scholarly journals The phenomenon of Korean wave in Metamodern European cultural environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Larysa Osadcha
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
The West ◽  
Korean Wave ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Cultural Science ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Artistic Heritage ◽  
Export Product

Purpose of the article is to analyze reasons of rapid growth of the Korean cultural product popularity in European cultural environment, to identify coincidence of the worldview, aesthetic, gaming demands of the Western consumer audience and art patterns of the Korean mass-culture. The phenomenon of the rapid popularity growth of Korean cultural products is called the “Korean wave. According to statistics, K-pop forms 2% of GDP (for comparison, Korean aviation – 0,7 %). On March 2020 the artistic heritage of the nowadays most popular Korean pop-band BTS was recognized “the strategic export product” of South Korea. That’s why it is actually to study out reasons for the great popularity of the “Korean wave” among the Western European cultural environment. Methodology. Theoretical basis of the exploration includes authors as of the applying field of cultural science, so of the fundamental one. For example, N. Tytkova (2020) analyzes style peculiarities of the Korean wave, Y. Pak (2015) outlines the genealogy of the phenomenon according to the Korean ethnic mentality specificity. Appealing to the theoretical works of R. Popty (1996) and F. Jameson (2008), T. Vermeulen and R. van der Akker (2010) has facilitated deeper understanding as of the Metamodern features of the actual European culture so the specificity of nowadays Korean pop-culture. Scientific novelty. Popularity of the Southern Korean pop-culture in Europe and Northern America is caused not only by the marketing peculiarities of the K-pop industry but also by its reasoning with key values and demands of the metamodern Western culture, such as “new sincerity”, “sober fanaticism”, “pragmatic romanticism”, “causal esotericism”. Conclusions. The powerful request for the youth artifacts and practices is been formed in the West. But artistic and academic discourse is still been under the influence of distrustfully critical postmodern narrative. Thus, the rupture between the West’s philosophical self-reflective vocabulary and applied requests for the new sincerity, and new romanticism has created favorable conditions for the youth-oriented mass-culture import.

Comparative Analysis of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s Travels to European Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Aysel KAMAL ◽  
Sinem ATIS
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Young Lady ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
The West ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Turkish Literature ◽  
Art And Architecture

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-1962) is one of the most controversial authors in the 20th century Turkish literature. Literature critics find it difficult to place him in a school of literature and thought. There are many reasons that they have caused Tanpinar to give the impression of ambiguity in his thoughts through his literary works. One of them is that he is always open to (even admires) the "other" thought to a certain age, and he considers synthesis thinking at later ages. Tanpinar states in the letter that he wrote to a young lady from Antalya that he composed the foundations of his first period aesthetics due to the contributions from western (French) writers. The influence of the western writers on him has also inspired his interest in the materialist culture of the West. In 1953 and 1959 he organized two tours to Europe in order to see places where Western thought and culture were produced. He shared his impressions that he gained in European countries in his literary works. In the literary works of Tanpinar, Europe comes out as an aesthetic object. The most dominant facts of this aesthetic are music, painting, etc. In this work, in the writings of Tanpinar about the countries that he travelled in Europe, some factors were detected like European culture, lifestyle, socio-cultural relations, art and architecture, political and social history and so on. And the effects of European countries were compared with Tanpinar’s thought and aesthetics. Keywords: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Europe, poetry, music, painting, culture, life

The Souls of Muslim Folk

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-86
Author(s):  
Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Dark Phase ◽  
The West ◽  
European Culture

The current debate on the vices of multiculturalism and the merits of integration, of problematizing cultural difference, appears to miss important lessons from recent history in the treatment of minorities. In this paper, I start by questioning the celebration of Barack Obama’s election as a “breakthrough” for multicultural inclusiveness. I argue that the “Obama phenomenon” highlights the limits of democratic inclusiveness and sheds light on the traumatic experience of African Americans, who have been victimized precisely for seeking to assimilate. European Jews, especially in Germany, could not be accused of any reluctance to integrate either, and their contributions to European culture are legendary. But they also suffered grievously for their pains. Thus when the same xenophobic political trends traditionally hostile to the integration of minorities begin to vociferously demand that Muslims should integrate, this must be seen as a warning that we may be heading toward a very dark phase of race relations in the West.

