Postmodern Research Articles

Метафорическая картина мира студентов как средство концептуализации специфики образования в эпоху постмодерна (на материале ассоциативного эксперимента)

The aim of the research is to reconstruct fragments of the metaphorical worldview of a modern student by examining the features of metaphorisation of the UNIVERSITY, TEACHER and STUDENT concepts in students’ worldview. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in considering metaphor as a means of conceptualising the key features of the postmodern era, such as the uncertain future, the chaotic and unpredictable world, in the metaphorical worldview of a modern Russian student. As a result, the author identifies the universal educational metaphors that help to construct a cross-section of students’ metaphorical worldview, which include metaphors of travel, family, work, zoomorphic metaphors and some others. Based on the analysis of the metaphors, it has been found that the metaphorical worldviews of students in different years of study are not identical – they differ in peripheral features of the concepts under consideration, which makes it possible to distinguish “bright” (positive) images of modern education, characteristic of first-year students, and “gloomy” (negative) images, peculiar to advanced undergraduate students. The predominance of the latter suggests that the feelings of anxiety and uncertainty are the key features of the postmodern era personality.

ADIALOGUE BETWEEN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY IN JOHN FOWLES’S THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN

John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) is generally acknowledged as a postmodernist neo-Victorian novel. Presumably, it parodies Victorian conventions and represents a critical comment on the Victorian age. However, the aim of this research is to problematize the claim that the relationship between the Victorian and the postmodern age in this novel is much more complex. Fowles attempts to link these two apparently very different periods. The nineteenth century represents the source of English identity and an undeniable influence on the present. Nonetheless, the present also influences the past. The events which took place during the course of the twentieth century changed the way we conceptualize the past. Fowles implies that the past does not exist – what does exist is our deconstruction of the past. Still, Fowles reaches beyond this deconstruction. He believes that a novel should introduce something new and authentic. One of the key postmodernist concepts is that parody and irony represent the only possible originality. Still, apart from parodying the conventions of both the nineteenth and the twentieth century, The French Lieutenant’s Woman deals with existentialist dilemmas that might be applied to both periods.

Philosophy Of Justice In Post-Modern Labor Law: What And How?

The main objective of this research is to examine the concept of justice in labor law which has developed in the context of the post-modern era as marked by rapid social and technological changes and a more inclusive view of justice. By using normative research, researchers will conduct an in-depth analysis of relevant literature on the philosophy of justice, labor law, and postmodernism as part of primary and secondary legal materials. The data collection process will involve a thorough literature review, analysis of legal texts, and examination of related documents and articles from reliable sources. The differentiation of this study from other studies is its comprehensive analytical approach to understanding justice in labor law and its focus on changes and adaptations that occur in the post-modern era. these findings will explain the concept of justice in the workplace that has adapted to the challenges of the times. In addition, this study aims to identify obstacles and opportunities in building a fair, diverse and efficient employment system for all stakeholders. By paying attention to social dynamics, technology, and postmodern values, researchers hope that labor law can be more responsive and flexible in maintaining a sense of justice and the balance of power between employers and workers.

Turbulence of the Fin-de-siècle: Arts Through the Looking-Glass of Intermediality

This paper addresses the fin-de-siècle period as a time when most of what are called intermedial processes, that is to say, those processes that arbitrate aesthetic design at the intersection between different media, began to play a substantial role in the production of cultural artifacts. The epoch is investigated through the prism of intermediality, which manifested itself as a valuable tool in the development of the arts and media, particularly after the birth of photography and cinematography. These intermedial processes fostered a media-based creative experimentation that culminated in the modernist and postmodernist movements. The role of intermediality in the fin-de-siècle, particularly in light of the syncretic processes it originated, is considered as an aftereffect of the tumultuous events of the time, which in a way acted as a stimulus for this new-fangled aesthetics. The paper concludes that the turbulence that characterizes this epoch, as well as the diffusion of new artistic and philosophical movements, impacted the development of mixed (intermedial) arts, stimulated their growth and activated the exploration of intermedial forms and genres in all the arts. This is the era of mass publishing and the growth of literacy rates, an era that laid the foundations for future theories on intertextuality and the idea of the work of art as an inclusive “canvas” inside of which all media have a place.

