Prikaz knjige Coulter, Kimberly, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg i Finn Arne Jørgensen, urednici. Ant Spider Bee: Chronicling Digital Transformations in Environmental Humanities. Spider & Cloud, Rachel ...Carson Center for Environment & Society, 2021, 235 str.
Francuski medievalist i jedan od najznačajnijih povjesničara Europe, sad već pokojni Jacques Le Goff, napisao je knjižicu pod naslovom Treba li povijest zaista dijeliti na razdoblja? Većina ljudi ne ...promišlja o ovom pitanju, a da nije samo riječ o problemu koji ostaje na margini svakodnevnog života svjedoče i podatci da mnogi povjesničari nisu svjesni ovog pitanja što je utjelovljeno u studijskim programima koji su podijeljeni kronološki po razdobljima i oformljeni po vremenskom slijedu, posebno u Hrvatskoj. Le Goff ide korak naprijed pokazujući zašto je promišljanje o vremenu jedno od temeljnih pitanja povijesne znanosti.Knjižica od 124 stranice sastavljena je od sljedećih osam ključnih poglavlja: Stare periodizacije, Kasna pojava srednjeg vijeka, Povijest, obrazovanje, periodi, Rođenje renesanse, Renesansa danas, Srednji vijek postaje mračno doba, Dugi srednji vijek, Periodizacija i globalizacija. Knjiga započinje Predgovorom i Uvodom, a nakon ovih osam poglavlja slijedi Izabrana bibliografija, Zahvale i O autoru.
In these paired years (2020–2021), the whole world has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has resulted in the emergence of different presumptions, alternative facts, and fake news. Among ...those, the most dominant news was about bats as the culprits of expansion of the virus and, indirectly, the Chinese diet as the root cause. However, there is no proof that the links in the triangle of bat-virus-human are valid; and the source of infection has not been identified. In addition to bats, these viruses can be found in other animals, such as camels, pangolins, and humans. Therefore, individual scientists are reversing the situation by presenting the possibility of transmitting the virus from humans to animals. Nevertheless, it has become ultimately ‘acceptable’ to demonise the bat. In this respect, various authors remind us of certain historical contexts of notions and perceptions of the bats, as well as the similarities and differences of those perceptions during the pandemic, referring to it mainly in the context of Croatia and the world. In the end, the article’s conclusion is that the story about the bats is, actually, a great indicator of the representations of Otherness and the strengthening of a binary and hierarchical division of ‘us’ and ‘them’.
Ecofeminism on the Edge Đurđević, Goran; Marjanić, Suzana
Emerald Publishing Limited eBooks,
2024
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With a special focus on education and underrepresented geographical locations, this book is an inclusive collection of theories, discourses, art, identities, and practices related to this discipline.
Collecting sticker albums is part of growing up, learning, and having fun formany children in Southeast Europe from the mid-1950, when the first picturealbums appeared, until today. Among the most ...famous examples are sticker albums with plant and animal themes analyzed from ecohumanities perspectives,i.e., the permeation of Nature and Culture. While most authors start from thecontent ( textual and visual analysis ), the author of this paper takes a completelydifferent perspective. After the analysis, four major periods are visible ( the early1970s, second half of the 1980s, second half of the 1990s and early 2000s and theperiod from 2013 to 2018 ) in which the increase in the number and quality of thementioned albums correlates with a greater presence of green policies and politics.
Autor podejmuje się lektury krótkiej niedokończonej powieści Vladana Desnicy Pronalazak Athanatika z niszowej perspektywy ekokrytycznej. Artykuł składa się z trzech części tematycznych: ...ekokrytycznego ujęcia cyklu tematycznego: życie – śmierć – nieśmiertelność w porównaniu i nawiązaniu do dzieła Homo deus Yuvala Noaha Harariego. Następnie autor ekokrytycznie analizuje deszcz poprzez pryzmat koncepcji Susan Farrell. W ostatniej części analizuje utwór Pronalazak Athanatika w kontekście dystopijnych współczesnych chorwackich powieści ekologicznych/dotyczących środowiska: powieści Planet Friedman Josipa Mlakicia oraz książki Mjesečev meridijan Edo Popovicia, w odniesieniu do ekokrytycznych tekstów Louise Squire. Autor konkluduje, że Desnica w swoim dziele Pronalazak Athanatika – które zalicza do fikcji spekulatywnej – odwoływał się do aktualnych rozważań naukowych (Harari) i dzieł literackich (Mlakić, Popović). Ostrzegał, że ekologia i czynniki ekologiczne – nieśmiertelność i wzrost populacji, brak żywności, a w ostateczności niszczenie planety – mogą mieć destrukcyjny wpływ na zmiany społeczne, dystrybucję władzy i kształtowanie przyszłości. Desnica stał się dzięki temu prekursorem powieści ekologicznych.
