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The Development Context of the Daily-use Ceramic Industry

Today, Chinas ceramic industry is mainly divided into two parts, one is a creative studio and a small characteristic factory, the other is a large daily ceramic industry and an enterprise that can represent the industry. This paper combs these two pieces from the ancient and modern time line, Chinese and foreign space line supplemented by cases to do some production and development of daily ceramics. By paying attention to the reasons for the rise of foreign ceramic brands, and then looking back at the shortcomings of their own brands, in order to understand and summarize the advantages and weaknesses of the development of ancient and modern daily ceramic industry in Chinese and foreign countries, self-innovation, deepen the core, reshaping the continuation of the glorious history of more than 2000 years and the world image of Chinese ceramics.

Image of Social World in Metaphors and Narratives of Adults

The image of the social world is a predictor of social behavior and its development during stable social transitivity, i.e., COVID-19 pandemic, economic crises, local military conflicts, etc. It can also be interpreted as a variable linguistic phenomenon. However, very little empirical research has featured its integral structural and content characteristics through the prism of narratives, metaphors, and social representations. The author used the methods of thematic narrative analysis and content analysis of metaphors to identify the narrative constructions used by adult subjects to describe their image of the social world. The data obtained were subjected to frequency analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis. The experiment involved 193 respondents aged 35–49 years old, employed in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. In their metaphors and narratives, they described the social world as balancing between stability and dynamism, predictability and stochasticity, as well as endowed it with differentiation in the absence of universal laws. The rationality of the metaphors reflected the age identity while the subject of biographical narratives reflected the subjective adaptation to current social processes.

Векторы социальной психологии: опережая время (к 100-летию со дня рождения Галины Михайловны Андреевой)

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Objective.</strong> Analysis of the main methodological and theoretical directions in social psychology developed by Professor Galina Mikhailovna Andreyeva, one of the founders of Russian social psychology; consideration of the key problems of modern social psychology. <br><strong>Background. </strong>The vectors of scientific knowledge identified by G.M. Andreyeva and the problems she developed in the field of social psychology have become general methodological principles in various fields of psychological science. Among them there are the problems of joint activity and communication, which have become the basis for the study of social groups and personality. A fundamental principle of the new paradigm of social psychology offered by G.M. Andreyeva, – the issues of the influence of the social context and the influence of social changes on the formation (construction) of a person's world image and his social behavior. Significant moments in the field of social cognition created by G.M. Andreyeva are highlighted. The potential of her main ideas in modern psychology is shown. The main biographical data of Galina Andreyeva are presented, showing her life path and significant for the creation of the G.M. Andreyeva School of Social Psychology at Moscow University. <br><strong>Methodology.</strong> The article uses methods of deductive analysis; methods of historical and psychological hermeneutics. <br><strong>Conclusions.</strong> The main scientific ideas of G.M. Andreeva not only became the theoretical and methodological basis for understanding and explaining the fundamental problems of socio-psychological knowledge, but also made a huge contribution to understanding the ongoing social changes.</p>

Vietnamese landscape from the French women’s perspective in Marguerite Duras’ novel

The paper analyzes the representation of the Vietnamese landscape in the novel of Marguerite Duras, especially from the perspective of the female character. The image of Vietnam through Duras’s work has not only common characteristics of the tropics but also unique, unmixed features, which are marked by places imprinted in the characters’ memories. From the perspective of the French female character, the Vietnamese landscape participates in the process of experiencing a foreign land as well as the process of inner discovery of the character. Identifying the typical hot climate of the tropics in Vietnam will provoke an exploration of the monotonous, stifling life of the French woman with the status of poor white people in the colony. Climate, land, water, flora and fauna, and architecture all carry memories. These memories evoke the image of a non-Western world that is constantly changing, filled with vitality.

One respiratory cycle as a minimum time unit for making behavioral decisions in the mammalian olfactory system.

