Modernity

A Identidade Líquida

by Rafael Gioielli

Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada na Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Univerdidade de São Paulo em 2005.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo investigar a dinâmica específica da identidade cultural na atualidade,... more O presente trabalho tem por objetivo investigar a dinâmica específica da identidade cultural na atualidade, considerando-se a multiplicação das relações culturais que se estabelecem com a globalização, com o advento do ciberespaço e diante das indicações de superação da experiência metafísica da verdade universal que marcou a modernidade. A partir das relações que se estabelecem entre identidade e o contexto ampliado de sua significação procurou-se reconhecer os elementos peculiares de sua experiência em um passado ainda recente, a modernidade, e na atualidade, a contemporaneidade
dinâmica. A partir da problematização derivada da ação política dos novos movimentos sociais e dos estudos acerca do multiculturalismo, foi possível chegar à indicação de que a experiência da identidade no mundo contemporâneo é marcada por uma dinâmica líquida.

Hiperrealidad y simulacro: La crisis de la modernidad en “El muñeco”, de Virgilio Piñera

by Santiago Juan-Navarro

Forthcoming in Nuevas aproximaciones a la obra de Virgilio Piñera. Ed. Humberto López. Cruz. Madrid: Editorial Hispano Cubana, 2012.

Making Death Modern: the Autopsy, Burial, and the South Korean Hospital, 1955-1962

by John P. DiMoia

forthcoming in edited volume (U Hawaii Press), 2012? 2013?
editors, Michael Pettid (Binghamton) and Charlotte... more forthcoming in edited volume (U Hawaii Press), 2012? 2013?
editors, Michael Pettid (Binghamton) and Charlotte Horlyck (SOAS)

Asian occidentalism and rediscovered modernities

by alastair bonnett

in Browning, C. and Lehti, M. (Eds) (2010) The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested Legacy London, Routledge, pp.201-217

The Construction of an Alpine Landscape: Building, Representing and Affecting the Eastern Alps, c. 1885-1914

by Ben Anderson

Published in Journal of Cultural Geography, 29:2 (2012), pp. 1-29

Between 1885 and the First World War, German and Austrian alpinists talked of ‘opening up’ the Alps in Germany and the... more Between 1885 and the First World War, German and Austrian alpinists talked of ‘opening up’ the Alps in Germany and the Austrian Empire with a vast network of huts and paths. This article argues that this effort to develop the Alps arose from a series of relationships between people, objects, representations and affects which linked urban spaces of middle-class conduct to the alpine environment. Alpinists utilised media such as landscape reliefs and panoramas not merely to represent the Alps, but to inculcate a particular affective response amongst Germany’s urban middle-class, or Bürgertum. Instead of a Romantic ideal of mountains as unknowable symbols of nature’s power, these alpinists promoted a modern gaze which would see all, from the safety of a controlled, governable landscape. In doing so, alpinists legitimised their intervention in the Eastern Alps, developing these once unknown landscapes as a bürgerlich [bourgeois, or middle-class] cultural resource.

La modernité dans l'historiographie du Soudan : usages convenus d'un concept nébuleux ?

by Iris Seri-Hersch

To be published in Cahiers d'Etudes africaines, 2012

Cet article propose une réflexion critique sur les usages de la catégorie modernité dans l'historiographie du Soudan... more Cet article propose une réflexion critique sur les usages de la catégorie modernité dans l'historiographie du Soudan contemporain. Attentive à la distinction heuristique entre catégories analytiques et catégories normatives, l'étude revient sur des conceptualisations européennes de la modernité avant d'examiner ses usages dans la production académique soudaniste des cinquante dernières années. En dépit de la diversité de leurs approches et de leurs objets, la plupart des travaux analysés endossent explicitement ou implicitement l'une ou l'autre des théories de la modernisation et de la dépendance. L'argumentaire débouche sur la nécessité, pour les chercheurs en sciences sociales, de sortir des impasses épistémologiques de la modernité "modernisatrice" et des modernités "multiples".

This paper deals with "modernity" as an analytical category, investigating how it has been used by scholars of modern Sudan in the last fifty years. Keeping in mind the heuristic distinction between analytical and normative categories, the study goes back to European conceptualizations of modernity before examining how it has been constructed and used across a wide range of Sudanist academic writings. Despite significant differences in their approaches and subjects of study, most of the works under review explicitly or implicitly adopt either modernization or dependence theories. The paper ultimately argues for the necessity of avoiding the epistemological dead ends of both "modernizing" and "multiple" modernities.

Race', normativity and the history of sexuality: Magnus Hirschfeld's racism and the early-twentieth-century sexology

by Heike Bauer

Dreaming Moosbrugger: The Other versus Modernity in Musil's The Man Without Qualities

by Celine Piser

Al-hadâtha wal-idâra al-hadâriyya fî Misr al-'uthmâniyya. As'ila wa tafsîrât (Modernity and Administration in Ottoman Egypt: Questions and Research Perspectives)

by Nora Lafi

in Nasser Ahmed Ibrahim (ed.), Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Historiography of Egypt, in Honour of Nelly Hanna, Cairo, Gebo, 2012, p.263-273.

Egypt has always been an important research field for studies on urban governance in an Arab context. Many seminal... more Egypt has always been an important research field for studies on urban governance in an Arab context. Many seminal concepts in the analysis of the 'Islamic' city or of the 'Arab city' were built in the Egyptian context. The Ottoman period however has always had a speficific status in this panorama. Between the 'medieval' paradigm of Islamic urban governance and the 'modern' paradigm of reformed urban governance, Ottoman times have always been objects of contradictory readings. On the one hand they were
seen in Egypt as a distorsion of the medieval urban heritage, and on the other hand they were already a distorsion of the relationship to urban modernity, a relationship then even more distorted by the colonial influence. The object of this paper, based on the study of archives from BOA in Istanbul, court record in Cairo and SHAT in Vincennes, and on local chronicles, is to try and propose a reading of urban government features
in Ottoman Egypt that could both go beyond this unsatisfactory dichotomy and discuss such important paradigms as old regime urban governance and the various morphologies of reform of the inherited framework, the aim being to discuss the very nature of urban governance in Ottoman Egypt, between institutional aspects and the various scales of relationship of the individual to power, urbanity, citadinity, community, religion and profession.

