scholarly journals NIKOLAI OSTROVSKY: «A PLACE IN THE IRON BATTLE FOR POWER». RUSSIA ON THE EVE AND AFTER OCTOBER. ARTICLE TWO

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Sergei A. Nikolsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Class Struggle ◽  
Constant Intensity ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Real ◽  
Short Course ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Party Members ◽  
As If

To reveal the theme of Russia after October, 1917, Nickolai Ostrovsky's book «How steel was tempered» is one of the most significant. In it, in its purest form, there is a portrait of an ideal revolutionary – a Bolshevik, merciless not only to the enemy, but to himself and others as well, a man, from whom, according to the poet's figurative expression, there could be made the strongest nails in the world. The book was enthusiastically received by the thirteen million army of party members and Komsomol members. For some, Pavel Korchagin was an ideal to emulate, for others – an image that reinforced their own myths about past heroic deeds, allowing them to settle warmly in the present. For the authorities, the story, cleared by censorship from the Bolshevik democracy of the first years, was an artistic forerunner of the future Stalinist «Short course of the AUCP history». One of the most thoughtful Soviet literary critics, Leo Anninsky, considered the story to be a story about people «engaged to an idea». In a sense, this is true. However, the engagement prevented both Ostrovsky and his Soviet interpreter from seeing the real historical process in its tragic depth and contradictions. For the hero Pavel Korchagin, there are neither the beginnings of Stalinist totalitarianism, nor the tragedy of a collectivized, starving village. Living as if out of time, he preaches the same thing – a class struggle that never fades for a moment. It seems that the fire of struggle will be extinguished and the hero's life will be interrupted. In fact, this is not allowed to happen: the constant intensity of the class struggle, which, as Stalin said, will grow more and more as we move towards socialism, is the secret of Soviet totalitarianism, represented and justified in an artistic form by Nikolai Ostrovsky.

Discounting and the Paradox of the Indefinitely Postponed Splurge

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Rendall
Keyword(s):  
Real Problem ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
The Real ◽  
Reductio Ad Absurdum ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
End Of The World

It is sometimes argued in support of discounting future costs and benefits that if we gave the same weight to the future as to the present, we would invest nearly all our income, but never spend it. Rather than enjoying the fruits of our investments, we would always do better to reinvest them. Undiscounted utilitarianism (UU), so the argument goes, is collectively self-defeating. This attempted reductio ad absurdum fails. Regardless of whether each generation successfully followed UU, or merely attempted to follow it, we could never get trapped in endless saving. The real problem is different: without the ability to foresee the end of the world, UU cannot tell us how much to save. Discounting is a defensible response, but only when coupled with a rule against risking catastrophe.

Storytelling Means Dissolving Relations

2019 ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Alexander Kluge
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Literal Sense ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Real Phenomenon ◽  
Alexander Kluge

This chapter explores the dialogue between Piero Salabè and Alexander Kluge wherein they talked about Kluge's book Tür an Tür mit einem anderen Leben (Next Door to Another Life, 2006). Kluge claims that there are always two aspects to sadness: it isolates, but it can also bring people in contact with one another. Sadness and crying are capable of dissolving hardened relations. When asked whether he believes in progress, Kluge answered that he does not believe in linear progress because for him “the past is always coming at us from the future.” Instead, he believes in circular movement like those in whirlpools. The concept of enlightenment must begin with the real phenomenon that time does not actually pass. Kluge says that “we must continue to tell stories about problems in the world, and with storytelling we must also push back against these problems that people fail to respect.” Storytelling means dissolving in the literal sense of “analyzing.” Kluge believes that this is the great, unfinished project of enlightenment. Salabè and Kluge also discusses the individual's capacity for differentiation.

Forerunners of the Romans

Antiquity ◽  
1928 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Randall-MacIver
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Complete Inversion

The standard Roman histories, especially when written by authors who have an undisguised contempt for archaeology, give very little idea of the civilization and development of Italy before the later days of the Republic. They are histories of Rome but not of Italy. And so the reader is subconsciously led to suppose that the Romans were the most important and the most advanced people on the peninsula, who gradually extended the benefits of their superior civilization over a series of more or less barbarous neighbours. This is a complete inversion of the real facts. The Romans of the Republic were a rather backward people, and it was hardly before the second century B.C. that they could begin to rank as the equals of the Italian provincials in general refinement and culture. Incessantly occupied with the wars which were essential to their very existence, the Romans had no leisure, even if they possessed the inclination, to cultivate the arts and humanities. But, while the future head of the world was struggling for bare life, a rich Italian civilization had been born and developed in the independent territories which had not yet fallen under her sway. Before ever they came under the organizing and levelling domination of the central capital, Etruria, Venetia, Lombardy and Picenum had each evolved its own distinct and very valuable local culture; while the whole south from Naples to Brindisi had been civilized by Corinthian and Ionic influence. Rome when she conquered and annexed these territories in due sequence fell heir to a fully finished product. Italy had been created, but not by Rome; the task that fell to the Romans was much more suited to their peculiar abilities—they had to organize and administer the country.

