Ambivalent Phenomenon Research Articles

Расширенный киборг: концептуализация взаимосвязи людей и интеллектуальных систем

The article is devoted to the development of the concept of “extended cyborg”, which conceptualizes various aspects of interaction between people and intelligent computer technologies. It is shown that cyborgization does not imply an invasive combination of the human body and computer technologies, but represents the integration of cyber technolo­gies and human experience. Such cyborgization is often interpreted as an anthropological threat, but the article shows that it is an ambivalent phenomenon integrated into the imma­nent ways of human interaction with material reality. In this regard, the ontology of ex­panded cyborgization is considered, as well as its two important aspects – cognitive and political.

The Phenomenon of Ambivalence in Policy Implementation: How Muhammadiyah Universities Protect Women against Sexual Violence

This article discusses "The phenomenon of ambivalence in policy implementation: How Muhammadiyah / Aisyiyah Universities protect women from sexual violence". This phenomenon began when the Ministry refused to change the statement by the Council for Higher Education, Research and Development regarding the revision of article 5 (paragraph 2). ).Due to the Minister's rejection, the Rectors of Muhammadiyah/Aisyiyah as street level bureaucracy, only adopted clauses in the articles of the ministerial regulations that were in line with Islamic values and principles, and integrated them with interpretive clauses related to Article 5 (paragraph 2). ) becomes a new policy. This research uses qualitative research. The informant were the Rectors of Muhamamdiyah/Aisyiyah Universities in the Eastern part of East Java. Qualitative descriptive techniques are used to analyze the data. Each Muhamamdiyah/Aisyiyah University is currently implementing this new policy internally. Presumably because it is enforced internally, the Ministry has not banned this practice. These findings highlight the flexibility of implementing policies to protect women against sexual violence, allowing for changes in line with the internal norms and principles of street-level bureaucracy.Artikel ini membahas tentang “Fenomena ambivalensi dalam implementasi kebijakan: Bagaimana Perguruan Tinggi Muhammadiyah /Aisyiyah melindungi perempuan dari kekerasan seksual”. Fenomena ini bermula ketika Kementerian menolak mengubah pernyataan Majelis Pendidikan Tinggi, Penelitian dan Pengembangan terkait revisi pasal 5 (ayat 2). Atas penolakan Menteri tersebut, maka para Rektor Muhammadiyah/Aisyiyah sebagai street level birokrasi, hanya mengadopsi klausul dalam pasal-pasal peraturan menteri yang sejalan dengan nilai-nilai dan prinsip-prinsip Islam, serta mengintegrasikan dengan klausul penafsiran terkait dengan Pasal 5 (ayat 2). ) menjadi kebijakan baru. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif.Informannya adalah Rektor Universitas Muhamamdiyah/Aisyiyah di Jawa Timur bagian Timur.Teknik deskriptif kualitatif digunakan untuk menganalisis data. Masing-masing Universitas Muhamamdiyah/Aisyiyah saat ini sedang melaksanakan kebijakan baru secara internal. Agaknya karena diberlakukan internal, Kementerian belum melarang praktik ini. Temuan- temuan ini menyoroti fleksibilitas penerapan kebijakan perlindungan perempuan terhadap kekerasan seksual, yang memungkinkan perubahan sejalan dengan norma dan prinsip internal birokrasi tingkat jalanan.

Интернет-сленг в виртуальном общении как языковой феномен

The aim of the study is to identify trends in the development of Internet slang caused by transformations in the field of politics, economics and culture. The paper discusses the features of Internet slang functioning in the communication of Internet users. The formation of Internet slang testifies to the functional dynamics of the modern Russian language, therefore it is of particular interest to linguists. The scientific novelty of the study lies in developing the word-formation and functional-semantic classifications of Russian Internet slang. The paper presents the analysis of 120 lexical units related to Internet slang. These units are considered in three aspects: meaning, word-formation types and intentions. As a result, it has been proved that Russian Internet slang as an ambivalent phenomenon, on the one hand, contributes to an increase in the expressiveness and emotionality of virtual communication and, on the other hand, it can negatively affect the literacy level of native speakers of the Russian language.

