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The article aims to achieve a summarized representation of the problem of subjectness as a problem of returning the functions of subjectness in history (if there is a possibility to talk about it in singular) above all in the case of abductive inference as one of the pre-deductive forms of inference in the endogenous practical logics of the dialectical.Since the latter can hardly be thought effectively in the theories of structures of self-mediation without the modality of the exogenous non-classical logic of the dialectical, the text will proceed from the more general problem of the conditions for the possibility ofits introduction, the main among which is the successful content formalization of Marx’s syllogistics. That is why the first paragraphs of the article are based on a critical examinationof the productivity of two of the formalizations of Marx’s syllogistic, which followhis Capital – David Harvey’s, on one hand, and Deyan Deyanov’s, on the other. This will give a chance, in the next paragraphs of the paper, to show clearly the reasons why the second content formalization is essential in the nonclassical logic of the dialectical.This logic’s main characteristics will be presented in the third and fourth paragraphs as a necessary condition for understanding the problem of subjectness in abductive inference as a practical logic not only in the narrower sense for the cases of scientific discoveries,but also in a wider sense, as a logic in cases of technological inventions and economic innovations (or generally in innovative labor). Precisely with this background in mind and in contrast to the critical consideration of other analysis of subjectness, such as Georg Lucacs’s and Louis Altusser’s, inspired by the Marx’s revolutionary form of science, the final part of the article outlines some important specifics about the specifics of the theoretical approach to the problem of subjectness (in abductive reasoning in particular) in the theories of structures of self-mediation.
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In this article, we consider a paradigmatic assumption of ours – namely, that the figures of non-classical dialectics, which we call Mirror Syllogistics, can be thought temporally. The statement this article starts with is that these are three different ways of flowing of social time which are independent of one another but intricately interwoven in reality.We will enter through the wide open door of the marvelous gigantic edifice built by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, in order to show that the three types of logical correlation(U-S-P, P-U-S, S-P-U) are also three ways of connecting the times (past, present, and future). We demonstrate the link of the three temporal structures (and their logical forms)with the very fabric of social order – the socialization of nature, the relations of power and counter-power, of deprivation and donation. The article is developed and conceived within the framework of the theory of structures of mediation, a theory following the tradition of Marx and Hegel. Working within it, we see a possible way out of the impasse of positivism and a new possible way of thinking time, the mystical, negation, etc.
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As students of philosophy at the University of Sofia in the early 1970s, we were impressed by Prof. Petar-Emil Mitev. Using the simple sociological approach of counting the number of quotes from the officially dubbed “classic” authors (Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin) in the official Soviet journal “Voprosy filosofii”, he was able to highlight the subservience of Soviet philosophy to political conjecture. The conclusions, however, applied to all Soviet satellite states. This prompted us, self-organized in the so-called Marxian Seminar, to look for possibilities of criticizing “real socialism” through the discovery of “the authentic Marx”. Others from our group successfully entered the high echelons of communist government; that urged them and the rest of us to address the dilemmas of a sociologist facing totalitarian power. The attempt at critique of socialist reality via Marx failed; the experience of sociologists in power, since the 1960s up to the end of communism in 1989, had some success: thanks to them, certain reactions of the power elite became softer. On the other hand, sociologists were not consulted on decisions of the Communist Party’s Politbureau that shaped Bulgaria’s fate. It might be useful to compare problems of the positioning of sociologists then and now.
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In the article I start from the already discussed problem of subjectivity in the abductive inference, aiming to offer a deeper experimental analysis of its endogenous practical logic in the light of the problem of the so-called metamorphoses of magic and disenchantment in the context of the problems of theories of self-mediation structures. To this end, I first present in detail the problem of the functions of the abductive inference, and against this background then I present an experimental analysis of the case of innovative labor – the story of Thomas Edison’s invention of the electric lamp and his attempts to turn it into an economic innovation. In it, against the background of general moments of factual history,the results of an analysis of the endogenous practical logic of the dialectical and the results of an analysis of the nonclassical logic of the dialectical are explicitly presented(retaining in each of these analyzes the point of view of one another, although in most cases implicitly). Thus, analyzing the abductive inference from the perspective of the problems of theories of self-mediation structures, the article summarizes the chances that this inference provides for thinking multidimensionally the metamorphoses of magic and disenchantment as a special case of the more general problem of both the functioning and the mutual mediation of functionally differentiated and functionally diffuse structures.
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Introduction: The paper is devoted to the university of the Fourth age as one of the new possibilities offered pedagogical, educational and activation activities for seniors in residential facilities defined by the legislation of the Czech Republic (act no. 108/2006 Coll.). Core of Work: in connection with the increasing demographic population aging in contemporary society there are changes in the social policy of the state, which is reflected in the concept of active aging seniors.one of the possibilities of improving the quality of life of seniors in residential facilities and better coping with this difficult life period with regard to its specifics can be the so-called university of the Fourth age, one of the offered activation activities. on the basis of increasing the age of clients and the trend of lifelong learning in the form of acquiring social competences, it is also necessary to improve the quality of spending leisure time in residential facilities, that is, the continuous acquiring or renewal of knowledge from various areas of life (environment, law, health, medicine, etc.). it is a comprehensive educational program, created based on the interest of seniors of the given residential facility. Conclusion: The introduction of new motivational activities presented in the form of educational activities can be appropriately support the active aging individuals in residential social service facilities.
