New Mode Of Production Research Articles

Post-cinematic memory ecology and the remediation of Chinese Red Cinema

The transition from mnemonic aura to memory bytes has mobilized technical experts, archivists, scholars, and cinephiles to preserve film copies, record eyewitness accounts, reconstruct viewing conditions, and recreate audience sensations. The ensuing network of agents, technologies, and discourses may be described as an intersection of new media and memory ecosystems. This post-celluloid, post-theatrical environment, which I call the post-cinematic memory ecology, engages new modes of production, storage, promotion, consumption, and recall. This essay highlights the main characteristics post-cinematic memory ecology and outlines the synergy between the emerging technologies, media industry models, patterns of viewer involvement, and practices of commemoration. The essay examines post-cinematic memory ecology through Film Legends ( Dianying chuanqi), a made-for-TV mega-series that first aired in China in 2004.

Understanding Business Model of Digital Journalism in Indonesia

The transformation in the media landscape in Indonesia is underscored by the emergence of digital-centric media entities and a new mode of news production distinctly divergent from traditional journalism. The purpose of this study is to examine the evolving business model of digital journalism, a sector experiencing rapid growth following the advent of the internet, social media, and the consolidation of online journalism since 2010. Employing a qualitative-descriptive method, this research is designed to capture the digital journalism business model in Indonesia's post-traditional print and broadcast media systems. From 2021 to 2023, the authors meticulously observed the contents and management of selected news media outlets, conducted semi-structured interviews, and gathered pertinent documents. The key question of this study centers on the nature of the business model underpinning journalism on digital platforms and its repercussions for the interest of news production and publication. The study reveals that business models for digital news media remain unstandardized, and the ecosystem of platform-based journalism has yet to achieve a healthy climate. From the perspective of digital news consumption, the prevailing culture of gratuitous (free) news culture and the concern of keeping trusted news media pose significant obstacles for news corporations in sustaining their operations.

Dirty Tracks Across the Border: Global Operations of Extraction, Labour and Migration at a Railway Station on the Bihar–Nepal Border

This article is based on an ethnography of the railway siding at Raxaul Junction railway station, a town on the Bihar–Nepal border, which finds itself at the intersection of a massive logistical exercise by China in the form of the Belt Road Initiative, counter-logistical apparatus building by India and incremental hardening of an otherwise ‘open’ border by Nepal. The article will analyse in detail the intricate network of the labour market that operates at and through the railway siding. It will also trace the origins of commodities used in the cement factories in the industrial corridor of Nepal that are extracted from some of the most deprived regions of India at great human and social costs. Finally, I will describe some of the latest exercises in logistical operations such as containerisation, opening of a new land port, the Integrated Check Post in Raxaul and operationalisation of a new dedicated freight corridor from Vishakhapatnam port to Raxaul, which is reconfiguring the logistical arrangements away from Kolkata and Haldia port and their implications on labour and labour practices. The Raxaul railway siding will be, hence, studied on multiple scales: global, national and local. The article will also try to understand the transformation of this very peculiar border town located on a unique border. This transformation is creating new labour processes, migratory processes and networks, and new modes of production of workers’ subjectivities and resistance along the global logistical apparatus and supply chains. It will also open up the possibilities of thinking conceptually about ‘South Asian Border Systems’.

Capital is Dead. Long Live Capital! A Political Marxist Analysis of Digital Capitalism and Infrastructure

There is a growing literature suggesting that the digital economy is taking us out of capitalism. While this manifests most notably as a diagnosis of ‘digital feudalism’ or ‘techno-feudalism’, a differing voice is McKenzie Wark, who suggests we have entered an entirely new mode of production altogether: ‘vectoralism’. This paper historicises and theorises our current conjuncture in relation to the potential multiplicity of modes of production, and the materiality and imperialism of telecommunication infrastructures. We approve of Wark's development of new concepts, rather than turning to ahistorical regurgitations like ‘neo-feudalism’. However, we argue that the mode of production lens is not adequate to trace what we consider as more granular changes and that it risks packaging old wine in new bottles. For example, Wark's vectoral claims remain grounded in infrastructures such as undersea cables that are used by corporations and states as strategies of legal and economic imperialism reminiscent of the 19th century world order. Instead of examining this topic through a mode of production lens, we contend that these phenomena are better traced through a processual (rather than functional) and socially determined (rather than economically determined) method of historical materialism. In this regard, we adopt an approach closer to that of E. P. Thompson and Political Marxists, such as Brenner and Wood. To support our argument, we turn to both wider Marxist theory on the mode of production, which we then anchor in empirical works from contemporary critical infrastructure and communication studies.

