scholarly journals Zygmunt Bauman and the Task of theTranslator

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (13-14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Szymon Wróbel
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social World ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

The author presents the figure of Zygmunt Bauman as a public intellectualand a translator. Following Walter Benjamin and his essay“The Task of the Translator” and Jacques Derrida and his text“What Is a ‘Relevant’ Translation,” the author concludes that a publicintellectual as a translator is persistently confrontedwith the taskof translatingstatements and postulates from the “language of politics”into “language of practice” and “individual experience”, fromthe “language of science” into the “language of collective action”, andfrom the “language of sociology” into the “language of the media.”The author claims that the key category in Bauman’s thinking wasneither “liquidity” nor “modernity”, but “socialism as active utopia”.For Bauman, socialism is impossible without a socialist culture, butculture is a practice, i.e. it is anattempt to attune our collective goalsaimed at improving the social world. This alignment comes withoutresorting to the idea of a collective conductor (a program), but bymeans of resorting to the idea of a translator.

Beyond Theory: The Cumbersome Materiality of Shock

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
U Strohmayer
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social World ◽  
It Use ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Fatal Flaw ◽  
The Social ◽  
Abstract Formulation

We all practice it, use its presumed power of explanation, and never seem to get tired of it: theory, only recently introduced to geography at large, appears to be indispensable for any truly rigorous analysis of the social world. But is it really? In this paper it is argued that even the most sophisticated of attempts at ‘theorizing the social’ can claim success only by abandoning reason where reason is needed most: in the abstract formulation of particularity. In the pursuit of this ultimately fatal flaw of any theoretical endeavour, the author ultimately asks what it is about society and space that seems to require a theoretical approach, and what precisely we stand to lose if we opt for a theoretically informed abandonment of theory. With reference to Walter Benjamin, whose work is read as an embodiment of the most crucial conflict between reason and justification, an attempt will be made towards a genuinely material social science that does not rely on external guarantees to achieve a modest goal in the possibility of cognizance.

The construction of grievable death: Toward an analytical framework for the study of mediatized death

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tal Morse
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Social World ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Moral Orientation ◽  
Systematic Method ◽  
Death Rituals ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

Death generates rituals that organize the social world and bring to the fore the relational ties individuals have with one another. The media not only constitute the space where some of these death rituals take place but also are pivotal institutions that provide moral orientation. This article is interested in death-related media rituals and the extent to which these propose a way for individuals to situate themselves within a broader, social and political structure. Inspired by Judith Butler’s discussion of grievability, the article introduces the analytics of mediatized grievability, which offers a way of studying and analyzing news about death. This analytical framework unpacks the notion of grievability and accounts both for the properties of mediatized death rituals and for the moral principles embedded in these. The framework offers a systematic method of analyzing news about death and identifying the ethical solicitation such news addresses to its spectators with regard to how they should feel and act in situations of distant death.

scholarly journals Tayangan Religi: Melekatnya Dunia Sosial dan Media Komersial

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Amirudin Amirudin
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Social World ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Market Criteria ◽  
Stage Stage

This article summarizes the results of ethographic research on Religious Shows as Cultural Production Field: Studies on religious show of Mamah and AA in Action. The purpose of this article is to explore how Mamah Dedeh as one of the actors in the cultural production process through religious shows plays her role from daily life that is related closely to religious criteria which her habitus is formed through the missionary on the social stage. Stage of da’wah which is purely colored by religious criteria as a “blackbox” that directs her preaching in moslem comunity. But then, after she entered da’wah system in the media stage, which contained market criteria that must be followed. How she mixes and embeds da'wah systems in the social world with da'wah in commercial media, it is a subject that interesting to discuss in this article.

scholarly journals Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating some Categories of Economic Discourse

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert O. Hirschman
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
Rational Actor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

Economics as a science of human behavior has been grounded in a remarkably parsimonious postulate: that of the self-interested, isolated individual who chooses freely and rationally between alternative courses of action after computing their prospective costs and benefits. In recent decades, a group of economists has shown considerable industry and ingenuity in applying this way of interpreting the social world to a series of ostensibly noneconomic phenomena, from crime to the family, and from collective action to democracy. The “economic” or “rational-actor” approach has yielded some important insights, but its onward sweep has also revealed some of its intrinsic weaknesses. As a result, it has become possible to mount a critique which, ironically, can be carried all the way back to the heartland of the would-be conquering discipline. That the economic approach presents us with too simpleminded an account of even such fundamental economic processes as consumption and production is the basic thesis of the present paper.

