scholarly journals Images of Machines and Technology. Author’s Interpretations

2021 ◽  
pp. 396-437
Author(s):  
E.V. Dukov ◽  
◽  
V.D. Evallyo ◽  
E.A. Semenova ◽  
M.L. Magidovich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environment ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
American Art ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The problem of interaction between machines and humans has been relevant at all times of human civilization’s development. This subject arose most acutely in the era of scientific and technical progress, giving rise to a wide problem field, many aspects of which still require scientific understanding. In this discussion, the researchers tried to analyze the situation of the widespread implantation of new technologies and machines into the art field. The integration of technology generates the necessity of the author’s interpretations about the relationship between the technological and the humanistic. The authors turned to the problem of identification and draw the boundaries of the human “I” in the era of computerization of many spheres of life, to the topic of technology’s images in cinema (Polish, American, documentary), to the image of industrialization in American art of the first half of the 20th century, to modern installations by A. Reichstein, to the screen media in the stage space, in the city, and even in the virtual environment (for example on incredibly popular TikTok platform). The authors conclude that machine civilization is closely intertwined with humans. The images of technology are overgrown with countless interpretations: they can act as a theme, device, context, decoration, character, conflict with humanity, fight for its prosperity, try to identify itself in the human world.

Sustentabilidade, cultura, lazer e a ocupação dos espaços públicos nas Cidades MIL

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
B. Machado Mazzetti ◽  
F. Chibás Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Body Awareness ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
The Universe

This article seeks to reflect on the already existing and inseparable rela­ tionships between society, sustainability, culture and leisure, bringing to the core of the reflection the concept of MIL Cities (Media Information as a potential scenario for developing new urban, human, cul­ tural and technological. Initially, a review of the concept of leisure was made, addressing its foundational pillars and cultural contents, poste­ riorly the relationship between individual and quality of life in cities is explained, through body practices and body awareness, as well as through environmental practices and the promotion of an increasingly active and collective environmental awareness. The relationship of oc­ cupation, belonging and right to the city is also addressed and, precisely at this point, the potential for the use of new technologies by the private sector, public authorities and civil society in the construction and appli­ cation of possibilities that permeate the universe of MIL Cities.

scholarly journals Urban capital and the chronotope of the city: A new look at urban everyday life

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-311
Author(s):  
Tatiana Martsinkovskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
City Environment ◽  
City Space ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The article considers various aspects of urban everyday life, its role in the development of motivation and individualization of human life strategies. The concept of urban capital is introduced and its forms, which positively and negatively affect the formation of the features of urban everyday life, are revealed. The levels of urban capital, which allow to explore the individual style of urban socialization are highlighted. Furthermore, the relationship between urban identity and the internal form of the city chronotope is analyzed. It is shown that common to all variants of human positioning in the city space is the identification or attitude to various aspects of urban capital — localization, city status, social and ecological environment. It is proved that the main difference between these concepts is in the focusing of urban identity (as well as in a sharper form of urban capital) on the external parameters of the city environment, while the internal form of the urban chronotope emphasizes the inner feeling of a person, his own experience in certain places and time in a particular cityscape. This difference indicates the role of the personal chronotope, its internal form in the self-development and self-realization of a person and the connection with existence, intentionality of the personality. The similarity of the concepts of individual chronotope and small chronotope is shown; their influence on the development of the plot (in literature) and the structuring of the human world (in psychology) is analyzed. The relationship between individual parameters of the internal form of a personal chronotope as well as places and times in a small chronotope in their role in restructuring the large chronotope of a city into the human world is examined.

scholarly journals A small river within the urban space. The evolution of the relationship using the example of Łódź

2017 ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Kobojek
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Small River ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The aim of this article is to present the relationship between an industrial city and a small river within the last 200 years and the contemporary development and functions of rivers and valleys. The study was conducted in Łódź (currently nearly 699,000 inhabitants). In the 19th and in the early 20th century, the spatial development of the city also caused considerable transformations of rivers and their valleys. It was only at the turn of the 20th century, i.e. after the fall of the textile industry and a rise of the focus on ecological structures within a city, that the authorities decided to repair the utilisation of rivers and valleys.

scholarly journals El Multiculturalismo Canadiense ante el Arte y los Testimonios de Constanza Camelo Suárez

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Alexandre Beaudoin Duquette
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Art ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
Canadian Citizenship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Canadian Multiculturalism ◽  
The Universe