Reality Characteristics,Power Mechanism and Path Choice of New Quality Productivity

New-quality productivity is a new type of productivity that emerges in the context of a new era, a new economy and a new industry, aiming at high-quality development, led by scientific and technological innovation, with high-quality workers at its core, and based on a new mode of production and organisation. The new productive forces has the characteristics of attaching importance to innovation, a long-term approach and a grasp of opportunities. These characteristics of the new productive forces enable them to meet the needs of enterprises to promote efficient production, the economic needs to promote high-quality industrial development, the social needs to meet the people􀆳s high quality of life, and the political needs to ensure that the country wins the initiative. The power mechanism of China􀆳s new quality productivity consists of the driving force of scientific and technological innovation, the driving force of government support and the pulling force of market demand. On the basis of the internal and external driving forces, emphasis is placed on building a scientific and technological innovation system with scientific and technological innovation as the core, cultivate emerging future industries by means of government-enterprise synergy, and adhering to high-quality development guided by social demand, in order to promote the rapid development of new quality productivity, in order to contribute to the development of productive forces and the sustainable development of human society.

Impact of Agroecological Innovations on Agricultural Production and the Environment in the Foothills of Mumirwa, Burundi

Agriculture is an important pillar of the national economy of Burundi. The sector contributes more than 40 % of gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 90 % of the population. The main challenges facing the sector include soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, water contamination, pesticide residues, use of genetically modified organisms and participation in climate change. Faced with such constraints, the Burundian farmers experience new modes of production and consumption such as the development of agroecological farms (crop association, crop rotation, agroforestry, anti-erosion ditches) and the use of biofertilizers and biopesticides. This study aims to analyse the impact of agro-ecological innovations on agricultural production and environment in Mumirwa region, especially in three communes of Bubanza province (Bubanza, Musigati and Rugazi). The study approach consisted of surveys conducted on two samples (members of cooperatives and non-members), focus groups, individual interviews and field visits. The ordinary least squares method and comparative approach between the two samples (treatment sample and comparison sample) were used to analyse the impact on production and environment, especially on soil fertility. We referred to the ISABU laboratory (Higher Agronomic Institute of Burundi) results of the soil samples brought by ADISCO NGO before and after planting the beans using organic manure on the one hand and chemical fertilizers on the other. The results showed that agro-ecological practices positively impact agricultural production and improve soil fertility. After one year of adoption, bean production increased by 21%. The analysis of the soil samples indicate that the combination of agro-ecological practices improves the soil's chemical characteristics, contributing to increased productivity. This could be explained by the fact that the development of agro-ecological farms and biofertilizers promote the sedimentation of particles of organic matter from runoff water and organic manure

Land-based cooperation for alternative livelihoods in Laos: Case studies of Chinese agricultural companies

The eradication of illicit drug crops in developing countries through international agricultural cooperation in alternative livelihoods is a new mode of clean production. This paper examines the market-oriented alternative livelihood (AL) model implemented by Chinese agricultural companies in Laos, focusing on land-based cooperation between these companies, local authorities, and communities. It aims to reveal the conditions for successful land-based cooperation and mutual trust building with local communities and government agencies. Three Chinese companies involved in alternative cultivation projects in Laos are selected as case studies. The findings highlight the market-oriented AL model as a beneficial approach to transition from illicit crop cultivation to clean production. The study emphasizes the importance of land-based cooperation and trust building for the sustainable operation of market-oriented alternative livelihoods. Challenges faced by the companies include managing international market risks and developing locally-led technical and management teams. The research underscores the need for inclusive innovation in land-based cooperation and alternative livelihoods in the Global South. It calls for further exploration of innovative approaches to inclusive cooperation, local empowerment, and capacity building. The study contributes to understanding the potential of international agricultural cooperation in promoting alternative livelihoods and sustainable development in illicit crop-growing regions.