The foundations and prerequisites of imagology

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Valerii P. Trykov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Engineering ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Role ◽  
The West ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One ◽  
Eu Project

The article examines the conceptual foundations and scientific, sociocultural and philosophical prerequisites of imagology, the field of interdisciplinary research in humanitaristics, the subject of which is the image of the “Other” (foreign country, people, culture, etc.). It is shown that the imagology appeared as a response to the crisis of comparatives of the mid-20th century, with a special role in the formation of its methodology played by the German comparatist scientist H. Dyserinck and his Aachen School. The article analyzes the influence on the formation of the imagology of post-structuralist and constructivist ideological-thematic complex (auto-reference of language, discursive history, construction of social reality, etc.), linguistic and cultural turn in the West in the 1960s. Shown is that, extrapolated to national issues, this set of ideas and approaches has led to a transition from the essentialist concept of the nation to the concept of a nation as an “imaginary community” or an intellectual construct. A fundamental difference in approaches to the study of an image of the “Other” in traditional comparativism and imagology, which arises from a different understanding of the nation, has been distinguished. It is concluded that the imagology studies the image of the “Other” primarily in its manipulative, socio-ideological function, i.e., as an important tool for the formation and transformation of national and cultural identity. The article identifies ideological, socio-political factors that prepared the birth of the imagology and ensured its development in western Humanities (fear of possible recurrences of extreme nationalism and fascism in post-war Europe, the EU project, which set the task of forming a pan-European identity). It is concluded that the imagology, on the one hand, has actualized an important field of scientific research — the study of the image of the “Other”, but, on the other hand, in the broader cultural and historical perspective, marked a departure not only from the traditions of comparativism and historical poetics, but also from the humanist tradition of the European culture, becoming part of a manipulative dominant strategy in the West. To the culture of “incorporation” into a “foreign word” in order to understand it, preserve it and to ensure a genuine dialogue of cultures, the imagology has contrasted the social engineering and the technology of active “designing” a new identity.

The Language of Adam, Epistemic Crisis, and the “Radical Truths” of John Dee

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-173
Author(s):  
Anton V. Karabykov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Traditional Epistemology ◽  
Cultural Status ◽  
Linguistic Material

The life and work of John Dee (1527–1608/9), an English mathematician, eru­dite and occultist, remains an enigma that gives rise to intensive controversies, puzzles scholars, and nourishes imagination of mass culture makers. The aim of the article is to consider a magical practice of the late Dee and a unique narrative recorded in his diaries, in a context of the intellectual situation of that epoch. The analysis is concentrated on a role of those practice and narrative in dialectics of the search for the perfect language which took place in the West in 15th–17th cc. A technical facet of crystallomancy and its standing in the Renaissance culture as well as conditions and motives urging Dee to invest his years in practicing the magic of that kind. A special attention is paid to the course and results of re­vealing of the primordial tongue by the ‘angels’ and to the Adamic myth that accompanied the linguistic material and informed of substance, functions, and historical fate of Ursprache. It is argued that despite its reprehensibility crystal­lomancy took a relatively high cultural status and a wide spreading. Dee became its convinced adept due to a deep inner crisis caused by eschatological anxiety, collapse of traditional epistemology, and discontent with his previous intellectual initiatives. As spirits claimed, the language that they were imparting to him con­nected the protoplasts with God and angels in Eden and served Adam as a per­fect instrument of knowledge and magic. Explaining his lasting failure of com­prehending of the revealed language the spirits persuaded Dee that it was not time yet for activation of its potencies but that it was very near though known only to God. That time had never come in the magician’s life. Nonetheless, glad­ness of (seeming) communication with the ‘angels’ compensated for bitterness of futile expectations.

