Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Nana Okura Gagné
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Japanese Economy ◽  
Aging Men ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Japanese Employees ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring ◽  
Shifting Identities

This chapter focuses on Japanese men who are working men, family men, aging men, and complex individual men in twenty-first-century Japan. It examines Japanese employees' life stories as they are interwoven with work, family, and leisure spaces in order to shed light on the complexity of employees' lives and on the shifting meanings of various interconnected contexts that are obscured by the economic logic of twenty-first-century Japan. It also analyses how oppositional ideological systems and different individuals clash, operate, and create new meanings. The chapter reveals the restructuring and resilience that marks the ways Japanese employees wrestle with, navigate through, and manipulate dominant ideologies operating in the local and global economies. It discusses the salarymen's shifting identities since the 1990s and the relationship between gender roles, employment structures, and the neoliberal restructuring of the Japanese economy.

scholarly journals The Work of Modern Art: In Search for the New Meanings

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Moskalyuk ◽  
Tatyana Serikova
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
First Century ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

The article discusses the characteristics of contemporary art works and the specifics of its interaction with the audience. We demonstrate that contemporary art is not so much a way of reflecting on the world around us, but rather a way of learning about it, as well as a peculiar game (provocation) whose meanings are unknown and closed for discussion. Today it is impossible to provide unambiguous answers to the challenges faced by the art practice of the twenty-first century. Nevertheless, it is necessary to consider topical issues, outline ways to study them, structure groups of facts, and determine methods for their research and description. The priority during this process is to identify the qualitative components of the works of contemporary visual art. To do this, it is necessary to determine the features that distinguish contemporary works from those created at the previous stages of art development. Further research is required for this problem. Here we use as case examples the works of Krasnoyarsk artists Anna Osipova and Alexander Surikov, who combine both classical and actual characteristics. Keywords: contemporary art, communication, Anna Osipova, Alexander Surikov

Baldwin's Rendezvous with the Twenty-First Century: I Am Not Your Negro

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Warren Crichlow
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Pedagogical Intervention ◽  
Untimely Death ◽  
Rhetorical Practice ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Raoul Peck ◽  
New Generation

Thirty years after James Baldwin's untimely death at the age of 63, Haitian-born Raoul Peck makes good on Baldwin's spirited prophecy through his timely and intrepidly titled I Am Not Your Negro (2016). In his rendezvous with Baldwin, Peck carries Baldwin's prescient voice into the twenty-first century, where his rhetorical practice of “telling it like it is” resonates anew in this perilous political moment. Drawing on his signature practice of reanimating the archive through bricolage, Peck not only represents but also remobilizes Baldwin's image repertoire, helping to conjugate the very idea of this revered—and often criticized—novelist and essayist to renewed effect. Like audiences of an earlier era, today's viewers become spellbound by this critical witness's fervent idiomatic eloquence and uncompromising vision. Crichlow argues that Baldwin's journey is palpably not over—perhaps just beginning. The film makes certain his illuminating prose and penetrating critique continue to assume new meanings in the present, which in turn creates new imaginaries for the future. I Am Not Your Negro augers a significant pedagogical intervention, set to revive knowledge of Baldwin through multifarious viewings, but equally to jump-start the art of reading in schools and communities where a new generation may have little access otherwise to Baldwin's texts. Baldwin had a prophetic sense of his “appointment with the twenty-first century.” In innumerable ways, Raoul Peck's superbly realized I Am Not Your Negro has helped him honor that date.

Managing Networks of Twenty-First Century Organisations

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perri Six ◽  
Nick Goodwin ◽  
Edward Peck ◽  
Tim Freeman
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century
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