Media and Cognition

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-273
Author(s):  
Sébastien de la Fosse ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One

While throughout history, knowledge and information have been mostly bound in language and text, new twenty-first-century media increasingly tend to break with this tradition of linear sequentiality. This paper will present an account of how this development may be explained by a relationship between the use of digital technologies on the one hand, and the (human) user’s cognitive processes on the other. This will be done by, first, outlining two existing conceptions of human cognition and, subsequently, by confronting these with observations in the field of philosophy of media, most prominently the position of Marshall McLuhan.

scholarly journals DANTES LITTERÆRE ATMOSFÆROLOGI

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (116) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Dennis Meyhoff Brink
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Peter Sloterdijk ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One ◽  
Atmospheric Phenomena ◽  
Lauren Berlant

DANTE’S LITERARY ATMOSPHEROLOGY | The article argues that recent theories on affect and atmosphere by, for instance, Teresa Brennan, Lauren Berlant, and Peter Sloterdijk, can enter into an extraordinarily fruitful interchange with Dante’s Divine Comedy. On the one hand, these theories can direct our attention to the hitherto overlooked atmospheric phenomena that occur ubiquitously in Dante’s Comedy and provide us with concepts that render them legible as products of human emissions. On the other hand, the numerous descriptions of different atmospheres in Dante’s Comedy can contribute to overcoming the lack of linguistic specifications and distinctions which – according to theorists such as Brian Massumi and Peter Sloterdijk – characterizes today’s Western understanding of affective atmospheres and impedes its ongoing theorization. Based on readings of a selected number of atmospheres in Dante’s Comedy, the article argues that the Comedy not only anticipated insights that were not articulated theoretically until the twentieth and twenty-first century, butalso makes up an exceptional encyclopedia of affective atmospheres that have not yet been examined, neither by Dante researchers, nor by theorists of affects and atmospheres. Therefore, both camps have much to learn from Dante’s literary atmospherology, which the article aims to make explicit.

Xenia the Servant of God, or Andrey Fyodorovich the Holy Fool

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-120
Author(s):  
Dmitry Bulgakovsky ◽  
Nick Mayhew
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Holy Fool ◽  
Gender Transformation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One

Abstract Xenia the Servant of God, or Andrey Fyodorovich the Holy Fool is a hagiography written by Russian Orthodox priest and publicist Dmitry Bulgakovsy (1843–ca. 1918). Published in Russia in 1890, it is one of the first full accounts of the life of a saint variably referred to by two names: one feminine, Xenia, and the other masculine, Andrey. The saint ostensibly lived in St. Petersburg in the eighteenth century. Identified female at birth and named Xenia, after the death of their husband Andrey, at the age of twenty-six the saint took on the identity of their deceased husband. The saint is popular in Russia today, and stories about their life are disseminated widely. Although they were canonized in 1988 as St. Xenia and are now venerated as a holy woman, accounts of their life always include the story of their gender transformation. In twenty-first-century narratives, this episode tends to be glossed over briefly as proof of the saint's extraordinary love for their husband, serving to embellish their role as a devoted wife. However, in the original nineteenth-century stories of the saint's life—such as the one translated below—there is greater ambiguity in the depiction of their gender.

The Standard of Taste Debate

Food Fights ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 100-123
Author(s):  
Charles C. Ludington
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tribal Identity ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Standard Of Taste ◽  
The One

On the one hand people like to say that “there is no accounting for taste.” On the other hand, people constantly make judgments about their own and other people’s taste (gustatory and aesthetic). Charles Ludington examines the taste for wine in eighteenth-century England and Scotland, and the taste for beer in twenty-first century America, to argue that taste can in fact be accounted for because it is a reflection of custom, “tribal” identity, gender, political beliefs, and conceptions of authenticity, which are mostly but not entirely conditioned by class status and aspirations. And rightly or wrongly, we judge other people’s taste because taste positions us in society.

Coda

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Richard Carlin
Keyword(s):  
Country Music ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

Country performers have always balanced two contradictory impulses: on the one hand, they value their musical influences and the many earlier styles that made the music what it is today; on the other, they are interested in adding to the tradition by incorporating the latest technical and musical innovations. The Coda shows how, in the twenty-first century, we see the same scenario playing out among the latest country stars. While some stars adjust their music to fit the times, others continue to perform pretty much in the same style for decades. Country music keeps trucking along, despite many transformations and changes over the years.

scholarly journals Carl Schmitt's Fear: Nomos – Norm – Network

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
INO AUGSBERG
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One

AbstractCarl Schmitt is still astonishingly present in the legal discourse. Yet instead of indulging in the study of his explicit ‘lesson’ and its possible impact on contemporary legal problems, it might be worthwhile to survey the primary cause of his greatest fear. Following this perspective, the article analyses Schmitt's concept of the nomos, distinguishing it from the traditional normativist approach on the one hand and confronting it with a more recent understanding of law in terms of the network conception on the other. Thus Schmitt's view of the developing legal system in the twentieth century proves to be relevant to our current efforts to grasp newly emerging legal phenomena in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Resisting Borders: Transnational Cartographies in US Latinx Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Macarena García-Avello
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Alicia Gaspar De Alba ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One

This article examines the evolution of the borderlands as an organizing trope by focusing on how the transcendence beyond cultural nationalist perspectives traces the shift from Chicano/a to Latinx discourses. In order to address this issue, I will analyse two twenty-first-century Latinx texts that delve into the intricate ways in which transnational forces collide with economic, cultural and political processes that persistently revolve around the framework of the nation-state: Alicia Gaspar de Alba´s Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders (2005) and Maya Chinchilla´s The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética (2014). The corpus of works selected will focus on the political readings derived from textual negotiation with a changing political, social and economic reality. This results in constant tensions between globalising processes, worldwide interconnectedness and transnational interactions, on the one hand, and the regulatory power of the state, on the other.

