Life In World Research Articles

The Self-Selfness of Vasiliy Rozanov

Our approach bases on the explication of Rosanov’s creativity as the special intention, that implements the unspeakable Self-Selfness of Vasiliy Rosanov. The ineffability of Self-Selfness can be dialectical expressed by Rosanov through phenomena, of that consists the Rosanov’s world. This ineffability actualizes by Rosanov by means of understanding as a filled emptiness, that determinates the specialties and the structure of the understood objects. The exposition of this emptiness conditions the antinomies of Rosanov’s creativity: one sides is understanding by Rosanov the closed world, other sides it corresponds with the world of things. Rosanov mythically fills the void, using the intimate personal contact with the things. We consider the creativity of Rosanov as the synthesis of both this global directions of Rosanov’s theory: the vision of understanding through things, this vision causes the special perception of things by Rosanov. The things are by Rosanov neither material objects, nor the ideal essences. This are by Rosanov the givens, inherent to the understanding. At the same time Rosanov examines the things through understanding, including it with help of the carnivalisation in his own special world. This method defines in our opinion style and content of Rosanov’s works. The thinker realizes by means of the carnivalisation the understanding, according to the concrete things, creating the special world of life (reality). For Rosanov this world is the second world.

The aesthetic of nomadism and the logic of perception in creative action (Recurrences in the geographies of the sensed)

The artwork was born from the womb of flat surfaces that have neither specific direction nor destination. It emanates from infinite chaotic surfaces, overlapping and contradicting, intertwining and entwining vertically and horizontally in ways that are not subject to logical geometrical norms. Despite all the chaos and emptiness, existence remains steadfast in its elements and its primitive colors because of its interchangeable event. Art does not differ from nature. Perception brings them together in a mixture of colors on the surface of the painting. The artist transfers his infinite perceptions to an expression of what draws man to the world to endless ideas and sensations expressing the instinctive inattentiveness of existence. As it is an artistic event multiplying the desire to seek victory in the world and belief in life in its diversity, dissonance, and multiplicity. It validates life against death, consolidates fun, and exalts joy and forces of nature against transcendence and divine ethics.

(Vaka)Vanua as Weakness, (Vaka)Vanua as Strength: Reflections on Fijian Sociality in Urban and Migrant Environments

ABSTRACT Fiji Islander sociality has long been characterised by high levels of diversity as well as interwoven categories of (self-)inclusion and (self-)exclusion and is increasingly shaped by urbanism and transborder mobility. This article focuses on how Fijians in town and abroad constitute self and belonging between vanua, ‘land’, and vakavanua, ‘tradition’, on the one hand, and the urban and migrant life worlds they inhabit, on the other. Being conceptually framed as a discussion piece and drawing on ethnographic research in urban Fiji as well as among the Fiji diaspora in Japan and Australia, this article takes a cross-comparative approach. It sheds light on the ongoing engagement among Fijian professionals with (vaka)vanua despite its relative absence as a tangible factor in their daily lives. Focusing on the dynamic undercurrents of (vaka)vanua and its social and political meanings from the perspective of three different research trajectories and settings, the discussion reveals that being Fijian in today's world engenders new engagements with ‘land’ and ‘tradition’ in manifold and challenging ways.

Interaksi Sosial antara Remaja Muslim dan Kristiani di Kelurahan Sei Sikambing B Medan

Christians in the Village of Sei Sikambing B Medan. Adolescence is a period of transition from childhood to adulthood. Social interaction during adolescence is very important, because there are many developmental prerequisites that must be met during this period, namely physical development, psychological development, and especially social development. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach. The phenomenological approach is related to the understanding of everyday life and the intersubjective world (life world) of participants. Phenomenological research tries to explain or reveal the meaning of concepts or phenomena based on the awareness of experiences that occur in several individuals. In this research the instruments used are observation, interviews and documentation. Then the data were analyzed with qualitative research analysis. The results of the study show that the form of social interaction between Muslim and Christian adolescents leads to an associative process characterized by positive forms of social interaction that lead to a state of harmony and social unity.

