Białe Orły komiksu. Wokół polskiej specyfiki narracji superbohaterskich

Author(s): Tomasz Zaglewski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2017

Żaglewski outlines the most important examples of Polish comic texts with a focus on superheroes. Using an approach based on media comparative studies, he examines common and individual aspects of comic series from the US and Poland. The main goal is to define the Polish superhero monomyth as a local version of the American monomyth, which is strongly codified both in terms of theme and ideology, and which serves as a foundation for superhero stories. This allows Żaglewski to distinguish subversive and affirmative Polish variations of Western superheroic tales.

Bibliniai Įvaizdžiai Šiuolaikiniame Lietuvos Teatre: Imitacija, Transformacija, Deformacija

Author(s): Asta Valiukaite / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 64/2010

The Bible has always had a great influence on the art of Western civilization. Biblical images and motifs are often used in literary works and theatrical events. This article covers three possible exemplars of the relation between Biblical images and text of the performance which function in the contemporary Lithuanian theatre (1990–2009). These exemplars are: imitation, transformation, and deformation. The imitational relation is revealed in the staging of E. Nekrošius ,,Canto of Cantos“; the transformational relation is clear in the play „Lord, smile on us“ of R. Tuminas; and the play „P.S. Case O.K.“ of O. Koršunovas represents the deformational relation. The ideal biblical images are the most common in these performances. When being imitated, they correspond with the message of the Revelation. When one transforms them, their dramatic side is accentuated. In the case of deformation, they are taken out of the context of Revelation and become just a means of expression of the main ideas of the performance.

BIBLIOGRAFIJA: DISKURSI RATA

Author(s): Obrad Savic / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Bildungsroman kao simbolička forma

Author(s): Franco Moretti / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 60.6/2000

Ahil, Hektor, Uliks: junak klasičnog epa je zreo, odrastao čovek. Enej, odnoseći oca koji je sada već previše star, dok je njegov sin, opet, još uvek isuviše mlad, predstavlja savršeno otelotvorenje simboličkog značaja "srednjeg" doba života. Ova paradigma se održala tokom dugog vremena ("Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita..."), ali se raspala sa prvim enigmatičnim herojem modernog doba. U tekstu stoji da Hamlet ima trideset godina: prema renesansnim merilima, to je daleko od mladosti. Ali, naša je kultura, birajući Hamleta za svog prvog simboličnog heroja, "zaboravila" njegove godine, odnosno, morala je da ih promeni i danskog princa predstavi kao mladića. [...]

Biopolitical subjectification

Author(s): Ott Puumeister / Language(s): English / Issue: 1-2/2019

The article proposes a semiotic interpretation of the concept of biopolitics. Instead of a politics that takes “life itself ” as its object and, as a result, separates life as an object from subjects, biopolitics is read as subjectification – a governmental rationality that constructs social ways of being and forms of life, that is, social subjectivities. The article articulates this position on the basis of two concepts: Jakob von Uexküll’s umwelt and Michel Foucault’s dispositive. While the former makes it possible to show that the process of life can be conceptualized as subjectification, the latter enables us to argue against an interpretation of biopolitics as a totalized structure of power intervening directly, without semiotic mediation, into “life itself ”.

Blends and connective modeling in mathematics

Author(s): Marcel Danesi,Mariana Bockarova / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2014

As mentioned briefly in the opening chapter, it was Max Black (1962) who put forward the notion that scientific models are basically metaphors or the result of metaphorical thinking. Science, as Black elaborated, is essentially an attempt to render visible those things we can never see with our eye – atoms, sound waves, gravitational forces, magnetic fields, etc. The trace to this “inner vision” is metaphor. This is why sound waves are said to undulate through empty space like water waves ripple through a still pond; atoms to leap from one quantum state to another; electrons to travel in circles around an atomic nucleus; and so on.

