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Colour Contrast in Cartographic Works Using the Principles of Johannes Itten

Colour is considered a key means of expression for use in cartographic works. This is because colours and the relations among them influence not only the aesthetic impression a map creates but also its overall utility. In addition to Newton’s spectral colour theory, today theories with origins in artistic technique are gaining ground in cartography. This article introduces J. Itten’s colour theory (first published in 1961 in The Art of Colour [Kunst der Farbe]) with special attention given to his concept of seven colour contrasts. The article also discusses the suitability and unsuitability of their application in practical cartography, and it contributes original examples employing thematic maps, a discipline with broad possibilities for the application of these inventive methods by today’s mapmakers.

Left hemisphere: mapping critical theory today

Left hemisphere: mapping critical theory today

A NEW FORMATION OF POSTMODERNISM: SITUATIONAL AESTHETIC

Aesthetics, in the process up to the present, has been used in many fields and different theories. Today's aesthetic point of view is very different. This study is handled some of current approaches to art movement and groups that is based on the basics of Dadaism. Aestheticized is discussed in terms of truth and reality of life with the culture industry. Also, by generating the influence of the culture industry, differences in these two concepts have been introduced and research made on strategy and tactics which is an important element of the situational aesthetics. In addition to this, researches have been done about effects of culture industry of situational aesthetic and approaching today's postmodern theory and structuring in contemporary art. This issue is examined in terms of today's art economy of situational aesthetic on several cases. The purpose of this article is sophisticatedly investigated “situational aesthetics that is in scope of contemporary art

The Swedish JAK bank: An example for an alternative approach in banking

This paper tries to analyse a unique bank in today's financial system. JAK members bank from Sweden rejects many theses accepted in today's banking theory. This bank does neither pay any interest on its deposits nor ask for interest for given loans, except the administrative fee for covering its transaction costs. JAK members bank is a cooperative, which does not strive to make profit, but has idealistic motives and propagates its vision and mission, above all, through education of its members and sympathisers. Thus, in this paper we want to present the manner in which this bank works and critically analyse the sustainability of this system. Furthermore, we want to compare this system with Islamic banking and analyse the possible implementation of this concept in Serbia.

Hodder, Ian (ed.): Archaeological Theory Today

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Even the Title: On the State of Narrative Theory Today

This essay considers the state of narrative theory today, giving particular attention to the rhetorical figure of aposiopesis (the unfinished sentence) and mind-reading or telepathy. Detailed readings of Joseph Conrad, Elizabeth Bowen and Jon McGregor interweave with a critical assessment of the work if a number of contemporary narrative theorists, including Jonathan Culler, Brian Richardson and Lisa Zunshine.

Reception Theory of Architecture: Its Pre-History and Afterlife

This paper investigates the implications of reception theory for a possible theory of architecture, not so much to construct such a theory for today, but rather to show how we are already beyond reception theory. Looking at the work of Fish, Iser, Jauss, and de Man, an argument is made that an architectural theory could have been formulated on the basis of reader-response criticism: this architectural theory would be that of an affective architecture, an architecture of affect, where the interplay of subject and object becomes the main focus of concern. This theory is shown to be a sub-species of what Meillassoux calls correlationism, and a link is made with the early written and built work of Le Corbusier. The essay ends by considering a radical afterlife for reception theory in the deconstruction of the notions of subject and object, which, according to the thought of Deleuze, become after-effects of the differential movement of architecture.

Trauma, memória e justiça em "A Morte e a Donzela", de Roman Polanski

O presente artigo analisa um filme inspirado em uma peça teatral de Ariel Dorfman, traduzida para o português como "A Morte e a Donzela". A película, que leva o mesmo título, foi lançada em 1994 sob direção de Roman Polanski. Trata-se de um suspense psicológico que conta com a participação de apenas três personagens: Paulina, Miranda e Escobar, interpretados por Sigorney Weaver, Ben Kingsley e Stuart Wilson, respectivamente. Colocando em pauta discussões de grande relevância para a Psicologia - como a questão da memória de um trauma, da elaboração psíquica e do potencial restaurador da justiça - este filme, juntamente com algumas contribuições de teóricos da atualidade, suscita reflexões de grande valia ao enfrentamento de impasses ligados à rememoração de catástrofes sociais em âmbito intersubjetivo e comunitário.

