Postmodern Context Research Articles

EXPLORING WOMEN’S PORTRAYAL AND NARRATIVE ENTANGLEMENT IN DAVID LYNCH’S ‘BLUE VELVET’ (1986): POSTMODERN CINEMATIC ANALYSIS

This study conducted a concise postmodern cinematic analysis of ‘Blue Velvet’ (1986), directed by David Lynch, focusing on the portrayal of women and their narrative roles. ‘Blue Velvet’ exemplifies postmodern cinema through its subversion of conventional storytelling and exploration of dark undercurrents in suburban America. The analysis delved into the multifaceted depiction of women, examining how Lynch employs the “male gaze” through camera work and narrative structure, reinforcing patriarchal power dynamics. By scrutinizing key scenes, we revealed women often depicted for male viewer gratification. This study provided a new viewpoint on ‘Blue Velvet,’ shedding light on its challenge to cinematic norms and highlighting the interplay of gender, power, and narrative in a postmodern context.

Способы мифотворчества и их специфика (на примере художественных и публицистических текстов Умберто Эко)

The study aims to identify the specifics of myth-making techniques that are comprehended and tested by the 20th- and 21st-century European philosopher Umberto Eco in his numerous publicistic and literary texts. As a result of the study, classifications of the “traditional” ways of myth-making (the reference to traditional mythologized archetypes, the use of binary oppositions, etc.) and the “modern” ways (double coding, depersonalization, discreteness of history, etc.), determined by the cultural and historical context of postmodernism and post-structuralism were provided. Using these classifications, the significance and influence of myth and myth-making techniques on thinking, human behavior, and cultural and historical processes of past and modern eras were proven. The paper is novel in that by analyzing the complex of Umberto Eco’s texts, myth is considered as the most important construct both of human culture and human thinking. The mechanisms of constructing certain types of modern myths, as well as the ways of their influence on the mass consciousness, on historical and socio-cultural processes are described.

Fabulating Archival Arts: An Exploration of the Complexities of Politics, History, and Memory in a Postmodern Context

Archival art, which emerged in the last century, has become a significant influence in the art world, challenging the constraints of traditional historical narratives. It offers viewers a more nuanced and inclusive framework for thinking, providing an alternative engagement with history free from dominant past narratives. This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of two significant archival artworks, namely the Atlas Group and Sputnik. Through this analysis, it aims to elucidate the societal impacts engendered by archival art that adopts critical fabulation as a strategy. Combining textual and graphic analyses with perspectives from postmodernism and deconstructionism, the research demonstrates that fictional archival art stimulates profound contemplation of the interconnectedness between the past, present, and future through artistic expression. It also examines the emotional impact of revisiting the past, records, and memory. By navigating the complexities and ambiguities of postmodern society through archival artistic expression, we can foster a more inspiring approach to understanding this art form.

Analysis of film audio design in the post-modern context of “Light Chaser”

The postmodernism cultural trend of thought has a profound impact on the global animation industry. In this context, Chinese cartoons and animated films have been constantly changing to adapt to the market aesthetic needs. This research focuses on the audio design in Light Chaser films, especially the use of music audio effects and dialogues. By analyzing early and later works of Light Chaser, this paper probes into the changes of audio design concepts and techniques. Results show that musical sound effects play a critical role in creating atmosphere and promoting plot development, while dialogues can effectively shape characters and convey emotions. By comparing the previous and later works, this paper reveals the innovation and adjustment of Light Chaser in adapting to the postmodern aesthetic trend, and provides theoretical and practical reference for the audio design of animated films.

Reconceptualization of curriculum studies: A brief history and personal memories

The article presents a brief history of the reconceptualization of curriculum studies based on documents and my own memories. Reconceptualization has had a significant impact on understanding the curriculum not only as goals and instructional actions followed by evaluation but as a complicated, interdisciplinary conversation. Reconceptualization originated in the USA in the 1970s, when a new generation of curriculum researchers challenged the dominant Tylerian perspective on curriculum.The first years of reconceptualization were, however, turbulent. Reconceptualists presented critiques of managerial perspectives in curriculum theorizing but, according to critiques, had no clear theory to replace the mainstream. In the 1980s and 1990s, reconceptualist scholars focused on understanding curriculum, presenting extensive pieces of work, such as Pinar’s and his colleagues’ book titled Understanding Curriculum. Also, William Doll made a significant impact on describing the postmodern context for education and curriculum. During the last 20 years, reconceptualization has taken steps towards discourses with the educational practice. This same perspective is also evident in the Finnish research on curriculum studies. In addition to being a complicated conversation, education should focus on promoting autobiographical and identity-related processes. Arts is often proposed as a context for expanding imagination and creativity. Despite the general practical perspectives, reconceptualization is still a critical movement against simplistic, technocratic models in which curriculum is prescribed and measurable learning objectives dominate.

