scholarly journals S’HABILLER EN COSTUMES D’ÉPOQUE

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Andrée Mercier
Keyword(s):  
New Babylon

À partir de deux romans qui puisent largement à l’imaginaire western, Griffintown de Marie Hélène Poitras et À la recherche de New Babylon de Dominique Scali, l’article montre comment chacun des romans s’approprie cet imaginaire pour raconter une histoire, mais aussi pour fonder une représentation contemporaine du temps. En effet, le western convoque une temporalité complexe, capable de cumuler l’élan vers l’avenir, le regret de ce qui n’est plus, un rapport ambigu à la modernité en même temps qu’un mythe des origines. Les figures de la répétition et du légendaire donnent plus particulièrement forme au mouvement qui emprisonne les personnages dans deux ordres du temps en violente confrontation : la course folle du progrès et un temps cyclique et organique. L’imaginaire western réinvesti par ces deux romancières parvient ainsi à conjoindre en un même univers la linéarité et la répétition, tout en signifiant l’impossibilité même de leur cohabitation.

FORMATION OF FORTIFICATION ART IN ANCIENT EAST COUNTRIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 94-124
Author(s):  
Е. N. Polyakov ◽  
M. I. Korzh
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Medieval China ◽  
The Status ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
The City ◽  
New Babylon

The article presents a comparative analysis of fortification art monuments in such East countries from Ancient Egypt to medieval China. An attempt is made to identify the main stages of the fortification development from a stand-alone fortress (citadel, fort) to the most complex systems of urban and border fortifications, including moats, walls and gates, battle towers. It is shown that the nature of these architectural structures is determined by the status of the city or settlement, its natural landscape, building structures and materials, the development of military and engineering art. The materials from poliorceticon (Greek: poliorketikon, poliorketika), illustrate the main types of siege machines and mechanisms. The advantages and disadvantages of boundary shafts and long walls (limes). The most striking examples are the defensive systems of Assyria, New Babylon, Judea and Ancient China.

scholarly journals Mapping Utopias: From New Babylon to Black Rock City

2017 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Ana Novakov
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Burning Man ◽  
Situationist International ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Post War ◽  
Black Rock City ◽  
Dutch Painter ◽  
New Babylon

New Utopian plans for liberated urban spaces emerged during the post-war era with the work of the Lettrist (LI), Situationist International (SI), and specifically Constant Nieuwenhuys, a Dutch painter turned architect and sculptor who understood urban planning as intimately linked to nomadism, play and creativity. Influenced by the bombed detritus of European capitals and the possibilities of new technology, Constant’s plans for a future society were post-revolutionary, with unseen automated factory production and spaces for innovation that were elevated on stilts. Constant’s conflicting ideas are referenced and emulated in Black Rock City – a short-term encampment erected every year for the Burning Man festival in the desert of Nevada. These multileveled zones would allow for the blurring of public and private space as well as zones of work and leisure. Article received: December 12, 2016; Article accepted: January 10, 2017; Published online: Aprile 20, 2017Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Novakov, Anna. "Mapping Utopias: From New Babylon to Black Rock City." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 12 (2017): 9-16.

Cinema, Anarchism, and Revolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-109
Author(s):  
Richard Porton
Keyword(s):  
Historical Period ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Old Left ◽  
Object Lessons ◽  
May 1968 ◽  
Commune Of 1871 ◽  
New Babylon

This chapter examines cinema's representation of anarchist heroes, martyrs, and fleeting revolutionary moments, formulating a critique of mainstream socialism that is far from the banalities of bourgeois sociology. Two films, Bo Widerberg's Joe Hill (1971) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco and Vanzetti (1971), deal with a transitional historical period before the final polarization of Bolshevism and anarchism. These films are reverential tributes to radical martyrs, and reflect the fact that these members of the Old Left pantheon have long been heralded as all-purpose leftists whose legacies provide useful object-lessons for socialists, liberals, and communists, as well as anarchists. The chapter then looks at the documentary and fiction films inspired by the Spanish Revolution of the 1930s. It also considers a prototypical sequence in Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's Soviet avant-garde epic New Babylon (1929), which sums up the grassroots anti-authoritarianism of the seventy-two-day Paris Commune of 1871, while prefiguring the Spanish libertarian communism of the 1930s and the anti-statist radicalism that erupted during the events of May 1968 in France.

