Bearer Of Identity Research Articles

Artifacting Identity. How Grillz, Ball Gags and Gas Masks Expand the Face

By questioning the attribution of a primary role to the eyes as bearers of identity within traditional Western culture, this paper will problematize the agentivity performed by the lower mereology of the face, identified with the mouth-nose assemblage. In particular, the study will focus on the manipulation of such facial spatiality through the intervention of three “lower face” artifacts: the grill, the ball gag and the gas mask. This piece of work will examine their plastic and figurative dimensions in the technological interaction with the facial organs. Furthermore, we will take into consideration the sociocultural context of wearability performed by the different bearers with the aim of grasping the identity shift that the artifacts trigger. The study, therefore, will organize the corpus as a sequence that starts inside the oral cavity where the grill is worn; then moves to a progressive exteriority with the ball gag that emerges from the mouth through the straps fastened around the head; eventually dealing with the exterior projection operated by the gas mask which by means of its filters portends beyond the anatomical face. Ultimately the three artifacts are presented as a threefold articulation of a liminal agency towards an expanded form of humanity including animality embedded within and without the space of meaning represented by the face.

Integracija antičkog nasleđa u savremeni grad - slučaj Osijeka, Hrvatska

The city of Osijek has experienced many changes in its cityscape throughout history. Osijek has many recognizable features which include an Austro-Hungarian Baroque fortress, the Classicist Upper Town, and the Art Nouveau European Avenue; also, the fact that three more historical layers exist: Roman, medieval and Turkish, is often overlooked. The main reason for this is the fact that the archaeological heritage of those periods is almost invisible. This paper is based on the hypothesis that the integration of ancient heritage can be a valuable asset when designing a modern city. The subject of this paper is the integration of the ancient heritage of Osijek into the modern architecture of the city in the 21st century, with special reference to a site within its protected cultural and historical area, which is part of Roman Mursa. The critical literature analysis illustrates the importance of cultural heritage preservation in the identity of a place, society and humanity. Cultural heritage is recognized as a bearer of identity and a resource of cultural diversity in the conditions of growing standardization, gentrification and (post) globalization.

INTERNASIONALISASI BAHASA INDONESIA MELALUI EKSPOSE VISUAL CERITA DAERAH MENGGUNAKAN KOMIK DIGITAL BILINGUAL

This article discusses the use of digital comics as a medium of Indonesian language internationalization. Some things that are part of the study are the analysis of global Indonesian digital comics, the opportunity for space in developing digital comics as a medium of massive communication between language and language users, the use of regional wealth in Indonesia as a bearer of Identity, and visual exposure of regional stories as strategies Internationalization of Indonesian. The method of analysis uses exploratory studies with literature reviews, aimed at exploring digital world space and opportunities for the internationalization of Indonesian through the use of a wealth of language, literature and culture. The benefits of this are providing a basic foothold in supporting further research on the potential of literary and cultural languages in internationalizing Indonesian. The use of digital technology that is becoming popular has become a great opportunity for the development of various strategies. The results of the study in the form of key points as a key application of the strategy of internationalization of Indonesian by utilizing the local wealth of the work of the Indonesian people conceptually.

NYELV, IDENTITÁS, KULTÚRA: FORDÍTHATÓSÁG ÉS DEPENDENCIA

A dolgozat az identitás–kultúra–nyelv fogalomköréből kiindulva vizsgálja három kortárs horvát szerző – Dubravka Ugrešić, Mirko Kovač és Miljenko Jergović – műveinek fordíthatóságát (és a „fordító feladatát”), különös tekintettel az identitás és a kulturális kötődés nyelven keresztüli részleges, illetve szinte teljes konstituálódása és a fordíthatóság közötti kapcsolatra. Ahol az egyéni identitás általános kérdései nem közvetlenül és expliciten tematizálódnak, ott az identitás hordozói a kultúra és a nyelv kontextusában rejtőznek. Az ilyen szövegek természetesen annál kevésbé fordíthatók, minél kevésbé honosak a forrásnyelv identitáshordozó elemei a célnyelvhez tartozó kultúrában. A fabularitásra építő és ezzel egy időben a kulturális „paranomázia” felé erőteljesen elmozduló szövegek esetében ugyanakkor a fordító minél otthonosabban mozog a forrásnyelvi kultúrában, annál erőteljesebben szembesül(het) a külső/idegen világ befogadásának lehetségességével, ám e tapasztalat egy másik nyelv szavaival történő visszaadásának lehetetlenségével is.

