The looking machine

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David MacDougall
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Space Time ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
History Of

The looking machine calls for the redemption of documentary cinema, exploring the potential and promise of the genre at a time when it appears under increasing threat from reality television, historical re-enactments, designer packaging, and corporate authorship. The book consists of a set of essays each focused on a particular theme derived from the author’s own experience as a filmmaker. It provides a practice-based, critical perspective on the history of documentary, how films evoke space, time and physical sensations, questions of aesthetics, and the intellectual and emotional relationships between filmmakers and their subjects. It is especially concerned with the potential of film to broaden the base of human knowledge, distinct from its expression in written texts. Among its underlying concerns are the political and ethical implications of how films are actually made, and the constraints that may prevent filmmakers from honestly showing what they have seen. While defending the importance of the documentary idea, MacDougall urges us to consider how the form can become a ‘cinema of consciousness’ that more accurately represents the sensory and everyday aspects of human life. Building on his experience bridging anthropology and cinema, he argues that this means resisting the inherent ethnocentrism of both our own society and the societies we film.

scholarly journals Organização em rede, capital e a regulação mercantil do elo social | Network organization, capital and the mercantile regulation of social ties

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
César Ricardo Siqueira Bolaño
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Network Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Social Mediation ◽  
Organization Capital ◽  
History Of

RESUMO Este texto faz parte de um projeto amplo de esclarecimento da problemática da mediação social, no sentido da crítica da epistemologia da comunicação, com base numa leitura sistemática da obra de Marx. No que segue, pretendo sugerir apenas, retomando alguns trechos esclarecedores dos Grundrisse, um caminho para a crítica da economia política da internet, que se desdobra, como ficará explicitado, na crítica da ideia de "sociedade em rede". No fundo, trata-se de problematizar as possibilidades de regulação da internet, tendo em vista o significado último do seu surgimento neste particular momento de desenvolvimento do capitalismo.Palavras-chave: Comunicação; Internet; Capitalismo; Epistemologia; Economia Política.ABSTRACT This paper is part of a far-reaching project that aims to clarify the issue of social mediation, from a critical perspective on the epistemology of communication, based on a systematic reading of Marx's work. Here I intend only to indicate a pathway to a critique of the political economy of the Internet, based on a few clarifying excerpts from the Grundrisse, which includes a critique on the idea of "network society". It is, essentially, a discussion on the issue of regulating the Internet, considering the significance of its emergence at this particular moment of the history of capitalism.Keywords: Communication; Internet; Capitalism; Epistemology; Political Economy.

scholarly journals Media education in the French Community of Belgium

Comunicar ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (28) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Michel Clarembeaux
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Media Education ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Society ◽  
Political Media

This paper gives a brief account of the history of media education in the French Community of Belgium using as a starting point the political, media and educational contexts. Afterwards, it explains media education in the Internet and media society and the integration of the press in the field of learning. Finally, the paper describes the educational challenges of reality-television, cinema and advertising. Partiendo del contexto político, escolar y mediático de la educación en los medios en la comunidad francesa de Bélgica, este texto hace un breve recorrido de la situación del país tanto anterior a 1995, como del organigrama que surge a partir de 1995 con la creación de un Consejo y tres Centros de Recursos. Posteriormente se conceptualiza la educación en los medios en el marco de la sociedad Internet y multimedia y la integración de la prensa escrita en la enseñanza. Se describe también la tele-realidad y sus retos pedagógicos, así como la educación en el cine y la educación crítica de la publicidad.

The Patterns of Bone Technology in Ancient Kashi (1300 bc to 300 ad)

2021 ◽  
pp. 037698362110521
Author(s):  
Anuradha Singh
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Ecological Aspect ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
History Of

The political, socio-economic and cultural development of Kashi was never blocked. The history of technological development in Kashi state has been very flourished. The present study is an attempt to present historical and analytical studies regarding bone technology and its characteristics used in the region of ancient Kashi. The contribution of bone technology in the wisdom of Kashi and the development of a socio-economic perspective has also been discussed. Various bone tools obtained from Kashi’s archaeological sites and excavations reports have been studied. Archaeological and literary sources revealed that ancient Kashi was very developed in technology. The sources candidly depicted the prosperous societal life of its inhabitants in the backdrop of rich culture. Bone objects remains constitute an essential theme to study the integrated ecological aspect of human life.

scholarly journals A Olímpica 12 de Píndaro: tradução e comentário

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Gustavo Henrique Montes Frade
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Abstract: This study proposes an interpretation of Pindar’s Olympian 12 with particular attention to the theme of contingency (according to Aristotle, “that which may be otherwise”) in relation to human action. As the course of the athlete’s life and of the political history of Himera, the poem and its water images move through uncertainties and reach the accomplishment. Although Pindar recognizes the risks of hope, he shows how the constant variations of human life and the impossibility of knowing the future can result in a positive reversion of conditions in which an adverse situation leads to achievement, even when it is unlikely.

scholarly journals Hollowing out probation? The roots of Transforming Rehabilitation

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Deering ◽  
Martina Feilzer
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Policy History ◽  
History Of

This article provides a critical perspective on the political and policy history of probation in England and Wales to develop a better understanding of how TR came to be. TR was only the latest act in a longstanding process of changing probation to fit ideological ‘flavours’, and we suggest that it is the hidden nature of probation work in combination with a lack of public legitimation work by probation institutions and probation staff that has placed probation in such a vulnerable position.