Rethinking pedagogy through storytelling in school mathematics

This article focuses on storytelling as an alternative innovative pedagogical approach to teaching mathematics in response to a discipline-based pedagogy in the context of Nepali Mathematics Education. In Nepal (probably worldwide), mathematics teachers rarely teach mathematics for creating mathematics. Instead, they focus on teaching the steps to repeat someone else's creation without exploring how mathematics relates to students' life worlds. As a result, students feel mathematics as a dry subject, mathematics teachers as apathetic human beings and mathematics classrooms as a boring factory of producing passive learners. In this context, this paper explores how storytelling may become one of the many innovative mathematics pedagogies and help mathematics teachers rethink their pedagogical practices for teaching mathematics joyfully and meaningfully. We used autoethnography as a research methodology that portrayed the narratives of the first author extracted from his MPhil research based on storytelling pedagogy and the narratives of the second author based on his experiences of teaching the course at the post-graduate level and conducting teacher professional development training across Nepal. The research inquiry explored the connections of mathematics with students' life worlds through storytelling as a pedagogical approach.

Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process

ABSTRACT We situate this paper within the geographies of policy, and we draw from the Discipline of Planning to conceptualize policy analysis as a communicative act. Blending such ideas with geographical concepts leads us to a place ontology, which recognizes that the policymaker’s life world is rooted in place and thus influences how that person makes professional decisions. We explore these concepts via in-depth, in-person interviews with 15 non-profit/community stakeholders in an exceptionally poor and environmentally distressed community in Philadelphia (USA). Our data provide insight into a subset of the policy-making community, while our results advance understanding of how policy analysis is conducted. This paper demonstrates that the current public policy process ignores an important feature of analysis (i.e., place ontology) – especially when studying a distressed community for which existing methods of analysis may be poorly suited – while simultaneously providing guidance on how to correct this deficiency.

Non-Normality as a Drive for Change An Overview of Systemic Processes

this paper moves from the multifaceted frame of ‘normality' to inquiry how the processes of change work in case of perturbations. The aim is not simply to investigate the opaque region of the world of life that belongs to metamorphosis but to reflect on the possibility to move further obsolete paradigms about what is normal/abnormal/pathological. Through several forms of normalities that result from processes that follow shocking events (social emergencies, severe diagnoses and chronic diseases) the author will highlight the dynamic texture of normality and the transformative power of non-normality. Normality in case of perturbation results not from the limit of the norm, but from the constant effort to re-modulate it. Furthermore, it will be argued that new normalities originate from a process of renormalization, a dynamic which refers to a relation of scale. Deeply intertwined with change, the dy- namic texture of normality cannot be detected by the observer. For a valuable understanding of the opaque region of transformation, it ought to investigate through the lenses of systemic thinking. This approach brings into light two main phases, which are the breaking of a previous balance and the emer- gence of novel, unpredictable conditions. A special concern is addressed to post-traumatic creativity: it will be possible to assume that creativity can be recognized as the capacity to grasp and institute new relations. Finally, it will be questioned whether the term normality in the discourse about health can be substituted by another one, which can better fit the trans- formative power of non-normality and can put into brackets any moral as- sessment of the pathological/abnormal condition of the person. It will be con- cluded that it is not only possible, but also highly recommended in a frame where disease and health can be understood in relation to the harmonic inte- gration among parts and levels.

Pogranichnaya poeziya imperatora dinastii Tan Taj-czuna

Frontier poetry is the specific literature of the Tang Dynasty era. It tells about military campaigns against the enemies of China. It depicts the whole life world of the defenders of the country, for instance their exploits and everyday life, everyday features, feelings and emotions. A characteristic feature of this poetry is the borrowing of facts and plots from historical writings about the past of the empire to describe the events of the Tang time proper. All these characteristic features of frontier poetry are analyzed on the example of the poem of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

Fanaticism and E. M. Cioran’s “Lyrical Leprosy”