Landscapes of Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Education: A Theoretical Examination of Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Education

AbstractThe vision of integrating artificial intelligence in education is part of an ongoing push for harnessing digital solutions to improve teaching and learning. Drawing from Jasanoff and Hasse, this paper deliberates on how sociotechnical imaginaries are interrelated to the implications of new technologies, such as AI, in education. Complicating Hasses’s call for the development of Socratic ignorance to consider our predispositions about new technologies and open new prospects of thought, this paper revisits postphenomenology and Feenberg’s critical constructivist theories. While embracing the notion of Socratic ignorance, this paper stresses the importance of developing a nuanced understanding of technology that realizes its lack of neutrality and supports the creation of a deeper understanding of how knowledge is produced, deployed, and interpreted in the digital age. Thus, this paper argues that an amalgam of Hasse’s call for advancing Socratic ignorance combined with postphenomenology and critical constructivism can support students in developing a critical understanding of technology and opening new landscapes of imaginaries.

A Deconstructive Analysis of Postmodern Themes in Selected John Ashbery Poems

This paper utilizes the deconstruction theory of Jacques Derrida to perform an extremely close reading of some chosen poems by John Ashbery, where the poets portrays the postmodern concepts. It provides a thorough overview of how Ashbery talked about fantasy through the language that later became his signature. By means of the use of Derrida’s approach, it is shown that in the middle are the myriad zones of obscurity, contradiction, and also many interpretations. This poetry, through critical scrutiny of the lingual pattern and the concept/allusion system, enlightens how the principle of Ashbery’s works confuses the approach to traditional thoughts and also perverts semantic stability. This analysis of Ashbery portrayed his questioning wanderings in the sphere of the unattainable notions of the sense in the post-modern context that extend the interpretations of the philosophical basis of postmodern literature.

Репрезентация личности и трансформация культурного пространства в век постмодерна

<p>The article considers some current trends in the transformation of human personality and socio-cultural space in the postmodern context. In the author's opinion, the most important changes that determine the shape of postmodern society and culture include, firstly, the loss of certainty inherent in the process of the symbolic communication, secondly, the fragmentation of cultural space, which includes very heterogeneous and often inconsistent components, and, thirdly, the crisis of human personality representation. The above trends are core in terms of the general characterization of those crisis phenomena that affect the state of postmodern culture. The paper concludes that the most important means of overcoming the existential crisis is to restore the lost integrity of human personality on the basis of a new (or revived) metanarrative, which, in turn, will ensure the coherence of cultural space in the new historical situation.</p>

Gaya Hidup Urban dalam Perspektif Postmodern: Studi Etnografi Komunitas Gym terhadap Komunikasi dan Identitas

This research aims to analyze urban lifestyles in a postmodern context, with a focus on the Fitness First gym community in Senayan City, Jakarta. Through an ethnographic approach, this research explores how members of the gym community communicate and form their identities in urban spaces. Using ethnographic methods participant observation and in-depth interviews, this research identifies various aspects of communication that occur in interactions between community members, including symbols, body language, and the use of social media. The research results show that the gym community is not only a place to exercise but also a social space that influences the way individuals present themselves and interact in the broader context of urban society. These findings provide new insights into the relationship between urban lifestyle, communication, and identity formation in the postmodern era, especially in the context of urban gym communities in Jakarta.

Virtualization of culture and religion and artificial intelligence in the postmodern context of modernity

Virtualization of culture and religion and artificial intelligence in the postmodern context of modernity

Postmodern Representations and Reflections in Hong Kong Urban Cinema: A Study on the Works of Heiward Mak Hei-Yan

In the new millennium, a discontinuity of postmodern elements began to surface in Hong Kong commercial films. However, young director Heiward Mak Hei-yan integrated postmodern elements into her works, which are primarily urban films, inheriting and developing the postmodern tradition of Hong Kong cinema. She does this primarily by shaping marginal urban landscapes and crowds, capturing the less noticed aspects of Hong Kong city, and demonstrating the anti-grand narrative characteristic of postmodernism. By establishing a postmodern perspective on love, she breaks and "rebels" against traditional romance films, not just merely glorifying the myth of love, but emphasizing the questioning of the eternal view of modern love. Simultaneously, she illustrates the dilemmas of postmodern alienation to portray the contemporary postmodern mentality and cultural symptoms of Hong Kong people in this unique geographical location. Her urban films reflect her positive thinking about urban romance, life, and mental state in a postmodern context, providing the possibility of parallelism between commerciality and postmodernism, and offering insights for the development of Hong Kong cinema.

