Events

Lecture within the series of CTS Thursday seminars (10-12am, seminar room, Husova 4, Praha 1)

Concert at the Nad Viktorkou pub (Bořivojova, Praha 3 - Žižkov)

dJaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).

Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Martin Zbrožek (action, violin), Viktor Zborník (lights).

Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).

Presentation at the international workshop Languages of science: Where metaphors and models meet (Science, or else series), Villa Lanna, Praha, January 12-14, 2007

The metaphor of language is an influential sociological metaphor. It is, as Brown would put it, a root metaphor, since it functions as a widespread, often implicit general frame for imagining, observing and understanding social structures and processes. Further, for many sociologists, “social phenomena” are not like language, but they are language. Seeing reality as language, however, can mean very different things for sociologists and can even have conflicting theoretical and methodological consequences. For some, the language metaphor necessarily leads to a significant and fatal reduction: only small parts of the world, (directly related to) texts and linguistic exchanges, are taken as sociologically relevant, while the rest is omitted and put aside. For others, however, the same metaphor, taken seriously and consistently, implies a different move: our understanding of how language operates and what kind of entity it is, extended beyond the realm of the spoken or written world and applied to virtually any phenomena of the empirically observable world. Here, the reality is not reduced to texts, but recognized as textual. By outlining and explaining these two conflicting approaches I would like to emphasize interpretative flexibility of key metaphors in scientific thought.

Concert at the Nad Viktorkou pub (Bořivojova, Praha 3 - Žižkov) - new CD celebration: Radomil Uhlíř, voice; Joe Karafiát, guitar; Jan Štolba, sax; Zdeněk Konopásek, drums, trumpet; guest: Zdeněk Hmyzák Novák - trumpet

This was a cellebration of a newly released 2CD at Guerilla Records. A photogallery available at www.freemusic.cz.

Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).

Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).

Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).

Concert at the special evening of the Guerilla Records (part of the Alternativa Festival Praha): Radomil Uhlíř, voice; Joe Karafiát, guitar; Zdeněk Konopásek, drums, trumpet

This was a live show, a couple of days before releasing our 2CD, at the celebration evening of our label Guerilla Records. Other artists also appeared, such as: Ivan Jirous, Libor Krejcar and Flowers, Vratislav Brabenec & Joe Karafiát, BBP, Umělá hmota II, Skrytý půvab byrokracie. See photogallery at www.freemusic.cz and also here.

dJaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).

Concert at the Nad Viktorkou pub (Bořivojova, Praha 3 - Žižkov)

Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).

Studs' Lot: Wild improv with Jaroslav Dušek Pjér la Šéze and Zdeòek Konopásek. Improvisational lighting by Viktor Zborník - JD (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), PL (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), ZK (drums, percussion, trumpet), VZ (lights).