Characteristics of the development of ancient terminology, purification as a model, a comparative study

The study aims to answer the question of the following problems: What is thesaurus? What is cleansing? What are the characteristics of the development of the term? How the Aristotelian meaning of purification was embodied in the recipient compared to the time periods? After determining the importance of the study and its necessity the study aims at coprehending the fixed conceptions and its varieties. Also, it finds out the depth of the modern lexical conceptions. Also, it suggests a new conception for the critical lexicon as it follows (the descriptive analytical(, the researcher defined some terms such as (language and rhetoric), at the level of the first chapter of the study. In the second chapter, the researcher dealt with the development of the lexical meaning of the lexicology. As for the third chapter, the two researchers studied the term purification historically and determined its meaning in the classical era, and heis studied its meaning in the modern era and the post-modern era. The researcher came to several results, including: 1- Purification is basically a list of mental meanings that includes all the ways the text has to clarify the reception in the expository text. 2- Reason and justice occupy the position that works to arouse the emotions of purification. Other results were left in the body of the study, then the researcher ended up the research with a list of references.

Postinformational Education

ABSTRACT This paper explores the theme of education and the posthuman from the perspective of French philosophy. It addresses a crisis in eduction today identified by Michel Serres: now that knowledge is widely and freely accessible through information technologies, what is the purpose of education? A response is developed through three conceptual terms prefixed with ‘post’: the postmodern, the posthuman, and through the proposed idea of ‘postinformation.’ The background to the problem is sketched in terms of the ‘postmodern,’ with reference to Lyotard’s influential The Postmodern Condition. A theory of the posthuman, which synthesises Stiegler’s ‘exorganism’ and Floridi’s ‘inforg’, is then sketched in response to Serres’ question of who the subject of education is today. The response to the crisis the paper proposes is that the purpose of education today is not to transmit information, but to help shape posthuman subjects able to process it effectively. This means helping them to learn how to navigate the complex informational networks we now inhabit so that they are able to flourish. The concept of postinformation is designed to help facilitate this educational shift in perspective. Postinformation concerns not just informational content, but the constitutive function of information and information technologies.

"Fatigue" as a Condition of Indifference of Love: Conclusions of Postmodernism

Relevance. The article examines the indifference to the experience of love. In the postmodern era, staying in the subject is regarded as an inability to independently fill oneself with important resources for life: first of all, it is important to realize oneself, anesthesia is offered by self – sufficiency against love pain, "everything will still have time, love will not run away anywhere." There is a devaluation of love, it acquires a consumer character and is supported by diagnoses as "addiction", which formulates a conclusion about its devaluation. This assumption implies the emergence of "love fatigue" as an expression of a lack or lack of attention to the basic value of a person.The purpose of the work is to study the causes of "love fatigue" in the context of postmodernity.Objectives: to determine the causes of "fatigue" in the manifestation of love; to characterize the phenomenon of "love" in postmodern society; to assess the impact of consumer culture on the value and significance of love and partner.Methodology. The methodological basis of the article is the method of system analysis, which made it possible to discover modern attitudes to human relationships, in particular love, and the theoretical and methodological basis is the research of domestic and foreign philosophers and sociologists studying the problem of feelings in the postmodern era.Results. In this paper, the concepts of "fatigue" and "love" are considered. Revealed a difference in attitude to the feeling of love in (post)modern society.Conclusions. Existing norms allow a person to experience life experience, change its form and content, which means that the understanding of feelings and the value of relationships become unattainable for another – the boundaries become invisible. However, if a person develops the will to comprehend the other and accept him as he is, then he will free love from human limits, and therefore will enjoy time next to and development with him.

What if Tomorrow Never Comes? Chimeric Agency and Total Institutions in the Postmodern Era

What if Tomorrow Never Comes? Chimeric Agency and Total Institutions in the Postmodern Era

MEDIA UNDER THE OLD DEVELOPMENT THEORIES AND MEDIA UNDER THE POST-MODERNIST ERA

Media has an important role in influencing culture and human way of life. Over the years, the media has continued to evolve with technological developments and social changes, thus having an impact on media development theories. In media history, there are two influential theories of media development, namely the old development theory and the post-modernist era. The aim of this article is to discuss old developmental theories and the post-modernist era in media development. By conducting a discussion of the introduction of the theory, the media used, the role of technology, technological change and the impact and implications of future media development so that it can become the basis for better and more effective media development in the future. In the development of the media, the theory of old developments and the Post Modernist era has a significant influence. In conclusion, media development cannot be separated from the surrounding social, technological, cultural and consumer behavior environment. Therefore, media companies and media developers should consider these factors in the development of more responsive, personalized and relevant media in the future.

