scholarly journals Collective thought-action: On lecture performances, transmedia knowledge and designing possible worlds

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-340
Author(s):  
Jon McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
First Century ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Civic Discourse ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Republic

The election of Donald Trump has exposed a politics of resentment dividing rural and urban populations, as well as communities and colleges. This division stretches back to Plato's Academy. When Plato threw the poets out of the Republic, he banished practices such as poetry, music, and dance from the realm of true, epistemic knowledge, which he opposed to doxa or common knowledge. Centuries later, this opposition would shape European colonialism's approach to indigenous life worlds, whose "primitive" rituals, myths, and fetishes would confront the "civilized" methods, histories, and objects of Western knowledge. These same oppositions structure ideological critiques of popular culture. However, the emergence of lecture performances, theory rap, and info comics within twenty-first century research universities suggests that traditional knowledge production is under stress inside and outside the academy. Emerging is a transmedia knowledge that engages different audiences by mixing episteme and doxa. At stake here: the role of aesthetics in post-disciplinary societies of control and in resistant modes of collective thought-action. Across both the arts and sciences, scholars worldwide are turning to transmedia knowledge not simply for communication but also for co-creation of research. Here transmedia knowledge can function as civic discourse and as a conduit of a generalized aesthetics.

10 Evolution and Gestalt of the Italian State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattarella Bernardo Giorgio
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
First Century ◽  
Marked Rise ◽  
The Republic

This chapter presents an analysis of Italy's administrative history. It looks at the historical development of Italian public administration and administrative law in Italy beginning from the nineteenth century. The chapter then proceeds to the first half of the twentieth century, focusing primarily on the policies of Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti, which saw a marked rise in changes and developments within administrative law. Also of note during this period was the role of administrative law during the era of fascism in Italy. The latter half of the twentieth century would mark a departure from this period, focusing mainly on liberal administrative law and the Republic. Finally, the chapter turns to the features of administrative law in the twenty-first century, before closing with some concluding remarks on the features peculiar to Italian administrative law.

scholarly journals Wspólnototwórczy wymiar przekładu. Casus XXI-wiecznych przekładów górnośląskich / Community-Creating Function of Translation Case of Twenty-First-Century Translations into Upper-Silesian

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-102
Author(s):  
Karolina Pospiszil
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
First Century ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
Ethic Minority

Existence of Upper-Silesian ethic minority has been confirmed by two national censuses carried out in the years 2002 and 2011. It is also the largest minority residing in the territory of the Republic of Poland. However, the Polish state does not recognize the existence of Upper Silesians in legal terms. At the same time, for Upper Silesians themselves the struggle for recognition of their culture, language and community is a serious matter. In the present article the author discusses the role of creating and strengthening Upper-Silesian community played by culture, especially by literature and literary translation.

A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Age Of Revolution ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic

The Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century places in sharp relief the contrast between inspiring ideas that heralded an auspicious future and immemorial traditions that cherished a vanishing past. Waxing large during that era was the European Enlightenment, with its projects for reform and optimistic forecasts about the prospect of making a better world. Heritage was reframed, as martyrs for the cause of religious liberty and heroes for the promotion of the arts and sciences were enshrined in a new pantheon. They served as icons marking a pathway toward a presumed destiny, amid high hopes that reason would triumph over superstition to guide the course of human affairs. Such sentiments gave reformers a new sense of collective identity as an imagined community acting in the name of progress. Against this backdrop, this volume addresses a variety of themes in memory’s multi-faceted domain, among them mnemonic schemes in the transition from theist to scientific cosmologies; memory remodeled in the making of print culture; memory’s newfound resources for introspection; politics reimagined for the modern age; the nature of tradition reconceived; the aesthetics of nostalgia for an aristocracy clinging to a tenuous identity; the lure of far-away places; trauma in an age of revolution; and the emerging divide between history and collective memory. Along the way, contributors address such topics as the idea of nation in early modern politics; the aesthetic vision of Hubert Robert in his garden landscapes; the transforming effects of the interaction between mind and its mnemonic satellites in print media; Shakespeare remembered and commemorated; the role of memory in the redesign of historiography; the mediation of high and popular culture through literature; soul-searching in female autobiography; and commemorative practices during the French Revolution.

scholarly journals Design through synthesis: the role of sculpture in the design process of Max Bill

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Calovi Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Visual Space ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Art And Architecture

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, research into the understanding of visual space in the arts and sciences narrowed the distinctions between architecture and the arts, contributing to a growing desire to unify all the senses in the production of more meaningful art and architecture. The Bauhaus, in its proposed synthesis of the arts, left with few examples of architecture, but the modern desire for the unification of the formal vocabulary of architecture and the arts persisted, and was advanced especially through the reduction and refinement of their elements. I argue that Max Bill, a Bauhaus graduate, realized this synthesis of the arts through his Concrete design method, which reconciled the rational and the intuitive through conceptual associations between different media. His approach to design resisted formalism and arbitrary decisions, and went far beyond the visual by producing designs which embraced functionality, creativity and simplicity, and unfolded in a diverse array of forms instead of repetitive formulas. To this day formalism and a superficial regard for aesthetics hinders discussion and the exchange of concepts between art and architecture, especially regarding the design process. This paper will explore the methods and conceptual underpinnings of Max Bill’s sculptural work and architecture through case studies from 1932 through 1968.  

