Dvadeseto i početak 21. stoljeća je ne samo vrijeme informacijsko - komunikacijske znanosti već istovremeno vrijeme snažnih znanstvenih prodora, što konsekutivno u medicini otvara nova poglavlja, za medicinu veoma značajno stoljeće bioetike.
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Keywords: interdisciplinarity; dialogue; integrating art and science; postmodern; inventive (integrated) painting; transpersonality
The paper tries to analyze character of the new complex creativity which according to its nature requires interdisciplinarity – dialogue between art and fun. Introducing theoretical ideas about possibilities for achieving the mentioned dialogue are made concrete on the items from the exhibition held in Paris in the framework of Days of art and science, Spring art festival 2012. Disadvantages of modern attempts to integrate art and science are pointed out as well. Here we talk about creative superficiality where creative subject ego still predominates. Ideas about overcoming creative obstacles, with which postmodern art deals in interdisciplinary attempts, are articulated on the basis of author’s experience gained during writing the doctoral dissertation whose artistic-scientific product is inventive (integrated) painting which enabled the author to creatively combine artistic (esthetic, intuitive) experience, scientific objectivity and achieve creative transparence.
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Keywords: Serbia; transition; Kikinda
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Jovica Aćin: DAN I NOĆ U FRAKTALU Čak Palenik: PETLJA Roberto Bolanjo: DVE KATOLIČKE PRIČE Nik Hornbi: DŽ. DŽONSON: ŽIVOTOPIS Alis Sibold: ZA ŽIVU GLAVU Džonatan Letem: EKSTAZA UTICAJA – PLAGIJAT Harold Pinter: ĆELIJE RAKA Dejvid Mičel: PACOVČINA V. G. Zebald: POSLEDNJA REČ Ijan Makjuan: PORAZGOVARAJMO O KLIMATSKIM PROMENAMA Dejvid Foster Volas: SVE TO Zejdi Smit: SMEH IZ GROBA O AUTORIMA
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Keywords: ageing; culture of youthfulness; ageism; feminist gerontology; Baba Yaga; Dubravka Ugrešić
Despite the fact that an increase in the old-age population is noticeable in most contemporary societies, the issues of growing old and personal experience of the old-age population, old women in particular, remain unnoticed. In a culture fascinated by youth, old age is perceived in stereotypical ways, with a lot of prejudice, taboos and fears that produce many negative perceptions and discriminatory practices. The paper is based on the analysis of ageing issues and life narratives of elderly women presented in the novel Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (2009) by Dubravka Ugrešić. Baba Yaga, the ambivalent mythological heroine, has been shown as a greatly provocative character who – reinterpreted in the feminist key – creates new meanings and an emancipatory potential for women of all ages.
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Konstrukcija, odnosno konstruiranje subjekta predstavlja proces izgradnje, pravljenja, pozicioniranja, oblikovanja, jer je svaka pozicija subjekta uvijek konstrukcija i svi su subjekti, kako u kulturi, tako i unutar različitih oblika književnog izražavanja proizvodi neke date konstrukcije koja se nikada ne dešava na sopstvenu inicijativu subjekta, nego kroz „obredno ponavljanje normi„ (Butler, 2001: 127). Tako da je subjekt sam po sebi uvjetovan konstrukcijom, jer subjekta nema van diskursa ideološke interpelacije, budući da je „ideologija moguća samo putem kategorije subjekta i njegovog funkcionisanja” (Althusser, 2009: 64), niti ga može biti prije jezika – lakanovskog Simboličkog, „tek u jeziku ljudi konstituiraju sebe kao subjekte.” (Belsey, 2002: 233) Subjekta ne može biti prije ili izvan jezika, „prvenstveno zato što jezik sa svojom strukturom uvek već postoji pre nego što subjekt u jednom trenutku svog mentalnog razvoja pređe njegov prag.” (Lacan, 1983: 151) Drugim riječima, „pretvaramo se u subjekte tokom procesa učenja jezika, što znači da postajemo sposobni da označavamo.” (Belsey, 2003: 59) Stoga se može zaključiti da iza pojma žena ili muškarac ne postoji ništa drugo osim reprezentacije/predstave o istom označitelju. Subjekti se „poistovjećuju s predstavom o sebi [...] baš zato što im je predstava stvarnija od njih samih” (Avdagić, 2004: 66), u njih se najiskrenije vjeruje, jer oni izražavaju navodnu biološku/prirodnu poziciju onoga što bi trebali predstavljati žena ili muškarac, odnosno ženski ili muški rod.
