scholarly journals VII international scientific conference “Digitalization of society and the future of Christianity. On the transformation of the value-regulatory system of society”

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 634-640
Author(s):  
I. P. Ryazantsev ◽  
R. M. Plyusnin ◽  
E. A. Kargin
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory System ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Normative System ◽  
Scientific Event ◽  
Christian Perspective ◽  
The Future

On February 18-19, 2021, the St. Tikhons Orthodox University for the Humanities hosted the VII international scientific conference Digitalization of society and the future of Christianity. On the transformation of the value-normative system of society. At this scientific event, prominent scientists from Russia, Italy, Germany, France, Taiwan, China, India, Nigeria, Ukraine and Belarus made their presentations. They considered in the Christian perspective the challenges and benefits of digitalization for the contemporary society. A special emphasis was made on the changes in values and norms under digitalization.

The Future Royal Australian Navy Regulatory System

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mechanicos ◽  
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David Page ◽  
Patrick Byrne ◽  
Graham Durant-Law ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory System ◽  
The Future ◽  
Royal Australian Navy

The Image of the Future in the Situation of the Decline of Culture: Contemporary Russia from the Perspective of O. Spengle

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 323-334
Author(s):  
Inga V. Zheltikova
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Conservative Values ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Images Of The Future

The concept of O. Spengler suggests that the history of any culture goes through certain stages of development, the last of which is civilization. During this period creative activity in culture is replaced by mechanical imitation and lost connection with the culture formed by the «pra-phenomenon». The author correlates Spengler’s postulates with the processes of actual social reality and comes to the conclusion that contemporary Russia is going through the stage of civilization. The article raises the question of how the future is seen in this situation. The author uses the term “image of the future”, introduced by F. Polak to understand the disinterest of modern post-war Europe in its future. Thus, the lack of interest in the future can be recognized as another characteristic of the state of civilization. The existence in contemporary Russia of distinct images of the future is an open question. Using the methods of content analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that in Russian contemporary society there exists a retrospective image of the future, focused on conservative values, hierarchy of society and its closed nature to the world. Thus, it is concluded that it is wrong to talk about complete absence of images of the future in contemporary Russia. But the nature and content of these images demonstrate the low level of interest in the future, which also indicates the transition of Russian culture to civilization.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN UTOPIA: TRANSFORMATION OF THE META-GENRE: RESULTS AND PROSPECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Е.I. Shevchugova ◽  
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А.V. Fedchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Intellectual Discourse ◽  
The Future ◽  
Conceptual Overview

The article provides a conceptual overview of the International Scientific Conference Contemporary Russian Utopia: Transformation of the Meta-Genre (Krasnoyarsk, October 2020), dedicated to the memory of B.F. Egorov, one of the most significant Russian philologists of our time. A brief description of the most striking and significant reports is given. It is becoming obvious that utopia remains the most important tool for studying the future, one of the most dynamically developing meta-genres. This is a general intellectual discourse, the content of which is revealed through the opposition of a certain set of techniques, thematized by the concepts of myth, ritual, eschatology, ideology, at the same time it is an intention immanent in human consciousness as a dream or desire. Thus, the future of utopia is beyond doubt.

Future Emergencies: Temporal Politics in Law and Economy

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Opitz ◽  
Ute Tellmann
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Catastrophic Events ◽  
Social Time ◽  
The Future

This article develops a notion of the ‘politics of time’ in order to analyse the effects that imaginations of future emergencies have in the fields of law and economy. Building on Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social time, it focuses on the multiplex temporalities in contemporary society, which are shown to interact differently with the ‘emergency imaginary’. We demonstrate that the apprehension of the future in terms of sudden, unpredictable and potentially catastrophic events reinforces current modes of producing financial futurity, while it undermines the procedural rhythm and retroactive sentencing of liberal law. As a whole, the article supplements the analysis of the ‘politics of truth’ prevalent in the current debate about precaution and pre-emption with a theoretical perspective on social temporality.

