scholarly journals KAIP PABĖGTI IŠ SVETIMO SAPNO?

Problemos ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Kristupas Sabolius
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
New Form

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos su vaizdo statuso pokyčiu šiuolaikiniame pasaulyje susijusios problemos. Naujųjų technologijų eroje sapnai ir svajonės gali būti produkuojami, klasifikuojami ir įdiegiami į juos patiriančią sąmonę. Remiantis Deleuze’o, Horkheimerio ir Adorno, Candau bei Žižeko darbais diagnozuojama, kad vizualumo ir kultūros industrijų įsigalėjimas užtvindo sąmonę Kito sapnais, tokiu būdu dubliuojant jau Kanto vaizduotei priskiriamą transcendentalinio schemiškumo funkciją. Šiuos procesus įgyvendinti padeda naujoji vaizdinių veikimo forma – ikonorėja, kuri pasireiškia kaip viešojoje erdvėje cirkuliuojantis ir ritmiškai atsikartojantis perteklinis vaizdų antplūdis. Straipsnyje keliamas retorinis klausimas apie galimybę išsilaisvinti iš šios situacijos – t. y. pabėgti iš Kito sapno.Escaping the Dream of the OtherKristupas Sabolius SummaryDealing with the changing nature of visuality in contemporary world, this article aims to examine the possibility of producing, classifying, and implanting dreams into one’s mind. Based on Deleuze’s, Horkheimer’s, Adorno’s, Candau’s, and Zizek’s views as well as a few Hollywood films, this work diagnoses the crucial role of cultural industries in duplicating the function of transcendental schematism, as new technologies take over Kant’s transcendental imagination. These processes are implemented through a new form of visual existence – iconorrhea, a rhythmical, repetitive and excessive flux of images, circulating on the screens of public sphere. This paper raises the rhetorical question concerning the possibility of deliverance from this situation, i.e. how can one escape the dream of the Other.

scholarly journals Religion, Medien und die Corona-Pandemie

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Form ◽  
The One ◽  
Unexpected Transformation

Suddenly a new virus has appeared which is threatening society. Fragility, illness and death have become fundamental topics in daily life and social distancing a new form of solidarity. In this unexpected transformation, digital media is playing a crucial role in conveying information about a public sphere that is no longer easily accessible. These changes have also influenced religious communities and their rituals. Through a broad range of selected case studies, this book addresses the complex relationship between religion and the media during the pandemic. On the one hand, it explores processes of (digitally) adapting rituals and messages; on the other hand, it highlights the ambiguous role of religious semantics and practices in addressing the crisis. With contributions by Verena Marie Eberhardt, Matthias Eder, Paulina Epischin, Hannah Griese, Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Florian Kronawitter, Yifan Li, Michael Maderer, Katharina Luise Merkert, Jochen Mündlein, Guido Murillo, Caterina Panunzio and Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati.

A Retrospect on the Limits of Postcolonial Studies

CounterText ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benita Parry
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Purpose ◽  
New Form ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
Different Order

Benita Parry here examines the political horizons of postcolonial studies, arguing for the crucial role of Marxism in sustaining the revolutionary impetus of postcolonialist thought. Addressing the career of the late Edward W. Said, Parry points out that while Said's approach to criticism may initially have been philological, political purpose and direction were ‘thrust upon him’ through the situation of his native Palestine in the 1970s, together with the retreat from radicalism within academia. The Said of this period thus urged upon intellectuals the need to engage with injustice and oppression. Parry writes of Said's ‘circuitous journey’ that returned him, in his later works, to a critical approach that eschewed the political, and aimed to contain conflict through his notion of the ‘contrapuntal.’ While Said, with many postcolonial critics, did not subscribe to Marxism, Parry suggests that his work retained a thoughtful and complex respect for Marxists such as Lukács, Goldmann, Raymond Williams, and Adorno. For Parry, Said's repudiation of Marxism is ‘of a different order’ from that of other postcolonial critics who drag revolutionary figures such as Fanon and Gramsci into their own agenda by attempting to stabilise and attune their thought to the ‘centre-left’. Parry goes on to criticise the editors of The Postcolonial Gramsci, for positing Marxist thinking as a restricting framework from which the editors aim to liberate Gramsci's writing. For Parry, these reappraisals of revolutionary thinkers constitute a new form of recuperative criticism that she terms ‘the rights of misprision’. If this is a strategy for ‘draining Marxist and indeed all left thought of its revolutionary impulses and energies’, Parry insists, ‘it is one to be resisted and countered, not in the interests of a sterile rigour, but – in Benjamin's words – to rescue the past and the dead, and a tradition and its receivers, from being overpowered by conformism’.