More...The paper focusses on three fantastic figures of the last book of Croatian author Dubravka Ugrešić Baba Jaga je snijela jaje 2008. (English translation: Baba Yaga Laid An Egg, Edinburgh: Canongate, 2009.), that is, the fantasies of birds, Baba Yaga and the egg. Thus, this work investigates how traditional imaginary figures have been recycled in the postmodern women writing. Interpretation is ran in the perspective of psychoanalytical theory, using single concepts of S. Freud, M. Klein, J. Lacan, J. Kristeva, Sl. Žižek, J. Buthler. Ugrešić’s fantastic images have been also compared with similar fantastic representations in film –. Hitchcock’s Birds, or in painting – F. Kahlo’s self-portrait. Research shows that, in comparison with their folklore archetypes, the recycled literary fantasies of Ugrešić have been basically inverted: they imply subversion and irony that are directed not only against the dominant models of public taste and the forms of contemporary “soft” ideologies but also against the traditional roles of reader, writer, critic and text as places where a narrative happens and a coherent meaning has to be produced.
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Stojim na kamenom mostu pred oštećenom gra|evinom, nekadašnjom bibliotekom. Mjesec pun. Odavno ga takvoga nisam vidjela, toliko velikog, sjajnog i jasnog, kao da se hoće riječima obrati zemaljskom svijetu i progovoriti o jednom još starijem svijetu blijedo–zlatne boje. Spustio se na brda, reklo bi se da će svakoga časa dotaknuti vrhove borova. Njegov sjaj pada na bijeli kamen i na mutnu vodu plitke rijeke Miljacke.
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The origin of bioethics is one of the most astonishtng phenomena in contemporary science. As recently as in the mid sixties this term was unknown, even though the first publications on this topic appeared. There was a real explosion of articles in various philosophical, medical and law journals in the end of the sixties and in the beginning of the soventise. The first scientific institutes dealing with bioethics were founded, journals and encyclopedias dedicated ot this problem appeared and some American universities introduced a spezialized training in bioethics.
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Keywords: mniejszość ukraińska; tożsamość kulturowa i językowa; asymilacja; bilingwizm językowy
Relocated to Warmia and Mazury in 1947, the Ukrainians comprised 10% of the inhabitants of the region. At present, Ukrainians are the most numerous minority group in Warmia and Mazury, living in the northern part of the region. A report of the Institute of Public Affairs has shown that Warmia and Mazury – as a multicultural and multi-ethnic environment – is a region characterised by a higher tolerance towards otherness and an exceptionally friendly approach towards the Ukrainian minority. This article is an attempt to outline the modern developmental trends with regard to the socio-cultural identity of the Ukrainians who live in the region of Warmia and Mazury. We also mention how their linguistic identification is shaped. Most of the Ukrainians of the older and middle generations equal national identity with using the Ukrainian language in its colloquial dialect or literary variety, while the young Ukrainians associate the language with a purely symbolic status. The youth emphasise that their culture and identity do not have to be expressed through using the Ukrainian language. After 1991, the Ukrainian minority has become increasingly assertive in using the rights granted them, encouraging local governments to subsidy their cultural programmes and support them on the organisational plane. Cooperation at the level of regions, towns, communes and districts has resulted in a number of important cultural events in the region of Warmia and Mazury. Schools also conduct cultural activity, with bands and theatrical groups actively participating in building the multicultural character of the region. The present research has shown that the compulsory cultural contact led to voluntary acculturation of some members of the Ukrainian community, and to a situation in which elements of the Polish culture are interwoven into the Ukrainian cultural heritage.
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Keywords: Logos; biopolitical laboratory; truth; media lobotomy; god of wire; hermeneutics; mental caries;
Truth-bearing Wormhole of the Media Metaphoric title of this article is semantically pointing towards the phaenomenon of fissure in the truth-networks during the process of information transmittance via media, and also towards the troublesome progressive potentiality of the doxastic matrix of delusion regarding the beingfull aletheia projected by the media in relation to the reality of the beings. I claim that the antropos is situated in the era a priori marked by the complete relativity of the necessity of telling the truth. As the most evident phenomenological platform and the vindictive asylum of given ethosation in macro-social context, mass media is the ultimate example. Main questions of will be: is the deciphering of the truth the meritum of media game, or is it perhaps the larpurlatistic dissemination of large amount of information, and also whether we need the truth in order to preserve human species. As an analogy for the described context, I am using the example of transmission of the neuron “atoms”, whose core of the telos is travelling through the brain regardless of the content with which it is filled.
