Spectacular memory: Zombie pasts in the themed shopping malls of Dubai

Memory invariably involves sifting and sorting historical traces and reassembling them into societal representations of the past. Usually this has been done by social groups of different kinds or the cultural institutions associated with them, and has provided materials for the construction and maintenance of group identity. In what I term “spectacular memory,” however, the sifting and sorting of memory traces is performed by commercial and media institutions within a globalized cultural framework to create spectacles for mass consumption. Spectacular memory is enabled by the progressive breakdown of Halbwach’s “social frameworks of memory”—the association of memory with face-to-face relations within social groups. In late modern societies, “memory” as a coherent body of representations which is the property of more-or-less bounded social groups has largely devolved into a globalized store of representations curated and diffused through the media, advertising, tourism and entertainment industries. This article uses the example of the history-themed shopping malls of Dubai to characterize this form of memory.

Between Two “Consumer Revolutions”: Groceries and Other Foodstuff Purchases at Lower Canadian Country Stores, 1809–67

An analysis of the account books of five different Lower Canadian country general stores between 1809 and 1867 shows that ordinary households had access, and purchased, an increasingly wide range of groceries and other foodstuffs over the period. As in Upper Canada, grocery purchases were “routine – part of many families’ culture,” and some commodities may even have been mass consumed. Foodstuffs supplied by global trade networks coexisted with products of domestic manufactures. Foodstuff consumption also displayed characteristics associated with the “consumer revolution” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as others usually deemed to have been part of the “mass consumption societies” of the twentieth century.

THE ROLE OF LITERARY CULTURE AND FICTIONAL DISCOURSE IN THE GENESIS OF THE MODERN PUBLIC SPHERE

The paper is devoted to the study of the role of fictional discourse and literary culture in the formation process of the Modern public sphere. It is proved that this sphere was rooted in the genesis structures, which were represented by the following oppositions of the literary field: author’s production – mass consumption, closed and open fields of artistic production, self-reference and other-reference, signified and signifier. The dynamic structure of fictional discourse allowed to maintain the unity of the human, who was not determined by birth, but constructed himself. The permanent identification and the interpretations conflict became the content of the communication of the public circles of the Modern society (table conversations, clubs, salons and magazines). The institutionalization apogee of the literary field was the formation of literary culture – the content of education of the English model of the university, which balanced between the Scylla of the canon and Charybdis unification of industrial society.

The Significance of Cultural Policy—Case Study of South Korea

The main research problem that this article focuses on is: does a wide-ranging cultural policy contribute to the implementation of the idea of sustainable development in practice? This article aims to show, using the example of South Korea, the importance of the state’s cultural policy as a factor that is conducive to economic success and an increase in the standard of living of a society. This policy leads to the evolution of society from one centered on the mass consumption of material goods to one centered on the mass consumption of cultural goods, which, combined with the development of creative industries, contributes to the implementation of the elements of sustainable development in practice. The research methods used in the work were the study of literature in the studied area, the analysis of documents and reports on cultural policy, and the development of cultural and creative industries. An assessment of the degree to which pop culture development in South Korea is a factor in the economic development of the country, given its commercial nature and its ability to increase the standards of living of an entire society, was also carried out. The example of South Korea shows the benefits for the national economy of promoting creativity and culture. Preferences and consumer attitudes are shaped in areas that have a minimal impact on the natural environment and the exploitation of natural resources.

Pressurized Liquid Extraction of Hemp Residue and Purification of the Extract with Liquid-Liquid Extraction

The first semi-continuous Pressurized Liquid Extraction (PLE) of hemp threshing residue with ethanol was carried out according to a 32 full factorial experimental design with pressure and temperature as independent variables at 8-10-12 MPa and 323-333-343 K, respectively. The total- and cannabidiol (CBD) yield curves were fitted to the modified two-parameter Brunner equation. Best results, concerning CBD, can be achieved at 12 MPa and 343 K. Solvent mass-consumption and operation time were considerably decreased compared to a previous supercritical fluid extraction study on the same material. Furthermore, the concentration profiles were evaluated to study the mass transfer. The winterized dry extracts were further studied in a methanol-hexane-water ternary system concerning CBD distribution ratio, showing high methanol dependency.

12. GIH aletzen. Ekoizpen eta kontsumo jasangarriaren mugarriak

Sei urte betetzen dira Nazio Batuen Erakundeak 2030 Agendako Garapen Iraunkorrerako Helburuak onartu zituenetik. Artikulu honetan, 12. GIHaren analisira hurbiltzen gara, Ekofeminismoak bere egiten duen iraunkortasunaren kontzeptualizaziotik abiatuta. Analisiak, lehenik, 12. GIHaren irakurketa orokorra egiten du, eta ondoren hamaika erronka zehatzez osaturiko helburu honen xehetasunak eta kontraesanak aletzen joaten da. Analisiaren ondorioz, gure ekoizteko eta kontsumitzeko erak, naturak duen birsortzeko gaitasun limiteak aspaldi gainditu zituen arren, hazkunde mugagabean eta kontsumo masiboan oinarritutako logika ekonomikoan oinarritzen jarraitzen duela azpimarratzen da. GIHetan topatzen diren inkoherentzien aurrean, aztertutako erronketan jasotzen diren hausnarketekin, bizitza iraunkor baten lortzea, trantsizio ekosozialaren bidetik egitea mugarritzen da. ABSTRACT: Six years have passed since the UN approval of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. In this article, we approach the analysis of SDG 12, based on the conceptualization of sustainability from the Ecofeminism perspective. The analysis commences with a general reading of this SDG, followed by the unravelling of the details and contradictions of this objective, which is made up of eleven specific challenges. The analysis shows that although our way of producing and consuming has long exceeded the limits of nature's regenerative capacity, it is emphasized that it continues to be based on an economic logic based on unlimited growth and mass consumption. Bearing in mind the inconsistencies found in the SDGs, with the reflections collected in the challenges analyzed, the achievement of a sustainable life is limited to doing so through the eco-social transition.