„ein nothwendiges Uebel der Cultur“. Anmerkungen zur Kulturwissenschaftlichkeit der Linguistik / “A necessary evil of culture.” Remarks on the cultural-scientific character of linguistics

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludwig Jäger
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cognitive Revolution ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Necessary Evil ◽  
Scientific Debates ◽  
Communicative Processes

AbstractSince the onset of its emancipation from its philological origins in the early nineteenth century, linguistics has been affected by a disciplinal self-conception that is resulting in the perception of language becoming increasingly detached from its culturality. In a continuing process of disentanglement, socio-historical, cultural and media scenarios of linguistic and communicative processes have been pushed to the periphery of linguistic studies, whereas they have been increasingly becoming the focus of study in neighboring disciplines in cultural studies. In addition to describing possible reasons for this development, the paper also aims to point out that, contrary to the prevailing anti-culturalistic movement, such as, e. g., Chomsky's “cognitive revolution”, the origin of linguistic knowledge is fundamentally interwoven with its cultural processing. The paper calls for a need to reflect upon the “structural gap” which has resulted from the extensive lack of linguistics being represented in recent cultural-scientific debates in the humanities and social sciences.

Attack of the Rainbow Bots

2011 ◽  
pp. 8-43
Author(s):  
Samuel G. Collins ◽  
Goran P. Trajkovski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Software Agent ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
It Education ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Lost In Translation

Many in IT education—following on more than twenty years of multicultural critique and theory—have integrated “diversity” into their curricula. But while this is certainly laudable, there is an irony to the course “multiculturalism” has taken in the sciences in general. By submitting to a canon originating in the humanities and social sciences—no matter how progressive or well-intentioned—much of the transgressive and revolutionary character of multicultural pedagogies is lost in translation, and the insights of radical theorists become, simply, one more module to graft onto existing curricula or, at the very least, another source of authority joining or supplanting existing canons. In this essay, we feel that introducing diversity into IT means generating this body of creative critique from within IT itself, in the same way multiculturalism originated in the critical, transgressive spaces between literature, cultural studies, anthropology and pedagogy. The following traces our efforts to develop isomorphic critiques from recent insights into multi-agent systems using a JAVA-based, software agent we’ve developed called “Izbushka.”

Attack of the Rainbow Bots

2011 ◽  
pp. 196-241
Author(s):  
Samuel G. Collins ◽  
Goran Trajkovski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Software Agent ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
It Education ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Lost In Translation

Many in IT education—following on more than twenty years of multicultural critique and theory—have integrated “diversity” into their curricula. But while this is certainly laudable, there is an irony to the course “multiculturalism” has taken in the sciences in general. By submitting to a canon originating in the humanities and social sciences—no matter how progressive or well-intentioned—much of the transgressive and revolutionary character of multicultural pedagogies is lost in translation, and the insights of radical theorists become, simply, one more module to graft onto existing curricula or, at the very least, another source of authority joining or supplanting existing canons. In this essay, we feel that introducing diversity into IT means generating this body of creative critique from within IT itself, in the same way multiculturalism originated in the critical, transgressive spaces between literature, cultural studies, anthropology and pedagogy. The following traces our efforts to develop isomorphic critiques from recent insights into multi-agent systems using a JAVA-based, software agent we’ve developed called “Izbushka.”

Smile or Die

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
René Boomkens
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Turn

Aufstieg und Entwicklung der interdisziplinären akademischen Disziplin der Cultural Studies sind Teil eines breiteren cultural turn in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, der für eine Verabschiedung monokausaler und reduktionistischer Methodologien steht zugunsten komplexer, holistischer und dialektischer Analysen sozialer und kultureller Prozesse. In der sogenannten Kritischen Theorie hat dies zu einem Aufmerksamkeitswechsel geführt von ökonomischen und politischen Ursachen sozialer Ungleichheit und sozialer Kämpfe zur Beharrlichkeit und irreduziblen Komplexität kultureller Differenzen oder von Andersheit, belegt durch wichtige Studien über die Rolle des Nationalismus, der Ästhetisierung des Alltagslebens und des wachsenden Einflusses der neuen Medien auf Kommunikation und Imagination. Dieser cultural turn in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften ist verbunden mit einem wachsenden Einfluss kultureller und zugleich post-politischer Formen von Macht im Alltagsleben, veranschaulicht durch die Dominanz der leistungsorientierten Kultur ›positiven Denkens‹ in verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen, mit anderen Worten: einer neoliberalen Kultur und Ideologie. In den Kulturwissenschaften wird das historische Bewusstsein vom wachsenden Einfluss kultureller Macht kombiniert mit anthropologischer Forschung über die Besonderheiten gegenwärtiger Alltagskultur und einer starken Sensibilität für die Spannungen, Ungleichheiten und Widersprüche in dieser Kultur infolge der anwachsenden Globalisierung ihrer Bedingungen. Diese inter- oder transdisziplinäre Perspektive auf die Macht der Kultur kann schließlich nicht erfolgreich sein, ohne erneut seriös nachzudenken über die ästhetische Qualität oder Dimension der Alltagskultur und zugleich über den Bereich und die Substanz des Ästhetischen selber. <br><br>The rise and development of the interdisciplinary academic discipline of cultural studies is part of a broader cultural turn in the humanities and social sciences that represents a fare- well to mono-causal and reductionist methodologies in favor of a more complex, holistic and dialectical analysis of social and cultural processes. In so-called ‘critical theory’ this has led to a shift from economic and political sources of social inequality and struggles towards the persistence and irreducible complexity of cultural difference or otherness, evidenced by important studies of the role of nationalism, the aestheticization of everyday life or the growing influence of new media of communication and imagination. This cultural turn in humanities and social sciences is related to a growing influence of cultural and at the same time post-political forms of power in everyday life, exemplified by the dominance of a meritocratic culture of ‘positive thinking’ in different areas of society, or in other words: of a neoliberal culture and ideology. In cultural studies historical awareness of this growing influence of cultural power is combined with anthropological research into the specificities of contemporary everyday culture and with a strong sensibility for the tensions, inequalities and contradictions in that culture, due to an ever growing globalization of its conditions. This inter- or transdisciplinary perspective on the power of culture finally cannot do without a serious rethinking of the aesthetic quality or dimension of everyday culture – and at the same time a rethinking of the scope and substance of aesthetics itself.

