A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new
possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music-the
"classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early
twentieth ...centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and
its appeal. When this music is regarded esoterically, removed from
real-world interests, it increasingly sounds more evasive than
transcendent. Now Lawrence Kramer shows how classical music can
take on new meaning and new life when approached from postmodernist
standpoints. Kramer draws out the musical implications of
contemporary efforts to understand reason, language, and
subjectivity in relation to concrete human activities rather than
to universal principles. Extending the rethinking of musical
expression begun in his earlier Music as Cultural
Practice , he regards music not only as an object that invites
aesthetic reception but also as an activity that vitally shapes the
personal, social, and cultural identities of its listeners. In
language accessible to nonspecialists but informative to
specialists, Kramer provides an original account of the
postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and
explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from
Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel.
In a peripheral tradition, marked by aesthetic delays, the novel production in Brazil uses the concept of appropriation, not of codes of great specific authors. It uses elements from several ...narrative genres, undoing the limits among them. Such practice gives the contemporary Brazilian novel a status of synthesis of the postmodern narrative, in which other ways of narrating are experimented. As such, it is marked by a fictional vitality typical of nations open to borrowings and lootings. This essay analyzes the main lines of force in Brazilian current novel production and proposes an author as the main source.
The phenomenal rise of Shenzhen, a newly emergent city where the number of non-registered residents far exceeds that of registered ones, has been closely associated with a complex and dynamic ...interplay between the process of globalization, which has enabled Shenzhen’s incredible transformation from an impoverished fishing village to a leading global metropolis, and the forces of localization, which have compelled Shenzhen to take its own distinct circumstances into consideration. The miracle of Shenzhen can be construed not only as an iconic embodiment of China’s process of modernization and globalization since reform and opening-up, but also as a local attempt to reconstruct an alternative modernity with Chinese characteristics in the homogenizing context of globalization. To elucidate how Shenzhen has played a leading role both in promoting China’s integration into the global system and in demonstrating the uniqueness of China’s development in the age of globalization, this article makes a careful exploration of Shenzhen’s process of modern centralization and postmodern decentralization over the past several decades. While modernizing and centralizing itself in the global context, Shenzhen also tries to reconstruct an alternative modernity with concrete Chinese practices, which has not only led to the emergence of multiple centers in China but also undermined the singular and fixed meaning of global modernity by deterritorializing its narrow domain and expanding its restricted reference with specific Chinese practices.
This article explores the significant implications of Robert Venturi’s “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture” on architectural discourse. By delving into Venturi’s theoretical foundation, we ...gain an understanding of the evolution of discursive paradigms that have shaped architectural projects in recent years. The distinction between modern and postmodern architecture primarily hinges on the argument for the necessity of architectural inclusivity advocated by Venturi. This revision challenges the entire paradigm of modern architectural exclusivity. Venturi’s concept of complexity holds a crucial place in postmodern philosophical discourse, as exemplified by Lyotard. The incommensurability of language games, which Lyotard considers as an argument for the impossibility of reducing them to a single universal judgment, parallels the incommensurability of architectural elements. Venturi emphasizes that architectural elements should not be excluded from a universal architectural premise. This complexity introduces a nuanced situation, necessitating, according to Lyotard, a new kind of sensibility to appreciate their incommensurability. Meanwhile, in Venturi’s perspective, this situation reflects the complexity that must be realized in achieving a delicate balance between inclusion and the potential avoidance of an abusive unity of exclusion. The schemata used by Lyotard to describe the transformation and liberation of various linguistic contents are generally applicable in Venturi’s context, offering insights into the liberation of architectural content. Author(s): Astrit Salihu Title (English): Venturi Philosophically Revisited (Robert Venturi and the revival of modernism) Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023). Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje Page Range: 104-115 Page Count: 12 Citation (English): Astrit Salihu, "Venturi Philosophically Revisited (Robert Venturi and the revival of modernism),” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023): 104-115.
This article explores the significant implications of Robert Venturi’s “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture” on architectural discourse. By delving into Venturi’s theoretical foundation, we ...gain an understanding of the evolution of discursive paradigms that have shaped architectural projects in recent years. The distinction between modern and postmodern architecture primarily hinges on the argument for the necessity of architectural inclusivity advocated by Venturi. This revision challenges the entire paradigm of modern architectural exclusivity. Venturi’s concept of complexity holds a crucial place in postmodern philosophical discourse, as exemplified by Lyotard. The incommensurability of language games, which Lyotard considers as an argument for the impossibility of reducing them to a single universal judgment, parallels the incommensurability of architectural elements. Venturi emphasizes that architectural elements should not be excluded from a universal architectural premise. This complexity introduces a nuanced situation, necessitating, according to Lyotard, a new kind of sensibility to appreciate their incommensurability. Meanwhile, in Venturi’s perspective, this situation reflects the complexity that must be realized in achieving a delicate balance between inclusion and the potential avoidance of an abusive unity of exclusion. The schemata used by Lyotard to describe the transformation and liberation of various linguistic contents are generally applicable in Venturi’s context, offering insights into the liberation of architectural content. Author(s): Astrit Salihu Title (English): Venturi Philosophically Revisited (Robert Venturi and the revival of modernism) Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023). Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje Page Range: 104-115 Page Count: 12 Citation (English): Astrit Salihu, "Venturi Philosophically Revisited (Robert Venturi and the revival of modernism),” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023): 104-115.