이상의 ｢날개｣와 최인호의 ｢타인의 방｣에 나타난 고립과 소외 고찰

This comparative study analysed Wings of Yi Sang and A Room of Strangers of Choi In-ho together. Though Wings and A Room of Strangers have a 35-year gap between the publication dates, but these stories have a common theme and literary trend; First, the two stories depict humans who are alienated from modern capitalist society, and second, both works contain modernist elements that include surrealism and existentialism. Therefore, this essay examined Wings and A Room of Strangers in two aspects: surrealist technique and existentialist philosophy, focusing on the motifs of ‘room’ and ‘relationship’. In both stories, rooms are main spaces and very important to imply the themes, and male characters suffer from self-division because of relational failure with their wives. These two works, showing similar spatial motifs and relational structures, present each aspect of modernism in the 1930s and 1970s. Wings as a modernist story in the 30s reveals self-consciousness and flow of consciousness, while Room of Strangers marks the beginning of the postmodern era through the literary formation of fetishism and self-division. Even if it were clear that two authors–Yi Sang and Choi In-ho as modernist writers share the narrative techniques and motifs, the use and effect of surrealism are represented differently in their respective works - Wings and A Rooms of Stranger, and the status of the subject and self is also different. In conclusion, this study found that the theme of modernist literature changes with the times, and that the individual works of the two modernist writers were uniquely created according to the different situation of the times and the literary character of the writer.

ON THE CRISIS OF CULTURE AND MAN IN THE «FAR-FETCHED» TRADITIONALISM OF R.GUENON

The problem of the crisis situation of Western European culture at the beginning of the 19th century became the central problem in the ideological heritage of R. Guenon. In his reflections, the French thinker turns to the consideration of the role and significance of traditions in the life of a person and society. R.Guenon fills the term “tradition” with his semantic load, making this term a key element in his philosophy. The reflexive space of Guénon’s philosophy is the sphere of the philosophy of religion and it is difficult to attribute it to the sphere of religious philosophy. This difficulty lies in the departure of the French thinker from the traditions of the Christian worldview to the ideological foundations of Eastern mysticism, agnosticism and theosophical views. Perhaps it is these preferences of Guénon that lead the researchers of his work to the idea that he is, in a certain sense, the “forerunner” of the postmodern era in Europe. Tradition and the crisis of traditions for the philosopher are considered as the main subject of study. The scale of historical and philosophical analysis is taken by the thinker without embarrassment as wide as possible. Ultimately, the very crisis of culture for Guenon can and must serve as a transition to a new stage in the development of culture. In this new stage, a syncretic creative renewal of world religions on the basis of the Eastern mysteries will take place. The cyclic concept of the author’s history does not retain its traditional connection with the Christian understanding of the future, the loss of the Christian eschatological understanding of man. the Renaissance is declared a break point with the traditional understanding of being. For a philosopher, tradition is not reduced to folk custom. And already at this stage, we are witnessing Guénon’s attempt to give the established philosophical terms their own sound, fitting them to his concept and esoteric context.

Video Mapping Technologies as Spatial Augmented Reality in the Artistic Process

Abstract The relevance of the subject is conditioned by the rapid technical development and active digitalisation of the creative space. Video mapping technologies have become one of the manifestations of art modernisation, a kind of change in the form of the demonstration of visual images. The purpose of the study is to determine ways to involve video mapping technologies in the progressive evolution of the artistic process into new forms of spatial augmented reality. Identifying the potential capabilities of video mapping will allow the expansion of the range of creative expression tools at the level of advanced technical capabilities. Among the scientific methods for this study, some general scientific methods were used: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modelling, abstraction, reductionism and methods of comparison and analogy. The main result of the study is a statement of a radical change in the approach to art in the modern world, based on the visualisation of subjects and images using new expressive means. Thus, augmented reality as an entertaining element of artistic performance is the embodiment of the iconic characteristics of the postmodern era, where the role of a person in the creative process remains key, but the means of one’s self-expression have become different. During the study, conclusions were drawn about the emergence of art to a new level, where the empathic perception of reality is complicated by modern opportunities in the context of technological advances, which, in turn, sets new standards and requirements for the results of the creative process.

