scholarly journals Contemporary world and the crisis of spiritual values

2003 ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Mirko Zurovac

The crisis of contemporary art is a paradigmatic example of the crisis of spiritual values in today's world. The main cause of this crisis, it is argued, lies in the spirit of modern sciences. These do not find their object as a ready given, but rather determine it themselves, from their own standpoint, and thus basically produce it. Due to enormous technological development, modern civilization has turned the whole world into the Eleatic One. In materializing the uniform spirit of technology in our world the role of the new audio-visual media: cinema, radio, television, video and the internet, has been crucial. Technology has become a powerful instrument of modern power: it has enabled a concentration of power in the hands of technical, cultural and political administration, as well as automatically expanding mass production and consumption, and finally subordination of people to methodic education, control and manipulation. These are main features of the spirit of the contemporary technical civilization where technology is not understood as something technical but rather as a mode of existence, connected with science and industry. By changing the way in which human life is lived, and the way in which human community is ordered, the purpose and perception of the work of art has also changed. Beauty is not taken to be a result of subjective experience and something belonging to the object as such. The sphere of the aesthetic has become the ground for manifesting relativism and subjectivism in various forms. With the development of knowledge and human power, the contemporary world has begun to sink into nihilism, losing a sense for anything bearing the stamp of individuality. In such a world, everything, including the sphere of spiritual values, is reduced merely to what is useful and efficient. .

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-157
Author(s):  
Dhanesh M.

This paper aims to look at one of the fundamental factors of human beings—the appreciation of things. Calling it ‘the aesthetic faculty’ this paper tries to see how it is inevitable to the way human beings as a species function. This paper aims to propose this idea of an ‘aesthetic faculty’ as a potential basis for our community life in its diverse operations in terms of cultural spaces and their semantics. Viewing the socio-systemic life from the point of view from the aesthetic faculty reveals how appreciation and evaluation are inevitable to human life and how an ideological ground cannot actually affect life without addressing this basic human faculty. This paper tries to take the term ‘aesthetic’ vis-a-vis ‘appreciation’ to a different semantic world altogether so that it is no longer a matter of artistic engagements alone, but something more fundamental and formative than that.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
N.A. Bielik-Zolotariova

