#yeeyeenation

Using methods from country music studies, performance studies, hashtag ethnography, and Black Feminist Thought (BFT), this article employs sonic, discursive, and social media analysis to examine performances of White masculinity known as “country boys.” In the opening sections, I describe examples of country boys that emerge from Texas A&M University (College Station), bringing together confederate statues and the men who identify with and defend such statues. I then turn my focus to critical analysis of one country boy in particular: county music singer, brand progenitor, and Texas icon, Granger Smith a.k.a. Earl Dibbles Jr. Highlighting the importance of country boys to the cultural identity of Texas A&M University, I argue that White publics aggregate and accrue racialized and gendered meaning in social media spaces through signs associated with Smith like the hashtag #yeeyeenation. Such signs are predicated on and normalize a rhetoric—in this case, that something or someone “is not racist”—even in the face of evidence to the contrary. Extending the insights of scholarship on the former Confederacy to contemporary country music cultures and to the present political moment, this article interrogates how White identities and related genealogies in the U.S. context are not simply established to sanitize and excuse expressions of racist, gendered, and exclusionary thought, but are sustained by aestheticized deceptions. I refer to these deceptions as mythopoetics. In this article I demonstrate how Smith’s success, particularly since he is best known for his “redneck” alter-ego, Earl Dibbles Jr., is a testament to the power and reach of mythopoetics in a hegemonic White and heteropatriarchal society. I argue that mythopoetics are not only essential to majoritarian cultural formations today, but also normalize White supremacy to such a point that its violence can circulate without consequence and in plain sight.

Investigation of Metaverse in cryptocurrency

Metaverse is an immersive 3D virtual environment, a true virtual artificial community in which avatars act as the user's alter ego and interact with each other. If we do not manage the hype for the metaverse, which has recently been receiving a surge in interest, the metaverse will fail to cross the chasm. This article conducts a comprehensive survey on computational arts, in which seven critical topics are relevant to the metaverse, describing novel artworks in blended virtual-physical realities. The topics first cover the building elements for the metaverse, e.g. Virtual scenes and characters, auditory, textual elements. Next, several remarkable types of novel creations in the expanded horizons of metaverse cyberspace have been reflected, such as immersive arts, robotic arts, and other user-centric approaches fuelling contemporary creative outputs.

Postcolonial vision of Yaroslav Pavlyuk’s novel “The Garden of Drunk Cherries”

The relevance of the article lies in the study of the problem of the lost generation in modern Ukrainian literature, which remains insufficiently studied in literary criticism. The subject of the research is Yaroslav Pavlyuk’s postmodern novel “The Garden of Drunk Cherries”, to which the methods of postcolonial theory are applied. In the analysis, a literary character with a bifurcated consciousness stands out. This is the type of person in whom the traditional Ukrainian self-consciousness is combined with the Soviet one. The main result of the study is to identify the specifics of Ukrainian national identity in the Soviet Union, which was hidden and not exposed to the public, and Soviet identity became a social mask that people wore so as not to differ from generally accepted social standards. The novelty of the results of the study helps to reveal the social mask, which in Soviet-era Ukraine was the Russian language, which people had to use at the official level. The dramatic conflict between the novel main character, who is the author’s alter ego, and the librarian Oresta, is accompanied by letters from the artist Borys Zhdanyuk and famous directors Andriy Tarkovsky and Sergiy Parajanov, whose emotions and thoughts reveal the real picture of the absence of individual and national freedom in the USSR. Using the examples of people of art, it is shown how the Soviet system destroyed dissent and traumatized creative personalities. The bifurcation of the creative personality in Soviet-era Ukraine often led vulnerable people to their degradation. Censorship, control of dissent, the imposition of socialist realism in art, and the threat of arrest have forced writers, artists, and directors to adapt to the system or become dissidents. The novel depicts characters who do not accept the official ideology, trying to save their private world from state interference. The results of the study have the prospect for further analysis of the work of individual writers and generations who have become a lost force and have not used the creative potential inherent in them.

INNOVATION − CONDITIO SINE QUA NON DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION?

