From Crisis to Rebirth: Modern Museums as Assessed by Specialists

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-2) ◽  
pp. 426-441
Author(s):  
Tatyana Sholomova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
Scientific Goal ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
Great Idea ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Aesthetic

The article is devoted to conflicting assessments of the state of the museum in contemporary museum criticism: museums are experiencing either a protracted crisis or the Golden Age. The public is also criticized: people prefer to come to museums in order to be entertained with the help of new technologies and to achieve a scientific goal, and not in order to fulfill their civic duty (appreciating national treasure). In general, among the objectives of the museum (to form a “national imaginary”, to support a state ideology, to serve as a scientific and educational center, to entertain and give pleasure), the aesthetic is in the last place, but the current negative views about the state of a museum as a sociocultural institution are caused by the general suspicion that aesthetics has come to the fore as the most important factor. In order to correctly assess what is happening, modern approaches to the duties of the museum and the needs of the general public need to take the existing points of view on this subject in both Russian and international specialized literature into account. The analysis of the situation also involves data from Internet resources specializing in reporting on the modern art market, which is closely tied to museum politics. The article compares various approaches to the current situation: the goals and objectives historically attributed to the museum, a review of current exhibitions and of the technology used, a change in museum policy as a whole (in particular the fact that what was considered a profanation of a great idea 10 years ago has become a cultural norm today). Based on the results of the study, the following conclusion can be made: modern museums are indeed extremely commercialized. The most unexpected souvenirs are sold in museum stores. Para-museums openly parasitize on the tourist flow of large museums. More than that, nobody thinks twice about making a profit in any possible way, while simultaneously grumbling about the fall in cultural demands of the public. However, interest in museums among the general population remains unchanged, so asserting the widespread crisis of the modern museum is a very big stretch.

scholarly journals The Civic Duty to Report Crime and Corruption

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candice Delmas
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
The State ◽  
Moral Duty ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
The Public ◽  
Corrupt Activity ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Government ◽  
General Scope

Is the civic duty to report crime and corruption a genuine moral duty? After clarifying the nature of the duty, I consider a couple of negative answers to the question, and turn to an attractive and commonly held view, according to which this civic duty is a genuine moral duty. On this view, crime and corruption threaten political stability, and citizens have a moral duty to report crime and corruption to the government in order to help the government’s law enforcement efforts. The resulting duty is triply general in that it applies to everyone, everywhere, and covers all criminal and corrupt activity. In this paper, I challenge the general scope of this argument. I argue that that the civic duty to report crime and corruption to the authorities is much narrower than the government claims and people might think, for it only arises when the state (i) condemns genuine wrongdoing and serious ethical offenses as “crime” and “corruption,” and (ii) constitutes a dependable “disclosure recipient,” showing the will and power to hold wrongdoers accountable. I further defend a robust duty to directly report to the public—one that is weightier and wider than people usually assume. When condition (ii) fails to obtain, I submit, citizens are released of the duty to report crime and corruption to the authorities, but are bound to report to the public, even when the denunciation targets the government and is risky or illegal.

scholarly journals The Bureau and the Realism of Spy Fiction

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-249
Author(s):  
Pauline Blistène
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Ordinary Sense ◽  
Ordinary Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Many ◽  
Serial Fiction ◽  
Narrative Conventions

Abstract This article addresses the issue of realism in relationship to contemporary serial fiction. Drawing on The Bureau (Canal+, 2015–2020), it argues that spy TV series are “realistic” not because they correspond to reality but because of their impact on reality. It begins by giving an overview of the many ways in which “realism,” in the ordinary sense of a resemblance with reality, served as the working framework for The Bureau’s team. It then identifies three distinct types of realisms in the series. The first is a “fictional realism,” namely the ability of The Bureau to conform to the aesthetic and narrative conventions of realistic fictions. The second type of realism, which I qualify as “ordinary,” refers to the possibilities offered by the show’s aesthetics and the enmeshment of The Bureau with viewers’ ordinary experience. The third type of “performative realism” refers to the series’ impact on shared representations and reality. By providing a common language about the secret activities of the state, The Bureau has gone from being a framed version of reality to being one of the defining frameworks through which state secrecy is experienced both individually and collectively, by insiders and the public at large.

