scholarly journals O NÃO-ROSTO DOS ANTEPASSADOS REVELADO NAS MÁSCARAS RITUALÍSTICAS BANTU: UM OLHAR SOBRE SUA CULTURA VISUAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Júlio Macuva Estendar ◽  
Helmut Renders
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Human Dynamics ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics

Partindo da descrição da crença nos antepassados como elemento central da religiosidade tradicional dos povos bantu, este artigo discute o uso de máscaras ritualísticas bantu em seu papel de mediação entre antepassados e vivos. Descreve-se o processo de criação das máscaras, suas características estéticas e sua função no rito a partir da perspectiva das teorias da cultura visual, discutindo aspectos atribuídas às máscaras como o da mediação ou da sua própria força performativa e considerando as dinâmicas humanas da recepção e da imaginação. THE NON-FACE OF THE ANCESTORS REVEALED IN BANTU RITUAL MASKS: A LOOK AT THEIR VISUAL CULTURE Starting from the description of the belief in the ancestors as central element of the traditional religiosity of the bantu peoples, this article discusses the use of ritual bantu masks in their role of mediation between ancestors and living. The process of its creation, their aesthetic characteristics and their function in the rite are discussed from the perspective of visual culture theories, considering aspects attributed to masks such as mediation or its own performative force and the human dynamics of reception and of imagination.

The Nordic noir brand

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Nestingen
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Historical Changes ◽  
Nordic Cinema

Editing the volume Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation with Linda Badley and Jaakko Seppälä made evident historical changes in the role of adaptation in Nordic audio-visual culture. An earlier generation of auteurs such as Aki Kaurismäki used adaptation to align themselves with aesthetic and philosophical bodies of texts, what we might call ‘networks of similarity’, following Luis M. García Mainar. In the rise of Nordic noir since the millennium, Nordic cinema and television’s networks of similarity change. The auteurs used adaptation to establish modernist originality of vision. In the current moment, this quality has diminished, and adaptation increasingly figures in broader, more densely cross-referential networks of similarity, of which Nordic noir is arguably an instantiation. These are defined by aesthetic and sociopolitical associations, more so than originality. These associations figure in practitioners’ and textual consumers’ use of response to and replication of the noir texts and their networks in a variety of media. This activity can be understood as a type of branding that aligns with attempts at national and regional branding.

scholarly journals Role of activity in human dynamics

2008 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 28002 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Zhou ◽  
H. A. T. Kiet ◽  
B. J. Kim ◽  
B.-H. Wang ◽  
P. Holme
Keyword(s):  
Human Dynamics

scholarly journals Decoding the Visual Characteristics of Chinese Painting Strokes-A Study on Gao Gu You Si Stroke

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 05093
Author(s):  
Xue Hu ◽  
Eakachat Joneurairatana ◽  
Sone Simatrang
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Visual Design ◽  
Chinese Painting ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
Visual Characteristics ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics

The architect Le Corbusier once said this theory: Design has local characteristics and universal characteristics. Local characteristics are greatly influenced by culture. The strokes are the one essence of Chinese painting that characteristics of the strokes are unique to Chinese visual culture. Among Chinese painting strokes, Eighteen Strokes are the typical representative of the aesthetics of Chinese visual culture. However, the current research on the cultural characteristics of Eighteen Strokes is insufficient. The objective of this article is taking Xie He’s Six Canons as the theory to decode the content of the aesthetic characteristics of the Gao Gu You Si Stroke (one of the Eighteen Strokes), then to get the visual cultural characteristics of Chinese painting strokes and the fundamental perspective characteristics of the inheritance visual cultural. Based on this, this article will use the Content Analysis Approach to conduct research, by decoding the aesthetic content of the Chinese painting strokes to construct the personality and characteristics required by Chinese visual design.

scholarly journals infância, cultura visual e educação

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (36) ◽  
pp. 01-20
Author(s):  
Adriana Hoffmann Fernandes ◽  
Helenice Mirabelli Cassino
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Multiple Images ◽  
The World ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article combines thoughts about childhood, visual culture and education. It is known that we live among multiple images that shape the way we see our reality, and researchers in the visual culture field investigate how this role is played out in our culture. The goal is to make some applications those ideas, to think about the relationship between the images and education. This article tries to grasp what visual culture is and in what ways presumptions about childhood generate and are generated by this association. It also discusses the genesis of these presumptions and the images they generate through a philosophical approach, questioning the role of education in a culture tied to the media, and about how children, who are familiar with multiple screens, presage a new visual literacy. We see how images play a fundamental role in the way children give meaning to the world around them and to themselves, in the context of their local culture. Given this context, it is necessary to consider how visual culture is tied to the elementary school, and what challenges confront the generation of wider and more creative ways to approach visual framing in children’s education.

Intersubjectivity and Intersubject

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Atanas Totlyakov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Joint Attention ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Oriented Approach

This text discusses some key points of contemporary theoretical concepts of intersubjectivity in the context of a specific group of creative practice. Emphasis is placed on the role and specificity of an area of joint attention shared between individuals, and interpersonal inclusions, which are essential for the creation and presentation to the public of objects and images. The problems of the temporary and non-permanent connection between the intentional subjects and the role of other acting forces, both quasisubjects and quasi-objects, within the framework of an art project developing in time are touched upon. The conventional contemporary critical analysis of a work of art has been replaced by ideas of visual culture and a body-oriented approach to tracing processes that are complemented from a sociological point of view.

scholarly journals Light as a visual source domain for the divine in the 17th century painting

Jezikoslovlje ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-324
Author(s):  
Janja Čulig
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Religious Paintings