Construction, Deconstruction, and the Question of Authorship in Magical Realist Narratives

Colonial discourse in particular has constructed fixed frames and grids in which to place and separate individuals according to their class, race, gender, culture, nationality and ethnic models of unified and stereotypical representation of otherness and difference which postcolonial writers challenge. Writers from across the globe have adopted and adapted magical realism to fit their own cultures and within their own frame of reference. As a dominant literary mode, it can be considered as a decolonizing agent in a postmodern context. What the narrative mode offers is a way to discuss alternative approaches to reality to that of Western philosophy, expressed in contemporary fiction. Specifically, this paper argues how magical realism is positioned in relation to the two contrasting operations of construction and deconstruction. What is its capacity to affect either or both of these outcomes? A prominent view has developed which understands the mode as one that structures an exclusively deconstructive narratology. I explore the narratives of Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirit, Tony Morrison’s Beloved and Hashem Garaibeh’s The Cat Who Taught Me How To Fly that reiterate realist narrative conventions subversively to critique the effects of colonialism as a decolonizing device in the contemporary literary scholarship. This study utilizes the ideas from Stephen Slemon’s “resistance to colonialism,” Theo D’haen’s “decenter privileged centers,”, Wendy B. Faris’s “Questioning the colonial subjugation,” and Christopher Warnes’s ‘deconstructive notions of subjectivity” and “recover and affirm identities.” Thus, the narratives in opposition to the notion of absolute history emphasize the possibility of simultaneous existence of multiple truths and plural meanings.

The influence of the media on shaping the moral image of students

Relevance. The issue of student moral values is a significant problem for both the discipline of sociology and society. The existence of values supports social cohesion, ensures appropriate behavior, and creates a common ethos through media in today's world. The shaping of youth morality through the media is linked to the development of culture in different ways while forming a fundamental part of the set of principles, values, beliefs, and rules of society.Purpose. The research aims to analyze the factors of the impact of media tools on the behavior of students in the society of the Republic of Kazakhstan.Methodology. To achieve the research objectives, the following methods were used: descriptive, interview, and comparative.Results. The results of the research determined that the relationship between media environment and youth audience behavior goes beyond the analysis and intervention of individual behavior, conditioning an inclusive and interdisciplinary framework for explaining and predicting social effects. The media influence the educational phenomenon and the socialization process because they are part of the processes of group interaction and the identity construction of young people. Television, social media, and the internet have an important influence on student behavior, but questions remain as to the conditions under which this influence is manifested. The ability of the media to influence the cultural practices and behavior of young students is enhanced by the structure and control of the information sources that produce media content. This is reinforced in postmodern contexts using state and corporate communication forms that disseminate information. Information sources act as systems with expedient cultural practices, where the roles and actions of participants are fixed and predictable.Conclusions. The result is an interconnected system of economic, social, and interpersonal circumstances that can influence student behavior and perspectives. The practical significance lies in the use of the research findings by academics, as well as specialists in journalism, media, and pedagogy.

An Analysis of New Medias Appreciation of Ugliness Anti-Performance and Anti-Authority in Postmodern Contexts

In the era of information virtualization, entertainment expression has become the ideological tendency of public discourse. Under the dual drive of technical support and market interests, the appreciation of ugliness has been transformed into individual alienation and emotional behaviour, rebelling against the traditional concept of beauty in cognition and forming a popular and spreading trend of network with grotesqueness, ugliness, and specialisation as symbols. This paper will combine psychological and sociological theories, take the popularity of Nikocado Avocado on YouTube as an example, explore the root causes of the proliferation of ugliness appreciation in todays new media, and further propose ways to purify the social aesthetic environment. Through this study, it was found that the essential reasons are as follows: First, the anti-authority and anti-elite cultural atmosphere formed in the post-modern context makes people more willing to deconstruct beautiful things and oppose traditional mainstream aesthetics; Second, personal jealousy produces subconscious confrontation against beautiful things; third, in order to attract the flow brought by new media and satisfy economic interests, ugliness is performed. To solve this problem, the government needs to play an important role in the media and strengthen the auditing of Internet content. At the same time, relevant departments should disseminate correct aesthetic concepts in society and strengthen the aesthetic education of teenagers.

Interrogating the Muteness in Lavanya Sankaran’s The Hope Factory

Indian women authors who write in English represent the realities of India in the current Indian literary scene. They have a lot of duties in the literary community. As researchers in anthropology sociologists, novelists, essayists, and travel writers, they carry out their duties with remarkable skill and then assume worldwide responsibility for promoting peace in their capacity as ambassadors. Additionally, they have created the odd contradiction of reading and appreciating how skillfully they address the problems of sexual harassment of women in post-colonial and postmodern contexts, including rape and the exploitation of Indian women in modern society. The autobiography of The Red Carpet novelist Lavanya Sankaran describes her journey from an ordinary lady to a writer. She desired to tell tales in which she would be able to identify the characters.