Treason, Seditious Libel, and Literature in the Romantic Period

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Mee
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Visible Part ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article examines the effects of the unprecedented number of prosecutions for political opinion in the 1790s and afterward on romantic period literature. The chief instrument for these prosecutions was the law on libel. This legal framework placed a premium on various forms of metaphor, irony, and allegory, which the Crown had to construe as concrete libels in any prosecution. Many trials became major public events, a visible part of the period’s print culture, widely reported in newspapers and eagerly consumed by the public in a variety of media. The courtroom provided a theater of radical opinion in which defendants could publicize their views and mock the authority of the state. The pressure exerted on writers by the law on libel also conditioned a more general anxiety and may even have influenced developing ideas of the autonomy of the aesthetic.

BRIEF COMMENTS ON STAFLEU’S PROPOSAL FOR A NEW POLITICAL ASPECT

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Andrew Basden
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Aesthetic Aspect ◽  
The Aesthetic

In “On the character of social communities; the state and the public domain” [Philosophia Reformata 69(2):125-39, 2004] Dick Stafleu has suggested that the social aspect as currently constituted under Dooyeweerd, covers two distinct things: ”¢ companionship ”¢ authority and discipline, and that the latter should become a new aspect, the political, placed after the economic and before the juridical. (Stafleu seems to have dispensed with the aesthetic aspect that currently lies between those two aspects, largely taking Seerveld’s line that it should be redefined and placed earlier; see footnote 9 on p.130) I would like to briefly suggest some issues that need to be discussed and resolved before his suggestion is adopted. I have long felt the tension between the two parts of Dooyeweerd’s version of the social aspect that Stafleu refers to — companionship and authority — and I think Stafleu is right to open up discussion about it. But I am not happy that his proposal either is necessary or solves the problem. Moreover, I can also understand something of Dooyeweerd’s own thinking as he kept the two together.

scholarly journals VIRTUAL MUSEUMS AS A MEANS FOR PROMOTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W15 ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Aiello ◽  
S. Fai ◽  
C. Santagati
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Project Proposal ◽  
The Public ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
To Come ◽  
Artistic Heritage ◽  
The Relationship

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The use of virtual reality and ICT in the museum context provides a new key to understand and promote Cultural Heritage: thanks to these technologies the user has the opportunity to experience without the need to come into contact with the real objects. For the museum institutions VR and ICT are a valuable tool that allows them to perform different cultural tasks, addressing the public in a much more effective way than has previously been possible. Especially through VR, it is possible to reconstruct the original context of the artworks through the interconnection of contents: the virtual visitor, while viewing the artwork, can consult useful contents for the learning process. Another revolutionary element introduced by the new technologies is linked to the possibility of creating virtual exhibitions through which it is possible to exhibit works that are not accessible or not visible. These reflections and these theoretical principles were the basis for the development of the project proposal presented in these pages, that was born as a collaboration between the R<sup>3</sup>D Lab of the Museo della Rappresentazione of University of Catania and the CIMS Lab of Carleton University, Ottawa. It consists in the creation of a virtual museum, the Timeless Museum, in order to create an educational experience, able to make the users reflect on topics such as the value of history, the sense of beauty, the relationship with our past and our future, the protection and transmission to future generations of the artistic heritage we have.</p>

scholarly journals Editorial Cartoons as Mirror of the Nigerian Nation: The Example of New Telegraph

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-230
Author(s):  
Charles Ogazie
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The State ◽  
Unique Function ◽  
Media Content ◽  
The Public ◽  
Editorial Cartoons ◽  
The Press ◽  
To Come ◽  
Political Economic

It is very obvious that newspapers do not just report news, make known governmental policies or educate people on the happenings in societies among other things (Ogazie 2012). It however, serves as a watch dog in society. As the press beams its search light on the activities of government through its reportage, the public is made to participate in the process of governance and at the same time, aligns the governed to come to terms with the state of the nation. In a pluralistic nation like Nigeria where the heterogeneous populace is exposed to diverse media content, senders of information, especially those of the print media, convey socio-political, economic, educational coupled with religious messages in a unique, blunt, creative but satirical manner without naming names. This paper asserts that this unique function is best left at the door step of the editorial cartoonists who through their metaphorical codification sketches, drawings or impressions, tell a verisimilitude tale of the state of the nation. Through content analysis of selected cartoons in New Telegraph Newspaper, the paper concludes that editorial cartoons can be seen as a viable and powerful reflective medium via which national issues are raised in an imaginary court for public debate and as such erect a positive signpost towards reconstructing, developing and sustaining the polity for the betterment of all.