Blocking evil infinites: A note on a note on a Peircean strategy

Author(s): Frederik Stjernfelt / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2015

This brief note considers Peirce’s strategy of terminating potentially evil infinities – concerning relations, continuous predicates, leading principles, habits – by appeal to the Nota Notae principle.

BODRIJAR I RAT KOJI SE NIJE DOGODIO

Author(s): Christopher Norris / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Koliko mislilac može da pogreši a da još uvek polaže pravo da ga tretiramo sa dužnom pažnjom? Da bi se to proverilo, koristan je slučaj Žana Bodrijara (Jean Baudrillard), kultne figure današnje postmoderne scene, ličnosti koja je iznela neke od najluđih ideja koje su se do sada mogle čuti među kreatorima francuske intelektualne mode.

Bóg i państwo

Author(s): Hans Kelsen / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 59/2014

Tekst Bóg i państwo został opublikowany w 1923 roku. Kelsen analizuje w nim analogię między pojęciem Boga i pojęciem państwa, zarówno z perspektywy psychologicznej, jak i, jak ją nazywa, teoriopoznawczej. Twierdzi, że tym, co łączy doświadczenie religijne i społeczne (państwo jest dla niego najdoskonalszą grupą społeczną) jest taki sam sposób przeżywania podległości wobec autorytetu, jak i powiązania i związków w ramach wspólnoty. Ponadto stara się wykazać podobieństwo struktury pojęcia Boga wypracowanego w teologii i pojęcia państwa znanego z teorii prawa i państwa. Kelsen podkreśla, że oba pojęcia ulegają hipostazie. W teorii państwa prowadzi to m.in. to dualizmu państwa i prawa, będącego źródłem nadużyć politycznych. Tekst zamyka projekt opracowania czystej teorii prawa, na gruncie której zniesiony zostaje ów dualizm, dzięki przyjęciu logicznego postulatu jedności państwa i prawa

Book Review: Scott Davidson, ed., Ricoeur Across the Disciplines. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., 2010

Author(s): Igor Radeta / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2018

C. S. Peirce on the dynamic object of a sign: From ontology to semiotics and back

Author(s): Helmut Pape / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2015

That reality, and in particular the (dynamic) objects of signs, are independent of our thoughts or other representations is a crucial thesis of Peirce’s realism. On the other hand, his semiotics implies the claim that all reality and all real objects are real for us only because of the signs we use. Do these two claims contradict, even exclude, eachother? I will argue that both Peirce’s metaphysics and his semiotics provide a natural via media: a structural account of the openness of processes, featuring transitive relations, connects process ontology implicit in his evolutionary metaphysics and the relational, quasi-inferential features embodied in interpretational sequences of signs. It is shown that Peirce’s notion of a sign, its normative role and his account of the directional force of objects implies a sort of logical causality that supports the unity of objects. In this way sign sequences are able to relate flexibly sign use with contextually specified independent objects. That is to say, relational properties of object-oriented chains of interpretations provide sign users with a flexible, fallibilistic instrument able to capture by contingent identity relations (teridentity) of the identity of objects in changing situations.

Can semiotics be used to drive paradigm changes in medical education?

Author(s): John Tredinnick-Rowe / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

This essay sets out to explain how educational semiotics as a discipline can be used to reform medical education and assessment. This is in response to an ongoing paradigm shift in medical education and assessment that seeks to integrate more qualitative, ethical and professional aspects of medicine into curricula, and develop ways to assess them. This paper suggests that a method to drive this paradigm change might be found in the Peircean idea of suprasubjectivity. This semiotic concept is rooted in the scholastic philosophy of John of St Th omas, but has been reintroduced to modern semiotics through the works of John Deely, Alin Olteanu and, most notably, Charles Sanders Peirce. I approach this task as both a medical educator and a semiotician. In this paper, I provide background information about medical education, paradigm shift s, and the concept of suprasubjectivity in relation to modern educational semiotic literature. I conclude by giving examples of what a suprasubjective approach to medical education and assessment might look like. I do this by drawing an equivalence between the notion of threshold concepts and suprasubjectivity, demonstrating the similarities between their positions. Fundamentally, medical education suffers from tensions of teaching trainee doctors the correct balance of biological science and situational ethics/ judgement. In the transcendence of mind-dependent and mind-independent being the scholastic philosophy of John of St Thomas may be exactly the solution medicine needs to overcome this dichotomy.