ResumenConstanza Camelo Suárez es una artista visual de origen colombiano que vive en la provincia de Quebec, en Canadá.  En el año 2008, realizó un performance en una importante estación del metro de la ciudad de Montreal, que llevaba por título Dilatar o contraer el universo.  En el marco de esta intervención, un grupo de inmigrantes guiados por perros lazarillo caminaban con los ojos vendados por los pasaportes de sus países de origen y llevaban puesto en su cintura unos aparatos de los cuales emanaban de manera aleatoria las notas de los himnos nacionales de sus países respectivos, así como las del himno canadiense.  Su acción nos brinda varios elementos que nos permiten cuestionar, romper o relativizar los estereotipos del discurso propagandístico de las instituciones migratorias canadienses.  En el presente trabajo, se trata precisamente de entablar una relación disonante entre el performance y fragmentos de testimonios de Constanza Camelo Suárez y una “historia de éxito” que fue publicada en el sitio Internet del Ministerio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración canadiense en el año 2011 y que lleva por título María Aragón: una joven canadiense de 10 años que causa sensación en YouTube.  Lo anterior se lleva a cabo analizando las siguientes fuentes de disonancia, entendida como la relación entre elementos de información incompatibles: multiculturalismo/transculturalidad, consenso/accidentes situacionales, ocupación del espacio público/espacio masivo ocupado, demostración de fuerza/demostración de vulnerabilidad.Palabras-claves: Arte latinoamericano, diáspora latinoamericana, diáspora colombiana, migración a Canadá, multiculturalismo canadiense, propaganda migratoria. Canadian Multiculturalism face the Art and Testimonies of Constanza Camelo SuárezAbstract Constanza Camelo Suárez is a visual artist of Colombian origin living in the province of Quebec, Canada. In 2008, she performed at an important subway station in the city of Montreal, with the title Dilate or contract the universe. As part of this intervention, a group of immigrants guided by guide dogs walked blindfolded by the passports of their countries of origin and wore on their waist some apparatuses from which emanated random notes of the national anthems of their respective countries, as well as those of the Canadian anthem. Its action gives us several elements that allow us to question, to break or to relativize the stereotypes of the propagandistic discourse of the Canadian migratory institutions. This present work, it is precisely to establish a dissonant relationship between the performance and fragments of testimonies of Constanza Camelo Suárez and a "success story" that was published on the Internet site of the Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Ministry in 2011 and which is titled "María Aragón: a 10-year-old Canadian girl who makes a sensation on YouTube". This is done by analyzing the following sources of dissonance, understood as the relationship between incompatible information elements: Multiculturalism / transculturality, consensus / situational accidents, occupation of public space / mass space occupied, demonstration of strength / demonstration of vulnerability. Key words: Latin American art, Latin American diaspora, Colombian diaspora, migration to Canada, Canadian multiculturalism, migratory propaganda. Multiculturalismo Canadense perante a arte e os Testemunhos de Constanza Camelo SuárezResumoConstanza Camelo Suarez é uma artista visual da Colômbia que vive na província do Quebec, no Canadá. Em 2008, ela realizou uma performance em uma grande estação de metrô da cidade de Montreal, que foi intitulada Expandir ou contrair o universo. Como parte dessa intervenção, um grupo de imigrantes guiado por cães-guia andou com os olhos vendados pelos passaportes de seus países de origem e usava em suas cinturas equipamentos que emanavam notas aleatórias dos hinos nacionais de seus respectivos países, bem como do hino canadense. Sua ação dá-nos vários elementos que nos permitem questionar, relativizar ou romper os estereótipos do discurso propagandístico de instituições de imigração canadense. Neste artigo, trata-se precisamente de demonstrar a relação dissonante entre a performance e fragmentos dos depoimentos de Constanza Camelo Suarez e a "história de sucesso", que foi publicada no site do Ministério da Cidadania e Imigração do Canadá em 2011 e intitulado "María Aragón: uma mulher canadense jovem de 10 anos causou sensação no YouTube". Isto é feito através da análise das seguintes fontes de dissonância, entendida como a relação entre elementos de informação incompatíveis: Multiculturalismo / transculturalidade, consenso / acidentes situacionais, ocupação do espaço público / espaço ocupado, demonstração de força / demonstração de vulnerabilidade.Palavras chave: arte latino-americana, diáspora latino-americana, diáspora colombiana,  migração para o Canadá,  multiculturalismo canadense, propaganda migratória 

scholarly journals Public works: Building a Monument to Modern Buenos Aires

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 58-84
Author(s):  
Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Understanding the relationship between the project of modernity and urbanism has been key to understanding the city of Buenos Aires’ material transformations throughout the 20th century. This paper considers how thinking about the issues of modernity and urbanism from the perspective of monuments--namely, the Obelisk of Buenos Aires--sheds new light on how elements of this modernizing project were undertaken and how its material markers have been used and manipulated, and modified through their representation in cultural discourse on the city. Rethinking Buenos Aires from the Obelisk implies literally thinking from underground, from the subway lines that form its base and transform it into a popular symbol of mobility.

scholarly journals Representações da Cultura Oriental e Ocidental em Amor e Dedinhos de Pé

