Jeden świat. Reklama społeczna w dobie pandemii

The article is an excerpt from a wider research project carried out by the author in October– December 2020, concerning advertising materials used by WHO and selected countries (Poland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa) in social campaigns during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This text presents one case study – a campaign used in Poland, comparing its messages with WHO advertising materials. The main thesis was taken from the thought of Ivan Krastev, who claims that the pandemic made everyone realize that all people are inhabitants of “One World” in the face of a global threat. The entire study used the triangulation of two research methods – case study and compositional interpretation by Gillian Rose. Roman Jakobson’s model of linguistic communication was used to examine the verbal layer of messages. In the linguistic layer of the messages, their considerable persuasiveness was assumed. In the visual layer, due to the simplicity of the form, it is limited to the compositional modality, with particular emphasis on colors and iconic signs. The text shows how important a role in communication, especially in times of a pandemic, is played by social advertising campaigns. Paradoxically, a pandemic that threatens humanity may also open up new, comparative areas of research on the effectiveness of mass communication means used in some countries, which can be successfully used in others.

Radical Everyday Practice. Gillian Rose, Ernst Bloch, and seven activist- philosophers of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa

<p>How are we to live? How do we sustain our emotional commitment to utopia? Answering these questions necessarily calls for a reconceptualisation of subjectivity and sociality, in order to overcome the depoliticisation, resignation and despair captured by the neoliberal subject. Drawing together qualitative and theoretical research under Ruth Levitas’ framework for the ‘imaginary reconstitution of society’ – Utopia as Method – I argue utopia is the otherwise that we navigate, create and learn of, together, through every moment. Where the neoliberal subject signals a collapse of subjectivity that contributes to the depoliticisation and resignation of our contemporary times, I offer an alternative account of subjectivity through Gillian Rose and Ernst Bloch. In an original theoretical encounter, I connect Rose’s concepts of reason and ‘inaugurated mourning’ with Bloch’s concepts ‘the darkness of the lived moment’ and the ‘not-yet,’ towards imagining subjectivity differently. Further, through six conversations with seven activist-philosophers from Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) – Jen Margaret, Jo Randerson, Thomas LaHood, Richard D. Bartlett, Benjamin Johnson, Cally O’Neill and Kassie Hartendorp – I make visible already-existing emancipatory practices and subjectivities from within radical Aotearoa (New Zealand,) from which we can learn and locally ground our imaginings. Combining the conversations held with the activist-philosophers with the alternative account of subjectivity developed, I move outwards – from the individual and the particular to the collective – to specifically name five key modes of radical everyday practice: embodiment, not knowing, trust, care, and imagining. Understood as an articulation of docta spes, or a praxis of educated hope, these five modes capture a sense of everyday sociality imagined otherwise, as well as articulate a collaborative, sustainable and localised account of the emotionally demanding pedagogical pursuit towards the realisation and experience of utopia. An answer to the first question – how are we to live? – is thus processually found within the second question – how do we sustain our emotional commitment to utopia?</p>

Radical Everyday Practice. Gillian Rose, Ernst Bloch, and seven activist- philosophers of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa

<p>How are we to live? How do we sustain our emotional commitment to utopia? Answering these questions necessarily calls for a reconceptualisation of subjectivity and sociality, in order to overcome the depoliticisation, resignation and despair captured by the neoliberal subject. Drawing together qualitative and theoretical research under Ruth Levitas’ framework for the ‘imaginary reconstitution of society’ – Utopia as Method – I argue utopia is the otherwise that we navigate, create and learn of, together, through every moment. Where the neoliberal subject signals a collapse of subjectivity that contributes to the depoliticisation and resignation of our contemporary times, I offer an alternative account of subjectivity through Gillian Rose and Ernst Bloch. In an original theoretical encounter, I connect Rose’s concepts of reason and ‘inaugurated mourning’ with Bloch’s concepts ‘the darkness of the lived moment’ and the ‘not-yet,’ towards imagining subjectivity differently. Further, through six conversations with seven activist-philosophers from Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) – Jen Margaret, Jo Randerson, Thomas LaHood, Richard D. Bartlett, Benjamin Johnson, Cally O’Neill and Kassie Hartendorp – I make visible already-existing emancipatory practices and subjectivities from within radical Aotearoa (New Zealand,) from which we can learn and locally ground our imaginings. Combining the conversations held with the activist-philosophers with the alternative account of subjectivity developed, I move outwards – from the individual and the particular to the collective – to specifically name five key modes of radical everyday practice: embodiment, not knowing, trust, care, and imagining. Understood as an articulation of docta spes, or a praxis of educated hope, these five modes capture a sense of everyday sociality imagined otherwise, as well as articulate a collaborative, sustainable and localised account of the emotionally demanding pedagogical pursuit towards the realisation and experience of utopia. An answer to the first question – how are we to live? – is thus processually found within the second question – how do we sustain our emotional commitment to utopia?</p>