scholarly journals HUMANITARIAN KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE PHENOMENON OF ISLAM

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-202
Author(s):  
Наталья Васильевна Просандеева
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social World ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Current State ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Islamic Extremism

Автор убежден в том, что ислам как целостный феномен требует серьезных междисциплинарных исследований комплекса гуманитарных и социальных наук: истории, антропологии, культурологии, политологии, социолингвистики, психологии. Это объясняется спецификой ислама как особой религиозной, социальной и политической системы. Только знание основ исламской культуры и цивилизации, а также ее современного состояния дает возможность объективно судить об исламском экстремизме и инструментах борьбы с ним. Необходимо хорошо понимать этот культурный и социальный мир. The author is convinced that Islam as an integral phenomenon requires serious interdisciplinary research of the complex of humanities and social sciences: history, anthropology, cultural studies, political science, sociolinguistics, psychology. This is due to the specifics of Islam as a special religious, social and political system. Only knowledge of the basics of Islamic culture and civilization, as well as its current state, makes it possible to objectively judge Islamic extremism and the tools to combat it. This cultural and social world must be well understood.

Whatcha Doin', Marshall McLuhan?

2000 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
McKenzie Wark
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Media Form

After decades of relative neglect, McLuhan is back. While his ideas on media form are receiving a long-overdue assessment, it is also worth recalling McLuhan's challenge to the form of scholarship as media. McLuhan's ‘probes' were designed to produce, in the long run, precisely the kind of stimulus they are now, finally, provoking. However, McLuhan's writing is not that easily assimilable to mainstream humanities and social sciences scholarship. The paradox of McLuhan is that his Catholic faith enabled him to put in question the sacred cows of humanism, such as the faith in the ‘social’ and in ‘culture’ that limits sociology and cultural studies in their attempts to grapple with media.

scholarly journals Intersecting Dalit and Cultural Studies: De-brahmanising the Disciplinary Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Prashant Ingole
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

This paper is an attempt to synthesis the discipline of Dalit and Cultural studies a step towards proposing the discipline of Dalit Cultural Studies. By invoking the different claims of dominant epistemologies re-articulated by dalits intellectuals at different historic moments and locating the cultural past of Dalit humiliation, this paper examines the anti-caste discourse and the cultural resistance of Dalits from the colonial and postcolonial times which continues to take shape in different forms. Intersecting Dalit and Cultural studies the paper argues—that the distinction between the Brahmin and the non-Brahmin aesthetics leads to challenge the power and knowledge relation through the ‘politics of difference’. The non-brahmin aesthetic decenters the cultural production and circulation of the grand narratives, by de-brahmanising the established disciplinary space by bringing the discourse of the experience of caste and humiliation into the mainstream academia. When available mainstream approaches in humanities and social sciences in India would not grasp the intensity of their pain and anguish; therefore, in order to go beyond mainstream sympathetic view, intersecting Dalit and cultural studies can help in de-Brahman zing the disciplinary space through which the sociology of dalit life could be understood.

A Triptych: Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, Rider Haggard's She, and Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 726-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Mazlish
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rational Representation ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
Literary Aesthetic

Culture, one of the keywords of our time, became common, as Raymond Williams has suggested, in Western discourse in the early nineteenth century. Subsequently, pushed by both anthropological and literary-aesthetic studies and extended to global dimensions, the concept of culture, which supposedly expresses primordial naturalness and the irrational, is often played off against its counterpart from the beginning, the calculated mechanicalness of civilization, or the rational. More recently, in the burgeoning field of cultural studies, the boundaries between the two terms have become increasingly blurred. Now civilization, too, is seen as the domain of the irrational, masking itself in socalled rational representation.

Beyond Historicism: From Leibniz to Luhmann

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaap den Hollander
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Opposite View ◽  
History Department

AbstractThe phrase ‘beyond historicism’ is usually associated with Bielefeld historians like Hans Ulrich Wehler and Jürgen Kocka, who attempted to turn the study of history into a social science, but a better candidate would be the sociologist Niklas Luhmann, who happened to teach as well in Bielefeld during the 1970’s and 1980’s. Luhmann had little affinity with the project of his colleagues from the history department. He took the opposite view that the social sciences suffered from a naive enlightenment view and should become more history minded. Like the historicists of the early nineteenth century Luhmann was indirectly inspired by the philosophy of Leibniz. Although Luhmann’s theory of social systems may seem miles away from the daily interests of most historians, it can be interpreted as an Aufhebung of historicism. This will be demonstrated for two important concepts, the autopoietic system which incorporates the historicist notion of individuality and the concept of second order observation which can be read as an abstract redescription of what historicists meant by the historical method.

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