The research is an attempt to understand the nature of «innovation» phenomenon of, to outline its essential features. The urgency of the problem is due to the fact that in the context of new globalization challenges, paradigm shifts and transformational processes, the concept of innovation acquires the meaning of the strategic imperative of education of the third millennium, and innovation is considered a prerequisite (conditio sine qua non) for higher education. The purpose of the article is to clarify the essence of the phenomenon of «innovation», its genesis in the development of domestic and foreign higher pedagogical education, outline and analyze the determinants that define innovation as a prerequisite for the development of domestic higher pedagogical education. To achieve this goal, theoretical methods were used: analysis and generalization of scientific sources to outline the genesis, essence and attributive characteristics of the phenomenon of «innovation»; terminological analysis to clarify the basic concepts of the study; analysis of normative-legal documents regulating the development of higher education in Ukraine to clarify the legal support of the imperative of innovation in the development of higher pedagogical education; generalization and systematization of existing experience on this problem to formulate their own views on the innovative development of higher pedagogical education in a modern university as a scientific category.The term «innovation» nowadays is perhaps the most used in the context of paradigm and legislative changes, standardization of higher education, transformation of the content and technology of training, changing approaches to the organization and conduct of training and more. Changes in education and science, their development and constant renewal are a necessary condition for the life of modern society, and innovation becomes its alter ego. Having come a long way in history, «innovation» is now often seen as a tool for transforming various areas of socio-cultural activity; as an innovation that is not yet widespread in social activities or production; as the end result of the introduction of scientific and technological progress for the sustainable development of society. This contradiction of interpretations of the phenomenon of «innovation», on the one hand, and declaring it as a key tool for building a society of sustainable development, highlighted the need to explore the nature of «innovation», understand its determinism and basic elements, outline conceptual approaches to modernization of higher education. principles.

LAW ART

Il saggio vuole riflettere su un autore che, sebbene negli ultimi anni abbia conosciuto una riscoperta sia in Francia che in Europa, rimane, soprattutto in Italia, poco noto e sottovalutato. L’opera di Romain Gary invece si presta più di altre a essere esaminata con la lente del giurista e dello storico, attenta a scrutare nelle pagine romanzesche istanze legate al diritto, alla libertà e alla giustizia. La Resistenza vissuta e narrata da Gary attraverso i suoi numerosi alter ego letterari rappresenta un momento etico e pedagogico, mai retorico, di lotta per il diritto e per la memoria.

A Beginning to Existing: Understanding Colin Wilson’s “Outsiderism” in ‘Ritual In The Dark’ - An Eastern Perspective

The phenomenon of “Outsiderism” found in the works of Colin Wilson has both individual and social implications which are intrinsically evolutionary. Wilson takes a stock of this ‘evolutionary man’ and concludes that ‘outsider is a god in making. The ‘Outsider’ is a state of consciousness which recognizes both duality and non-duality, but strives to leave the former and hold the later. Like an Eastern Yogi, these ‘outsiders’ have a strong recognition that life in its ‘ordinariness’ generates ennui which is bereft of any meaning and purpose. They indulge in all such actions, though momentarily, with intent of bringing intensity to their consciousness. Wilson contends that human energy can manifest in all possible negative and positive forms, but in the outsider state, these energies begin to integrate which leads to the realization that mankind’s freedom lies in religious attitude wherein a human being reconnects with its inner sources. It is interesting to understand the complex character of the “outsider” that Wilson has created in both his fiction and non-fiction and hold him as an alter ego to the eastern sannyasin, who having some glimpses of the other modes of being and torn by his own inner and outer conflicts is desperate to cast off the slough of his trivial worldly existence and metamorphose into a god. This paper is an attempt to understand the Wilsonian outsider with specific reference to the novel ‘Ritual in the Dark.’ The study will be carried out from the perspective of Eastern mysticism so as to find out, whether such outsiders are Western sannyasins engaged in a similar self-quest, and who having traversed through myriad realms of their physical and psychological beings are beginning to exist.

Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas

Durante siglos las escritoras habitaron los márgenes de lo establecido: rechazaron las convenciones sociales que buscaban limitar su libertad como entes políticos y creativos, y rompieron el silencio al que parecían condenadas. Estas autoras crearon personajes femeninos igualmente exocanónicos, que vivían y hablaban desde el umbral, desestabilizando el discurso hegemónico con su mera existencia. Estos personajes se convierten con frecuencia en alter ego de la autora para ofrecer una profunda reflexión sobre el papel de la mujer en su sociedad. Asimismo, son parte fundamental de la experimentación formal y temática de estas autoras y del cuestionamiento que hacen al canon literario. Este volumen busca trazar estas genealogías en femenino, viajando a otras épocas y lugares para recuperar obras y autoras que no han alcanzado todavía el reconocimiento que merecen. El recorrido cronológico concluye con narradoras y personajes en la literatura escrita por mujeres en los siglos XX y XXI, desde los años cuarenta hasta las nuevas narrativas digitales. Esta monografía contribuye, pues, a los estudios feministas que abogan por mirar hacia el pasado para comprender el presente y entiende la recuperación de estas genealogías como fundamental para poder escribir un futuro, social, cultural y literario, en femenino.

Relationship Property and Trusts: the "Bundle of Rights" Theory?

<p>This dissertation examines the “bundle of rights” theory as it meets at the intersection of trust and family property law. Drawing on conceptions of property, the principles and purposes of the Property (Relationships) Act and contrasted with trust law, a theory is adopted to explain why family property law has presumptive power over trust principles. Orthodox trust principles are discussed to explain why trust assets are protected from third party claims, the importance of the laws of powers and fiduciary obligations, the problems created by settlor or appointor control and the reason a “controller” is a beneficial owner of trust assets. The dispositions of relationship property to trusts and the limits on compensatory payments are discussed alongside the significance of the abolition of gift duty, other statutory remedies and judicial responses. Case authorities are explored, similarities with Australian alter ego trusts are drawn upon, and the application of the “bundle of rights” theory is discussed with reference to the valuation of debts and occupation orders. The dissertation concludes that the “bundle of rights” theory draws on an expansive meaning of property, it is a principled approach but confined to the Act.</p>

Relationship Property and Trusts: the "Bundle of Rights" Theory?

<p>This dissertation examines the “bundle of rights” theory as it meets at the intersection of trust and family property law. Drawing on conceptions of property, the principles and purposes of the Property (Relationships) Act and contrasted with trust law, a theory is adopted to explain why family property law has presumptive power over trust principles. Orthodox trust principles are discussed to explain why trust assets are protected from third party claims, the importance of the laws of powers and fiduciary obligations, the problems created by settlor or appointor control and the reason a “controller” is a beneficial owner of trust assets. The dispositions of relationship property to trusts and the limits on compensatory payments are discussed alongside the significance of the abolition of gift duty, other statutory remedies and judicial responses. Case authorities are explored, similarities with Australian alter ego trusts are drawn upon, and the application of the “bundle of rights” theory is discussed with reference to the valuation of debts and occupation orders. The dissertation concludes that the “bundle of rights” theory draws on an expansive meaning of property, it is a principled approach but confined to the Act.</p>

Symmetry in Emotional and Visual Similarity between Neutral and Negative Faces

Is Mr. Hyde more similar to his alter ego Dr. Jekyll, because of their physical identity, or to Jack the Ripper, because both evoke fear and loathing? The relative weight of emotional and visual dimensions in similarity judgements is still unclear. We expected an asymmetric effect of these dimensions on similarity perception, such that faces that express the same or similar feeling are judged as more similar than different emotional expressions of same person. We selected 10 male faces with different expressions. Each face posed one neutral expression and one emotional expression (five disgust, five fear). We paired these expressions, resulting in 190 pairs, varying either in emotional expressions, physical identity, or both. Twenty healthy participants rated the similarity of paired faces on a 7-point scale. We report a symmetric effect of emotional expression and identity on similarity judgements, suggesting that people may perceive Mr. Hyde to be just as similar to Dr. Jekyll (identity) as to Jack the Ripper (emotion). We also observed that emotional mismatch decreased perceived similarity, suggesting that emotions play a prominent role in similarity judgements. From an evolutionary perspective, poor discrimination between emotional stimuli might endanger the individual.