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Keywords: Christian; Croatian language; Naming; Linguistics;
Člankom Krstarenje ili kružna plovidba?, objavljenom u 4. broju prošloga godišta želio sam napisati da su hrvatske riječi i križ i krst, a onda i izvedenice od njih, s različitom raspodjelom pa i značenjem.
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Keywords: melodrama; genre; iconography; homage; postmodernism;
Rajko Grlić’s The Melody Haunts My Reverie and Dejan Šorak’s film The Officer with a Rose were made in the 1980s, at a time when postmodernist influences were felt in national cinema. In postmodernism, Croatian film has shown greater interest in film genres that have for a long time been underrated and considered inferior. This was particularly the case with melodrama genre. Grlić’s and Šorak’s melodramas, despite some significant differences, share a common dramaturgical structure - the tragic and inacceptable love between a partisan and a middle class „bourgeoisie“ woman in the Post-World War II period. Also, intertextual connections with American and European melodramas encompassing similar settings (depiction of the same time period, motifs, etc.) can be noticed. In case of Grlić these connections are more subtle, but in Šorak’s film there is a more direct homage to the author/genre. A comparative analysis of the two melodramas will point out the similarities and differences in treatment of genre, motifs, typology of characters, and references to film history, as well as Šorak’s possible references to Grlić’s melodrama.
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Keywords: poetry; Kruno Quien; Croatian literature;
Poetry written by Kruno Quien: “PRIČA ZA MOJU BAKU”, “STATOMOBIL”, “GLAS IKS (ILI POREMEĆAJ SLUHA)”, “TUŽBALICA”, “ZOO”, “PROZOR”, “RIBA”, “MATER”,“ PTICA”, “LASTAVICE”, “OD MENE DO EME I JOŠ DVIJE TEME”, “AUKCIJA U HAUSTORU”, “IZJAVA JEDNOG KAMERMANA PRIGODOM MODEFESTA”, “OPERA”, “ADAM”, “MJEKIRA”,“ LUKA SNERUKE (REPORTAŽA iz Ploča)”, “STARA PJESMA S PRIPJEVOM”, “PJESMA U KOJOJ ĆE SE ĆUTI O PROLJEĆARENJU DON QUIENOTA I KOBILE MU ROZALIJE”, “DNEVNE VIJESTI”, “H”, “MRTVAČKI PLES, freska”, “GLAVA MI JE PUNA ZVIJERI”.
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Review of: Ermin Kuka: Živa lomača – Pionirska ulica u Višegradu (14. juni 1992.) Udruženje “Žena – žrtva rata“, Sarajevo, 2022. (152 str.)
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Keywords: delayed speech and language development; speech therapy assessment; speech therapy treatment; psychomotor re-education;
The term delayed speech-language development refers to difficulties in the development of receptive and expressive language abilities, which can most often be noticed in the period from one and a half to three years. Through a multidisciplinary approach and assessment, parents receive a complete report on the child’s development (speech-language, psychomotor and psychological development). In this paper, the aim is to show how the application of speech therapy treatment of a three-year-old child with delayed speech and language development and reeducation of psychomotor skills achieves significant results in speaking, adopting the first words, sentences and achieving experience of himself and his body. Didactic aids - pictures were used to assess receptive and expressive speech, while the Practicum of General Defectological Diagnostics was used to assess cognitive organization, practical organization, gnostic and practognostic organization. The Development Test by Čuturić (RTČ, 1996) was used to assess psychological development. The application of speech therapy treatment and re-education of psychomotor skills has recorded success in the field of receptive and expressive language development, as well as in the experience of oneself, self-awareness as a person, mastering one’s own body and organizing movement.
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Keywords: Croatian Media Facebook; discourse analysis; comment section; language; elites
The fascinating world of Facebook commentary sections under the news portals are considered. There are headlines about politicians who can exercise power and about people that are rich and successful and could inspire awe. When we talk about the language of the politics we mostly consider and monitor the language of politician or language of the media/yellow press. However, there is a pool of reactions in the com-ment section where people sometimes anonymously, sometimes openly express their opinions on what we can call elites. Research method is based on discourse analysis of chosen Croatian media on Facebook in selected timeframe. The comment section is an interesting paradox of spoken language in written form. We can divide the users into few groups a) the supporters and fans; b) in opposition; c) those who are (trying to be) funny no matter the situation; d) drawing attention to the deprived to level the field e) asking “who cares” or “who are they anyway”. The main contribution of this text is a monitoring of the language/social place that is not explored that much especially when it comes to small language environment. The comment sections reflect not only language in use but also moods, wits, and problems of its users and it could be taken into consideration about how this part of society feels and talks about privileged.
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