scholarly journals Proces strukturyzacji i instytucjonalizacji świata społecznego kibiców piłkarskich i jego konsekwencje

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Jacek Burski
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Fan Culture ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Fan Behavior ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Soccer Fans

The author analyzes the segmentation and institutionalization of the social world of soccer fans in the context of global economic and cultural changes. He refers to the literature on the subject to present the genesis of this sport and the descriptions that have been made of its fans. In the empirical part, he views the fan phenomenon in Poland on the basis of press and internet materials, casual interviews with fans of the Łódź Sports Club, and fan behavior in stadiums (the ‘framework’). Institutionalization and structurization in the social setting of Polish soccer fans are considered in connection with the economic and institutional changes after 1989 and global changes in the world of culture and the media. He proposes a typology of fans—the participants in the social world of soccer. He claims that the institutionalization of this world is underway but that organizing fans into associations is having a different impact on fan culture and the social world beyond than was earlier expected.

The reign of the ‘painterly real’ and the politics of crisis, 1999–2004

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Harutyunyan
Keyword(s):  
Video Art ◽  
Social World ◽  
The State ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politics Of Resistance ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Society ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Cultural Shifts

This closing chapter offers a reading of the work of two artists of the 1990s and early 2000s – David Kareyan and Narek Avetisyan, both previously members of the group ACT – and discusses their works in the context of social, political, technological as well as cultural shifts in Armenia. The two artists’ works, it argues, epitomize the contradictions of the turn of the century Armenia. This context is defined as a crisis of politics and political subjectivization vis-à-vis the state. This marked a shift from affirmative artistic practices in the conditions of the crisis of negation that characterized the mid 1990s, and gave birth to a politics of resistance. The chapter considers political, economic and art institutional transformations as interlinked processes that bring about an imperative to rearticulate art’s relationship to the social world. It locates the advent of video art, performance and installation within the advent of the media society and the techno utopias of global connectivity.

scholarly journals The media’s role in shaping the public opinion on education: A thematic and frame analysis of externalisation to world situations in the Portuguese media

2022 ◽  
pp. 174549992110577
Author(s):  
Íris Santos ◽  
Luís Miguel Carvalho ◽  
Benedita Portugal e Melo
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Social World ◽  
Double Reduction ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Communications

This article uses thematisation theory (Luhmann, 1996; Pissarra Esteves, 2016) and frame analysis (Entman, 1993) to analyse externalisations to world situations (Schriewer, 1990) in the Portuguese print media’s discussion of education. Our data constitutes news and opinion articles collected after each PISA cycle’s results was published. The analysis demonstrates that the education themes discussed in the media between 2001 and 2017 are consistent, despite occasionally being discussed more intensively, frequently following the themes highlighted by PISA reports and OECD media communications. The frames used for these themes are more diverse, changing according to the speaker’s agenda and viewpoints. Externalisations (frequently PISA, OECD, and other participants in the survey) serve as sources of authority that help in thematising and framing education. This process works as a mechanism of double reduction for the complexity of the social world, narrowing the possibilities of how education is seen and interpreted by the public.

scholarly journals The Mediated Crowd: New Social Media and New Forms of Rioting

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Alice Baker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Space ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Structures Of Feeling ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Commentary on the recent riots largely reflects ideological differences with political discourse reviving traditional debates of social inequality and moral decline. While the 2011 riots resemble former incidents of rioting in twentieth-century Britain, it is argued that the recent unrest was significantly enhanced by the development of new social media, requiring new understandings of mediated crowd membership in the twenty-first century. I introduce and outline a model of the ‘mediated crowd’ commencing with the impact of new social media, and develop this paradigm in conjunction with emotions research, to account for the emotional dimensions of collective action, and the social and political effects these technological developments have on contemporary forms of rioting. Here, it is argued that attempts to understand the causes of the recent riots must recognise that while social media contributed to the speed and scope of the unrest, emotions play a crucial role in motivating and sustaining collective action as the structures of feeling that intersect geographic and virtual public space. This innovative approach provides insight into the particular conditions in which the English riots emerged, while demonstrating how social media contributes more broadly to new forms of collectivity in the media age.

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