Examining today's theory of thinking in the light of the analysis of a patient unable to gain from his environment

The general body of knowledge that is psychoanalysis depends upon the findings of the activity we know as clinical research. Namely, it is the result of an examination of the thoughts and behaviour...

Is there still gender on the agenda for spatial planning theories?: Attempt to an integrative approach to generate gender-sensitive planning theories

The objective of this article is to emphasise the importance of integrating a gender perspective in the planning sciences to advance planning theories. We will first debate how gender issues are integrated into planning practice and theory today. At the beginning we refer to the article of Sandercock and Forsyth A gender agenda – new directions for planning theory (Sandercock, Forsyth 1992). We will deal with the question of how gender issues are received in the European mainstream of handbooks on planning theory. Furthermore, we will discuss why and how gender perspectives are to be integrated into planning to bridge the gap between gender-sensitive and mainstream approaches to planning theory. We outline why gender planning has to be an integrative planning approach by linking to the integrative approaches of Mitchell (2008, 2009) and Wilber (2001, 2011). In particular, we want to highlight that integrative thinking is a basic idea of gender planning. Furthermore, we describe how gender planning can be a catalyst for valuable integrative approaches in planning which, up to hitherto, have been less recognised than the mainstream approaches.

The Personal Is the International: For Black Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn't Enough

The article reflects on why I opted for Political Science as my career. It tells of a society where once black women could only imagine themselves either as maids, teachers or nurses—this was my mother's world. The narrative shows how a racialised and gendered history shapes both my hopes for a particular kind of international relations theory and practice, as it shapes my frustrations and anxieties about my own future in the discipline. I also locate my place in the discipline within broader global ‘disruptions’ that see previously marginalised actors moving to the centre of international life. I also attempt to demonstrate that international relations today is located in globalised peace but within localised extremes of poverty and privilege. I make the case that the challenge to International Relations (IR) theory today is to find a language, a new language, in which to articulate the contradictions of a globalised peace that exists within localised extremes of poverty and privilege.

Art & Psychoanalysisby WalshMaria. London, I.B. Tauris, 2013, 176 pp., $25.00.

Art & Psychoanalysisby WalshMaria. London, I.B. Tauris, 2013, 176 pp., $25.00.

In the beginning: The International Relations enlightenment and the ends of International Relations theory

The question of endings is simultaneously a question of beginnings: wondering if International Relations is at an end inevitably raises the puzzle of when and how ‘it’ began. This article argues that International Relations’ origins bear striking resemblance to a wider movement in post-war American political studies that Ira Katznelson calls the ‘political studies enlightenment.’ This story of the field’s beginnings and ends has become so misunderstood as to have almost disappeared from histories of the field and accounts of its theoretical orientations and alternatives. This historical forgetting represents one of the most debilitating errors of International Relations theory today, and overcoming it has significant implications for how we think about the past and future development of the field. In particular, it throws open not only our understanding of the place of realism in International Relations, but also our vision of liberalism. For the realism of the International Relations enlightenment did not seek to destroy liberalism as an intellectual and political project, but to save it. The core issue in the ‘invention of International Relations theory’ — its historical origins as well as its end or goal in a substantive or normative sense — was not the assertion of realism in opposition to liberalism: it was, in fact, the defence of a particular kind of liberalism.

Women’s Fiction, New Modernist Studies, and Feminism

Rejecting recent demotions of gender, this introduction argues for the centrality of women’s writing and feminist theory to modernist studies. This special issue presents work by little-known women writers in the context of major theoretical conversations within modernist studies and feminist theory today, especially affect theory, globalism, and the archive. While affect theory grounds itself in issues of gender and sexuality, globalism and the archive have often stood in danger of neglecting women. This introduction lauds the power of affect theory while showing the deep feminist potential in globalism and the archive.

