scholarly journals Metamorphosis of the Architectural Space of Goetheanum

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 4700
Author(s):  
Romana Kiuntsli ◽  
Andriy Stepanyuk ◽  
Iryna Besaha ◽  
Justyna Sobczak-Piąstka
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Frank Lloyd Wright ◽  
Rudolf Steiner ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
Walter Burley

In the beginning of the XX century, political, economic, and demographic revolutions contributed to the emergence of extraordinary people. In architecture, they were Frank Lloyd Wright, Antonio Gaudí, Frank Owen Gary, Le Corbusier, Hugo Hering, Alvar Aalto, Hans Sharun, Walter Burley Griffin, and Marion Mahony Griffin. Each of them was given a lot of attention in the media resources and their creativity was researched in different fields of knowledge. However, Rudolf Steiner’s work remains controversial to this day. Although many of the architects mentioned above enthusiastically commented on Steiner’s architectural works, there was always ambiguity in the perception of this mystic architect. Such a careful attitude to the work of the architect is due primarily to his worldview, his extraordinary approach to art and architecture in particular, because it is in architecture that Steiner was able to implement the basic tenets of anthroposophy, which he founded. The purpose of this study is to determine the content of the spatial structure of Steiner’s architecture, which makes it unique in the history of architectural heritage. The authors offer the scientific community the first article in a series of articles on the anthroposophical architecture of Rudolf Steiner and the philosophical concept that influenced the formation of this architecture.

Science and Terminology in-between Empires: Ukrainian Science in a Search for its Language in the nineteenth century

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Surman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Language ◽  
Professional Journals ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Medical Section ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Scholarly Projects

Ukrainian science and its terminology in the nineteenth century experienced a number of twists and turns. Divided between two empires, it lacked institutions, scholars pursuing it, and a unified literary language. One could even say that until the late nineteenth century there was a possibility for two communities with two literary languages to emerge – Ruthenian (Habsburg Empire) and Ukrainian (Russian Empire). Eventually, both communities and languages merged. This article tracks the meanderings of this process, arguing that scholarly publications played a crucial role in shaping the standard for the scientific language. The article follows the biography of the naturalist Ivan Verhrats’kyi (1846–1919), the author of the first dictionaries of naturalist terminology in Ruthenian in 1860, a translator and author of textbooks, and the head of the Mathematical–Naturalist–Medical Section of the Shevchenko Society in L’viv. He thus shaped many Ruthenian, and then Ruthenian–Ukrainian scholarly projects. Initially successful with his approach to making the Ruthenian scientific language vernacular, in the 1890s his approach was losing ground to the internationalization of vocabulary and to the growing pressure toward the unification of Ruthenian and Ukrainian. Finally, in the beginning of the twentieth century, Verhrats’kyi became marginalized within the Ukrainian scholarly community. By discussing the history of a minority language within imperial structures, I argue that the media in which scholarly work was published requires special attention. In the Ruthenin–Ukrainian case, they determined the standard for scientific language. Lacking professional journals, Ruthenian scholars published in the 1860s–late 1880s in popular newspapers and in school textbooks, requiring them to use a language that was near to the spoken tongue of the Habsburg province. Once the political situation changed, favoring Ruthenian–Ukrainian unification, and scholarly journals appeared and transgressed the imperial boundary, the favored language had to be transimperial, ousting out the vernacular.

The Fourth Estate

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Journalism History ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
Professional Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Changing Practices ◽  
The Many ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
First Time

This book examines the history of journalists and journalism in twentieth century Ireland. While many media institutions have been subjected to historical scrutiny, the professional and organisational development of journalists, the changing practices of journalism, and the contribution of journalists and journalism to the evolution of modern Ireland have not. This book rectifies this deficit by mapping the development of journalism in Ireland from the late 1880s to today. Beginning with the premise that the position of journalists and the power of journalism are products of their time and are shaped by ever-shifting political, economic, technological, and cultural forces it examines the background and values of those who worked as journalists, how they viewed and understood their role over the decades, how they organised and what they stood for as a professional body, how the prevailing political and social atmosphere facilitated or constrained their work, and, crucially, how their work impacted on social change and contributed to the development of modern Ireland. Placing the experiences of journalists and the practice of journalism at the heart of its analysis it examines, for the first time, the work of journalists within the ever-changing context of Irish society. Based on strong primary research – including the previously un-consulted journals and records produced by the many journalistic representative organisations that came and went over the decades – and written in an accessible and engaging style, this book will appeal to anyone interested in journalism, history, the media, and the development of Ireland as a modern nation.