Rethinking Erich Fromm’s Humanism and His View of Human Nature

ABSTRACT This article reviews Fromm’s view of human nature that is the basis for his existential humanism. Fromm’s core idea was that the combination of minimal instinctual endowment, enormous expansion of our neocortex, and being born in a helpless state created a set of existential contradictions or dichotomies. The main contradiction or dichotomy is being part of nature yet transcending it by being aware of our mortality. Not being able to go back to the previous “harmony” with nature, humans must develop their capacity for reason, symbolic capacities, imagination and human solidarity or regress to symbiotic and incestuous ties. I make two main arguments. I show that instead of losing our instincts, humans retain three social instincts that we share with other social species, namely attachment instincts (and forming attachment bonds), affiliation to groups (group instinct) and sexual instincts. I show how these three instincts have been significantly transformed in relation to our great ape relatives making us a more flexible, adaptive, cooperative and ultrasocial species. Second I describe a new evolutionary paradigm in which genes and culture coevolve and influence each other, also known as the dual inheritance model. The main effect of this dual inheritance is that cultures, like genes, transmit information and knowledge from one generation to the next. The cumulative effect of cultural knowledge transmitted through thousands of generations is that we develop new modes of production, new technologies, art forms, and new cultural rituals and practices. To which we must adapt. This new view of what made us human puts Fromm’s view of human nature and his radical humanism on a stronger sociobiological foundation. I close by making the argument that our group instinct is both our greatest strength and greatest weakness, making us a species with a “genius for good and evil”.

On the Integration and Development of Artistic Creativity and Digitalization

In the era of digital technology, the development of information technology and art culture helps to enhance artistic creativity through digital technology. New forms of art emerge from the parallel between art and "digitization": This article discusses digitization in artistic creativity, and theoretically discusses and summarizes the creativity generated by the integration of artistic ideas and digital art in the current digital era in China. Digitization is a brand new mode of production and economic form, which has become an im-portant standard of modern economic development. At the end of 1980s, the rapid development of digital technology and information technology made digital art appear in the world. Based on computer and Inter-net technology, it has created a space for digital development, and provided a new platform for artists to create digital art in all aspects of digital technology and application ability. At present, digital art is growing into a new art form in the art and creative industry of the 21st century.

Eugen Simion și dilemele morale ale criticii post-decembriste

The first two decades that followed the overthrow of the political regime in December 1989 and the transition to the mentality and rules of a new society, a new mode of production were marked, in the area of literary criticism and cultural journalism from us, by a spectacular, dramatic change in the paradigm of interpretations. Aesthetic criteria were replaced by principles of revision, of false or real collaborationism, of the artificial concept of „est-ethics”, of political and ideological orientations, of the authors and not of the work. In this context, Eugen Simion remained consistent with his engagements on the side of aesthetics. What should have been a scientific matter has become, subsequently, a moral one. And the moral for which he campaigned in articles, in his works published during this period was that of objectivity. Without being apolitical, as he has been accused of, the critic has chosen objectivity as the only valid criterion, because, in essence, it meets the aesthetic. Today, more and more it turns out that justice was on his side, as well as other critics who supported, less declaratively, but applying it in their analyses, this principle.

Research on the patterns of the organic growth knowledge production based on a dual perspective of content and behaviour

AbstractA new mode of knowledge production, known as the ‘organic growth pattern’, has emerged within the online learning environment. It exhibits several unique features, such as iterative growth, fuelled by collective intelligence, fuzzy complexity, etc. It is more valuable and adaptable to support knowledge innovation within rapidly changing fields. To reveal its new evolutional production pattern and the interaction mechanism of different generative topics, We take a dual perspective of content and behaviour into consideration. A total of 1855 interactive data points were collected from a connectivist massive open online course. The study employed methods, such as latent Dirichlet allocation, content analysis and lag sequential analysis. Results showed that (1) the paths of knowledge innovation were complex and diverse. The process typically began with an ill‐structured question and was driven by collective contribution and cognitive conflict. (2) Knowledge production involved interactive evolution and collaborative growth of multiple generative topics. (3) The four stages of knowledge production were cyclic, with sense‐making acting as a bridge between way‐finding and innovation. Several implications of the findings are recommended to enhance the quality of knowledge growth, such as designing ill‐structured questions, providing discussion activities from easy to difficult, introducing relevant topics, taking advantage of various platforms and mobilizing learners' or participants' quality attention‐related behaviours.

Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Latin American Studies and Digital Public Humanities

Scholarship in colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American studies often does not reach beyond specialized academic audiences. The majority of work continues to be largely traditional in nature, with monographs, journal articles, and book chapters remaining the most common types of publications.Only a small portion of that production is distributed in an open-access format online, and even when that is the case, such scholarly output is generally not conceived with broader publics in mind, and engagement with stakeholder communities seldom plays a role in its creation.Digital methodologies and tools present opportunities to explore new modes of scholarly production and publication in these fields. Researchers working in a digital realm are designing and carrying out projects that speak to contemporary communities and involve diverse constituencies in new ways. Without seeking to supplant the more conventional scholarship that grounds their fields, these scholars are asking questions about how we conduct academic work in the twenty-first century and how we can make the products of our work relevant to larger audiences.This article examines five digital projects through which scholars of colonial and nineteenth-century Latin America are conducting work that looks outward from the academy towards inclusive scholarship: Ticha, the Biblioteca Digital Soledad Acosta de Samper, the Mexico team of the multinational project Oceanic Exchanges, Rendering Revolution, and coloniaLab. Through a commitment to producing scholarship for, and in collaboration with, diverse communities,these projects suggest models for conducting the work of colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American studies in the public sphere.Les études sur l'Amérique latine coloniale et du XIXème siècle ne s'adressent souvent qu'à un public universitaire spécialisé. Seule une petite partie de cette production est distribuée en ligne dans un format à accès libre, et même lorsque c'est le cas, cette production scientifique n'est généralement pas conçue pour un public plus large, et l'engagement avec les communautés concernées joue rarement un rôle dans sa création.Les méthodologies et les outils numériques offrent la possibilité d'explorer de nouveaux modes de production et de publication scientifiques dans ces domaines. Sans chercher à supplanter la recherche plus conventionnelle qui fonde leurs domaines, ces chercheurs posent des questions sur la manière dont nous menons le travail universitaire au XXIe siècle et sur la manière dont nous pouvons rendre les produits de notre travail pertinents pour des publics plus larges. Cet article examine cinq projets numériques dans le cadre desquels des chercheurs de l'Amérique latine coloniale et du XIXème siècle mènent des travaux qui s'éloignent de l'académie pour s'ouvrir à un public plus large : Ticha, la Biblioteca Digital Soledad Acosta de Samper, l'équipe mexicaine du projet multinational Oceanic Exchanges, Rendering Revolution et coloniaLab. En s'engageant à produire des études pour diverses communautés et en collaboration avec elles, ces projets proposent des modèles pour mener à bien le travail des études latino-américaines coloniales et du dix-neuvième siècle dans la sphère publique.

Cyber-physical decentralized planning for communizing

This paper proposes a decentralized planning constructed as a cyber-physical system to jointly manage supply and demand, including aspects related to production and circulation, without the mediation of money. Our aim is to provide a concrete technical solution for a future society based on communizing and commons-based resource allocation as an attempt to move in-against-and-beyond the value-form, which is the social “force-field” that characterizes the capitalist mode of production. This contribution is divided into three articulated parts: (i) a review of the elementary forms that jointly determine the capitalist social organization, (ii) a defense of the proposition that the money-form must be destroyed to enable a new mode of production based on communizing, and (iii) a proposal of a cyber-physical implementation of a jointly decentralized production planning and resource allocation over large infrastructures that enable a multilevel polycentric governance as a variation of the Interactive Economic Planning and Optimized Selections (I-EPOS) algorithm when coordination is needed.

Ti/Ti4O7 Anodes for Efficient Electrodeposition of Manganese Metal and Anode Slime Generation Reduction.

Preventing lead-based anodes from causing high-energy consumption, lead pollution, and harmful anode slime emission is a major challenge for the current electrolytic manganese metal industry. In this work, a Ti4O7-coated titanium electrode was used as anode material (Ti/Ti4O7 anode) in manganese electrowinning process for the first time and compared with a lead-based anode (Pb anode). The Ti/Ti4O7 anode was used for galvanostatic electrolysis; the cathodic current efficiency improved by 3.22% and energy consumption decreased by 7.82%. During 8 h of electrolysis, it reduced 90.42% solution anode slime and 72.80% plate anode slime formation. Anode product characterization and electrochemical tests indicated that the Ti/Ti4O7 anode possesses good oxygen evolution activity, and γ-MnO2 has a positive catalytic effect on oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which inhibited anode Mn2+ oxidation reaction and reduced the formation of anode slime. In addition, the low charge-transfer resistance, high diffusion resistance, and dense MnO2 layer of the anode blocked the diffusion path of Mn3+ in the system and inhibited the formation of anode slime. The Ti/Ti4O7 anode exhibits excellent electrochemical performance, which provides a new idea for the selection of novel anodes, energy savings and emission reduction, and the establishment of a new mode of clean production in the electrolytic manganese metal industry.

Entering Anthologies with Names: The First Generation of Courtesan Poets in Ming Dynasty Nanjing

Abstract This article traces the first generation of Ming courtesan poets and the earliest extant anthology recording both their poems and full names. These pioneering courtesan poets emerged from anonymity in the city of Nanjing during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. They represented a new mode of literary production and circulation in the context of social, economic, and cultural transformation which began in the mid-Ming. To better situate courtesan poets within the Ming world of letters, we examine the various sources recording their biographical information and literary/artistic creations.

