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This article explores the opposition between concepts of ‘emigre literature’ and ‘migration literature’. The first has a deeply rooted tradition in nineteenth and twentieth-century Polish literature. The Poles’ migrations today are typical of global culture. And yet, some clusters of issues are shared across the board, such as the attention to cultural difference.
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Tabaszewska reads Svetlana Alexievich’s reportage works as affective texts that alter the conditions of how the world of Events is experienced and perceived. With a conceptual framework inspired by Lauren Berlant, Jill Bennett, Astrid Erll and others, Tabaszewska highlights those aspects of Alexievich’s works that indicate their affective, emotional, bodily and somatic character. These works of reportage are also read as an attempt to create a new form of remembering these previously marginalized Events that any given society must internalize and then work through.
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The article presents the first study of the image of perception of the Russian Far East emigrants in the Chinese literature of 1920-1940. Ethnic, political, sociocultural attitude of the Chinese writers of "the latest time", their personal experience of interethnic contacts found reflection in these images. The stories, which have not been earlier translated into Russian served as material of a research (Xiao Hong The sorrow of Sofia, Jue Qing Harbin) and works of Qu Qiubai and Ding Ling.
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Philosophy, at its essence is, unlike all other sciences, directed to totality, so that at first glance might seem that the globalization of modern society and culture is an expression of its essential nature. However, if the Enlightenment idea of universal culture of the 18th century could be interpreted as an authentic expression of free philosophical spirit, contemporary process of globalization and the consequences we face, show that the universal is not the same as global, that is, the philosophical t of the universal is not the same as economic term of global. If the philosophy of the eighteenth century was a general theory of society at that time, it defined the term of progress and development of society, using the principles of mind, rationality, then, in the twentieth century, with no doubt, it could be determined that the role was taken over by economics. The economics has become the dominant general theory of social progress and development, because there is no single segment of human activity that is not been appropriated by economics and made its legitimate subject matter. Therefore, the big question is whether technological rationality, which in the shape of the global economy dominates the way of organization of the modern society, really ensure progress and development, or on the other hand, in such technological dominance can discern some totalitarian tendencies: reduction, fragmentarisation, instrumentalization and manipulation which therefore give different meanings to the term of progress and development, in one word globalization in general.
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Starting from the history and definition of socialism, as well as various practices of this ideology, this paper deals with the adoption of socialist doctrines in Soviet and Yugoslav literature. The analysis of the novel Thirtieth Marina‟s Love by Vladimir Sorokin, paper attempts to show the utopian idea of socialist doctrine that aspires to impose their ideological matrix of artistic discourse. Skillfuly combining the utilitarian discourse and style of totalitarian communist manifesto with literature, Sorokin parody of the production of the novel indicates its inability to simultaneously satisfy the aesthetic qualities that are expected of true work of fiction and obvious of intent which, as such, can only survive in the milieu of a particular system which is creates.
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In the article peculiar Carl Gustav Jung’s approach towards the artist, his artistic potential, the role of unconsciousness in the process of creative work, the nature of the work of art as well as basic psychoanalytical principles of the interpretation of the work of art, formulated by the founder of “analytical psychology”, are analyzed. The novelty and actuality of Jung’s psychoanalytical rules are revealed; the relation of his concept of creative work with the concepts of the supporters of non-classical philosophy tradition and Sigmund Freud, the initiator of psycho-analysis, is concisely exposed. The main attention is paid to the originality of Jung’s methodological rules of the analysis of art, discussion of the role of collective unconscious in the process of creative work, attitude towards the artistic subject as the theory of a forerunner and as a refresher of archetypes. In the end of the article the author concisely discusses the meaning of art and work of art both to its author and the consumer of art.
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The Paper attempts to analyze the obtaining situation of tribal people in India. It mainly addresses the issue in terms of its demographic, cultural, educational and ecological aspects. Significantly, the tribal people are not only getting marginalized in socio-economic terms, they are also undergoing a gradual dilution of their distinct identities.
