Looking Forward: Integrated Participation in the Process of Change

1980 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
David P. Weikart
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
As If

Creating change in traditional practices or introducing service where none exists is a delicate and time-consuming exercise requiring commitment, skill, and patience by those who aspire to such goals. The record of success by those who try is limited, and many can recount their personal and professional frustrations. It seems as if the flow of history with its ebb tides of myth and practice holds more force than the power of rational attacks on clusters of problems through systematic research and development. The power of the information wrested from such efforts seems pale beside the inertia of the system which endlessly generates the issues that call for resolution. Yet change occurs, projects succeed, new techniques are adopted, and even obstinate bureaucracies evolve in response to persistent and focused efforts to force key issues and enthusiasms to the surface. Citizens involved in creative change must be prepared to labor toward small goals that only gradually yield to larger attainments. Over the past several decades of change throughout the world, a variety of lessons have been learned about such processes, and a consensus seems to be emerging that will encourage those persistent enough to remain at their stations. This paper will touch briefly on some of these lessons.

Poetosphere and mythopoetics of the estate in A.A. Blok’s dramatic poem “Song of Fate”

2020 ◽  
pp. 186-205
Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Kuznetsova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
White House ◽  
Modern City ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Hill ◽  
As If

As it noted by the researchers, the “Song of fate” accumulates painful thoughts of A.A. Blok about the fate of Russia and about his personal fate associat ed with the past, present and future of the Motherland. In addition to the ideological problems raised in it, the poem is interesting in an attempt to escape from the specifics of historical and national-cultural realities through their symbolization, combining the plans of life and being. The white house with a garden on the hill, in which the action of the play begins and the return to which is implied at the end, incorporates the most important features of Russia as a cultural, natural and spiritual space. The world of the estate is opposed by the space of the modern city and the big world of Russian open spaces. However, the estate for Blok is Russia the same. Therefore, Elena, the keeper of the estate, and Faina, the personalization of the world element, are two parts of one whole, as if the projection of an ideal Russia. The plot of the “Song of fate”, accord ing to D.M. Magomedova, I.S. Prikhodko, etc., is an artistic realization of the Gnostic myth of the captive Sophia, the Soul of the world. The imposition of the Gnostic myth in the “Song of fate” on the entire existing in Russian literature of the XIX century poetosphere of the estate leads to the creation of the author’s myth about Russia, the transformation of poetosphere in the mythopoetics.

Matrix

2011 ◽  
pp. 882-884
Author(s):  
Irina Aristarkhova
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Maternal Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
And Gender ◽  
As If

1. Matrix = Womb. 2. The Matrix is everywhere, it’s all around us, here, even in this room. You can see it out your window, or on your television. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth ... that you, like everyone else, was born into bondage ... kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste or touch. A prison for your mind. A Matrix. (Wachowski & Wachowski, 1999) 3. What is Matrix? Simply ... the “big Other,” the virtual symbolic order, the network that structures reality for us. (S. Zizek, 1999) What is Matrix? In the past years, the notion of the Matrix has become dominant in figurations of cyberspace. It seems as if it is the most desirable, the most contemporary and fitting equation; however, its gendered etymology is rarely obvious. On the opposite, the gender of the matrix as a notion and term has been systematically negated in such disciplines as mathematics, engineering, film studies or psychoanalysis. It is necessary thus to explore and critique the Matrix as a most “fitting” metaphor in/for cyberspace that has conceived it (cyberspace) as a free and seamless space very much like the maternal body (Aristarkhova, 2002). The challenge today, therefore, is to reintroduce the maternal as one of embodied encounters with difference, to recover the sexual difference and gender in the notion of matrix with reference to cyberspace and information technologies that support it.

scholarly journals Divine-Human Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Evil

Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Bracken
Keyword(s):  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Moral Evil ◽  
Natural Evil ◽  
Causal Powers ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Oriented Approach

Abstract The use of the interrelated terms divine primary causality and creaturely secondary causality to describe the God-world relationship presents problems to Christian philosophers and theologians in dealing with two key issues: first, the freedom of human beings (and to some extent other finite entities) to exercise their own causal powers in independence of Divine Providence for the world of creation; secondly, the responsibility of God and all creatures for the existence of natural evil and the corresponding responsibility of God and human beings for the existence of moral evil in this world. After reviewing some of the ways these issues have been dealt with in the past, the author offers his own solution in terms of a Neo-Whiteheadian systems-oriented approach to the God-world relationship with emphasis on a reciprocal causal relationship between God and creatures so as conjointly to bring about everything that happens in this world.

scholarly journals “Act-as-if you are infected and infectious”: what has the global therapeutic community movement learnt from COVID-19?

