Cultural Climate Change Research Articles

Media Ecology and Cultural Climate Change

Research Article| March 01 2020 Media Ecology and Cultural Climate Change: A Weekend with the Videofreex Liz Flyntz Liz Flyntz Liz Flyntz is a curator, writer, artist, and information architect. She's currently researching the history and future of food system collapse at the Prelinger Archives. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2020) 47 (1): 19–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.471005 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Liz Flyntz; Media Ecology and Cultural Climate Change: A Weekend with the Videofreex. Afterimage 1 March 2020; 47 (1): 19–33. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.471005 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search In 1971 a group of young radicals moved out of their SoHo loft and to Maple Tree Farm, a rambling 27-room boarding house in Lanesville, a tiny town in Upstate New York. They called themselves the Videofreex, and they operated as a collective, collaborative media-production unit. Two years before this exodus from New York City, in 1969, two future Freex, David Cort and Parry Teasdale, met at the Woodstock Music Festival. They immediately recognized each other as fellow travelers by virtue of the 19 fact that they both had early video cameras. While living in the loft, rented by Videofreex Mary Curtis Ratcliff, the group had been hosting parties and video screenings where they would play back video to each other or an array of amazed audience members. They also managed to be hired by CBS to make a “youth culture” TV magazine series pilot titled Subject to Change (1969).... You do not currently have access to this content.

Cultural climate change

The cultural climate in the last year has changed globally with potential significance for stability. Unless politicians, defence forces and ministries learn to monitor cultural tensions as effectively as environmental ones, they will constantly find themselves surprised. Failing security is a symptom, not a cause, of social and political unrest. In much the same way the current rush to religion is symptomatic of the battle between conservative and liberal agendas, with conservative forces summoning renewed religious zeal to redefine identity and counteract freedom of movement, behaviour, expression and belief. It is a battle liberal thinkers cannot afford to lose.

Evolutionary aspects of Silvano Arieti's work.

I would like to say a few personal words before beginning this article. I was a pupil of Arieti's in New York in 1963-1964, and then, for several years, together with my wife, I translated most of his books into Italian, in close cooperation with the author. Arieti was eager for his writings to be known in his country of origin. I met Arieti through Pier Francesco Galli and the "Milanese Group for the Development of Psychotherapy," which Galli had founded and directed. At the beginning of the 1960s, this group introduced the psychotherapy of psychoses into Italy through the translation of books and the personal presence of Benedetti and Arieti--two leaders in this area who originated from Italy. I would like Dr. Galli's merits to be acknowledged in this meeting. He made an essential cultural contribution, which initially--with some exceptions--was met with hostility by Italian psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Also thanks to his initiative, the cultural climate has changed since then. The presence at this meeting not only of representatives of psychiatry and of the traditional psychoanalytic schools, but also of OPIFER, a group of independent analysts that follow the model of Arieti's American Academy, is a testimony to this change. By inviting these various groups, the organizers of the meeting have recognized this change in cultural climate.

British women writers, 1700-1850: an annotated bibliography of their works and works about them

Interest in works written by women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is growing. Many of these works are now being reprinted and studied in literature courses as well as women's studies courses. British Women Writers, 1700-1850 serves as a guide to these authors, their works, and the writing about them. It mentions accessible editions of the works, recent bibliographies of the authors and scholarship on these writers and their works. Topical chapters and subheadings help the researcher in his or her study. They include outlines of political and literary events in England from 1700 to 1850; discussions of the change in cultural climate from the wit, satire, and intellectualism of the Neoclassic Age through the philanthropists of the Victorian Age; the tension between self-expression and the culture's insistence that such self-expression was unseemly in a woman; discussions of current criticism of women's novels, poetry, drama, and other writing with a descriptive bibliography of the most helpful works; and biographical information for individual women authors, born after 1700 in Great Britain, whose most significant work was done by 1850. Subject and author indexes complete the book.

From production to nurturing: Hollingworth and parental perspectives today

Fifty years after her death Leta Hollingworth is still among the most important advocates for highly gifted children. Her book Children Above 180 IQ is one of the few resources that can be offered to parents of the highly gifted as they cope with the problems of rearing these unusual children. Her observations, suggestions, and educational and parenting advice still have great value. But, thanks in part to a change in cultural climate and in part to the ideas she and her colleagues expounded, parents need to be aware not only of the help she can offer but also of the negativity they may encounter in attempting to implement her ideas.