scholarly journals LIBRARIES, SCHOOLS AND MODERN AGE

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-108
Author(s):  
Borjanka Trajković ◽  
◽  
Dragana Litričin Dunić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Era ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The One

For centuries the role of the library was defined as a warehouse of books. Now, in the 21st century, the library is facing perhaps the biggest challenge – its physical survival. The role of librarians is re-branded to reflect their expertise as curators of content and reliable navigators in an evergrowing ocean of information - in any format they might exist. The future libraries shall be open to all the new ideas on how to work better and accept the new technologies. On the one hand, they must recognize the need to change their methods, but on the other hand - to preserve the continuity of their objectives and mission. The new era requires modern models of learning and the attractiveness of the curricula, that is, a modern education system that shall adapt the curricula to the needs of modern society and reconcile centuries of man's need for knowledge, reading books and education in general with the new technologies.

scholarly journals Teología feminista como instancia crítica de las religiones en el espacio público. La propuesta de Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Montserrat Escribano Cárcel
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Feminist Theology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Hermeneutics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
The One

RESUMENEste artículo se acerca al papel público que las religiones desempeñan en las democracias. Para ello es necesario que cultiven un doble afán. El primero, que mira hacia el exterior y sitúa a la religión católica entre el resto de esferas que definen nuestras sociedades plurales. El artículo cuestiona la tarea ética que puede ejercer esta tradición religiosa y que ha de reforzar el marco democrático en el que todas estas esferas se incluyen. El segundo, que mira hacia el interior de esta religión y ocupa la mayor parte de este artículo, gira en torno a la teología feminista desarrollada por Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Su sentido crítico está transformando la identidad de los y las creyentes, los horizontes comprensivos religiosos y puede ayudar así a reforzar el papel de las democracias.PALABRAS CLAVERELIGIÓN, ESPACIO PÚBLICO, DELIBERACIÓN, HERMENÉUTICA CRÍTICA Y TEOLOGÍA FEMINISTA CRÍTICA.ABSTRACTThis article approaches the public part religions play in democracies. On the one hand, the Catholic religion has to be set amidst the rest of the spheres, which define our plural societies. In this first part, we will try to evaluate how the Catholic religion helps reinforcing the democratic frame in which it evolves. On the other hand, the largest part of this article will be devoted to the Catholic feminist theology developed by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza not only as a means of changing the identity of believers and their understanding religious horizons, but also as a way of strengthening the role of democracies.KEYWORDSRELIGION, PUBLIC SPHERE, DELIBERATION, CRITICAL HERMENEUTICS AND CRITICAL FEMINIST THEOLOGY

scholarly journals Ecological Footprint of The Electrical and Energy Industries as Cultural Challenge

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-229
Author(s):  
Elena Hreciuc ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Toxic Waste ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
The One ◽  
Education Science ◽  
Industrial Revolutions

Our life, by its biological nature, is in an indestructible dependence on energy. At the same time, energy is an important criterion on which we report the progress of humanity. Historically, progress divides our world into distinct stages, called Industrial Revolutions. Each stage has encompassed more fuels, new technologies, inventions, humans behavioural changes and much more worrying environmental issues. Energy techniques, new extractions and transportation improved in nineteenth and during twenty-century energy consumption, especially electricity, rise significantly with, on the one hand, a continuous influx of fossil fuels and, on the other hand, continuous increase of the quantities of toxic waste, visible or not, from the other industrial branches and human activities, consequences of the energetical progress. The purpose of this paper is to point out some aspects regarding ecological footprints of electrical industry and energy industries during their development and to establish connections between the distinct role of energy in each period of industrialization and its impact on the environment, education, science, arts and cultural dimensions of life.

scholarly journals Muzyka jako teofania? Pytania do George’a Steinera

Principia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Trzęsiok
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Musical Aesthetics ◽  
Philosophy Of Music ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The One ◽  
Name Of God

Music occupies a special place in George Steiner’s thinking: “Three areas: the essence and name of God, higher mathematics and music (what is the connection between them?) are located at the limits of language” (Steiner, Errata). The seemingly rhetorical question in parentheses turns out to be a source of deep controversy, the essence of which is revealed in historical-genealogical reflection. Steiner attempts to incorporate Romantic metaphysics within the traditional scholastic symbiosis of Biblical creationism and Pythagoreanism, which reveals his philosophy of music to be entangled in a range of contradictions. On the one hand, a critical reading of Steiner's works uncovers the difficulties posed by the attempt to reconcile pre- and post-Enlightenment culture; on the other hand, the still unused opportunities offered by Romanticism and its modernist continuations are clearly visible. Musical aesthetics, rooted in the idea of infinity, plays a crucial role in these divagations.

