Alienation Of People Research Articles

Gender Dilemma and Fu Ji in Ji Shen in light of Power Theory

Ji Shen, the masterpiece of Sun Pin, is an important part of contemporary Chinese literature. The novel shows the modern popularity of "planchette writing" culture and explores people's alienation in the influence of the culture. The core idea in Ji Shen coincides with the French sociologist Foucault's theory of social power systems, both mutually evident. This perspective reveals that although the protagonists, Chang Yong and Yang Deqing, keep trying to reclaim their gender, their journey of resistance is always manipulated by "power", culminating in the unsolvable gender dilemma described in Ji Shen. Similarly, Foucault believed that power could only be overcome through sadism and masochism, but that sadism and masochism could also result in severe self-harm and ultimately death. Moreover, Fu Ji has a long history in China and became popular again in the 1980s and 1990s. This novel is a refraction of this history and has significant cultural value.

Realno vs. virtuelno - kompjuterska simulacija Second Life

While the term 'real' world implies reality as a set of data objectively given beyond any individual evaluation, the term 'virtual' is seen as a projection of human presence in a computer-generated space. The aim of this analysis is to consider virtual communication as a new form of communication practice through the analysis of the communication of the players in the computer simulation of the Second Life. This video game offers online simulations with computer representations of people who communicate through multimedia, organize their other life just the same as they do in everyday life, associate into new virtual communities and inspired by real characters create identities within alternative avatars. Thus, the virtual world acquires a meaning that has a certain historical and cultural weight in real life. The real life complements the virtual, and the virtual, crossing the boundaries of its space, connects itself with the real world. Second Life shows how the virtual world grows into a media spectacle, which results in images, representations, fictions becoming reality in computer simulation. Thus, the conclusion can be drawn that virtual communication moves the boundaries of the social and technical, the private and the public, the virtual and the real. Frequently the boundaries of these worlds in the relationship between the real and the virtual are being blurred, which leads to noise in communication and alienation of people. When unfulfilled wishes from the real world seem to come true in the 'second life', the player's departure to the virtual world becomes a daily preoccupation, and the virtual replaces the real.

On the Accelerationist Critique of the Problem of Capitalist Modernity

The acceleration has contributed to the development of capitalism, but it has also exacerbated the series of problems of modernity, such as the destruction and alienation of people by capital. People are increasingly becoming the appendage of the accelerated development of capital, forced to follow the one-way run of accelerationism, losing the domination of speed as well as human subjectivity, embodied in the loss of control over the time of life. Capital's domination of people in the modern era is also reflected in the accelerationist control of time, which has exacerbated the problems of Western modernity such as consumerism, objectification, landscape society, cultural hegemony and unidimensionality. The alienation caused by acceleration is not only manifested in the contradiction between the acceleration of society and the process of modernity, but also in the conflict between the quality of life and the shortage of time. Acceleration on the one hand promotes the development of society, and on the other hand creates and exacerbates a series of serious problems. Consumerism is internalised and externalised into people's values more quickly through acceleration. The network virtual landscape society makes alienation and consumption develop rapidly both in the real and virtual world through acceleration, resulting in the double acceleration of capitalism's slavery to people, who are not only difficult to get rid of acceleration in the real world but also controlled by accelerationism in the virtual world.

Анализ социальных явлений, связанных с пандемией COVID-19

In this paper, we put emphasis on three important social segments that came to the fore during the pandemic of COVID-19. It is about the phenomenon of a disciplined subject, the phenomenon of alienation and the phenomenon of death. We approached the analysis of the phenomenon of a disciplined subject, taking into account the recommendations of the health authorities, concerning quarantine, self-isolation and social exclusion, which in a short period of time puts under control people’s need for belonging, socializing and respect. Such an organization emphasizes the phenomenon of alienation of people, with spe­cial emphasis on the culture of fear for oneself and the Other. We analyzed the social aspect of death which is interpreted as statistical fact for which ideologi­cal and biochemical coverage is provided, and the same does not oppose what Baudrillard marks as the order of political economy. The social phenomena we have pointed out are significantly related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but their origin is not related to the beginning of the pandemic, but has its foundations in establishing a capitalist mode of production that served as the initial trigger for the phenomenon of alienation, but also interpreting human lives as statisti­cal facts.

