scholarly journals A Genealogical Analysis of Information and Technics

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
J.J. Sylvia IV
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Information Age ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Genealogical Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

This paper explores how the concepts of information and technics have been leveraged differently by a variety of philosophical and epistemological frameworks over time. Using the Foucauldian methodology of genealogical historiography, it analyzes how the use of these concepts have impacted the way we understand the world and what we can know about that world. As these concepts are so ingrained in contemporary technologies of the information age, understanding how these concepts have changed over time can help make clearer how they continue to impact our processes of subjectivation. Analysis reveals that the predominant understanding of information and technics today is based on a cybernetic approach that conceptualizes information as a resource. However, this analysis also reveals that Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of technics resonates with that of the Sophists, offering an opportunity to rethink contemporary conceptualizations of information and technics in a way that connects to posthuman philosophic systems that afford new approaches to communication and media studies.

scholarly journals A journey from reductionist to systemic cell biology aboard the schooner Tara

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (13) ◽  
pp. 2403-2406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Karsenti
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Molecular Interactions ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Statistical Physics ◽  
Interaction Networks ◽  
Cellular Functions ◽  
Personal Journey ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

In this essay I describe my personal journey from reductionist to systems cell biology and describe how this in turn led to a 3-year sea voyage to explore complex ocean communities. In describing this journey, I hope to convey some important principles that I gleaned along the way. I realized that cellular functions emerge from multiple molecular interactions and that new approaches borrowed from statistical physics are required to understand the emergence of such complex systems. Then I wondered how such interaction networks developed during evolution. Because life first evolved in the oceans, it became a natural thing to start looking at the small organisms that compose the plankton in the world's oceans, of which 98% are … individual cells—hence the Tara Oceans voyage, which finished on 31 March 2012 in Lorient, France, after a 60,000-mile around-the-world journey that collected more than 30,000 samples from 153 sampling stations.

scholarly journals A (premature) eulogy of broadcasting: the sense of the ending of television

Matrizes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Milly Buonanno
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Way

The vanishing centrality of broadcast television has turned into a key issue within contemporary media studies, thus making the end of television a familiar trope in scholarly discourses and opening the way to a redefinition of the present-day phase in terms of post-broadcast era. Besides recognizing that there are plenty of places in the world where the broadcast era is still alive, this article makes the claim that the discoursive formation of the passing of television as we knew it may offer media scholar-ship the opportunity to assume the viewpoint of the end as the privileged perspective from which the broadcast era can be looked at anew, eventually acknowledging the reasons why it is liable to be praised rather than buried.

scholarly journals Deus ex machina, czyli o doświadczeniu fonografii w poezji Stanisława Barańczaka / DEUS EX MACHINA, OR THE EXPERIENCE OF PHONOGRAPHY IN THE POETRY OF STANISŁAW BARAŃCZAK

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 477-494
Author(s):  
Iwona Puchalska
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Summary This article deals with a new range of musical topoi that entered the literature of the 20th century following the invention of new techniques of recording and copying of sound. The phonographic revolution led to a wide-ranging revision of traditional musical terms and opened the way for new approaches to the problem of ontology of the musical work of art. Its ripples also reached the realm of poetry, giving rise to new motifs and themes of ‘poetic musicology’. Stanisław Barańczak is without doubt a typical phonographic poet, and his work both reflects the general developments in the world of music and shows a uniquely personal literary-musical profile.

scholarly journals Cyber Yugoslavia: from the World of Nations to the World of Cyber Countries

2017 ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Lada Stevanović
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The World ◽  
State Construction ◽  
The Way

This paper examines Cyber Yugoslavia, a state created on the internet, after the fall of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). Located in cyberspace, Cyber  Yugoslavia belongs to the corpus of virtual countries appearing as a subversive response to the nationalism and wars that led to the disintegration of the SFRY. The ludic and parodic character of CY makes it a unique example of the way in which it challenges and questions deep structures and ideological mechanisms of nation and nation-state construction. Using parody and laughter, CY deconstructs the concepts that are essential parts in creating the ideology of nation. The very same concepts are the focus of the theoretical approach to nation, wherefore the paper focuses on the intersection of theoretical and IT creative work. Article received: May 5, 2017; Article accepted: May 10, 2017; Published online: September 15, 2017Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Stevanović, Lada. "Cyber Yugoslavia: from the World of Nations to the World of Cyber Countries." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 13 (2017): 73-87. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i13.184

Popular newspaper discourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Rixon
Keyword(s):  
Specific Form ◽  
Soft News ◽  
The World ◽  
News Industry ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way ◽  
Television Criticism

Journalistic discourse, the world over, has developed over time, reflecting changes in the news industry and the wider society. Likewise television criticism, a specific form of journalism, has also had to evolve over time. Initially, as television critics sought recognition and respectability in the quality newspapers, they developed a form of writing similar to the way other forms of culture and art were reviewed. However, as journalists began to develop more popular ways of writing, and with the spread of soft news throughout newspapers and into new magazine supplements, television critics also found themselves having to follow suit. This was such that by the 1970s a number of critics had moved away from trying to mimic other forms of reviewing or criticism to creating their own, more popular form of discourse. In this article I will explore some of the ways the language of critics changed between the 1950s and the 1980s, and how these developments were similar or different to the wider changes in journalism happening at this time.

