K pojetí kultury u Gillese Lipovetského

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Ivana Holzbachová
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Social Intercourse ◽  
The Way

With a bit of exaggeration, it could be claimed that Lipovetsky’s lifetime work has focused on (contemporary or post-modern) culture. Surprisingly, Lipovetsky has never defined the concept of culture. It is, thus, necessary to reconstruct it from his work. The presented paper analyses the concept of culture on the background of Lipovetsky’s account of fashion. This account is very broad. Lipovetsky emphasises that fashion covers a large area extending from clothing, social intercourse and religion all the way to an account (and self-constitution) of man. In this regard, Lipovetsky puts special emphasis on the development of individualism in modern society. He also points out inconsistencies in the understanding and the manifestations of individualism.

Records of the World Tourism Conference (English version)

1985 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Free Time ◽  
English Version ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
The Way

The World Tourism Conference, held in Manila from 27 September to 10 October 1980, proved that the human community is still able to think generously and clearly, and to hold a courageous vision of the future. The Conference was convened to examine a subject which would lead to modification of outmoded concepts and practices, and would induce governments as well as the travel industry to reconsider all of their activities in the tourism sector. The Manila conference was able to show the way to build for the future in a field – that of free time and leisure – which is becoming one of the important responsibilities of governments, as non-working time increases in relation to working time because of the transformations that modern society is undergoing.

scholarly journals Global holiday as a cultural phenomenon of the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Ivan Dmitrievich Tuzovskii
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Methodological Foundation ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
The Status ◽  
Global Status ◽  
The Subject

The subject of this research is modern celebratory culture in the context of impact of globalization processes upon festivities. The author explores a new phenomenon that emerged in the early XXI century – a “global holiday” within the framework of sociocultural transformations related to transition of humanity towards the Digital Age, and formation of the global information space. Special attention is given to the following aspects: creation of media and post-mythological global holidays of the Digital Age, and transformation of the traditional holiday into new metanational forms. The methodological foundation for studying the holidays that received the status of "global" in modern culture became the adaptation of “head page method” applied in sociological, cultural and futurological research and sociocultural monitoring, including overt observation. The conclusion is made that modern culture marks the formation of several types of global holidays that carry metanational character: the first group includes media-produced holidays associated with post-folklore and post-mythology of modern society, or represent celebratory events as award ceremonies in the field of politics, art and science; the second group includes ethnic traditional holidays that received the global status (Halloween, St. Patrick's Day, Mexican Day of the Dead, Holi “Festival of Spring”, etc.). The phenomenon of global holidays should be taken into account in creation of the national strategies of cultural policy, and the global holiday itself may become one of the "soft power" tools in the Digital Age.

scholarly journals Reflexivity of Modernity: Conceptualizing Modernity in Contemporary Pakistan during COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Bilal Asmat Cheema
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Crucial Feature ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
The Way

This article utilizes Anthony Giddens' concept of 'the reflexivity of modernity' to account for the dichotomy of traditional knowledge and scientific knowledge in the Pakistani context during the outbreak of COVID-19. It analyzes the concept of reflexivity as a form of criticism of irrationality and critiques notions of certainty. This article analyzes the concept of modernity endorsed by tradition in general, and by society in particular. Modernity is a constant process of interpreting and reinterpreting tradition in the light of knowledge at any given point of time. It also argues that pre-modern society refuses to reflect upon the nature of reflection itself. Self-reflexivity is the most crucial feature of modernity. The article views Pakistan as a society where reflexivity is not a part of contemporary culture, and it struggles to accept modernity. The article argues that modernity is intrinsically sociological, and contemporary Pakistani society shows resistance to modernity.  It also states that the appropriation of scientific knowledge is not made homogeneously in contemporary Pakistan during COVID-19. Pakistani society is predominantly influenced by religious discourse, which does not believe in self-reflexivity. The study will pave the way to employ the theory of reflexivity to analyze and interpret literary texts in terms of sociological perspectives.

