scholarly journals Design as a Critical Research

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Macedo Calejo ◽  
Graça Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Aesthetic Appearance ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Symbolic Reality ◽  
The Aesthetic

Historically the imaginary and the hegemonic thinking, in the Western North globe has been marked by the epistemology and capitalists archetypes. Notwithstanding the design as a practice and discipline seem shielded on a simplistic discourse of functional / communicative efficiency, wandering through multiple aestheticism apparently neutral in relation to the symbolic but in fact they never are because what really happens is that the aesthetic appearance of the generated forms will always be a review of the powers ruling. We start from understanding that the act of creating an aesthetic artefact will also be a movement of  inscription in a discursive platform (that precedes it)  thus being itself an narrative act and representing a positioning in relation to certain symbolic reality. On the presented reflection Design is seen as a discipline and / or an instrument of action, whose operational relevance tends to question and simultaneously rehearsing a response to not just the question why but also for what? Apparently Design is a content mediator, but also, it is structure, body and idea. We think design praxis as discipline and enrolment tool for critical thought and social transformation. For guiding research in this text, we propose the following question: Can Design form an engagement with the symbolic for them in order to be an active part in the production of critical thinking in the place where it belongs? Methodologically our argument will be present in two different moments: 1. first, exploratory nature where we rescue the draw issues in the practice of design and 2. second, analytical nature concerning the subject issues (graphic and / or utility ) of design and how it incorporates formal rites, political events and social practices of contemporary everyday life. We consider the praxis of design as a discipline and critical thinking enrolment tool as agents of social transformation. With this study we seek to contribute to design’s phenomenology by studying the artefacts of configuration as well as the possible messages they convey and what impact they may have on the social network.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/IFDP.2016.3263

Stanisław Kowalczyk. Elementy filozofii i teologii sportu [The elements of philosophy and theology of sport]

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
Stanisław Kowalczyk ◽  
Jan Kłos
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Art Philosophy ◽  
The Aesthetic

Sport plays today an eminent role in man's life and in societies. Various sciences have made it the subject-matter of their reflection, i.e. psychology, sociology, the natural and humanistic sciences, art, philosophy, and theology. The present work seeks to answer some fundamental questions connected with the phenomenon of sport: what is it for man (part one)? whether and when does it serve the social integration of a community (part two)? what are the premises and principles of the ethics of sportive activity (part three)? what is the aesthetic dimension of sport (part four)? what are the relations between sport and religious faith (part five)? The philosophical profile is dominant in the book, taking into consideration various aspects of sport: anthropological, social, axiological, and theological.

scholarly journals The Ontology of Symbolic Reality in the Philosophy of F.T. Mikhailov

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
K.V. Sorvin ◽  
A. Mert
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Multiple Selves ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Symbolic Reality ◽  
Material Form ◽  
The Ideal

This paper addresses one of the main topics of the works of the famous Russian philosopher F.T. Mikhailov aimed at overcoming the oversimplified conception of the relation between the biological and the social origins of human being, in the context of the methodological problems in the social sciences that have characteristic representations of the transcendence of society over individual. It is shown that the solution proposed by the philosopher was related to the revision of the dominant notions about the ground of the subject-subject unity and the ontology of the symbolic objects that provide this unity. In particular, the disintegration of the ‘activity approach’ in psychology into the concepts of A.N. Leontyev and S.L. Rubinstein, that are called by Mikhailov ‘antinomical’, is associated with the limited reliance on the methodological traditions of Spinozism, in which there was no idea about the reflexive type of subject-subject relation as opposed to the methodology of "late Fichte", with his characteristic position on the initial identity based on multiple selves. It is argued that the most adequate categories for description of the ontological connections between the ideal content and the material form in symbolic objects that provide such an identity can be found in Hegel's aesthetic works.

VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY: EDUCATION AS A LIFESTYLE

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-50
Author(s):  
Denys Svyrydenko ◽  
Valentyna Kyvliuk
Keyword(s):  
Modal Logic ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
University Education ◽  
Virtual University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Abilities ◽  
The Subject

The concept of the virtual university is relatively new and it is necessary to distinguish a number of contradictory points in its verification. Firstly, it is the quality of the education received. The problem of educational process content at the virtual university, organization of control and level of accomplished tasks, issues of intellectual abilities and critical thinking development, reflexivity of consciousness are the subject of heated discussions of both the supporters and opponents of the virtual university idea. Secondly, there is the question of the way of thinking. The virtual space involves a network mode of organization characterized by openness of the structure, poly variability of determination and expediency of modal logic. The phenomenon of virtual university is the result of responding to the needs of social transformation. In such model, the content of the social roles of the teacher and the student changes significantly. The competence of the modern teacher is not limited to knowledge. After all, the most experienced academician is not able to absorb all the information in a certain science, and obviously loses in the volume of assimilated information to any search engine.