Nameless Settlements of Sarajevo

The transitional process from a socialist into a capitalist societal system, started at the end of the twentieth century in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the related transformation of the public into private land ownership, with the neglect and lack of adequate development programs and public opinion, produce today the urban-architectural and, in general, identity crisis. Under the guise of overall well-being, but mostly in the service of short-term economic profit, attractive urban spaces are occupied, the existing physical structure is uncontrollably removed and new construction is carried out, almost as a rule, in disregard for the needs and interests of society/citizens. Transformations of urban space, generated by the vibrations of a transitional society, are most evident in the capital, Sarajevo. The building process is basically a multiplication of residential settlements, the construction of which is carried out on a case-by-case basis, with considerable pressure from investors, and with the decisions made within closed, narrow interest circles and (often) without consulting the profession/urban planners and the public/citizens. In such an environment, the public domain loses its primacy over the private, which is manifested in the alienation of people and the loss of their identification with the place. Such residential settlements are deprived of central functions in the field of social infrastructure and in the manner of “tried and tested” repetitive urban-architectural models, which together negatively affect the quality of individual and social life. In other words, residential settlements without an identity are created. Although they have formal names, these settlements are nameless. They are no places. Architecture and building are always deeply connected with the ideological framework of a particular society, which means that the understanding of the function of space and the place of man in it, we have opened a central question, as the main goal of this paper: Is it really true that the construction of Sarajevo’s new settlements cannot be adapted to anything other than current urban policy? Or else: Is their fate such that they will be permanently determined by the attribute of a settlement without a name? For the purpose of finding the answer, of possible ways of overcoming the crisis or at least mitigating its effects, we conducted a comparative analysis of housing planning in a socialist societal system with current transition planning. The results of this analysis have shown that the new urban policy is intrinsic and creates new articulations of urban space without spatial identity, essentially a name. We have concluded that a crucial moment has arisen in which it is necessary to stop anarchic decision-making on (sporadic) transformations of the city space and to establish a system of compliance with procedures in designing and adopting programs that allocate new necessary functions within the existing physical structures. As urban decisions are currently being made (mostly) outside the realm of the public/citizens, i.e. in closed circles and with the pressures of private investment, the need to change such practices is evident. This is only possible through dialogue, because when all those interested in the decision-making process are involved in the conversation, then change will happen. Only then will we be able to talk about urban politics dedicated to creating an environment in which a person, is placed in the centre of the building process, and where one is given the opportunity to personalize the space one inhabits, to identify with and name it – make it its own, personal and intimate.

Bush allowance and alienation: a challenge to African leadership and development in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow

African countries have experienced various forms of alienation both from natural occurrences and human forces. Environmental hazards have displaced some people from their parents and their ancestral homes. On the other hand, exploitation, privatization and uneven distribution of natural resources of the people by few privileged individuals, especially the politicians, have also alienated the people from their environment. Attempt to agitate or these factors of displacement and alienation often leads to a compromise and reliance on meager allocation of bush allowance which serves as compensation to the people. It is no doubt that this denial of collective participation of people in decision, especially as it concerns their welfare and natural minerals, has contributed to poor leadership and under development of Africa amidst her abundant resources. The alienation of people from decision has become some sort of abortion of dreams and suppression/ obliteration of ingenuity capable of transformation and development. This study is a qualitative research which seeks to textually explore the concept of bush allowance and alienation in Agary’s Yellow-Yellow in order to examine the extent they affect leadership quality and development in Africa, especially in Niger-delta of Nigeria. To do this the principle of Eco-centrism and the theory of Empowerment are used as analytical models as well as theoretical framework. Findings revealed that exploitation of natural minerals by those in authority has more adverse effects on the people than the environmental forces. The alienation of people from the decision making process creates imbalance and violence in society which deter development especially in Africa. This study also shows that over dependence in bush allowance affects self development and empowerment. The study therefore concludes that the development of a people is in their hands.
 Keywords: Bush allowance, leadership, alienation, development, Yellow-Yellow

