Tag: Aurélien Daudi

Aurélien Daudi’s dissertation deals with the emergence, attraction, and normalization of a widespread, digital exhibitionism and its implications. In this age of imagery, the compulsive sharing of personal photographs on social media has become pervasive. Unabashedly narcissistic displays are all but encouraged. The study illuminates the profound impact of social media, challenging conventional wisdom and offering new insights into the relationship between technology, culture, and human behavior.

In this feature article, Aurélien Daudi summarizes his article in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, in which he presents his study of the widespread social media culture surrounding fitness, ‘fitspiration’, and the way it encourages self-sexualization and self-objectification. Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy of power and its relationship to human flourishing, this article aims to critically examine the conception of female empowerment expressed in fitspiration and to conceptualize a philosophically compelling reformulation of universal human empowerment.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Will to power: Revaluating (female) empowerment in ‘fitspiration’ by Aurélien Daudi (open access).

Stefan Lawrence’s edited collection Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers: Critical Perspectives on Digital Guru Media (Routledge) examines the phenomenon of ‘digital guru media’ (DGM)who post on the themes of wellness, health and fitness. Arélien Daudi finds that some chapters contribute with important insights into this increasingly nonignorable social avenue, while others simply lack the novelty, ingenuity, and scope to say much of meaning. He was left equal parts frustrated and educated.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Patriarchy in Disguise: Burke on Pike and World Rugby by Miroslav Imbrišević.

In this feature article, Aurélien Daudi summarizes his article in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, in which he presents his study of the widespread social media culture surrounding fitness, ‘fitspiration’, and the way it encourages self-sexualization and self-objectification and thereby epitomizing a wider issue with photo-based social media in general. Utilizing two doctrines central to Nietzsche’s philosophy—The Last Man and his conception of the ‘higher self’ – Daudi argues that fitspiration involves a form of hedonism that is potentially harmful to the pursuit and achievement of human flourishing.

Yet another benefit of sport and physical activity, negating the traditional understanding of “le sport pour le sport”, is the effects of combining it with charity. This is the subject of a monograph by Catherine Palmer, Fitness Philanthropy: Sport, Charity and Everyday Giving (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), which Aurélien Daudi has read on our behalf. His review problematizes the concept of fitness philanthropy while acknowledging its healing potential and other positive aspects.

Aurélien Daudi’s article is a philosophical critique of the foundations of postmodernism, the contemporary disciplines that derive from it and by extension share its philosophical roots, as well as of the scholarly activism it has given rise to. Moralism, postmodernism and political activism are intrinsically linked, he argues, and all too present in the social sciences and humanities of today.

Aurélien Daudi is a Ph.D. student at Malmö University. The subject of his research is the thriving domain of social media, particularly the digital culture surrounding fitness which, through the advent of social media, has grown immensely in popularity and appeal, recruiting into its midst young people from all over the world. He posits a dialectical synergy between fitness as a social practice and the governing values at the heart of social media.

Aurélien Daudi’s article is a philosophical examination of the six-part documentary series, Cheer, which debuted on Netflix on the 8th of January 2020 to widespread enthusiasm. In applying the philosophy of Nietzsche, notably his perhaps most famed work, the enigmatic Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and utilizing concepts like the overman, self-overcoming and the will to power, Daudi present an alternate interpretation of the events played out in series.