The aim of this paper is to explain the motivation behind the creation of religious visual art in which light plays the role of the signifier of divine presence. We will endeavor to show that representations of light in paintings from a particular socio-cultural period and context are based on metaphorization. The meaning that arises from this metaphorization establishes a connection between depicted light and the basic conceptual metaphor KNOWING IS SEEING. Our aim is to show that the understanding of these kinds of representations by the viewer as the presence of the divine is based on the fundamental human capacity to conceptualize abstract notions through concrete ones. We propose that a visual representation of light would not be completely understandable if the viewer did not possess an inherent knowledge of basic conceptual metaphors of light. The visual material selected for this article comprises samples of 17th century religious paintings of the Western artistic tradition, in which light serves as the primary carrier of divine meaning and the central element of the composition. Our proposition is based on the conjoining of two disciplines into an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing paintings from the Baroque period. The selected theoretical framework includes Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the conceptualization of abstract notions (Lakoff & Johnson 1980; Gibbs 1994, 2008; Kövecses 2005; Forceville & Urios-Aparisi 2009; Sharifian 2011; Raffaelli 2012; Forceville 2017), as well as art-historical insights into the utilization of pictorial elements of light in the formal visual language of the Baroque (Haskell 1963; Lambert 2007; Toman 2007; Cvetnić 2007). The significance of this kind of research lies in the prospects of interdisciplinary approaches to concepts in general. This combination of scientific perspectives could enable us to approach the concept of light from a wider perspective, which could lead to a deeper understanding of the concept, its use in human communication, and its significance for the structuring of the knowledge of the world by an individual, but also by the wider socio-cultural collective to which they belong.

Technological Inertia in Economic History

1992 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Mokyr
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Central Element ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Vested Interests

Technological progress depends for its success on a conducive social environment. The resistance to innovation is identified as a central element governing the success of new inventions. Such resistance usually takes the form of non-market processes. It consists of vested interests, whose assets are jeopardized by new techniques, as well as by intellectuals who are opposed to new technology on principle. The role of resistance in the British and French economies during the Industrial Revolution is assessed.

Flexible Integration of Enterprise Resources Planning in the Case of Roumanian Public Reasearch and Development Strategy

2013 ◽  
Vol 436 ◽  
pp. 571-577
Author(s):  
Mircea Boşcoianu ◽  
Elena Corina Boscoianu
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Enterprise Resources Planning ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Flexible Integration

The modern development of research and development (R&D) is critical for Romania, an emerging country with smart people, scientists and entrepreneurs, especially in the actual context after the global crisis. In order to gain the desired performance in fundamental and applied R&D it is necessary to change the actual vision and to understand the importance of long term processes and the role of flexibility and adaptability to the movement of global markets. A new strategy for research and development (R&D) in Romania is necessary in the actual context, because it is very difficult to obtain the critical mass of resources and the processes of tranformation are difficult in the case of Romania. This research is also important because R&D is based on public funds and public organizations are typical isolated, dominated by an organizational fragmentation and the low caopability to adopt the technological progress. ERP systems represents a paradigm capable to sustain the Romania R&D strategy also because they represent the central element of the future e-governance architecture. That is why in the case of Romanian R&D strategy the integration of ERP should be consider in a special framework.

scholarly journals Indigenous Shôjo

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 138-168
Author(s):  
Christina Spiker
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Indigenous Activism ◽  
Media Mix ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Little scholarly attention has been given to the visual representations of the Ainu people in popular culture, even though media images have a significant role in forging stereotypes of indigeneity. This article investigates the role of representation in creating an accessible version of indigenous culture repackaged for Japanese audiences. Before the recent mainstream success of manga/anime Golden Kamuy (2014–), two female heroines from the arcade fighting game Samurai Spirits (Samurai supirittsu)—Nakoruru and her sister Rimururu—formed a dominant expression of Ainu identity in visual culture beginning in the mid-1990s. Working through the in-game representation of Nakoruru in addition to her larger mediation in the anime media mix, this article explores the tensions embodied in her character. While Nakoruru is framed as indigenous, her body is simultaneously represented in the visual language of the Japanese shôjo, or “young girl.” This duality to her fetishized image cannot be reconciled and is critical to creating a version of indigenous femininity that Japanese audiences could easily consume. This paper historicizes various representations of indigenous Otherness against the backdrop of Japanese racism and indigenous activism in the late 1990s and early 2000s by analyzing Nakoruru’s official representation in the game franchise, including her appearance in a 2001 OVA, alongside fan interpretations of these characters in self-published comics (dôjinshi) criticized by Ainu scholar Chupuchisekor.

scholarly journals On the Possibility of Using Succinate in Hypoxia Developing in COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-98
Author(s):  
Yu. P. Orlov ◽  
N. V. Govorova ◽  
O. V. Korpacheva ◽  
V. V. Afanasyev ◽  
I. A. Khilenko
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Multiple Organ ◽  
Tissue Hypoxia ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Diaphragmatic Dysfunction ◽  
Pathogenetic Role

Aim. To provide a rationale for the feasibility of using the succinate-containing drugs to treat hypoxia associated with COVID-19 based on the analysis of experimental and clinical studies.Materials and methods. 84 Russian and international literature sources concerning the pathogenesis of COVID-19 and the pathogenetic role of succinate in the management of COVID-19 associated hypoxia, oxidative stress and diaphragmatic dysfunction were analyzed. The literature search was performed using Pubmed and ELIBRARY.ru databases.Results. The literature analysis showed that tissue hypoxia, triggering the pathomorphological cascade of events and resulting in multiple organ failure is a central element of COVID-19 pathogenesis. Experimental and clinical studies show the positive impact of tissue hypoxia correction using succinate in both adult patients and children with various conditions associated with acute respiratory failure.Conclusion. The literature data provide a rationale for using succinate-containing drugs in the treatment of severe COVID-19.

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