Background. The last quarter of the 20th century – the beginning of the 21st century, marked in Ukraine by significant social changes, actualized the necessity to turn to eternal spiritual values of national culture, among which Taras Shevchenko’s creativity takes leading positions. During this time, a number of works appeared in Ukrainian musical and stage art that supplemented the domestic “Shevchenkiana” (a total of the works devoted to Shevchenko): the operas by O. Zlotnik, V. Gubarenko, H. Maiboroda, L. Kolodub). The tradition of embodying the image of T. Shevchenko was creatively developed by O. Rudianskyi. The significant role of choral scenes in his opera “The Way of Taras” led to their involvement in revealing the leading idea of the work: to show the main periods of the life of the great poet. Choral scenes are peculiarly organized in the time-space of the opera, gaining symbolic meaning. The disclosure of this symbolism becomes the key to understanding in the modern context of the historical role of T. Shevchenko’s life and work. The purpose of this study is to identify the symbolism of chronotope in the choral dramaturgy of the opera by O. Rudianskyi. The following events from the life of Shevchenko are presented in the opera «The Way of Taras» by O. Rudianskyi (1992, 2nd ed. 2002: the libretto by V. Yurechko & V. Reva): his arrival to Kiev from St. Petersburg after the graduation of the Academy of Arts, the activity in The Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, finally, the arrest and the exile. The composer uses the choral factor in full – almost every stage of the opera has choral episodes, which receive various functions depending on the development of the dramaturgy of the opera. O. Rudianskyi created the images of the Ukrainians peasants, young men and women, children, members of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood, prisoners, soldiers -- by the use of male, female, children and mixed choir compositions. The opera includes: the "Ukrainian world", which obtains its characteristic precisely due to the presence of choral singing; the "Kazakh world", which is represented mostly by solo and dancing episodes; the "Russian world", which is presented through the spoken dialogues, orchestral fragments, choral recitation. The radical contrast in the depiction of Ukraine, the Kazakh steppes, and the St. Petersburg world creates to the chronotope changes in connection with the plot: Taras Shevchenko is free in Ukraine, he is not free in Russia and Kazakhstan. The opera-biography “The Way of Taras” almost for the first time at the Ukrainian musical stage emphasizes in the image of Shevchenko, who was a poet and a painter, the versatile of his creative personality. O. Rudianskyi introduces the method of artistic documentalism in revealing the events of T. Shevchenko’s life path, but along with the real people (Kostomarov, Petrov, Veresai), there are also fictional characters (the caretaker of the steppe – «Berehynia stepu»). Each of the pictures of the opera highlights a certain episode of the biography of the hero. The fragmentary character inherent in the opera by O. Rudianskyi makes it similar the opera “in four novels” «Taras Shevchenko» by H. Maiboroda and the opera-phantasmagoria «Poet» by L. Kolodub. Two female characters in the opera, Oksana and Zabarzhada, presents as a symbol of Taras’s unrealizable love. The image of Oksana – the first love of the poet – is created due to choreography, that makes it possible to define a ballet as another genre component of the composition. The development of the female theme involves both the women’s and the mixed choirs. O. Rudianskyi found a new approach to embodiment of the personality of the artist and poet in the first picture of the opera. This is the moment when T. Shevchenko is painting one of his picture on the bank of the Dnieper, reciting, at the same time, the lines of his immortal verse «Reve ta stohne Dnipr shyrokyi» («The broad Dnieper is roaring and moaning»), which became a folk song. In the fifth picture of the opera it is being sung powerfully by the choir – all Ukrainian people. So, the poet is presented as a prophet and spiritual leader of the people. Inspired by the Poet, people spoke out against the tyranny of the authorities. T. Shevchenko’s prayer with a mixed choir «To me, O God, give love on Earth» («Meni zh, mii Bozhe, na zemli podai liubov») is the reminiscence of the first picture, where the Poet created his immortal verse (its reciting with the vocalization of the choir basses). Conclusions. Thanks to choral scenes in the opera “The Way of Taras” by O. Rudiiyansky, a single space-time is created, in which the composer gives to the choir a symbolic meaning. In the choral presentation, the song about Dnieper River sounds as a symbol of freedom of the Ukrainian people; the effect by choir “church bells” symbolizes the conciliarity of Ukraine; the Marche funebre is the personification of the soldier serve, and the words-symbols “path”, “movement” embody Poet’s fate, inextricably linked with the fate of the Ukrainian people. The symbol of the opera whole is the word-image “path”. The semantics of the path, the moving is revealed both on the stage and on the mental levels: the Dnieper waves are constantly moving, the peasants are going to work, the path of prisoners is endless, and human life itself is the Path...


Author(s):  
Dennis Perry

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, itself adapted from several sources, has triggered a never-ending series of film adaptations, each exploring the meaning of human life through the evolving landscapes of cultural and technological development. Adapted in James Whale’s Frankenstein as a figure of both horror and deep pathos, the monster and his creator have played a pivotal role in the development of the cinema of gothic horror, borrowing along the way from a wide array of genres as different as surrealism, slapstick comedy, and the Western. This basic story of human fears and desires has become the archetype of intertextual adaptation methods, providing a resonant metaphor for even such homely details as the process of film editing.


Author(s):  
Moskvych Yu.V.

