Special Issue – July/August 2020: Sustaining a Focus on Human Experience in the Face of COVID-19

The pandemic crisis has led to a renew centrality of public sector communica-tion in a hybrid and convergent media ecosystems aiming at (re)building relation-ships based on trust between institutions and citizens. This contribution reflects on the strengths and fragility of the Italian public communication in the face of the pandemic, considering regulatory processes and paths of professionalization. It focuses also on the challenges of social media use in public sector, suggesting a critical approach towards the platformization of the public sector communication activities. The last part of this manuscript presents the different articles that com-pose the special issue.

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Reconciliation in the Cathedral: Isaac's Religion in “Owen-Mass”

Музыкальная академия ◽

10.34690/125 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 6-36

Author(s):

Роман Александрович Насонов

Keyword(s):

Song Cycle ◽

Human Experience ◽

Christian Religion ◽

Religious Symbolism ◽

The World ◽

The Face ◽

War Requiem ◽

The Military ◽

The Church ◽

Church Tradition

Статья представляет собой исследование религиозной символики и интерпретацию духовного смысла «Военного реквиема» Бриттена. Воспользовавшись Реквиемом Верди как моделью жанра, композитор отдал ключевую роль в драматургии сочинения эпизодам, созданным на основе военных стихов Оуэна; в результате произведение воспринимается подобно циклу песен в обрамлении частей заупокойной мессы. Военная реальность предстает у Бриттена амбивалентно. Совершая надругательство над древней верой и разбивая чаяния современных людей, война дает шанс возрождению религиозных чувств и символов. Опыт веры, порожденный войной, переживается остро, но при всей своей подлинности зыбок и эфемерен. Церковная традиция хранит веру прочно, однако эта вера в значительной мере утрачивает чистоту и непосредственность, которыми она обладает в момент своего возникновения. Бриттен целенаправленно выстраивает диалог между двумя пластами человеческого опыта (церковным и военным), находит те точки, в которых между ними можно установить контакт. Но это не отменяет их глубокого противоречия. Вера, рождаемая войной, представляет собой в произведении Бриттена «отредактированный» вариант традиционной христианской религии: в ее центре находится не триумфальная победа Христа над злом, а пассивная, добровольно отказавшаяся защищать себя перед лицом зла жертва - не Бог Сын, а «Исаак». Смысл этой жертвы - не в преображении мира, а в защите гуманности человека от присущего ему же стремления к агрессивному самоутверждению. The study of religious symbolism and the interpretation of the spiritual meaning of “War Requiem” by Britten have presentation in this article. Using Verdi's Requiem as a model of the genre, the composer gave a key role in the drama to the episodes based on the war poems by Wilfred Owen; as a result, the work is perceived as a song cycle framed by parts of the funeral mass. The military reality appears ambivalent. While committing a blasphemy against the ancient belief and shattering the aspirations of modern people, the war offers a chance to revive religious feelings and symbols. This experience of war-born faith is felt keenly, but for all its authenticity, it is shaky and ephemeral. The church tradition keeps faith firmly, but this faith largely loses the original purity and immediacy. Britten purposefully builds a dialogue between the two layers of human experience (church and military), finds those points where contact can be established between them. But this does not change their profound antagonism. In Britten's work, faith born of war is an “edited” version of the traditional Christian religion: in its center is not the triumphant victory of Christ over evil, but a passive sacrifice that voluntarily refused to defend itself in the face of evil-not God the Son, but “Isaac.” The meaning of this sacrifice is not in transforming the world, but in protecting the humanity of a person from his inherent desire for aggressive self-assertion.

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Repercussions

Security ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691157528.003.0011 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

John T. Hamilton

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ◽

Human Experience ◽

Blaise Pascal ◽

Scientific Career ◽

Political Views ◽

The Face

This chapter considers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who devoted his philosophic and scientific career to harmonizing discordances and unifying disparities, calculating the otherwise incalculable and reconciling the seemingly unreconciliable. The universalizing thrust of Leibniz's thinking is of a piece both with his ecumenism and with his moral and political views. The Cartesian who rejects phenomena as false simply because they can be doubted lacks the courage to face conflicts that may arise within any aspect of human experience. Instead, Leibniz refused to be daunted by uncertainty. In this regard, he should be numbered among those seventeenth-century theoreticians of probability like Pierre de Fermat, Blaise Pascal, and Jakob Bernoulli, who strove to develop models of rational judgment and action in the face of grave uncertainty.

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Baroque and Neobaroque: Making Thistory

PMLA ◽

10.1632/pmla.2009.124.1.150 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 124 (1) ◽

pp. 150-155 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Roland Greene

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

Human Experience ◽

Empirical Science ◽

The Face

Among the most historically fixed of art historical and literary concepts, the Baroque arises at the intersection of early modern classicism, imperialism, and science—that is, out of the high Renaissance—to become a kind of antiprogram of resistances: to the absolutist state, the rise of empirical science, the pressures of empire, and other sixteenth-century signs of the gathering regimentation of knowledge. With a flourish of forms and a play of perspectives, the baroque embodies the recoil from such regimentation and the gathering sense that all these systems for organizing human experience fall short in the face of disorder, contingency, and death. Seen from certain vantages, the specimens of the baroque often seem complicit with the projects of absolutism, empire, and late humanism; but regarded in all their dimensions, such works are often complex reactions, critical and compromised, to those projects.