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The education system in Kazakhstan has been undergoing significant changes since the past years, driven by historical events and associated with political, economic and social changes in the world society. Kazakh universities and higher institutions keep in line with the Bologna Process to provide comparability in the standards and quality of higher-education qualifications. The current national educational programmes and legislation aim to ensure modern education of high quality. Foreign language education is considered a priority by different stakeholders: economists, politicians, teachers, students, parents, school administrators, therefore much attention is paid to the issue of modernization of foreign language education environment by designing innovative teaching materials or introducing new techniques and technologies in the study programmes offering teacher training courses. Together with Kazakh and Russian, English has now become a key subject at all levels of education. The author of the article is currently living and working in Kazakhstan and brings some aspects related to teaching foreign languages, specifically English, in one of the higher-education institutions.
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The article characterizes multiculturalism in the modern city. It begins by analysing the notion that cultural diversity is a natural feature of the city. But the contemporary processes of cultural diffusion, globalisation and the fragmentation and recomposition of culture have a significant impact on the production of the postmodern multiculturalism of cities, which is supported by the formation of an individual level of cultural identity. The analysis also distinguishes and characterises the basic types of postmodern multiculturalism: immanent multiculturalism, instrumental multiculturalism and tourist multiculturalism.
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Ukrainian colonists emmigrating from South Bukovica and Western Galicia in the beginning of the 20 th century onto the region of North-Western Bosnia, formed in settlement Trnopolje ethnical, physiognomical and functional unity specific by anthropogeographical and ethnological features. On basis of information given by Greek-Catholic rectory in Kozarac (settled in 1910/11) and collected data on subject matter in 2007 (on the field, and from people, from house to house), the work presents subject matter on development of settlements (genesis, physiognomy, function and organisation), origin of Ukrainian population and demographical varieties of this population from its emmigration to present days.
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Despite considerable change over recent years, British cultural studies and the work of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, the very cradle of this discipline, remain on the peripheries of Polish cultural studies. While the causes of this remain under debate, the author deduces that one of them is of utmost importance: the aversion to politics and politicians, observable in the Polish public discourse since 1989, which has amounted to a politicophobia. This phenomenon makes it difficult to accept “an ‘engaged’ set of disciplines”, as Stuart Hall put it. The author argues that overcoming this barrier is one of the key pieces of the development of cultural studies in Poland.
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The article deals with the subject of computer games seen from two perspectives: British cultural studies and speculative realism, represented by Graham Harman and Quentin Meillassoux. The author argues that video games are located in the area of interest between the anti‐anthropocentric approach of object‐oriented ontology, and pop‐cultural approach according to the British cultural studies. The article analyses the status of various objects present in computer games (such as tools to be found in digital environments, protagonists and players themselves) and draws the conclusion that all the relations between them are of equal importance to the status of video games as pop‐cultural artifacts in the modern society.
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Back in the 1970s, the celebrated writer, scientist and inventor Arthur C. Clarke envisaged a world in which computers could be accessed in one’s own home and could provide us with information to help with our daily needs. Clarke talked about people being able to access their bank accounts and buy theatre tickets with a console the size of a book. A decade later the science fiction writer William Gibson termed the word ‘cyberspace’ in Burning Chrome, a full seven years before Tim Berners‐Lee invented the world wide web in 1989. Hypertext came soon after and with it the explosion that was the internet and the rise of the machines – personal computers, tablets, smartphones and the suchlike. The internet is essentially a gargantuan repository of language, both written and spoken. Hypertext, can be seen as an elegant metaphor for what the internet is, a dynamically evolving receptacle of linguistic information: hyper text. But technology, the internet and personal computing, has not only helped us compartmentalise and store our linguistic resources, it has also helped to fashion our language. Since the birth of hypertext, the virtual world and PCs, technology has had a profound effect on language. Our power to shape language has grown unexpectedly, our access to linguistic tools has expanded exponentially and our communicative abilities have bloomed beyond our wildest dreams. The paper will detail how ‘going online’ has changed our attitudes to language. Ideas of censorship and readership have dramatically altered over the past twenty five years. Technology has liberated language through the new medium that is the internet allowing for unfettered (and undisciplined?) language use.
