Era Of Man Research Articles

The Daap Sung Man

This essay is centered around my experiences with the daap sung man during my childhood: a food delivery service I depended on for routine and familiarity. My piece reflects on the loss of continuity and the overwhelming freedom of choice that came with the disappearance of the service that followed soon after as technology started developing and the service was eventually discontinued. The absence of the daap sung man followed my dependence on self-destructive habits for the familiarity of being a "prisoner" to routine. It also muses on the passing of time and how the daap sung man's era has now become a distant story of the past, but the comfort it once provided in a time where abuse was prevalent in my family would forever permeate my memories. *daap sung (or 搭餸), refers to door-to-door catering services, most commonly brought in tiffin carriers (gaa laam or 格篮 in Cantonese) as illustrated in this article. Please note that it is not a commonly used term in the Malaysian Chinese community but rather a unique term coined by my (the author’s) parents.

Ο χορός ως αντικείμενο επιστημονικής έρευνας και φιλοσοφίας. Προλεγόμενα

The art of dance is now studied in the sciences and philosophy. From the time of the ancient Greek thinkers to the modern era, dance has never ceased to be considered a way of expressing multiple potentialities of culture. The way that man danced in history is also a reflection on every era of man's relationship with nature, the universe and social structures.By selecting the most significant of all references to dance that the modern reader may encounter today, we locate the wealth and variety of information and approaches as well as the interdisciplinary nature of the studies provided. However, both the historical as well as the literary sources and the more recent ethnological and anthropological approaches do not cease to remain in an informational and encyclopedic field, without completing the theoretical explanation and understanding of the phenomenon unless and until specific philosophical questions are answered. These latter ones have to do with the identity of dance experience – based on data about the nature of learning, the relation of dance to language, science or sciences (history, philology, natural sciences), metaphysics and cosmology, the functionality and applicability of dance uses in society, religion and politics. Even the meaning of dance itself or the aesthetic principles as well as the moral and educational values of the ancient dance activity fall within traditional areas of philosophical contemplation or at least are not sufficiently systematized in the direction of methodical research unless they are subject to philosophical inquiry. We will focus on those facts which can show that orchesis/dance is treated by philosophy as an anthropological and at the same time cosmological concept referring to the relation of the human being to its inner psyche and to the environment. The "intelligence" of ancient Greek dance culture that has unfolded over many centuries, in various shapes and types of music poetry, but also with a rich social, educational and therapeutic functionality, is yet another discovery of the Greeks from their earliest history.

After the Anthropocene: the photographic for earthly survival?

ABSTRACTThis essay explores the relation between photography and future environments in the context of the Anthropocene. It is particularly concerned with the way in which Anthropocene debates highlight the following: climate change as a matter of human extinction and survival; agency as anthropos or Man and technology as problem and solution, cause and consequence of climate change (noting of course Heidegger’s critical reading of technology as the tool of man; its reduction to instrumental and anthropological uses). The essay contends that the Anthropocene, as the performatively named era of Man and his tools, is humanistic (with all of the normativity that this implies) and also that it frames the relation between photography and future environments in predictable cycles of extinction and survival, ends and beginnings that limit its potential for imagination and intervention. To what extent then, might a critical engagement with the Anthropocene help to liberate this potential and begin to outline a photographics for earthly survival?

Language of the Gothic Woman:Jane Campion's The Piano

Jane Campion’s 〈The Piano〉 is a well-known film for a number of reasons, such as for being an Oscar winner, for having been helmed by an emerging director from New Zealand, and for having the reputation of being a feminist film. In this paper, the first scene of 〈The Piano〉 was chosen to examine the heroine Ada’s language in terms of the gothic genre. Ada is a dumb woman who lives in the era of man’s language. She represents the women’s social position in the Victorian era but has her own and unique language for communicating with the outside world. The first scene of 〈The Piano〉 introduces Ada’s own language, using her fingers. Her fingers speak for her all the time instead of her mouth, and there is someone who can understand what she wants to say when all others cannot. How the film depicts Ada’s language and how the first scene well summarizes the film’s core are examined herein.

Text of the Proclamation of the State of Guinea-Bissau by the People's National Assembly

The current era of man's history is characterized by the struggle of peoples for their full emancipation from colonialism, imperialism, racism and all other forms of domination and oppression hampering human development and dignity, peace and progress.