In this paper I argue that the new coronavirus pandemic has brought to light some of the contradictions and paradoxes of our time, namely the contrast between human fragility and the technological ...hubris linked to the fourth industrial revolution (artificial intelligence); and the contrast between the TINA ideology (there is no alternative) and the sudden and extreme changes in our everyday life caused by the virus, thus suggesting that there are indeed alternatives. I then analyse the main metaphors that have been used in public discourse concerning our relations with the virus: the virus as an enemy; the virus as a messenger; the virus as pedagogue. I prefer the last one and explain why, and in what sense the virus is our contemporary.
In Algeria, the city of Tlemcen is home to 60% of the country’s Arab-Islamic architectural heritage, also known as Moorish. During the French colonization, the rich Moorish historical and ...architectural heritage was largely diminished. The architecture of Tlemcen’s historic old town was gradually replaced by classical architecture in the early days of colonization, and then by modern architecture from 1940 onwards. After the independence in 1962, the city has carried out huge programs of facilities and new housing, based on modern architectural principles. In 2011, Tlemcen was designated a “Capital of Islamic Culture” and, in preparation for this international cultural event, new cultural facilities and hotels have been built, inspired by Moorish heritage. Given the heterogeneity of references and in particular the identity crisis ensuing in architecture in Tlemcen, this event was the key moment for validating a stylistic choice, which directly recounts the history of the city. The question is: what authenticity is expressed by the current use of the Moorish referent? Is it technical and material authenticity, or merely symbolic and cultural genuineness? This study delves into the question of identity in architecture. It analyses the new Moorish-style buildings in Tlemcen and highlights their contribution to the quest for a local identity and the ambition to produce local architecture. The article supports the hypothesis that architecture is an effective means of expressing identity and that it has always had, and continues to have, a close relationship with memory. The methodology is based on a combination of several investigative tools: surveys, photographs and archive consultation. These tools helped develop a building analysis grid, which serves as a repertory for describing the buildings, according to two levels of reading of the architectural work. We have chosen three Moorish and four contemporary buildings to which the different criteria of the analysis grid are applied. The results of the analysis of the new buildings show that, in a way, they enabled to establish continuity and dialogue with the Moorish heritage.
What to do with all the electronic waste? The first answer is to turn it into art. But without much hope or transcendence. Far from those more classical speculations on the vindictive (and curative) ...possibilities of art, Diego Bianchi reinforces his presence as that of a demiurge of a horrible future that is already among us. Neither is it a declaration of principles, nor an environmentalist critique. It is a truly surprising symphony because of its novelty. For the atonality of those notes that sound from the alarms, for the colors far removed from nature, for the claustrophobic atmosphere. Also, for the sadness. Or rather, melancholy. The black bile, in its etymology, one of the four cardinal humors and its relation with the disease but also with men of genius.
¿Qué hacer con toda la basura electrónica? La primera respuesta es convertirla en arte. Pero sin demasiada esperanza ni trascendencia. Lejos de esas especulaciones más clásicas sobre las posibilidades reivindicativas (y curativas) del arte, Diego Bianchi refuerza su presencia como la de un demiurgo de un futuro horrible que ya está entre nosotros. Tampoco es una declaración de principios, ni una crítica ecologista. Es una sinfonía verdaderamente sorprendente por lo nueva. Por la atonalidad de esas notas que suenan de las alarmas, por los colores alejados de la naturaleza, por el ambiente claustrofóbico. También, por la tristeza. O mejor dicho, la melancolía. La bilis negra, en su etimología, uno de los cuatro humores cardinales y su relación con la enfermedad pero además, con los hombres de genio.
To progress in the field of lyrical art, one must draw strength from origin. As water flows inevitably from source to sea. The legend of “The Flying Dutchman” (Der Fliegende Holländer) came to ...Wagner’s mind during the violent storm that broke as he left Riga for France. At the genesis of this opera, stands the sovereign power of nature, carrying within it the secret destiny of man. As an enigma. The main theme of the cursed captain would be today differently understood. Because romanticism, limitless love and supreme sacrifice, redemption, are gone over. But face from the sea in fury, man’s heart stays with fundamental interrogation about meaning of life and existence. One could read this raging ocean as the mirror of a tormented, wandering, unstable conscience. That’s why “The Flying Dutchman” is ever contemporary. We propose to extract (to save) from these upset waters the true Leitmotif, unperishable, that leads to the dawn of Future. Our method lies in total freedom of interpretation and complete reconstruction of this Wagner’s masterpiece.