The Key Components of South Korea’s Soft Power: Challenges and Trends

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-286
Author(s):  
Agapi E. Matosian
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Korean Wave ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
The Republic

To this day political processes are less and less impacted by military force. States are increasingly resorting to the use of means of latent influence or relying on cultural attraction. Such phenomena have led to the emergence of soft power in international relations. Many countries, including the Republic of Korea, effectively use soft power tools in implementing policies at various levels. This manuscript seeks to analyze the main soft power components and tools of the Republic of Korea in foreign policy. The paper examines the background of the formation and development of soft power strategies. Many factors have predetermined the growing popularity of Korean culture, a phenomenon subsequently called the Korean Wave (Hallyu). This paper identifies the main elements of the Hallyu, including public diplomacy and South Koreas cultural economy exporting pop culture, entertainment, music, TV dramas, and movies, and examines how these elements complement each other.

scholarly journals On the potential causes of the recent Pelagic Sargassum blooms events in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Djakouré ◽  
Moacyr Araujo ◽  
Aubains Hounsou-Gbo ◽  
Carlos Noriega ◽  
Bernard Bourlès
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
North Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Large Mass ◽  
Recirculation Region ◽  
Brown Macroalgae ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
Tropical North Atlantic ◽  
Equatorial Upwelling ◽  
Favorable Conditions

Abstract. Since 2011, unprecedented and repetitive blooms and large mass strandings of the floating brown macroalgæ, Sargassum natans and Sargassum fluitans have been reported along the West Indies, the Caribbean, the Brazilian and the West Africa coasts. Recent studies have highlighted a new tank of Sargassum: the North Equatorial Recirculation Region of the Atlantic Ocean. This region is located off the northeast of Brazil, approximately between the equator and 10° N and from 50° W to 25° W. The potential causes of these recent blooms and mass strandings are still poorly understood. Observational datasets and modelling outputs involving hydrological parameters and climate events are examined focusing on their potential feedback on the observed blooms and mass strandings. The results show that combined conditions have been in favor of these recent changes. High anomalously unprecedented positive sea surface temperature observed in the tropical Atlantic in 2010–2011 could have induced favorable temperature conditions for Sargassum blooms. These favorable conditions were then fed by additional continental nutrients inputs, principally from the Amazon River. These continental nutrients load are the consequences of deforestation, agroindustrial and urban activities in the Amazonian forest. The results also suggest that subsurface intake of nutrients from the equatorial upwelling could also contribute to the blooms of the Sargassum seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean but further studies are needed to confirm these additional inputs.

Iconography «The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin» on the Materials of Ukrainian Icons of the Mother of God, XVIII-XIX Centuries

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-28
Author(s):  
Елена Александровна Сирая
Keyword(s):  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
God Images ◽  
The West ◽  
Xviii Century ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Immaculate Conception ◽  
Artistic Life ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Church Art