Identity as Palimpsest

This article focuses on the formation of identity as a stratified discourse between the singular and the collective, and how that exchange is expressed as a visual palimpsest by the artists Annette Cords, G Farrell Kellum, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Through their artworks, each artist explores their own identity formation, but also identity formation of those living amid the Postmodern condition of the Western world in the late stages of capitalism. All three artists explore how the collective is manifested in their singular identities by weaving in the personal, intimate, and everyday vernacular into their artworks while also including remnants of wider cultural influences. In the contemporary moment, the dynamic process of identity formation remains betwixt any sort of settled or concretized state. This unresolved status is also reflected in the conceptualization and construction of the artworks by Cords, Kellum, and Akunyili Crosby. The messy interplay between the singular and collective is presented in their artworks as unexpected juxtapositions of diverse information, images, materials, and mark-making.

Impact of Self-Determination Theory in American Psycho By Bet Easton Ellis

This study tackles the summery of the story of AMERICAN PSYCHO and the relationship of self-determination and the main character who was severely impact by his psychology motivation from being the best between his social entourage and become killing multiple of his friends and many other people and as well as one dog and one poor man in street. It also has mentioned all the characters in this story and some of their quotes. After that it has been reported the one critical analysis of this story; then it talks about the role of violence of the main character and his consumption under capitalism. The physical violence and the stratification of the psycho American and sexual desire with his friends and horrible violence over them who finished by killing multiple of his girlfriends and finally being a serial killer of Los Angeles. Replying back by quickly conclusion talk about the stylish modernism and post modernism of this story that makes a sensitive revolution of this Ellis novelist who has made one new story of many colors of problem trying to figure this American life style and psycho American characters are doing well imagine how much psychology motivation is imposed by American society and the role of capitalism making one horror story and revolutionary road in the 80teen with the stylish modernism and that makes from the story one of the best of written and have some great ideas and many problems of the American society.

Maqasid Al-Shari’ah and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Technological advancements in the twenty-first century, invigorated by the exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, have ushered in a new era that provides many of us with amenities and comforts that were hitherto unattainable. But behind this progressive rhetoric of neo-liberalism, capitalism, and post modernism, artificial Intelligence development has also sparked an increasingly ambiguous ethical future, especially at the level of privacy, manipulations and others. This article provides a
 concise analysis of the concept of Maqasid al-Shari’ah and its relevance to AI ethics. This paper attempts to investigate the ethical contemporary challenges posed by the advancement of AI from the perspective of Maqasid-al-Shari’ah and ethic-based approaches. In this study, the qualitative approach was used to clarify the importance of Maqasid Al-Shari’ah and the ethics of artificial intelligence in light of the ongoing contemporary challenges. The article contends that Artificial Intelligence poses weighty ethical challenges related to privacy, manipulation and others which are vital values in Maqasid Al-Shari’ah. The paper concludes that ethical considerations should be incorporated into the development and usage of Artificial Intelligence. The paper paves the way future attempts to analyse alternative ethical paradigms for Artificial intelligence in general, based on a comprehensive Islamic ethic-based approach founded within the context of maqasid which can represent a constructive contribution to the worldwide discourse on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

Interaksi Sufisme, Ekologi dan Teologi di Era Postmodernisme: Antara wahdat al-wujûd Ibn ‘Arabi dan sûluk al-Ghazali

The era of postmodernism is an emerging reaction to the failure of the modern era, because the progress caused by the rationality of the modern era has brought many problems that are no less complicated for the generations that follow. The presence of Sufism is considered to be able to be a problem to solve this long problem, especially among Muslims. In order for Sufism to become more established in dealing with and solving these various problems, Sufism needs to develop and integrate with other scientific domains which in the context of this paper are ecology and theology. This paper seeks to present Sufism that integrates with ecology which is then called ecosufism which is referred to by Hossein Nasr. Meanwhile, this effort to integrate with theology is referred to the thought of Zurkani Jahja who placed Sufism as a methodology to reach the level of true adherents of the Islamic creed. Through this paper, a spirit can be found that seeks to restore awareness of the great potential that Muslims actually have if they are able to live their creed teachings correctly, and the only way that is considered to be able to lead to this passion is Sufism.

