A NEW MATERIALISM? GLOBALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Jakes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New York Times ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Global Connections ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

The world is not flat, nor has it ever been, but empire's apologists have been claiming otherwise for a very long time. A full decade has passed since Thomas Friedman published his manifesto on behalf of neoliberal globalization. But if Friedman's reductionism and mangled metaphors still make him an easy target for critical scorn, his “brief history of the twenty-first century” offers a remarkably compact distillation of several key ideas that organize mainstream globalization discourse well beyond his fortified outpost on the op-ed page of The New York Times. The first is a presentist assertion that globalization is new, that a recent intensification of worldwide flows of capital, goods, information, and people represents a sharp rupture with the past. This historically dubious account of global connections in turn undergirds two further claims about the character of the transformations taking place in the current moment. Globalization, in Friedman's telling as in so many others, appears as a process of convergence, synchronization, and unification. And new technologies such as smart phones, laptops, and the Internet, themselves described as the unambiguous products of Western ingenuity, hold out the promise that this “flattening” of space will advance the spread not only of economic opportunity but also of liberal, secular values. Neither the forms of global connection and movement that Friedman purports to reveal nor his ways of writing about them, however, are as novel as his breathless exclamations would have us believe. It is these paired critical insights that provide the common thread between the five new histories of globalization and technology under consideration in this essay.

scholarly journals Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Talia Schaffer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Domestic Fiction ◽  
Victorian Women ◽  
Fortieth Anniversary ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Continuous Work

In May 2017, the annual City University of New York (CUNY) Victorian Conference addressed the history of Victorian feminist criticism. Our conference coincided with the fortieth anniversary of A Literature of Their Own and the thirtieth anniversary of Desire and Domestic Fiction, affording us a chance to think about the legacy of these groundbreaking texts. Elaine Showalter, Martha Vicinus, and Nancy Armstrong spoke about their struggles to establish and maintain Victorian feminist work in the twentieth century, often against outright hostility. We also heard about issues in twenty-first-century Victorian feminist practice: Alison Booth spoke about digital-humanities codification of Victorian women's lives, Jill Ehnenn discussed queer revisions, and Maia McAleavey explored new theories of relationality, while I gave a response to Armstrong's talk. Meanwhile, Carolyn Oulton's discussion of the ongoing struggle to canonize Victorian women writers spoke to the continuous work required to make Victorian women's writing familiar to the field. It was an emotional day, for we all recognized that this might be one of the last times that the founding generation could be together to share these stories.

scholarly journals Political News Discourse Analysis Based on an Attitudinal Perspective of the Appraisal Theory—Taking the New York Times’ Report China-DPRK Relations as an Example

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinxiu Jin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
North Korea ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship among China, the United States and North Korea has already been a focus of international politics. From June 19 to 20, North Korea leader Kim Jong-un ended his third visit to China within 100 days. This is also his three consecutive visits to China since he took office in December 2011. The high density and frequency are not only rare in the history of China-DPRK relations, but also seem to be unique in the history of international relations, indicating that China-DPRK relations are welcoming new era. This paper selects the New York Times’ report on China-DPRK relations as an example, which is based on an attitudinal perspective of the appraisal theory to analyze American attitudes toward China. Attitudes are positive and negative, explicit and implicit. Whether the attitude is good or not depends on the linguistic meaning of expressing attitude. The meaning of language is positive, and the attitude of expression is positive; the meaning of language is negative, and the attitude of expression is negative. The study found that most of the attitude resources are affect (which are always negative affect), which are mainly realized through such means as lexical, syntactical and rhetorical strategies implicitly or explicitly. All these negative evaluations not only help construct a discourse mode for building the bad image of China but also are not good to China-DPRK relations. The United States wants to tarnish image of China and destroy the relationship between China and North Korea by its political news discourse.

scholarly journals A crise do jornalismo: ecos e silêncios nas práticas e nas narrativas

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christa Liselote Berger Ramos Kuschick ◽  
Vanessa Hauser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Reference ◽  
History Of Journalism

