Blowing up “the World” in World Anthropologies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penelope Papailias ◽  
Pamila Gupta
Keyword(s):  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-390
Author(s):  
Kristina Stankevičiūtė

The world of fashion has lived in a bubble long before the concept found its way into social networks. Well before the social networks themselves, in fact. The very emergence of fashion as an idea occurred within the bubble of the social life at Palace of Versailles, France, where the notorious Louis XIV sported great interest in the looks of his court in addition to those of his own. The article is an outsider’s attempt to have a sober look at the fashion industry that until recently seemed to have maintained the “structure of feeling” of the 17th century Palace of Versailles. Today’s social realities, however, put fashion in the state of a shock that probably equals that of the Storming of the Bastille in 1789, even though it is presumably much less sudden. Written in the manner of the most popular contemporary fashion media format – a bullet list, the text presents a conceptual analysis of the world’s second most wasteful yet poisonously attractive industry, critically reflecting on such characteristic values of the fashion field as concept and features, hierarchy, arrogance, resources and philosophy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 335-408
Author(s):  
Dmitry A. Yuriev

Spengler predicted “Decline of the Western world” itself, but not its results: he expected a long (200–300 years) process of cultural transformation of mankind. But today the Western solipsistic and nihilistic civilization with frightening speed becomes a suicidal civilization, capable of blowing up the approaching post-Western future according to the principle “if I can’t have you, nobody can!” Russia must and can become the nucleus of this post-Western future crystallization – a harmonious, multipolar future based on the sense of truth (Pravda) in which all its sovereign creators (Russia, and possibly China, Latin America, India and all reasonable humanity) will save our planet from the man-made collapse.


2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Valeriy Nikolaevich Turitsyn ◽  
Valery Nikolayevich Turitsyn

Since the French "nouvelle vague" of the late 1950s the world cinema has experienced a succession of "waves" which first rolled around some European countries and by blowing up cinematic traditions to this or that extent, led to the birth of the so-called "new cinema" (e.g. in Czechoslovakia or in Germany in the 1960s - 1970s). In Finland the similar process in its local variant occurred in the 1980s. For the most part it was connected with the Kaurismaki brothers' films, primarily with the works of the younger brother, Aki. By the early 1990s he became one of the renowned masters of not only Finnish but the "new European cinema". This article doesn't aspire to give a full detailed analysis of Aki Kaurismaki's film career. Instead, by concentrating on two "polar" films made by this original director, it presents an attempt to line out the range of his creative work and some characteristics of his poetics


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.


2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.


2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazim Keven

Abstract Hoerl & McCormack argue that animals cannot represent past situations and subsume animals’ memory-like representations within a model of the world. I suggest calling these memory-like representations as what they are without beating around the bush. I refer to them as event memories and explain how they are different from episodic memory and how they can guide action in animal cognition.


1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rybák ◽  
V. Rušin ◽  
M. Rybanský

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.


Popular Music ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-245
Author(s):  
Inez H. Templeton
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  

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