What Goes Down Must Come Up: Communication as Incarnation and Transcension
2011; Routledge; Volume: 8; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14791420.2011.567810
ISSN1479-4233
Autores Tópico(s)Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
ResumoAbstract In this essay, I conceptualize incarnation from a communicative point of view by juxtaposing it with the concept of transcension. Subsequently, I reflect on the potential value of studying these concepts for communication research. Keywords: IncarnationTranscensionVentriloquismPresentification Acknowledgements This essay is dedicated to the wonderful monks of Rizong monastery who continue to protect the dharma by incarnating it and demonstrating its transcension through their daily interactions. I kindly thank François Cooren and Jennie Hwang are kindly thanked for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this text. Notes 1. William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence," in The Pickering Manuscript (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 1807/2004), 15. 2. See also Lobzang Jivaka, Imji Getsul: An English Buddhist in Rizong Monastery (Ladakh, India: Rizong Monastery, 1961). 3. Janet Rizvi, Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia, 2nd ed. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983/1996). 4. See Boris H. J. M. Brummans, "Travels of a Buddhist Mind," Qualitative Inquiry 13, no. 8 (2007): 1221–26; "Preliminary Insights into the Constitution of a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery through Autoethnographic Reflections on the Dual/Nondual Mind Duality," Anthropology of Consciousness 19, no. 2 (2008): 134–54; "Travels of a Buddhist Mind: Returns and Continuations," Qualitative Inquiry 15, no. 6 (2009): 1127–33. 5. Tulku Thondup, Enlightened Journey: Buddhist Practice as Daily Life, ed. Harold Talbott (Boston: Shambhala, 1995). 6. Tulku Thondup, Enlightened Journey: Buddhist Practice as Daily Life, ed. Harold Talbott (Boston: Shambhala, 1995), 34. 7. See François Cooren, Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation and Ventriloquism (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010). 8. See also David Goldblatt, Art and Ventriloquism: Critical Voices in Art, Theory, and Culture (New York: Routledge, 2006). 9. See François Cooren, "The Organizational World as a Plenum of Agencies," in Communication as Organizing: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations the Dynamic of Text and Conversation, ed. François Cooren, James R. Taylor, and Elizabeth J. van Every (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence-Erlbaum, 2006). See also Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004). 10. [See also Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy (New York: Harper Perennial, 1944/2009), 35–56. 11. [See François Cooren, "Textual Agency: How Texts Do Things in Organizational Settings," Organization 11, no. 3 (2004): 373–93. 12. [See Boris H. J. M. Brummans, "Death by Document: Tracing the Agency of a Text," Qualitative Inquiry 13, no. 5 (2007): 711–27. 13. [Jacques Derrida, "Force of Law: The 'Mystical Foundation of Authority,'" trans. Mary Quaintance, Cardozo Law Review 11, no. 5–6 (1990): 920–1045. 14. [Jacques Derrida, "Force of Law: The 'Mystical Foundation of Authority,'" trans. Mary Quaintance, Cardozo Law Review 11, no. 5–6 (1990): 965. 15. [See also Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. 16. [See Derrida, "Force of Law." 17. [Harold Garfinkel, "Two Incommensurable, Asymmetrically Alternate Technologies of Social Analysis," in Text in Context: Contributions to Ethnomethodology, ed. Graham Watson and Robert M. Seiler (London: Sage, 1992), 186. 18. See also Eleanor Rosch, "Beginner's Mind: Paths to the Wisdom That Is not Learned," in Teaching for Wisdom: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom, ed. Michel Ferrari and Georges Potworowski (New York: Springer), 153. The Rizong monks demonstrated Rosch's observation that "action out of wisdom means action (properly non-action or spontaneous action) fully in contact with the realties and needs of the situation and unencumbered by the strategies of the self centered ego or by preconceptions or methods." 19. Jacques Derrida, "Declarations of Independence," New Political Science 15 (1986): 7–15. 20. Cooren, "Textual Agency." 21. Gabriel Tarde, Monadologie et Sociologie (Paris: Les Empêcheurs de Penser en Rond, 1893/1999); Les Lois Sociales (Paris: Les Empêcheurs de Penser en Rond, 1898/1999). 22. Bruno Latour, "Gabriel Tarde and the End of the Social," in The Social in Question: New Bearings in History and the Social Sciences, ed. Patrick Joyce (London: Routledge, 2002). 23. Francisco J. Varela, Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999). 24. Tarde, Monadologie et Sociologie; Les Lois Sociales. Additional informationNotes on contributorsBoris H. J. M. Brummans Boris H. J. M. Brummans is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal
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