Voluntary behaviors such as sniffing, moving, and eating require decision-making accompanied by intentional respiration. Based on the study of respiration-coherent activity of rodent olfactory networks, we infer that during the inhalation phase of respiration, olfactory cortical areas process environmental odor information and transmit it to the higher multisensory cognitive areas via feedforward pathways to comprehensively evaluate the surrounding situation. We also infer that during the exhalation phase, the higher multisensory areas generate cognitive-signals and transmit them not only to the behavioral output system but also back to the olfactory cortical areas. We presume that the cortical mechanism couples the intentional respiration with the voluntary behaviors. Thus, in one respiratory cycle, the mammalian brain may transmit and process sensory information to cognize and evaluate the multisensory image of the external world, leading to one behavioral decision and one emotional expression. In this perspective article, we propose that one respiratory cycle provides a minimum time unit for decision making during wakefulness.

ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКИЕ РЕСУРСЫ КАК БЕЗУСЛОВНАЯ ЦЕННОСТЬ И ФАКТОР РАЗВИТИЯ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ: СОЦИАЛЬНО-ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ</original_la <!-- ============== --> <journal_article publication_type='full_text'> <titles> <title>THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN CINEMA</title> <original_language_title>ОБРАЗ ЖЕНЩИНЫ В РОССИЙСКОМ И АМЕРИКАНСКОМ КИНО

The article presents a comparative analysis of the image of a woman in the popular (that is, the most popular by the mass audience) Russian and American cinema. The special role of cinema in the construction, reflection and enhancement of images of the gender world, the creation of a range of possible choices of socially acceptable behavior of women in various social systems is noted. The main research method is content analysis. The significant variability of the representation of the image of a woman in both domestic and American cinema is shown, which is associated with the transformation of traditional ideas about the role of women in society. Thus, the image of the wife is represented only in every fourth film, and the representation of the image of the mother differs statistically insignificantly from the representation of the roles of a lover, a single woman, a criminal and a woman playing a male role. There is a difference in the subject field of the study, expressed in the fact that in American cinema a woman is more often represented in the traditional role of a wife, but also in the role of a criminal and a superhero, and in domestic cinema - in the image of a lover, a single woman and a careerist.

A novel statistical information separation technique from real world images

A novel statistical information separation technique from real world images

帝国主義下のマッドサイエンス――蘭郁二郎「宇宙爆撃」試論―― Mad-Science under Imperialism: Ran Ikujirō’s “Space Bombing”

This paper discusses the critiques of the imperial world image in Ikujirō Ran’s unpublished work Space Bombing. In this work, the researcher Murao, who works at the Borneo branch of the Institute of Magnetics, studies a “microscopic world” in which microscopic humans live in an atomic structure. He falls into the delusion that there are a minimal world within the atomic structure and a larger world where Earth is considered as a single atom. This paper argues that Murao’s perception was based on the scientific knowledge of the scientist Hantarō Nagaoka. The cosmology reflects the wartime image of the world, and we argue that the larger world implies the Western world, the human world implies Japan, and the minimal world implies the colonial world. Moreover, we suggest that Murao’s mad science indicates that the imperial world's configuration is not an absolute domination vs.no-domination relationship, but merely a relative relationship, and that the clashes between civilizations are able to be interpreted as insane.

SELF-IDENTIFICATION OF THE PERSONALITY WITHIN THE EXISTENTIAL DISCOURSE OF JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

In this article, the subject is considered by the author not as a static object, but as a «project», which is in a state of constant becoming. During the study were obtained the following conclusions: firstly, it was emphasized, that a subject has no predefined essence and that his existence precedes any design or plan. Secondly, it is detected, that a subject constructs its identity not through random circumstances or predefined restrictions of the external world, but through the carried-out choices and own deeds and actions, which manifested in the world. Thirdly, it is installed, that а subject is forced to accept its individual freedom even, if it contradicts his desires or expectations of other people. Fourthly, it is substantiated, that the process of self-identification can be dramatic, as it requires the subject to gap with usual stereotypes and expectations, and also acceptance own individuality and responsibility for its actions. Fifthly, it is accented, that the process of self-identification of a personality involves disclosure and cognition of the essence own «Ego», as a unique and integral structure, which is manifested in the subject’s ability to self-creation, self-fulfillment and self-improvement and in his real possibility to form an image of the future world. Sixthly, it is determined, that absolute freedom for the subject turns into a necessity, which prompts his to responsibility for its existence, choice, actions and deeds. Seventhly, it is allocated, that the subject denies social and moral-religious attitudes to free themselves from external influence, that impede his freedom of choice, which is a reflection of his subjective attitude to any situation. That is in this case we can say that the subject, creating its reality, does not rely on external authority, the existence of which is questionable in the world and is repelled only on subjective choice.

