Social Dialectic Research Articles

The Social Dialectics of AI

In this deep dive into the world of artificial intelligence, Pietro Daniel Omodeo employs the frameworks laid out in Matteo Pasquinelli's The Eye of the Master to weave a sociological history of AI that begins with the class struggles of the Industrial Revolution and continues into the context of early twentieth-century computing, which eventually gave rise our current Information Age. "AI," he concludes, "sheds light onto the intellectual component of labor in all ages."

Perfection as a value-regulatory principle of ethics of humanism and Renaissance culture of the 14th-16th centuries

The article presents and systematizes the fundamental concepts of a philosophical approach to the human perfection in the European spiritual culture of the 14th-16th centuries, namely, in the philosophical pursuits during the period of the Italian Renaissance and the establishment of civic humanism. The research is focused on the basic trends in the inception of the idea of human perfection as well as on its characteristics. Under the analysis are the essential traits of the philosophy of man in the treatises of a number of distinguished thinkers of the period of European Renaissance of the 14th-16th centuries. The article argues that the issues of the free will, natural structure, harmony as well as individual and social dialectics are indicative of a broad spectrum of the Philosophy of Man in the spiritual culture of the 14th-16th centuries. These issues point to the emergence and moulding of a social person, a citizen and a legal entity.
 A special emphasis in the research is laid on the importance and the need to seek the standards and ideals of human life and to provide a philosophical and ethical search for the implementation of the principles of human life and the revival of the standards of human perfection in its universal ascension to the ultimate truths.
 The author offers his own assessment of the formation and development of the issues related to a perfectly wise human being. The concusions are drawn pertaining to the evolution of the philosophy of man in the spiritual culture of the 14th-16th centuries.
 The author comes to the conclusion that, in general, the divine in human nature and man in the divine continuum in all the beauty of self-expression and harmony is one of the main elements of philosophical reflections on perfection as a valuable universe of humanistic ethics. Perfection as an invariant function of a person’s self-regulation in a degree comparison received much less development next to the ethical-aesthetic and spiritual foundations of the formation, development and regeneration of the Renaissance man.
 As a spiritual-intellectual, aesthetic, psychological complex, humanism was characteristic of the worldview and worldview of certain strata of society, in which the principle of perfection was a practical-humanistic regulatory-value principle. The function of theoretical internalization of the person in the philosophy of humanism undoubtedly had a place. The problems of free will, natural organization, harmony, the dialectic of the individual and the social testify to a wide range of intra-subjective philosophical analysis in the systems of the 11th and 11th centuries, and, at the same time, philosophical and ethical searches were aimed at realizing the principles of human life, on the revival of standards of human perfection in his universal ascent to higher truths.

Social dilemma of legal order (sociological reflections)

The article provides an explanation of the social dilemma of legal order. Its understanding includes two provisions that make up a contradictory unity: 1) the legal order in modern societies has no reasonable alternative; 2) the social dialectics of the legal order formation is variable. Historical situations showing the action of the dilemma in societies are considered. Concluding the article, the author concludes that the establishment of legal order in societies is a complex and contradictory process of their institutional reorganization.

Can Adaptations Create Dialectical Sites within the Skopos Theory? An Exploratory Study of Inconsolable Memories and Memories of Underdevelopment

This is an exploratory study of the adaptation of the novel Inconsolable Memories (1965) by Edmundo Desnoes into the film Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) by Tomas Gutiérrez Alea under the Skopos theory. This study is a part of a larger ongoing investigation into the cinema of Gutiérrez Alea, in which the researcher is looking at the various techniques he utilizes across his films to generate a social dialectic. The study is located in the skopos defined by Gutiérrez Alea – diminishing the role of the cultural archetypes such as patriarchy and identification with the colonizer that were deeply ingrained in the Cuban people, which he felt, were hampering the continuous progress of the socialist revolution. Here, I’m exploring the strategies he uses in the process of creating a dialectical text as a means of social reform. Gutiérrez Alea has created the adaptation through a collaboration between himself and the author of the novel, Edmundo Desnoes. The study hopes that this collaboration may also reveal a dialectical relationship under the same skopos between the two texts themselves, and the manner in which they interact and modify each other.

