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Phylosophy of Media Manipulation in The Globalization Era: Options For Countering

Author(s): Vihren Buzov / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

Corporative global media cannot be an instrument of the culture of peace, because they have made widespread individualistic values of the consummative society. Through their symbolic power, they successfully dominate over every sphere of existence of a society: politics, economic life, social ties, national culture, human communication and private life. Traditional media could not be a factor in the promotion and development of culture of peace, simply because they are proponents of corporative economic and political interests. It is in the interest of citizens to counter the activitiesof “rapacious capitalism” (SCHMIDT 1998),of local comprador political and economic elites, and the practice of robbery of their work; to bridle the proliferation ofweapons and acts of aggression.

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Achievements and Drawbacks of Innovative Education in Technointellectual Society

Author(s): Victor Karpenko / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

In the article a special attention is paid to possible side effects of modern educational innovations characteristic of technointellectual society. In this context the author summarized the basic principles of further right-minded pedagogical innovations generation. Firstly, the expediency. Innovation has to solve a particular problem. Secondly, spiritual, political, societal, physiological and physical safety. Thirdly, – the need for which follows directly from the second principle – interdisciplinary expertise. There should be involved not only the pedagogues, but also psychologists, doctors, philosophers, futurists, sociologists and other experts. Fourthly, the duration of the preparatory phase should be as long as possible, as the negative side effects may be delayed. As the result of use of these principles we will get the real knowledge society innovations.

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Экзистенциализм как интернет-тренд

Author(s): D.V Prokofieva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2014

The article is devoted to Internet-trend on Existentialism in Russian social networks. Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Franz Kafka became popular characters for Russian young people who are active Internet users. They correlated Existentialism with concepts of “hopeless”, “Futility”, “emptiness”. We made an attempt to analyze this phenomenon and tried to explain that Existentialism is not directed against the person but for him.

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Истината – Димитър Михалчев contra Иван Саръилиев

Author(s): Georgi Belogashev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2012

The article is concerned to a considerable philosophical problem of truth which is basically a pragmatist conception. The professor of the Sofia University Dimitar Mihalchev offers a discussion of the possibility to apply the method and the criterion of pragmatism conception in the science.

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Защо е негативно отношението към Тодор Павлов ?

Author(s): Dimitar Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2012

Relying on arhival materials the article attempts at providing an answer to the question why Todor Pavlov as philosopher is predominantly negatively assessed. The need to revisit and revise the imposed today interpretative schemata is pointed out.

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Литература – литературознание – философия. проблеми на релацията, езиците, комуникацията

Author(s): Żaneta Nalewajk / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2012

The main goal of the article is to describe relations between literature, literary studies and philosophy. The author points out in the text the concept of Janusz Sławinski, formulated in the article “Literary statement and philosophical statement. Three points and also one” and discussed with his propositions. She tries to show situations in which the same literary text should be analyzed from two points of view – from the philosophical perspective and from the perspectives connected to literary studies – at once. The article offers a methodological reflection presented in the light of modern comparative, interdisciplinary studies.

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„Радост – ти дете от рая ... “ – етос и патос на един популярен текст. Шилеровата поетика в съвременния европейски контекст

Author(s): Ralitsa Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The focus of the present paper is the EU Directive for accelerated integration of Europe-related topics in the educational process with the aim of building a unified European identity as a prerequisite for the success of Intra-European integration. The counterarguments about this initiative are presented by pointing out ways of its modification in the context of the ‘Doing European’ concept, alternative to European identity. The paper introduces modern literary works in German whose topic is the critical and ironic view of the European identity and the European values system, and which raise the issue of their reconsideration in contemporary European context – the Austrian writer Ulrike Längle’s short story ‘Freude schöner Götterfunken’: a banal reading of Schiller’s aesthetics based on the idea of personal freedom and the inviolability of human dignity, and the German author Ulrike Draesner’s ‘Europa’ depicting the European continent as a jig-saw puzzle whose pieces can be randomly moved and rearranged

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Ляво поколение, дясно поколение. Иван Мешеков и Ернст Юнгер (Предварителни бележки)

Author(s): Vladimir Sabourin / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

This article is an introduction to the comparison between the constituting of the “left-wing generation” of the Bulgarian literary critic Ivan Meshekov (1891–1970) and the “right-wing generation” of the German writer Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) in the frontline experience of World War I. Both authors are emblematic figures of the leftwing and the right-wing intellectual spheres respectively, being, at the same time, black sheep in their own political camp. In the well-grounded existential and conceptual temerity of decisions which led them to a categorical generational binding of the aesthetical with the political, Ivan Meshekov and Ernst Jünger are shown to be brothers in arms in a decesionistic situation of the “lost generation” which seeks and finds itself (or finds death) on the battlefields of World War I.