The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan by C. T. Au (review)

Reviewed by: The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan by C. T. Au Howard Y. F. Choy C. T. Au. The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan. Lexington Books, 2020. 202 p. Considered a sequel to her Modernist Aesthetics in Taiwanese Poetry Since the 1950s (Leiden: Brill, 2008) and a synthesis of eight Chinese articles and an English chapter published between 2009 and 2017, Chung To Au's 區仲桃 The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan studies the creative and critical writings--including poetry, fiction, travelogues and essays--of writer-scholar Leung Ping-kwan 梁秉鈞 (nom de plume Yasi/Ye Si 也斯, 12 Mar. 1949-5 Jan. 2013) through the lens of modernism. Au's monograph is a new addition to earlier scholarship on Leung by Ackbar Abbas, Ikegami Sadako 池上貞子, John Minford, Leonard K. K. Chan 陳國球, Lo Kwai Cheung 羅貴祥, Rey Chow 周蕾, Wolfgang [End Page 218] Kubin and others. In the first chapter of five, Au defines "Hong Kong modernism" by relating Leung's modernist literature to Western modernisms as well as Chinese modernism of the 1940s, distinguishing it from Taiwanese modernism on the one hand and borrowing Peter Brooker's idea of "altermodernism," an alternative or variant postcolonial, multicultural modernism, on the other. Au discusses Hong Kong as a modern city and Hongkongers' problematic Chinese identity, placing Ye Si on a par with two early Hong Kong modernists, Lau Yee Cheung 劉以鬯 (Liu Yichang, 1918-2018) and Ma Lang 馬朗 (1933-). The following chapter further traces Leung's modernism to the Chinese shuqing 抒情 'lyrical' and yongwu 詠物 literary traditions. Starting from Leung's critical essays on lyricism, Au argues that his "poems on objects" (yongwu shi 詩), particularly those on food, are less successful than his fiction in maintaining the correlation between humans and objects due to his optimistic, instead of sentimental, tone and his control over food in poetry. Based on an interview with the poet, the author understands that such objects enable him to express his idea, rather than inspire him to write poems. Yet this power relationship is complicated and changed in his fiction, where food embodies metaphorical meanings beyond its normal function. The reviewer finds that such subject/object binary opposition attributed to Leung's poetic "failure" is too mechanical, untrue, and therefore unconvincing. The third chapter focuses on Leung's invention of the "extraordinary ordinary" under the subthemes of home, medicine, clothes and, again, food. The author suggests that the poet discovers his home in foreign places, such as the old houses of Freud, Kafka and Brecht in Vienna, Prague and Berlin, respectively. More interestingly, Ye Si's modernism is related to medicine, mainly madness, as found in Paper Cuts (Jianzhi 剪紙1977--while Au translated the title as Paper Cutouts, I prefer Brian Holton's rendition Paper Cuts [Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015]). Au's coined term "colonial dis-ease," unfortunately, is not fully explained in the book. The issue of colonial identity is addressed allegorically in modern fashion, especially through an intertextual reading of Ye Si's Clothink (Yi xiang 衣想, 1998) and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lastly, Leung's poems on food and his novel Postcolonial Affairs of Food and the Heart (Houzhimin [End Page 219] shiwu yu aiqing 後殖民食物與愛情, 2009) are reexamined in relation to the formation of a fluid, hybrid Hong Kong identity. However, the importance of the Cantonese daily language in his writings is not mentioned at all. Chapter four explores the writer's multiple perspectives developed from his travelogues and magical realist fiction in a global context. Au points out that Ye Si has gone beyond imperialism and colonialism in these two subgenres. He employs magical realism to describe mental illness and people's alienation to Hong Kong and meta-fictionalizes his "countertravel writings" by merging various forms of lyrical novel, prose, autobiography, criticism, odes, and even email from the standpoint of different types of travelers, including both the colonizer and the colonized. In the concluding chapter, Au returns to the beginnings of modernism through translation. Leung's literary career started with reading masterpieces of world literature in translation, such as Shakespeare and Tolstoy. Then, in the early 1970s, he translated foreign literature into Chinese, including French nouveaux romans...

