scholarly journals REGULISANO SOPSTVO / REGULATED SELF

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-156
Author(s):  
Nemanja Djukic
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
World Picture ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Conservative Function

Starting from Agamben's understanding of the dispositive, Foucault's concept of technologies of the self, Derrida's deconstruction of the ontological status of identity and Lacan's concept of identity desubjectivization, in the article that follows, we analyze identity as a symbolic product of the reification and internalization of the auto-centric nature of the semantic order into the consciousness of individuals. The disposition, as a pre-experiential symbolic space of an image of the world, determines the technology of the self and the type of self-experience. The pre-modern World picture produces an ethnocentric self, the modern World picture produces an egocentric self and the postmodern World picture produces a logocentric self. Identity has no ontological status - it is the result of attributing meaning to the biological presence of individuals. Identity is not subjective than, as pure objectivity, it is the product of a reification of the semantic order as a subject. Identity has a conservative function because as a result of the internalization of the symbolic order into the consciousness of individuals, its function is to preserve the semantic order that establishes it, not to overcome it.

Afterword

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Long
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
The Self ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Modern Era

In the early modern world, exceptional bodies are linked to knowledge, not as the production of knowledge of the self through the scrutiny of those who have been ‘othered’, but as a means of inducing self-scrutiny and awareness of the limitations of human understanding. Exceptional beings and phenomena entice us to consider the world beyond that which is familiar to us and raise questions concerning our knowledge systems based on notions of what is natural or, in our modern era, normal. Rather than reacting with horror, disgust or pity, we can learn to respect the variety, mobility and resilience of the natural world in our contemplation of that which we see as exceptional.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Bingham
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The Self ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
To Come ◽  
Considerable Body

Ushering the reader into both the world of early modern radical religion and the considerable body of scholarly literature devoted to its study, the introduction offers a précis of what is to come and a backward glance to explain how the proposed journey contributes to ongoing scholarly conversations. After orienting readers to the basic methodological boundaries within which the book will operate and briefly situating the book within the wider historiography, the introduction adumbrates the shape of the work as a whole and encapsulates its central argument. The introduction contends that the mid-seventeenth-century men and women often described as “Particular Baptists” would not have readily understood themselves as such. This tension between the self-identity of the early modern actors and the identity imposed upon them by future scholars has significant implications for how we understand both radical religion during the English Revolution and the period more broadly.

scholarly journals From self to identity: a metaphysical shift

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 16036
Author(s):  
Nikolay Rybakov ◽  
Natalya Yarmolich ◽  
Maxim Bakhtin
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Selection Procedure ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Complete Loss ◽  
The Self ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines the problem of identity realization in the modern information society. The authors analyze the concept of identity in comparison with the concept of self, reveal the features of the manifestation and deformation of identity, and explore ways to generate multiple identities. The study of the concept of identity is based on the worldview principles inherent in different epochs. An attempt is made to give a complete (holographic) picture of identity, and the question is raised about the criteria for distinguishing genuine identity from non-genuine (pseudo-identity). The relationship between the concepts of "I" and self is studied, identification is presented as a process of predication of "I". In the structure of identity, such features as constancy and variability are distinguished. On this basis, the classical and non-classical identities are distinguished and their characteristics are given. It is shown that the breakup of these components into independent parts results in the complete loss of the object's identity, which leads to its disintegration and death. It is shown that in the conditions of fluid reality, identity turns from a stabilizing factor into a situational one, which encourages the subject to constantly choose an identity. The conditions of transformation of identification into a diffuse process that loses the strict unambiguous binding of the subject to something fixed and defined are considered. Due to this, the identity of the subject is "smeared" all over the world. As a result of this process, the subject loses the need to identify itself with anything: it "collapses" into itself. As a result, there is a contradiction of identification: the multiplicity of identities gives the subject a huge choice between them, at the same time due to the diffusion of identity (its smearing around the world) the selection procedure itself loses its meaning. But if the identity is lost, there are problems with the self, so it turns out to be the end of the existence of the person himself. Therefore, in all the transformations of identities in the modern world, it is important that it is preserved.