Celebrating Joyful Connection

Author(s): Cecilia E. Ford / Language(s): English / Issue: 19/2018

Dear Chuck: From the time I first read “The interactive construction of a sentence in natural conversation” (Goodwin, C. 1979) and soon thereafter worked with the “Auto Discussion” video in Manny’s data sessions, my fascination with human interaction has been co-constructed through encounters with you and your work. Your presence in my community of friends and scholars has influenced all my work. As just two examples, when Barbara Fox, Sandy Th ompson and I wrote “Practices in the construction of turns: The ‘TCU’ Revisited” (1996), based a clip from the very start of “Auto Discussion,” we aspired to engage a Goodwinian perspective on the notion of a linguistic unit. Likewise, my paper “Contingency and units in interaction” was inspired by what I was learning from you about “the simultaneous production of multiple trajectories, including sound, bodily gesture, lexico-grammar, and recurrent structures of collaborative action” (Ford 2004: 31).

Centristički diskursi "Moderne” i ”Postmoderne"

Author(s): Slobodan Simovic / Language(s): English,Serbian / Issue: 0/1994

The most recent discussions about centric discourses can well baffle the uninformed reader. On the one hand, post-war European cultural development was marked by attempts to overcome the ethnocentric and nationalist paradigms which had made European history into a history of wars, conflicts and intolerance.

Chapter 1. - Defining semiotranslation

Author(s): Douglas Robinson / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2016

The post-Peircean concept that is the focus of this book was coined by the Dutch translation scholar Dinda R. Gorlée (1994: 231) at the end of her doctoral dissertation on Peirce and translation, titled Semiotics and the Problem of Translation: With Special Reference to the Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce. As Ritva Hartama-Heinonen (2008: ch. 5) has shown, Gorlée’s path from her first hesitant attempts to apply Peirce to the study of translation in 1986 to the formulation and articulation of semiotranslation at the end of her dissertation was gradual, and moved through a series of stages that Hartama-Heinonen calls “Peirce-inspired insights into translation,” “A Peirce-oriented approach to translation,” and “a Peirce-based approach to translation”; I want to hold off exploring that prehistory of semiotranslation theory until §4.1, and focus here in Chapter 1 on what Hartama-Heinonen (2008: 137) calls Gorlée’s “semiotranslational manifesto.” I encourage you to think of this first chapter, Peircestyle, as an abductive First – the abstract idea of semiotranslation, prior to inductive engagement with actual semiotranslation histories as Seconds, which follow in the second, third, fifth, and sixth chapters. Chapter 4 is another Second in this book’s overall semiosis, engaging more of the developmental complexity of semiotranslation as Gorlée works out the implications of her own theory in the 1990s and 2000s, culminating in Gorlée (2012). Chapter 7 is the book’s Third: a broader, more complex, more coherent, clearer “deduction” or “determination” (theorization) of semiotranslation arising out of the clashes between semiotranslation as idea and semiotranslation as actual translational and translation-theoretical practice.

Chapter 2. - Test case 1: Semiotranslating Peirce into Finnish

Author(s): Douglas Robinson / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2016

The title of this chapter overlaps significantly with the title of the book – but less than one might think from the sheer fact that both contain the two words “Semiotranslating Peirce.” In the book title, the agents performing the semiotranslation of Peirce are translation theorists: first Gorlée, then me, then you. We are engaged in the semiotic activity of refi ning Peirce’s theories for the study of translation – even though the translational activity involved is mostly intralingual, within English. In the chapter title, the translational activity is interlingual, English to Finnish, and the agents performing the semiotranslation of Peirce are Finnish philosophers acting as either Finnish translators of Peirce or Finnish critics of Peirce translations, who are thus also engaged in the theorization of translation.

