scholarly journals Fikcja jako „dybuk”

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1(70)) ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Marek Kaźmierczak
Keyword(s):  
Short Introduction ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cognitive Frame

Fiction as a „dybbuk”. Remarks about the „Adherence” of the Past to the Present in the Context of the Film Titled Demon Directed by Marcin Wrona The article remarks about the „adherence” of the past to the present in the context of the film, Demon directed by Marcin Wrona showing that the influence of fiction on memory brings about a lot of changes in the cognition of the relations between the past and the present. The author of the paper suggests that we could or should treat fiction as the cognitive frame of the relations between the past and the present. To be able to strengthen his hypothesis, he analyzes and interprets the film created in the horror genre, which shows complicated Jewish-Polish relations. The article is a short introduction to the theory of fiction as the cognitive frame of memory.

War and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolyon Mitchell ◽  
Joshua Rey
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Just War ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Religious People ◽  
Ethical Frameworks ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

War and Religion: A Very Short Introduction traces the history of religion and war. Is religion a force for war or a force for peace? From the crusades to Sri Lanka's civil war, religion has been involved in some of the most terrible wars in history. Yet from the Mahabharata to just war theory, religion has also provided ethical frameworks to moderate war, while some of the bravest pacifists have been deeply religious people. Ranging from ancient history to modern day conflicts, this VSI offers a nuanced view on these issues that have had such weight in the past, and which continue to shape the present and future.

The DAMA project

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (31) ◽  
pp. 1642001 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Bernabei
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Beta Decay ◽  
Rare Event ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Low Background ◽  
The Past

The DAMA project at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of the I.N.F.N. has realized and developed many low background scintillators for rare event searches, as investigation of Dark Matter, double beta decay, etc. A short introduction to the project and a summary of the past and present activities will be given here.

Reptiles: A Very Short Introduction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Dry Land ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Reptile Species ◽  
Living Species ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Ways Of Life

Reptiles: A Very Short Introduction introduces the extraordinary diversity of reptiles that have walked the Earth, from the dinosaurs and other reptiles of the past to modern-day living species. It discusses the adaptations reptiles made to first leave the water and colonize dry land, which fitted them for their unique ways of life. Considering the variety of different living groups of reptiles today, from lizards and snakes to crocodiles and turtles, it explores their biology and behaviour. Finally, this VSI assesses the threat of extinction to modern-day reptile species due to over-exploitation, habitat destruction, and climate change, and considers what can be done.

scholarly journals Archaeology in Public and Media: A short introduction to theoretical premises of the dialogue on heritage

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 597
Author(s):  
Ivan Vranić
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
General Public ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
The Many ◽  
Social Memories

Along with many different definitions of archaeology, from the inception of the discipline to the present, it may be valid to assert that it is a kind of complex dialogue on heritage with the public of contemporary societies. In this dialogue, archaeologists have directly constructed social memories and modern identities, this being an exceptional responsibility, and have at the same time been susceptible to ethnocentric transfers of modern values and expectations into the images of the past. In this respect, it may well be said that the public is not only the most important consumer of cultural heritage, but also an active participant indirectly influencing the shaping of archaeological interpretations of the past. Thanks to the global trends in the discipline, but also due to the administrative decisions of the Ministry of Culture and Information, archaeology in Serbia is compelled to intensify contacts with the public and to make the results of our work more readily accessible and economically sustainable. The paper aims to offer a short overview of theoretical premises of various models of collaboration of archaeology and the public, to point to the advantages and shortcomings, as well as the consequences of these approaches, thus warning of the many potential problems stemming from the uncritical dissemination of information on the past and heritage to the general public.

scholarly journals Spanish Civil War Horror and Regional Trauma

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-34
Author(s):  
Xavier Aldana Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Military Forces

Abstract This article unpacks the cultural work that Juan Carlos Medina’s Insensibles, released in English as Painless, carries out in relation to Spain’s modern history and argues that the film’s painless children are an allegory of the country’s postdictatorship generations. The rendering of fascism as monstrous is less interesting than the connection of insensitivity to the Pacto del Olvido (Pact of Forgetting) and its suppression of painful memory. The fact that the children speak Catalan is a significant overlooked aspect, because Catalonia was the last region to succumb to Nationalist military forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) and is known for its independentist fervor. A regionalist reading of the film does not simply connect the present and the past; it proposes that the children of the war mediate Spain’s current troubled relationship with historical trauma and act as an artistic response to centralist ideas of a unified and stable nation-state. Such a rethinking demonstrates that the horror genre continues to offer a language of anxiety capable of negotiating and contributing to debates around the importance of national accountability, war reparations, and the condemnation of genocide.​