ALIENATION AND AESTHETICAL SALVATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES

The House of the Seven Gables is one of the most representative works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the American writer and novelist. In this novel, Hawthorne, in the basis of the house of the seven gables, through the old Gothic tradition of an inherited curse, depicts a story in which the Pyncheon family was gotten back at because the thuggery committed by the ancestors of Pyncheon Family. In the meaning time, this novel is one that bears huge symbolic significance. This paper, from the perspective of the critique of everyday life theory of Lefebvre, mainly talks about the alienation of people’s everyday life and the aesthetical salvation of it. Academically, this novel is often interpreted from the perspective of Gothic Curse, symbolism, archetypal critical theory and so forth. This paper aims to further study the alienation and aesthetic salvation in this novel, thus promoting the research of Hawthorne in the domestic academical world.

Urban Theme Embodiment in the Novels of Charles Dickens

The article analyzes the features of London image and the representation of urban theme in Charles Dickens’ novels “The Adventures of Oliver Twist”, “Dombey and Son”, “Bleak House”. As anthropomorphic characters of novels, the city acts as a full-fledged artistic image. It is established that London is a center of plot nodes contraction and appears to be versatile and multifaceted. On the one hand, it is a city in which all provincial residents rush. They dream of finding themselves here and occupying a worthy position in life. On the other hand, the writer portrays London as the personification of cold, deceitful relationships, alienation of people in high society. It combines contrasting pictures of luxury and poverty, grandeur and squalor; it lives by a separate independent life and affects the feelings and actions of heroes. The article notes that London is always accompanied by landscape sketches in Dickens' novels. Most often, these are stable and multifunctional images of fog and cold. In the novel “The Adventures of Oliver Twist,” fog and cold become symbols of the concealment of the dirty deeds of the cruel and criminal world of London, in which the protagonist is originally immersed. In the novel “Bleak House”, they are the personification of the Supreme Court, and in “Dombey and Son”, the descriptions of cold, foggy, and gray London represent the cold of human relations that reigns in the family of financial magnate Mr. Dombey.

Integration of artificial intelligence into public life: some ethical and legal problems

««Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Право» — международный научно-теоретический рецензируемый журнал, публикующий материалы в следующих рубриках: Публичное и частное право: прикладные исследования Криминология Криминалистика Судебная экспертиза Исследования права с позиций социальных и гуманитарных (неюридических) наук Правовая жизнь: научно-практические заключения, комментарии и обзоры Сравнительное право Зарубежное право

Українська еміграція на межі: кінострічка Л. Осики “Камінний хрест” (1968)

Historical realities of Ukrainian society actualize the centuries old topic. In particular, the theme of emigration, extremely productive at the turn of the nineteenth and the twentieth century, was actively continued in the 60's of the twentieth century, no less relevant today. Created by V. Stefanyk in 1900, “The Stone Cross” on “alienation of people from their native land”, which contains a generalizing image of all Ukrainian people forced to emigrate overseas, appears to be a true cry of the human soul leaving their native land and doomed to be eternal “Stranger”. This tragic image was also embodied in another artistic plane: in 1968, based on the stories of “The Stone Cross” and “The Thief”, L. Osyka shot the eponymous film that appeared as a tragic film about emigration. The film today is striking with the philosophical depth and high imagery culture. The comparative key analyzes the first text of the “The Stone Cross” by V. Stefanyk, the corresponding script by I. Drach and the film by L. Osyka. It is noted that at each historical point due to new destabilizing factors, the theme of “emigration” is updated every time and, at the same time, expands, supplemented by new content realities. The receptive potential of the first text and it’s already screen version once again prompts the recipient to rethink the present: whether it is 1900, or 1968, or 2018.