Mystic in a Morning Coat

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-64
Author(s):  
Katy Hull
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Benito Mussolini ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Italian Americans ◽  
The Future ◽  
Youth Training

This chapter investigates how fascist sympathizers saw Benito Mussolini as a man who could simultaneously navigate modernity while moderating its worst effects. Constructed as the austere administrator with a deep soul, sympathizers drew attention to all that Americans had sacrificed in their race to the future and provided recompense for those who felt lost, lonely, or left behind by change. As a model, Mussolini countered the pessimistic notes that inhered in criticisms of American masculinity in contemporary society, to offer the promise of change. Part of the change seemed to rest on policy actions — for instance, in the area of education and youth training — as suggested by Herbert Schneider and Richard Washburn Child. And part seemed to require a shift in attitudes toward Italian-Americans, as argued by Generoso Pope.

H. G. Wells

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-216
Author(s):  
Charlotte Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Problem Novel ◽  
Symbolic World ◽  
Socialist Politics

This chapter shifts attention from reference in space to reference in time, in order to extend the argument about realism and metaphysics to a consideration of genres as ideological formations which must both engage with recognizable circumstances and possess an innate desire to defamiliarize, even contravene, the givens of the cultural symbolic world. The social problem novel highlights this paradox, because it can only imagine possible futures through extrapolation from present conditions. The future acts as another boundless context against which realist representation must be pivoted. Chapter 4 explores this temporal paradox in the novels of H. G. Wells, whose background in evolutionary biology and investment in performative socialist politics means he depicts contemporary society as already, in a sense, prescient. The conclusions drawn about the operation of temporality in Wells’s fiction—particularly his use of tenses and the odd, recurrent topos of metanarrative intrusion—are used to think through some of the implications for ‘condition of England’ writing as an oracular and dialectical tradition within realism.

Ambient Intelligence

2009 ◽  
pp. 32-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fortunato Sorrentino
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communications ◽  
Ambient Intelligence ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Practical Orientation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Incoming Call ◽  
Surrounding Space

“Ambient intelligence” (AmI) refers to both a theoretical and a practical orientation of technology, involving the most innovative areas of the ICT sector. Recognized as a powerful trend, Ambient Intelligence has an increasing impact in several domains of our contemporary society, the so-called “knowledge society”. Let us look at the two words “ambient” and “intelligence”. Today we often use the attribute intelligent or smart referring to artifacts that show “a behavior”, have “a memory”, appear to take nontrivial “initiatives”. Take, for instance, a smartphone, which is able, when there is an incoming call, to put up on the screen the image of our correspondent. The “intelligence” in the words “Ambient Intelligence” precisely refers to those special embedded capabilities of certain things around us, capabilities that we are not aware of until they come into action. The word ambient, means “existing in the surrounding space” and signals that there is a particular diffused property of such a space. It has an essential charateristic, which is neither explicit nor obtrusive, but widely exploited by our Knowledge Society: the capability to transmit information without the need of wires (wireless communications). Like its underlying technologies, Ambient Intelligence is an expanding, evolving concept, projected far into the future.

scholarly journals New Representations of Religion and Belief in Schools

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Alternative Representation ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
Role Of Religion

Discussions around the future of Religious Education (RE) in England have focused on the need to address the diversity of religion and belief in contemporary society. Issues of the representation of religion and belief in Religious Education are central to the future of the subject. This article draws on research into key stakeholders’ views and aspirations for RE to map an alternative representation of religion and belief to that found in existing approaches that universalise, sanitise and privatise religion. The data reveal a thirst for the study of a broader range and a more nuanced understanding of religion and belief. This incorporates a focus on religion and belief as identity as well as tradition, the study of the role of religion in global affairs as well as the controversies and challenges it can pose for individuals and the exploration of religion and belief as fluid and contested categories. What may be described as a contemporaneous and sociological turn, moves beyond the existing binaries of religious/secular, public/private, good/bad, fluid/static that shape much existing representation, towards a representation of the ‘real religion and belief landscape’ in all its complexity.

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