The governance architecture of transnational labor regulation

ABSTRACT Working conditions in a global context reveal a dramatic reality for workers in the Global South. In conjunction with the prevailing process of capital accumulation and economic growth and the new forms of poverty that accompany it, some contributions generate the image of an unregulated world of labor relations and a powerless workforce. Either the weaknesses and gaps in cross-border labor regulation are used to outline an almost insoluble problem, or a return to the salvation of the nation state is called for. The reaction to this view often leads to an exchange of blows and results in a dichotomous debate. Instead, this article sheds light on the historical complexities of national to transnational labor regulation, from the establishment of the first international trade union secretariats to modern multi-stakeholder agreements. Based on a historical analysis, this article argues that a gradual institutionalization can be observed over 130 years, while revealing a complex transnational regime-like governance architecture. Drawing on the Ecology approach, a framework is developed to capture this complex structure. It is shown that, despite the expansion of governance structures, there is a lack of legitimized control, sanction and enforcement mechanisms to comprehensively counteract labor rights violations.

Communication with the Deceased in Dreams: Overcoming the Boundary between This World and the Otherworld or Its Conceptualization Strategy?

Starting from the concept of death in contemporary Serbian culture (in the context of thanatological and anthropological studies), the author focuses on the analysis of communication with the deceased in dreams, which is still perceived as an important form of contact with the otherworldly. The analysis of material collected during field research at various locations in Serbia and in Serbian communities in Romania (from 2017 to 2024), supplemented by dream narratives from the internet, has shown that based on the main messages conveyed by the deceased to the living, dreams can be divided into: (1) dreams about “the unappeased deceased” (who lack something in the otherworld, usually due to an omission by the living related to funerary rituals); (2) dreams in which the deceased show the otherworld and provide verbal assessments of it; (3) dreams in which the deceased inform of their departure or final passing into the world of the dead; (4) dreams in which the deceased demonstrate their presence in the world of the living, i.e., providing information pertaining to the sphere of the dreamer’s social reality; (5) dreams in which the deceased convey their messages, advice or warnings to the living; and (6) dreams interpreted as the deceased person’s call to the dreamer to join them in the otherworld. Basic element analysis of the spatial world image, projected via the dream, highlights the importance of the locus perceived as a border space. Dreams about the deceased seem to be ambivalent in this respect, given that, on the one hand, they are perceived as an important means of communication between this world and the otherworld, and on the other hand, through the ideas on which they are founded and that they further transmit, they are also part of the narrative strategies of the boundary between this concept of two worlds.

THE AUTHOR’S INTERTEXTUAL AND TRANSLATION SECONDARY OUTSIDENESS

Following the theory of the author’s outsideness of M.M. Bakhtin, the author of the article proposes to single out two types of the author’s secondary outsideness: intertextual and translational. Secondary outsideness is the departure of the author from a foreign artistic world. The author first plunges into another artistic being, and then leaves it. Intertextual secondary outsideness (transgredient) is the author’s departure from the depicted real life and his/her resistance, in the creative process, to the artistic world of another author as a world image, the pacification of this influencing world, in which s/he has gotten involved through his/her interest in it, by weakening his/her identity in it. Translational secondary outsideness (transgredient) is the departure of the author-translator with his/her own poetics from both the artistic being of the original and the reality behind it, recreating the identity of the original author on a foreign language soil with the help of a language equivalent in order to create a flickering text as “one’s own”/“alien”. The analysis of the author’s secondary outsideness allows one to reach the level of authenticity of the artistic world created under the influence of another, to see the author’s resistance to another artistic world or his/her dissolution in it.