Mobile Commons in the Pre-Pandemic, Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era: Drawing from Mobility Experiences in Post-Migrant Times

This paper examines the effect of the pandemic in the generation of simultaneous global, regional, and local processes as they materialize in realities and the potential for post-pandemic mobile commons. The paper theorizes the matter drawing on studies in the triangle of Cyprus-Greece-Turkey i.e., the south-eastern border of Europe/EU. Mobile commons is theorized in the current context by locating these processes in the pandemic and post-pandemic era, even though the first empirical work was done during the pre-pandemic period. The pandemic brought about an abrupt interruption of what is at the core of global capitalism: mobility. During this period, regimes of exception, derogation and suspension of rights were introduced across all fields of the civic, social, and political life almost all over the world. The concept of mobile commons aims to capture dynamic processes, as an ensemble or matrix of care of the society on the move, generating reciprocity on the move and a sustainability of the geography of the crossings. Digitality is part and parcel of the current migratory processes. Digitality is a space where media technologies of control coexist with the possibilities of alternative media use. To every form of control technology there is a corresponding form of resistance to it. The paper examines how mobile commons resist digital registration and the process that generate a pan-European digital border infrastructure which aims to immobilize people. It illustrates how encounters between groups produce social dialectics within institutions; struggles, conflicts, disagreements, and negotiations occur, but so do new socialities and solidarities in a world in a constant state of being remade.

Reflections on Lenin's Dialectics

Pyotr Kondrashov takes a deep dive into Lenin’s understanding of social dialectics. This exploration gives rise to an approach to that places the active human subject squarely in the center of a revolutionary Marxism that goes “beyond Marx,” furthering the struggle for a liberated society.

Lexical techniques of sangam women poets

The greatest vacuum in the world of Tamil literature was prevented by the reprinting of Sangam copies. Editors like C Vai Tha, U Ve Sa, Sowri Perumal Arangan, and others accomplished that great task perfectly. It is noteworthy that the study and reading of Sangam literature has been disrupted and has revived many fields of study on their own and occupies an incontrovertible place in the world of literary studies. Just as Sangam literature is an incontrovertible copy in the world of literature, so women have been the dominant race in the early years of human social dialectics. At a time when the remains of matrilineal society are being forgotten, getting to know the women authors of Sangam literature who have recorded the tribal way of life, and their semantic technique through their works would be a retelling of the vanished vocabulary historical past. Out of the 18 books contained within the Sangam literature collection, 30 women poets have contributed. Of them, 15 sang only Akam songs. There were 8 people who sang only Puram songs and 7 sang both. In the entire Sangam literature, the compositions of the women poets do not appear in the two volumes of Ainkurunooru and Kalithokai, which are a limited collection, rather than a collection of single songs. Similarly, there are no records of women in the Paripaadal and Pathupattu songs, which are placed too backward in the chronology. This article illustrates the semantic technique of the women poets by taking only one or the first word in the Sangam literature, which appears in 154 poems written by female poets.

Decayed Status of Caste Colonialism Sinkhole in the Novel ‘Pookkzhi’

This research paper on the phenomenon of 'Pookkukhi' is a symbol of the manner in which the violent operational politics of caste ideologies, which have become archetypes in the collective consciousness of the Indian social mind, are manifested through fabrications and the manner in which they operate in the social space. In this way, the study seeks to identify with the colonial dominance of caste that can govern the creator's creative mind. The creation of an author who is influenced by caste colonialism describes a philosophy of creation that does not seek to achieve decolonization. In the social set up, the novel sheds light on the dynamics of caste, which plays an important role, and the rejection of inter-caste marriages and the arrogance of caste slave bodies who dare to do anything to preserve their own caste. In accordance with the temporal and spatial contexts, casteism symbolises the sluggishness in the urban areas and the vitality in the rural areas. In such a caste-based society, the conceptualisation of woman as woman against woman (female characters Sirayi, Velayi) structured throughout the work is indicative of the space for woman in social dialectics. Sexual transgressions reflect the common sense of a patriarchal society where a woman's body is identified as a male object, portrayed as a sexual commodity, and denied her rights. It seeks to identify the multiplicity of colonial power that governs the creator's consciousness by examining the issues of society manifested in the work, caste-colonial dominance, the genocidal social disintegration resulting from slavery, and the triadic colonial power manifestations that question the existence of women. The study is based on the approaches of postcolonial analysis and interpretive analysis.

