scholarly journals Concept of 'bad death'

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 513
Author(s):  
Marija Vučković
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Verbal Code ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Individual Control ◽  
Action Code ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Language Corpus

Following previous research on the linguistic concept of а 'bad death' which lexical expression is the word family of the verb ginuti, I focus my attention in this paper on the relationship between language conceptualization of а 'bad death' and the representation of а 'bad death' in traditional and contemporary culture. Diachronically based language corpus makes possible to trace the changes of referential frame and use of verb ginuti and its derivatives. In the traditional culture а 'bad death' is marked in action code by irregular way of burial and beliefs in demons stemming from the 'impure dead'. In the paper I explore the degree of synonymy of the symbols of all three codes: verbal code, action code and code of beliefs. In the contemporary culture the lack of individual control and choice is considered to be the key element of the concept of a 'bad death'. This change of conceptual content manifests itself in the use of its lexical expressions.

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).

Redesign of Liangzhu Pottery Based on Form Style Recognition

2012 ◽  
Vol 268-270 ◽  
pp. 1970-1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shang Shang Zhu ◽  
Shao Hong Li
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Form Factors ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Type I ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Essential Form ◽  
Form Features ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Kj Method

Take the Liangzhu pottery as examples, an approach of form style recognition was proposed to further exploring the redesign of cultural artifacts from industrial design. Firstly, six major images of Liangzhu pottery was investigated by using KJ method and Factor Analysis; Then the relationship between the essential form factors and the major images were analyzed through Quantification Type I; Finally, the perceptual image knowledge base of Liangzhu cultural artifacts and a computer-aided form redesign system was built. Based on this system, the particular images conveyed by the cultural artifacts and the corresponding form features can be obtained, the traditional culture can be expanded. Thus the theory of form style recognition in the redesign of cultural artifacts is tested.

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.

Modern Urban Ecological Waterscape Planning and Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 689 ◽  
pp. 505-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Pan
Keyword(s):  
Water Environment ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Ecological Planning ◽  
Correct Judgment ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

Modern urban ecological waterscape is essentially about planning waterfront construction as well as ecology solicitude in a rapidly changing environment in Chinese city. The primary goal of this research is attempting to reconnect the relationship between waterscape and environment, which has been broken up in the past urbanization. The method used in this study is known as the ecological planning and design, and the author suggests that the ecological waterscape planning should include the aspects of water environment restoring, old buildings reusing, different levels water purifying system and traditional culture exploring, etc. It is concluded that the correct judgment and optional operation of these factors will enhance the function of urban waterscape as well as improve city living environment in general.

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 Understanding conceptual text sand master in gconcepts

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.A. Zuckerman ◽  
N.A. Kleshch
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Verbal Form ◽  
Conceptual Thinking ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Classical Statistics ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Self Learning

We address the issue of the relationship between conceptual thinking and understanding of conceptual texts only from the following angle: whether or not can working towards a profound understanding of texts that describe concepts promote the use of these concepts in unusual tasks. Employing the methods of classical statistics and factor analysis, we compare the metasubject outcomes of primary education in two samples of children that differ only in one teaching factor: the experimental classes were consistently working on creating and using conceptual texts. The principle of this teaching work was to establish a situation of bilingualism when introducing new concepts: to write down new characteristics of the studied subject in the language of graphical schemes and at the same time in verbal form and to translate sentences about this subject from one language into another. As it was revealed, this specially organized work with conceptual texts results in the following: (1) an increase in the level of mastery of learnt concepts if these concepts are presented in verbal form; (2) a better understanding of information texts with unfamiliar conceptual content, that is, one of the key elements in self-learning emerges.

scholarly journals THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN MINANGKABAU SOCIAL STRUCTURE AT TENGGELAMNYA KAPAL VAN DER WIJCK FILM

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Andri Maijar ◽  
Novi Budiman ◽  
Marhen Marhen
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Method

This article aims to assess how women in the Minangkabau social structure are represented in the film Tengelamnya Kapal Vanderwijck. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method using a scientific approach to cinematography, body language, and culture to analyze the relationship between elements including setting/attributes, ceremonial costumes. This research is dissected by the theory of social structure and feminism in Minangkabau traditional culture. The analysis of this film finds that the film Tenggelammnya Kapal Vanderwijck criticizes the position of women in the form of customary rules in Minangkabau in the decision to choose a life partner, which is determined by Uncle (mamak).

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