Thinking Otherwise: Speculative Imagining in PfC

<p>In the face of looming ecological catastrophe, ever-expanding neoliberalism and the ongoing integration of our lives into virtual spaces, there is an urgent need to expand people’s political imagination and responsiveness to these challenges. Engaging with philosophy outside the academic sphere – for example, in school and community contexts – can contribute to addressing this political need. Using the example of Philosophy for Children (PfC), an international educational movement, this thesis explores the potential for cross-paradigmatic approaches to philosophical inquiry. It observes that adherence to particular philosophical paradigms, as has largely been the case in PfC, binds the imagination to particular epistemic and political parameters and precludes ideas that contradict paradigmatic assumptions. Invoking the sensibility of Gillian Rose, I argue that we need a philosophy that permits people to imagine radically different political worlds in a manner that actively resists political ‘bubble-think’. This thesis illustrates how Rose’s cross-paradigmatic approach, speculative negotiation, can help to address some of the limits of paradigm thinking by inspiring a more transformative philosophy in contexts such as PfC. In doing so, this thesis contributes both to an expansion of the PfC programme and to questions surrounding the concrete practise of Rose’s rich theoretical oeuvre.</p>

Thinking Otherwise: Speculative Imagining in PfC

<p>In the face of looming ecological catastrophe, ever-expanding neoliberalism and the ongoing integration of our lives into virtual spaces, there is an urgent need to expand people’s political imagination and responsiveness to these challenges. Engaging with philosophy outside the academic sphere – for example, in school and community contexts – can contribute to addressing this political need. Using the example of Philosophy for Children (PfC), an international educational movement, this thesis explores the potential for cross-paradigmatic approaches to philosophical inquiry. It observes that adherence to particular philosophical paradigms, as has largely been the case in PfC, binds the imagination to particular epistemic and political parameters and precludes ideas that contradict paradigmatic assumptions. Invoking the sensibility of Gillian Rose, I argue that we need a philosophy that permits people to imagine radically different political worlds in a manner that actively resists political ‘bubble-think’. This thesis illustrates how Rose’s cross-paradigmatic approach, speculative negotiation, can help to address some of the limits of paradigm thinking by inspiring a more transformative philosophy in contexts such as PfC. In doing so, this thesis contributes both to an expansion of the PfC programme and to questions surrounding the concrete practise of Rose’s rich theoretical oeuvre.</p>

Emancipating Space from the Conditions of Violence: The Broken Middle and Inaugurated Mourning in Israel and Palestine

<p>Spatiality in Israel and Palestine is mired in ongoing trauma and hardened differentiation. This thesis argues that spatiality must be reconfigured in order to break from a stagnated pattern of ongoing conflict. First, border lines become increasingly rigid, and come to enact a bordering practice that radically differentiates. Second, the site of the border itself offers opportunity for political possibility. Third, the spaces of violence must be subject to a process of mourning that enables emancipation from the conditions that would support ongoing violence. I draw upon the thought of Gillian Rose to re-articulate a notion of the border as a broken middle, and to set forth an approach to the spaces of violence that incorporates them into a process of inaugurated mourning. Re-articulating the border as a broken middle enriches the field of critical border studies which seeks to expand on the notion of the border as a site of potential connectivity and political or social possibility. A Rosean approach challenges the dualisms that a hardened border represents, persistently subjecting these dualisms to interrogation that undermines their rigidity. Re-configuring the spaces of violence through a process of inaugurated mourning gives expression to grief, and disentangles the organisation of space from ongoing violence, without forgetting past suffering. An inaugurated approach seeks a fuller and self-reflective understanding of the conditions of suffering; it works against retreating into a melancholic condition that would reproduce the conditions of violence. These arguments are developed through an exposition of projects by artist Francis Alÿs, and architect/artist collective Decolonising Architecture Art Residency. Through their propositional nature, these projects illuminate the possibilities of a critical approach to the production and re-configuring of political and social space.</p>

Emancipating Space from the Conditions of Violence: The Broken Middle and Inaugurated Mourning in Israel and Palestine

<p>Spatiality in Israel and Palestine is mired in ongoing trauma and hardened differentiation. This thesis argues that spatiality must be reconfigured in order to break from a stagnated pattern of ongoing conflict. First, border lines become increasingly rigid, and come to enact a bordering practice that radically differentiates. Second, the site of the border itself offers opportunity for political possibility. Third, the spaces of violence must be subject to a process of mourning that enables emancipation from the conditions that would support ongoing violence. I draw upon the thought of Gillian Rose to re-articulate a notion of the border as a broken middle, and to set forth an approach to the spaces of violence that incorporates them into a process of inaugurated mourning. Re-articulating the border as a broken middle enriches the field of critical border studies which seeks to expand on the notion of the border as a site of potential connectivity and political or social possibility. A Rosean approach challenges the dualisms that a hardened border represents, persistently subjecting these dualisms to interrogation that undermines their rigidity. Re-configuring the spaces of violence through a process of inaugurated mourning gives expression to grief, and disentangles the organisation of space from ongoing violence, without forgetting past suffering. An inaugurated approach seeks a fuller and self-reflective understanding of the conditions of suffering; it works against retreating into a melancholic condition that would reproduce the conditions of violence. These arguments are developed through an exposition of projects by artist Francis Alÿs, and architect/artist collective Decolonising Architecture Art Residency. Through their propositional nature, these projects illuminate the possibilities of a critical approach to the production and re-configuring of political and social space.</p>