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Céu Martins Monteiro Marques
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
The Social ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This paper will focus on the conflicts between Orientals and Westerners living in Macao at the beginning of the 20th century. The film Amor e Dedinhos de Pé by the director Luís Filipe Rocha, based on the homonymous novel by Henrique de Senna Fernandes will be analyzed from a perspective of a memory film as it presents a historical reconstruction that portrays the society of Macao at a time when the region was under Portuguese rule. Through the adventures and misadventures of a young man from a declining bourgeois family, both the novel and the film denounce the contrast between Eastern and Western cultures that coexisted at the time. The relationship between the inhabitants will also be seen as a mirror of the social relations that show particularly intense moments of people’s life of the “Christian City” characterized by magnificent ballrooms, well dressed people and homes with servants, which contrasts with the poverty environment lived in the “Chinese Quarter” of dirty and tight alleys where people of humble appearance wander. The city described by Luís Filip Rocha is a place of encounters and disagreements, and also of (i)moral confrontations between East and West which help to characterize the main characters who, at various times, transgress the rules established by a closed and discriminatory society.

Knowing the past affectively: Screen media and the evocation of intergenerational trauma

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Dragojlović
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Intergenerational Trauma ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Public Representation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Embodied Self ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between the affective intensities of screen media and its potential to serve as an affective force for the transmission of intergenerational trauma. I explore how watching a documentary portraying historical atrocities that preceded the birth of the documentary’s viewers yet affected their lives in profound ways, is one of the manifold engagements in genealogy and memory work that seeks to know the past affectively. My focus is on Indisch (Indonesian-Dutch) viewers whose relatives suffered through various atrocities that took place in Indonesia in the 20th century. By ethnographically exploring Indisch affective engagements with Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary, The Act of Killing (2012), I show how such engagements need to be analysed as occurring across human and non-human interactions and beyond the subject–object distinction. I argue that the affectivity of screen media (in particular, documentaries) that showcase instances of historical violence that have never received much public representation needs to be understood with particular historical contingencies. This article alerts us to how processes of getting to know the past affectively reveal the fragility of the embodied self in the wake of cataclysmic violence.

Wenn stadtpolitische Bewegungen das Terrain des Staats betreten

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (191) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Diesselhorst
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
City Government ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Hierarchical Decision Making ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Hierarchical Decision ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article discusses the struggles of urban social movements for a de-neoliberalisation of housing policies in Poulantzian terms as a “condensation of the relationship of forces”. Drawing on an empirical analysis of the “Berliner Mietenvolksentscheid” (Berlin rent referendum), which was partially successful in forcing the city government of Berlin to adopt a more progressive housing policy, the article argues that urban social movements have the capacity to challenge neoliberal housing regimes. However, the specific materiality of the state apparatus and its strategic selectivity both limit the scope of intervention for social movements aiming at empowerment and non-hierarchical decision-making.

Milestone solution for snow removal problem in Moscow

2019 ◽  
pp. 66-72
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Winter Period ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Snow Removal ◽  
Surface Areas ◽  
The City ◽  
Deicing Agents

The main principle of the strategy for the complex improvement of the functioning of northern cities in winter, including their infrastructure development, is a comprehensive solution of the problem of industrial-scale snow-mass collection, removal and utilization at different areas of urban roadway networks. For its implementation in the capital of Russia, “MosvodokanalNIIproject” JSC developed in 2002 the Snow Removal Master Plan for the city of Moscow. The meteorological conditions in the city, which have changed considerably in the recent years, including the changes in the snow-cover depth and in the road-surface areas to be cleaned, as well as emerging of new technologies for the cleaning of urban streets, yards and sidewalks and some new types of deicing agents, resulted in the necessity to update the above-mentioned Snow Removal Master Plan developed for the city of Moscow. Efficient application of deicing agents is of special importance for its updating in the context of the environmental safety of the city in a winter period. The article considers the results of the implementation of the updated Snow Removal Master Plan and contains some proposals concerning snow removal under the conditions of extreme snowfalls.

Challenging the Terms of Order: Representations of the Detroit Rebellions, 1967–1968

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan T. Camp
Keyword(s):  
State Violence ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Civil Structures ◽  
Us History ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
John Clarke

While many analysts have commented on the representation of 1968 campus events and antiwar demonstrations, less attention has been paid to the global significance of the dramatic struggles in industrial Detroit during the period. The meanings of events in the city were intensely fought over. As Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts observed, the events of 1968 were “an act of collective will, the breaks and ruptures stemming from the rapid expansion in the ideology, culture and civil structures of the new capitalism . . . in the form of a ‘crisis of authority.’” In Detroit the crisis of authority was expressed in the form of popular political struggles against racism, state violence, and the contradictions of life in the industrial capitalist city. This article asks and answers the following research questions about the struggle over the meaning of this decisive turning point in US history: What was the relationship between racial ordering, uneven capitalist development, and mass antiracist and class struggles? How did Black working-class organic intellectuals resist and alter hegemonic definitions of the situation? How are the dialectics of insurgency and counterinsurgency to be best theorized during this precise historical conjuncture? 

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