Situating Modern Western Education in the Modern/colonial World System

by Michael Baker

This essay reinterprets the history and theory of modern western education as a modern/colonial institution by... more This essay reinterprets the history and theory of modern western education as a modern/colonial institution by rethinking western modernity as a predatory and colonizing civilizational project.  The purpose of this essay is to articulate a planetary interpretation of modern western education as a disciplinary institutional formation responsible for reproducing a Eurocentric cosmology. The modern/colonial world system perspective interprets modernity as a universalized civilizing/civilizational complex that emerged with the breakup of Christendom and the colonization of the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  From this perspective, the purposes of education should now include unlearning the cultural enclosures of the Eurocentric worldview, particularly the western system of knowledge, and opening the modern imagination to the multiple ways of perceiving and conceiving the world that have been occluded within the modern Eurocentric imaginary.

War and State in the Northeastern Black Sea Region: The Impact of Russian-Ottoman Rivalry on Processes of Political Modernization (19th century)

by Irma Kreiten

Giordano Bruno e il problema della modernità - Da <<Cosmos & History>>

by Stefano Ulliana

English abstract inside ... English abstract inside ...

La Guerra fredda e "l'avanzata modernità socialista"

by Tobias Rupprecht

Contemporanea 1 (2012), pp.137-145

TANNHÄUSER E BONDES ELÉTRICOS: O OLHAR MACHADIANO SOBRE A MODERNIDADE EM CRÔNICAS D ’“A SEMANA”

by Alex Campos

Written firstly to a class of Theory of Literature

Abstract: Based on the discussions of Le Goff and Berman on modernity, we propose a reading of two Machadean crônicas... more Abstract: Based on the discussions of Le Goff and Berman on modernity, we propose a reading of two Machadean crônicas of ―A semana‖ [―The Week‖], dated October 1892. Such crônicas earn a lot if read together: both portray ―extremes‖ of Machadean Rio - the upper class going to the presentation of Wagner's Tannhäuser and the poor donkeys speakers who reflect on the possible future consequences caused by the onset of electric bonds. The cronista is extremely insightful when he writes about the effects of modernization, with keen eye, subtle is critical of the social imbalances of his time.
Keywords: Machado de Assis, crônica, modernity.

Governing the Karimojong: Tradition, Modernity and Power in Contemporary Karamoja

by Karol Czuba

The complex gerontocratic governance system of the Karimojong, the largest ethnic group in Karamoja, was challenged in... more The complex gerontocratic governance system of the Karimojong, the largest ethnic group in Karamoja, was challenged in the second half of the twentieth century by the combined forces of the modernising Ugandan nation-state and undisciplined young men. The paper demonstrates that, although Karimojong power structures were substantially weakened during the period of great disequilibrium between the late 1970s and 2000s, recent years have seen their gradual reconstruction. Some traditional institutions have disappeared or declined, but the position of elders has been largely restored. Ekokwa, or an informal assembly, has partially integrated the state-imposed Local Council 1 structure and emerged as the new central political forum of the Karimojong. Karimojong culture remains in a state of flux and significant changes can be expected in the near future.

Social Control After Foucault

by Michalis Lianos

"Le miroir de l'étranger": Subjectivity in André Frenaud's "Le silence de Genova." Romanic Review, 97.3-4 (2007): 423-43

by Andrea Malaguti

Romanic Review, 2007

Should the Daleks be Exterminated?

by Ed Webb

With Mark Wardecker. In Courtland Lewis & Paula Smithka, eds, Doctor Who and Philosophy - Bigger on the Inside (Full Court: 2011)

Zeugma, la Turquie et la frontière orientale.

by Michel Feugère

M. Feugère, Zeugma, la Turquie et la frontière orientale. Revue des Deux Mondes  sept. 2009, 143-147.

In Antiquity, Zeugma was a bridge between the Roman, "civilized" world and the Barbaricum. It was an... more In Antiquity, Zeugma was a bridge between the Roman, "civilized" world and the Barbaricum. It was an important city for contacts, trade and cultural exchange. While the elite was maintaining a strict Roman way of life, the city population was exploring the richness of the Other : terracotta statuettes reveal the influence of oriental deities on the local production, while a strong hellenistic tradition was, in return, influencing Eastern images. These peaceful influences lasted until the withdrawal of the Roman legion left the area open to the Sassanid troops of Shapur I, who destroyed the city in 252 AD.

In modern times as well, this area is still an invisible border between Turkish and Kurdish populations, but modern Turkey seems unable to realize how lucky the country is to have cultural diversity. Archaeological excavations therefore question the image of Alterity in this region, bot in ancient and modern times. On a wider scale, the attitude towards the strangers, people with different beliefs, habits and ways of life, is central to the positioning of Turkey between Europe and the Middle East.

Storicità di Gustavo Giovannoni e del suo 'diradamento edilizio'. [Historicity of Gustavo Giovannoni and of his 'building reduction']

by Piero Cimbolli Spagnesi

In: Gustavo Giovannoni. Riflessioni agli albori del XXI secolo. Atti della giornata di studio in onore di Gaetano Miarelli Mariani, 1928-2002 (Roma, 26 giugno 2003). A cura di M.P. Sette; pp. 41-56. ISBN 88-7597-372-5