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Radioactive waste as socio-technologicall hybrid in Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory
No full textPrzedmiotem, a zarazem podmiotem badań są promieniotwórcze odpady, wytwarzane szczególnie podczas produkcji energii w elektrowniach jądrowych. Autorka traktuje je jako jednego z kluczowych aktorów związanych z Programem
Polskiej Energetyki Jądrowej. W tym celu posługuje się Teorią Aktora-Sieci Bruno Latoura. Za jej pomocą odtwarza argumenty
przeciwników i zwolenników nuklearnej inwestycji. Pod kątem problemów związanych ze składowaniem odpadów radioaktywnych rekonstruuje zarówno ludzkich, jak i nieludzkich aktorów. Ujęcie wypalonego paliwa jądrowego w charakterze podmiotu o sile sprawczej wikła go w szerszą zbiorowość. Promieniotwórcze śmieci, choć tabuizowane,
w rzeczywistości mają funkcję kulturotwórczą.The object and concurrently the subject of this study is radioactive waste; the byproduct of nuclear energy production. The author regards nuclear waste as a the key actors in the Polish Nuclear Power Program. Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory is adopted as the analysis framework. This theoretical framework is utilized to bring up arguments of supporters and opponents of the investment in the nuclear power plant. The author reconstructs both human and non-human actors in terms of their links to nuclear waste management. Regarding nuclear power waste as a subject with its own agency, involves this subject in a larger collective. Even though radioactive waste is exposed to tabooisation, in fact it has the power of creating culture
Anticipatory anthropology – anthropological future study
No full textThe author deliberates the fusion of two disciplines – futurology and cultural anthropology. She tries to indicate some anthropological tools and methods which are suitable to deduce cultural future and advances a thesis that the future is nowadays an inevitable area of study for cultural anthropology. By making the critical analysis of social threats, hopes and by critical observation of contemporary cultural trends anthropologists are able to construct the possible view of future. The project, described in the text, aims at preparing for changes and proving that anthropology enables predicting the future of the cultur
The Experience of Pandemic Time in Late Capitalism
No full textThe subject of the article is the transformation of social time in the pandemic reality. The situation caused by COVID-19 provided a unique opportunity to observe sudden changes in the social rhythm. In the considerations conducted from the perspective of time studies, the author tries to specify what these changes are, and also considers how social time is shaped in the economy of late capitalism. The observations show that changes in the organization and experience of social time during a pandemic are shaped mainly on the basis of three categories: power, technology and work. The experience of the crisis of the usual feeling of time and of the uncertainty about the future, resulted in the rise of questions pertaining to the new concepts of time, the effects of this transformation and the upcoming social changes
Anticipatory anthropology – anthropological future study
Get PDFThe author deliberates the fusion of two disciplines – futurology and cultural anthropology. She tries to indicate some anthropological tools and methods which are suitable to deduce cultural future and advances a thesis that the future is nowadays an inevitable area of study for cultural anthropology. By making the critical analysis of social threats, hopes and by critical observation of contemporary cultural trends anthropologists are able to construct the possible view of future. The project, described in the text, aims at preparing for changes and proving that anthropology enables predicting the future of the culture
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Między czasem ekologicznym a ekologią czasu w kulturze przyspieszenia
Get PDFTime and space are concepts that form an indivisible entity in the concept of ecological time. The process of separating these ideas in Anglo-American culture began along with the acceleration of technological development. It resulted in a quick, almost instantaneous rate of life, which affects destructively both individuals and general public. What is the main postulate of the ecology of time is to stop the negative effects of acceleration, and re-integrating the idea of time and space in the practice of everyday life
Between ecological time and the ecology of time in the culture of acceleration
No full textTime and space are concepts that form an indivisible entity in the concept of ecological time. The process of separating these ideas in Anglo-American culture began along with the acceleration of technological development. It resulted in a quick, almost instantaneous rate of life, which affects destructively both individuals and general public. What is the main postulate of the ecology of time is to stop the negative effects of acceleration, and re-integrating the idea of time and space in the practice of everyday life
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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