scholarly journals APOKALIPSĖS KINAS KAIP KONTRFAKTINIS FENOMENAS

Problemos ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 165-175
Author(s):  
Nerijus Milerius
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Special Mechanism ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Global Character ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Straipsnyje analizuojamas pramoginio apokalipsės kino ir kasdienybės santykis. Kinematografinius pasaulio pabaigos vaizdus ir kasdienybę įprasta traktuoti per jų tarpusavio opoziciją. Tačiau straipsnyje parodoma, jog tokia įprasta traktuotė yra smarkiai modifikuojama, jei domėn priimama kasdienybės  kontrfaktinių negatyvių galimybių sritis.Kaip argumentavo anglų teoretikas A. Giddensas, įprastoje kasdienių veiksmų, įvykių ir situacijų tėkmėje kontrfaktinės negatyvios galimybės yra suskliaustos ir užblokuotos, nes gresia kasdienio subjekto egzistencijai. Kad ir kokios, globalios ar lokalios, būtų kontrfaktinės galimybės – nuo Armagedono iki banalaus komiško eksceso, – jos neutralizuojamos kaip ardančios įprastos kasdienybės nustatytą tvarką.Apokalipsės kinas aktyvuoja suskliaustas kontrfaktines galimybes, bet kartu sukuria specifinį mechanizmą jas neutralizuoti. Taigi tai, kas kasdienybėje funkcionuoja savaime, beveik automatiškai, apokalipsės kine eksploatuojama intencionaliai. Kinematografiniame santykyje „matyti–būti matomam“žiūrovui suteikiama privilegijuota pozicija, leidžianti matyti, bet išlikti nematomam, nepaveiktam globalių destrukcijos vaizdų.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: apokalipsės kinas, kasdienybė, negatyvios kontrfaktinės galimybės.   Apocalypse Cinema as Counterfactual PhenomenonNerijus Milerius SummaryThe article deals with the relationship of apocalypse cinema genre to the everyday. Usually cinematic images of the end of the world and the routine everyday are treated through the prism of their mutual opposition. It is argued, however, that such interpretation should be essentially modified, by taking into account the realm of the negative counterfactual possibilities of the everyday.As Anthony Giddens has put it, in the habitual flow of everyday actions, events and situations, counterfactual negative possibilities are bracketed out and blocked, since negative counterfactual world threatens the self-identity of the everyday subject. All the counterfactual possibilities, irrespective to theirlocal or global character, small misunderstandings or Armageddon, are neutralized as something that destroys the pre-established everyday order. Apocalypse cinema activates bracketed counterfactual possibilities but also creates the special mechanism to neutralize them. Procedure, which functions in the ordinary everyday automatically, is created intentionally in the apocalypse cinema. In the cinematic relationship “to see – to be seen”, a spectatoris given the privileged position that allows him/her to see, but remain unseen, not affected by the images of the global destruction.Key words: apocalypse movie, the everyday, negative counterfactual possibilities.  

scholarly journals Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110557
Author(s):  
Kaisa Tiusanen
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Subject ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Personal Journey ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Ideal

In the world of wellness, food and eating are fundamentally important to one’s subjectivity: the self in this sphere is created and maintained through food consumption along a plant-based, ‘wholesome’ and healthy personal journey to well-being. This article focuses on the analysis of wellness food blogs run by women, aiming to map out the technologies of the self through which the ‘ideal wellness subject’ is created. The analysis examines technologies of subjectivity as they aspire towards (1) balance, (2) healing and (3) narrativization of the self. The article suggests that the subjectivities related to wellness culture draw from postfeminist and healthist ideologies and are based on a neoliberal discourse of individuality and self-control. The sociocultural indifference of wellness culture and its prerogative to police the self through culturally hegemonic pursuits based on (the right kind of) consumption makes the language of wellness a prominent neoliberal discourse.

scholarly journals To-Do Is to Be: Foucault, Levinas, and Technologically Mediated Subjectivation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Peter Bergen ◽  
Peter-Paul Verbeek
Keyword(s):  
Self Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Technological Mediation ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
Technological Artifacts ◽  
Ethical Subjectivity ◽  
The World