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Heroism and the Human Experience: Foreword to the Special Issue

Journal of Humanistic Psychology ◽

10.1177/0022167818772201 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 371-381 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zeno E. Franco ◽

Olivia Efthimiou

Keyword(s):

Human Experience ◽

Special Issue

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Introduction to “Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change”

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel9110368 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 368

Author(s):

Roger Robins

Keyword(s):

Institutional Change ◽

Social Engagement ◽

Special Issue ◽

Cultural Expression ◽

New Era ◽

The Face ◽

Society Today

This special issue of Religions assembles a talented group of international scholars from a variety of regions and disciplines to address contemporary developments within global Pentecostalism, a burgeoning movement that is changing the face—and interface—of religion and society today. A total of twelve articles (representing the work of thirteen authors) speak to issues surfacing along one of three overlapping trajectories: cultural expression, social engagement, and institutional change. The introduction briefly sets a framework for each article and calls attention to its wider connections and notable contributions. As a body of scholarship, these articles constitute a set of strategic soundings that refine our understanding of the texture and topography of global Pentecostalism. In addition to their substantive contributions, the authors, viewed collectively, also put on display the central attributes of a new era in Pentecostal studies, one distinguished by its productivity, diversity, range, and interdisciplinary ken.

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Preamble to Special Issue

Construction Economics and Building ◽

10.5130/ajceb.v5i2.2962 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

City of Melbourne

Keyword(s):

Construction Industry ◽

Statistical Data ◽

Special Issue ◽

Sustainable Technologies ◽

Technical Requirements ◽

The Face ◽

Lively Debate ◽

The Subject ◽

The City ◽

Design Construction

About 15 years ago the City of Melbourne came up with a scheme that would transform completely the face and the fortunes of the city. At the time the city, like thousands of others around the globe, emptied at night as tens of thousands of commuters decamped in their cars for the suburbs. The Council's Postcode 3000 scheme, launched in 1992, outlined plans to entice residential development back into the city, through financial and technical incentives, technical advice, a review of technical requirements, research and statistical data, promotional events and publicity.It is hard now to believe -walking through the bustling streets lined with converted apartments and thriving businesses -that anyone was ever sceptical about the potential for city living Melbourne-style. The success of Postcode 3000 far exceeded even the most ambitious targets and the City of Melbourne became one of the fastest growing municipalities in the land.With its visionary new Council House 2 (CH2) building , the City of Melbourne is once again planning a lifestyle revolution. This time the subject is sustainability and the target is the construction industry. Using the CH2 office building as a living , breathing example, the Council intends to demonstrate the potential for sustainable technologies to transform the way we approach the design, construction and indeed entire philosophy of our built environment. Just as Postcode 3000 reinvented the city, the City of Melbourne wants to see the CH2 example copied , improved upon and enthusiastically taken up throughout Melbourne and far, far beyond.As before, there are a great many sceptics. The City's approach to this has been to patiently press ahead with construction of its best source of proof -CH2 itself -while actively and energetically encouraging lively debate -from the greatest enthusiasts to the harshest critics alike.

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The career and contribution to Australian and international agricultural science of Clive McDonald Francis: an introduction

Crop and Pasture Science ◽

10.1071/cp13100 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 64 (4) ◽

pp. 295 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. A. Ewing ◽

D. L. Chatel ◽

M. L. Poole ◽

W. J. Collins

Keyword(s):

Genetic Resources ◽

Small Group ◽

Subterranean Clover ◽

Agricultural Science ◽

Special Issue ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Pasture Legumes ◽

Creative Research ◽

The Face

Dr Clive Francis is amongst a small group of scientists whose efforts have changed the face of Australian agriculture. This special issue of Crop & Pasture Science highlights his broadranging impact delivered through the pasture cultivars he bred, the knowledge that he generated and the influence that he had on peers and policy makers. His cultivars of subterranean clover are still grown on many millions of hectares across southern Australia and his efforts were pivotal in generating momentum for creative research on a wide array of crop and pasture legumes, particularly the collection, evaluation and preservation of genetic resources for use in current and future breeding initiatives.

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Teaching the Ethics/Technology Interface

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care ◽

10.1017/s0266462300011740 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 61-66

Author(s):

Albert R. Jonsen

Keyword(s):

Electronic System ◽

Human Experience ◽

Human Being ◽

Human Face ◽

Old World ◽

New Words ◽

The Face ◽

Human World ◽

The Mind ◽

The Way

The problem that I will discuss in this essay is marvellously illustrated in the title given to me by the editors. The word “interface” is itself part of the jargon of technology, the technospeak needed by those who develop, use, and discuss functions, things, and relationships that had not existed previously in the human world. They must make up new words to describe new realities (and, unfortunately, allow new and ugly words to obscure old ones). An “interface” presumably describes the way in which one electronic system contacts another so that the first energizes the second. In the old world of human experience, an “interface” is impossible. The face of one human being is visible to another; two faces, smiling or frowning at each other, communicate. The mind behind one face can interpret the movements of another. Never does one human face interpenetrate or merge with another.

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Building the Base

Theatre Survey ◽

10.1017/s0040557406000202 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 231-237

Author(s):

Joan Herrington

Keyword(s):

Human Experience ◽

American Theatre ◽

Global Issue ◽

Waiting For Godot ◽

The Face

In the February 2005 issue of American Theatre, Ben Cameron considered impending season selection at theatres across the country and noted, “There are no magic bullets. God knows, I wish there were—especially in these times. … Even in the face of critical raves, standing ovations and a true sense of artistic pride, many have still fallen short of attendance goals.”2 Cameron explored a range of possible solutions to dwindling audiences: a season with no classics, or perhaps only classics; maybe opera, or A Christmas Carol, or the ever-popular Waiting for Godot. Indeed, the need to build audiences haunts most contemporary practitioners as we struggle to reestablish the place of theatre in the midst of its media sisters. It is a global issue, as noted in a column by Bhaskar Ghose in Frontline, a national Indian magazine: “Theatre needs to recapture its participative quality and density of human experience in order to woo the audience back from television and films. …”3 How then, do we build the base?

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