83 research outputs found
Media and the Technological Turn: Truth, Power and Resistance
No full textThe author focuses on two very topical subjects of contemporary humanistic research: media and technology, and discusses the related turns and their correlations.
The widespread debate on media testifies to the complexity of this phenomenon and its related issues. Poststructuralists, as well as scholars in cultural and media studies, have acknowledged that the media are never the transparent and neutral interfaces which represent the reality existing out there. The medium is no mediator, but the locus of truth. Whoever operates the medium operates the truth. The author uses the term media turn to refer to this epistemological turn.
We are currently witnessing an emergence of the debate on technology. Technology intervenes into the “natural” and develops non-existent systems, thus raising the question of ultimate creativity and divinity, particularly in reference to synthetic biology. The author contemplates the leverage and functioning of contemporary technology and discusses an increasingly influential theory that technology is not subordinated to man, but vice versa: people have become functionaries of technology. The author proposes that this be referred to as the technological turn
The Unknown Matriculazione Università Legista Polona of the University of Padua from the Years 1591–1598
No full textThe article is devoted to the part of Matriculazione Università Legista Polona from the years 1591–1598, found in the book No. 30 in the Archivio Antico dell’Università degli Studi di Padova and published for the first time. It is one of the results of the in-depth analysis of the archive, which has been carried out by the author for five years now. The public register consists of 83 entries of people from areas of the former Reczpospolita and, additionally, 6 names of Austrians and Germans. The set of names is supplemented by the list, published by Blasio Brugi and Aloysio Andrich in 1892 in Rotulus et matricula. The hitherto unknown list, entitled Natio Polona, was produced in the years 1592–1593 and contains 62 names. the fact that the majority of scholars coming from the area of the former Rzeczpospolita made entries in this public register of lawyers, providing their distinguishing marks, including birthmarks, scars, gashes and warts located on their faces, arms and necks is interesting and puzzling. Thus far, this kind of information has not been seen in the analysed public registers of European universities. In addition, following the comparison of the names of persons entered in the Register of the Polish nation (“Metryka nacji polskiej”), published by Henryk Barycz, the author of the article identified 25 names of Polish scholars, not listed elsewhere. Hence, the important conclusion is that, in the years 1592–1600, not all Polish scholars from the University of Padua were registered in the official Register of the Polish nation, and so, the number of Polish students at this university may have been much higher than previously estimated
The Openness of Art. The Poetics of Art and Loss of Autonomy of Art
No full textWith the concept of the open work, Umberto Eco addressed the poetics to which art turned with modernism. In the article the author analyzes the notion of the open work, the references relevant to this concept and the relations of this concept to similar concepts introduced by other scholars such as Roland Barthes. Scholars discussing the openness of art were deriving primarily from Paul Valéry, and they distanced themselves from the myth of the artist as a genius and from the concept of art as a vehicle for communication to transmit the truth and instead emphasized the performative character of art. Art on this track aimed at poetic use of its own media. The author argues that Eco’s definition of the open work comprises different dimensions of openness, i.e. the semantic and formal openness of the works of art, as well as the notion addresses the perceptual openness of the world. The author examines how the concept of the openness of art placed stress on the relevance of interpretation instead of the author’s intention and how it was part of a broader debate on interpretation and weak thought. By establishing autonomous poetic situations and exploring the means of art, art began performing philosophical discussions about itself, wherein, as the author argues, the notion of the open work is linked to the notions of the end or the death of art and denotes the dissolution of art into philosophy. Other sorts of dissolution of art which mean the death of art regard the dissolution of art into culture in a broader sense and its subordination to propagandist or political goals, which means art loses its autonomy. Finally, the author questions participatory art as a potential contemporary successor of the open work and argues that this mode of art, though it actively involves the participant, remains semantically closed
Medijski in tehnološki obrat: resnica, oblast in odporništvo
No full textThe author focuses on two very topical subjects of contemporary humanistic research: media and technology, and discusses the related turns and their correlations. The widespread debate on media testifies to the complexity of this phenomenon and its related issues. Poststructuralists, as well as scholars in cultural and media studies, have acknowledged that the media are never the transparent and neutral interfaces which represent the reality existing out there. The medium is no mediator, but the locus of truth. Whoever operates the medium operates the truth. The author uses the term media turn to refer to this epistemological turn. We are currently witnessing an emergence of the debate on technology. Technology intervenes into the “natural” and develops non-existent systems, thus raising the question of ultimate creativity and divinity, particularly in reference to synthetic biology. The author contemplates the leverage and functioning of contemporary technology and discusses an increasingly influential theory that technology is not subordinated to man, but vice versa: people have become functionaries of technology. The author proposes that this be referred to as the technological turn.Avtorica posveča pozornost dvema zelo aktualnima predmetoma sodobnega humanističnega raziskovanja: medijem in tehnologiji, ter preizprašuje povezana obrata in njune korelacije.
