«Вільні фантазії»: фікціоналізація автобіографічної оповіді за допомогою музики

This article discusses the ambiguities of the civilised man by employing the conceptual tools of figurational sociology, using Ruben Östlund’s 2017 film The Square as a focal point. Employing Norbert Elias’s theoretical framework, the study explores key sociological themes: the tension between competition and cooperation, the evolving nature of collective and individual identities (the ‘We-I’ balance), the interplay between personal self-control and societal control, and the contrast between formal and informal behaviours in contemporary society. Through Elias’s concepts, the film’s critique of social contracts, group dynamics, and morality is unpacked, offering insights into how people navigate today’s complex social networks. Central to the film’s narrative, the art installation called ‘The Square’ is a powerful metaphor that reveals the intricacies and ambiguities of civilised social behaviour. The study highlights how the veneer of civility often masks underlying primal instincts, exposing contradictions in modern social relations. By applying Elias’s figurational sociology to film analysis, this article not only brings attention to the relevance of Elias’s theories in contemporary European cinema but also contributes to the broader understanding of how civilised individuals cope with evolving social figurations. The film highlights the social tensions and ambiguities experienced by the civilised individual, as well as the fragility of the civilising process. This study analyses the relationships between individual behaviours, social control, and collective identity through the film The Square, using the conceptual tools of figurational sociology, and offers a critical perspective on the dynamics of modern society.

Previous studies have shown an increasing preference for online communication within the autistic advocacy community. Yet, little is known about how online communication facilitates the formation of autistic identity. This qualitative study examined online autobiographical narratives about repetitive and restricted behaviors-specifically "stimming"-produced by autistic adults. The primary goal of this study was to investigate how the production of, and online interactions around, these narratives functioned as collaborative resources for empowered autistic identities. Nine blog posts were located that contained autobiographical narratives related to stimming and were analyzed using discourse analysis. Analysis revealed that individual and collective identities were negotiated within narratives through: (1) situating the self in relation to other story characters and the reader in varying ways and (2) connecting the autistic community and solidifying collective ideologically aligned voices. Online blog spaces facilitated the emergence and construction of empowered individual and collective identities for autistic individuals. Future research should continue to focus on how autistic individuals form relationships, create advocacy communities, and cultivate empowered identities within online spaces. Why was this study done and what was the purpose of this study?: More autistic individuals are using the internet to communicate, and research has shown that online communication can benefit autistic individuals in various ways. However, there is a lack of understanding of how online communication is related to autistic identity. We examined how autistic bloggers' stories about their stimming experiences contributed to individual and collective autistic identities. Stimming refers to repetitive body movements, movements of objects, and other repetitive and restricted behavior and is considered one of two core features of an autism diagnosis. Although some stakeholders such as educators or parents have tried to get rid of these repetitive movements because they believe that stimming is not an appropriate behavior, autistic and other neurodiversity advocates assert that stimming is beneficial for autistic individuals and is important for developing an autistic identity.What did we do?: We examined nine blog posts written by autistic bloggers using a method referred to as discourse analysis. In each blog post that we analyzed, the author shares their experiences about stimming. Discourse analysis is a method used to explore how people use language to build meaning, including the formation of social identities. Therefore, particular attention was paid to how the bloggers told the narrative (i.e., specific word choices to describe characters within the narrative and verb tense).What were the results and implications of the study?: We found that by sharing stories about their stimming experience in the context of blog posts, autistic individuals developed empowered individual and collective autistic identities and challenged dominant and neurotypical social norms. Also, within online space, autistic individuals formed social relationships and connections that contributed to a collective identity. More research on how autistic individuals develop supportive relationships and form advocacy communities within online spaces is needed to promote emotional well-being and overall quality of life in this population.

As the world experiences drastic revolutions in technology usage, hyperconnectivity, and extreme political orientations, critical reflexivity in teacher education appears more crucial than ever. Particularly, it is extremely relevant to explore the ways in which teacher educators' individual identities intertwine with collective identities where these revolutions add up to an uneven world—a world with systemic and enduring issues like socioeconomic inequality, violence, and despair. In this article, we uncover three ways through which we constitute our collective and individual identities. They include: (1) How we position ourselves concerning the role of privilege and power dynamics in our countries and throughout our careers; (2) how we have transformed our own teaching practices to accommodate or engage in culturally responsive curricula and educational proposals; and (3) how we have engaged in politically relevant activities to counteract hegemonic practices concerning language education and biases. Broadly informed by the affective turn in language education, our study posits that belonging to a collective is the profound realization that knowing who you are individually contributes to self‐reflection, self‐critique, identification, and understanding the purpose and challenges of a group. Thus, our study is conceptually nested in well‐being and positive psychology. The affective turn highlights the pivotal role of emotions in identity construction and the dynamic interplay between teacher educator identity and their praxis. To capture the complexities and the nuanced nature of our experiences and their implications, we adopt a collaborative analytic autoethnographic approach. Analytic autoethnography is an artistic demonstration that allows us to reflect on how we came to know, name, and interpret our personal and cultural experiences. Its power rests on its potential to help us leverage our experiences to engage ourselves, others, culture(s), politics, and social research to confront the many tensions between ourselves and the changes taking place around us. As such, our endeavor will highlight the value of understanding the intricacies that arise when language teacher educators grapple with individual and collective identities to transform conventional ways of teaching into pluralistic, purposeful, and inclusive educational spaces.