scholarly journals O procesie różnicowania

Politeja ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3(66)) ◽  
pp. 187-198
Author(s):  
Edyta Pietrzak
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Identity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Public ◽  
Group A ◽  
Fellow Member

On the Process of Othering. European Identity in Opposition to Otherness The process of othering is the process of assigning a group or individual the role of the Other and creating one’s own identity in opposition to it. It deprives Others of the characteristics of “the same”: reason, dignity, love, pride, heroism, nobility, and ultimately human rights, regardless of whether the Other is a racial or religious group, a sexual minority or a nation. The process of othering can take a form of exploitation, oppression and even genocide because, as Richard Rorty put it, everything changes who is a fellow member of our moral community. Stanisław Konopacki describes it in relation to the question of European identity, built in opposition to Otherness. This opposition turns out to be extremely inspiring for an analysis of contemporary crises in the European Union. The paper presents a theoretical analysis of the process itself, its anthropological sources, and its consequences for the Habermas project of the contemporary European public sphere.

Aristippus of Cyrene

2020 ◽  
pp. 380-411
Author(s):  
Voula Tsouna
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Relative Value ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

“Aristippus of Cyrene” re-evaluates the evidence concerning, on the one hand, Aristippus’ alleged hedonism and, on the other, his affiliation with Socrates and the Socratic circle. The central thesis of the chapter is this: even though some sources attribute to Aristippus the sort of ethical hedonism that we know to have been held by his grandson (Aristippus the Younger), there is strong evidence that in fact Aristippus of Cyrene was not an ethical hedonist but endorsed Socratic concerns and values. These latter include philosophical inquiry focused on ethics, the paramount importance of philosophy for education and the care of one’s soul, concern to develop the virtues and assess the relative value of external goods, the crucial role of reason and prudence in ethical conduct, the ethical implications of systematically pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, and the rationalism that should determine one’s attitudes toward relatives, acquaintances, fellow-citizens, and the city itself.

scholarly journals “Good Savage” vs. “Bad Savage”. Discourse and Counter-Discourse on Primitive Language as a Reflex of English Colonialism

Topoi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Mazzon
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
English Nationalism ◽  
Ideological Construction ◽  
Cultural Developments

AbstractIn the ideological construction of colonialism and, more widely, of any hierarchy of human communities, a crucial role is played by discourse on language. English nationalism and imperialism, in particular, developed extensive argumentations on language as an interpretation of the encounter with the other, on the basis of internal cultural developments that assigned to language the role of social discriminator. The paper investigates a strand of such argumentations during the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: the concept of “primitive” languages, described in a positive or, more often, in a negative light. The former arguments employ tones related to the idea of the “good savage” and stand in connection with narratives on the “language of Adam” and of the “Welsh Indians”, the latter uses a rhetoric extolling “progress” and “civilization” against the “immaturity” and “backwardness” of primitive languages, a perspective that was later to influence Darwinism.

Domesticating Bodies: The Role of Shame in Obstetric Violence

Hypatia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Cohen Shabot ◽  
Keshet Korem
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Obstetric Violence

Obstetric violence—violence in the labor room—has been described in terms not only of violence in general but specifically of gender violence. We offer a philosophical analysis of obstetric violence, focused on the central role of gendered shame for construing and perpetuating such violence. Gendered shame in labor derives both from the reifying gaze that transforms women's laboring bodies into dirty, overly sexual, and “not‐feminine‐enough” dysfunctional bodies and from a structural tendency to relate to laboring women mainly as mothers‐to‐be, from whom “good motherhood” is demanded. We show that women who desire a humane birth are thus easily made to feel ashamed of wanting to be respected and cared for as subjects, rather than caring exclusively for the baby's well‐being as a good altruistic mother supposedly should. We explore how obstetric violence is perpetuated and expanded through shaming mechanisms that paralyze women, rendering them passive and barely able to face and fight against this violence. Gendered shame has a crucial role in returning women to “femininity” and construing them as “fit mothers.” To stand against gendered shame, to resist it, on the other hand, is to clearly challenge obstetric violence and its oppressive power.

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