The article presents an analysis of sacred syncretism as one of the leading motifs of the work of the modern Ukrainian writer Anna Bagryana. It is noted that the phenomenon of this transcendent phenomenon is interpreted by modern Ukrainian literature based on the aesthetic practices of postmodernism and traditionalism in culture.It is emphasized that Ukrainian poetry of the XXI century, having absorbed these opposite trends, uses them, on the one hand, to formalize the linguistic and communicative shell of the poem, on the other, to reflect the exclusivity of the national character, creating a type of new worldview not on differences, but on syncretism, the interpenetration of various trends, in which the whole diversity of the world is revealed.With the help of cultural, phenomenological, comparative-historical methods that study the philosophical perception of the sacred by the author, as well as using aesthetic, biographical approaches and psychoanalysis to understand the artistic world of her poems, the research has achieved its purpose: the eclectic nature of the sacred in the lyrics of Anna Bagryana is revealed.The article notes that, following the main trends of postmodernism, including the loss of the highest meaning of human life, reflection, relativism and internal confusion, the manner of presentation of the writer is also characterized by specific features: a certain theocentricity, religiosity, the desire to preserve spiritual values. In the conflict of these polarities, a synergistic transformation of the sacred matures, its so-called illogical form, characterized by the sublimity of the supernatural and at the same time its ordinariness.The results of the work are implemented tasks: the concept of the sacred in the poems of Anna Bagryana is clarified, its syncretism is revealed and the change in the aesthetics of the transcendent is reflected; the eclecticism of the feeling of the supernatural by the lyrical heroine is characterized; the protective function of the sacred in the artistic work of the poetess is analyzed. Conclusions. The sacred, which is a common motif of Anna Bagryana’s poetry, is perceived by her in the context of a scientific approach. This understanding implies a distinction between the human and otherworldly worlds. The traditional aesthetics of the sacred is based on beauty as a means of sensory-spiritual worldview, which led to the replacement of the material worldview with a value one. Postmodern stylistics reproduces the syncretism of the sacred, adding to its interpretation the illogical nature of used images, the search for new meanings, and internal expression. Recognizing the specifics of Ukrainian literature, which in modern social theory does not break with the achievements of previous eras, the writer retains the human-centered and imaginative richness of her lyrics.Key words: sacrum, eclecticism, postmodernism, tradition, symbolism. У статті подано аналіз синкретизму сакрального як одного із провідних мотивів творчості сучасної української письменниці Анни Багряної.Зазначено, що феномен цього трансцендентного явища сучасна українська література інтерпретує, виходячи з естетичних практик постмодернізму та традиціоналізму в культурі.Підкреслено, що українська поезія ХХІ ст., увібравши ці протилежні тенденції, послуговується ними, з одного боку, для оформлення мовно-комунікативної оболонки вірша, з іншого, щоб відобразити винятковість національного характеру, створюючи тип нового світовідчуття не на розбіжностях, а на синкретизмі, взаємопроникненні різних тенденцій, у якому розкри-вається вся багатоплановість світу.За допомогою культурологічного, феноменологічного, порівняльно-історичного методів, що досліджують філософське сприйняття сакрального авторкою, а також послуговуючись естетичним, біографічним підходами та психоаналізом для розуміння худож-нього світу її поезій, у розвідці досягнуто поставлену мету: розкрито еклектичну природу сакрального в ліриці Анни Багряної.У статті зауважено, що, наслідуючи основні тенденції постмодерну, серед яких втрата вищого сенсу життя людини, рефлексія, релятивізм і внутрішня розгубленість, манера викладу письменниці характеризується й специфічними рисами: певною теоцентричністю, релігійністю, прагненням зберегти духовні цінності. У конфлікті цих полярностей визріває синергетична трансформація сакрального, його т.зв. алогічна форма, що характеризується піднесеністю надприродного та водночас його буденністю.Результатами роботи є реалізовані завдання: з’ясовано поняття сакрального у віршах Анни Багряної, розкрито його синкретизм і відображено зміну естетики трансцендентного; схарактеризовано еклектику відчуття надприродного ліричною героїнею; проаналізовано захисну функцію сакрального в художній творчості поетеси.Висновки. Сакральне, яке є поширеним мотивом поезії Анни Багряної, сприймається нею в контексті наукового підходу. Таке розуміння передбачає розрізнення світу людського та потойбічного. Традиційна естетика сакрального ґрунтується на красі як засобі чуттєво-духовного світогляду, що спричинило заміну матеріального світосприйняття ціннісним. Постмодерна стилістика відтворює синкретизм сакрального, додаючи до його інтерпретації алогічність уживаних образів, пошук нових смислів, внутрішню експресію. Визнаючи специфіку української літератури, яка в сучасній соціальній теорії не пориває з надбаннями попередніх епох, письменниця зберігає антропоцентричність та образне багатство своєї лірики. Ключові слова: sacrum, еклектика, постмодерн, традиція,символізм.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-166
Author(s):  
Ananta Kumar Giri