People harass people to defend and promote their fundamental beliefs, political ideologies, religious dogmas, and the Truth. They create these with marvelous lucidity and unnerving verve, spreading, guarding, and enforcing their convictions. Fanatical ideologies penetrate and pollute our life world like “lyrical leprosy”. We need a coping strategy. Conformists may want to go along and join the perpetrators, whomever they happen to be. Activists fight ideological pollution, a risky strategy. Indifference and apathy do not pollute others and are less dangerous than rebelling. Following E. M. Cioran, I discuss three defensive strategies: those of a skeptic, an idler, and an aesthete. I reject trivializing the third strategy; instead, I discuss an ironist’s options. A recommendable route to indifference is to read the Truth metaphorically and ironize it. This voids its contents, and the result is adiaphora. We can also start with irony and metaphorize it. Such linguistic–aesthetic methods thwart the viperous dogmas that otherwise harass us from the cradle to the grave. The Truth is a treacherous construct. How to avoid it? How to deflect ideologically motivated terror?

THE IDEA OF THE WORLD AS TOLERATING UNCERTAINTY

In the modern world of total technologization, scientific knowledge devoid of worldview correction (humanitarian expertise) carries a threatening tendency of self-denial: without a constant, philosophically correct transformation of objective knowledge about certain fragments (branches) of the surrounding reality into human knowledge (questions) about itself, the practical effectiveness of such knowledge inevitably accumulates in itself the threat of practical helplessness. Aim and the tasks of the research. Based on an in-depth analysis of the category of existence, as well as on modern philosophical reflections on the methodological and cognitive insolvency of the idea of the world, to find out the real meaning of those changes that this idea meaningfully undergoes in the conditions of the modern total technologization of human life. The research methodology. From a methodological point of view, the author prefers a dialectical approach, considering the analyzed phenomena, regardless of the mode of their reality, in their development and internally contradictory essence. H. Plesner’s theory of eccentric positionality serves as a certain base point for the analysis of human nature and, accordingly, the world of human existence. Research results: The problematic existence of the world and the epistemological «failure» of the corresponding category, declared in some modern philosophical reflections, are connected exclusively with its anthropological and worldview function, which is based on the fundamental uncertainty of a man’s place in the world. The «worthlessness» («futility») of worldview thematization is derived from the allencompassing inability of the human figure in the world, from that «emptiness» and «invisibility» (specific own transparency) of the spiritual dimension of human existence, on which, however, this existence is based. Discussion. The human «option» of fulfilling the unity of living being can be characterized as extremely intense. In this variant, the phylogenetic line of development turns into an ontogenetic point of worldliness devoid of predetermined content, a fundamentally new type of integration. The horizons of such integration far exceed primarily because of its understanding. And the subject of such a meaningful life is forced to integrate everything that happens to him every time into a certain system (synthesis) of the world. That subjectivity the world has distinguishes the subject from the thing. Subjectivity and the world mutually belong to each other - they are correlative. A thing exists because it is what it is. The subject (and with it his world) does not exist like that. A subject is how and to what it relates. But the relation «how» and «to what» is not carried out completely anew and isolated every time, but exists in its multiplicity in a certain relationship. Each individual case, each individual action (method of action) acquires its meaning from a wider, structured context – in whole or in part. This context is the «world», the «life world» of the real subject, or the «world» as an anthropological idea. Conclusions. The task of modern humanitarianism is not only to find opportunities for rational use of the fact of the fundamental openness of the human being, but also to cultivate the ability to reconcile a man with himself, to accept himself. This gives us certain reasons to hope for the enduring significance of worldview thematization. Criticism regarding the seemingly paradoxical conclusion that to become a man, one must already be one, could be considered fair, but only if one does not take into account the principled nature of such an aphoristic position, because this is exactly how the human world exists - as the art of tolerance uncertainty.