scholarly journals Rasionalitas Pengetahuan dan Kemampuan Penanganan Covid-19 (Studi Pemahaman Mahasiswa di Aceh Barat)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Triyanto Triyanto ◽  
Rahma Husna Yana ◽  
Nurkhalis Nurkhalis ◽  
Irma Juraida
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
The State ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Research Objects ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Come ◽  
At Home

The existence of COVID-19 has attracted the attention of the public, even at the beginning of its appearance, this disease was frightening. However, when there are calls to work at home, worship at home, and various policies that are considered detrimental to the community, and exacerbated by hoax news, slowly there is rejection and even distrust of the existence of COVID-19. So this research was carried out to see how students' knowledge about covid-19 and their belief in the ability of the state through the government both at the center and the regions. Students were chosen as research objects, apart from the fact that some students did not carry out health protocols on campus, also because students were seen as agents of change so that good knowledge of students would bring good knowledge to the community. The results showed that students had good knowledge and were in tune with the information provided by the government. Regarding some students not wearing masks, it was more because they were not in a crowd. Students believe that the state through the government can handle this covid-19 well, although students also see that there are some unsatisfactory things such as the ban on going home, Chinese foreign workers are instead allowed to come. Even though these foreign workers continue to carry out strict screening, they are ensured that they are in safe conditions for the community. The non-applicability of the lockdown is also considered a weakness in handling, even though the government has explained the economic growth that must be fought for.

scholarly journals Contemporary Technological Revolution – A Challenge for Russian Authorities

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Lev Zaks
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Systemic Nature ◽  
Key Aspects

The paper explores the subject of Russian authorities’ reaction to realities and effects of the current technological revolution. The content of this response is outlined, yielding a fundamentally new level of mastery over substance, energy and information. The technological revolution is considered as a challenge to public authorities, i.e. a problem – the most important one by its essence, scale, impact on the present and the future of all society’s areas and the public life in general. In Russia, this challenge is particularly relevant due to the country’s growing technology gap. Statistical data and facts confirming this widening gap are provided. It is emphasized that an adequate response to this emerging challenge cannot be partial or local; it needs to have systemic nature and connection with all key aspects of the state policy. A misalignment of current Russian authorities’ aspirations, imperatives and practice with the technological revolution’s logic and needs is demonstrated. The state policy does not match the interests of innovative development, does not create the necessary conditions for this development or its subjects. As a result, the main potential subjects of technological innovations (the paper identifies the main groups of such subjects) objectively cannot create or implement new technologies and have no subjective interest (incentives / motivation) for that.

Recasting Urban Political History: Gender, the Public, the Household, and Political Participation in Boston and San Francisco during the Progressive Era

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Ethington
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Political History ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Goal ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Primary Base

Thanks to recent innovations in theories and methods of political history, an enormous task lies before those wishing to approach the social-scientific goal recently desribed as “total political history.” Research and theorizing on the subjects of political culture, the autonomy of the state, language and discourse, the public sphere, and the importance of gender to political life promise to displace a long-standing interest among political historians in locating the social groups that presumably composed the “base” of historical regime and policy formation. The understanding of past politics as the epiphenomenal superstructure to an ontologically primary base of past society has been radically revised by scholarship presenting evidence of the relative autonomy of the state and of cultural structures within which both society and politics operate (Kousser 1982,1990; Skocpol 1985; McDonald 1986; Tropea 1989; Hunt 1986; Reddy 1987; Palmer 1990).

Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Catherine Baker
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Military

This introduction reviews debates about ‘militarisation’ in the disciplines which have contributed to Critical Military Studies (including history, geography, sociology and International Relations) and explains the ‘aesthetic’ and ‘embodied’ turns that this volume shows how to synthesise. To study militarisation, aesthetics and embodiment together, it argues, involves studying combinations of how things are sensed and how bodies experience them, across contexts related to the military and its place in wider society: the complex and contradictory affective interplay of aesthetics and embodiment, which feminist approaches have been particularly fruitful for theorising, informs what we know about militarisation today. However, the very concept of ‘militarisation’ makes assumptions about normal relationships between the state, the public and violence which may not be transhistorically or even globally applicable, especially where state violence has been inherent to enforcing systems of racial oppression.

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