A Parodic Tale in “Sovy” (Soviet Texts) by D. Prigov

The article aims to study D. Prigovs series of prose texts Sovy (Soviet texts) artistic subtleties as a conceptualist work. The author of the article analyzes genre and style modifications owing to use of parodic stylization. The research exemplifies how a fairy tale, epic, legend, anecdote, hagiography are modified by the Soviet myth content, whereas creating a quasi-history. Historical characters, politicians, poets and writers, mythologized by ideology and commonplace consciousness in the Sovy, are presented as cultural and progenitor heroes. Life journey of characters, cultivated by the Soviet myth, is often depicted according to the hagiographic canon. The mask of a storyteller/propagandist is the starting point of folklore stylizations and parody imitations of the Soviet art in the Sovy series. Parodic tale was crafted by mimicking folklore and journalistic styles, their hybridization at the lexical-grammatical and rhythmic-syntactic levels. Styles, genres and masks mocking in D. Prigovs Sovy series is examined at the methodological perspective of text narratological analysis for the first time, thus emphasizing the studys novelty and relevance. The author of the article concludes that D. Prigov deconstructs Soviet mythologems, showcasing transformations of a myth to an anecdote, a famous name into an empty sign, a story into a simulacrum.

Software Must be Recognised as an Important Output of Scholarly Research

Software now lies at the heart of scholarly research. Here we argue that as well as being important from a methodological perspective, software should, in many instances, be recognised as an output of research, equivalent to an academic paper. The article discusses the different roles that software may play in research and highlights the relationship between software and research sustainability and reproducibility. It describes the challenges associated with the processes of citing and reviewing software, which differ from those used for papers. We conclude that whilst software outputs do not necessarily fit comfortably within the current publication model, there is a great deal of positive work underway that is likely to make an impact in addressing this.

The Mute Zone of Social Representations and the Effects of (Un)Masking: Review and Prospects

Twenty years ago, Guimelli and Deschamps (2000) hypothesised the existence of the mute zone of social representations. According to the authors, certain parts of the social representations of objects, described as sensitive, were not expressed under normal survey conditions. This fundamental question was curiously addressed very late in literature on social representations, but has been having significant success within the community of researchers working in this field since then. This seminal work, which offered a methodological perspective capable of highlighting such unspoken facts, paved the way for studies that proposed several theoretical interpretations and new techniques for exploring this mute zone. The challenge was twofold: to identify the processes involved and to invent the appropriate tools to express the counter-normative contents potentially attached to certain objects of representation. This article proposes to take stock of these 20 years of research and to anticipate new avenues oriented on the one hand on the study of the socio-cognitive processes involved in the mute zone phenomenon, and on the other hand on the proposal of new theoretical and methodological articulations with other concepts dealing with similar issues.

Undercommunicated Stories in Boundary Building Processes

This text focuses on the narrations of Romani in the Czech Republic with regard to conversational topics which are usually not communicated in either conversations across group borders or in the media. The topics covered in these conversations range from everyday life issues and stories about success in employment to stories about experiences during powerful moments in the state’s history that resonate for all its inhabitants. The narratives analysed in this text include the experience of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the adventures of a group of boys who tried to illegally cross the state border during socialism. The interviews were filmed with a camera. From a methodological perspective, an interesting feature throughout the project was that during the conversations the narrators did not stress their Romani identity. The dominant tone was rather that of plain interpersonal communication. Thus, these narratives can be characterised as acts of everyday communication – a mode of interaction which is not common in the communication of Roma with non-Roma – which emphasize the shared overall context in which all inhabitants of the Czech Republic find themselves.

Responsibility Assignment in Systems Engineering

The constantly increasing system complexity leads to various challenges in established companies, which can be controlled by using systems engineering processes. INCOSE defines explicit processes with concrete inputs and outputs (artifacts) for this purpose. Systems Engineering roles can be used to organize the tasks of the processes within the company. In this work, the responsibilities of the systems engineering roles on the process artifacts are evaluated by means of the RACI scheme and examined by means of cluster analysis. The work steps are accompanied by discussions and results of a systems engineering transformation project with a large German automotive OEM. The goal of the study is to identify the minimum size of a systems engineering team and prioritize the systems engineering roles. As a result, the (sometimes contradictory) requirements from the methodological perspective of systems engineering and the organizational perspective of project management become manageable in the control and execution of systems engineering projects.

‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork

Team ethnography is becoming more popular in research. However, there is currently limited understanding of how multiple ethnographers working together actually share their experiences of conducting team ethnography. There is also an associated lack of explanation regarding how evidence and conclusions are drawn from such collective endeavour. This article attempts to address this absence of detail regarding the practice and conduct of team ethnography. In the following account, the authors present details of the design, development and application of ‘team ethnography visual maps’ and the collaborative reflexivity that took place within ‘team ethnography data sessions’ that were each embedded within a mixed methods study of frontline services located in six different National Health Service Trusts throughout England (UK). After a presentation of the ethnographic methods and analyses that occurred as part of team ethnography, they are then discussed in terms of their applied and academic value from a methodological perspective.

Representações de Brasília em poemas de Nicolas Behr (1977-1980): uma perspectiva metodológica a partir de Hans Robert Jauss | Representations of the city of Brasília in the poetry of Nicolas Behr (1977-1980): a methodological perspective by Hans Robert Jauss

Este artigo discute as representações de Brasília presentes nos poemas de Nicolas Behr, escritos entre 1977 e 1980. O objetivo é apreender, nos poemas dedicados à Capital Federal, parte do ima­ginário social da cidade quase em seu grau zero de saturação histórica. Apresenta-se, para isso, a leitura e a análise orientadas por Hans Robert Jauss que, sob bases da hermenêutica, propõe que se opere sobre os textos literários em três etapas: percepção estética (intelligere), interpretação retros­pectiva (interpretare) e histórica (applicare). Assim, ele também é um experimento metodológico posto a favor da literatura como fonte singular para pensar e representar a cidade.

Agential realism meets feminist art. A diffractive dialogue between writers, theories and art

This article invites readers to follow our diffractive dialogue, which reflects on our interdisciplinary collaboration in thinking and writing with Karen Barad. Working with Barad’s diffractive methodology, we bring her agential realism, insights from quantum physics and feminist theories to contemporary feminist art. The aesthetic practices of three art works are discussed, and we argue that these call for an understanding of eco-, capitalist-, colonialist- and feminist critique as interrelated phenomena in the sense of agential realism. This is because it is not only the art works themselves that create encounter-moments of being-entangled with the bodies and discourses that surround them. From a methodological perspective, we are also interested in marking diffractive moments of encounter with the art works and between us, given our different disciplinary backgrounds. So, we intend to open up a space of encounters between Barad’s work, the work of the three artists and the work of ourselves as writers.

Level of competence on the concept of basis of vector space using SOLO taxonomy

The purpose of this research paper is to determinate the level of competence on the concept of basis of a vector space on college level students who finished the Linear Algebra course, providing complementary information to the various studies from a different perspective through the SOLO taxonomy (Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome). An instrument was designed to address the concept of basis from different perspectives and difficulty degrees; it was applied through individual video-recorded interviews. Their answers were analyzed, and it was found that they average level 3 (multistructural) of the taxonomy: the students know the basis definition from an algorithmic or methodological perspective, and they can reproduce some procedures, but they are unable to understand the basis concept.