Neuroscience, power and culture: an introduction

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Vrecko
Keyword(s):  
Biological Psychiatry ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Brain Sciences ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Health Programmes

In line with their vast expansion over the last few decades, the brain sciences — including neurobiology, psychopharmacology, biological psychiatry, and brain imaging — are becoming increasingly prominent in a variety of cultural formations, from self-help guides and the arts to advertising and public health programmes. This article, which introduces the special issue of History of the Human Science on ‘Neuroscience, Power and Culture’, considers the ways that social and historical research can, through empirical investigations grounded in the observation of what is actually happening and has already happened in the sciences of mind and brain, complement speculative discussions of the possible social implications of neuroscience that now appear regularly in the media and in philosophical bioethics. It suggests that the neurosciences are best understood in terms of their lineage within the ‘psy’-disciplines, and that, accordingly, our analyses of them will be strengthened by drawing on existing literatures on the history and politics of psychology — particularly those that analyze formations of knowledge, power and subjectivity associated with the discipline and its practical applications. Additionally, it argues against taking today’s neuroscientific facts and brain-targetting technologies as starting points for analysis, and for greater recognition of the ways that these are shaped by historical, cultural and political-economic forces.

scholarly journals The promise of media archeology

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Nadežda Čačinovič
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Art And Architecture

Media archeology offers a new and necessary tool in dealing with the plurality of phenomena we so indiscriminately - anachronistically or in other ways - recognize as art and classify as artworks. The paper tries to stress the difference in comparison with related viewpoints: the theories of cultural transmission, of the materiality of culture, of the logic of aesthetic regimes etc. One might call it "media before media" (and follow Kittler) or delve with Zielinski into the "Deep Time of the Media" with a good connection to the "history of the senses approach" or go straight with Jussi Parikka and Erkki Huhtamo and use "media archeology": it is always an acknowledgment of the protean nature of art and architecture.

scholarly journals View of Globalization Processes through the Prism of Hegel’s Heritage

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Gorokhov ◽  
E. R. Yuzhaninova
Keyword(s):  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
History Of ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Political Economic

The article compares the processes of globalization of modernity with the era of the Napoleonic wars, when an attempt was made to integrate Europe into a single political, economic and socio-cultural whole. The historical and philosophical bases of these comparisons are the works of G.W.F. Hegel. The authors conclude that while the integration processes in the beginning of the XIX century had a historically progressive character, the modern globalization – on the contrary – is a phenomenon of regression for the history of mankind.

scholarly journals Pressing Pause: Critical Reflections from the History of Media Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-279
Author(s):  
Brian Dolber ◽  
Andrew O'Baoill
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
The Us ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Political Economic

This article examines the history of the fraught relationship between the fields of media and journalism studies and the media industries in the US and UK contexts. In the US, journalism programmes were built on instituting professionalism, and media studies arose in conjunction with the demands of a growing industry. In the UK, cultural studies developed in conjunction with the need to produce a working class that could make sense of the mass media environment. Under neoliberalism, however, professionalism in both media and the academy have been undercut, while media studies programmes have expanded. We argue that a historical, political economic orientation demonstrates that media studies faculty and students are subject to many of the same institutional pressures, providing fertile ground for new pedagogical approaches.

scholarly journals CONTEMPORARY MEDIA IN KYRGYZSTAN: STATUS AND CHALLENGES IN THE COVERAGE OF INTER-ETHNIC RELATIONS (1990-2010)

2020 ◽  
pp. 537-543
Author(s):  
J.A. Atykanova
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Political Economic

The article contains up-to-date information on the history of the formation of the media market covering inter-ethnic relations in Kyrgyzstan. During the period of recent history, an information field has been formed in the republic, which has a clear position in the submission of information for its key audience. The media around the world play a key important role in stabilizing inter-ethnic relations in a multi-ethnic state, Kyrgyzstan is no exception. Kyrgyzstan allows representatives of ethnic groups currently residing in the Republic to have access to information in their mother tongue. Along with traditional print media, television and radio stations, Internet publications, news agencies, social media pages and messengers are actively pursuing information policy. In addition to domestic Kyrgyz-language media, the media broadcasting in Russian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Chinese, Turkish, Korean, Dungan are actively working in the republic. Each of them is a local or foreign mass media funded from abroad. All these forms of broadcasting and coverage of the political, economic and socio-cultural life of the republic form public opinion both at home and abroad.

