FROM DIGITAL PROFILE TO DIGITAL IMMORTALITY: CONCEPTUALIZING THE PROBLEM FIELD

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
А. А. Рудова
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul ◽  
Modern Technologies

Идея смерти и бессмертия всегда волновала человечество и всегда была предметом философского осмысления, в связи с этим в философии существует множество различных концепций бессмертия: бессмертие как воспроизводство своего рода (бессмертие в потомках); сохранение (мумификация) тела; религиозное бессмертие души; бессмертие как результат творчества или совершения каких-либо значимых действий. Стремительное развитие технологий влечет за собой формирование нового типа мышления и вносит изменения в социокультурные отношения. Рассматриваемая в данной статье концепция «цифрового бессмертия» является предметом исследования философии науки не только потому, что современные технологии оказывают воздействие на сознание человека, но и в связи с тем, что данное направление исследований ставит своей целью сохранение, копирование, возможно воссоздание сознания человека. The idea of death and immortality has always attracted people’s attention and has always been the subject of investigation, the fact that gave birth to many different concepts of immortality in philosophy: immortality as family reproduction (immortality in descendants), preservation (mummification) of the body, religious immortality of the soul, immortality as a result of creativity or the performance of any significant actions. The rapid development of technology entails the formation of a new type of thinking and introduces a change in socio-cultural relations. The concept of «digital immortality» considered in the present paper is the focus of research in the philosophy of science, not only because modern technologies have an impact on human consciousness, but also due to the fact that this line of research aims to preserve, copy and recreate human consciousness.

scholarly journals Intimacy and its violation: on the experience of illness in contemporary women's poetry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata Morzyńska-Wrzosek
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Setting ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Poetry ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
Body Boundary ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Experience Of Illness ◽  
Subjective Identity

This article discusses selected aspects of the problem of self-perception by a sick individual, specific to the poetry of Polish women of the last few decades. The aim of the analysis is to show that the body is central to the illness experience and that a new type of intimacy appears in connection with its ailment. This is a „clinical intimacy”, the specificity of which is defined by a confrontation with suffering, the proliferation of the feeling of isolation, the intensity of emotions related to making the body public, its discovery and exposure in a hospital setting. The issue of „gender expropriation” in a marginal situation is also important, as is the scar, wound, physical violation of the body boundary, read as the „punctum” of the patient's body. The interpretation emphasises the individualization of artistic representations of the aforementioned aspects of „clinical intimacy”. The anthropological research perspective adopted in the sketch allows for the diagnosis of the subject matter in the context of the process of shaping subjective identity.

THE STUDY OF HUMAN BODY IN NGUYEN DUY’S POETRY

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Thuy Chung Thi
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Deep Impression

Human body is the basement for people’s existence. All human consciousness seems to be resulted from their body. It is regarded as a subject that involved in all human activities and created thoughts as well as human values. Although through Nguyen Duy’s writing career, the poet didn’t intend to use body’s language as one of means of expression. However, the body marked a deep impression in his poetry showing the fundaments of his ideas and feelings of the subject. The language of the body in his poems tended to point out some important issues such as the origin of the body, the body in wars, and the body in poverty.

Bioethical Considerations on Cloning and Twinning

1997 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Milani-Comparetti
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The Body ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Deep Impact ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

The subject of cloning has had a deep impact on both public opinion and the scientific community, asking themselves about its meaning, its possible extension to humans, its potential applications and implications.Cloning was often presented by the media as a technique that would allow perpetuating oneself.The resulting impact of cloning on public opinion might be interpreted, in part at least, as making real the dream of reincarnation.In the Christian faith cloning, as a hypothesis of reincarnation, has no place, since the soul is already immortal, while the body dies (excepting its reunion with its soul on the resurrection of the last day).Thus a person's immortality is a dogma of faith for the believer, but only as immortality of the soul, that will rejoin its body only at the end of earthly time, while in our “earthly time” the body is-mortal.The body's mortality is part of natural biological processes. Only in primitive organisms, such as bacteria, and in organisms reproducing through scions or similar processes (as farmers and florists well know) it is harder to set a definite moment for the birth or death of a single individual. But in sexually reproducing higher organisms, such as we are, the cycle of individual life is clearly encompassed and expressed by the well-known sequence whereby each individual “is born, grows, reproduces and dies”.If we consider the individual in all its manifestations – what we geneticists call the “phenotype”, resulting from the interactions between genotype and environment – each subject is undoubtedly endowed with his individuality.The repetition of the very same genotype does not mean repetition of the same individual, as clearly evidenced by the observation of identical twins (monozygotic, i.e., both derived from the same fertilized egg, the zygote) who, much as so closely resembling each other, are each endowed with his or her unique individuality.

