scholarly journals Religious and quasi-religious attitudes in four Polish documentaries from 2008–2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (39) ◽  
pp. 139-155
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Kopczyński
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Religious Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship

The paper aims to present different ways of showing religious and quasi-religious attitudes in contemporary Polish documentaries. The discussion is based on four feature-length films: Kites by Beata Dzianowicz (2008), Communion by Anna Zamecka (2016), Who Will Write Our History by Roberta Grossman (2018), and Tell No One by Tomasz Sekielski (2019). The author evaluates the methodological usefulness of reflection in the documentary of the “religious film” category used in Polish research and the concept of “transcendent(al) style” taken from Paul Schrader’s book. Occasionally touching upon the question of the relationship with audiences, the author also mentions the paradigm of Polish Romanticism present in contemporary culture.

scholarly journals The woman had to fall? Jean-Baptiste Clamence and the literary infection by evil

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
Maciej Kałuża
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Severe Trauma ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Social Evil ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents the concept of evil, as developed in the literary as well as philosophical works of Albert Camus. After a short, preliminary notice on the relationship between literature and evil, the article presents two spheres, in which the problem of evil was grasped by the author of The Rebel. In the main part of the article, the complexity of the problem of evil, as represented by Jean-Baptiste Clamence from The Fall is shown. It is seen as a development of the concept of evil from The Plague, with the potency to disseminate onto others. It is also perceived, as something resulting from severe trauma of the main character. In conclusion, I claim, that the problem of evil, as experienced by Clamence may be understood as a still relevant metaphor of contemporary culture, struggling with passivity against the rise of social evil.

scholarly journals РАСПРЕДЕЛЁННАЯ ОБРАЗНОСТЬ: ИМАГИНАТИВНЫЕ ПРАКТИКИ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya Inishev
Keyword(s):  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Normative Claim ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Regime Characteristic

В статье идёт речь о формах образного, которые во всё возрастающей степени становятся характерными для современной культуры. Центральная характеристика этих форм – распределённость в пространстве и времени, их способность сопровождать нас практически повсеместно, не будучи привязанными к каким-либо организационным формам. Распределённые разновидности образного противопоставляются «традиционным», нераспределённым образам, «репрезентирующим» некоторое идентифицируемое содержание. Одна из базовых черт нераспределенного образного – заключённое в нём нормативное притязание, затрагивающее не только способы его интерпретации, но и телесные практики воспринимающего «субъекта», релевантные для его восприятия. В отличие от репрессивного характера нераспределённого образа, являющегося его структурной характеристикой, связанной с характерным для него режимом восприятия, распределённая образность базируется не на редукции и контроле телесности воспринимающего, но – напротив – на интенсификации (и в этом смысле эмансипации) его эмоционально-телесного самоприсутствия. В диахронической перспективе отношение между нераспределённой и распределённой образностью опосредовано сложной социально-исторической и материально-технологической динамикой развитого и позднего модерна. Реконструкция этой динамики позволяет выстроить генетическую связь (континуальность) между нераспределённой и распределённой образностью. В синхронической перспективе распределённая и нераспределенная разновидности образности генерируют несовместимые типы опыта с взаимоисключающими структурными характеристиками и социально-политическими импликациями (дискретность).Main theme of the article are the types of imagery becoming increasingly characteristic of contemporary culture. The core feature of these types is their being distributed across time and space, their ability to accompany us virtually everywhere, without being tied to any organizational form. Distributed imagery opposes “traditional”, non-distributed images “representing” some identifiable subject-matter. One of the essential traits of non-distributed imagery is its normative claim addressing not only the ways of its interpretation but also bodily practices of the perceiving subject, relevant for experiencing images of this kind. In contrast to the inherent oppressiveness of non-distributed image connected to a perceptual regime characteristic of it, the distributed imagery draws not on reduction and control of body of the perceiving subject but – on the contrary – on intensifying (and in this sense, on emancipating) its bodily emotional self-presence. From a diachronic point of view, the relationship between distributed and non-distributed imageries is mediated by quite a complicated socio-historical and material-technological dynamic of the developed and late modernity. Reconstruction of this dynamic enables us to identify the genetic interrelation (continuity) between non-distributed and distributed imagery. From a synchronic point of view, distributed and non-distributed imagery forms generate incompatible experience types with mutually exclusive structural characteristics and social-political implications (discontinuity).