Darth Vader or Don Quixote? Keith Jenkins in review

Keith Jenkins is undoubtedly one of the most controversial and divisive historical theorists of the contemporary era. This article examines the reception that Jenkins's work has received from academic reviewers, in order to see how the Jenkins ‘brand’, so to speak, has been constructed over the past 20 years or so. The article studies how the reception of Jenkins's work by reviewers allowed them to continue the ‘history wars’ away from the main battleground of full-length books and journal articles. We argue that the reviews liberally blended empirical fact, interpretation and personal opinion with a series of literary flourishes. All in all, and for the most part, consumers of these reviews were cued to ‘imagine’ Jenkins as a strange combination of Darth Vader and Don Quixote; further evidence that Jenkins remains one of the most significant and misunderstood figures in historical theory today.

DIMENSI WAKTU DALAM ANALISIS TIME VALUE OF MONEY DAN ECONOMIC VALUE OF TIME

The development of the Islamic finance theory today has become a hot issuediscussed, such as polemic of the concept of time value of money. This concept cored that money today is more valuable than the same amount of money in the future, so that the grounding or assumptions used by this theory is al ghunmu bila ghurmin (get results regardless of risk) and al kharaj bila dhaman (get results without issuing a charge), and it’s contrary to the principles of Islam. Then The positive time preference concept was replaced with the concept of economic value of time, this concept cored that time has economic value, not money has a time value

Archaeological theory today, 2nd edn., edited by Hodder, Ian

<i>Archaeological theory today, 2nd edn</i>., edited by Hodder, Ian

Heterogeneity as heterodoxy in development policy

PurposeA fundamental premise of economic theory is that of a homogenous subject. This unified and intentional subject also implicitly defines the welfare function that forms the foundation of economic development theory and policy today. Unfortunately, such a concept of agency is representative of mostly urban and majority populations and does not include indigenous communities who are peripheral in most developing nations. The concept of development presumes an attachment to modernization and deracination, paying little heed to conservation of natural resources that are of sacral value to tribal communities. This paper aims to show how economics neglects cultural and group differences and yet asserts a powerful influence on development policy. Institutional economists and anthropologists have contested this hegemony but at the same time have also been co‐opted into development management in several ways that are discussed below.Design/methodology/approachThe case of indigenous communities in Bangladesh is investigated and their exclusion from development elucidated by citing the conflicts that tribal groups have had with majority populations and the state. This is compared to the situation of tribal communities in the state of Kerala in India.FindingsIt is concluded that a heterogeneous imaginary at the level of the nation state allows possibilities for indigenous voices to be represented in development policy formation and that such heterogeneity itself opens the channel for an alternative construction of development.Research limitations/implicationsThe case studies may not be widely applicable to every context.Practical implicationsThe universality of policy suggestions should be questioned if such policy is not representative of minorities within the context of a nation.Originality/valueThe point that methodological individualism and the grounding in economics of development theory leads it to avoid community concerns has not been addressed before. The paper also looks at a historical development of the discourse of development in a new way. Finally, the case of Bangladesh has not been discussed in this manner or compared to Kerala.

What did “theory” mean to nineteenth-century chemists?

Some recent philosophers of science have argued that chemistry in the nineteenth century “largely lacked theoretical foundations, and showed little progress in supplying such foundations” until around 1900, or even later. In particular, nineteenth-century atomic theory, it is said, “played no useful part” in the crowning achievement of nineteenth-century chemistry, the powerful subdiscipline of organic chemistry. This paper offers a contrary view. The idea that chemistry only gained useful theoretical foundations when it began to merge with physics, it will be argued, is based on an implicit conception of scientific theory that is too narrow, and too exclusively oriented to the science of physics. A broader understanding of scientific theory, and one that is more appropriate to the science of chemistry, reveals the essential part that theory played in the development of chemistry in the nineteenth century. It also offers implications for our understanding of the nature of chemical theory today.

Recognition and Critical Theory today

In dialogue with his interlocutor, Axel Honneth summarizes the way his work on recognition has unfolded over the past two decades. While he has retained his principal insights, some important parts of his theory have changed. He comments that if he were to rewrite The Struggle for Recognition today, he would focus more on institutions and the historicization of recognition patterns. He clarifies his stance on some contemporary controversial issues, including the crisis of capitalism, gay marriage, and his quarrel with Peter Sloterdijk. Finally, he sheds some light on topics much discussed within Critical Theory, such as the relation between theory and praxis and the possibility of politicizing recognition, and on lesser-known aspects of his theory, namely, the relationship between his work and literature.