Semiotics and Poetics of the Road in Ferdinand Oyono's <i>Old Negro and the Medal</i>

In the novel, even if it is not turned primarily towards the road as in the road novels, the road is a real space-binding whose evocation triggers the immediate perception of the other literary categories such as time, character and narration. The road is also said to be a chronotope, that is to say a literary category of form and content whose study requires the mastery of the interactional functioning of "time-space" and of the other literary categories that contribute to its semantization. But, before any poetic consideration, the road is a linguistic sign whose sociological significance as a system of communication is revealed by semiology and semiotics. As for the novelistic fiction, it reveals this linguistic sign as a complex of presuppositions which is never neutral because, like any space, the road can be connoted positively or negatively and thus determine the movement or the actions of the actants and the circulation of the objects in a given fictional universe. In Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Negro and the Medal, an anti-colonial African novel, the semiotic and poetic analysis of the chronotope "road" begins with an interrogation of its structure and functioning. The road is above all that which, vertically, connects the indigenous neighborhoods and the European neighborhood, but it also designates all those tracks, paths and alleys which, horizontally, connect the indigenous spaces to each other. From the point of view of the functioning of the road, it symbolizes the antagonistic relationships between the African and Western worlds, between the colonized and the colonists. It is euphoric when it leads the old Negro to the commander's house in a friendly manner and very dysphoric when it powerlessly witnesses the drama of the former. As a connecting space, the road counts in the relationship of domination of the natives by the settlers. From an aesthetic point of view, the road is a category of the narrative treated with manner and style in The Old Negro and the Medal. It is evoked not only in a tight and digestible way, that is, in a brachylogical way, but also treated stylistically by the writer in order to increase the level of affectivity in the readers. The writing of the road, thus, creates a literary form in Ferdinand Oyono's novel that can be interpreted as the expression of the social dialectic or even the Manichean vision of the colonial world.

The Russian Arctic World as a “cultural circle” and an object of development

The geospatial image of the Russian Arctic in the cultural and civilizational context is considered, taking into account the current policy and development strategy of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2035. Russian Arctic world as a domestic phenomenon, which embodies the specifics of Russian civilization, national culture, history and geography, is in the center of attention. It is emphasized that the “space factor” played and continues to play a huge role in the formation of Russian civilization. It left a vivid imprint on all aspects of public life. Overcoming the space in Russia still remains one of the most urgent state tasks. First of all, this applies to the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, the strategic importance of which is becoming more and more significant. It is pointed out that the implementation of the unique geospatial capabilities of the Russian Arctic lies not only in the implementation of the strategic tasks of socio-economic development and technological advancement, but also in the spiritual, moral, cultural and professional growth of people living and working there.As the methodological basis of the study, the authors chose the concept of “spatial rotation”, which covers modern social theory and practice. Its main content boils down to the fact that space is recognized as an active participant in the interactions taking place on Earth. At the same time, the space is represented as a “characteristic” human work, saturated with the meanings of social dialectics and strategy. This statement was an argument to consider the fact of “spatialization” of the Russian Arctic into the category of a special life world. In this regard, the idea is expressed about the need for an intensive “humanization” of the Russian Arctic world.

Fashion as an Aesthetic Form of Life

Fashion is an aesthetic practice that concerns the ordinary sphere of our life: it is associated with everydayness and it is a source of endless aesthetic experiences. The purpose of this paper is to validate a new perspective on fashion based on Wittgenstein’s later aesthetic conception. In Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion (2017), Matteucci introduces the idea of combining the Wittgensteinian concept of “form of life” with fashion. In accordance with this thesis, the paper aims at showing how fashion is constituted as a “form of life”. Specifically, I shall argue that fashion is an “aesthetics form of life” which structurally employs a language of an aesthetic type ––one with a specific grammar (or set of rules) of its own. I claim that there is in fashion a contact point between the grammar of language and socially encoded aesthetic responses: fashion follows slavishly its own grammar, through its cyclical seasonality, while at the same time tending to creatively reinvent itself. Thus, anyone who daily commits to the practices of fashion acquires sensitivity to its rules, contributing to a social dialectic of identification/diversification typically belonging to fashion itself. Finally, on the basis of the claim that fashion is a “form of life”, and indeed since fashion is primarily an aesthetic practice, I claim that Wittgenstein’s aesthetic notions can coherently be related to fashion as well: concepts such as ‘aesthetic reaction’, ‘gesture’, and ‘correctness’ will be shown to be crucial to an analysis of the aesthetic phenomenon of fashion.