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The aim of the study is to characterize the process of creating ‘symborgs’ in popular culture universes. The author analyzes the ambiguous relationship between human and machine in such productions as: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Pacific Rim, Iron Man, RoboCop and others. In the article are confronted two ways of human being connected with the machine: the ‘external” and ‘internal” ones. The author refers to the concept of technology which is a part of Joanna Zylinska’s and Sarah Kember’s ‘creative media’ project and also to the category of ‘symborg’ formulated by Stelarc. The crucial issue is here also to show the interferences between the imagine world created by popular cultures creators and the real one, to which examples are the phenomenon of Quantified Self community and project Avatar 2045.
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The paper is a brief analysis of the connection between storytelling, the development of technology and video games. The questions asked behind the study are: What is the influence of technological advancements on narratives? What are the new elements which appear in stories of video games? What has been the evolution of storytelling in the field of electronic entertainment? What is the impact of a game genre on video game narratives? What are characteristics of genres which manifest the greatest degree of influence on the in‐game storytelling?
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The article is an attempt to understand the impact of 3D technology on the experience of a contemporary film viewer. The theoretical framework of the analysis is determined by Edgar Morin’s anthropological interpretation of the cinema, which is, however, considerably reinterpreted by the author of the paper. The aesthetic distinctness of stereo vision is particularly appreciated here. Besides, French theoretician’s thesis that “the subjective increase [of image’s value] is a function of its objectivity” is discussed. The author argues that in the case of stereo vision it is just the opposite. He finds reasons for that conclusion in Morin’s book, as well as in the psychology of perception and French phenomenology. Not only does 3D technology weaken the projection-identification process, but it also disturbs the latter, thus interfering with the fundamental mechanisms of the cinema.
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The article discusses the portrayal of interhuman and sexual relations in Spike Jonze’s Her and examines the role the role of technology, especially virtual constructs and artificial subjectivities in the broader context of sexual politics and power relations. It looks at the theoretical implications of virtual relationships, including the issues of normativity and analyzes the question of “realness” and its degrees, as determined by social and political constructs of sexuality.
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In this article I would like to present some reflections on the role played by the “cinema of attractions” in the history of film studies. First part of my essay includes the preliminary description of this idea: its definition, polemical context and change that “cinema of attractions“ brought to the dominant mode of historiographical investigation in the light of so called “Brighton project” and “historical turn”. The aim of the second part is to outline the possible critical comments on “cinema of attraction” mostly rooted in David Bordwell’s and Charles Musser’s writings. In the third part I would like to sketch how those objections can be tempered if we enrich our understanding of “cinema of attraction” with knowledge about the historical – material and intellectual – milieu in which this notion emerged. In this context I propose to see historiographical method conducted by the proponents of “cinema of attraction” (i.e. Tom Gunning, André Gaudreault) in the light of specific version of cinephilia that came to light in New York in the 1970s.
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This paper focuses on the production, dissemination and reception of images of the Russo‐Japanese War from an intermedial perspective, examining early cinema as embedded within and engaged in exchanges with other contemporary popular media, in terms of both content and form. Focusing on the case of the Netherlands ‐ by that point in time, a minor imperial power in Asia, relatively neutral in regards to the conflict and, moreover, not a producer of such images but rather a recipient and distributor of ones produced outside its borders ‐ will enable us to examine how images of war were adapted and reframed in order to construct an international news story for Dutch audiences. Furthermore, an overview of the popular visual media circulating at the time in the Netherlands and in the Netherlands Indies will help outline features of the political and cultural exchanges between the colonies and the home country.
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