scholarly journals Posthumanizm i „syntezoidalny mimetyzm” w komiksie „Vision” Toma Kinga i Gabriela Hernandeza Walty

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 467-479
Author(s):  
Oskar Meller
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Cultural texts on the subject of posthuman can be found long before the post-anthropocentric turn in humanistic research. Literary explanations of posthumanism have entered the conventional canon not only in terms of the science-fiction classics. However, a different line follows the tradition of presenting posthumanist existence in the comic book medium. Scott Jeffrey accurately notes that most comic superheroes are post- or trans-human. Therefore, the transgression of human existence into a posthumanoid being is presented. However, in the case of the less culturally recognizable character of Vision, a synthezoid from the Marvel’s Avengers team, combining the body of the android and human consciousness, the vector of transgression is reversed. This article is an attempt to analyze the way the humanization process of this hero is narrative in the Vision series of screenwriter Tom King and cartoonist Gabriel Hernandez Walta. On the one hand, King mimetic reproduces the sociological panorama of American suburbs, showing the process of adaptation of the synthesoid family to the realities of full-time work and neighborly intercourse, on the other, he emphasizes the robotic limits of Vision humanization. Ultimately, the narrative line follows the cracks between these two plans, allowing King to present, with the help of inhuman heroes, one of the most human stories in the Marvel superhero universe.

scholarly journals On the role of foreign experts in the development of Soviet industry during 1929–1933 (on the example of Stalingrad industry)

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Dmitrii Ivanovich Lozin ◽  
Elena Yur'evna Bolotova
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Engineering Construction ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Volgograd Region ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Labor Resources

The goal of this research is to reveal the role of foreign experts in the period of industrialization of the Soviet economy (1929–1933) on the example of the development of Stalingrad industry. Using the data from the State Archive of Volgograd Region and scientific literature, the author discloses the factors of engaging foreign experts in Stalingrad enterprises, forms of their employment, size, and qualitative characteristics. The subject of this research is the foreign experts involved in the industrial enterprises in Stalingrad. The article is based on the systemic approach, which views foreign experts as part of the labor resources of Stalingrad industrial enterprises; as well as on structural-functional analysis, which reveals the vectors and scope of activity of the foreign employees. The novelty of this research consists in introduction of new archival data into the scientific discourse, as well as in comprehensive analysis of the reminiscences of some foreign specialists about the specificity of their work. The following conclusions were made: the reason for inviting foreign expert to the USSR during the Industrialization period was substantiated by shortage of competent personnel and engineering-technical workers, who would have been capable to accomplish the tasks of building the new type of enterprise; hundreds of foreign specialists were brought to the factories of Stalingrad via legal or illegal methods’; over the period from 1930 to 1933, the number of foreign experts has gradually decreased due to increase in the number of the local qualified personnel; despite this fact, foreign employees and their experience in engineering, construction oversight, introduction of new methods of production to the Soviet workers became the starting point for the rapid development of Stalingrad industry.

scholarly journals Positive Criminology in a Fight for the Human Being

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Vitaly Nomokonov ◽  
Tatyana Sudakova
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
General Context ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject

Directions for the development of modern criminology, as well as the predicted trends of its future shape, are determined by social processes. A rapid development of convergence technology, as a phenomenon of a new type that is the result of the integration of sciences and the emergence of the techno-science uniting many aspects of natural sciences and technology where knowledge is society- and practice-oriented, set new goals for criminology. The achievement of these goals should be methodologically and practically «innovatively interwoven» within the general context of scientific and social development. The problem of basic premises that should be used as guiding principles for the development of criminology requires an urgent solution. Positive criminology, in the system of leading goalposts that determine, among other things, the essence of its methodological basis, should be based on the principles of convergence, universal humanism and non-violent conflict resolution, creation of a healthy society, patriotism, realistic philosophy, it should preserve the traditions of the past and be ahead of modern trends. The question of outlining the subject of new criminology is complicated and unclear due to the singularity of transformational technologies themselves. At the same time, the development of criminological mentality should be based on the necessity to adapt it to the criminal and technological threats of a new type, which are highly probable to spread uncontrollably. Convergence technologies simultaneously produce a multitude of complex socio-humanitarian problems - preservation of humans, improvement of the human potential and the standard of living - that should be solved by criminology from the standpoint of improving its quality and creating an adequate content of its future basics.