Drawing on the new social movement approach, this study focuses on the construction and uses of collective and individual identities in the Beijing Democracy Movement (1978–1981). The movement's mainstream constructed a progressive Marxist identity and its individual participants used it to prove the movement's historical necessity and justify its democratic agenda. Combined with the related identity of socialist citizens, the proponents defended the movement against adversaries from without and the right-wing minority within. It is argued here that the way the Democracy Movement activists defined their collective identity offered them a progressive Marxist platform to champion their cause. This collective identity not only precluded confrontational opposition to the Communist Party, but also enabled a more constructive use of both classical Marxist and Western democratic thinking in the movement's agenda.

<i>Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem</i>, by Jean-Philippe Marcoux

Harry’s is my favourite bar in my neighbourhood. It is a small wine bar, owned by three men in their late thirties and targeted at people like them; my gentrifying inner city neighbourhood’s 20 to 40 something urban middle class. Harry’s has seats along the bar, booths inside, and a courtyard out the back. The seating arrangements mean that larger groups tend to gather outside, groups of two to four spread around the location, and people by themselves, or in groups of two, tend to sit at the bar. I usually sit at the bar....

This chapter examines the relationships between collective and individual identity in the early modern age, and the moment in which a greater awareness of the individual dimension and of self may have formed in relation to collective bodies such as family, class, corporation that dominated earlier. It discusses the way in which research of recent years, both in Italy and abroad, has looked increasingly at that very variegated and fertile type of documents, known as egodocuments, that is sources of various kinds in which the individual writes of himself. Egodocuments in fact permit us not only to know in detail a series of stories that would not otherwise catch the historian's attention, but their revelation within the private papers where they are often hidden, and comparative analysis, ideally let us understand even the ways and moments in which the individual acquired and expressed a special self-consciousness.Keywords: collective identity; egodocuments; Florence; Individual Identity; Italy

PurposeThis paper presents the results of exploratory research aimed at understanding how firms operating in regional clusters use the clusters' collective identity in their external communication and combine it with the communication of their individual identity. In particular, the paper aims to detect different behaviors among different types of firms.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative exploratory content analysis is performed on the websites of the wineries of the Franciacorta wine cluster (Italy). A two‐step cluster analysis is used to identify differences in identity communications.FindingsThe results suggest the existence of two groups manifesting different patterns of identity communication. Larger firms communicate their individual identity through symbols, but they consistently communicate collective values. The other group (on average smaller firms, but including some of the biggest) seems to exploit collective identity symbols, without giving prominence to collective values.Practical implicationsThis study provides an understanding of how companies communicate collective symbols and values promoted by cooperative institutions; this understanding can be beneficial for future developments of collective branding projects.Originality/valueThis research contributes to broadening the debate on cluster identity as a strategic resource by adopting a communication perspective as well as providing empirical data on how different types of clusters' firms actually combine a collective cluster's identity and their firm's identity to shape their external image.

A investigação produzida buscou compreender a constituição histórica das formações identitárias e suas articulações com as relações de poder, no desempenho das atividades cotidianas de três corporações musicais mineiras. Percebeu-se que o processo identitário dos músicos é permeado pelo prestígio e valor que a tradição musical imprime na região. As diferenciações na produção de identidades individuais e coletivas podem exercer influências nas relações de poder inter e intragrupais. Também, as diversas formas de estabelecimento das relações de poder entre os agentes exercem influências no desenvolvimento do processo grupal e na atividade musical. Atividade, esta, que legitima tanto as identidades coletivas quanto as individuais, mantendo a vida musical da Região das Vertentes viva e intensa através dos tempos.

The article deals with the collective and individual identity problem in the context of changing world and socio-political conditions in hypothetical reality. World literature is an ever-living source for understanding a variety of possible options for development of civilization, the role and place of the individual in the future society. The authors examine representation of individual and collective identification in the dystopian novels by modern writers: V. Veselka “Zazen” (2011) and A. Morales “The Rag Doll Plagues” (1992). The object of the study is the socio-political discourse of the future, outlined in fiction form. The subject of the research is the process of individual and collective identification in the context of the predicted future reality. The purpose of the study is to analyze Veselka and Morales’ dystopian novels for outlining factors influencing the process of individual and collective identification in the hypothetical future. The research methodology is based on the principles of semiotic-communicative and cultural-historical approaches. The discourse of the future is considered as a political discourse, a set of verbal signs that performs a certain function in political communication and conveys information about social processes, norms and values in a given socio-political situation. Within the framework of the cultural-historical approach, the literary text is studied as a product of social life in specific cultural-historical conditions. Individual and collective identity is forming in the conditions of an unfavorable, “negative” version of the future civilization. Veselka and Morales project in their works nowadays socio-political problems in a hypertrophied form: terrorism, epidemics and pandemics, environmental disasters, dehumanization, consumerism, etc. The analysis of dystopias clearly indicates that main factors in individual and collective identification are ethnopolitical, ethnocultural and psychological ones. Ethnopolitical and ethnocultural factors affect deeply the process of social identification, while psychological factors have a major impact on the search for individual identity