scholarly journals Naturecultures? Science, Affect and the Non-human

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 5-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Latimer ◽  
Mara Miele
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Affective Dimension ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Animal Welfare Science ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Radical Shift

Rather than focus on effects, the isolatable and measureable outcomes of events and interventions, the papers assembled here offer different perspectives on the affective dimension of the meaning and politics of human/non-human relations. The authors begin by drawing attention to the constructed discontinuity between humans and non-humans, and to the kinds of knowledge and socialities that this discontinuity sustains, including those underpinned by nature-culture, subject-object, body-mind, individual-society polarities. The articles presented track human/non-human relations through different domains, including: humans/non-humans in history and animal welfare science (Fudge and Buller); the relationship between the way we live, the effects on our natural environment and contested knowledges about ‘nature’ (Whatmore); choreographies of everyday life and everyday science practices with non-human animals such as horses, meerkats, mice, and wolves (Latimer, Candea, Davies, Despret). Each paper also goes on to offer different perspectives on the human/non-human not just as division, or even as an asymmetrical relation, but as relations that are mutually affective, however invisible and inexpressible in the domain of science. Thus the collection contributes to new epistemologies/ontologies that undercut the usual ordering of relations and their dichotomies, particularly in that dominant domain of contemporary culture that we call science. Indeed, in their impetus to capture ‘affect’, the collection goes beyond the usual turn towards a more inclusive ontology, and contributes to the radical shift in the epistemology and philosophy of science’s terms of engagement.

scholarly journals Readymade Code: Braille in Contemporary Visual Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Warne
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Design Element ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Relationship

This essay examines the proliferation of enlarged braille as a design element in contemporary culture. Exploring the relationship between the enlargement of braille and the use of braille as a code, I explore the cultural appropriation of braille by sighted creators who are not interested in blind people's reading and writing experiences but who value instead the temporary obfuscation of written messages created for sighted people. The essay also discusses two art installations noteworthy for their tactical use of enlarged braille to critique the ocularcentrism of contemporary culture, a culture that is actively repurposing braille as a puzzle for sighted people to solve.

scholarly journals A VALLÁSOS ATTITŰDÖK KLASSZIFIKÁCIÓJA AZ ÉRTELEMMEGÉLÉS ÉS AZ ASPIRÁCIÓK TÜKRÉBEN

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-192
Author(s):  
Gergely Bence ◽  
Zábó Virág ◽  
Martos Tamás ◽  
Vargha András
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Cluster Solution ◽  
Centroid Method ◽  
Religious Attitudes ◽  
External Variables ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Classic Pattern ◽  
Belief Scale ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Relationship