scholarly journals Impacting the Real Future via the Virtual Present

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yesha Y Sivan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The Assembled 2014 issue includes six papers demonstrating the diversity and depth of topics we strive to cover:The future of massive collaborative eventsThe future of anonymity (and antisocial behavior)The future of 3D collaborationThe future of friendshipsThe future of health care via “Motivational InterviewingThe future of looking at the otherThese six papers demonstrate some of JVWR goals. They are pushing our thinking about both the virtual and the real, they are presenting “new” academic science that go beyond the trivial, and they are taking a stand about the world. We encourage authors to follow the diverse models presented here.

scholarly journals Financial and Non-Financial Applications of Blockchain

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1050-1054
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
The Real ◽  
Financial Applications ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

There are hundreds of technologies today. Companies and brands continuously try to create and bring something innovative in the market to attract consumers to them in order to get a rise in market share. In the world where people have started getting used to hundreds of technologies, if asked about those which have affected them the most in last ten to twelve years, no one will miss mentioning blockchain. Blockchain has gained very much popularity after the introduction of bitcoin and ethereum in its environment. Blockchain mainly has two types of functionalities. One that involves transactions and the other which talks about contracts. This work highlights some of the very much talked about applications of this technology in the real world. The work also considers various factors and methods by which this technology can be introduced to the audience by suggesting ways in which blockchain can be introduced in the lives. Discussion on how this technology can affect human lives in the future is also an important part of this paper. Because blockchain has huge number of applications that the paper has tried to inculcate, it can be a technology of future which many scientists and industrialists have already started to believe. That is why this work finds a unique and all in one collection of applications and possibilities of Blockchain.

scholarly journals Pleasure, Learning, Video Games, and Life: The Projective Stance

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Paul Gee
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Real World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Special Category

This article addresses three questions. First, what is the deep pleasure that humans take from video games? Second, what is the relationship between video games and real life? Third, what do the answers to these questions have to do with learning? Good commercial video games are deep technologies for recruiting learning as a form of profound pleasure, and have much to tell us about what learning could look like in the future should we relinquish the old grammars of traditional schooling. They are extensions of life insofar as they recruit and externalize some fundamental features of how humans orientate themselves in and to the real world when operating at their best. Video games create a projective stance in the sense of a stance toward the world in which we see the world simultaneously as a project imposed on us and as a site onto which we can actively project our desires, values and goals. A special category of games allows players to enact the projective stance of an ‘authentic professional’, thereby experiencing deep expertise of the kind that so widely eludes learners in school.

scholarly journals Urban Governance and the Future of Canadian Federalism

Federalism-E ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-9
Author(s):  
Connor Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
Urban City ◽  
Canadian Federalism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
As If

The Canadian federation is constantly being reconfigured. Throughout our 147 years of nationhood Canada has evolved from a quasifederal 1 state to arguably one of the most decentralized federations in the world. However, for all the change that has occurred as we approach our sesquicentennial anniversary urban city centers are still treated as if they are the colonial holdings of their provincial masters. The rigidity in which the constitutional division of powers is interpreted in regards to municipal affairs allows for the continued suppression of urban governance [...]

The Real Thing

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-74
Author(s):  
J. P. Telotte
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Primary Reason ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Real Thing ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Abstract: Chapter Three traces out how film and a filmic consciousness entered into the fiction that was, ostensibly, the SF pulps’ primary reason for existence. It begins by recognizing the extent to which a cinematic rhetoric filtered into SF writing, which readily drew metaphors, similes, and key images or references from the world of the movies. The chapter then considers how film technology—cameras, sound recording devices, screens, etc.—took a place alongside other sorts of fascinating modern technology as proper subjects for SF narratives. Finally, it examines a variety of the stories that focus specifically on the film industry—of the present and the future—with a special emphasis on the work of neglected SF author Henry Kuttner.

Post-Revolutionary Islamism and the Future of Democracy and Human Rights in Egypt

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abadir M. Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Real World ◽  
Political System ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
The Real ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Revolution

From the backwaters of stagnation in democratization, the Arab Spring countries carried the day and became trailblazers to be replicated by activists all over the world. A couple of seasons after the initial revolution/revolt, Egyptians had transformed their political system, written themselves a constitution, and apparently destroyed the same constitution. While all sectors of society played a role in shaping the revolution, the latter has also affected society. Egypt’s 2012 constitution, one of the outcomes of the revolution, captures a moment in the process and also reflects an attempt to install an Islamist ideology in a constitutional democratic form. The constitution’s attempt to negotiate between Shari‘ah and democracy and its outline of a human rights regime make the future of democracy and human rights ambiguous, as the Islamist stance promulgated has yet to be tested in the real world of politics. As it stands today, the constitution is too ambiguous to allow one to draw a clear picture of the future of constitutional practice. What is clear, however, is that the revolution and subsequent constitution have affected the Islamist discourse about democracy and human rights.

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1263-1264
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Trust Measurement ◽  
As If

Frank Levy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology reviews “The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy As If the Future Matters” by Diane Coyle. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Explores how to ensure that government policy and the actions of individuals and private businesses serve the world better in the long term and considers how to make sure that achievements in the present don't come at the expense of the future. Discusses happiness; nature; posterity; fairness; trust; measurement; values; institutions; and the manifesto of enough. Coyle runs Enlightenment Economics, a consulting firm specializing in technology and globalization. Index.”

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