Bite-Sizing Digital Literature in theTwenty-First Century

Abstract The bite-sizing of fiction and poetry on twenty-first-century digital platforms constitutes a mode of adaptation that not only adapts literature to new technologies, economies, and modes of production and consumption but also adapts discourses of literary time and space and longstanding metaphors of literature as ‘food’. This article’s central argument is that digital literary bite-sizing, a combination of byte-sizing (digitizing) literature and bite-sizing literary portions for consumption simultaneously compresses and expands literary space and time and literary consumption. It is well documented that digitization, itself a technology of ‘byte-sizing’, has compressed literature into the tiny spaces of globally portable, hand-held devices, and reduced the time taken to access literature, paradoxically generating an exponential increase in the number of literary producers, products, and consumers. This essay considers how a concomitant bite-sizing of literary content on twenty-first-century digital platforms produces a further paradoxical compression and expansion of literary production and consumption. The adaptive dynamics are by no means homogenous, but amid a variety of producer reasons for bite-sizing literary portions, the sizes of portions nominated ‘bite-sized’, and consumer responses to them, the dynamic of compressed production to foster greater consumption remains, where ‘greater’ is not always a matter of quantity but in some cases a matter of quality. Although bite-sizing digital literary portions represent a literary adaptation not only to new technologies, platforms, and but also to digital bite-sizing more pervasively. Conversely, bite-sizing adapts to specifically literary practices and tropes that depart from discourses of bite-sizing other digital content.

Cramped Space: Finding Rebellious Potential in Fixed Capital During the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971

In this essay, I argue that social movements should appropriate fixed capital in moments of rebellion, utilizing it to halt capitalist production. Through this process, struggles over, for, and through fixed capital enable the prefiguring of new modes of (re)production, raising the fundamental political question of who governs the infrastructures at hand. I turn to the Attica Prison uprising of 1971 as an example of dispossessed people utilizing fixed capital to interrupt the continuation of an exploitative prison system. Finally, I offer an assessment of how explicit engagement with fixed capital and other material objects or built environments clarifies the ways that antagonistic compositional power might irreversibly damage the logics of capture within and against which rebellious potential emerges.

Development of Lycium barbarum–Forage Intercropping Patterns

The intercropping patterns of protected cultivations have been widely used to increase productivity and sustainability in modern agriculture. However, there have been few studies of wolfberry intercropping cultivated by clean tillage. We introduced 10 forages into wolfberry cultivation through land productivity and an interspecific competitiveness analysis, and we screened out the appropriate intercropping modes to provide a scientific basis for wolfberry green cultivation and pasture production. The results showed that the wolfberry–forage intercropping land equivalent ratio (LER) of greenhouse and field tests increased from 29% to 59% and from 62% to 170%, respectively, when compared with the monoculture weighted mean, showing significant yield advantages (p < 0.05), particularly in wolfberry–mangold, wolfberry–ryegrass, wolfberry–alfalfa, and wolfberry–clover. The aggressivity of interspecific competitiveness analysis showed that the forage introduction did not affect the dominant competitive position of wolfberry. In addition, wolfberry–forage intercropping could promote the monetary advantage index (MAI). Wolfberry–mangold, wolfberry–ryegrass, and wolfberry–alfalfa performed well, with MAI values of 827.63, 994.18, and 1918.57 for fruit and 2106.54, 1706.27, and 3103.13 for biomass, respectively. Finally, wolfberry–mangold, wolfberry–ryegrass, and wolfberry–alfalfa were screened out, which can form a new mode of wolfberry and forage production.

Performing Arts Activating Climate Change Awareness

The complexity of current ecological crises, such as climate change, calls for new modes of knowledge production. Common Dreams — Flotation School (2017) by the Portuguese, Brussels-based artist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia is a construction site and a pedagogical prototype that challenges the linear transfer of knowledge in scientific research.

Transormasi Moda Produksi Pengolahan Sagu dan Implikasinya Terhadap Sosial-Ekononi

The role of new modes of production can affect the increase in sago production and affect the production relationship that occurs in Rutong Village, South Leitimur District with a total of 6 respondents. Descriptive research and qualified analysis. The results showed that sago production using semi-modern modes of production can increase more production yields and production relationships where labor is no longer limited to the nuclear family but farmers cooperate with communities that have production modes as a working group.