O DESEJO DO ANALISTA NA ATUALIDADE Albuquerque, Andrei Silva Ribeiro de; Henriques, Rogério Paes
Ágora (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil),
12/2022, Volume:
25, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
RESUMO: Este artigo possui como eixo norteador o conceito de desejo do analista no ensino de Lacan, incluindo seus seminários e parte de sua obra escrita. O percurso conceitual que resulta no ...conceito de desejo do analista é refeito articulando-o com outros temas, sobretudo aqueles que abrangem a prática da clínica psicanalítica nas suas relações com a época atual.
Abstract: This article has as its guiding principle the concept of the analyst’s desire in Lacan’s teaching, including his seminars and part of his written work. The conceptual route that results in the analyst’s desire concept is redone, articulating it with other themes, especially those that cover the practice of the psychoanalytic clinic in its relations with the current era.
Resumo O artigo tem como foco textos de caráter autobiográfico publicados em Moçambique a partir de 2001, nos quais as relações entre memória e poder projetam-se como uma aliança determinante na ...condução da história recente do país. Compreendendo a escrita como uma arena, os autores recolhem/selecionam/produzem as lembranças do período da luta armada de libertação e propõem uma leitura em que a história é delineada por vozes que, mesmo procurando incorporar uma carga de subjetividade aos discursos que registram, confluem no esforço de consolidação da macronarrativa oficial.
Is globalization directly and causally related to communication? If so, how and why? How might a dialectic play out between communication and social interaction? What may the mass media have to do ...with the globalization of societies? Starting from these questions, the aim of this article is to conceptually approach and problematize the globalization of communication as a consequent transition or a changing process through a communicational globalization of the world. Following a theoretical research and a bibliographical review, this article explores and questions a dialectical perspective about the globalization of contemporaneity that is producing a single and universal world-society. Accepting the general and consensual assumption that communication is a universal form to link people, cultures, and ideas, this article aims: a) to advocate the growing and multiform uses, social functions, mass interactions, and extensive effects of communication in the world, so that our societies become a single contemporary world-society; b) to highlight the dialectic between society and communication through a globalization process, which is common to these two social phenomena.
After an introduction to FRA Project NORISC-19 on Third Sector in Campania, the authors illustrate some aspects of the anthropological methodology used in a part of it, then focusing on the analysis ...of the materials from 21 interviews with representatives of associations in the 5 provincies of Naples, Caserta, Salerno, Avellino and Benevento. The themes analyzed in an anthropological perspective, showing old problems and new opportunities, concern collaborative networks with institutions and other associations and the impact of exogenous events such as the Third Sector Reform and the Covid-19 pandemic. The discussed results also allow reflecting on the potential of an anthropological approach to the study of these contemporary issues within an original mixed methods perspective, which, in NORISC-19, combines and integrates multiple disciplinary fields.
RESUMO: Um dos efeitos das transformações contemporâneas é a ausência de referência para o eu, em face de que o nível de angústia se eleva. O presente artigo objetiva colocar em discussão a política ...do aparecimento e desaparecimento das imagens na contemporaneidade e suas consequências clínicas. Resultado parcial de uma pesquisa que visa investigar a ascensão vertiginosa das imagens e o declínio da função das palavras na subjetividade contemporânea. Diante da angústia paralisante, impõe-se uma política da existência que remarque o lugar da singularidade a fim de que o sujeito do inconsciente apareça.
Abstract: One of the effects of contemporary transformations is the absence of reference to the self, as the level of anguish rises. This article aims to discuss the politics of the appearance and disappearance of contemporary images and their clinical consequences. It is one of the results of a larger research that aims to investigate the dizzying rise of images and the decline of the function of words in contemporary subjectivity In the face of paralyzing anguish, a politics of existence is imposed that re-marks the place of singularity so that the subject of the unconscious appears.
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