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 129-135
Author(s):  
Helena Gosling ◽  
Rowdy Yates
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
International Learning ◽  
Learning Event ◽  
Community Movement ◽  
As If

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to reflect upon what the global therapeutic community (TC) movement has learnt from coronavirus and to consider how TCs will continue to adapt and evolve in a post-pandemic climate. Design/methodology/approach This is a viewpoint paper based on the authors’ participation in an international learning event whereby speakers from TCs from around the world spoke about how they adapted their services to overcome adversity. Findings The findings are usefully thought out as shelter, creativity, reintegration and employment, technology and roots. Based on the material discussed in the learning event, it would seem that the global TC movement has engaged in a process of looking to the past to move forward by drawing upon founding principles and prescriptions of the TC tradition, rooted in humanistic and indeed humanitarian responses to staff, client and sociocultural needs. Originality/value According to the author, this paper is one of the first attempts to capture how TCs from across the globe have responded to the threat of coronavirus.

scholarly journals Innovation Management: The Past, Present and Future of the Market

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Alecusan ◽  
Andrei Dimitrescu
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rank Number ◽  
Income Statement ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Expenditure ◽  
Industry Sectors

AbstractThe paper presents aspects of innovation management, important issues based on literature and studies by Boston Consulting Group (USA). The case study lays on the survey made by BCG on 1500 subjects all over the world from all the industry sectors. The paper studies the importance of innovation management and makes predictions for research and development expenditure for Top4, Apple, Google, Tesla Motors and Microsoft, without taking into account rank number 5, Samsung, because the official income statement was in Korean Won.

scholarly journals Diary from Sri Lanka's east coast: departure

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 387-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Rose
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
East Coast ◽  
The Other ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Fatal Attack ◽  
As If

The day I leave Ampara on Sri Lanka's east coast, a wild elephant kills a woman and severely injures two others on the road near my house. This is the second fatal attack in town this year and, as before, the animal is rounded up and bundled back to the jungle in a truck. The incident seems to encapsulate something important about the nature of Sri Lanka: dark forces coiled beneath an appearance of calm. In the past month, for example, three security guards have been gunned down at hospitals in Ampara, Batticaloa and Sammanthurai. Yet the world of crisp nursing bonnets and clinical order remains intact throughout. No one knows who the killers were or how they chose their victims, but in this smoke and mirror conflict, rumours are fuelled of a final push by one side or the other. Then nothing happens, just more of the same, daily isolated encounters, as if it were in no one's interest to go for all-out war. Meanwhile the world's attention moves on to Lebanon.

scholarly journals PROSES PEMBENTUKAN KOMUNITAS MUSLIM INDONESIA

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Mirhan AM
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Community ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
As If

This paper is a study in mapping out more about the process of formation of the Muslim community in Indonesia. History is a reconstruct of the past. It seems as if the past was to be away from the present. Is it true that this view. We borrow the Kuntowijoyo’s words: “Historians are like people take who takes the train to look back, and he can freely turn to the right and to the left, which can not be done is to look ahead”. History is a valuable clue, a picture of the past that can be used as guidelines in stride, present and future. The Indonesian Islam history has significance for this nation generation. Because it has its own characteristics compared to the history of Islam in other countries. It can give the feel of the real Islam in Indonesia. The Indonesian Islam is an Islamic hue promising future in the era of globalization. Thus, Indonesian Islam will be in focus in the eyes of the world. In this description, the writer describes the entry and the development of Islam in Indonesia with discussion; process and the introduction of Islam to Indonesia, acceptance by indigenous and institutionalization of Islam in society. Then, point the establishment of Islam in Indonesia, as well as the transformation of Indonesia society

scholarly journals New data on the Roman temporary camps in Șureanu Mountains

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 63-88
Author(s):  
Felix Marcu ◽  
◽  
Máté Szabó ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Landscape Archaeology ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Roman Army ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Conflict Archaeology ◽  
North West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

The conflict archaeology topic is a challenge all over the world, developing in the past ten years simultaneously with the new techniques in understanding the past and use of high‑resolution recordings of cultural heritage. Besides, in close relation with the topic of conflict archaeology is continuously improved the methodology of another sub‑domain, the landscape archaeology, with great results in the last couple of years, important here are the discovery of many new temporary camps in Germany and north west of the Iberian Peninsula. Especially the last ones are similar in shape and positioning with the Roman camps in Șureanu Mountains, though each has its own uniqueness. These reveal in a very special way the Roman army strategy in one of the most important conflicts of the Roman Empire in an alpine area.

Different by design

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Mike Martin ◽  
Renate Fruchter ◽  
Humberto Cavallin ◽  
Ann Heylighen
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
University Of California ◽  
International Context ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The University ◽  
Engineering Schools

AbstractIt is generally known that architectural practice relies heavily on the interactions between architects and other professionals. However, during their formal education, most students attending architecture schools, and engineering schools for that matter, get very little (if any) exposure to decision making in conditions that involve expertise and/or worldviews beyond those reflected and valued by their own discipline. In the past 10 years, a project-based learning initiative was developed between the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University in an international context involving several other universities around the world. Throughout this experience, we have identified several issues that have shown to be crucial to these interactions. This paper elaborates on three key issues: improvement of communication skills, empowerment through developing strategies of leadership, and recognition of own and others' worldviews. We also make the case to include experiential educational situations that can introduce these aspects into the academic curricula of architecture and engineering schools.

The Facticity of Time

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-206
Author(s):  
G. Anthony Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Argument ◽  
Logical System ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
As If

In the 1830s, Schelling attributes to Hegel the pretense of constructing a logical system with total justification, as if it were obvious why there is a system or, indeed, anything rational or meaningful at all. The questions of why there is reason or meaning are permutations of the question ‘why is there something rather than nothing’. This question is emblematic of Schelling’s Hegel-critique and the source of his claim that reason is not self-justifying, but bounded by something other. What sort of claim is this? I argue that it is the conclusion to a transcendental argument in the Ages of the World, which holds that the past and future are conditions of the possibility of reason. This argument represents the past as the decision to construct a system and the future as the purpose guiding this construction. Schelling’s claim against Hegel that reason is bounded by something other thus results from discovering reason’s inescapable presuppositions.

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