"In God alone my soul can find rest" (Ps62:2) : Silence and pain in the Psalms and their narrativizations in Taizé

Atheological perspective on dealing with crises that focuses on modes of endurance and gestalt, is supported by interdisciplinary resilience research. How can silence contribute to aproductive coping with crises and pain? Texts and practices of the Christian tradition are discussed with respect to their ways of dealing with critical and painful situations, namely a)the Psalm texts of the Old Testament, which are examined by means of exegetical methods for historical and cultural aspects of meaning and b)the practice of silence in the prayers of the Taizé community, which are examined from anarrative hermeneutical perspective. By understanding silence as an ambiguous and ambivalent phenomenon, it can contribute to aproductive way of dealing with pain that enables perception, confrontation and acceptance. It is crucial not to regard the silence of asufferer as amere endurance, but also to have an eye on the creative potentials. Cultural and religious narratives and practices can help to locate oneself in a"space of silence" in such away that aresilient way of dealing with experiences of pain becomes possible. In order for silence to promote resilience, it is necessary to keep an eye on productive as well as destructive processes of silence as an ambivalent phenomenon: These processes occur in an uncontrollable way and are shaped by implicit normative assumptions. Silence can be experienced as loneliness, isolation and the loss of quality of life, or silence can become aplace of encounter, of arrival, of security, and in prayer of trust in God.

ON THE QUESTION OF THE TRUTH/FALSENESS OF SOCIAL STEREOTYPES THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY

The relevance of the research topic is determined by the general need to study language facts in the linguistic-cognitive plane, where special attention is paid to stereotypes – stable, emotionally colored representations within any community, formed in the cognitive consciousness of native speakers on the basis of hidden social meanings, which in their totality constitute the worldview of an individual. The goal of intelligence is to identify and describe the processes and results of stereotyping as a positive/negative phenomenon. The research methodology is based on the basic principles of anthropocentrism, which affirms the key role of the human factor in the process of learning about the world. Scientific research was carried out using a complex methodology based on the consolidation of search, analytical, evaluation and generalization approaches. Research results and their discussion. The study of stereotypes in the linguistic-cognitive aspect is aimed at the description of linguistic-sociocultural knowledge, the mechanisms of their categorization and evaluation, based on the cultural environment, which acts as a system of shared beliefs, values, traditions and norms of behavior inherent in a certain community, which collectively form the conditions for the emergence of social stereotypes. The process of stereotyping based on hidden social meanings will be interpreted as an ambivalent phenomenon dependent on many factors: the situation, certain circumstances, time slice, ideological priorities, society's requests, acquired knowledge, etc. The above determines both negative and positive consequences of stereotyping. Therefore, it is impossible to give an unequivocal assessment of the phenomenon of stereotyping. The process of stereotyping is neither positive nor negative, it actually exists and fulfills the vital function of human consciousness for society – the systematization of acquired knowledge in order to give the perceived world an orderly character. Therefore, the negative impact of stereotypes can be weakened by accumulating standardized collective experience and acquired knowledge.

Ambivalensi Energi Terbarukan : Kendaraan Listrik Untuk Penurunan Emisi Karbon dan Dampaknya Terhadap Kerusakan Lingkungan di Indonesia

This article discusses the phenomenon of electric vehicles which are an alternative to reducing carbon emissions. This study discusses the intervention between the implementation of electric vehicles with interrelated dependent variables, one of which is nickel as raw material for battery emulsion. The phenomenon that occurs is that on the one hand electric vehicles can be used as an alternative to reducing carbon emissions, and on the other hand it hurts a negative impact on the environment related to nickel mining. In this case, ambivalence occurs between the text and the context in the field. Weak regulations make ambivalent phenomena ineffective in terms of application, especially to the environmental effects caused, so the author will focus on describing the ambivalence of the presence of electric vehicles in Indonesia, because, on the one hand, the presence of electric vehicles can reduce carbon emissions but on the other hand it can actually reduce carbon emissions. cause environmental damage. Therefore, to answer the above problems, the research method in this paper will use normative research methods with a focus on discussing and analyzing problem formulations related to how government policies regulate the use of renewable energy, especially regarding electric vehicles and their impact on environmental damage in Indonesia.