scholarly journals Pressing Pause: Critical Reflections from the History of Media Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-279
Author(s):  
Brian Dolber ◽  
Andrew O'Baoill
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
The Us ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Political Economic

This article examines the history of the fraught relationship between the fields of media and journalism studies and the media industries in the US and UK contexts. In the US, journalism programmes were built on instituting professionalism, and media studies arose in conjunction with the demands of a growing industry. In the UK, cultural studies developed in conjunction with the need to produce a working class that could make sense of the mass media environment. Under neoliberalism, however, professionalism in both media and the academy have been undercut, while media studies programmes have expanded. We argue that a historical, political economic orientation demonstrates that media studies faculty and students are subject to many of the same institutional pressures, providing fertile ground for new pedagogical approaches.

Teaching the history of Catalonia: past, present and 'futures'

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Antoni Santisteban Fernández
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Strong Resonance ◽  
Current Economic Situation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic

The history which is taught in Catalan schools is not on the margin of the political, economic and social situation which is being shared by those living in Catalonia. There is an on-going debate about citizenship between the Catalans and the Spanish, which has had a major impact in the media, and has had repercussions for the future of Catalonia within the Spanish state. Teaching the history of Catalonia and Spain is an issue that has a strong resonance within this debate. The problem is not new and has deep historical roots. It has re-emerged, on the one hand, because of the attitude of the state government, which represents the most centralist Spanish nationalism. Moreover, the current economic situation has made the latent problem even more urgent. However, the debate has also served to mask other important problems.

scholarly journals Bruno Zevi on Le Corbusier: another way to an “organic architecture”

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Guido
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Frank Lloyd Wright ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Machu Picchu ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Organic Architecture ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: Bruno Zevi was an enthusiastic promoter of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture and theories. However, the critical enquiry and propaganda of the Italian architect and historian about so-called “organic architecture” reveals a major cultural debt to Le Corbusier. In 1945, Zevi published “Verso un’architettura organica” [Towards an organic architecture], the first version of his history of architecture. The title is clearly a polemical reference to Le Corbusier’s book “Vers une architecture” (1923). In 1977, together with other architects, Zevi promoted the Machu Picchu Charter, a document to “update” the Athens Charter (1933). The places held significance: Athens was the birthplace of western civilization and architectural rationalism. Machu Picchu symbolised the contribution of an alternative way of viewing the world. Are those merely examples of Zevi’s provocations? The relationship between Zevi and Le Corbusier is problematic and ambivalent. Zevi adopts the educational and communicative methods of Le Corbusier and his critical writing style, but his interpretation of the French-Swiss architect also demonstrates an attempt to delineate a new concept of “organic architecture”, related to his researches on a historiographic redefinition of the Modern Movement. Resumen: Bruno Zevi fue un entusiasta promotor de la arquitectura y las teorías de Frank Lloyd Wright. Sin embargo, la investigación crítica y la propaganda del arquitecto italiano e historiador sobre la llamada "arquitectura orgánica" revela una importante deuda cultural para Le Corbusier. En 1945, Zevi publicó "Verso un'architettura organica" [Hacia una arquitectura orgánica], la primera versión de su historia de la arquitectura. El título es claramente una referencia polémica al libro de Le Corbusier "Vers une architecture" (1923). En 1977, junto a otros arquitectos, Zevi promovió la Carta Machu Picchu, un documento para "actualizar" la Carta de Atenas (1933). Los lugares celebradas importancia: Atenas fue la cuna de la civilización occidental y el racionalismo arquitectónico. Machu Picchu simbolizaba la contribución de una forma alternativa de ver el mundo. Son esos meros ejemplos de las provocaciones de Zevi? La relación entre Zevi y Le Corbusier es problemática y bivalente. Zevi adopta los métodos educativos y comunicativos de Le Corbusier y su estilo crítico escrito, pero su interpretación del arquitecto franco-suizo también demuestra un intento de delinear un nuevo concepto de "arquitectura orgánica", en relación con sus investigaciones en una redefinición historiográfico de la Movimiento Moderno.  Keywords: Bruno Zevi; Le Corbusier’s legacy; modern language invariants; five points; organic architecture. Palabras clave: Bruno Zevi; El legado de Le Corbusier; invariantes de lenguas modernas; cinco puntos; arquitectura orgánica. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.760

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