Creating financial value for tropical forests by disentangling people from nature

Efforts to address environmental problems have led to a rapid proliferation of mechanisms for creating financial value for nature. This paper argues that the creation of financial value for nature requires work to disentangle and frame the relation between people and nature so as to render this relation calculable, and that this work acts to alienate people from nature. To pursue and progress this argument, the paper analyses the work of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to establish a mechanism to create financial value for tropical forests based on their capacity to store carbon. The analysis finds that the UNFCCC’s work of disentanglement and framing, so as to render calculable the relation between people and forests, has created conditions that threaten to materially degrade the ecological value of tropical forest biodiversity and the cultural/spiritual value of forests to indigenous peoples. The findings support this paper’s argument that the alienation of people from nature is not simply a consequence of financial valuation, but rather is a necessary prerequisite for creating financial value for nature.

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION AND YOUTH IN NGUGIS WEEP NOT, CHILD

Human rights are essentially the rights of people. They are the rights that an individual can avail and enjoy, by virtue of being born as a human being. it means the rights relating to life, liberty, equality and dignity of an individual guaranteed by the National Constitution or embodied in the international convents and they are enforceable by the judiciary. Ngugiin Weep Not, Child has tried to express the grave reality of his nation as he covers the time duration from colonialism to post colonialism and Neocolonialism. In the works of Ngugi the subordinate masses try to resist the dominant group. The novel is set before and during the emergency in Kenya. It presents the picture of a village community that disintegrates as a colonial settlement resulting in the alienation of people from their ancestral god given land. Land is the visible symbol for Kenyans as well as the means of establishing contact with the ancestral spirits. Ngotho is the legitimate owner of the land. His aboriginal title is based on gen. Jacobo is the native aid of Mr. Howlands. He forces the natives to work on his master’s farm. He takes precaution that no other native farmer can become rich like him. He plays a role of middleman in case of supplying workers to work on low wages.

Research methodology of youth interpersonal communication based on modern technology

The evolution of human communication initiated by direct non-verbal and sign communication, along with the occurrence of language is transformed into verbal communication so that nowadays, with the development of information communication technologies (ICT), the extent of the application of indirect communication is increased, bringing completely new ways of communication. Modern communication based on ICT has changed the way of communication and has brought numerous benefits for participants of the communication process in several aspects of communication (mass availability, development time, speed of communication, possibilities of combining different multimedia forms, ease of communication, etc.), also including some negative effects in various aspects of communication (protection of privacy, simplification of linguistic content, alienation of people, etc.). As the young population uses modern forms of communication the most, it is meaningful to organize systematic research on the subject mentioned. In this regard, this paper presents the projected methodology for researching contemporary interpersonal communication among young people, with the target population selected from college and secondary school students.

The Online Dissemination of Nature-Health Concepts: Lessons from Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Relating to "Nature-Deficit Disorder".

Evidence continues to grow supporting the idea that restorative environments, green exercise, and nature-based activities positively impact human health. Nature-deficit disorder, a journalistic term proposed to describe the ill effects of people’s alienation from nature, is not yet formally recognized as a medical diagnosis. However, over the past decade, the phrase has been enthusiastically taken up by some segments of the lay public. Social media, such as Twitter, with its opportunities to gather “big data” related to public opinions, offers a medium for exploring the discourse and dissemination around nature-deficit disorder and other nature–health concepts. In this paper, we report our experience of collecting more than 175,000 tweets, applying sentiment analysis to measure positive, neutral or negative feelings, and preliminarily mapping the impact on dissemination. Sentiment analysis is currently used to investigate the repercussions of events in social networks, scrutinize opinions about products and services, and understand various aspects of the communication in Web-based communities. Based on a comparison of nature-deficit-disorder “hashtags” and more generic nature hashtags, we make recommendations for the better dissemination of public health messages through changes to the framing of messages. We show the potential of Twitter to aid in better understanding the impact of the natural environment on human health and wellbeing.