scholarly journals СУЧАСНА ФОТОКНИГА ЯК ОБ’ЄКТ ДИЗАЙНУ: СИСТЕМАТИЗАЦІЯ ЗА СПОСОБОМ ПОДАННЯ КОНТЕНТУ

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-103
Author(s):  
А. В. Сафронова ◽  
Р. Д. Михайлова
Keyword(s):  
Market Value ◽  
National Character ◽  
The World ◽  
Art Analysis ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Photo Book ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Written Sources ◽  
The Way

To explore the features and characteristics of a modern photobook as an object of design, its artistic and compositional solutions, types of content presentation; identify the state, trends in the development of photobooks of relevant types in the world and in Ukraine. The article uses visual-analytical analysis to process samples and written sources, typological – to identify criteria for the distribution of samples and their systematization, comparative – for stylistic, compositional, content, analysis of various works of photography, photo albums and other publications. Based on the analysis of scientific sources, modern foreign and Ukrainian photobooks, it is generalized the approaches to its artistic and compositional solutions and design, the classification of types of photo books by the way of presenting content as specific publications, the grounds for combining photos in a series is made, which include : common theme; common idea; common plot; common formalities; community of associations. The characteristics of the photo book as an object of design are formed: the features of artistic and compositional design solutions of a number of Ukrainian photobooks, which have been recognized as works of photography, are systematized; the leading tendencies of development of concrete types of photo books in the way of presenting content in Ukraine are revealed. On the basis of art analysis of photobooks by the way of presenting content, trends in its development within modern photography, features of design of a number of photographic works, which over time have acquired high artistic and market value or received recognition at international competitions are revealed. Characteristic features of photo reproduction are determined, which give Ukrainian photo books a distinct national character.

First Vision

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Harper
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, remembered that his first audible prayer, uttered in spring 1820, resulted in a vision of heavenly beings who forgave him and told him Christianity had gone astray. “The Mormon narrative,” according to a 2012 blog post, “seems to always start with a young boy who asked God a question one spring morning in 1820.” That is true if one qualifies the always, for it has not always been so. When and why and how did Joseph Smith’s “first vision,” as Latter-day Saints or “Mormons” know the event, become their seminal story? What challenges did it face along the way? What changes did it undergo as a result? Can it possibly hold its privileged position against the tides of doubt and disbelief, memory studies, and source criticism—all in the information age? First Vision tells how Joseph Smith—by remembering his past in various present contexts—opened the way for alternatives, how saints chose the collective memory they did, and what difference it has made for them and their critics. This book is the biography of a contested memory and how it was born, grew, changed the world, and was changed by it.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. xvi-16
Author(s):  
Rebecca Braun
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Literary Practices ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter explains what ‘world authorship’ is, and how consciously working with this concept might change the way we make sense of literature as both a live social phenomenon and an object of study. Divided into four core sections—‘World Literature Needs World Authors’, ‘A New Approach to Authorship’, ‘World Authorship over Time’, and ‘Doing Literature Differently’—it locates the concept within existing literary practices around the world as well as diverse academic approaches to the study of literature. Weaving each of the following twenty-five chapters into a larger frame, it shows how the approach pioneered by this handbook challenges and extends the way we engage with literature today, and what we might be able to do in the future.

Melodrama On and Off the Stage

2014 ◽  
pp. 685-701
Author(s):  
Jim Davis
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
New Locations ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

Although melodrama is often considered specifically in national contexts, it is also a transnational phenomenon. Individual melodramas take on different meanings in new locations, while melodrama as a genre changes over time. Evidence of this can be seen, for instance, in the way the supernatural is gradually subsumed by psychology. Melodrama is a fluid genre that eludes easy definition and many plays now described as melodramas were not so defined by their original authors. Melodrama is not antipathetic to realism, but often complements or even makes use of reality, especially when confronting the problems of modernity. It helps to mediate reality and even provides agency to its spectators in their interaction with the world around them.

Introduction

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Library User ◽  
The Way

The liberation of learning is a prelude to the expansion of the personal conscience—this expansion is the first of two of the only natural freedoms given to the individual, the other being the employment of one’s physical, mental, and emotional abilities in accord with that conscience—and becomes the foundation of all other rights and corruptions that both bless and plague every society ever created by mankind. This is fundamental and explains why universal learning is necessary for any kind of progress in the way we see, think about, and treat one another and the World around us. For every book somebody wants you to read, there is a book they do not want you to read—both can be found at the library. Let that sink into your thoughts for a moment, its meaning. That is the ”library,” its very concept, and this is what it has come to represent in the minds of millions of patrons. It is a fine heritage matched by no other institution, and one that all its workers should be proud to be a part of and hopefully protect and perpetuate. This introductory chapter covers a few brief insights into why I wrote this book—subjective motivates and goals guiding its completion. The chapter is concluded with a light historical review of the pivotal technologies establishing the foundation of information technology leading into the Information Age and paving the way to changes in the library user environment.

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