AbstractThe theory of technological mediation aims to take technological artifacts seriously, recognizing the constitutive role they play in how we experience the world, act in it, and how we are constituted as (moral) subjects. Its quest for a compatible ethics has led it to Foucault’s “care of the self,” i.e., a transformation of the self by oneself through self-discipline. In this regard, technologies have been interpreted as power structures to which one can relate through Foucaultian “technologies of the self” or ascetic practices. However, this leaves unexplored how concrete technologies can actually support the process of self-care. This paper explores this possibility by examining one such technology: a gamified To-Do list app. Doing so, it first shows that despite the apparent straightforwardness of gamification, confrontation and shame play an important role in how the app motivates me to do better. Second, inspired by Ihde’s schema of human-technology relations, it presents different ways in which the app may confront me with myself. Subsequently, it accounts for the motivation and shame that this technologically mediated confrontation with myself invokes through a Levinasian account of ethical subjectivity. In so doing, it also shows how Levinas’ phenomenology implies a responsibility for self-care and how nonhuman, technological others may still call me to responsibility. It concludes with a reflection on the role of gamification in technologically mediated subjectivation and some implications for design.

Identity, Community and the Natural Environment: Some Perspectives from Process Thinking

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-267
Author(s):  
Clare Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Process Thinking ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Differentiation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

AbstractAlfred North Whitehead's and Charles Hartshorne's process thinking presents a complex and sophisticated metaphysical underpinning for a theory of self and self-identity. Their construction of the self has significant implications for understanding of the (human) community and the natural environment. Process thinking, I argue, undercuts the idea of self unity; of self-continuity over time; and of self-differentiation from the world. When combined, these three elements mean that it is hard to separate the individual, personal self from the community and the natural world. I compare these implications from process thinking with what might seem similar implications from radical ecological philosophies. Although there are ethical and metaphysical differences between process thinkers and deep ecologists, both kinds of theory need to be treated with caution in application to our thinking about the environment.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF NATIONAL CULTURE IN THE DE-CONFLICITING OF UKRAINIANNESS

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Sorochuk
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Hybrid Warfare ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The World

The article raises the issue of the importance of preserving and increasing the national cultural traditions of Ukrainians, without which one cannot hope for development in the civilization process, because based on cultural and spiritual priorities, a full-fledged sociocultural environment with values is forming. The article considers the essence of national culture as a sphere of spiritual and material possessions that influence the communicative organization of people with specific values and norms of behavior. The role of national culture as a potent factor in the deconfliction of Ukrainians in Ukraine and abroad is underlining. It is known that Ukrainian culture has been leveled for a long time, subjected to censorship bans and ideological pressure, especially during the Soviet period. Our culture has gone through a period of destruction, but now it is a time for national and cultural revival, opportunities for free choice and self-realization of the artist, time for renaissance and development of the ethnocultural heritage of Ukrainians, which is one of the priorities of national revival and preservation. The Ukrainian nation is modernizing, actively creating its cultural space despite the slowdown of the outdated administrative system, economic instability, hybrid warfare, and manifestations of military aggression by Russia. The article examines the peculiarities of the creation of the cultural space of Ukrainians in modern conditions, taking into account the challenges of the globalized world and the threats of the "Russian world". Thanks to the state support and implementation of humanitarian policy programs, the consolidation of Ukrainian societies, and the unification of citizens of Ukraine and Ukrainians in the world around national values and priorities. The core of the unity of Ukrainians is the national idea, the preservation of self-identity, patriotism, and the establishment of the ukrainian nation in the modern world. The emphasis is determined on the fact that national culture has a great potential in establishing Ukraine in the world cultural space and is a consolidating factor in the political unity of society, especially in the current conditions of hybrid warfare and the struggle of Ukrainians against Russian aggression.

Mirror of induction as a system of self-determination of artificial intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Makarov
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Intelligent Agent ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Artificial Intelligent ◽  
World Picture ◽  
The World

his article provides a philosophical approach to the problem of induction for an Embedded in environment intelligent agent. The current hypothesis considers a model of artificial intelligent provided that the World-picture embedded in agent which is surrounded by natural environment. Also when the agent is out of data about its environment, it must achieve the self-capability to fill data about the World in the epistemology process. Otherwise, the agent must be able to close the gaps in its internal World. The agent, as it accumulates knowledge, must be aware of itself as a part of something greater, calculate the substance from which it was created, for this purpose an epistemological approach in learning is proposed. In conclusion, it is suggested that artificial intelligence is more likely to appear in an environment whеre it has undeniable advantages over natural intelligence, this space is virtual.

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