Revolutionary possibilities of love in a time of disaster, decolonisation, and diffraction

AbstractRepresentations of love appear across many disciplines and discursive fields that are and should be in conversation with geography. It is imperative that geographers engage in formidable but worthy tasks to distil diverse renderings of love into the regenerative interventions we urgently need. Those interventions require geographically minded interpretations of love to drive radical research, pedagogies, policies, and practices in ways that have direct and indirect effects across the life course and life worlds. Such labours are mediated by state and law, by intersectional relations, or by neuroscience, and involve asking how love underwrites critical infrastructures—of place (making), care and entanglements, colonialism, and human‐nature relations in the Anthropocene and posthuman—that lead to the flourishing futures we seek. Rich geographical studies oriented to those tasks still face charges of flattening difference. This commentary picks up one aspect of this agenda: a blind spot in geographical research relating to the ethical imperative to love based on benevolence. Instead, I champion the revolutionary possibilities for geography to inform policies, pedagogies, and practices by using a love based on alterity aligned with social weight, reasserting accessible science as an effective driver of social and system transformative changes. Specifically, I argue for a regenerative socio‐political analytic of love in a time of disaster, decolonisation, and diffraction.

Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey

AbstractThis ethnographic study reveals how young people become environmentally aware citizens. The study traces the lived worlds of early youth in Turkey by focusing on their environmental experiences and by problematising climate change and consumerism. Through online mapping activities and in‐depth interviews, the applied geo‐social methodology explores the social, spatial and political subjectivities of 21 young people from different parts of Turkey, elucidating their developing environmental agencies. This article further argues how these subjectivities are contextual to the intersectional aspects of environmental socialisation. The results provide youthful insights into today's authoritarian Turkey, which is facing an economic recession.

Critical Discourse Analysis In The Lyrics of A Song Entitled”Polisi Dan Bajingan By Iwan Fals.

In analyzing a song lyrics means aiming to understand and express the overall meaning of the lyrics of a song as a whole, because a song is not only for entertainment, but also expressing feeling, message, and character building. this study using qualitative methods about the object of research .The researcher emloys the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as the framework of the research. The type of CDA that has been used is based on the Van Dijk theory. The theory is formulated in three stages, which were text , socio cognition and context. The stage of text itself is divided into three, namely macrostructure,superstructure, and macrostructure. The step of research is begun by collecting all song lyrics by Iwan Fals from his song entitled “ Polisi dan Bajingan”. Further, the next step is choosing the song lyrics needed for research.but, in this research the writer find one level to be analyzed, that is macrostructure. One of figures song writer and singer who has composed and published some inspirited songs is Iwan Fals. He is a singer, musician, songwriter, and critic. His musical style is pop, rock, country, and folk pop and the lyrics he creates tell a lot about the dark times in the era of 1970 to 1980 in the political field. In his career he has created approximately 31 albums. Iwan Fals is included in the list of the immortals: 25 greatest Indonesian artists of all time by Rolling Stone Indonesia magazine. In his song, he photographed the social atmosphere of Indonesian life in the late 1970s until now the life of the world in general and life itself. For example the song "Letter To The People's Representatives, aunt Lisa, noon opposite the palace and many more.

The emotional structuring of the Andean territory: Mapping embodied narratives in Coporaque, Peru

This research explores the subject of territory, understood based on the life world of Andean inhabitants of the Colca Valley (Arequipa, Peru), who are descendants of ancient local Indigenous groups that, since prehistoric times, have known how to adapt to the rugged geographical reality of the Andes. Through a phenomenological approach, which assesses the subjective experience, it was possible to corroborate the existence of routine patterns of spatiality that preserve the emotional essence of past territorial conceptions, which have prevailed despite the hegemonic impositions systematically forced upon the land ever since the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Through carrying out coexistence fieldwork in situ, five layers of territorial sense have been registered, which, besides being very useful in order to optimize and give coherence to their agricultural and animal husbandry tasks, are periodically represented through verbal and corporal narratives, which have been mapped in this work in order to make their dynamics of symbolization visible and to conclude in the existence of an emotional Andean territory.

Work-learn balance – a new concept that could help bridge the divide between education and working life?