Visualitas Fotografi Foto Bupati Klaten dalam Kampanye Pilkada di Tengah Covid-19

Abstrak Agenda politik tahun 2020 di Indonesia adalah pesta demokrasi untuk Pemilihan Kepala Daerah (Pilkada) secara serentak yang diikuti 270 wilayah meliputi 9 provinsi, 224 kabupaten, dan 37 kota. Namun, pada saat semua calon (kandidat) mulai mempersiapkan dan memperkenalkan diri kepada masyarakat, pada saat itu pula muncul wabah virus korona (Covid-19) di dunia, termasuk di Indonesia. Kondisi ini mengakibatkan munculnya kampanye terselubung di tengah upaya pemerintah dalam menangani dan mencegah menyebarnya Covid-19. Indikasi munculnya kampanye terselubung telah dilakukan beberapa kepala daerah, salah satunya oleh bupati Klaten di tengah wabah Covid-19 dengan menyertakan foto diri dalam bantuan sosial (bansos), bahkan juga ditandai dengan munculnya foto kepala daerah di baliho-baliho di berbagai tempat strategis, di media massa, dan di media sosial di tengah pandemi virus corona. Wabah virus Covid-19 yang merupakan tragedi sosial kemanusiaan dimanfaatkan untuk kepentingan politik yang sifatnya pragmatis oleh segelintir anak bangsa. Terjadinya fenomena visualitas fotografi yang bersinggungan dengan fenomena politik dalam Pilkada 2020 ini menarik dan penting untuk dikaji. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk membaca dan memahami lebih dalam atas intervensi visual secara terus-menerus sebagai bagian esensi komunikasi sosial-politik. Untuk mengkaji fenomena tersebut menggunakan visual metodologis dari Gillian Rose (2001) yang didasarkan pada objek material berupa foto bupati Klaten pada berbagai media yang ditengarai sebagai bentuk kampanye politik Pilkada. Metode ini akan memaparkan deskripsi dan analisis secara komprehensif dengan dibantu berbagai literatur. Visualitas fotografi dalam konteks ini digunakan untuk menggambarkan citra visual yang dapat menarasikan melalui berbagai macam simbol visual. Visualitas fotografi yang dimanfaatkan pejabat publik pada media komunikasi visual dapat dilihat sebagai bentuk politisasi sebagai konsekuensi lahirnya upaya penafsiran terhadap fakta atau realitas sosial. Oleh karena itu, fotografi menjadi salah satu elemen penting sebagai upaya kampanye dalam menghadapi pemilihan kepala daerah, di mana foto dilihat dari fungsinya memiliki daya tarik dan persuasi yang kuat untuk membantu memperjelas dan memperteguh isi pesan terhadap konstituen atau masyarakat sebagai target sasarannya. PHOTOGRAPHIC VISUALITY: Photo of the Klaten Regent in the Regional Election Campaign in the Middle of Covid-19 Abstract The 2020 political agenda in Indonesia is a simultaneous democracy for regional heads (pilkada) followed by 270 stakes covering 9 provinces, 224 districts, and 37 cities. However, at a time when all candidates (candidates) start to prepare and introduce themselves to the public, at that moment a worldwide outbreak of the Corona virus (covid-19), including Indonesia. This resulted in a covert campaign amid government efforts to handle and prevent the spread of covid-19. Indications of the emergence of covert campaigns have been carried out by several regional heads, including the klaten regent in the middle of the covid-19 outbreak by including self-portraits in baliho-baliho in various strategic places, in the media, and at social media amid the corona virus pandemic. The covid-19 virus outbreak that was a social humanitarian tragedy was used for pragmatic political interests by a few national children. The occurrence of visualization of photography in relation to the political phenomenon of this 2020 pillage is of interest and importance. The purpose of the study is to read and understand more deeply about visual interventions constantly as part of the essence of socio-political communication. To review the phenomenon using a visual methodological of gillian rose (2001) based on material Photograph of the regent of klaten on various media that are believed to be a form of the election political campaign. It will outline comprehensive descriptions and analyses with help from different literature. Photographic visuals in this context are used to depict visual images that can apply through various visual symbols. Visualization of photography used by public officials on visual communication media can be viewed as politicisation as a consequence of an interpretation of facts or social reality. In consequence, photography becomes one of the key elements of a campaign effort in the face of the electoral election, where photographs of its function have a strong appeal and persuasion to help clarify and solidify the message's content of the constituency or society as its target.