The author gives an ecocritical reading of a short, unfinished novel by Vladan Desnica Pronalazak Athanatika (The Discovery of Athanatik). The paper comprises three thematic units: an ecocritical ...approach to a thematic cycle (life – death – immortality) in the novel, compared with Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari; an ecocritical analysis of rain as seen from the point of view of Susan Farrell’s ideas; and an analysis of Pronalazak Athanatika in the context of two dystopian ecological/environmental novels in contemporary Croatian literature, Planet Friedman by Josip Mlakić and Mjesečev meridijan (The Moon Meridian) by Edo Popović, with a comparison to ecocritical readings of Louise Squire. The author concludes that Pronalazak Athanatika – defined in genre terms as speculative fiction – makes Desnica a predecessor to current scientific considerations (Harari) and literary works (Mlakić, Popović) in warning that ecology and ecological factors – immortality and population increases, a lack of food, and ultimately the destruction of the planet – may have destructive effects on social change, the division of power, and the shape of the future.
De re robotica Marjanić, Suzana; Đurđević, Goran
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09/2023, Letnik:
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Danas su roboti postali svakodnevica čiji su zadaci sve veći u uslužnim djelatnostima (npr. ugostiteljstvo ili ispitivanje zadovoljstva korisnika), zatim kao automatizirani i samostalni uređaji (npr. ...usisivači ili automobili) te kao supstitucija za pojedine biljke i životinje (npr. umjetna stabla, RoboBee kao zamjena za pčele i dr.). Tekst se zadržava na nešto manje poznatim robotima – robotiziranim kućnim ljubimcima čiju genezu kao svojevrsnih avatara i malih igračaka pratimo od sredine 1990-ih kada je područje JI Europe preplavljeno dječjim japanskim „kućnim ljubimcem“ Tamagotchijem. Poslije su razvijeni složeniji „ljubimci“ poput Joy for All, Zoomer Interactive Kittens and Puppies, PARO Robot Seals i AIBO. Naglasak je postavljen na robot-kućnim ljubimcima koji se u nekim zemljama koriste u domovima za starije osobe kao i npr. za osobe oboljele od demencije. Ovakvi su objekti otvorili brojna pitanja od kojih izdvajamo sljedeće: definiciju bića i kućnog ljubimca (engl. pet), odnosno kućne životinje (engl. home animals) ili kako neki antrozoolozi ističu – životinje za društvo (engl. companion animals), društvenost i privrženost, osjećaje, biološke potrebe, odgovornost za ponašanje, prava i obveze kao i nasilje prema hibridima i androidima (usp. Thompson 2018).
The last decades have been marked by the development of technology that has led to an increasing number of robots in the human surroundings (outside environment and inside the body), which brings us closer to the realization of posthumanism and transhumanism. That new circumstances bring humans closer to robots and, consequently, hybrids and cyborgs. Today, robots have become commonplace, with increasing tasks in service industries (e.g., catering or customer satisfaction testing), then as automatic and autonomous devices (e.g., vacuum cleaners or cars) and as substitutes for individual plants and animals (e.g., artificial trees, RoboBee as a substitute for bees, etc.). In this article, we move on to lesser-known robots – robotic pets whose genesis as a kind of avatars and small toys we followed from the mid-1990s when the area of SE Europe was interrupted with children’s Japanese “pet” Tamagotchi. Later, more complex “pets” such as Joy for All, Zoomer Interactive Kittens and Puppies, PARO Robot Seals, and AIBO were developed. Our focus is on robot pets used in retirement homes in some countries and, for example, people with dementia. Such objects have opened several questions, of which we pointed out the following: the definition of being and pet, or home animals or, as some anthropologists point out – companion animals, sociability and attachment, feelings, biological needs, responsibility for behaviour, rights, and obligations as well as violence against hybrids and androids (cf. Thompson 2018).
The last decades have been marked by the development of technology that has led to an increasing number of robots in the human surroundings (outside environment and inside the body), which brings us ...closer to the realization of posthumanism and transhumanism. That new circumstances bring humans closer to robots and, consequently, hybrids and cyborgs. Today, robots have become commonplace, with increasing tasks in service industries (e.g., catering or customer satisfaction testing), then as automatic and autonomous devices (e.g., vacuum cleaners or cars) and as substitutes for individual plants and animals (e.g., artificial trees, RoboBee as a substitute for bees, etc.). In this article, we move on to lesser-known robots – robotic pets whose genesis as a kind of avatars and small toys we followed from the mid-1990s when the area of SE Europe was interrupted with children’s Japanese “pet” Tamagotchi. Later, more complex “pets” such as Joy for All, Zoomer Interactive Kittens and Puppies, PARO Robot Seals, and AIBO were developed. Our focus is on robot pets used in retirement homes in some countries and, for example, people with dementia. Such objects have opened several questions, of which we pointed out the following: the definition of being and pet, or home animals or, as some anthropologists point out – companion animals, sociability and attachment, feelings, biological needs, responsibility for behaviour, rights, and obligations as well as violence against hybrids and androids (cf. Thompson 2018).
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