Sobre a possibilidade de uma dialética dialógica da filosofia social de Hegel

The present paper intends to deal with the basis of the Hegelian theory of action as a discursive-normative ethics of social relations through some icons of recent critical research of Hegel’s work and whose readings are organized around the idea of historically institutionalized shared social practices. I will rely mainly on the interpretation made by Robert Pippin, investigating the possibility of advancing the thesis he points out to, concerning a dialogical reading of Hegelian dialectic in its connection with Platonic dialectic as interpreted by Gadamer. This will be done in view of the Hegelian structure given by Robert Brandom for the formation of a theoretical apparatus capable of sustaining the thesis that the reflective and practical possibilities of different forms of life come from the social horizons of reciprocal determination of the norms that support them. Based on this, I will demonstrate that the Hegelian social theory has its main support in interactions of a typically dialogical character in an interactive diversity of demands established by means of synchronic and diachronic recognitive clashes, thus opening the way for the emergence of new demands that aim for social recognition and political institutionalization. This community of normative discourses allows the possibility to argue that in Hegel’s thinking one is able to find the structures for a non-relativist perspectivism, whose dialectical opening is founded on this ethics of social practices. This, in turn, leads us back to some critical investigations concerning Platonic dialectic as anti-dogmatic and anti-metaphysical, investigations which establish the pillars of a social dialectic that relies on what can the called a community of logoi.

Non-Simultaneity and the Obligation to Its Dialectics (May 1932)

The proposed translation of selected fragments of the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch “The Heritage of Our Times” is devoted to the temporal characteristics of various social groups of German society at the beginning of the 20th century. The first fundamental concept in these characteristics is the concept of non-simultaneity considered in different aspects. Second, it is the concept of heritage as a set of economic, political, cultural, mental elements of the past that remained in German society of the 1930s. Bloch showed the impact of these elements o on the life of the middle class (peasants, craftsmen, small-scale urban bourgeoisie). In Bloch’s view, the fact that the Nazis used these elements in their propaganda explains the popularity of Nazism in Germany. The author also forwards the characteristic of Germany as a classical state of non-simultaneity and poses the task to re-formulate the Marxist-style irrational in the mass consciousness and not to hand over dreams and images of the future to reactionary forces. Here Bloch makes use of the European philosophical tradition of Hegel and Marx. He introduces the concept of objectively non-simultaneous and subjectively non-simultaneous contradictions into the analysis of modern capitalism. Social dialectics, according to Bloch, should be multi-layered in the temporal aspect.

Психологічна безпека людини в онтологічному та гносеологічному вимірах. Післямова до роботи, відзначеної Державною премією України в галузі науки і техніки.

Аналізується стан проблеми психологічної безпеки людини, яка в останні десятиріччя активно розробляється на пострадянських теренах.
 На основі проведеного аналізу констатується, що розроблення цієї проблеми, аналітичну рамку якого задають публікації психологів Російської Федерації, здійснюється в спірних теоретико-методологічних координатах.
 У тлумаченнях психологічної безпеки виразно простежуються тенденції абсолютизації її індивідуально-психологічних аспектів та десоціалізації, що спотворює зміст даного поняття (фактично відбувається його підміна: індивідуально-психологічні ресурси і чинники безпеки розглядаються як сама безпека).
 На думку автора, конструктивну альтернативу згаданим тенденціям становить концепт психологічної безпеки, покладений в основу роботи «Життєвий світ і психологічна безпека людини в умовах суспільних змін», за яку групі вчених Інституту соціальної та політичної психології НАПН України присвоєно Державну премію України в галузі науки і техніки за 2019 рік.
 Згідно із цим концептом, психологічна безпека людини є інтегративною характеристикою системи взаємодії «суб’єкт – середовище», у процесі якої складається певна ситуація, котру людина суб’єктивно означує маркерами «безпечна – небезпечна».
 Обґрунтовується ситуаційна, а також динамічна, континуальна природа психологічної безпеки.
 Наголошується, що, так само як і ситуація, психологічна безпека водночас залежить і не залежить від людини, тому вирішення проблеми психологічної безпеки передбачає як актуалізацію особистісних ресурсів захищеності психіки, так і підвищення рівня безпечності переважно незалежних від людини чинників.
 Підкреслюється відносний характер будь-якої психологічної убезпеченості, разом з тим висунуто тезу про можливість і потребу досягнення в кожному конкретному випадку такого її рівня, який є необхідним і достатнім для збереження особистісної автентичності і життєтворчого потенціалу людини.
 Особливу увагу приділено розкриттю соціальної сутності та діалектики активності людини як суб’єкта безпеки. Обстоюється думка про те, що проблематика психологічної безпеки людини належить до сфери компетенції передусім соціальної психології. Інші психологічні дисципліни можуть розробляти її окремі аспекти.