Hybrid identity and the image of the native land in Kazakhstan Russian language poetry

The article is devoted to the problem of the world image in the poetry of modern Kazakhstan Russian-speaking poets. This problem is closely related to the authors’ self-identity. The Russian language is chosen by authors of various ethnicities: Russians, Kazakhs and Poles. Kazakhstan has historically developed as a multi-ethnic region; in post-Soviet times, Russian is largely preserved as a language of interethnic communication. The article identifies and analyses the following components that make up the hybrid identity of Russian-speaking authors: their memory of ethnic roots, sociocultural identity, regional identity and civic identity. It is shown that such features as transborderness and transculturation, characteristic of the “nomadic” subject of modern poetry, fully correspond to the type of nomadic culture that has long been established on the territory of the Great Steppe. Hybrid identity in the poetry of Kazakhstan Russian-speaking authors determines its polysubjectivity, interaction of voices and dialogue among speech zones of different subjects, giving rise to the effect of the lyrical poetry “romanization”, which affects the prosaization of the verse form. Of the genre varieties, the most characteristic one is the form of poetic conversation. A striking feature of this poetry is the lyrical hero’s self-irony and the active use of intertextuality. Different components found in the authors’ inner self does not as much create a conflict situation as it allows them to avoid thinking in rigid binary oppositions, without removing a critical view of both today’s Kazakhstan and Russia.

Social Sciences (Miscellaneous): Categories of Morality and Ethics in Modern Dominant Socio-Philosophical Concepts

Annotation. This article is devoted to the analysis of the categories of morality and ethics in the modern socio-philosophical concepts dominating in the world. The work provides a comprehensive analysis of the concepts of "morality" and "ethics" as socio-philosophical categories and as phenomena of social reality. In particular, morality in the work is understood as a set of ideas accepted in a particular society (which can be formalized in the form of regulations, legal customs and judicial precedents, or reflected in traditions, folklore, linguistic culture and other stable forms of social communication) about possible and acceptable boundaries of human behavior and his relationship to the surrounding reality (primarily society, man and nature), through the prism of which a person manifests himself as a thinking being with freedom of internal choice. In turn, ethics in work is understood as the internal side of morality, which is formed in a person in the process of interiorization of his psyche, which is a set of ideas conscious and accepted by a given person about the possible and acceptable boundaries of his behavior, as well as about his relationship to the surrounding reality (material and the immaterial world). The article substantiates the concept of a dominant socio-philosophical concept and provides a system of features identifying it. The authors analyze current trends in the positioning of the concepts of "morality" and "ethics" in the main socio-philosophical concepts dominant in the modern world: neoliberalism; neoconservatism; liberalism; conservatism; neo-anarchism; neo-marxism; marxism (proletarian internationalism); anti-globalism; alter-globalism; global constitutionalism; Islamic radical fundamentalism; Shiism; Sunnism, traditional and Orthodox Judaism, Chabadism. The work substantiates the position that the processes of globalization, which currently cover all of humanity, lead to an extremely negative tendency to smooth out contradictions regarding the ideas of the dominant socio-philosophical concepts on the model of man within their framework, one of the typifying features of which is the formation in human society of a new morality (an anti-moral person), whose behavior and attitude to the surrounding reality is increasingly determined by the system of his desires and needs, which, in turn, are increasingly formed in a manipulative manner by the global managing elites represented by the global managing class, without having any relation to the real needs of both individual citizens and society as a whole, ensuring their preservation and full development as rational, self-aware and free individuals.

