scholarly journals The Myth of Batman: Intra- and Interdiscursive Transformations

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-88
Author(s):  
Arina A. Kutovaia ◽  
Ekaterina V. Mikhailovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Basic Constituent

The study focuses on the multimodal discourse of the superhero Batman which is viewed as both a corpus of texts about Batman and a process of their development in various media, such as comics, animation, film, video games. Since the launch of the 1930s’ comics, the discourse has been incessantly developing, getting more and more intertwined with technology and new technology-based arts and industries. The evolution of the discourse can also be accounted for by the changing needs of the audience, as well as the shifts in the audience itself. At present, Batman discourse is comprised of a vast number of media texts, which intersect and influence each other. Each of these presents a new interpretation of the myth, based on the reesthetisization of basic constituent codes. The research aims to cover some aspects that define Batman as a cultural phenomenon of today, such as Batman as part of contemporary mythology and its relatability to the contemporary historical context, authorship in both the multimodal discourse and its media subdiscourses, intertextual and interdiscursive transformations.

A New Interpretation of Hume's ‘Of Miracles’

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Slupik
Keyword(s):  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
New Interpretation

It has often been suggested (1) that according to Hume it is impossible in principle for testimony to prove a miracle, and (2) that an indispensable element in Hume's argument is the claim that a miracle is by definition a violation of the laws of nature. I argue that both (1) and (2) are mistaken, and that, once Hume's ‘Of Miracles’ is viewed in a proper historical context, it emerges that Hume's argument against miracles is considerably different from what is usually supposed.

scholarly journals Understanding the Future Impacts of Electric Vehicles—An Analysis of Multiple Factors That Influence the Market

Vehicles ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 851-871
Author(s):  
Jonathan Wellings ◽  
David Greenwood ◽  
Stuart R. Coles
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Vehicle Market

The electric vehicle market is an increasingly important aspect of the automotive industry. However, as a relatively new technology, several issues remain present within the industry. An analysis is utilised to examine these issues, along with how they affect the industry and how they can be tackled. Several key issues that affect the electric vehicle market, as well as how efforts to address these issues influence the market, are identified. The analysis also includes the examination of ethical issues, with the issues that arise from the production of raw materials for electric vehicles. The analysis and examination of ethical issues display a wide range of problems in the industry. However, it did highlight the efforts being made to lessen the effect of these problems by various groups, such as regulation by EU and US governing bodies on the materials mined. From this analysis, this paper identifies that many of the other factors examined are directly or indirectly influenced by political and economic factors, also examined in this review. This highlights the impact that governing bodies and businesses have on a vast number of issues that are present within the market and how they can resolve the harmful factors examined.

Examining Adult Learning Assumptions and Theories in Technology-Infused Communities and Professions

2013 ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Parker
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Future Application ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Adult Learning Principles ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Learning Principles

Adult learning in today’s society is primarily focused on the needs of adults as they function in their communities and professions. Adult learning principles and theories have been the foundation of adult education practice for over a century. However, a review of the historical context reveals that this new technology-infused learning landscape is dramatically different from its predecessor. This makes a reexamination of these ideas important for their future application. This chapter will reexamine the adult-learning principles of transformative learning, andragogy, and critical reflection in this technology-infused world and propose a new paradigm and corresponding practices for the new learning landscape in communities and professions.

Philosophy, Past and Present

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Eleanor M. Godway
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Trust Theory ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject

John Macmurray's controversial thesis: “All meaningful knowledge is for the sake of action and all meaningful action for the sake of friendship” is unpacked by explaining and illustrating what he means by the “personal.” He sees philosophy as a cultural phenomenon which expresses and responds to its historical context, and in turn affects how people think and behave. The Subject as Thinker, which has dominated modern philosophy, has led us to value knowledge for its own sake and trust theory over practice, needs to be replaced by the self as agent. The logic of the personal, in which the positive (e.g. action, love) is constituted and sustained by its negative (e.g. thinking, fear) arises out of personal relationship (“I-and-you”). Facing the problematic personhood may enable us to find meaning in relations with others, and face the future with hope.