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Проекции на еретизма в „Легенда за Сибин“ на Емилиян Станев

Author(s): Venelin Grudkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article aims to establish the importance of a number of heretical and orthodox texts for Emilian Stanev’s novel The Legend of Sibin, Prince of Preslav. The observations lead to the conclusion that the sources and facts are not used verbatim but are subjected to the author’s idea of seeking the answer to the question “What kind of people are we?”

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Introduction: Translation and transformation in audiovisual and digital culture

Author(s): Evangelos Kourdis,Kristian Bankov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The contributions to this volume of Digital Age in Semiotics and Communication deal with various translation phenomena such as intermediality, film adaptation, film colorization, remediation and various technospheric phenomena such as cinefication, audiovisual and digital mass culture, digital transformation, cyberspace, and digital image. The first group of articles shows that those phenomena are characteristics of a rich interesemiotic space. As Torop (2020: 269) states, “in intersemiotic space, the original text and all of its translations comprise a mental whole, which is all-encompassing for collective cultural memory and selective for every individual reader. In the context of culture, intersemiotic space is also a space of transmedial translation”. The new cultural texts (metatexts) resulting from intersemiosis is expected to carry additional connotations1, a characteristic of particular semiotic interest. The second group of articles reveals the advantages of the semiosphere of digital culture. As Bankov (2022: 26) highlights, “in digital culture, language is no longer the lord of semiotic phenomena; the latter is the communicative disposition of the culture holders. The language is there, together with an incredible variety of visual, audio, kinetic and other expressive forms”. A significant innovation is that other expressive forms could also be interactive.2 Τhis interaction seems to be the essential different characteristic in relation to the study of other cultural texts, an element that justifies the use of the term platfospehere in the context of the semiosphere.3

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Intermediality in contemporary avant-garde cinema: Blurring media boundaries in Jean-Luc Godard’s films

Author(s): Loukia Kostopoulou / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Drawing on the premises of avant-garde cinema (experimentation, transformation, liminality), this paper seeks to examine how intermediality functions as a form of experimentation in contemporary avant-garde cinema. It also bring new insights regarding the nature of the medium and the impact on the spectator. Examples will be drawn from Jean-Luc Godard’s films First Name: Carmen (1983) and Film Socialisme (2010).

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Me, myself, and my avatar - a semiotic study into digital transformation via avatars

Author(s): Kyle Davidson / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The Chinese musical idol show, Dimension Nova, (produced by entertainment company IQIYI) follows the same formula as other shows where a panel of judges choose from a pool of hopefuls to find the best singer. However, the contestants for Dimension Nova are virtual beings. The way these characters are presented, and the way the show is edited, intends for the creations to be the focus of the audience, not the creators behind them. Thus, augmented reality cameras render dances, conversations, performances, and rehearsals for broadcast with the models – or avatars – simulating a mixed reality environment. The audience fantasy is a collaboratively constructed reality – a feat made possible by virtue of the ubiquity of the digital avatar within the zeitgeist of society. The transformation of the avatar from a representation of the user to an individualised entity, interactive and reactive, as we progress from Web 2.0 era to the new Web 3.0 society of omnipresent computing is the focus of this article and is introduced by what I term the “hypervirtual” environment of the future.

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Egzystencjalne spojrzenie na „Opowiadania Muminków”. Filozoiczny komentarz do „Muminków. Droga do dojrzałości” Olgi Tokarczuk

Author(s): Ewelina Zygan / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

The article is a philosophical commentary on Olga Tokarczuk’s therapy program Moomins: Road to Maturity. The main goal of the article is to show the existential background of Moomin Stories, and thus go beyond the interpretation proposed by the Nobel Prize winner in the perspective of depth psychology. The article emphasizes the adoption of a different attitude towards Tokarczuk’s reading of Moomins, which is reductionist and deterministic. Meanwhile, the existential interpretation allows for a critical discussion of the assumptions adopted in the psychological and developmental reading of the Nobel Prize winner.

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ПОЛИТИКА И ИНТЕЛИГЕНЦИЈА — СТАЉИНИЗАМ И МАОИЗАМ

Author(s): Mirjana Todorović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 5-6/1985

Classical marxist theory does not pay much attention to the issues of the role of intelligentsia and of its position in society. On the other hand, political ideology and political practice, under the pressure of real social events and developments, including the political needs, settled these issues mainly at the detriment of the realization of the real role of intelligentsia in society. Stalinism and maoism in China at the time of the cultural revolution are but two examples of an extreme expression of the might of political peak against the intelligentsia, and more particularly toward the creative intelligentsia. Persecution of intellectuals up to their physical annihilation in Stalinism and destructive wave of cultural revolution which destroyed intellectual life in China, are obvious proofs of the rule of the »myth of politics« and of »political myths«. Although emerging in different conditions and of different scope, they do have similarities expressed in serious threat which endangers the system of values of the communist movement in the world, as well as provoke the need for facing up this experience.