Jesus—A Life in Dialogue: A Christian Response to Martin Buber’s Identification with the Jewish Jesus

Throughout his life, the person of Jesus held a profound fascination for the twentieth century Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber. Buber wrote prodigiously on Hasidism, the renewal of Judaism, the meaning of personhood, and the crisis of community. However, he was not a conventional systematic philosopher. He saw his role primarily as one who points the way to unrecognized truths on the basis of lived experience. If there is a theme which runs through his writings, it is his concern for the alienation of people from one another and from the “eternal Thou,” the only possible focus of genuine community. Buber found in the life and faith of Jesus, his “great brother,” a true exemplar of all he was striving to communicate regarding the possibility of a personal and continuous relation with the living God. This paper explores how Buber could identify so completely with the faith of the Jewish Jesus and yet reject the essential teachings of Pauline Christianity. While applauding the profound insights which Buber offers to all Christians concerning the life and faith of Jesus, the paper sets out to articulate a reasoned Christian response to his rejection of Christianity; but an inclusive response, which simultaneously acknowledges the importance of Buber’s pointing to the possibility of a richer and more meaningful dialogue with the God, who experienced first-hand the sufferings of humanity.

Механизм государства, как институциональная основа обеспечения прав и свобод человека и гражданина

The article analyzes the concept of the state apparatus, the role of parliaments in the political life of society and the state. The basis of the construction and functioning of the state machinery of any country on objective and subjective factors. The alienation of people from property and political power that has occurred in our country, is the initial state, generating the need for democracy as the need to overcome the old and new forms of alienation of power from society as a resolution of the conflict between the diversity of social and political interests of the subjects of political power and the possibilities of their embodiments of the structures and institutions of power.

DIY Cheese-making and Individuation: Towards a Reconfiguration of Taste in Contemporary Computer Culture

DIY Cheese-making and Individuation: Towards a Reconfiguration of Taste in Contemporary Computer Culture

DENGUE MOSQUITOES ARE SINGLE MOTHERS: Biopolitics Meets Ecological Aesthetics in Nicaraguan Community Health Work

Nicaraguan Ministry of Health protocols for the control of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits dengue fever, hinge on an aesthetic ordering of the urban household, one in which mosquitoes, like garbage and dirt, do not belong. Management regimes such as this appear to rely on an alienation of people—and in the case of dengue, women in particular—from the urban natures in which they live. In this article, I draw on 18 months of research with Nicaraguan community health workers (brigadistas) for whom mosquito abatement involved an opening, rather than a closing, of the landscape. Brigadistas, especially female brigadistas, took deep pleasure in learning about mosquito–human lifeworlds, a pleasure I call “ecological aesthetic.” Ecological aesthetics—patterns of connection that are identifiable only through performance—contrasted to the more familiar aesthetics identifiable in the ministry's ordering of the household. Although the latter aesthetic has human control over life at its core, the former emphasizes entanglement, a relational knowledge of life. I suggest some implications of this idea for future anthropological studies of “the politics of life.”

Work attitude and pedagogical value of work

There are multiple aspects of the importance of work: economic, social, psychological, pedagogical and the like. Above all, work enables the existance of the individual and those who depend on her/him. In addition, work provides social interaction of individuals with their colleagues, it represents the source of social status and prestige, and also has a very high intrinsic value for individuals as a source of identity, self-esteem and self-actualisation. Work is therefore a central human value and one of the key factors for the individual development within the society. The article defines basic concepts and terms in the filed of work pedagogy, such as: work, pedagogical value of work, professional values, job satisfaction and preoccupation with work, work attitude, professional development and career guidance. Based on the outcomes of scientific research on work attitude, it can be relatively easy to predict the economic prosperity of a particular state, to update the relations between ethnic and ethical aspects of work, to use the therapeutic role of work in the communes for addicts which act on a maxim ''ora et labora'', analyse career guidance, retraining and further education needs (which are very important for individual and social development), alienation of people in the labour process (some sociologists consider work utilitarism as a distinguishing mark of worker alienation), work stimulation (every from of work attitude should be stimulated adquately, otherwise there will be no increasing work productivity). Thus it is also possible to recognise creative tasks and individuals (self-actualisation orientation isa a significant indicator of professions which are an expression of creativity), the role of spare time in the process of (dis)alienation from work and to predict social changes as well as the effectiveness of various reforms (in fossilised work attitude and education one cannot expect any progress in proposed reforms).