RON‐based cross‐chain routing optimization strategy in metaverse

AbstractMetaverse is a new ecology that integrates the digital world with the physical world, generates a mirror image of the real world based on digital twin technology, and guarantees the fairness of the virtual world through the trusted mechanism of blockchain. Cross‐chain communication technology is the key to realizing data circulation and collaborative processing between blockchains, which provides the communication foundation for the massive connection of blockchains in the metaverse. The current cross‐chain communication mode is dominated by direct‐connect routing, leading to network congestion and high propagation delay once the direct‐connect link fails and cannot be recovered quickly. To optimize direct‐connect routing, this paper proposed a cross‐chain routing optimization strategy based on RON (Resilient Overlay Network), that is, Cross‐Chain_RON, which firstly applies RON to reconstruct the direct‐connect routing model, and then selects the optimal link through the shortest‐path algorithm and policy routing, and combines with the RON performance database to improve the data transmission efficiency. Finally, the two communication modes were simulated by simulation tools. The experiments show that Cross‐Chain_RON outperforms the direct‐connect routing in terms of latency, rate of successful data transmission, and throughput in poor network environments, but at the expense of a certain amount of system overhead.

UNDERSTANDING ASSOCIATIVE PORTRAITS IN LINGUISTICS: CONCEPT AND CORE PRINCIPLES

In recent years, one of the most pressing issues in linguistics has been the determination of the linguistic landscape image of the external world as perceived by language speakers. This endeavour is primarily pursued through associative experiments conducted collectively among speakers of a language. Such experiments aim to uncover how individuals mentally map and interpret the world around them through language. A crucial aspect of this research involves creating associative portraits of notable individuals within society. These portraits help in understanding how famous people are collectively perceived and represented linguistically by different groups of speakers. In this context, the current article delves into the problem of studying associative portraits within the field of linguistics. It explores the methodologies used in these associative experiments, discusses the importance of these portraits in capturing societal perceptions, and elucidates the underlying linguistic principles that define the concept of the associative portrait. By doing so, the article aims to reveal the linguistic essence of associative portraits, offering insights into how language shapes and reflects our understanding of prominent figures in society.

Spinoza’s Doctrine of Affect in Cultural-Historical Psychology

Spinoza regarded life as an active play of affects, and human freedom as the taming of passions by means of the concepts of reason. Following him, Lev Vygotsky treats affect as the alpha and omega of mental development. The key theme of Vygotsky’s last manuscripts is the same as in Spinoza’s The Ethics: man’s path to freedom via the reasonable mastery of his affects. Vygotsky defines freedom as the affect in the concept; in the last years of his life, he investigated the processes of synthesis of emotional and intellectual forms in the child’s psychical development. Following Spinoza, Vygotsky defines affect as a dynamogenic state of the body, increasing or decreasing its capacity for action. Thus, affect acts as the intrinsic driving force behind the behaviour of all living beings. In the Spinozist view, psychology is the science about production of affects in the process of object-oriented activity and about exchange of affects in the process of communication of living beings. Vygotsky did not have time to carry out his project of the new psychology of man, and his successors refused or failed to continue this work. Aleksey Leontiev, Vygotsky’s closest disciple and associate, denounced his turn to Spinoza and returned to the phenomenological treatment of affect as a form of experiencing activity. As a consequence, Vygotsky’s problem of the relation between affect and intellect proved to be unsolvable. The philosopher Evald Ilyenkov, who adhered to the Vygotsky school, linked the beginning of psychical activity to the formation of images of the external world, losing sight of affect and, thus, of the problem of freedom as understood by Spinoza. Resuming Vygotsky’s apex psychological project and studying the evolution of the psyche, based on the concept of freedom as the active mastery of human affects and communication relationships, form two growth points of cultural-historical psychology.

