The Journey of "Furthur" in the Summer of 1964 and its Significance in the Changing Subcultures of the USA

В 1960-е гг. в США шел процесс становления контркультуры, которую связывают с психоделической революцией, нонконформизмом, разрывом поколений, антивоенным движением, социальными экспериментами. Именно в этот период происходит процесс преобразования бит-поколения 1950-х гг. в субкультуру хиппи 1960-х гг. Одним из показательных событий этого процесса стал факт присоединения битника Нила Кэссиди к коммуне «Весёлые Проказники» во главе с писателем Кеном Кизи. Путешествие «Далше» летом 1964 г. стало катализатором в этой смене субкультур. In the 1960s, a counterculture was being formed in the United States, which was associated with the psychedelic revolution, nonconformism, the generation gap, the anti-war movement, and social experiments. It was during this period that the process of transforming the beat generation of the 1950s into a hippie subculture of the 1960s took place. One of the significant events of this process was the fact that beatnik Neil Cassidy joined the commune «Merry Pranksters» led by writer Ken Kesey. The «Further» trip in the summer of 1964 was a catalyst in this change of subcultures.

Optimierung und Subversion

Der Text fragt im Sinne subjektivationstheoretischer Ansätze nach den Lücken, die das kybernetische Dispositiv dem Selbst eröffnet. Dazu werden zuerst die Grundlagen dieses Dispositiv erörtert. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf das kybernetische Selbstkonzept und entsprechende Lernverständnisse gelegt. Im Rahmen dessen werden zwei wissenschaftliche Idiome vorgestellt, die mit der Kybernetik verbunden sind, ein repräsentationales und ein performatives. Veranschaulicht wird dies schließlich an den künstlerisch-ästhetischen Medienpraktiken von Ken Kesey (Einer flog über das Kuckucksnest) und der Aktionskunst-Gruppe Merry Pranksters, die aus der spielerischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem kybernetischen Dispositiv emergieren und als prototypische Anordnungen heutiger Multimedia-Kulturen verstanden werden können. Es stellt sich die Frage, welches der beiden Idiome (medien-)pädagogischen Kontexten in normativer Hinsicht eher angemessen ist.

The Emotional Component in K. Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

The research objective was to study the negative emotional background as a component of the linguistic world image in "One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest" by Ken Kesey. The research featured the lexical means that make up the emotional background of the novel. The author used field method and the method of vocabulary definitions, as well as componential, linguistic, and contextual analyses. The field method and the componential analysis helped to structure the linguistic world image of the work according to invariant lexical meanings. "Negative emotion" appeared to be the archiseme of the text. The nuclear elements of the linguistic world image were formed with the vocabulary of emotions. They were united into three groups: fear, rage, and hate. The peripheral elements were represented by emotional vocabulary. They displayed ways of expressing and perceiving emotions, as well as mental and emotional conditions. The characters of Nurse Ratched, Randle McMurphy, patients, and asylum personnel were the denotative universals of the novel. Methods of vocabulary definitions, linguistic comparison, and contextual analysis revealed the meaning structure of the lexical units and specific features of the emotional background. The linguistic reality created by K. Kesey proved to be based on antithesis. Emotive text elements did not merely express the archiseme "negative emotion" but could also be united into groups with opposite semantic features, which made the text more vivid and emotional. The research results can be used in professional linguistic studies and university courses.

Land of Tomorrow

This book analyzes changes in American intellectual life after the Second World War. It argues that sweeping cultural and intellectual trends undermined the legacy of social-democratic reform instituted by the New Deal. Land of Tomorrow offers a genealogy of these changes within American liberalism by looking to writers and intellectuals such as Vladimir Nabokov, Ralph Ellison, Hannah Arendt, Lionel Trilling, Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, Patricia Highsmith, Alfred Hitchcock, J. D. Salinger, Ken Kesey, Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, and many others. It also considers the reception of many prominent European thinkers, including Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Franz Kafka. The major ideas and developments considered include American existentialism, theories of corporate management, aestheticism, the reception history of modernism, postwar anxieties about totalitarianism, and the history of cultural support for the welfare state in the United States

Anti-institutional Automatons

The second chapter argues how much of New Left culture, broadly defined, used images of automatism as a way to turn anti-totalitarian rhetoric against the U.S. establishment, including work by Ralph Ellison, Ken Kesey, Charles Reich, and Betty Friedan.