Meaning is a key foundation of human life. We yearn to make our life meaningful and have a proper understanding of the meaning of words and worlds, which help us in blossoming of life rather than being trapped in labyrinths of confusion and annihilated in varieties of killing and destruction. But this fundamental yearning for meaning has always been under stress in different periods and epochs of human history. In our contemporary world, we are also going through stress, vis-à-vis the work of meanings in our lives, which is part of a global crisis of meaning. Our global crisis of meaning has multiple genealogies. Our contemporary crisis of meaning has its roots in both the way we relate to language and our worlds, which is discussed in this article. It also discusses how we can cultivate new movements and circles of meaning generation. This is linked to vision and practices of upholding our world and regenerating our earth. I then link processes of meaning generation to processes of coming together of people as well as soul, what is called Lokasamgraha in Indic tradition. I discuss how the global crisis of meaning calls for new cosmopolitan movements as well as building a planetary Lokasamgraha.


Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Torrents

In this paper, I focus on the study of the relationships between technological specificity and media mix, focusing on how anime, as a visual medium, is connected to other media. There are two main aspects to this paper: the study of the complexities of the visual media milieu in the age of media mix, taking into account the technological materiality of different channels of production and consumption, and the study of the way these complexities must be approached. Taking materiality and information as the key aspects of the way specific objects in media are interconnected, I explore a question that has appeared recently in media studies: what is the right way to approach the relationships between media?


Author(s):  
Kamrani Buseri

In the process of transferring knowledge from western country, it is inevitable that the pattern of the way of life and habits such as liberalism, hedonism, materialism, empirical and secular attitude was unconsiously adapted. Eventually, science can take man to be more distant from God as a source of spiritual values that is capable of delivering the ultimate goal of human life in the form of peace and harmony. In fact, science has now shifted so that it led to power fight as wellas mastery of the material competition which sometimes violates the social ethics and religion. A scientist is required to realize the negative values that come with science and make a positive factor combined with positive attitude as a beachhead for research in order to achieve the philosophical meaning of science to have a peaceful and prosperous community.


KREA-TIF ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Hersanto Fajri ◽  
Dewi Primasari ◽  
M. Hadid Awaludin