Fragmented Bodies, Fractured Identities: Womanhood and Body Politics in Breasts and Eggs

This article employs feminist theory to explore the theme of fractured femininity in Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs. Through the three female characters in the novel, Kawakami highlights the scarring of womanhood in a contemporary, postmodern context. However, the concept of scarring follows Cixous’s metaphor in which literature becomes a liberating and transformative act that vindicates the wounding of womanhood through the imposition of repressive ideals. This is shown as each of these women comes to represent the resilience of women in the face of conventional definitions of femininity. Natsuko’s reluctant following of convention, Makiko’s pursuit of feminine body ideals, and Midoriko’s struggle with her biological self represent women's struggle to realize femininity in the 21st century. Ultimately, these women manage to sustain a level of empowerment by rejecting the socially constructed concept of femininity. Kawakami puts the concept of femininity to the test to prove that it is the result of nurture rather than nature, thus suggesting that constructing a feminine identity in a postmodern setting is much more complex than in theory.

Mystical and Archetypal Journeys in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons

This article aims at exploring the significance of intertwining the mystical and the archetypal journey structures in Leila Aboulela’s novel, Bird Summons (2019). It highlights the author’s indebtedness to Islamic Sufi tradition and shows how she appropriates Farid ud-din Attar’s mystical pilgrimage of the seven valleys to a postmodern context where three Arab-British female characters attain spiritual transcendence. On the other hand, the article employs Joseph Campbell’s structure of the archetypal journey narratives to explicate the relationship between the narrative structure and the author’s chief thematic concerns. Campbell’s seventeen stages of the “Monomyth,” or the “hero’s journey,” illuminate Aboulela’s proficient projection of the characters’ spiritual quest in their physical movement from the city into the forest. England performs a cultural contact zone which entices the protagonists to overcome their identity crises caused by traumatic experiences, acute sense of displacement, and nostalgia. The success of their physical journey to Lady Evelyn Cobbold’s grave functions as an allegory for the redemptive impact of spirituality which ultimately empowers them to become more functional individuals and to integrate into English society. The study concludes that Aboulela’s deliberate fusion of Islamic journey structure with a Western one attests to the author’s belief in the universality of Islam and the possibility of religious tolerance and intercultural coexistence.

Отчуждение и субъект: Мишель Фуко и Марсель Гоше

The article analyzes the categories of alienation and subject of Michel Foucault and Marcel Gauchet. Their connection with social processes in relation to madness is considered. The tools used for a deeper understanding of the approaches to the concepts of these authors are demonstrated. The reader gets the potential to determine his attitude to the categories due to the “artificial collision” of the methods of philosophers. The introductory part of the work allows you to delve into the postmodern context. In the next section of the article, the phenomenon of madness studied by Foucault in the book “The History of Madness in the Classical Age” is given as an example. Gauchet’s criticism of this work, thanks to which we can conclude that Gauchet reverses Foucault’s logic in relation to madness in general. Explaining his criticism, Gaucher refers to Philippe Pinel. In this section, we can define the criteria invested in the concept of alienation. Next, we explore the process of subjectivation and how exclusion zones are formed. The authors view this process in different ways, and, accordingly, perceptions and assessments also differ. Based on this section in the article, we come to what alienation is expressed for the authors, what connotation they have. In the concluding section of the article, we find that there is a certain connection between the subject and the phenomenon of insanity. Foucault insists that madness is doomed to the exception, and the subject along with it. Gaucher, in his reasoning, takes the position that, thanks to madness, the subject acquires the potential to find himself.

Guidelines in the History of Romanian Pedagogy. A Research Sample. The History of Romanian Pedagogy -Research Sample

The affirmation of the history of pedagogy or historical pedagogy is proven by the way in which the basic concepts are confirmed and judged according to their ability to support the process of transition from the pre-scientific (pre-modern) stage to the mature scientific one or on the way to epistemological maturation in a modern and postmodern context. The present research is based on the following aspects: Clarifying the relationship between pedagogical theory and the history of pedagogical thought Exemplification of research models developed at the level of historical pedagogy Highlighting the importance of historical sources in hierarchical order: primary sources (original work); secondary sources (established studies in the history of pedagogy / historical pedagogy) Selection of significant pedagogical works in the pre-modern historical era

University Education Standards in the Postmodern Context of Sustainable Growth

University Education Standards in the Postmodern Context of Sustainable Growth