Hong Kong’s Changing Role in Connecting the Mainland With the World

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 2050015
Author(s):  
Tai Wei Lim ◽  
Jason Chiam
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Differential Effectiveness ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Turmoil ◽  
Changing Role

Many discussions on Hong Kong’s social movements rightfully focus on the internal and external political factors that are influential in shaping the recent political events. This paper examines selective important political deve-lopments related to the subject matter and does not pretend to be comprehensive on the subject matter. While contextualizing Hong Kong’s recent unrest in political events, we are simultaneously also interested to de-privilege political factors as the sole explanation for the social movements and highlight a functional and highly utilitarian reason for the social turmoil, which is that of high housing prices and social disenfranchisement. It was the twin impacts of political changes as well as housing grievances (along with other bread and butter issues) that became a volatile cocktail in concocting the social unrest and public expressions of discontent. The central and local HK governments cannot homogenize a single uniform response to the challenges of globalization, in terms of both clamoring for democratization and economic egalitarianism. This paper therefore argues that there is a differential effectiveness of China’s/HK’s responses to economic globalization’s inequities and addressing the pro-democrat demands.

The Unaccountable Subject: Judith Butler and the Social Conditions of Intersubjective Agency

Hypatia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Dow Magnus
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

Judith Butler's Kritik der ethischen Gewalt1 represents a significant refinement of her position on the relationship between the construction of the subject and her social subjection. While Butler's earlier texts reflect a somewhat restricted notion of agency, her Adorno Lectures formulate a notion of agency that extends beyond mere resistance. This essay traces the development of Butler's account of agency and evaluates it in light of feminist projects of social transformation.

Towards an ethical politics

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 571-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Kiloh
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Social ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
Organizational Principle ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern Work

Jürgen Habermas’ characterization of Adorno’s project as an aestheticization of philosophy continues to influence our reading of his work. In contradiction to Lambert Zuidervaart, who suggests that in order to be understood as politically relevant, Adorno’s philosophy must be supplemented with empirical research, I argue in this article that Adorno’s work contains many of the resources we would need to theorize an ethical politics. First, it both identifies the moral debt carried by the subject and addresses the need for social transformation in order to change this situation. Second, it proposes an ethical comportment of self-relinquishment as a first step towards this reorganization of the social. The self-relinquishment of philosophy to its object is modeled upon aesthetic experience, which, according to Adorno, we must regard as a remorseful atonement for the subject’s domination of the object in its attempt to ‘wrest itself free’ ( Aesthetic Theory, 1997c: 112) of undifferentiated being. By incorporating into philosophical thought the mimetic bodily impulses tamed by aesthetic form, we may engender within ourselves a solidarity with objectivity. Rather than the self-possessing and conservative subject that constitutes its world mentally, Adorno theorizes a subject for whom thinking is a temporalization or a becoming. Thinking produces otherness within the subject itself. In this thinking-as-becoming, we see the beginnings of a highly individuated political subjectivity capable of acting in solidarity with the other. This brings us to the third element within Adorno’s philosophy that can serve us in formulating an ethical politics: the non-violent organizational principle of the modern work of art. In mobilizing the logic of the modern work of art, the autonomous individual is empowered to forge a politics that preserves contradiction in the facilitation of a non-violent relation with others.

scholarly journals A Qualitative and Quantitative Study on Critical Thinking in Social Education Degree Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6865
Author(s):  
Francisco José García-Moro ◽  
Diego Gómez-Baya ◽  
Alicia Muñoz-Silva ◽  
Nuria Martín-Romero
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Social Education ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Education Degree ◽  
The University ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Study

Critical thinking is present in the educational intentions in higher education with more or less programmatic development. In the training of social educators, such thinking is considered a fundamental pillar for a good performance of their functions in the social field. By means of qualitative and quantitative instruments, we set ourselves the objective of knowing the opinions of 72 Social Education degree students of the University of Huelva (Spain) about critical thinking, higher education, and their position on the subject. The results obtained showed that students have an approximate general knowledge of what critical thinking is, but a clear lack of knowledge of how it is developed. In addition, it is observed that there is a great contradiction between what they say and what they actually do, as, although they value its development in the degree and professional performance, they do not develop or commit themselves de facto to this competence. Moreover, they recognize that the university is a context that favors critical competence, but at the same time they are very critical about the teachings offered in this regard.