<h1 align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong></h1><p>Dunia Teknologi Informasi (TI) kian berkembang dari tahun ke tahun dan membawa banyak perubahan pada pola kehidupan manusia. Peran Teknologi Informasi (TI) di berbagai sektor kehidupan sudah bukan hal asing, bisnis, perkantoran, usaha kecil-menengah, terlebih lagi pendidikan. Dunia pendidikan dalam negeri akan semakin tertinggal bila tidak segera membuka mata akan pentingnya peran Teknologi Informasi (TI). Banyak perubahan yang sudah dilakukan dunia pendidikan melalui kecanggihan teknologi komputer ini. Namun kendala yang terjadi adalah kurang berimbangnya antara kecanggihan fungsi sistem dengan kenyamanan dan efektifitas tampilan sistem informasi yang dibuat. Sedangan pengguna sistemnya adalah manusia yang alat input informasi pertamanya adalah visual (mata), yang mana sangat peka dengan kenyamanan/ keindahan sebuah tampilan sistem. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memadukan antara kecanggihan fungsi sistem dengan mempertimbangkan aspek estetika melalu implementasi desain konten visual menggunakan prinsip “Rule of Thirds” (rumus 1/3). Rumus 1/3  ini awalnya memang banyak digunakan dalam dunia fotografi guna mendapatkan estetika dan kenyamanan visual dari hasil foto yang dihasilkan. Pesan visual yang dibuat akan dibagi 3 per 3 kolom dari keseluruhan layar. Cara ini disinyalir akan mempermudah mata membaca/ memilah/ memahami isi dari pesan yang dibuat. Sehingga informasi yang disajikan kian efektif seiringan dengan kemampuan sistem yang dibuat. </p><p align="center"><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>The world of Information Technology (IT) is growing from year to year and brings many changes to the pattern of human life. Information Technology (IT) has its role in various sectors of life, business, offices, small and medium industries, especially education. The world of domestic education will be left behind if it does not aware to the importance of Information Technology (IT). Many changes have been made to the world of education through the sophistication of computer technology. But the constraints that occur are imbalanced between the function of the system with the convenience and effectiveness of the information system display. While the system user is a human, and their first information input device is visual, which is very sensitive to the comfort / beauty of a display information. This study aims to combine the sophistication of the system function by considering the aesthetic aspects through the implementation of visual content design using the principle "Rule of Thirds" (formula 1/3). This 1/3 formula was widely used in the world of photography to get aesthetic and visual comfort from the results of the photos produced. Visual messages that are made will be divided into 3 per 3 columns of the entire screen. This method is alleged to make it easier for the eyes to read / sort / understand the contents of the messages made. So that the information presented is more effective in line with the system's capabilities.</em></p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Ratih Ayu T ◽  
Zakiyah Tasnim ◽  
Annur Rofiq

This study analyzes the English teacher candidate’s use of instructional media in the teaching practicum. The English teacher candidate who became the participant in this study was doing their teaching practicum in MTsN 5 Jember. This study applied the qualitative case study design. Interview and observation were done one time to select the participant. The four-times classroom observations and questionnaires were used in order to collect the data. This study employed the model of Creswell in analyzing the data. The findings of this study showed that the English teacher candidate applied one type of instructional media namely Visual Media. Those were Picture and Whiteboard. The way the teacher candidate implemented the instructional media was almost the same in each meeting of the teaching and learning process. However, the students’ participation and response were not always the same in every meeting. It depended on the way the teacher candidate managed the class activity.


Author(s):  
M. P. Gerasimova ◽  

Makoto (まこと, lit.: truth, genuineness, reality, “realness”) is an element of the conceptual apparatus of the traditional worldview of the Japanese. In Japan, it is generally accepted that makoto is a philosophical and aesthetic concept that underlies Japanese spirituality, involving among other principles understanding of the order and laws of the truly existing Universum (shinrabansho̅; 森羅万象) and the universal interconnectedness of things (bambutsu ittai; 万物一体), the desire to understand the true essence of everything that person meets in life, and, unlike other spiritual values, is purely Shinto in origin. After getting acquainted with the Chinese hieroglyphic writing three Chinese characters were borrowed for the word makoto. Each of these characters means truthfulness, genuineness, but has its own distinctive nuances: 真 means truth, authenticity, truthfulness, 実 signifies truth, reality, essence, content, and 誠 again means truthfulness, sincerity, and truth. Makoto (“true words”) and makoto (“true deeds”) imply the highest degree of sincerity of words and honesty, correctness of thoughts, actions, and deeds. The relationship “true words — true deeds” can be seen as one of the driving factors of moral obligation, prompting everyone in their field, as well as in relations between people, to strive to be real. This desire contributed to the formation of a heightened sense of duty and responsibility among the Japanese, which became a hallmark of their character. However, makoto has not only ethical connotation, but aesthetic one as well, and can be considered as the basis on which were formed the concept of mono no aware (もののあ われ、 物の哀れ) and the aesthetic ideal of the same name, that became the first link in the chain of japanese perceptions of beauty. Each link in this chain is an expression of a new facet of makoto, which was revealed as a result of certain elements of the worldview that came to the fore in the historical era.


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