This text is one of the postdoctoral research products developed at the Instituto de Sociologia of the Universidade do Porto, aiming to understand how pop culture icons translate postmodern values. ...Here we are interested in observing how “Sex” reifies contemporary hedonism, and for this we resort to the concept of fetish in Freud and Marx to analyze discourses of power in their dialectical relationship with the ethos of the system. “Sex” translates the needs of fugitive sensory experiences into a society hungry for the eccentric and superficial, being interpreted as an expression of a time.
The paper starts from the role and meaning of sociological theory in the context of research traditions. It begins with a discussion of the positioning of theory within qualitative research ...approaches in the time context of the late 1980sand early 1990s during the so-called of the “postmodern turn “. Given that the aim of the paper is to consider the genesis of research traditions in sociology with an emphasis on ethnographic research traditions, but it is difficult to start the discussion without grasping the essence of sociological theory. When talking about theory and ethnographic research, there are numerous forms of specific theories that ethnographers have, each of which is applicable to specific topics. The inappropriateness of the theory and the specific research topic results in a misunderstanding in relation to the main research questions. Within the work, the order of knowledge is also problematized, which is associated with ethnography on the one hand and postmodernism on the other, as well as a „reflexive” turn. The postmodern sensibility is especially visible within the reflective moment during the writing process. Postmodern ideas therefore first introduce a new level of criticality within ethnographic research and draw attention to certain topics, processes and phenomena that have not been sufficiently discussed within wider social reflection.
ABSTRACT The study addresses the challenges posed to education in a scenario where the operating mode of digital media presents difficulties in establishing a democratic way of life and shaping a ...common human world. It contextualizes the current sociopolitical landscape in light of modes of appropriation, criticism, and abandonment of rationality, highlighting practical consequences linked to certain postmodern positions. In an effort to recover ‘utopian energies’ present in the ideals of enlightenment modernity, both in education and politics, it relies on a reason anchored in linguistic intersubjectivity as a means of legitimizing social and political orders and as a foundation and guiding force in the process of educating new generations.
RESUMO O estudo tematiza os desafios postos à educação dada em um cenário em que o modo de operar das mídias digitais põe dificuldades ao estabelecimento de uma forma de vida democrática e à configuração de um mundo humano comum. Contextualiza o atual cenário sociopolítico à luz dos modos de apropriação, de crítica e de abandono da racionalidade, destacando consequências práticas vinculadas a determinadas posições pós-modernas. Em um esforço de recuperar ‘energias utópicas’ presentes no ideário da modernidade iluminista, tanto na educação como na política, aposta em uma razão ancorada na intersubjetividade linguística como forma de legitimação das ordens sociais e políticas e como sustentação e orientação dos processos de formação das novas gerações.
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Fredric Jameson’s recent book,
Allegory and Ideology
, argues that allegory has become a ‘social symptom’, an attempt during moments of historical crisis to represent reality even as that ...reality, rife with contradictory levels, eludes representation. Mobilising the fourfold medieval system of allegory he first introduced in
The Political Unconscious
, Jameson traces a formal history of attempts to come to terms with the ‘multiplicities’ and incommensurable levels that emerge within modernity and postmodernity. This article identifies the complexities of Jameson’s understanding of allegory and draws on the brief moments when Jameson references the Anthropocene to argue for an allegorical reading of our contemporary environmental crisis that would allow us to see the problem the Anthropocene names as truly contradictory: at one and the same time, the world we inhabit appears to us as a world of our own making and as a world that has become truly alien to us.
Katecheza zawsze odbywa się w konkretnych warunkach i w konkretnych czasach. Nie może być oderwana od rzeczywistości, nie może „rozmijać” się z problemami przeżywanymi przez katechizowanych. W tym ...znaczeniu ponowoczesność i cechujący ją sekularyzm stawiają katechezę w nowych warunkach, w sytuacji, która wymaga rozpoznania, a następnie rozeznania, jak w tej nowej rzeczywistości możliwe jest głoszenie katechezy, jak możliwe jest dotarcie z Ewangelią do współczesnego człowieka. Artykuł podejmuje namysł nad możliwościami dialogu katechetycznego z człowiekiem żyjącym w ponowoczesności, którą charakteryzuje zjawisko sekularyzacji. Refleksja przeprowadzona będzie w dwóch punktach. Najpierw ukazany zostanie kontekst, w którym zarysowuje się współczesny dialog katechetyczny. Następnie wyartykułowane zostaną konkretne zagadnienia, które mogą stanowić swoistą przestrzeń spotkania (konieczną do zaistnienia dialogu) z człowiekiem ponowoczesności. Całość zakończy krytyczne podsumowanie.
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