Wesensform und Funktionswert

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-463
Author(s):  
Gerhard Schweppenhäuser
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Aesthetic Appearance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
Design Objects ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Commodity Form

AbstractThe essay begins with some historical considerations on design, philosophy and science. The subsequent reflections focus on the quasi-metaphysical prerequisites of the conditions under which design objects and design processes are produced and received. It is a question of the relationships that can be reconstructed – in the context of nature’s subjugation, work, and social interaction – between purposes of use and external and internal determination of form. Under the social conditions of the capitalist economy, design casts things, nature and people into commodity form. This makes it possible to communicate them and to communicate with them. And by doing this in an aesthetic way, design produces at the same time images or representations of things, nature and people beyond their commodity form. In the sphere of the aesthetic appearance of objects and processes, their functionalisation is exceeded. The aesthetic paradigm shift from the primacy of the form of the design object to the primacy of the social function of aesthetic practice – introduced by Walter Benjamin’s media aesthetics – is actualised in a contradictory fashion in contemporary high-tech communication.

Under Representation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
The Aesthetic

Under Representation argues that the relation between the concepts of universality, freedom and humanity, and the racial order of the modern world is grounded in the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy. It challenges the absence of sustained thought about race in postcolonial studies and the lack of attention to aesthetics in critical race theory. Late Enlightenment discourse on aesthetic experience proposes a decisive account of the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood. The aesthetic forges a powerful racial regime of representation whose genealogy runs from enlightenment thinkers like Kant and Schiller to late modernist critics like Adorno and Benjamin. For aesthetic philosophy, representation is an activity that articulates the various spheres of human practice and theory, from the most fundamental acts of perception and reflection to the relation of the subject to the political, the economic, and the social. Representation regulates the distribution of racial identifications along a developmental trajectory: the racialized remain “under representation,” on the threshold of humanity and not yet capable of freedom and civility as aesthetic thought defines those attributes. To ignore the aesthetic is thus to overlook its continuing force in the formation of the racial and political structures down to the present. In its five chapters, Under Representation investigates the aesthetic foundations of modern political subjectivity; race and the sublime; the logic of assimilation and the sterotype; the subaltern critique of representation; and the place of magic and the primitive in modernist concepts of art, aura, and representation.

scholarly journals Recognizing diverse views:

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reni Dikawati
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Single View ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Discourse Practice ◽  
Knowledge Claims

Ethnograhpy become one of the major method, its emphasis on understanding the perceptions and culture of  people and organization studied. Through differences between  peoples, cultures, moral believes, religiousness may be described, the description  itself will be based on a single view constructed by the gendered, classed, and  raced  position of  the theorist. Foucoulth argued that discourse-practice construct both  the subject and object they describe. An epistemology is a theory of the nature of knowledge and a way of justifying knowledge claims. Humanism is a part of critical thinking which come from human changing form of dignity, role, the idea of enlighment, and the responsibility of humanity. In the javanese christianity context, Kiai Ibrahim Tunggul Wulung teaches the importance appointed human dignity. He inherits some life lesson which are summarizes in own perspective of Christiany and javanese culture on  Tegalombo comunity. Tunggul Wulung combines the wisdom of javanese culture and christianity in accordance of the condition and the requirement of the society. Those combination concept is manifested through in  mission method theory which aim guide human to life their lives properly. However, this method was not accapted by the foreign missionaries, and in the social structure at that time. They accused Tunggul Wulung’s method as form of sincretism. This work is an attemp to analyze Tunggul Wulung mission method in the context of Indonesia, it is perhaps more to make explicit the lack of a common  methodology, formulate one true to at least one understanding of what “critical” means, and encourage debate, and discussion on the issue. The justification of knowledge claims involves, as in the case of example, stating a position and defending that position with reason. It’s hope that Tunggul Wulung’s achievment can be aprreciated by the present generation, and they will negotiated epistemology in a history classroom which different some point of views.

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