THE TERRITORIAL IDENTY OF LATGALE IN THE CROSSROADS OF GLOBALIZATION AND GLOCALIZATION

The aim of this paper is to analyze the processes of formation of Latgale’s territorial identity during the age of globalization in the last 20 years. Research was carried out using the latest data of qualitative research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of University of Latvia (the thematic research of Latvian Science Council’s project "Political development of the nation's self-confi dence after restoration of Latvian independence: Trends and Factors," head of project: Inese Runce, 2009-2012) and the latest theoretical insights of territorial identity construction processes under the impact of globalization and glocalization. On the basis of analysis of the socio-political processes and the experience of other countries, it must be emphasised that the placemaking is an important political process, not only at national but also at sub-regional level. Regional authorities should be able to offer a specifi c political vision, not only to the national power authorities, but also to the main bearers of regional identity - the people in regions. As it is shown by the recent studies, during the past 20 years in Latvia, the regional identity manifests itself only in Latgale where it is alive and vibrant, and the care and preservation and making of identity comes directly from the very bearers of this identity. Regional authorities, in collaboration with local NGOs, experts on culture, etc. must also contribute to the internal integration of the region, where each municipality and each form of local identity has its own recognized place and function, creating diverse forms of sustainable regional communities and regional identities. Regional identity is not exclusive and is able to unite different religious, ethnic, linguistic groups in a single whole entity. Over the past twenty years the process of formation of Latgale regional identity can be divided into three stages: 1. 90s of 20th century – the stage of denial of regional identity. In this decade the preservation and construction of Latgale regional identity is carried out only by few individuals or interest groups: writers, researchers, artists, local intellectuals who are mainly based in the circles of local intellectuals at Rezekne University College, as well as indirectly Latgale Research Institute of Daugavpils University; 2. The fi rst decade of 2000s - a gradual increase of awareness of regional identity. During the period this has been a gradual growth of awareness of regional identity and its development process. "Latgale radio”, Latgalian music groups are being launched, also the extensive scientific and political debate on the status of Latgale language started, socio-linguistic research projects initiated and a new non-governmental organizations established, the first portals in Latgalian as well the new initiative of regional municipalities are being launched; 3. 2010 to 2013 - analyzing the last three years of political and intellectual life trends, it can be argued that a qualitatively new stage in the recognition of regional identity and its construction process has been created: current political debate before and after the elections of 11th Saeima and the language referendum, discussions on the role of Latgalian as regional language, the National Development plan (NDP), development of the structural budget plans. However, it is clear that those spring sprouts must be protected, due to the fact that the strong centralizing tendencies in the Latvian political culture still exist.

Bodily Extremes: the Role of Corporeality in the Shaping of Early Modern European Culture and Epistemology

Daniel Cottom. Cannibals and Philosophers. Bodies of Enlightenment (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Pp. 272. $50.00. Andrew Curran. Sublime Disorder. Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2001). Pp. 171. £35.00. Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg, eds. Bodily Extremities. Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003). Pp. 235. $79.95. In recent years, the topic of corporeality has attracted wideattention spanningthe fields ofart, literature, cultural studies, history and philosophy. Studies in early modern Europe, and particularly in the Enlightenment, reflect this trend, forcingus to rethink many of our assumptions about the prevalence of the Cartesian tradition in Enlightenment thought. From various disciplinary vantage points and through the application of diverse methodological approaches,the three books reviewed here address the issue of the centrality of the body by focusing on its most extreme and unsettling expressions in early modern Europe (Egmond and Zwijnenberg), in the eighteenth century (Cottom) and more specifically in Diderot's work (Curran). Bodily Extremities is a collection of essays that attempts to give an interdisciplinary perspective on the cultural history of the human body in early modern Europe. As editors, Egmond and Zwijnenberg's stated goal is to avoid what they call "internalistic methodologies" that often characterize literary as well as art history studies and instead to foster,by crossing disciplinary boundaries, a reflection on these disciplinary categories themselves. As a result, the essays vary greatly in focus and methodology, yet all concentrate on bodily extremities with [End Page 323] four central themes connecting them: honor/shame, bodily integrity, identity, and pain. The volume includes several interesting articles, especially thoseby Daniela Bohde, Robert Zwijnenberg, Florike Egmond, Peter Mason and José Pardo Tomás. They warrant a closer look. Daniela Bohde's essay, "Skin and the Search for an Interior," concentrates on representations of flaying in the art and anatomy of the Cinquecento. Bohde examines several paintings and engravings representing the flaying of Marsyas. In doing so, she is able to very convincingly contrast Titian's painting (1570) with most other representations of the flaying, including Michelangelo's St Bartholemew from his Last Judgment (1534-41), that express a sixteenth-century conception of identity as covered or hidden by the skin which is considered a mere exterior. In opposition to that tradition, Titian represents the exterior and the interior as inextricably linked and skin as the bearer of identity and thus challenges the neo-platonic notion of self. But the most thought-provoking part of the essay resides in Bohde's interpretation of Titian's The Flaying of Marsyas as a representation of his very art of painting in layers, contradicting the disegno theory prevalent in his time. Thus "Titian pits not just two attitudes to the body against each other, but also two methods for producing art" (41). Like Bohde, Robert Zwijnenberg's reading of Leonardo da Vinci's late work, Saint John the Baptist, points to da Vinci's theory of the soul as inextricably linked to the body which is promoted to a position of prominence: "Painting is in the first place about expressing and evoking emotions, with the human body as its point of focus, and as its basis the tight relationship between soul and body, or inner and outer" (56). He argues that in this very controversial and ambiguous painting, Leonardo da Vinci experimented with the possibility of conflating a multiplicity of personae who exist in oppositional relationships, i.e., the triadJohn/Bacchus/Gabriel, or the man/woman dyad in the unity of one painted figure of the human body. Thus painting represented both the "borderless character of painting" and the "intellectual and artisanal experience of the self of the painter," making it into an "intellectual self-portrait" (67). Florike Egmond's historical essay, "Execution, Dissection, Pain and Infamy, A...