Innovation: A Very Short Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Dodgson ◽  
David Gann
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Work And Employment

What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation: A Very Short Introduction looks at what innovation is and why it affects us so profoundly. It examines how it occurs, who stimulates it, how it is pursued, its outcomes—both positive and negative—and how it plays an essential role in economic and social development. Considering innovation today, and discussing future disruptive technologies such as AI, which have important implications for work and employment, this VSI considers the extent to which our understanding of innovation has developed over the past century and how it might be used to interpret the global economy.

Watch A Few Movies, Make A Few Notes: Scream’s Layer Cake of References

Scream ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Steven West
Keyword(s):  
Horror Genre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Layer Cake ◽  
Genre Films

This chapter describes how Halloween is referenced throughout Wes Craven's Scream as the definitive slasher text in its own time that was received by some critics as a genre-savvy confidence trick in its own right. It notes the numerous references to Halloween in Scream as an example of periods rewriting the past to create their own heritage, consequently imposing understandings from the present on to the past. It also emphasizes how it became common for 1980s American horror cinema to playfully incorporate references to past-genre films via excerpts, character names, or dialogue quotes. The chapter talks about how Scream is sceptical about the horror genre as a whole, openly highlighting the weaknesses of the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels and critiquing its exploitation of young actresses. It explores Halloween's main purpose in Scream's narrative that is climactically used to mirror the onscreen action in the film.

Delusion and Mood Disorders

2018 ◽  
pp. 752-768
Author(s):  
Otto Doerr-Zegers
Keyword(s):  
Mood Disorders ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Severe Form ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Delusional Depression ◽  
Typus Melancholicus ◽  
Nosological Entity ◽  
Depressive Patients

After a short introduction, in which definition and epidemiology of delusional ideas in mood disorders are described, the author attempts to develop a psychopathology of these delusions. Next, the author tackles one of the biggest problems delusional depression poses: is it a different nosological entity respecting the non-delusional depression? European psychiatry tends to deny this independence, considering it a severe form of depression. The question should instead be why some depressive patients have delusions and others do not. Following Blankenburg, 1991, the author postulates that some depressive patients have guilt delusions, because in the past they have committed some transgressions which contradict the characteristics of their typus melancholicus personality. Some examples of this link, from the author’s own clinical experience, are presented. In the last section the author develops a phenomenology of delusional depression a propos of a case of nihilistic (Cotard’s) syndrome.

Imbuing Futures and Time with Agency and Urgency: Reframing Concepts for a Planetary Emergency

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Gidley
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
First Century ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Time Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between concepts of time and concepts of futures has been in an ever-changing and dynamic evolution for thousands of years. Yet, time has been relatively underexplored in the futures studies literature until recently. Furthermore, the transdisciplinary fields of “time studies” and “futures studies” have operated in relative isolation within the siloism of twentieth- and twenty-first-century academia. This article draws substantially from my recent book The Future: A Very Short Introduction, which places this piece into the larger historical context of what we humans have done in the past with these deeply interwoven concepts. I discuss here how we relate to them today, and what is emerging regarding new concepts of futures and time in our current era. By understanding how humans in the past have storied and framed both time and the future, we can gain a deeper appreciation of the significance of time consciousness on futures thinking.

Jón Leifs (1899–1968)

Tempo ◽  
1999 ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Pickard
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Piano Music ◽  
String Quartets ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Choral Works ◽  
The Past ◽  
Orchestral Works ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
Sizeable Number ◽  
Local Significance

This year sees the centenary (on 1 May) of the birth of the composer Jón Leifs. Had it fallen just a few years earlier the occasion would have attracted virtually no attention outside his native Iceland, but over the past four years a series of CD recordings, mainly from the Swedish label BIS, has done much to establish Leifs as a figure of far more than local significance. His output included three string quartets, piano music, songs, choral works (both accompanied and unaccompanied) a sizeable number of short orchestral works, an organ concerto, oratorios and the first ever symphony composed by an Icelander. The creative personality emerging with each new recording is among the most radical and original of the 20th century and this article is intended as a short introduction to the music of this remarkable composer.

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