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Imagination and the infinite—A critique of artificial imagination

Author(s): Yuk Hui / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This article addresses “Creativity after Computation” by looking into the concept of artificial imagination, namely the machine’s ability to produce images that challenge artmaking and surprise human beings with the aid of machine learning algorithms. What is at stake is not only art and creativity but also the tension between the determination of machines and the freedom of human beings. This opposition restages Kant’s third antinomy in the contemporary technological condition. By referring to the debate on the question of imagination in Kant, Heidegger, and Stiegler, the article suggests that imagination is always already artificial and that it is more productive to develop an organology of artificial imagination. It clarifies the notion of artificial imagination and offers an organological reading through a reinterpretation of Leibniz’s monadology, Kant’s sublime, and Schiller’s aesthetic education against the backdrop of recursive algorithms.

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Computational creativity or automated information production?

Author(s): Anna Longo / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Algorithms and automated learning systems have been successfully applied to produce images, pieces of music, or texts that are appealing to humans and that are often compared to artworks. Computational technologies are able to find surprising and original solutions–new patterns that humans cannot anticipate– but does this mean we ascribe to them the kind of creativity that is expressed by human artists? Even though AI can successfully detect humans’ preferences as well as select the objects that satisfy taste, can we ascribe to them the capacity of recognizing the intrinsic value of artworks? To answer these questions, I am first going to explain the kind of creativity that is expressed by contemporary predictive systems, then, in the second part of this paper, I will try to show the difference between the creativity of algorithms and the creativity of artists by expanding on Deleuze’s reflections.

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Authentic expression and the Cyborg Relation: An approach to engaging with computer-generative art

Author(s): Chariklia Martalas / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Obstructing our engagement with Computer-Generative art is an Authenticity Problem. This is where our engagement with Computer-Generative art is either seen through the prism of fantasy, such as romanticisation, or our engagement is defined by superficial inattentiveness. My aim is to show how a more fulfilling engagement is possible. This is my demonstration of the connection between Computer-Generative art and Authentic Expression. This is done by reorientating our focus away from artwork as primary and towards the artistic-process itself. I do this by conceptualising the CG-artistic-process as expressing a Cyborg Relation. My argument is that the Computer-Generative artistic-process, through the Cyborg Relation, authentically expresses our relationships with technology.

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The interrelation between Philosophy for Children (P4C) and creative thinking

Author(s): Ramazan Akan,A. Kadir Çüçen / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The aim of teaching philosophy to children ultimately is not to teach them the history of philosophy, but rather to teach them to think, starting from philosophical concepts. This will help to develop high-level skills in children such as questioning, research, understanding and interpreting knowledge, establishing meaningful relationships between knowledge, creating original ideas, and problem-solving. Models of philosophizing with children have been developed, and systematic application attempts have been made, producing successful results in many countries of the world. According to Matthew Lipman, these skills should be developed at a very young age with use of the model of philosophy for children (P4C). Our aim is to show and explore how to develop and sustain creative thinking, which is one of the achievements of P4C. If Lipman is right, children participating in these activities will start to gain creative thinking skills from an early age and will apply this foundation in other knowledge acquisition processes at more advanced developmental stages. This presentation aims to reveal the interrelation between P4C and creative thinking activity. First P4C will be explained, and then creative thinking and the interrelation between the two will be expanded upon in the conclusion.

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Creativity versus automation: Towards the last frontier, and with our jobs on the line?

Author(s): Jan Løhmann Stephensen / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Recently, heated discussions about artificial intelligence, creativity, and work have re-emerged. Despite the dominant focus on the novelty of this entanglement, it is rich with history. In this paper, I will first introduce creativity as a historical and socio-culturally embedded concept, looking at how and why we have invented creativity in the guises we have. The focus will mostly be on the political and ideological backdrop of these historical processes–for instance how creativity was repeatedly cast as the positive counterimage of (industrial and bureaucratic) alienated labour, and hence stood in a complex relationship to automation, robotization, and so on. Based on this I will then discuss a series of scenarios that are related to the (perhaps) forthcoming automation of creativity, more specifically four ways in which automation might in different ways impact (the fields of) creative practices and labour.

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Towards a new computational aesthetics of creative software

Author(s): Damien Charrieras / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This paper1 proposes a deep analysis of the latest re-search of digital humanities scholar Beatrice Fazi, and especially her critique of computational automation, to understand the roles of digital creative technologies, and more specifically of creative software. After a close anal-ysis of Fazi’s main contribution to a new understanding of computational aesthetics, we will briefly outline the po-tential implications of her work to understand the con-temporary evolution of creative software, and especially the implementation of machine learning algorithms in these kinds of software. This will lead us to contextualise the contemporary anxieties regarding how machines could replace humans in the act of artistic creation.

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