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Towards a critical understanding of data visualisation in democracy: a deliberative systems approach
2021
Data and data visualisations – in the forms of graphs, charts and maps – are becoming an increasingly important feature of social, public and political life. Yet within existing scholarship, the democratic significance of data visualisations has thus far received minimal attention. This article offers a first systematic attempt to make sense of and scrutinise the role of data visualisation in democracy. We apply deliberative systems theory in the analysis of three original case studies to elucidate how data visualisation can integrate into the overall anatomy of democracy, and to normatively assess how data visualisation contributes towards key democratic ideals. Conclusively, we highlight …
The Pedagogical Problem: Vygotsky’s Encounter with Marx’s Phenomenal Forms
2016
As advanced at the end of the previous chapter, the present one underscores the need to reassess Karl Marx’s contribution from the standpoint of pedagogy, in order for this field to come to terms with his sophisticated theory of the Erscheinungsformen or phenomenal forms. This analysis seems particularly pertinent in relation to the work of the early-Soviet scholar Lev Vygotsky, who allegedly deployed this concept in his own account of cognitive development in human beings. Indeed, despite the many educational fields that Marx’s work has impacted on—most obviously sociology of education, but also educational psychology, particularly thanks to the theoretical developments made by the author …
Case Studies of Digital and Media Art 56°56'51"N 24°6'23"E
2016
Contemporary media art has experienced very dynamic changes in the forms of its artistic expression, as well as in the perception of artworks by the audience and even art theoreticians. Questions about this new art form range from topics such as the unconventional nature of the elements constituting the artwork (program code, audience participation etc.), and the difficulties of displaying and preserving non-material art, to its proper place in the artistic landscape from the viewpoint of contemporary visual art. This paper aims to discuss the abovementioned questions through several case studies of various Latvian digital and contemporary media art areas.
La lógica de la apariencia en Marx. Sobre la interpretación de Clara Ramas San Miguel del fetichismo y la mistificación capitalistas
2020
Las nociones de fetichismo y misticismo constituyen los conceptos fundamentales con los que Marx analiza las formas de la apariencia propias de las sociedades capitalistas. Estos conceptos tienen un valor arquitectónico en la estructura interna del proyecto de Marx de una crítica de la economía política. Este trabajo pretende exponer y discutir las aportaciones interpretativas abiertas por el libro de Clara Ramas San Miguel: Fetiche y Mistificación capitalistas. La crítica de la economía política de Marx publicado en 2018 en la editorial Siglo XXI.