Sustainable Design Through Flexible Product Evolution

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Van Wie ◽  
Robert B. Stone ◽  
Daniel A. McAdams
Keyword(s):  
Material Selection ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Design Method ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Product Evolution ◽  
S Curve ◽  
Over Time

Sustainable design defined broadly is the problem of designing environmentally benign products so that the environment can be maintained with minimal negative effects from the product throughout the product’s entire lifecycle. This research investigates how sustainable design can be achieved at the conceptual design stage. Although sustainability encompasses a vast number of issues ranging from energy efficient solutions, design for disassembly, recycling, proper material selection, and improved manufacturing choices, the research focus of this work is on the particular issue of product evolution as it relates to the flexibility of a product or concept. Product evolution, often powered by new technology, erases the market competitiveness of concepts over time and impacts flexibility on the design effort side. Specifically, how does the designer develop concepts that can at least partially be reused and adapted to the next product generation with minimal effort? One answer is to design flexible concepts that can incur unknown future changes with maximum concept reuse. Flexibility in this context implies the property of a concept, physical solution, component, or product, to be robust and tolerant to generally unavoidable evolutionary changes. The challenge is to know how to configure a product to satisfy this requirement. As part of this research, we perform empirical studies of product evolution to determine evolutionary trends. Product evolution is measured in the broad terms of product performance over time. The goal is to predict when a product should evolve by either 1) moving from the lower plateau of an S-curve to the higher plateau or 2) jumping to a new S-curve being prepared to do so in a sustainable manner. That is, the objective is to allow companies to be able to reuse components or platforms (including reconditioning and recycling), tooling as well as design and manufacturing staff. The key toward this goal is an understanding how products evolve and what conditions coincide with product change. The approach is to investigate the types of changes (evolutions) that lead to flexible (sustainable) designs. The results of this research can be used for a prescriptive approach in developing a sustainable design method that relies on this newly acquired knowledge of product evolution.

Problematic “Idiosyncrasies”: Rediscovering the Historical Context of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Science of Form

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Research Program ◽  
International Research ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Organismal Biology ◽  
Private Correspondence ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
International Research Program

ArgumentD’Arcy Thompson has often been portrayed as a loner. His science of form has frequently been labeled anachronistic, idiosyncratic, and unconnected to his contemporary biology. This article aims to challenge this interpretation. Thompson's representation as a loner did not lie in the idiosyncrasies of his science, but in our own historiography. Through the use of unedited archival sources, this study shows that Thompson's biology was well-connected to an international research program – a program mainly shared by developmental biologists, physiologists, and morphologists. In addition, this article also aims to propose a new interpretation of Thompson'sOn Growth and Form. Drawing on his private correspondence and published sources, the paper re-contextualizes the contents and conclusions of Thompson's seminal work. We will see that Thompson defended a particular kind of organismal biology. The bio-science he supported stemmed not only from Aristotle's zoology or Pythagorean mathematics, but had many allies among twentieth-century naturalists.

scholarly journals Adrian Pushkin: Perm experience of the bureaucratic messiahship

2021 ◽  
pp. 164-171
Author(s):  
A.V. Bushmakov ◽  
S.V. Riazanova
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Folk Narratives ◽  
Solovetsky Monastery