Širitev debate o medijih priča o kompleksnosti tega fenomena in povezanih vprašanjih. Poststrukturalisti, kot tudi avtorji kulturnih in medijskih študijev, so pripoznali, da medij ni nikoli transparenten in nevtralen vmesnik, ki re-prezentira realnost, ki bi obstajala tam čez. Medij ni mediator, temveč mesto resnice. Tisti, ki operira z medijem, operira z resnico. S terminom medijski obrat se avtorica nanaša na ta epistemološki obrat. V sodobnosti smo priče tudi vzponu debat o tehnologiji. Tehnologija intervenira v “naravno” in razvija nikoli obstoječe sisteme, s čimer se odpira vprašanje ultimativne ustvarjalnosti ali božanskosti, še zlasti v navezavi na sintezno biologijo. Avtorica premisli vzvode in funkcioniranje sodobne tehnologije in preizpraša vse bolj vplivno teorijo, da tehnologija ni podrejena človeku, temveč obratno, so ljudje postali funkcionarji tehnologije. Predlaga, da to poimenujemo tehnološki obrat
FACTORS OF EFFECTIVE LEARNING WITH AN EMPHASIS ON MOTIVATION AND LEARNING HABITS
No full textProblem, ki ga obravnava diplomska naloga, je učinkovitost učenja z vidika izobraževanca. Poudarek je predvsem na formalnem izobraževanju, čeprav se z učenjem v življenju srečujemo nenehno in je zato naloga tudi širše uporabna. V teoretičnem delu avtorica obravnava dejavnike učinkovitega učenja, podrobneje obravnava učne navade in motivacijo. V nalogi so predstavljeni tudi nekateri predlogi učinkovitih učnih navad. Kot novejša metoda za izboljšanje učnih navad je opisana t. i. samoregulacija učenja.
V praktičnem delu avtorica izvede raziskavo med študenti Fakultete za šport. Študenti imajo različne učne navade, od katerih je bolj ali manj odvisna uspešnost njihovega študija in tudi nadaljnjega poklicnega usposabljanja. Avtorica v raziskavi prouči njihovo motivacijo in učne navade ter odvisnost med tema dvema dejavnikoma uspešnega učenja.The problem addressed in the diploma thesis is the effectiveness of learning from the student\u27s point of view. The author focuses primarily on formal education, although learning is a constant part of life and therefore the thesis is widely usable. In theoretical part the author focuses on factors of effective learning, further addressing learning habits and motivation. The thesis also presents proposals for efficient learning habits. The so called self-regulation of learning is described as a newer method to improve learning habits.
In practical part the author conducts a survey among Faculty of Sports students. Students have various learning habits, which are more or less important for their study success and their further professional training. The author examines students\u27 motivation and learning habits as well as the correlation between those two factors of successful learning
Ethnic issues in the works of John Steinbeck
No full textJohn Steinbeck is an author whose literary oeuvre has evoked a rich palette of reactions, from open admiration to total rejection. This divided reaction to his works is probably at least to some extent due to the fact that his works address several contentious issues, one of them being ethnic issues, which will be discussed in this paper
Art Addressing Consumerism in the Age of Late Capitalism
No full textThe globalized world is still in the phase of late capitalism, signified by the establishment of multinational corporations, globalized markets and work, mass consumerism, and the fluid flow of capital. The question of the criticism of art towards the capitalist system, its ideology and consumerism is therefore still current and is readdressed in this contribution. Considering this issue, the recurrent theoretical reference is American materialist aesthetician Fredric Jameson, who was among the first to define culture and art in the context of late capitalism. In the article the author revises Jameson’s critique of art addressing consumerism and demonstrates that he did not consider the relevance of the means of consumption as regards the cultural logic of late capitalism. She claims that in order to open space to examine contemporary art as being critical towards consumerism, one also needs to consider the ontological changes that have occurred to art and pay attention to performative art, while Jameson was still focused on a representational mode of art. By being performative and also setting out actions outside of spaces that were traditionally designed for art, in the space meant for consumption, art has much a better chance to act politically, which Jameson wished to see from art which addresses consumerism but did not. The author argues that if one is to seek critical or political art in late capitalism, those would be the cases of artistic interventions into the means of consumption
Polish network of Digital Libraries - 2008
No full textThe article presents the political context and the current status of digital libraries network in Poland. It demonstrates the major challenges in the various areas in which libraries operate, problems which should be discussed. It describes some important library initiatives that emerged in order to coordinate activities, and presents concrete examples (WBC, KPBC, POLONA) of the actual digital collections accessible via the Internet. The author also attempts to diagnose the situation and indicate solutions, which may bring measurable benefits to Poland and Europe
Tax Procedure Law within the Reduction of Administrative Burdens – between Goals and Praxis
No full textThe Tax Procedure Act (TPA; Slovenian ZDavP) is the key law regulating relations among the participants in tax collection procedures. Therefore, it has been more or less thoroughly changed several times in recent years, also within the government’s programme of reduction of administrative burdens (RAB; Slovenian OAO). Procedures are being attempted to be simplified for both taxpayers and tax authorities. The paper explores a selection of institutes introduced to this end, such as tax assessment through a provisional specification, service by regular mail, advance rulings, etc. The author considers statistical data on how frequently those (new) institutes were used in 2006, 2007 and 2008 to establish whether, or how much, goals of the regulatory change in the tax procedure are actually being achieved in praxis. It is found that notwithstanding some exceptions, the majority of the considered institutes do amount to a realisation of the RAB programme
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