Háttér és célkitűzésekA wulffi elméletet alapul vevő Kritika Utáni Vallásosság skála két dimenzión alapuló kiértékelése (Martos, Kézdy, Robu, Urbán és Horváth-Szabó, 2009) lehetőséget nyújt egy újfajta vallásosságtipológia létrehozására. Kutatásunk célja az volt, hogy a vallás iránti attitűdöket személyorientált statisztikai eljárások segítségével vizsgáljuk annak érdekében, hogy a valláshoz való személyes viszonyulás differenciáltabb típusait tárjuk fel.MódszerHierarchikus agglomeratív és k-központú klaszteranalízist végeztünk el egy 1417 fős és egy 506 fős mintán, majd megbízhatóságát centroid módszerrel és egy újfajta validálási eljárással ellenőriztük (vö. Vargha, Bergman és Takács, 2016), majd a létrejövő klaszterstruktúrákat vizsgáltuk az értelemmegélés és értelemkeresés, valamint az aspirációk tükrében.EredményekAz eredmények szerint azonosítható egy megbízható 7 klaszteres struktúra. A feltárt klasz- terek között megjelent a szakirodalom által sugallt klasszikus négy attitűddel közel azonos mintázat (Ortodoxia, Külső Kritika, Relativizmus, Második Naivitás). Három további típus kimutatása hozzájárult ahhoz, hogy a vallás iránti egyéni viszonyulásokról árnyaltabb képet tárjunk fel.KövetkeztetésekAz Ortodoxia és a Második Naivitás csoportba tartozók kedvezőbb, a Külső Kritika csoportjába tartozók kedvezőtlenebb pontszámot érnek el az értelemmegélés és -keresés, illetve az aspirációk tekintetében. A transzcendencia befogadása az értelmesség megélésének pozitív előrejezője.Based on Wulffs theorem the two dimensional evaluation of the Post Critical belief scale presents a valuable opportunity to create a typology of religious attitudes. The main goal of the research was to explore different types of attitudes towards religiosity in a person-oriented framework. We performed a hierarchical agglomerative and k-means cluster analysis in two distinct samples (one with 1417 and one with 506 participants), and verified the results with centroid-method and a new validation process (Vargha, Bergman & Takács, 2016). Furthermore we examined the relationship between the given cluster structures and the presence of/ searching for meaning in life, and the intrinsic/extrinsic aspirations. The results show that there is a reliable underlying 7-cluster solution in both samples. The explored cluster structures include the classic pattern of religious attitudes (Orthodoxy, External Critique, Relativism, Second Naivité), moreover it expands the model with three additional types. The members of the Orthodoxy and Second Naivité clusters had higher scores, while the External Critique group had lower scores in the given external variables. The inclusion of transcendence is in a positive relationship with presence of meaning in life.

scholarly journals What Drives Consumer Satisfaction in Using Islamic Financial Technology?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Cahyaning Budi Utami ◽  
Slamet Slamet
Keyword(s):  
Brand Equity ◽  
Consumer Satisfaction ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Religious Attitudes ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Financial Technology

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between attitude toward Islamic financial technology as specific religious attitude and consumer based brand equity as market driven variable toward consumer satisfaction in Islamic financial technology. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from users of online service of Islamic financial technology in Indonesia. Incidental sampling method was adopted to collect data from the existing users. Regression analysis was used to test the proposed research model. This study become the first research how specific religious attitudes and market driven affect the consumer satisfaction. This research is a survey-based study. Hence a representative sample is mandatory. The result show that attitude toward Islamic financial technology insignificantly influences consumer satisfaction, meanwhile the consumer based brand equity has a positive effect on consumer satisfaction.

scholarly journals Hacking the Democratic Mainframe: The Melissa Virus and Transgressive Computing

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsty Best ◽  
Jeff Lewis
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Computer Viruses ◽  
Organisational Theory ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Relationship

As with many of the other 45 000 computer viruses operating across the globe, the Melissa virus constitutes a significant threat to organisational processes. There are two major readings of the Melissa virus's social and political implications — one rejecting its subversive intent, the other celebrating it. In either case, these readings reflect the inadequacy of current theorisations of the relationship between computer networked communication, organisational theory and democracy. A fuller understanding of this relationship, and in particular the culture of hacking, is needed to mediate significant tensions within contemporary culture and politics.

scholarly journals The Visual and the Self in Contemporary Poetry

2008 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Andrew Michael Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
The Self ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Digital Poetry ◽  
Romantic Poetry ◽  
Reflective Thought ◽  
Reflection And Refraction ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The dominance of the visual is often seen as a new and defining feature of contemporary culture. Yet it is Romantic poetry which most powerfully associates the act of seeing with understanding, self-shaping and the visionary. This article draws on the ideas of the Idealist philosopher J.G. Fichte and the German Romantic writers Novalis and F.W. Schlegel, as well as some of Walter Benjamin’s reading of their work, to explore the ways in which contemporary poetry engages with this Romantic legacy. Making connections with the metaphors of reflection and refraction used by Wordsworth and Coleridge, the article interprets examples of 21st-century post-Romantic text poetry (which revisits Romantic models with an ecological inflection), and digital poetry (which uses technology to reconfigure the relationship between text, self and the visual). More specifically, it proposes a set of relations between visual perception of the natural world, reflective thought and awareness of self in the work of three contemporary poets: Thomas A.Clark (born Greenock, Scotland, 1944), John Burnside (born Dunfermline, Scotland, 1955) and John Cayley (born Ottawa, Canada).

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