This paper presents to the reader’s attention a unique case of a local “messianic” prophecy which combines features of folk religious movements and principles of functioning of the bureaucratic machine. The manuscripts of civil servant and merchant Adrian Pushkin, who lived in the 19th century in the city of Perm (Kama region, West-ern Ural), are considered as a variation of development of popular religion which includes a messianic-apocalyptic narrative. This places the provincial clerk closely to founders of the alternative to the official Orthodox discourse movements in the Russian Empire, as well as new religious movements of the later period. The aim of this paper is to determine the place and the role of Pushkin’s revelation in the religious space of that historical period. The main sources of the research are local archival documents which include business correspondence, personal letters, photographs, also documents related to Pushkin’s psychiatric examination and his subsequent expulsion to the Solovetsky Monastery, letters and family photos of the “prophet”, and service notes. The research method is based on the phenomenological approach with elements of hermeneutical analysis. The new revelation was founded on biblical text well known to the Perm messiah, and its content was provided by the social and historical context. The targeted audience for the new prophet was the middle strata of the society, comfortable for him. The preferred way of communication involved the tools of the bureaucratic system of pre-revolutionary Russia. The development of the new interpretation of Christian teaching was based on individual choice of the revelator and mediated by already initiated processes of secularization of public life. Traditional narratives and imagery of the sacred books of the Orthodox tradition were placed by the messiah-bureaucrat in the context of local space of the region and the country, and were interpreted through realities of personal life. Open criticism of the official Church was combined with a complex of mythological ideas. The main accents of the prophetic text were apocalyptic and chiliastic, related to the personal and professional crisis experienced by the author. The latter was triggered by the abolition of serfdom and destruction of the habitual environment and self-realization system. The style and con-tent of Pushkin’s text represent a mixture of theological concepts and elements of folk narratives based on the biblical tradition. As a result of the textual development, the signature myth was formed, rooted formally in Chris-tian dogmas and associated with folk religious culture.

scholarly journals Nationalism in official tourism websites of Balkan countries: a multimodal analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Houliston ◽  
Stanislav Hristov Ivanov ◽  
Craig Webster
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Balkan Countries ◽  
Tourism Websites ◽  
Do So

This paper investigates the official tourism websites for the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey to learn about their depiction of the nations for international tourism markets. The research combines Pauwels’ (2012) multimodal discourse analysis method designed for cultural websites with Smith’s (1998) six main institutional dimensions to seek out potential nationalistic patterns involving the state, territory, language, religion, history, and rites and ceremonies. The findings mostly involve verbal and visual signifiers that have a historical context to the nations such as antiquity, communism, Yugoslavia, religion, irredentism, the Ottoman Empire, and national identity. The findings illustrate that official tourism websites while being sensitive not to alienate international tourists, portray a sense of nationalism but do so in a different way, based upon the historical experiences and unique features of each country surveyed.

Technology Management Renewal at NOVA Gas Transmission

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy C. Cormier ◽  
David V. Dorling
Keyword(s):  
Technology Management ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Industry Leader ◽  
High Level ◽  
Organizational Principles

NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) is an industry leader in successfully applying new technology to meet business needs. The company has had a formal technology development program since 1983 and invests approximately $5.5 million annually towards developing and implementing beneficial new technology. Over the years, this leadership has provided tremendous value to NGTL’s customers, shareholders, employees and the communities in which it operates. In 1994, as part of the company’s re-engineering initiative, a high-level scoping effort identified several opportunities to further enhance the business value derived through the application of technology. To realize these opportunities, NGTL launched an effort to renew its processes for managing technology. Through this renewal effort, NGTL: 1) developed guiding organizational principles for managing technology, 2) established Key Technology Areas of focus, 3) re-structured its technology development organization, 4) leveraged best-practice concepts to improve the process of developing and implementing technologies, and 5) made significant progress in marketing the value of technological innovation across the organization. This paper will highlight NGTL’s technology management renewal effort including its historical context and rationale, the process used and the major outcomes.

Historical Fears: Teens, Technology, and Anxiety

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Ryan Vickery
Keyword(s):  
Moral Panic ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Anxieties ◽  
Networked Publics ◽  
Looking Back

This chapter considers the current moments of moral panic about technology from an historical context and argues that fears are not really about technology, but are driven by broader social changes. New technology and media often cause adults anxiety and are difficult to regulate; social and mobile media are no different. Looking back to youth in the 1920s America, this chapter demonstrates how changes in the role of the family and peer groups lead to social anxieties then and now. Through a discussion of networked publics, the chapter addresses teens’ desires to participate in society in visible ways that offer both risks and opportunities.

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