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The paper includes an overview of New Hollywood directors and their films, as well as the sociopolitical context and changes in the American way of life that preceded the arrival of the so-called blockbusters, i.e. new genre films. The paper will discuss a new approach to the genre film by a generation of educated directors who will successfully renew genre in their works and, in some cases, make sequels in the form of (even today very popular) franchise. The analysis of some works made by a younger and partly older generation will show their relation to social and political circumstances, revitalization of marginalized genres, as well as stylistic features such as: intertextuality, citations, pastiche, homage (dedication), etc.
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National online media outlets employ domestication practices of foreign news to render global news meaningful for local audiences. This paper investigates discursive features of news items published in three of the largest Romanian online news outlets when reporting on foreign news. The research is content-oriented and aims to identify which are the recurrent discursive patterns that are used to construct the news value of proximity; which are the main discursive domestication practices by which local relevance is constructed; and which are the local political languages that intersect with and frame global issues.
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The opposition between sovereignist/nationalist and cosmopolitan discourses is extremely ancient and keeps on heightening tensions in contemporary Europe and beyond. While a wide array of academic works concentrates nowadays on how nationalist and right-wing populist discourses are constructed and how they gain ground all over the world, a discursive study of cosmopolitanism is still lacking (Cicchelli 2016, 46). Willing to fill that gap, this paper proposes a focus on the discursive features of a cosmopolitan-inspired discourse deployed in British and French media in 2016–2019. Nevertheless, the study is not dealing with a cosmopolitan discourse separated from any circumstances of its emergence. By contrast, I am particularly interested in the modalities of its construction while facing an opposing discourse: for instance, a pro-Brexit and anti-cosmopolitan speech by Theresa May. It will be argued that this “conceptual conflict” targeting the notion of “citizen of the word” as discursively (un)acceptable is particularly suitable for a study of what it means nowadays to deploy a cosmopolitan discourse. The analysis of discursive features of such a conflict (including definition process, construction of addressees, motifs, metadiscourse and shared frameworks) is conducted in order to understand how these two discourses seek for legitimacy while their relationship is characterized by a significant power imbalance. The papers show that even though cosmopolitan discourses strive to de-legitimate sovereignist ones and expand the boundaries of “sayable” to the concept of “citizen of the world”, they also exercise a form of self-censorship and remain dependent on these very boundaries they are trying to redefine.
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This study was carried out in the context of the migratory phenomenon of the Romanian population, which has seen a marked increase in recent years. The theoretical anchoring of the research lies, on the one hand, in the theoretical approaches that deal with the relationships between the concept of diaspora and the diaspora as a social phenomenon and category of practices and, on the other hand, on the theoretical foundations of theories of representations. Starting with the research question, through which we intended to identify the most widespread practices of online communication of the Romanian diaspora, which contribute to the preservation of the cultural identity of the country of origin, as well as to the adaptation of the new socio-cultural environment of life, this study proposes an analysis of a set of data consisting of the responses of 899 members of the Romanian diaspora from 43 countries all over the world, collected between May and October 2019. This analysis helped to identify representations of online and offline communication practices of the Romanian diaspora.
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The research studies dedicated to the memory of the Second World War have become a research priority in Europe, particularly after the fall of the communist regime and the re-establishment of the balance of power between the East and the West, in close connection with the social, cultural, and identity-based policies promoted by the European Union. The main objective of such studies is to understand the manner in which the Second World War is remembered, starting from the assumption that “the past is always practiced in the present, not because the past imposes itself, but because subjects in the present fashion the past in the practice of their social identity” (Friedman, 1994 quoted by Kapralski, 2017, 2). Research efforts have been mostly aimed at the study of war “narratives” in general and the Holocaust narrative in particular, the latter becoming the dominant narrative in Europe after the 1990s. Following this line of research, the current study seeks to outline the agenda of commemorative events dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust in Romania, as well as the actors and the narratives they promote, relying on a corpus of 116 online press contents commemorating the Holocaust, as published in the online edition of Adevărul, in the period between March 2015 and March 2020.
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The aim of this article is to discuss the award-winning project by Illya Szilak and Cyril Tsiboulski – Queerskins: A Love Story (2018) that anchors virtual reality experience in a physical, interactive, immersive installation. The author will focus on both the virtual reality haptic experience for Oculus Rift with Touch controllers, as well as the experience of site specific installation, in order to examine visitors emotional and cognitive engagement with the story of semi-fictional protagonist Sebastian, young gay physician who died of AIDS. A theoretical framework for this analysis will be outlined, including the concept of kinesthetic empathy, as well as Sara Ahmed’s insights from Queer Phenomenology on the significance of the objects as signs of orientation.
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This text focuses on the memory of media art. The case study of Reincarnation of Media Art WRO exhibition from 2019 – “a unique exhibition about preserving media art and making its essence available” – is introduced by the author to discuss the life-cycle of time-based media artworks. Aforementioned case study is used as the basis for further discussion about “permanence through change” approach in preserving media art.
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Social maladjustment and juvenile delinquency is currently a serious worldwide problem, which is of interest not only to researchers and theoreticians, but also to society. This is due to the constantly growing scale of this phenomenon. It is worth noting that a steady increase in the number of juvenile crimes has been observed in Poland since 1990. Researchers presume that this is related to dynamic civilizational development, urbanization and technological progress, among others. It would seem that everything about juvenile delinquency has already been established; however, effective methods to counteract it still remain to be found. We are increasingly experiencing unjustified cases of violence at school, home as well as in public places, and teenage gangs can be found in most major cities. Hundreds of thousands of young people become victims of serious neglect, sexual violence and physical abuse every year.
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