초기 사립 혁신학교에서 혁신문화 정착 과정에 대한 문화기술지

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to examine characteristics of culture of school innovation in the early stages at private middle schools, appointed as innovation school, and to analyze how they have developed over time passes. Methods: For this purpose, Middle School A was selected among all appointed private innovation school in 2021 and a qualitative case study was performed with an analytic method for an ethnographic case study. Results: The characteristics of the settlement process of innovative culture in the early stage at Middle School A, can be analyzed in chronological order as follows; “thrill and anticipation vs. distrust and concern” was the main characteristic in the preparational stage of the innovation school, “changes in recognition of members thereof vs. acceptance of outside information” represents the characteristic in the stage of propelling the early innovation school, “institutionalization of democratic decision making vs. an incomplete democracy” was the characteristic in an operational stage of the early innovation school, and “acceptance of change vs. willful avoidance” represents the characteristic in changes that occurred one year after the appointment of this innovation school. A similarity of characteristics in the settlement process of the culture of school innovation by faculties of such a private school was discovered, and the phenomenon of ambivalence was observed,where positive and negative values of this culture coexisted in such an environment. This data was then analyzed by extending the range of the research. Conclusion: Cooperative contemplation and efforts are required, along with administrative support from the government, so that those direct-opposite values, shared by the school faculties simultaneously, may be shifted into a positive direction as time passes in the settlement process of the innovative culture at a private innovation school in the early stages.

Лексема “Hans im Glück” и её функции в дискурсе

This paper presents a linguoculturological description of the phrase “Hans im Glück” / “Hans the Lucky One”. The formation of the phraseological unit recorded in lexicographic sources is traced, and a comparison of the proposed meanings with the actual contexts of use is given. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the approach to the phrase under study as an ambivalent phenomenon that performs the functions of both a phraseological unit and a precedent name. As a result of the research, the structure of the semantic meaning of this boundary phenomenon is proposed taking into account the identified contradictions.

Community in the Age of the Pandemic: a Moral Responsibility in light of Covid-Uncertaintity

А situation of Covid uncertainty resulting in the destruction of the conventional forms of interaction led to a reformatted social context and challenged a possibility of a morally responsible attitude towards the Other in the conditions of separateness, distancing and isolation. Understanding morality as an ambivalent phenomenon that acts both as a social institution and as a self-legislation of a moral agent, allows for singling out two aspects of a moral responsibility: a measure of what is due towards other people, which is established by a moral agent himself, and duties imposed upon the moral agent from the outside. In this case, a normative adequacy of the moral agent is manifested in his power of social prediction and his ability to bear responsibility for the future state of the community, which becomes of a paramount importance in light of the pandemic. In the current situation, a moral responsibility is a mutual responsibility of an individual and the state where these both parties act as moral agents: the state is responsible for the comprehensive exercise of human rights and freedoms, provision of decent living conditions and security, and protection of health as well as for the quality of its own decisions, their implementation and social impact; whilst an individual is responsible for his own decisions and actions, which in the state of emergency are dedicated to the cause of collective well-being and aimed at minimization of the harm and prevention of the sufferings of others. A specific tension preconditioned by a dilemma of a personal freedom and collective goals to preserve health and survive, may be eased with the help of a dialogue, trust and reflexivity that would help get over the increasing distancing and separateness.

ОТ МИРАЖА К ТРАГЕДИИ. БРИТАНСКАЯ ЛЕНИНИАНА: ОТ БЕРТРАНА РАССЕЛА И УЭЛЛСА, П. ТРАВЕРС, У.Х. ОДЕНА ДО Р. КОНКВЕСТА, Р. СЕРВИСА, С. СЕБАГА-МОНТЕФИОРЕ, К. МЕРРИДЕЙЛ

The subject of this interdisciplinary article is a literary, journalistic and historiographic tradition of Lenin’s perception in Great Britain since early 1920-s up to our time. The main trajectory of this tradition is seen as a movement from myth, impressions, illusions of B. Russell, H. Wells, Gareth Jones, poets W.H. Auden and Hugh MacDiarmid to the revelations of Pamela Travers, Malcolm Muggeridge and later - to contemporary historians and writers Robert Conquest, Robert Service, Orlando Figes, Helen Rappaport, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Catherine Merridale, who base their works on archival research and explore the ambivalent phenomenon of Lenin’s personality: his rationalism, coldness, ruthlessness, cynicism, focus on theory, lack of interest in life, power hunger and propensity to repressions. British scholars convincingly show that this outstanding politician negatively influenced the course of history, he did incredible harm to Russia, which, in their opinion, he didn’t like. And he ended tragically like the majority of dictators: the revolution he spawned consumed him - being ill, he was isolated by his “successor” Stalin in a country house Gorky near Moscow. And then, against his will, he was not interred in Volkovo cemetery, next to his mother, but was doomed, like a vampire, to “eternal immortality” and the remains of his body are still tortured by regular mummification.