Knowledge management hinges upon the presumption that workers within an organization possess knowledge that can be converted into concrete business improvements if the information is harvested and disseminated to others to whom it could be of use. True knowledge management must involve capturing the internal knowledge generated by a firm—its best thinking on products, customers, competitors and processes—and sharing it. Insofar as organizations are concerned, postmodernists argue that one view that has been in appropriately privileged is that of the organization rather than the process of organizing. They draw our attention to the link between individual and collective identity. If there is a link between individual identity and how that individual behaves, there may also a link between collective identity and organizational action, for which a study on discourse ethics is essential. After considering the implications of knowledge management and the actual situation and work culture where the knowledge workers are in action, this paper raises and explores the questions wherein lies our individual identity and what its functional relation ship with the collective identity is. It has been envisaged in this article that through principles-driven cross-functional teams and innovative organizational mechanisms, sharing and conviction building need to be facilitated in modern organizations phasing out bureaucratic approaches and hierarchical power domination. Flexibility with a focused attitude is a must for organizations to adapt in a changing environment.

This article discusses the views of J. Assman on the essence of cultural memory and the identity formed on its basis. Identity can be viewed as the result of reflection on the unconscious self-image. J. Assman established a connection between personal and collective identity. Individual consciousness can be defined as sociogenic, not only because it arises in the process of socialization, but also because it creates a community and is the bearer of a collective self-image. J. Assman highlights the difference between individual and personal identity. Both aspects of self-identity are sociogenic and culturally determined, they arise in the mind, formed by the language, values and norms of a particular culture. Identity is a product of social construction and therefore always acts as a cultural identity. The difference between a collective identity and a different one is that the second one is symbolic. Collective identities belong to the realm of the social imagination. Collective identity also exists only to the extent that individuals recognize it as their own. Societies need the past for their self-determination. Awareness and recognition of belonging to a particular culture is a cultural identity. Personal identity is achieved through communication and interaction with other people, through living with them in a common symbolic world of meaning. Culture becomes the second nature of man, man adapts to the symbolic world of meanings. Culture creates a space suitable for human existence and is a prerequisite for the formation of personal and individual identity. The semantic horizons shared by people become a symbolic expression of we-identity. Of great importance is speech and the general system of symbols – the main means of forming groups. The complex of community transmitted in symbols is a cultural formation – something through which a collective identity is created and preserved in the change of generations. The sense of community is generated by the circulation of common meaning.

This article conducts culturological analysis of the diversity of intercultural communications in Russian culture of the early XX century. Cultural space as the text of culture of that time is characterized by a transitional state, synthetic and dialogical focus. The phenomenon of Russian culture consist in the intelligentsia represented by the cultural figures of the Silver Age and avant-garde, who have creative way of thinking and propensity for new achievements in art. The object of this research is the &amp;ldquo;textuality"&amp;rdquo;of Russian cultural space of the early XX century, which is comprised of a range of texts and semiotic systems. The subject is the creative minds interpreting as the text of personality. The leading theme became the determination of interaction and mutual influence of the phenomena of culture, dialogue between creative minds, interested in the problems of synthesis of arts, within the cultural-textual space. The novelty of this work is defined by insufficient coverage in culturology of the problem of interrelation between creative personality and text in culture of the Silver Age and the avant-garde. It is established that the cultural space of Russian avant-garde can be viewed as a &amp;ldquo;meta-semiotic formation&amp;rdquo;, which includes texts and &amp;ldquo;metatext&amp;rdquo;. Personality of the cultural figure as the foundation for classification of texts is referred to as &amp;ldquo;metatext&amp;rdquo;. Classification of texts consists of the verbal text (theoretical and literary texts, literature, epistolary) and nonverbal text (texts of behavior, everyday life, era). Literary texts of the cultural figures of the Silver Age contain texts of the works of art: painting, musical, poetic, prosaic, as well as critical reviews on art, manifestos, and others. Nonverbal texts include theatricalization of behavior, creative life, and mythologization of personality, which form the identification code of creative personality of the Silver Age that gravitates towards the synthesis of arts. It is determined that the period of development of Russian cultural space of Russia of the early XX century is characterized by such peculiarities as: &amp;nbsp;synthetical nature, innovation of artistic language that consists of visual, verbal and audial texts on the basis of synthesis of painting, poetry and music.

Jazz Avant-Garde by Cecil Taylor

Saxophone in jazz: aspects of paradigmatics