Contributions of Africa to management and organization science

ABSTRACT Given the increasing globalization of management and organization science (MOS), it has been suggested that scholarly communities examine the contributions of their contexts to the discipline. Accordingly, the contributions from Africa to MOS across the pre-modern, modern, and post-modern eras are examined using generative theory. Evidence from historical, philosophical, anthropological, and sociological sources demonstrates that significant contributions to MOS have originated from Africa. Even so, those contributions have not been acknowledged, especially in the post-modern era, due to the “writing out” of Africa. Several implications for research and pedagogy concerning MOS and Africa are considered given the current trend of decolonization.

Heavy metal in Turkey: Tracking the tensions of democratization in the 1990s

AbstractMusic, as a form of public discourse, invariably becomes a social science field that is considered more in the postmodern era when the boundaries are blurred. This study examines the political and cultural links between the emergence of the heavy metal genre and Turkish democracy. There are correlations between the prevalence of heavy metal in Turkey and the country's social and political transition in the 1990s and the search for a new path. The main argument here is that, among the country's tense democratization efforts and social problems, the heavy metal genre also indirectly carries the distinct traces of a different political search for the youth of the 1990s, although not directly. Democratic politics is a process established by daily life with the direct influence of societal interactions, and Turkish politics, and cultural life, in this case, heavy metal, include important notions in this remarkable manner. The main point symbolized by metal music in Turkey was its lyrical and artistic ability to express different points of view loudly enough against the uniform religious and nationalist culture that could be offensive, while other mainstream ranges such as pop and arabesque music didn't mind this issue.

Теоретико-концептуальные подходы и результаты эмпирического изучения феномена толерантности (обзор литературы)

In modern conditions of postmodernity, which is characterized on the one hand by the blurring of moral and cultural values of a person, and on the other hand, by an orientation towards tolerance in various areas of his life. It should be noted that in modern society, the phenomenon of tolerance is increasingly perceived as freedom from prejudice, often in order to justify deviations and impose a minority position on the majority. It is believed that a tolerant person should be able to fully accept the other. This situation is increasingly common in modern society. On the one hand, in the current situation, a person should be deprived of such personal qualities as will, critical thinking, moral understanding of what is happening. In other words, the personality must lose its own identity. The purpose of this study was to comprehend the phenomenon of tolerance from the standpoint of theoretical and conceptual approaches to its study for use in medical and sociological research of health and healthcare. In the course of the study, an analytical method was used in combination with a scientific and theoretical approach, materials from 63 literature sources were analyzed. The article attempts an etymological analysis of the problems of tolerance formation, changes in the meaning of the word in the historical aspect, presents various classifications of the concept. We came to the conclusion that a tolerant personality copes with the emerging stressful situation, it is characterized by such personality qualities as patience, endurance, mental stability. Such people are distinguished by friendliness, calmness, the ability to listen, analyze and conduct a dialogue. Quite different characteristics apply to an intolerant personality. On the contrary, they are anxious and feel a sense of threat coming from outside. They are confident in their own exclusivity, they are not ready to take responsibility, but seek to shift it to others.

The Loss of the Real in Kazuo Ishiguro’sNever Let Me Go,Klara and the SunandNocturnes

AbstractThis paper addresses the issue of the loss of the real in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro as a contemporary author whose thought line is still in progress. His approach to this issue is anti-capitalist as he questions the so-called scientific advancement led by cash-oriented capitalists and industrialists. His writing seeks to strip the veil of the murderous nature of this kind of science. He blames it for killing the real and creating a world of simulations. He animadverts upon dystopian spaces where he holds postmodern scientific knowledge responsible for the digression of the natural course of life and lays bare the secrets behind the replacement of the real with the simulated by drawing attention to such debatable topics as human cloning, cosmetic surgeries and artificial intelligence. In terms of methodology of analysis, this paper is primarily based on a close examination of the author’s literary texts: two novels(Never Let Me GoandKlara and the Sun)and three short stories from Nocturnes (“Malvern Hills”, “Nocturne” and “Crooner”). Postmodernist concepts have been of great relevance to the analysis of these texts, for his fiction could not be approached in isolation from the realities of the postmodern era where it’s produced. Equally, bearing in mind the author’s socio-ethnic and historical background, the society where he lives and the politico-cultural transformations of the world aTher the Second World War plays an important role in the analysis of his texts.