Outsiders in current Slovak literature for children and youth

Abstract Within the solution of the project APVV-17-0071 Support of Reading Literacy in the Mother Tongue and Foreign Language, it is also important to reflect on outsidership as a certain ambivalent phenomenon, which appears after 1989 in contemporary Slovak literature for children and youth in various analogies. One of the aims of the study is to define the initial concept of outsider from various professional perspectives. We will also focus on the methodological basis of research of outsiders (social status, otherness, disadvantage, bullying, rebellion), not only in contemporary artistic texts but also in working exercises with regard to the learning language style.

Religion in the public sphere

Religion has become a highly ambivalent phenomenon in late modernity. For some, it is a lasting resource for meaning, even in a highly ideologically plural society. For others, it belongs in the private sphere, not in the public sphere. What both would probably share, however, is the assumption that a state religion would be in contradiction to the promises of freedom and autonomy of modernity. But where is the place of religion in a democratic society? The text discusses this highly complex question in an examination of two theories that have shaped debates in the field like few others. From this discussion, further perspectives for a theologically founded position that is responsible in terms of democratic theory are given in conclusion.

Polite Applause: The sonic politics of ‘Clap for Carers’

Between March and May 2020, an estimated 37 million people across the United Kingdom took part in the ‘Clap for Carers’ initiative against the backdrop of the global coronavirus pandemic. Participants stood on their doorsteps or balconies, or at their windows to clap, cheer and make other sounds, officially in praise of public health workers. The initiative was unique in British history, comparable in mass engagement only to certain instances of the ‘minute’s silence’, yet diametrically opposed in the sonic agency it appeared to permit. Drawing on interviews with participants, as well as published documentation and media reports, I ask how this sonic agency was made use of and managed, and to what ends. Charged with the emotional and political weight of the pandemic, Clap for Carers was an increasingly ambivalent phenomenon. While it might not present itself as an artistic practice, participants’ evident attention to sonic materiality justifies approaching it as such. Moreover, exploratory uses of sound and a proliferation of interpretive positions suggested it held some space for the autonomous experiences art entails. While the initiative’s narrowly defined consensus mirrored the pitfalls of some participatory art, these autonomous experiences gestured towards what Voegelin (2019) describes as an ‘echography of the inaudible’, through which a plurality of voices, actualities and political possibilities are heard. In this sense, such experiences of Clap for Carers point to sound’s distinctive capacity for (per)forming agonistic kinds of participatory practice.

Thematic Co-occurrence Analysis: Advancing a Theory and Qualitative Method to Illuminate Ambivalent Experiences.

Ambivalence is a phenomenon that transcends disciplinary divides and is associated with a myriad of mixed outcomes. Yet, identifying and representing the complexities of ambivalent experiences can be difficult using traditional qualitative methods. Thus, the goal of the present study was to advance a qualitative method, thematic co-occurrence analysis, to address this issue. To illustrate the usefulness of this method, I present a case study detailing 35 estranged adult children’s ambivalent responses and reactions to their parents’ (non)contact during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings reveal seven themes and four (non)relationships between them that reflect (a) theme independence, (b) unilateral co-occurrence, (c) unbalanced co-occurrence, and (d) complementary co-occurrence. These findings advance a theory of ambivalence and corresponding method to aid in the future investigations of ambivalent phenomena.

Apocalypse then and now! – Political and religious interpretations of tribulations in apocalyptic mind-sets

The article has three parts. Firstly, we give an overview on how the Greek-Hellenistic imperialism provoked apocalypticism as a way of resistance to colonization (e.g. Egypt and Judah). Secondly, we show how the early African apocalypticism is very similar to that of the Ancient Near East. In many African countries, colonization was perceived as an apocalyptic phenomenon. Within this mind-set, apocalypticism became an information system that speculated about the true nature of time, space and being. This information system also gave solutions to how the coming destruction could be ameliorated by human ingenuity and actions. This ideology informed liberation movements like the Chimurenga and others. Thirdly, we analyse how the anti-imperial apocalypticism was calmed by an imperially formatted Christianity. Elements like the belief in heaven created a naïve world-denying attitude: ‘this world is not my home I am just passing through.’ Within the African apocalyptic mind-set, COVID-19 is an ambivalent phenomenon. Initially, it was perceived as God's judgment on the ungodly West, but perceptions quickly changed as it later ravaged Africa. Many government officials voiced that COVID-19 is a well-promoted hoax by fake news of prominent western media houses. Some dismissed the existence of the pandemic while others declared that the vaccine is the dreaded 666 mark of ‘the beast’ or the protective masks were blamed the masks of ‘the beast’. COVID-19 apocalypticism thus can be understood as an anti-modern, xenophobic way of constructing identity.

