Studia Humanistyczne AGH
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ISSN 2084-3364
e-ISSN: 2300-7109
Issue Date
2012
Volume
T. 11
Number
Nr 1
Description
Journal Volume
Studia Humanistyczne AGH
T. 11 (2012)
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Chrześcijańskie sakramenty w ujęciu teorii aktów mowy
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2012) Pasek, Zbigniew
The article deals with a problem of using the theory of a speech act in analysis of Christian sacraments in religious studies. Author finds the concept useful for many reasons. Mostly, religious studies are free of problem of truth, because the theory tells only about felicity of creating beliefs or not. According to S. Tambiah, it lets us analyse the scale of magic in religious rituals, also Christian, like sacramental practice. In the article different sacramental theologies, like Catholicism, Orthodox and different Protestant religions (Calvinism, Lutheranism) are looked at in terms of illocutionary power of words used during rituals and their effectiveness. It lets us illustrate the historical process of decreasing of the magical element in interpretation of basic Christian rituals.
Źródła transmisyjnego ujęcia procesu komunikacji
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2012) Kulczycki, Emanuel
The purpose of the present paper is to suggest a philosophical basis for reflection on the transmission model of communication. The article is a contribution to the discussion about the genesis of the concept of communication. It also attempts to specify the conditions that have to be met to identify the non-etymological genesis of transmission approach to the phenomenon of communication. The paper consists of four sections. The first one distinguishes between a »model of communication« and an »approach to communication«. While the second section examines the etymological and historical genesis of the contemporary term »communication«, it particularly discusses two metaphors on which the transmission model of communication builds: the »organic« and the »transmission« metaphors. The third section considers the basic elements of the Shannon–Weaver model of communication which is generally regarded as the very source of all communication models. The fourth section delivers a presentation of a philosophical perspective on the genesis of the transmission approach: Plato’s Phaedros, Scholastic semiotics, Descartes’ cogito and Locke’s empiricism are covered here. The most important conclusion that is drawn here has it that the philosophical perspective on the genesis of the concept of communication makes it possible to show that the category of transmission is inadequate for a serious reflection on the communication process.
Słuch a percepcja przestrzeni
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2012) Skoczek, Zuzanna
Space is usually perceived and examined as a tridimensional, but visual construct. The article shows it as a process, in which both external (systemic, environmental) and internal (psychological, physical) factors matter. They are important in all kinds of space perception, including the auditory one, which is often disregarded. Meanwhile, it can furnish rich information on one’s point in the space, events happening around, character and function of a place etc. What cannot be ignored is that »auditory spatial awareness« [Blesser, 2007] in- influences people’s behavior. This is the reason why architects, governments and artists start to pay attention to this phenomenon, while social researchers do surveys. Their cooperation can be seen in Evidence-Based Design architectonic trend or Project for Public Spaces. Similar, but stricter requirements are set by the European Commission. But surrounding sounds are not only damaging and disturbing. Many of them are helpful, provide information, give solace and many are parts of soundmarks, »acoustic landmarks«, are components of identity. Gathering sounds, often ascribed to places, became a new kind of entertainment and artistic activity.
Sex i shopping – związki i paralele. Refleksja kulturoznawcza
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2012) Skowronek, Katarzyna
The article deals with the relations between sex and shopping (wider: the contemporary forms of sexuality and lifestyle of consumerism) and biological, psychosocial, cultural reasons of such connections. The author analyses jokes about sex&shopping, popular scientific media texts, movies and popular literature, in which the two ideas sex&shopping are collected and compared. She also shows material categories: sex industry, prostitution, sponsoring. She investigates in which economical and social conditions the symbiosis of sex and shopping is successful. She hypothesizes that the formula sex&shopping is a kind of important metaphor for the contemporary society, shows the constant emancipation ambitions of women in the realm of economics and sex, characterizes »singles’ culture« and the one type of feminism at the turn of 20thc., which is named power-dressing or glamour feminism.
Walter Hugo Khouri’s voyeuristic games with his audience in »Noite Vazia«
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2012) Małecka, Joanna
This paper offers an analysis of Walter Hugo Khouri’s most acclaimed but also most controversial film, <i>Noite Vazia</i> (<i>Men and Women</i>, 1964). The author of the paper discusses Noite Vazia in the context of the 1950/60s economic boom in Brazil. Against this background, Khouri’s film is examined as an original and far-sighted challenge to the state-ideology which boasted »fifty years progress in five« and regarded cinema as a means of promoting social progress. A close analysis of Noite Vazia reveals Khouri’s rejection of such a restrictive cinematographic agenda. The film features an intricate game of looks and glances in which both Khouri’s characters, the silent city and also his audience become engaged. Outreaching the bounds of the politicallyapproved line of thinking, Khouri stages a daring comment on the role of the cinema, and on the universality and persistence of such traits of human nature as voyeurism and lustiness.