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Anime Studies\u27 Big Year
No full textIntroduction from Billy Tringali about JAMS\u27 biggest year yet
Копии карт из собрания Петра Великого в Национальной библиотеке Франции
Full text linkThis article explores the fate of maps and plans from the collection of Peter the Great focusing on Empress Catherine II’s efforts in 1765 to recover documents related to canal projects between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Despite reaching out to Abram Hannibal, who once oversaw Peter’s cabinet, most documents appeared lost or transferred to the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, fueling suspicions of theft. The text details the complex history of these cartographic items, including the role of Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, whose French catalogs and meticulous copies preserved many originals that were later lost from Russian archives. Two notable maps—the plan of Revel and the Moscow-St. Petersburg road map—were rediscovered in the National Library of France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France), illustrating how French copies serve as vital windows into Russia’s cartographic heritage, countering allegations of their illicit removal and emphasizing their ongoing value for historical research.This article explores the fate of maps and plans from the collection of Peter the Great focusing on Empress Catherine II’s efforts in 1765 to recover documents related to canal projects between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Despite reaching out to Abram Hannibal, who once oversaw Peter’s cabinet, most documents appeared lost or transferred to the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, fueling suspicions of theft. The text details the complex history of these cartographic items, including the role of Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, whose French catalogs and meticulous copies preserved many originals that were later lost from Russian archives. Two notable maps—the plan of Revel and the Moscow-St. Petersburg road map—were rediscovered in the National Library of France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France), illustrating how French copies serve as vital windows into Russia’s cartographic heritage, countering allegations of their illicit removal and emphasizing their ongoing value for historical research
Русская церковь и европейское Просвещение: новый взгляд
Full text linkРецензия на: A. V. Ivanov, A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. 353 p. ISBN 9780299327903
Middle Grades Novels in Verse: Examining Stereotypes in Early Adolescent Characters
Full text linkIn this article, the authors share analyses of two middle grade novels in verse to demonstrate how pre-service and in-service teachers and librarians may engage in similar analyses themselves or with their students. Authors use Lesko’s confident characterizations and Sarigianides et al.’s youth lens (Rethinking the “Adolescent”) to analyze two middle grade novels in verse. The authors found that while stereotypes are present, they do not define the characters. Rather, the stereotypes illustrate the growth of the characters as they navigate adolescence. The final verses are not presented as endings, but beginnings of the characters’ journeys
An Analysis of the Note on Languages in Philosophical Courses at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Full text linkThis article examines the note on languages in eleven philosophical courses taught in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This small textual fragment, which discusses from which old languages newer languages came, is studied in the context of the Mohylian doctrine of signs, especially the question whether words are “natural” or “conventional” signs. The author provides a classification of the eleven courses under study and examines the textual differences between them. He also investigates the origin of the note, the ways in which it came to the Mohylians, and, most importantly, how Mohylian philosophical courses influenced each other. Finally, the author discusses the role of “lingua Ruthenica” and its place in the classification of languages developed by the professors of the Kyiv-Mohyla academy
Andrei Matveev: Painting Allegory from Antwerp to Russia
Full text linkIn 1725, artist Andrei Matveev sent his Allegory of Painting to Catherine I from Antwerp, where Peter the Great had sent him to study. Matveev’s Allegory remains the earliest known easel painting on an allegorical subject by a Russian painter. This article examines the circumstances surrounding the painting’s creation in Antwerp and explores its iconography and sources. It then considers the place of Matveev’s work amid the allegorical imagery produced in early eighteenth-century Russia. This study offers a possible new interpretation of the painting and sheds light on the role Antwerp and its artistic legacy played in fostering Russia’s emerging artistic culture
Looking at Nothing, Bigly: The Right-Wing Politics of Texture Mapping Earth
Full text linkAre render engines fascist? This article proposes a debate on the relationship between conservative and far-right politics and environmental visualization technologies. The argument works through a close reading of a patented texture mapping process owned by Google Earth and a related artistic project titled Postcards from Google Earth (2010-ongoing) by Clement Valla. These case studies surface the engineering choices that selectively edit and optimize what is seen by users, thus creating a very particular, and manipulable, framing of “environment.” On this basis the article makes two claims: one, that computer graphics play a part in the conservative, right, and far-right mobilizations of nature-as-metaphor that nourish fascist and populist imaginaries, and two, that computer graphics more broadly reshapes human visual culture in ways that amplify the central contradictions of liberalism that have historically been exploited by fascism, such as an anti-allegiance to fact and rationality. The article concludes that combining digital technologies with representations of environments can resurrect latent conservative politics of the environment, and furthermore, that these politics can be directly and critically assessed through canonical interrogations of landscape art.
Introduction: Media and Climate
Full text linkBeyond the important insight that digital media exert a material influence over climates, this special issue marks two acute developments as central to the ambiguous relation of the terms media and climate: the proliferation of data-driven technologies across environments and a coinciding desire to seek out a politics and ethics beyond the history of Western humanism. The introduction thus sets out to frame this special issue’s interest in media and climate in relation to an emerging body of critical-media scholarship focused on the agency of technological and environmental processes, while also arguing for a specificity posed in relation to the material histories of race, colonialism, and dispossession shaping legacies of “human” agency and its future possibilities. We consider the aesthetic challenges posed by climate change, whether through conflicting media temporalities, new media art’s ongoing culpability and participation in extractive techniques, or the overarching effects of media on social, perceptual, and cognitive registers, both globally and individually. By framing the contributions in this special issue within our introductory essay as integral to understanding the parameters of technical, political, and social approaches to climate knowledge in the Now, Ongoing Past, and Indeterminate Future, we seek to map the stakes of promoting an even-greater interdisciplinary shift in specificity regarding the capacious dimensions of environment and media through their ready proximity to other aspects that bear on climate-related issues, including finance, technology, politics, colonialism, race, information, affect, and culture