STRUCTURE AND SEMANTICS OF THE ADDRESSEE IN THE “NATURAL” POEMS OF K. MYRZALIEV

The appeal to the theory of the internal addressee in a poetic text is an actual direction in modern literary studies. It will help to solve both the specific task and contribute to the elucidation of the phenomena of the dialogical nature of the poetic text, as well as to the understanding of poetry as a whole. A poetic text has specific qualities, among which addressability is important. In the structure of a poetic text, it is a multi dimensional category that participates in the formati on of lyri cal meani ng, the i mage of the addressee and the i ntenti ons of the addressee. This article d scusses the poetic addressee as a consequence and implementati on of the category of addressability. The addressee refers to the main receptive paradigm involved in the structural modeling of the text and the expression of the author's concept. The concept of “addressee”, being a system, i s a phenomenon of multiple ambivalence: it si multaneously implies form and content, design and implementation, structure and semantics.

The Myth of Eros in Michael Field’s Sapphic Project: from a New Materialism to a Tragic Determinism

El objetivo de este artículo consiste en examinar cómo Katharine Bradley y su sobrina Edith Cooper reinterpretan la figura de Safo en conexión directa con el mito de Eros en Long Ago (1889), el primer poemario que compusieron bajo el pseudónimo de Michael Field. Con este propósito en mente, seleccionamos una serie de poemas dirigidos a la deidad griega del amor, realizamos un análisis detallado de los mismos y demostramos que las Fields componen una mitografía dramática que explora la identidad paradójica del dios y, al mismo tiempo, revela toda una verdad intemporal inherente al propio mito de Eros: el amor constituye un fenómeno ambivalente que crea, inspira y eleva tanto como destruye, oprime y mata. https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.43.119

Sandzhar Yanyshev’s lyrical prose. A colonial and post-colonial palimpsest

The article deals with the lyrical prose by the modern poet Sandzhar Yanyshev. Examining his collection Umr. The New Book of Transformations [Umr. Novaya kniga obrashcheniy] (2017), the author distinguishes the selfidentification process of the lyrical hero, who is a product of the imperial period, typified by bilingual and bicultural intentions. The images-transformationsmetamorphoses of the lyrical prose reveal milestones of the Soviet-era colonial history and their post-colonial reception. Family members in the book are surrounded by an array of historical and mythological figures (from Golem and Christ to Khyzyr-bobo), as well as an allusive-reminiscent set from Russian and world literature. Also investigated is the mix of genres represented in the collection: part of the Russian literary and Uzbek cultural traditions, each of them can be viewed as the contextual genre of umr – an ambivalent phenomenon of life-death, transformation/metamorphosis. Sandzhar Yanyshev’s lyrical prose offers a richly flavoured illustration of current Russian literature and exemplifies the mental processes of the post-colonial era..

From a Literary Work to a Movie and Back. Literary and Literary Studies Contexts for the Art of Screenplay

Screenplays are a paradoxical and ambivalent phenomenon. On the one hand, a screenplay is a literary genre and its development attests to the process of its emancipation from the power of fi lm and fi lm theory. On the other hand, however, the screenplay read as the text „is becoming a movie” already during the act of reading. The screenplay – as a quasi-literary phenomenon – can be a useful and inspiring tool in fi lm interpretation, as it opens up a variety of methodological possibilities.

Special Issue Introduction: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Intra‐EU Mobility in an Era of Complex Economic and Political Change

AbstractThis paper introduces the special issue on ‘Intra‐EU mobilities in times of crisis'. Intra‐EU mobility has emerged as an ambivalent phenomenon. On the one hand, EU‐wide opinion polls still depict freedom of movement as the most positive aspect of European integration. On the other hand, with nationalism and xenophobia on the rise, migration and mobility are increasingly problematized and challenged. Shifting attention from the master narratives about intra‐EU mobility, the aim of the special issue is to bring to the fore the lived experiences of the key actors as recounted in a period of multiple European crises which, in turn, represent the visible and mediatized manifestations of more complex and deep‐seated processes of political and economic change. Here we provide a chronological periodization of intra‐EU mobility trends over recent decades and how they intersect with major geopolitical events, aiming to contextualise the special issue articles which are then presented.