scholarly journals A NEW PARADIGM OF HUMAN EXISTENCE AS LEGAL IDENTITY IN THE ENTROPY SYSTEM

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
P. Lisovskiy ◽  
Yu. Lisovska
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
World Order ◽  
Phenomenal Consciousness ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Risk Processes

In the article, the authors substantiates the modern model of the interman as a creative cyber personality, which has the potential to be identified with the correspondence of virtual bodies as a problem of modern culture. It is emphasized that it is precisely this functional possibility that finds out a new paradigm of human existence, in which entropy as a criterial device modernizes modern society. It is determined that the most intelligently gifted people are able to master the noosphere space of being through the phenomenal wisdom recipes. This content shows entropy as a defining modus of probable processes, in which modernization of a modern person, state and society takes place, since the criterion of the entropy apparatus is the recognition of that random fact (events, situations) that becomes logical. It is emphasized that the main direction of risk processes in the phenomenal wisdom recipes for the personality, the state and society should be truly chosen in the entropy system, carefully studying the theory of probable functions. It is revealed that ideological borrowings contain a considerable danger, since ideology has a class modification due to the modernization of a certain class on the basis of samples of another's experience. It is concluded that this may lead to an urgent inter-class conflict, to strengthen, oppositional sentiment. An overview of modernization as an entropy of risk processes is given, which is the mainstream in a particular historical retrospective of phenomenal consciousness. It is emphasized that modernization means the creation of a new type of world order, in which human being plays an anthropocentric role at the level of legal subjectivity. The constructive and destructive Spirit of Time according to the entropy criteria is confirmed. Different forms of crisis are revealed when exhausting the established norms and rules of behavior of individuals, groups, classes, ethnic groups, communities. It is envisaged that science is such a fundamental innovation in which entropy depends to a large extent on the mental and value orientations of an individual people, based on consciousness, language, culture, etc. Creation of complex of measures and procedures is envisaged including the risks concerning maintenance of human life and health in the legal state.

TYPOLOGICAL OUTLINES OF TRANSITIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN MODERN CULTURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-54
Author(s):  
M. Yu. Alekseeva ◽  
◽  
A. A. Mikhailov ◽  
I. V. Samsonova ◽  
M. S. Rakova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Models ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Systemic Crisis ◽  
Semantic Pluralism ◽  
Political Economic

The problems of cultural and civilizational transition and the anthropological catastrophe, predicted by leading scientists and thinkers, are now becoming much more acute and clear. The events unfolding before our eyes in the socio-cultural, political, economic and even biological life of modern society testify to a deep systemic crisis of modern civilization. In this regard, attempts at analytical comprehension of the crisis state of culture, identifying cause-and-effect relationships that have led to this state, as well as the experience of anti-crisis modeling and searching possible ways to overcome the crisis seem to be in demand and relevant. This work, relying on the culturological approach and using the method of culturological hermeneutics, presents the experience of theoretical fixation of the types of responses to the crisis state of culture common for transition periods, the semantic content of which can be determined in three main ways: 1) inversion mechanisms, where human consciousness tends to transfer ready-made, well-known cultural models to the new cultural ground; 2) mediation mechanisms, implying human acceptance of transforming reality; 3) eristic principle — a situation of semantic pluralism up to the shift of value poles.

Graphene-based large area dye-sensitized solar cell modules

Nanoscale ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 5368-5378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Casaluci ◽  
Mauro Gemmi ◽  
Vittorio Pellegrini ◽  
Aldo Di Carlo ◽  
Francesco Bonaccorso
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Spray Coating ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Photovoltaic Devices ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Cell Modules ◽  
Viable Method ◽  
The Way

We demonstrated the spray coating of graphene ink as a viable method for large-area fabrication of graphene-based dye-sensitized solar cell modules, paving the way to all-printed, transparent and cost-effective large-area photovoltaic devices.

