Simulation and media (2009)

Visible Language, 2015

IntroductionWe begin with the three-part assumption that theoretical perspectives and methods evident in design research are relevant to current discourse in the digital humanities (1) because of their parallel origins intersecting science and art, (2) because the activity of visualization through mapping is fundamental to generative research due to the overlapping nature of theory and practice, (3) and because mapping as a critical and reflective activity is essential to the interpretive nature of both fields. These assumptions are supported by the exponential growth of mapping as a research tool in design and humanities-based education and practice over the past 30 years: from concept maps and their capacity to assist in understanding complexity (Novak and Gowan, 1984) to critical cartography and its contribution to understanding landscape as a cultural and social phenomenon (Corner, 1999a), to geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool for providing a bird's eye view to e...

This paper studies the pattern of poverty, discusses various strategies of poverty reduction. The level of poverty is being analyzed according to various criteria. In this paper we propose to build the changes in relevant indicators of poverty level on the basis of various programs such as targeted social support. Method of Data Envelopment Analysis which operates with the concepts of economics and system analysis is being implied in this economic study.

International Social Science Journal, 1997

How to render suffering meaningful remains a formidable task for social anthropology and sociology. This stems in part from the fact that a society must, to some extent, hide from itself how much suffering is imposed upon individ-uals as a price of belonging; and the social ...

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O artigo explora a complexidade semântica e simbólica das bandeiras na cultura contemporânea. Discutindo exemplos específicos na Itália, o texto analisa como as bandeiras são empregadas em contextos variados, revelando suas conotações sociopolíticas e culturais. Ele utiliza teorias semióticas para desvendar a relação entre as bandeiras e seus significados em diferentes situações, destacando a ambiguidade inerente a esses símbolos e seu papel na expressão de identidade nacional, protesto e poder. O artigo aborda também a influência do material, cor e contexto na interpretação das bandeiras.

The Transcendent Mystery of God’s Word. A Critical Synthesis of Antioch and Alexandria (ed. J.W. Martens – P.V. Niskanen (Catholic Theological Formation Series; Saint Paul Seminary Press: Saint Paul, MIN 2024) 114-143, 2024

Drawing on Ben Meyer’s call to unite the “Antiochian” (literary) and Alexandrian (theological) reading of the Scripture, the author proposes a closer look at periscopes describing the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, where such a holistic reading is recommendable and necessary. He makes the symbolic representatives of the “Antiochian” school the scholars employing the radical historical-critical approach, while the Fathers of the Church are taken as representatives of the Alexandrian school. The former are criticized for the fact that in their reading of the Jesus’s baptism they severe it from the theophany that follows. Such an operation is unfounded due to the nature of ancient texts as well as the literary and thematic continuity between the baptism and theophany in the synoptic Gospels. The theological intuitions of the Fathers, who read two the two scenes as inextricably connected, may not be exegetically explicated, but they receive their substantiation in the closer reading of the synoptic accounts. They demonstrate that Jesus comes to the Jordan already aware of his sinlessness, special relationship with the Father and divinely appointed mission, confirmed by the Father and the Spirit. In the last step, it is argued that Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan could have been a point of reference for the early Christian understanding of the baptism of the believers. The proof is not only the theology of the Fathers but Paul himself. In Romans 8, the apostle in his description of new life in Christ binds together the Spirit, the filial dignity of the baptized, their prayer “Abba! Father!” and the inheritance of heaven. It is argued that Paul might have been inspired here by Jesus’ baptism and the liturgical tradition of the Church. Eventually, the reading combining the Antiochian and Alexandrian approach brings us to the holistic interpretation of Jesus’ baptism which not only is strictly connected to the theophany that follows but also foreshadows our Christian baptism.

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