Pesquisadores e jornalistas dedicam-se a compreender que tensionamentos abalam o sistema de produção de sentido que até então ostentava certa hegemonia como discurso que representa um presente social de referência (GOMIS, 1999). Este artigo reflete sobre o modo como a crise do jornalismo tem aparecido nos discursos e nas práticas da própria imprensa. A suspeita inicial é a de que a crise configura-se em acontecimento silenciado pela mídia hegemônica. Por outro lado, inevitavelmente ela transparece também nas práticas jornalísticas, uma vez que tem atingido de forma intensa a estrutura de funcionamento das redações. Além disso, tem provocado os jornalistas a reverem suas competências e o campo a transformar - de certo modo - seus pressupostos e modos de fazer.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: crise do jornalismo; práticas; hegemonia; futuro do jornalismo.  ABSTRACTResearchers and journalists are dedicated to understand the tensions that shake the production system of journalism, which has had certain hegemony as social reference speech  (GOMIS, 1999). This article reflects on how the crisis journalism has appeared in speeches and in the press itself practices. The initial suspicion is that the crisis sets in muted event by the mainstream media. Moreover, it inevitably also transpires in newspaper practice, once it has reached the working structure of essays. It has caused journalists to review their skills and transform the field - in a way - their assumptions and ways of doing.KEYWORDS: journalism crisis; practices; hegemony; future of journalism. RESUMENLos investigadores y periodistas se dedican a entender las tensiones que sacuden el sistema de producción de sentidos del periodismo que hasta ahora se jactó cierta hegemonia. En este artículo se reflexiona sobre cómo ha aparecido la crisis del periodismo en los discursos y en las prácticas de la prensa. La sospecha inicial es que la crisis ha sido silenciada por los grandes medios. Por otra parte, inevitablemente también transpira en la práctica periódistica, una vez que ha alcanzado la estructura de trabajo de las salas de prensa. Además, se ha provocado a los periodistas a revisar sus habilidades y transformar el campo - de una manera - sus supuestos y formas de hacer.PALABRAS CLAVE: crisis del periodismo; prácticas; la hegemonía; futuro del periodismo. ReferênciasBLANCHAR, Clara. 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Brasília: Editora UnB, 2013.LAFUENTE, Gumersindo. A melhor maneira de fazer jornalismo é pela internet: entrevista com Gumersindo Lafuente Parte 1. In: MAROCCO, Beatriz. O jornalista e a prática: entrevistas. São Leopoldo: Editora Unisinos, 2012, p. 211-218.______. ¿Como hemos llegado hasta aquí? Cuadernos de Comunicación Evoca, Madrid, 2012.LEAL, Bruno Sousa et. all. A "crise do jornalismo": o que ela afirma, o que ela esquece. Encontro Nacional de História da Mídia, Ouro Preto (MG), 2013. Anais...Ouro Preto, 2013. Disponível em: < http://www.ufrgs.br/alcar/encontros-nacionais-1/9o-encontro-2013/artigos/gt-historia-do-jornalismo/a-201ccrise201d-do-jornalismo-o-que-ela-afirma-o-que-ela-esquece >. Acesso em 20 de junho de 2014.NOBRE, Marcos. Notícia em Crise. Folha de S. Paulo, 2008.NOCI, Javier Díaz. A History of Journalism on the Internet: A state of the art and some methodological trends. Revista Internacional de Historia de la Comunicación, n. 1, 2013, p. 253-272.______.Definición teórica de las características del ciberperiodismo: elementos de la comunicacion digital. Doxa Comunicación, n. 6, 2008, p. 53 - 91.PAVLIK, John. Entretenimento e informação no envolvimento da audiência (entrevista a Andriolli Costa). Revista do Instituto Humanitas Unisinos. São Leopoldo: Unisinos, 2014.RAMONET, Ignacio. A explosão do jornalismo: das mídias de massa à massa de mídias. São Paulo: Publisher Brasil, 2012.SEIBT, Taís. Redação Integrada: a experiência do jornal Zero Hora no processo de convergência jornalística. 2014. 135 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Comunicação, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos. São Leopoldo, 2014.STEPHENS, Mitchell. Beyond News: The Futuro of Journalism. New York: Columbia, 2014.THE NEW YORK TIMES. Inovation. 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The Language of Conflict in the Focus of Quantitative Content Analysis of the USA Press Reports (on the Example of New York Times Article Archive for the Period from 1851 to 2019)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
M. Chekunova
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of

The presented article tests the application of the method of quantitative content analysis to identify the spread of confrontational tendencies in the public consciousness. It proves the broad possibilities of monitoring and forecasting conflicts in society on the basis of it. The source base of the study was the archives of the New York Times newspaper for the period from 1851 to 2019. The author calculated the number of used indicative conflict-containing lexemes, the integrated dynamics of which expresses the coefficient of confrontation. The coefficient of confrontation correlates with the dynamics of conflicts in the history of the United States and the world, explanations of the increase and decrease of the corresponding indicators are given. The maximum phases of the confrontation coefficient fall on the period of the Second World War and the modern period. Modern maximization is viewed as a significant threat to the security of Russian society.

The Secular Appropriation of Hasidism by an East European Jewish Intellectual: Dubnow, Renan, and the Besht

2004 ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Robert M. Seltzer
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Common People ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
East European ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
The 19Th Century

This chapter studies the role that Hasidism played in the thought of the modernized Jewish intelligentsia of Eastern Europe toward the end of the 19th century. Simon Dubnow played a pivotal role in the emergence of this new image of Hasidism. In his autobiography, Dubnow describes in some detail the influence on him at that time of Leo Tolstoy and Ernest Renan. The influence of Renan's History of Christianity is quite evident in the structure of Dubnow's History of Hasidism as well as in some of Dubnow's solutions to problems of interpretation. Like Renan, Dubnow opened with a discussion of the social and intellectual background of a movement that can be traced to a founder known only for a long time through oral sources which retained the character of legend or saga. Applying Renan's statement that such pious biographies have a historical core, Dubnow stripped the life of the Baal Shem Tov, as recorded in the Shivhei ha-Besht, of its supernatural elements to reveal a simple, humble man who loved nature, especially the forests of the Carpathian mountains; a man who had immense affection for the common people and disdain for the proud, aloof scholars of his time and who preached a lofty doctrine of religious pantheism and universal brotherhood.

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