Об отдельном аспекте экономической истории постсоветской России: биткоин и его угроза национальной безопасности

The aim is the need to prove that bitcoin, as a cryptocurrency, is not provided with any material property expression, contributes to undermining the financial security of our country, and, therefore, should be prohibited by law.Methods. The main principles and approaches of social dialectics were used in the course of the research.Results. Based on the analysis of sources on national security, it is concluded that unsecured virtual funds should not be allowed into the civil turnover of our country, which would be in the interests of ensuring its financial security.Conclusion. Based on the historical experience of cash issue in all countries of the modern world, it is proved that for legalization in the modern financial market of any currency, it is necessary to know its issuer, as well as the aspect related to the property, material security.Â

Межэтническое и этноконфессиональное развитие дагестанского общества в современных условиях: особенности и специфика развития

 The aim of the article is to analyze the current situation of interethnic and ethno-confessional development of Dagestan society.Methods. As the main methods, the author uses the principles and approaches of social dialectics. The article is written on the basis of various literary, documentary and archival sources.Results. The author in the course of the study comes to the conclusion that the geopolitical and geographical position of Dagestan, the features of the interethnic and ethno-confessional identity of its inhabitants and a number of other important factors and preconditions influence the political situation and interethnic relations. The USSR collapse and the subsequent crisis of society showed that relations between different ethnic groups are one of the most vulnerable spheres of human relations.Ðionclusion. Interethnic respect is the main condition for the coexistence of the peoples of Dagestan. With aim of the prosperity of all the peoples of Dagestan, it is necessary to provide a policy of cooperation and friendship between them, the creation of common coordinating political and economic structures in modern society of Dagestan.Â

Freedom from Social Echo Chambers: Policy Implications of an Algorithmic Bias

Search engines and social networking sites use a number of signals to track interests and preferences online in order to continually display content that retains readership and activity. Building on work done around Filter Bubbles, this paper investigates the cognitive workings of a typical user in sub-consciously constructing “echo chambers” by making use of Facebook’s News Feed. Their interaction with like-minded content and the unintentional consequence of losing access to opposing or challenging information reinforces the confirmation bias that stunts social synthesis and political progression. This largely involuntary binding of users in ideological camps damages the Hegelian social dialectic and demands regulation, especially in states devoid of strong institutional frameworks capable of withstanding polarised polities.

Foto-Foto Karya Kassian Céphas dalam Dialektika Sosial

Kassian Céphas is recognized as photographer Kraton Yogyakarta that has the equal rights of Europeans in the nineteenth century. Photographs of his work in addition to documentation of Yogyakarta and the Dutch empire, also sold as souvenirs for the Europeans. Although at that time the profession as a photographer is still scarce, but Céphas work professionally. Photographs by Céphas has recorded social and cultural development as part of the social dialectic. Attributes clothing, custom intergovernmental exchange visits, as well as efforts to obtain equal footing Céphas Europeans, showed a socio-cultural dialogue. Céphas works is a form of social description that has been cultured people of Yogyakarta, about art and knowledge though not necessarily a formal education. Through his photographs, Céphas confirms the existence ofYogyakarta as part of a nation.Keywords: Céphas, photographs, social dialectic, culture, nation.

Social Transformation and Dialectics in Traditional Marxism: A Critique of the Report of the Central Committee of the KKE (Communist Party of Greece) to the 19th Congress

This paper addresses three main issues in its critique of traditional Marxist perspectives on the organisation of class struggle: how traditional Marxism understands capital; its philosophy of history; and how it fetishes political power. By employing an analysis that has its origins in the tradition of autonomist Open Marxism, the critique will analyse the Report of the Central Committee of the KKE for the Party's 19th Congress alongside Georg Lukacs' version of Marxism, which as a traditional Marxist analysis provides a logic that underpins the KKE's position, despite the Party's claims to the contrary. It is argued that, despite its criticism of modern capitalism, traditional Marxism ultimately follows a liberal logic that shackles mainstream communist parties to fetish-forms imposed by the logic of capital and thus limits the scope of Marxian dialectics to the analysis of the fetish-forms themselves.

社会信号处理与分析的基本框架: 从社会传感网络到计算辩证解析方法

The availability of real-time and reliable social signals is a necessity for implementing closed-loop and feedback based dynamic social management. However, the concepts and methods for social signals are far behind those for physical signal processing and analysis, and need to be developed in a systematic approach. As social and new media and social networking reach to all corners of societies rapidly, the problem of social signal processing and analysis becomes significant and the demand for effective solutions is great and urgent. This paper investigates issues related to the modeling and management of social systems, characterization of social signals and channels, social sensors and construction of social sensing networks, artificial societies, computational experiments, and parallel execution (the ACP approach) for reasoning and synthesis in computational social systems, computational dialectics, and computational analytics. Our objective is to establish a framework and methodology for acquisition, processing, analysis, analytics, and application of social signals.