scholarly journals History, Power, and Incomplete Epistolarity in Post-Soviet Cinema

Área Abierta ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-399
Author(s):  
Seth Graham
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Soviet Cinema ◽  
East And West ◽  
Former Soviet Republics

This article examines epistolary enunciation in the recent cinema of former Soviet republics (Russia, Ukraine, and Estonia), and in particular how filmmakers use the letter device in their engagements with their nations’ past, present, and future. After discussing the post-Soviet epistolary through the prism of the region’s history, with reference to Altman (1982) and Naficy (2001), the article analyses the device in specific films. Recent examples often follow the Soviet-era model of the letter as a medium for contact not only (or primarily) between individuals, but also for more abstract kinds of contact, between distinct realms of human existence and consciousness: East and West, Public and Private, Life and Death/Afterlife, Freedom and Captivity, Science and Superstition, Authenticity and Imposture, History and Contemporaneity. The meanings created via epistolary efforts to bridge such gaps – by the characters and the filmmakers – are central to the post-Soviet cinematic project of national and individual introspection.

State-cathedral nature of the first-rate Kiev

2000 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
M. M. Nikitenko
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Local Version ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Main Center

The inclusion of Eastern Slavs in the sphere of religious and cultural influences of Byzantium was a tremendous event both in national and in world history. Since then, the main center of the culture of Kievan Rus, incorporating a complex of ideas and functions of the spiritual, public and private life of ancient Russian society, became the Eastern Christian temple in its local version

scholarly journals Lifestyle Changes Among Medical Students During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multicenter Study Across Nine Countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 109019812110192
Author(s):  
Francisco Perez-Dominguez ◽  
Francisca Polanco-Ilabaca ◽  
Fernanda Pinto-Toledo ◽  
Daniel Michaeli ◽  
Jadi Achiardi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Psychological Status ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Public And Private

The global pandemic caused by coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) disrupted both public and private life for many. Concerning medical students, practical teaching and classrooms were substituted with a virtual curriculum. However, how this new academic environment has affected students’ health and lifestyles has yet to be studied. In this study, we surveyed 2,776 students from nine different countries about changes in their university curricula and potential alterations in their daily habits, physical health, and psychological status. We found negative changes across all countries studied, in multiple categories. We found that 99% of respondents indicated changes in their instruction delivery system, with 90% stating a transition to online education, and 93% stating a reduction or suspension of their practical activities. On average, students spent 8.7 hours a day in front of a screen, with significant differences among countries. Students reported worsened studying, sleeping, and eating habits with substantial differences in Latin American countries. Finally, the participants frequently expressed onset and increase in both mental and physical health symptoms: backache, asthenopia, irritability, and emotional instability. Altogether, these results suggest a potential risk in the health and academic performance of future doctors if these new academic modalities are maintained.

Technology of optimization: An emerging configuration of productivity among professional software employees

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110302
Author(s):  
Vanessa Ciccone
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Software Industry ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Moral Ideals ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

In this article, I draw from several months of fieldwork from 2019 to assess professional subjectivity in the software industry of Canada. I assess employees’ constructions of and feelings about their own productivity. I argue that the ways in which subjects understand and feel about their productivity says a great deal about how power is ‘willfully’ negotiated within everyday professional tech settings of neoliberal societies. My findings suggest that optimization is emerging as a technology of self among the individuals I studied, and bringing political consequences. In the first section of the article, I provide a brief overview of the productivity imperative’s cultural trajectory, and show its relation to optimization. Then, in the empirical analysis and discussion, I outline that the technology of optimization involves a discourse around bringing one’s best to public and private realms, offering a specific set of moral ideals. I then show that another facet of this technology of self is centered on willfully entangling public and private life. Finally, I theorize subjects’ reported feelings about their own productivity, assessing how the technology of optimization relates to a politics of privilege. With this study, I seek to make a contribution to the relation between the culture of productivity and professional subjectivity in the software industry, in an effort to expose how power is negotiated at the level of the self in an increasingly influential sector.

scholarly journals "Die Fremde ist nicht Heimat geworden, aber die Heimat Fremde."(Alfred Polgar)- Überlegungen zum Jahr des interkulturellen Dialogs 2008