Chapter 3. - Test case 2: Semiotranslating “Prufrock” into Finnish

Author(s): Douglas Robinson / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2016

Perhaps a translation history focused on translations by different hands of the disparate writings of the same author is not the right kind of test case for semiotranslation? Perhaps what we need instead is a series of translations of the same text? Aft er all, the idea behind semiotranslation is translation as semiosis – and that can be read as translations getting “better” in the aggregate, over time. So for our second round of semiotranslational testing, let us examine the first two Finnish translations of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” arguably the key translated text for the importation of modernism to Finland. As far as I can tell, the poem has been translated into Finnish five times, by Leo Tiainen in 1949 (Eliot 1949), by Ville Repo in 1956 (Eliot 1956), by Ville Repo again (revising his own 1956 translation) in 1992 (Eliot 1992), by Pekka Sauri in 1995 (Eliot 1995), and by Juha Silvo in 2009 (Eliot 1995); it will suffice for our purposes here to look mainly at the first two, with only an occasional glance at a later version.

Chapter 4. - Exploring semiotranslation

Author(s): Douglas Robinson / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2016

So now, by way of complicating some of the questions raised in the preceding chapters, let us take one more pass through Gorlée’s writings on semio translation. At book length, as we saw in Chapter 1, they are three: Gorlée (1994, 2004a, 2012). Gorlée (1994) introduced the concept of semiotranslation at the very end, in the conclusion; the concept was not developed more fully until two articles (1996, 2003[1999–2000]) that were incorporated unchanged into Gorlée (2004a), titled On Translating Signs: Exploring Text and Semio-Translation; and it was developed further in Gorlée (2012), titled Wittgenstein in Translation: Exploring Semiotic Signatures.

Chapter 5. - Test case 3: Semiotranslating Wittgenstein into English

Author(s): Douglas Robinson / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2016

I mentioned in Chapter 4 that Gorlée tends to make big deductive claims (Thirds) about translation based on her reading of Peirce, and wild, interesting, bold, exciting, but also highly disjointed abductions (Firsts) that seem to be extruded by the Peircean semiotic movement from the certainties of habit-as-Thirdness to the imaginative openness of intuition-as-Firstness (CP 2.170, c. 1902) – but tends to shy away from the kinds of inductive (practical/analytical) engagements with texts that Peirce would identify as Secondness. But this is emphatically not true in the latter part of Gorlée (2012: 187–271, fully onequarter of the book), where she first tallies the differences between Peter Winch’s (CV 1980, CV 1998) two English translations of Wittgenstein’s Vermischte Bemer kungen (VB) as Culture and Value (Gorlée 2012: 187–218) and then compares French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, and Swedish translations of the Brown Book (Gorlée 2012: 219–271). I propose to devote this chapter to a look at the former only: her analysis of Peter Winch’s two English translations of Wittgenstein.

Chapter 6. - Test case 4: Semiotranslating Wittgenstein into Finnish

Author(s): Douglas Robinson / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2016

Wittgenstein, an Austrian, mostly writing in German, made his academic reputation at Cambridge, teaching in English, and sometimes dictating draft s of his works to his students in English. Two of the three people he named in his will as his literary executors, Rush Rhees (1905–1989) and Elizabeth Anscombe (1919–2001), were native speakers of English, Rhees a Welsh-American, Anscombe an Englishwoman born in Ireland. Wittgenstein made his first trip to Norway in 1913, with his friend (probably lover) David Pinsent (1891–1918), and ended up spending long periods there in total seclusion, in a hut he built near Skjolden, on the Lustrafj ord, near the Vassbakken waterfall; apparently he learned to speak Norwegian reasonably well. But in this section I plan to study translations of Wittgenstein’s Nachlaß into Finnish: where does Finland fit into Wittgenstein’s life?