trazidos pelos colonizadores europeus. Dessa forma, a cultura popular do Nordeste brasileiro é povoada de histórias e lendas eternizadas e recriadas no folclore da região e na literatura de Cordel. Mas, ao lado do messianismo, outro aspecto faz-se notório nos personagens de Suassuna: a crueldade. E este tema, bem como o nome do personagem D. Pedro Dinis Quaderna, remete-nos para a história de alguns reis ibéricos da Idade Média: Pedro de Portugal e Pedro de Castela, que serão revisitados à luz da Crônica de D. Pedro de Fernão Lopes, no intuito de observar-se o diálogo com esta estabelecido por Suassuna, direta ou indiretamente

Dying for 'Enduring Freedom': Accepting Responsibility for Civilian Casualties in the War against Terrorism

Wheeler, Nicholas, 'Dying for `Enduring Freedom': Accepting Responsibility for Civilian Casualties in the War against Terrorism', International Relations (2002) 16(2) pp.205-225 RAE2008

The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg, 1770-1826

Jenkins, G.; Jones, F.; and Jones, D. (Eds.). (2007). The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg: Vols. I, II and III. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. RAE2008