Search results for "modernity"
showing 10 items of 131 documents
An Essay on the Social Costs and Benefits of Technology Evolution
2013
“El espíritu fáustico del mundo técnico”. Enfermedad mental y crítica cultural en la España de Franco
2021
'El espíritu fáustico del mundo técnico'. Enfermedad mental y crítica cultural en la España de Franco.‒ Teniendo en cuenta la querencia casi constitutiva de la medicina mental por la crítica cultural, no debe sorprender que, dentro de su particular litigio con la modernidad, la dictadura franquista fuese un periodo de in tensa floración del ensayismo psiquiátrico conservador. Partiendo de los temores de una posible regresión física y moral de la 'Hispanidad' a causa de la artificiosidad de la vida moderna, la infiltración del liberalismo y la erosión de los valores tradicionales, el género fue desplazando su interés hacia un análisis de la 'sociedad neuro tizada' que, con referentes filosóf…
Marcel Proust et l’imaginaire gothique
2020
By associating the imagination of progress with its corollary, permanent innovation, one has the feeling that modernity proceeds from a break with the past, as reflected by avant-garde artists. Nev...
On W.E.B. Du Bois, Double Consciousness, and Racialized Modernity. An Interview with José Itzigsohn
2021
The February issue of Transilvania journal hosts an interview with professor José Itzigsohn focusing on his activity within the field of sociology and his latest book with Karida L. Brown, on The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois. Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line (New York University Press, 2020). It delves into Du Boisian sociology, “double consciousness” and racialized modernity, alongside contemporary decolonial perspectives and new studies and researchers in the field.
El cuerpo como desafío al ideal de feminidad franquista. Sara Montiel, la estrella española que vino de Hollywood (1950-1957)
2020
El éxito sin precedentes de El último cuplé en 1957 confirmó a Sara Montiel como el primer gran mito sexual del franquismo. Partiendo del concepto de estrella cinematográfica como una representación cultural construida tanto dentro como fuera de la pantalla, el artículo aborda cómo la actriz encarnó un modelo de mujer que desafiaba los ideales franquistas de género que el régimen trataba de imponer al conjunto de españolas. Mediante el análisis intertextual de películas y documentos hemerográficos, principalmente de las revistas cinematográficas, se observa cómo Montiel fue un icono de feminidad, en la línea de otras voluptuosas estrellas internacionales de los años cincuenta, convertid…
A changing Sicily: Homage to Jane and Peter Schneider
2006
The research that Jane and Peter Schneider carried out in Sicily, in the little Agrigentine town of Villamaura in the 1970s and later in the area of Palermo until 2000, made an important contribution to the work of social scientists who have chosen Sicily as a site from which to contribute to the debates on the Mafia, codes of honor, reproductive behavior, and the relationship between modernity and backwardness and between society and culture. These studies bring together perspectives that draw on both the anthropology of Mediterranean societies and on historical demography in ways that have developed new and innovative research paradigms and methodologies, and have opened up new fields of …
A prequel to Nollywood: South African photo novels and their pan-African consumption in the late 1960s
2010
This article interrogates the history of the photo novel in Africa with particular reference to African Film, a magazine of almost pan-African circulation, published between 1968 and 1972 in South Africa. Featuring the adventures of Lance Spearman, an African crime fighter, the magazine was read widely across Anglophone Africa, from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. After a brief introduction to the history of the photo novel, the author discusses the production, content, reception, and legacy of the Lance Spearman photo novels. It is argued that Lance Spearman may be understood as a crossover of James Bond and Philip Marlowe, and several influences from…
Algunas consideraciones sobre el arte en México de las décadas de 1990 y 2000
2016
Titulo : “Algunas consideraciones sobre el arte en Mexico de los 1990s y 2000s” Resumen : En los ultimos 25 anos, una forma distinta de hacer, exhibir y circular arte en Mexico se incorporo a la economia global con ayuda de fondos publicos y privados. El arte en Mexico de los 1990s y 2000s abarca la transicion de una reflexion sobre las promesas rotas de la modernidad desde un punto de vista periferico, y un desafio a la hueca imagen de mexicanidad y su institucionalizacion, a lo que se conoce como “arte contemporaneo”. La liberalizacion del mercado llego de la mano con la liberalizacion de la identidad, construcciones historicas y la hibridez-pastiche mestiza de lo postmoderno, dando lugar…
Scattering community
2001
In discussing the cultural history of the 19th century, Walter Benjamin diagnosed the emergence of the modern novel and its form of narration as the sign of a fracturing experience. The split in experience is related to the scattering of a homogeneous idea of space and time, constituted especially during the Enlightenment and in the German historicism. Benjamin's claim reflected the fracturing temporality of modern communities as well as the transformations in the understanding of the meaning of tradition. Here, I begin by discussing Benjamin's conceptions of experience and memory in detail. Secondly, I consider his ideas on history in the framework of challenging the new forms of narratio…
Tourism as a Form of New Psychological Resilience: The Inception of Dark Tourism
2012
Tourism industry is considered as an activity based on higher tolerance to frustration, in other terms as a resilient industry. At some extent, the diverse threats that impinge on tourism in late modernity not only did not alter its logic, but strengthened its presence worldwide. Concepts as dark tourism or thanatourism started to be adopted and applied in tourism-related research. Nonetheless, these studies are not interested in revealing neither the anthropological roots of the issue nor the representation of founding trauma (as sacralisation of the dead). Natural and made-man disasters give lessons to communities that are rechanneled by means of mythical mechanism of resiliency. Tourism,…