Philosophy in a Polycentric World

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Alexander Yu. Antonovski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Methodological Question ◽  
Unique Product ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Peter Railton ◽  
The Way

In the first part of the article, the author substantiates the importance of philosophical communication as a kind of dependent variable that does not have an independent meaning without pointing to something else through which the philosophy itself (often negatively and non-reflectively) defines. We are talking about global centers of “systemic” communication (politics, science, religion, etc.), imposing their observations on other communities. It is argued that the priority of philosophical communication is justified by the ability to carry out “universal observations”, which is deprived of all other communication systems.In the second part of the article, the methodological question is first solved about the possibility of explaining a number of phenomena (communications, observations), for which no indication of external factors justifying their existence is required. It is proved that the description and explanation of such phenomena is possible on the way of formulating “significant tautologies” (Peter Railton). Using this method, the author carries out a meaningful deployment of the significant tautology “philosophy is only philosophy” and substantiates that philosophy is communication, capable of defining itself in a universal way: through something else and through itself. The author concludes that philosophy can be considered as a communicative system (i.e.,observer), whose mission is to generate a unique product: a universal self-description of modern society, where philosophy combines three fundamental observational abilities: scientific, protest and artistic activity.

scholarly journals Loneliness of human in the philosophy of Ernst Bloch culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Pavel Lyashenko ◽  
Maxim Lyashchenko
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
View Point ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Ideal Image ◽  
Human World ◽  
Transformation Processes

The problem of loneliness from the view point of philosophical and anthropological knowledge acquires special significance, is filled with new content in connection with the unfolding of the modern society transformation processes, as a result, with a new stage in the reappraisal of the modern culture utopian consciousness. At the same time, Ernst Bloch's culture philosophy induce particular scientific interest, according to which the meaningful status of utopia is determined by the fact that it forms a certain ideal image of the human world, which is the space of culture as a whole. In this regard, the study of the loneliness phenomenon in Ernst Bloch culture philosophy allows us to identify the socio-cultural mechanisms of loneliness, as well as key factors in the development of modern society, leading the person to negation and the destruction of his being.

Tele-Operated Mobile Robot for 3D Visual Inspection Utilizing Distributed Operating System Platform

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S.H. Achmad ◽  
G. Priyandoko ◽  
R. Roali ◽  
M.R. Daud
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Mapping Function ◽  
Industrial Plant ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Localization And Mapping ◽  
Plant Area ◽  
The Way

This research examines how humans work with tele-operated unmanned mobile robots to perform interaction to do the inspection in industrial plant area to produce a 3D map for further critical evaluation. This experiment focuses on two parts, the way human-robot doing the remote interactions using robust method and the way robot perceives its surrounding environment as a 3D perspective map. Robot operating system (ROS) as a tool was utilized in the development and implementation of this research which comes up with robust data communication method in the form of messages and topics. RGBD simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) performs the visual odometry and mapping function simultaneously to construct 3D map using Kinect sensor. The results showed that the mobile robot-based tele-operated system utilizing RGBD SLAM for 3D inspection task under ROS environment are successful in extending human perspective in term of remote surveillance in the large area of the industrial plant.

The “Actors” of Modern Society: The Cultural Construction of Social Agency

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Meyer ◽  
Ronald L. Jepperson
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social System ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
The Core ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social

Much social theory takes for granted the core conceit of modern culture, that modern actors—individuals, organizations, nation states—are autochthonous and natural entities, no longer really embedded in culture. Accordingly, while there is much abstract metatheory about “actors” and their “agency,” there is arguably little theory about the topic. This article offers direct arguments about how the modern (European, now global) cultural system constructs the modern actor as an authorized agent for various interests via an ongoing relocation into society of agency originally located in transcendental authority or in natural forces environing the social system. We see this authorized agentic capability as an essential feature of what modern theory and culture call an “actor,” and one that, when analyzed, helps greatly in explaining a number of otherwise anomalous or little analyzed features of modern individuals, organizations, and states. These features include their isomorphism and standardization, their internal decoupling, their extraordinarily complex structuration, and their capacity for prolific collective action.

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