There is a deep divide between the worlds of education and working life. Differences comprise culture, values, processes, tools and more. This divide hinders many people from reaching their fullest potential, instead often demotivating them. Collaboration across the divide can be facilitated by semantic concepts that both sides can relate to. This article attempts to propose a new unifying concept – “work-learn balance” – that the two worlds can appreciate and use when working together. It is defined as when people on a weekly basis combine new value creation for others (“work”) and own personal development (“learn”). It was inductively articulated through action research. Extant research has shown that many people with a good work-learn balance get more motivated and feel a deeper sense of meaning in life, making them work harder and achieve more. Examples are provided from entrepreneurship, innovation, vocational education and entrepreneurial education. Work-learn balance could be used as a visionary organising principle informing leadership strategy. This could facilitate collaboration and unleash the human potential of more students and employees. Work-learn balance as a concept is novel and unexplored, but not previously unheard of. This could be the first attempt to define, describe, substantiate and sense-make it.

Pathways of Young Migrants in the Educational System of Lower Austria: Identifying what Works

This article presents the results of a study conducted at the University College of Teacher Edu­ca­tion Lower Austria in cooperation with Long Island University New York investigating the fac­tors contributing to successful educational and social integration of young migrants in schools in Lower Austria. The study seeks to explore key criteria for successful integration and in­clusion of migrants. Following a qualitative research design, data were collected in nine group discussions with migrant and non-migrant students with diverse educational back­grounds, alumni, parents, and pedagogical experts in Lower Austria. The data were analyzed the­matically. Findings of this study indicate the important role of school as educational ins­ti­tu­tion and social live world in general, the attitude of teachers in facilitating migrant youth's cul­tural integration, social capital acquisition through friendship between and within cultural groups of youth, and biculturalism and retaining own cultural identity as the most salient fac­tors for integration and successful school careers in migrant and refugee youth.

Choosing between energy and ecologies of health: Understanding developmentalism, state formation and local life worlds

AbstractEnvironmental crises, precipitated by a globally dominant model of developmentalism, have changed the lives of less visible communities in geographical peripheries. This study draws on our participant observation of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in general as a massive infrastructural development project and the Qadirabad coal power plant as one of many CPEC projects where developmentalism and local lives intersect with each other. We have presented evidence of how massive development projects bring about consequential but disguised social and environmental impacts on locals. The locals' narratives show that the Qadirabad project has brought about economic, agricultural and environmental degradation in their lives. They believe that the governments in Pakistan are conscious of foreign projects with adverse effects on the everyday lived realities of the people but willfully choose to ignore them.

A FOLKLORE EVENT AS AN EXISTENTIAL PERSPECTIVE OF A NON-RITUAL LYRO-EPIC WORK

The article examines the peculiarities of the representation of an existential event in a folklore work, primarily, the function of the existential word. It emphasizes that the category of freedom in the perception of the natural characteristics of a person and their spiritual integrity correlates in lyric-epic works with the understanding of a moral act as an individual decision and an axiom of the entire life path.
 The work focuses on the peculiarities of the existential consciousness of the author-performer, which are revealed in the folklore work through the understanding of the uniqueness of each person, the moments of entering their life world into the world of other people. This can be traced on the example of ballads, chronicle songs, emigrant, rebel, prison songs, etc. The plot modeling of a non-ritual folklore work makes it possible to present each individual act of a person in the aspect of meaning-making of the whole life. So, the folklore event represents such an ethical-philosophical paradigm that makes it possible to understand the act as a fact of unique, unrepeatable being and the moral-ethical dimension of this fact.
 The work focuses on how a poetic word in a folklore work stands out in the field of perception of an important episode of a person's life, which in an artistic interpretation becomes a significant folklore event. The author-performer presents their own vision of the causes of life's drama, and this assessment becomes a kind of invective for understanding important moral imperatives.
 On the basis of examples of lyrical-epic folklore, one can understand the true dimension of the ontological values of the ethnos, in which all events, realities of reality, human actions are shown not in some chosen hierarchy, but in the constant flow of complex and contradictory human existence. The author-performer presents all subjects and objects in a single plane, giving each of them an important meaning.