Настоящая публикация посвящена одной из актуальных проблем культурного и духовного взаимодействия Украины и Запада. Данное исследование направлено на выявление истоков новых иконографий, а также видоизменения традиционных иконографий Богоматери на Украине в XVIII-XIX вв. Поднят и рассмотрен вопрос об опосредованном влиянии западноевропейской культуры XVIII в. на духовную и художественную жизнь Украины на примере появления и развития иконографии образа Богоматери «Непорочное Зачатие». В контексте исторического положения рассмотрено проникновение католического понимания зачатия Девы Марии в сознание православных иерархов Украины. В свою очередь это повлекло появление иконографии «Непорочного Зачатия». Распространение в XVIII в. этой западной иконографии Богоматери отражало изменение общественного понимания данного образа. Выделены основные иконографические особенности типа «Immaculata Conceptio» и рассмотрены на примерах украинских Богородичных икон XVIII-XIX вв. В статье публикуются неизвестные широким массам изображения Богородичных икон редкой иконографии. Систематизация знаний в области изучения икон Богородицы данного периода на Украине поможет лучше представить общую картину развития иконографии Богоматери. Данная статья может дополнить знания в области изучения памятников церковного искусства Нового времени и послужить иконографическим материалом для иконописцев и историков церковного искусства. The article is devoted to one of the topical №s of cultural and spiritual interaction between Ukraine and the West. This research is aimed to identify the origins of a new iconography as well as some modifications of a traditional iconography of the Mother of God in Ukraine in the XVIII-XIX centuries. It raises the question of an impact which the Western European culture had on a spiritual and artistic life in Ukraine in the XVIII century and how it mediated the creation and development of the iconography of the «Immaculate Conception» image of the Virgin. In the context of a historical situation, the penetration of the Catholic understanding of the conception of Virgin Mary in the minds of Orthodox Ukrainian hierarchs is considered. In its turn, it led to the formation of the «Immaculate Conception» iconography. The spread of a Western iconography of the Mother of God in the XVIII century reflected a change in public understanding of this image. The main iconographic features of the «Immaculata Conception» type are shown through the examples of Ukrainian icons of the Mother of God of the XVIII-XIX centuries. The article presents images of some rare dipterous icons whose iconography isquite unknown to the masses. Structuring the knowledge of Ukrainian icons of the Mother of God in the mentioned period might help to present more fully a process of iconographic development of the Mother of God images. This article could also complement to the research done in the field of studying modern Church art monuments and serve as an iconographic material for icon-painters and Church art historians.

The Polish Shakespearean stage in the post-transformational era

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urszula Kizelbach
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Canonical Texts ◽  
The Doors

The Shakespearean stage productions after 1989 reflected social, political and economic changes in the rapidly transforming Polish reality, which gave rise to a modern type of audience whose sensitivity was shaped by popular music, cinema, digital media and the mass culture. Contemporary Polish directors (Jan Klata, Maja Kleczewska, Grzegorz Jarzyna, Krzysztof Warlikowski) recognized that modernity and tradition can (and should) be combined onstage and that canonical texts can express new meanings in new forms. The new approach to the audience and the canon led to the development of the new aesthetics representing the ‘postdramatic theatre’. The new aesthetics gave new rights to the directors; for example, Maja Kleczewska set her Macbeth in a criminal underworld of the Polish mafia in the 1990s, imbuing her production with kitschy costumes and pop culture symbols. For the same reason, Jan Klata located his H. in the Gdansk shipyard, the birthplace of ‘Solidarity’, infusing his adaptation with the music of The Doors, Metallica and U2. In my analysis of the Polish Shakespearean stage in the post-transformational era, I offer a short overview of some key trends in dramaturgical aesthetics and the directors’ approaches to the adaptation of Shakespeare’s drama to the stage in the 1990s and 2000s. Next, I discuss in more detail the ‘postdramatic’ aesthetics of the modern Shakespeare adaptations based on the examples of two chosen artists, Maja Kleczewska and Jan Klata.

The Populist Palatial

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-218
Author(s):  
Rohan McWilliam
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Music Hall

This chapter explores the West End music hall, which drew on a heterogeneous audience, drawing all classes in for a smart night out. The argument is that we can observe a cultural style that is called here the ‘populist palatial’, which the West End helped propagate. This meant flattering audiences through spectacular buildings and high profile performers. The chapter looks in particular at the London Pavilion music hall on Piccadilly Circus and at two music hall stars: Jenny Hill and the Great MacDermott. Music hall gave women a voice allowing them to be comedians and the source of knowing humour. MacDermott was associated with music hall jingoism and patriotism. West End music hall expressed something of the liberating set of emotions that urban mass culture released.

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