scholarly journals The Moral Career of ‘Outmates’: Towards a History of Manufactured Mental Disorders in Post-Socialist China

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Yi-Jui Wu
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Active Role ◽  
First Century ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Mental Health Systems ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
History Of

This study focuses on ‘manufactured mentally ill’ (bei jingshenbing, 被精神病) individuals in post-socialist China. In Chinese society,bei jingshenbingis a neologistic catchphrase that refers to someone who has been misidentified as exhibiting symptoms of mental illness and has been admitted to a mental hospital. Specifically, it refers to those individuals who were subjected to unnecessary psychiatric treatment during the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based on archival analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, this study addresses the ways in which the voices ofbei jingshenbingvictims and those who support them reveal China’s experiences with psychiatric modernity. It also discusses the active role of these individuals in knowledge production, medical policymaking, and the implications for reforming the psychiatric and mental health systems in post-socialist China.

scholarly journals Embracing the Future as Stewards of the Past: Charting a Course Forward for Historical Medical Libraries and Archives

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Reznick
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Medical Libraries ◽  
The Media ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

In June 2013, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) released The Heart of the Matter, a report on the continuing indispensable role of the humanities and social sciences in meeting major global challenges and urgent national goals. Commissioned by a bipartisan group of senators and representatives and involving more than fifty AAAS members from various sectors—including academia, business, government, the arts, and the media—the report called for renewed commitment to the humanities and social sciences. More specifically, it called for leadership collaborations across a wide array of sectors to meet the urgent goals of: educating Americans . . .

The Parliament

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudra Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
Parliamentary Oversight

This chapter outlines the role of the Indian Parliament in the domain of foreign policy. It shows how the legislature can shape and even check executive decisions. Contrary to popular accounts, the chapter argues that Indian Prime Ministers have found themselves more vulnerable than otherwise accepted to the push and pull tensions of parliamentary oversight. This was amply clear in their approach to treaties, alliances, territorial agreements, and war and peace more generally. The chapter looks carefully at single-party governments in the early years of the republic and their relationship with the Indian Parliament in the making of foreign policy. It goes on to study the experience of governments and the execution of foreign policy in the twenty-first century, whilst also examining the role of state legislatures and regional politics.

Education and the Arts in Plato's Republic

1996 ◽  
Vol 178 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-98
Author(s):  
J. David Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Average Person ◽  
Full Discussion ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

The education in ‘music’ described in Books II-III of the Republic combines the content and the manner of presentation of stories so that moral substance and formal beauty work together to inculcate the opinions and virtues required in the children who are to become guardians of the ideal city. The principles which underlie this section constitute a theory of the role of the arts in moral education that can be applied in others contexts. Plato's view of how such education works depends upon his view of the way in which imitation affects the soul, and can be understood thoroughly only after the parts of the soul have been distinguished and the epistemological and ontological groundwork has been laid for a full discussion of imitation. These requirements having been met in the course of Books IV through IX, Plato returns to imitation in Book X, using painting as a foil to mount ontological, epistemological, and psychological criticisms of imitative poetry, now focussing upon its effect on adults, not children. His attack tacitly exempts the kind of imitations exemplified by Socrates' own frequent image making and by the philosophical poetry of the Republic itself. Socrates imagines, but rejects, a certain defense of popular poetry, the very one which Aristotle developed in his doctrine of ‘catharsis.’ But that defense rests upon views of practical knowledge and of the psychological resources of the average person that Plato would be unlikely to have accepted.

scholarly journals DEMOGRAPHY OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN: STATE AND PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-141
Author(s):  
H.F. Ochilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Dynamic Growth ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Predicted Values

The relevance of the research topic is due to the role of external and internal long-term factors on the development of demographic processes in Uzbekistan. The aim of the work is to analyze the current division of the population by territory, as well as to study the society living within a specific territory. To achieve this goal, the author attempted to assess the expected parameters of the reproduction of the rural and urban population of the republic; studied and determined the factors of the dynamic growth of the life expectancy of the urban population for the coming 30-year period; substantiated the characteristic and assessed the trends of migration processes. The author used the methods of statistical analysis and synthesis, as well as the method for predicting the reproductive health of the rural population of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The study result is the predictive data on the growth of the rural and urban population in the next 30 years. The forecasts consider the expected dynamics of the population, in accordance with the required development of social infrastructure and services, the choice of the most effective marketing strategies. The conclusion is that the population of the Republic of Uzbekistan will grow dynamically and by the end of 2050 it will be about 45 million people. The research results as predicted values may be of further use as the most important initial data for decision-making within the republican system of management of municipal and regional development.

scholarly journals Digitality and Decolonization: A Response to Achille Mbembe

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Victoria Bernal
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractThis article explores questions of decolonization, in part through analyzing Belgium’s Africa Museum. Bernal considers the role of academia and knowledge production, as well as the technological developments that may create new concentrations of power faster than decolonial projects can dismantle established hierarchies. She concludes that decolonization must address material questions of reparations and restitution, and that digital media have been transformative in ways that bring northern models of social existence closer to African ones. Having lived under colonizers, despots, and states of exception, Africans bring important knowledge and experience to twenty-first-century global struggles.

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