플랫폼은 인지자본주의를 어떻게 강화하는가

“The human condition in the age of artificial intelligence” analyzes artificial intelligence from the perspective of a combination of data and artificial intelligence in terms of the connection between cybernetics and cognitive capitalism. The human condition in the age of artificial intelligence] discusses cognitive capitalism, focusing on the keywords of mechanical subjugation and social subordination and the cyclical causal relationship between individuation and disintegration occurring in the digital environment. Cognitive capitalism and the way it develops based on its critical perspective helps to form a critical perspective on the impact of artificial intelligence on human existence and life. In this paper, “The human condition in the age of artificial intelligence” is centered on the three keywords of cognitive capitalism, platform, and divided entity, and the way to recognize the essence of the AI era and the mechanism of artificial intelligence, as well as the human perception and understanding of it. Discuss how to respond.
 Cybernetics, which presented the basis for independent automated machines that adapt to environmental changes through automation and feedback, evolved in the form of artificial intelligence and shifted control initiative between humans and machines from humans to machines. The daily use of the Internet and smartphones and the development of artificial intelligence inevitably speed up the inter-transformation between data, information and knowledge and promote automation of the transition. Platforms have become the backbone of cognitive capitalism, which sees information and knowledge as a source of new wealth. In industrial capitalism, if factories that produce products were the main foundation of the economy, in cognitive capitalism, platforms take their place, establishing a system in which most of the labor of workers is also performed through platforms. The foundation of cognitive capitalism is a mechanism built by platforms, big data generated through platforms, and algorithms that combine big data into meaningful information to transform it into concrete profits.
 The platform seeks coexistence with state power by accommodating access by state devices for specific purposes. The ruling system built on the basis of a mixture of mechanical subjugation and social submission causes people's class consciousness or critical social consciousness to change into other forms. It is not the confrontation or contradiction between capital and labor as before, but takes the form of subjectivity combined with consumer consciousness formed in the life world. The platform automates individual thoughts and actions while repeating divisionalization, which reduces individual actions to numerical values, and fragmentation, which returns the data set of divided figures back to the individual.
 The reason why platform companies can grow with high profits lies in the accumulation of various contents produced and shared through voluntary participation and interaction of individuals and the data generated in this process, but platform companies conceal this as much as possible. It is because the platform plays the role of ‘platform rent price’ that it can build a dual accumulation system that receives unlimited data on the results of users’ activities while maximizing their own profits by minimizing responsibility for workers. A platform company is a digital landlord that realizes a dual accumulation system that accumulates both rent profits through land capital and profits using industrial capital. In the end, cognitive capitalism as platform capitalism is maintained through the dual accumulation system of platform rent price. Therefore, a more specific discussion is needed on how to activate the will of individuals to escape from the platform and attempt to recover from a divided body to a substantial body.

How Does Homo Digitalis Empathize?

Purpose. The article aimed at identifying the effects of modern digital technologies on the formation of human morality. Theoretical basis. The research base is the practical communicative philosophy. Originality. It lies in the fact that the article considered a moral interaction between a person and artificial intelligence. Conclusions. Nowadays modern digital technologies have acquired a new importance. Previously, they were only passive assistants. But now they are able to actively influence human nature not only from the outside, yet also from the inside. Now they influence not only the form of thoughts but also their character. It is artificial intelligence that is the cause of the phenomenon of the "information bubble" ("echo chamber"). They are formed by mathematical algorithms for each individual user of the Internet. It is because of these algorithms, which are the basis of artificial intelligence, that we can conclude: they are guided only by strategic rationality. Therefore, they relate to the Internet user only as an object. That is why such a situation can also be a manifestation of the expansion of strategic rationality into the lifeworld, which gives rise to social pathologies. New digital technologies (first of all, social networks) are becoming an integral part of a person’s everyday life, and therefore the background of his/her life world. Virtual life becomes an important part of real life. However, virtual life is formed by the influence of the information stream, which constantly sets new "trends", including "trends" on morality. That is why a person begins to perceive only those events that are contained in this stream. Moreover, s\he can express his\her empathy only when s/he him/herself is able to join this stream and express it in virtual life.