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Stephan Wolting
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intercultural Communications ◽  
Foreign Assignment

The present article tries to attract attention to the connection between the idea of the European Commision to create in 2008 a Year of the interculturaal dialogue and empiric studies in researching of being abroad. It will be one of the most important purposes in future to develop the studies in intercultural communications in the premise of consulting, coaching and mediation for foreign assignment or a deployment abroad. In this fields there's no doubt that there's a need for focussing new researches on the public and private life of employers abroad or on that what's called the working migration.

scholarly journals Do Algorithms Dream of “Data” Without Bodies?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Savirimuthu
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Fitness Landscape ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Health And Fitness ◽  
General Data ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Fitness And Health ◽  
Platform Economy

The question whether algorithms dream of “data” without bodies is asked with the intention of highlighting the material conditions created by wearables for fitness and health, reveal the underlying assumptions of the platform economy regarding individuals’ autonomy, identities and preferences and reflect on the justifications for intervention under the General Data Protection Regulation The article begins by highlighting key features of platform infrastructures and wearables in the health and fitness landscape, explains the implications of algorithms automating, what can be described as “rituals of public and private life” in the health and fitness domain, and proceeds to consider the strains they place on data protection law. It will be argued that technological innovation and data protection rules played a part in setting the conditions for the mediated construction of meaning from bodies of information in the platform economy.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON PREFERENCE OF POLICYHOLDERS ABOUT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
I. Meenakshi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
New Policies

There are currently, a total of 24 life insurance companies in India. Of these, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is the only public sector insurance company. All others are private insurance companies. The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is the largest life insurance company in India and also the country's largest investor. More and more new private insurance companies are coming up year after year. And, these new and private life insurance companies adopt aggressive marketing strategies to introduce their products and to tap the potential policyholders. It is witnessed that new policies like ULIPs are introduced by these new private life insurance companies. It is in this concept this study has been undertaken to assess and analyze the preference of policyholders towards insurance services offered by public and private life insurance companies in Tirunelveli district.

scholarly journals THE EXISTENTIAL NATURE OF THE HIKMETS OF AHMED YASSAWI

Adam alemi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
N. Sarsenbekov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Direct Path ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Time And Being

This article analyzes existential concepts in the work of Ahmet Yassawi “Diwani hikmet”, which forms the Sufi direction of the deeply rooted Turkic civilization, using comparative research methods. In this context, the article collected and investigated the following metaphysical problems, such as the unity and struggle of time and being, disinterested attachment to the Creator, as well as the phenomenon of life and death. The content of the Hikmet is an existential representation of a religious preaching orientation, filled with the principles of a nomadic civilization developed in the Kazakh steppe. Although the main goal of the Hikmet is religious, there are often such existentials as the existence of the Creator and the problems of human existence, life and death, morality, justice, responsibility, conscience. The main position of the Hikmets is to point out a direct path to the Islamic world and suggest ways to form a “True Muslim”. The concepts of the book of wisdom are a way of revealing transcendental contradictions for those who are in an existential crisis. For those who cannot understand the meaning of life and are in existential stagnation, we decided to use the hikmet of Ahmet Yassawi to explain the meaning of real life.

scholarly journals The etymological reconstruction of the concept of "reincarnation"

2013 ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
L. Kompaniec
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
A Value ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul ◽  
Existential Issues

The idea of ​​reincarnation, the belief in the possibility of reincarnation is now one of the most interesting topics. She increasingly attracts the attention of philosophical, religious, and above all scientific thought. It is difficult not to agree with the depth of the circle of existential issues that it covers, because it is a whole range of problems of human existence: despair, life and death, hope, immortality of the soul. As a result, on the basis of attempts to follow the ways of their solution, vital projects of cultures, valuable landmarks are lined up. In the scale of religious values, the idea of ​​immortality of the soul is in higher hierarchical layers as a goal and an ideal, a condition for the achievement of the otherworldly, kingdom of God. In the context of this gradation, the phenomenon of reincarnation, as containing the idea of ​​eternal existence of the soul, has a value aspect, succinctly fits into the hypothetical problem of human immortality and, in our opinion, requires more in-depth study.

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