On a New Type of Fungus: Coelomomyces stegomyiae n.g., n.sp., Parasitic in the Body-Cavity of the Larva of Stegomyia scutellaris Walker (Diptera, Nematocera, Culicidae)

Parasitology ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Keilin
Keyword(s):  
Body Cavity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Parasitic Fungus ◽  
External Appearance ◽  
Protozoal Parasite ◽  
Luxuriant Growth ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Enormous Number ◽  
Coelomomyces Stegomyiae

Among six parasitised larve of Stegomya scutellaris Walker, collected by Dr W. A. Lamborn in the Federated Malay States, Five Contained a ciliate which I have described(Parasitology, XIII. p.216)under the name of Lambornella stegomyiae n.g., n.sp., while the remaining larva harboured a new parasitic fungus which forms the subject of this communication. The larva had been fixed and was preserved in formaldehyde solution (10 per cent.) and was labelled: “Larva of Stegomyia scutellaris Walker. Infestation with protozoal parasite and a luxuriant growth of Vorticella. Kajang,” by Dr Lamborn. When the larva was examined under a low power the surface of its body was found to be extensively covered with tufts of Vorticella, whilst its interior harboured an enormous number of parasites which in the gills and the posterior segments were packed in solid masses completely filling these parts (Fig. 1). As seen by transparency the parasites are oval in shape, 37·5 to 57 μ long and 20 to 30 μ in diameter, surrounded by a more or less thick yellowish wall. In their external appearance, size, and position in the host, they are so surprisingly similar to Lambornella that it was at first quite natural to take them for the resting stages or cysts of this ciliate.

Diaghilev and British Writing

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Susan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opening Up

This article explores the diversity of British literary responses to Diaghilev's project, emphasising the way in which the subject matter and methodologies of Diaghilev's modernism were sometimes unexpectedly echoed in expressions of contemporary British writing. These discussions emerge both in writing about Diaghilev's work, and, more discretely, when references to the Russian Ballet find their way into the creative writing of the period, serving to anchor the texts in a particular cultural milieu or to suggest contemporary aesthetic problems in the domain of literary aesthetics developing in the period. Figures from disparate fields, including literature, music and the visual arts, brought to their criticism of the Ballets Russes their individual perspectives on its aesthetics, helping to consolidate the sense of its importance in contributing to the inter-disciplinary flavour of modernism across the arts. In the field of literature, not only did British writers evaluate the Ballets Russes in terms of their own poetics, their relationship to experimentation in the novel and in drama, they developed an increasing sense of the company's place in dance history, its choreographic innovations offering material for wider discussions, opening up the potential for literary modernism's interest in impersonality and in the ‘unsayable’, discussions of the body, primitivism and gender.

Compulsive Bodies, Creative Bodies: Beckett'sQuadand Agency in the 21stCentury

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Amanda Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Repetitive Movement ◽  
Repetitive Tasks ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
Geological Space ◽  
Alternative Reading