The Gastropub and its Divided Identity: Drink, Food, and Sociality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christel Lane
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One

The chapter first examines the economic situation of pubs in the twenty-first century and reviews the pub industry as a whole. It then analyses the dual organizational identity of gastropubs as both restaurants and pubs. A focus on the resulting opportunities and tensions, experienced by publicans, follows. This involves an examination of the use of space for drinking and eating; the tension between preparing gastronomic fare, on the one side, and bar staples and traditional British roast dinners, on the other; and the effect of the dual focus on sociality. The chapter closes with an analysis of the ambiguous and divided organizational identity publicans express.

scholarly journals Izquierda, software e internet: una agenda invisible

2018 ◽  
pp. 289-308
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One ◽  
Activist Groups ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

Resumen: El objetivo de estas páginas consiste en analizar las inscripciones políticas alrededor de ciertas discusiones en curso sobre software e internet. Específicamente: este artículo trata sobre los modos en que distintos grupos activistas abocados a los problemas políticos producto del uso masivo de servicios digitales fuertemente centralizados inscriben su lucha dentro de la tradición cultural de las izquierdas. Si, por un lado, la bibliografía destinada a pensar la izquierda del siglo XXI parece desconocer las propuestas concretas de los grupos activistas, por otro lado, estos mismos apelan a diferentes elementos tanto de la tradición marxista como libertaria. Se trata de discusiones que en buena medida también caen fuera de los estudios político-sociales contemporáneos y los activistas que las llevan a cabo han logrado plantear tanto una desconocida agenda de discusión sobre estos problemas como las coordenadas políticas para pensarlos. A continuación este texto pretende lograr su objetivo a través de tres de estos ejes de discusión: (I) sobre privacidad y criptografía, (II) sobre el uso de software libre y (III) sobre la importancia de utilizar redes descentralizadas. Finalmente, las inscripciones activistas y académicas de estas intervenciones permiten observar cómo se reconfiguran actualmente nuevas prácticas de militancia en relación a otras luchas sociales tradicionales dentro de la izquierda. Palabras clave:Izquierdas, Software libre, Encriptación, P2P, nuevos movimientos sociales Left Thought, Software and Internet: an Invisible Agenda Abstract:The aim of this article is to analyze the activists’ political inscriptions around the discussions connected with software and internet. On the one hand, the literature intended to think the left of the twenty-first century seems to ignore the concrete proposals of these activist groups. Where as, on the other hand, the activists dedicated the digital fights usually appeal to elements of the Marxist and anarchist traditions. Most of these activists have an academic inscription, but, in fact, they raise an unknown agenda of discussion and some concepts to think about it. Therefore, this text aims to achieve its objective through three of these axes of discussion: (I) cryptography and privacy, (II) software libre and left thought, and (III) importance of digital decentralized services. Finally, the activist and academic inscriptions of these interventions might lead us to an analysis of these new militant practices in relation with other traditional struggles of the left culture. Keywords: Left Thought, Software Libre, Cryptography, P2P, New Social Movements

Ummah’s Rights or Human Rights? Universalism, Individualism, and Islamic Ethics in the Twenty-first Century

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Luisa Frick
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Islamic Ethics ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Against the background of the trend of Islamizing human rights on the one hand, as well as increasing skepticism about the compatibility of Islam and human rights on the other, I intend to analyze the potential of Islamic ethics to meet the requirements for vitalizing the idea of human rights. I will argue that the compatibility of Islam and human rights cannot be determined merely on the basis of comparing the specific content of the Islamic moral code(s) with the rights stipulated in the International Bill of Rights, but by scanning (different conceptions of) Islamic ethics for the two indispensable formal prerequisites of any human rights conception: the principle of universalism (i.e., normative equality) and individualism (i.e., the individual enjoyment of rights). In contrast to many contemporary (political) attempts to reconcile Islam and human rights due to urgent (global) societal needs, this contribution is solely committed to philosophical reasoning. Its guiding questions are “What are the conditions for deriving both universalism and individualism from Islamic ethics?” and “What axiological axioms have to be faded out or reorganized hierarchically in return?”

Empire after Liberalism: The Transatlantic Right and Identitarian War

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER VIALS
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
American Studies ◽  
White Male ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The One

American studies has developed excellent critiques of post-1945 imperial modes that are grounded in human rights and Enlightenment liberalism. But to fully gauge US violence in the twenty-first century, we also need to more closely consider antiliberal cultural logics. This essay traces an emergent mode of white nationalist militarism that it calls Identitarian war. It consists, on the one hand, of a formal ideology informed by Identitarian ethno-pluralism and Carl Schmitt, and, on the other, an openly violent white male “structure of feeling” embodied by the film and graphic novel 300, a key source text for the transatlantic far right.

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