Профессиональный образ мира GI в зеркале креолизованного текста (на материале английского языка)

The paper analyses GI’s professional world image. The primary focus is on the axiosphere as manifested in the US military community’s sublanguage. The study centers on the grapheme-iconic modalities through which social stereotypes are expressed within creolised texts. The study’s central objective is to substantiate the hypothesis that the nonconformity inherent in the distinctive substandard linguistic phenomena of the military sublanguage constitutes a form of socially sanctioned, legitimised dissent. This research is aimed at empirically discovering social stereotypes embedded in the vernacular of informal communicative practices. The scholastic novelty of the study resides in the author’s interpretative analysis and categorisation of the social stereotypes encoded in polycode texts. The findings reveal that the informal register of the military sublanguage encapsulates not only the value orientations intrinsic to the institution but also delineates the contentious facets of military service. These facets frequently lurk in obscurity, misaligned with the overarching official narrative. Six thematic categories have been discerned, elucidating the veracities of military life, prototypical characterisations, societal challenges faced by service members, the cultural rift between military personnel and civilians (military-civilian gap), entrenched gender stereotypes, and various elements of the “camouflaged” societal framework. This research offers an inaugural attempt to decode the GI professional world through the lens of stereotypes, drawing upon an array of specialised creolised texts.

THE METAMODERN CONTEXT OF NARRATIVE STRATEGIES IN M. ZUZAK'S NOVEL "THE BOOK THIEF"

The article examines the narrative strategies of Markus Zuzak's novel "The Book Thief" from the perspective of metamodern aesthetics and the concept of metaxis. The article outlines the modern trends in the development of literary studies, which actualizes the problems of narratology at all functioning levels in the image of the human world, which draws special attention to the question of implementation forms and living of the narrative within the limits of the artistic work as a functional system that has signs of closure and openness. By narrative strategy, we mean a way of representing the artistic world of the text, characters, and the author, which is unique for a certain work of art, which is carried out through the mediation of the narrator. The narrative strategy in the paradigmatic (narrative as a variant of the narrative strategy of the text in the body of culture) and syntagmatic (narrative as a way of interaction between the narrative and the plot) dimensions of the work is also considered. The following aspects (or separate strategies) are distinguished in the novel's narrative strategy: the communicative one, which captures the peculiarities of communication as an interaction of the structural elements of the narrative and narrative instances; the event, which records the event as external or internal to the plot, the movement of the characters and their interaction, the visual and phenomenological aspect of the event, signs of heterogeneity, chronotypicality, intelligibility, factuality are also outlined; temporal, which examines the narrative from the point of view of its temporal regime; fictional, which considers the relationship between the reality of the text system and the environment (reality, culture) in which it is located; aesthetic, which captures the peculiarities of the aesthetic reception of the work in combination with its substantive and formal components; metanarrative, which considers the narrative as the subject of the next narrative, and performative, which interprets the forms of correlation and identification of speech and action in the narrative.

“Sirens” by Joyce and the Joys of Sirin: Lilac, Sounds, Temptations

The article is devoted to the musical context of the works of James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov. Joyce’s Ulysses, one of the most important literary texts of the twentieth century, is filled with musical allusions and various musical techniques. The chapter “Sirens” is the most interesting in this context as it features a “musical” form and contains a large number of musical quotations. The myth of the singing sirens, recreated by Joyce in images and characters from the modern world, encapsulates the idea of erotic seduction, bringing threat and doom to the seduced. Joyce offers a new version of the sea world filled with music, creating a system of musical leitmotifs and lexical patterns within the text. Developing the themes of temptation, the danger that temptation entails, doom, uniting with the vital forces of the world, and loneliness, Joyce in “Sirens” reveals the semantics of music, showing the specific nature of its effect on listeners. Vladimir Nabokov, who praised Ulysses and devoted a lecture to “Sirens”, is much less musical than Joyce. However, he, like Joyce, also refers to the images of singing sirens and the accompanying images of the aquatic world. One of the central, meaning-making signs in his work is the “Sirin complex”, his pseudonym. This sign, which refers to a large number of pretexts, refers in particular to the lilac (siren’) and to the mythological “musical” sirens. As in Joyce’s work, sirens are present in his texts as mermaids and naiads, or as figures of seducers who fulfil their function and bring doom. Joyce and Nabokov are also united by the presence of recurrent leitmotifs, lexical patterns, and the presence of auditory impressions in their text that are evoked by the sound of the everyday world.