Lying in ditches, tromping through mud, wedged in urns, trash bins, buried in earth, bodies in Beckett appear anything but capable of acting meaningfully on their environments. Bodies in Beckett seem, rather, synonymous with abjection, brokenness, and passivity—as if the human were overcome by its materiality: odours, pain, foot sores, decreased mobility. To the extent that Beckett's personae act, they act vaguely (wandering) or engage in quasi-obsessive, repetitive tasks: maniacal rocking, rotating sucking stones and biscuits, uttering words evacuated of sense, ceaseless pacing. Perhaps the most vivid dramatization of bodies compelled to meaningless, repetitive movement is Quad (1981), Beckett's ‘ballet’ for television, in which four bodies in hooded robes repeat their series ad infinitum. By 1981, has all possibility for intentional action in Beckett been foreclosed? Are we doomed, as Hamm puts it, to an eternal repetition of the same? (‘Moments for nothing, now as always, time was never and time is over, reckoning closed and story ended.’)This article proposes an alternative reading of bodily abjection, passivity and compulsivity in Beckett, a reading that implies a version of agency more capacious than voluntarism. Focusing on Quad as an illustrative case, I show how, if we shift our focus from the body's diminished possibilities for movement to the imbrication of Beckett's personae in environments (a mound of earth), things, and objects, a different story emerges: rather than dramatizing the impossibility of action, Beckett's work may sketch plans for a more ecological, post-human version of agency, a more collaborative mode of ‘acting’ that eases the divide between the human, the world of inanimate objects, and the earth.Movements such as new materialism and object-oriented ontology challenge hierarchies among subjects, objects and environments, questioning the rigid distinction between animate and inanimate, and the notion of the Anthropocene emphasizes the influence of human activity on social and geological space. A major theoretical challenge that arises from such discourses (including 20th-century challenges to the idea of an autonomous, willing, subject) is to arrive at an account of agency robust enough to survive if not the ‘death of the subject’ then its imbrication in the material and social environment it acts upon. Beckett's treatment of the human body suggests a version of agency that draws strength from a body's interaction with its environment, such that meaning is formed in the nexus between body and world. Using the example of Quad, I show how representations of the body in Beckett disturb the opposition between compulsivity (when a body is driven to move or speak in the absence of intention) and creative invention. In Quad, serial repetition works to create an interface between body and world that is receptive to meanings outside the control of a human will. Paradoxically, compulsive repetition in Beckett, despite its uncomfortable closeness to addiction, harnesses a loss of individual control that proposes a more versatile and ecologically mindful understanding of human action.

STRATEGI PRODUK BORDIR DI KAPALO KOTO, KOTO TANGAH SIMALANGGANG, KOTA PAYAKUMBUH (Studi Kasus di Usaha Bordir Limpapeh”s Kebaya)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Riris Susiani ◽  
Ernawati Ernawati
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Export Market ◽  
Product Strategy ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Times ◽  
Descriptive Method

AbstrakMasalah dalam penelitian ini yaitu pentingnya strategi produk dalam menjalankan sebuah usaha agar mampu bertahan dan bersaing  dengan perusahaan lain yang sejenis dalam kondisi persaingan yang ketat dan perkembangan zaman yang sangat cepat. Strategi produk sangat diperlukan dalam mememenuhi tuntutan konsumen seperti meningkatkan kualitas, menciptakan merek, pelayanan serta jaminan terhadap produk yang ditawarkan agar usaha mampu berkembang. Limpapeh”s Kebaya adalah usaha yang sedang berkembang dan telah mampu memasarkan produk bordirnya hingga menembus pasar ekspor. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan strategi produk bordir di Limpapeh”s Kebaya, Kapalo Koto, Koto Tangah Simalanggang, Kota Payakumbuh. Metode penelitian menggunakan metode deskriftif kualitatif, jenis data berupa data primer dan  sekunder. Teknik pengumpulan data melalui observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data dilakukan dengan teknik analisa model interaktif yang berkaitan dengan pokok permasalahan yaitu dengan model reduksi data, penyajian data dan pengambilan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian yaitu strategi produk yang dilakukan di Limpapeh”s Kebaya adalah dimulai dari menciptakan produk bordir yang berkualitas, desain motif bordir yang up to date dan kreatif, menyediakan ukuran yang special, memberi merek pada produk bordir, memberi kemasan yang menarik (paperbag) dan serbaguna, pelayanan yang cepat, tepat dan ramah serta pemberian jaminan terhadap produk border.Kata Kunci: strategi produk, pelayanan, bordir. AbstractThe problem in this study is the importance of product strategy in running a business in order to be able to survive and compete with other similar companies in conditions of intense competition and very rapid development of the times. Product strategy is very necessary in fulfilling consumer demands such as improving quality, creating brands, services and guarantees for products offered so that businesses are able to grow. Limpapeh's Kebaya is a growing business and has been able to market its embroidery products to penetrate the export market. This study aims to describe the strategy of embroidery products in Limpapeh's Kebaya, Kapalo Koto, Koto Tangah Simalanggang, Payakumbuh City. The research method uses qualitative descriptive method, the type of data in the form of primary and secondary data. The technique of collecting data through observation, interviews and documentation. Data analysis techniques are carried out with interactive model analysis techniques that are related to the subject matter, namely with a model of data reduction, data presentation and conclusion. The results of the research, namely the product strategy carried out at Limpapeh's Kebaya, are started from creating quality embroidery products, up-to-date and creative embroidery motifs, providing special sizes, giving brands to embroidery products, giving attractive packaging (paperbag) and versatile, fast, precise and friendly service and guarantee of embroidery products. Keywords: product, service, embroidery strategy.

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