Lost Knowledge and the History of the Arts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Bertucci
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Preliminary Step ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mechanical Arts ◽  
Academie Francaise

This chapter situates the emergence of the projects on the “history of the arts” in the political and cultural contexts of the 1660s, particularly with respect to the memorandum on trade that Colbert prepared for Louis XIV in 1664. It addresses the ongoing discourse on lost knowledge, revived in the late 1680s by the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, which divided the Académie Francaise and intrigued the reading public. The mechanical arts offered an abundance of evidence to support the new idea that human knowledge was cumulative, which was the preliminary step for the elaboration of the notion of progress.

The Straussian Approach

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Zuckert
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Life ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Philosophical Argument ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Philosophical Account ◽  
History Of

The “Straussian” approach to the history of political philosophy is articulated primarily in the writings of Leo Strauss. Strauss wrote extremely careful, detailed studies of canonical philosophical works along with essays explaining his approach. The most controversial claim Strauss made was that philosophers in the past did not always present their thoughts openly and explicitly. They used an “art of writing” to entice potential philosophers to begin a life of inquiry by following the hints the authors gave about their true thoughts and questions. The overriding purpose of Strauss's own studies was to prove that philosophy in its original Socratic form is still possible by showing the persistence of certain fundamental problems throughout the history of philosophy. The most pertinent of those problems, not merely to political philosophy but to human life as a whole, was the problem of justice. Strauss also insisted that “historicism” is based on a philosophical account of the character and limitations of human knowledge and that it can be refuted, therefore, only on the basis of a philosophical argument.

American Studies and the Radical Tradition: From the 1930s to the 1960s

Prospects ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 21-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guenter H. Lenz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Early Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
The 1960S

During the last years scholars in American Studies have become more conscious of the methodological problems of their work and have made wide-ranging use of the developments in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. They have also discovered the importance of a critical perspective on the history of their “discipline.” But there clearly is the feeling of a loss of direction, an uneasiness about the purposes and objectives of American Studies. Often the appropriation of new methods and approaches was pursued under the old premises, and awareness of the history of the field reduced to a stereotypical periodization of “phases” characterized by dominant “key concepts” or “methods.” Whereas during the late 1960s and early 1970s the work of the so-called myth-symbol school (from H. N. Smith to Leo Marx) was criticized as methodologically unsound (by B. Kuklick) and politically conservative (or reactionary) (by Lasch et al.), more recently some of its work, particularly by Leo Marx and Richard Slotkin, has been condemned (by Kenneth Lynn) as “regressive,” “reductionist,” or simply “anti-American Studies.” This confusion about the origin, the objectives, the political implications, and the “legacy” of the early period of American Studies, from the 1930s to the 1960s, and the development and changes in literary and cultural criticism and in historiography during these decades is, it seems to me, one reason for the precarious relationship between “history” and “theory” in American Studies today.

scholarly journals An Introduction to the Second Veeranaikar Diary

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
R Devi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Writing System ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
Diary Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Over Time

Human life is subject to change over time. In that way, man made a habit of taking note of events in everyday life. This was later called the diary. The forerunner of the diaries is the Greek memorandum known as “Ephemerides”. The diary-writing system developed in the 18th century among Tamils. Anandarangappillai, who was the head of the French government in Puducherry, records the political and social situation in Puducherry in the 18th century. Many have since written a dairy, In that order Rajagopala Nayakar’s son ll Veeranaikar, who played the second lord (Nayinar) post in the French court’s both during the French rule of Puducherry in the late 18th century, wrote a dairy from 1778 to 1792. The introduction of ll Veeranayakar as well as information about Puducherry, history of Veeranaaykar’s dairy, Hints about printer of Veeranaikar’s diary,process of process printing information’s explained in this article.

scholarly journals Na trilha do Le Monde Diplomatique: intelectuais, imprensa e perspectiva crítica (Le Monde Diplomatique’s trajectory: intellectuals, press and critical perspective)

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (25) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Juliana Sayuri Ogassawara
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

<p class="normal">Ancorado na história dos intelectuais, na história política e na história do tempo presente, este artigo apresenta a trajetória do periódico francês <strong>Le Monde Diplomatique</strong>, destacando como seus jornalistas e intelectuais contribuíram para a consolidação da linha editorial da publicação. Fundado em 1954, em Paris, por Hubert Beuve-Méry, <strong>Le Monde Diplomatique</strong> teve suas ideias alastradas por diversos países. Em fevereiro de 2013, o magazine contava mais de 40 edições internacionais, considerado um fenômeno único na imprensa internacional. Ao longo de sua trajetória, <strong>Le Monde Diplomatique</strong> teve sua linha editorial historicamente marcada por diretrizes politizadas, declaradamente anti-imperialistas e anti-neoliberais.</p><p class="normal"><strong><br /></strong></p><p class="normal"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p class="Normal1">Anchored in the history of intellectuals, the political history and the history of present time, this article analyses <strong>Le Monde Diplomatique</strong>’s development, highlighting the role played by journalists and intellectuals in the definition of its editorial guideline. Founded in 1954, in Paris, by Hubert Beuve-Méry, <strong>Le Monde Diplomatique</strong> had its ideas spread across several countries – in February 2013, the magazine had more than 40 international, an unique case in the international press. Throughout time, <strong>Le Monde Diplomatique</strong> had its style marked by politicized editorial guidelines, professedly anti-imperialist and anti-neoliberal. </p><p class="Normal1"><strong>Keywords</strong>:<strong> </strong>Le Monde Diplomatique; Press; Intellectuals.</p>

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