“Years of Freedome, by God’s Blessing Restored”

2019 ◽  
pp. 118-146
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Bingham
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Babylon

Chapter 5 explores how “Particular Baptists” during the 1650s evolved along two rather divergent, mutually exclusive paths. One group embraced the Cromwellian regime, encouraged fellowship among otherwise like-minded congregationalists who disagreed on the question of baptism, and understood themselves as a godly variant on the mainstream puritan divinity then in the ascendant. The other group, by contrast, eschewed all of these impulses and instead resisted the state ecclesiastical apparatus, repudiated all who disagreed with their stance on baptism, and understood themselves as strangers and exiles in a new Babylon. To make this case, chapter 5 draws upon both published polemic as well as congregational and associational records. Such reflections both complicate our understanding of Interregnum religion and further undermine the too-hasty application of denominational labels during the period.

New Mecca, New Babylon: Paris and the Russian Exiles, 1920-1945

1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 703
Author(s):  
Laszlo Dienes ◽  
Robert H. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
New Babylon

New Mecca, New Babylon. Paris and the Russian Exiles, 1920-1945.

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 382
Author(s):  
Joseph Velikonja ◽  
Robert H. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
New Babylon

scholarly journals La construcción sensible del espacio privado en la modernidad líquida: el cuarto propio conectado

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-235
Author(s):  
Yolanda Ríos Coello ◽  
Chelo Matesanz
Keyword(s):  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
New Babylon

Este artículo analiza las transformaciones que las nuevas  tecnologías de los medios de información y comunicación han generado sobre los individuos, su forma de relacionarse y su noción de privacidad. Desde finales del siglo XX hasta hoy, en un escenario hipervinculado y global, constituido por personas igualmente hiperconectadas, éstas a su vez han modificado y adaptado su entorno dibujando un nuevo concepto de espacio privado: el cuarto propio conectado. Este habitáculo escenifica la inmaterialidad e inestabilidad de la “modernidad líquida” descrita por Zygmunt Bauman. El proyecto New Babylon que Constant construye basándose en el homo ludens de Huizinga nos va a servir como referencia para identificar las alteraciones que se están produciendo en el uso del ámbito privado en la actualidad condicionado por las nuevas tecnologías. La generación Z, jóvenes que han nacido y se están educando en perpetua interacción con pantallas, ordenadores y redes sociales ya están ilustrando una compleja área privada sin límites precisos, fluida e interactiva. Nos proponemos delimitar algunas metamorfosis vitales que están sucediendo en los individuos y constatar cómo éstas desmaterializan y diluyen el límite de lo público y lo privado, así como los procesos que configuran la obra de arte.

scholarly journals Périplo urbano e narrativa

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Stefânia Zim
Keyword(s):  
New Babylon

Para essa este trabalho, apresenta-se um recorte na problematização de que os sistemas urbanos podem ser estudados a partir dos sistemas literários. Na perspectiva de que a cidade pode ser lida como texto, faz-se a interposição entre os sistemas literários e as estruturas narrativas urbanas. A partir dos textos escritos sobre a cidade e da cidade lida como texto, pode-se reconhecer os traços utópicos e míticos que permanecem ao longo da história, questionando as estruturas urbanas fundacionais. Para tanto, analisa-se o domínio do homem sobre o espaço, a partir da obra de Thomas Morus, Utopia, de 1516. Inversamente, observa-se obras onde há o domínio do espaço sobre o homem, como em New Babylon, de Constant Nieuwenhuys, de 1969, dentro das experiências situacionistas de vanguarda do século XX. Desse modo especulam-se os desdobramentos sobre o deslocamento da estrutura narrativa de alguns gêneros literários para a leitura da cidade.

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