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TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)
Lech W. ZACHER
UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 12 May 2016
Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.
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METHODOLOGICAL ANARCHISM AND ITS COGNITIVE VALUE
Magdalena SZPUNAR
Transformacje cywilizacyjne – między wiedzą, wrażliwością i wyobraźnią socjologiczną
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022,  Publication date: 30 March 2022
Abstract The aim of the article is to present the basic assumptions of Paul K. Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism. The article presents the value of methodological anarchism for the cognitive process, methodology and development of science, as well as the controversies associated with the application of [...] Read more.
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RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM – BETWEEN THE OLD DRIVING FORCES AND NEW NETWORKS
Lech W. ZACHER
Global Problems – Future – Politics – Values
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013,  Publication date: 13 November 2013
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OBSTACLES TO SUSTAINABILITY – IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (the Case of a Transitional Economy – Poland)
Lech W. ZACHER
National Cases Augmented
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017,  Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract Requirements for the sustainability in economy and society should be tailored to a given country or region. General models which often dominate in academic discourse are an important part of necessary social knowledge (of decision makers, media, NGOs etc.). They are formulated in universally relevant [...] Read more.
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HUMAN BEING AND NATURE IN RADICAL TRANSFORMATION, OR WHY WE STILL VISIT DERELICT PARKS IN SILESIA
Aleksandra KUNCE
Man and Nature – Changing Relations
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The author addresses the problem of the philosophy of the “derelict park”. The reflections are organised around Fazaniec – border park, established in the Upper Silesia in mid-nineteenth century by count Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch. A local human being lives and constructs his or her life off the beaten [...] Read more.
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INDIAN SOCIOLOGY: INDIGENIZATION AND CHALLENGES
B.K. NAGLA
Research for Practices
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The topic of the paper is the discourse present in the Indian Sociology refering to indigenization of the social sciences. After making conceptual clarifications the author presents the context of the discourse and analyzes Indigenizing Approaches to Research, Indigenization of Indian Sociology and [...] Read more.
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D. UZNADZE’S THE PLACE AND THE ROLE OF THE THEORY OF "ATTITUDE" IN THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS OF THE ADMINISATRATION AND MANAGEMEN
Vazha KAKABADZE
Research for Practices
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract In the presented scientific research Georgian psychologist D.Uznadze's theory of "attitude" firstly is related with management an administration system. This article emphasizes that healthy human behavior and feelings are not only a reaction on the for influence over environment. The environment has [...] Read more.
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THE ISSUE OF THE SUBJECT IN POST-MODERNITY. DISCUSSING THE CHANGE IN THINKING ABOUT THE SUBJECT
Monika MICZKA-PAJESTKA
Research for Practices
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The following article considers and analyzes the issue of the subject and subjectivity emerging from the changing reality. It identifies and examines the areas of the formation of the socio-cultural space, inter alia that regarding language, experience, symbolism and imagery, as well as values important [...] Read more.
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CODES OF ART&SCIENCE: CULTURAL MEANINGS AND IDEOLOGY OF THE AESTHETICS VERSUS USER EXPERIENCE FIELD RESEARCH
Michał DERDA-NOWAKOWSKI
Philosophying on Art And Aesthetics
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The contemporary reflection on interactive art becomes insufficient when a researcher is not able to test an artwork and check their theses in cognitive process. Exploring interactive art should therefore include user experience as the most important element of research process. Thus, the significance [...] Read more.
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FROM CYBERBRICOLEURS THROUGH CYBERLEADERS TO CYBORGS: EMERGING ARTISTIC STRATEGIES AND POSSIBLE TACTICS OF RECEPTION
Anna MAJ
Philosophying on Art And Aesthetics
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The main interest of the paper is to show how the roles of contemporary new media artists are evolving towards the spheres which do not necessarily belong to Art as traditionally understood. The Author analyses strategies which characterise the research and experimental factor (in its scientific meaning [...] Read more.
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THESES ON ETHOSOPHY (ART AND ESTHETICS)
Bogusław JASIŃSKI
Philosophying on Art And Aesthetics
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The paper presents a new vision of philosophy and a new diagnosis of the world. The author tries to construct a new civilizational and philosophical paradigm. It is called ethosophy. Ethosophy is the wisdom of existence in ethos. Read more.
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FROM ANTONIO SANT'ELIA'S „CITY OF THE FUTURE” TO THE CONTEMPORARY VIRTUAL CITY
Tadeusz MICZKA
Media
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The author of the presentation concentrates on the period in the history of architecture which tried and is still trying to replace the opinion that city is a place when man lives with an opinion that city can be a space where man will be more and more liberated from various restrictions. The futurist [...] Read more.
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PHILOSOPHICAL SOURCES OF MARSHALL MCLUHAN’S LAWS OF MEDIA: CICERO, FRANCIS BACON AND GIAMBATTISTA VICO
Bartłomiej KNOSALA, Aleksandra KUZIOR
Media
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The main aim of this article is to point out the philosophical roots of Marshal McLuhan’s thought. The starting point is McLuhan’s last posthumous book entitled Laws of Media. In this book, McLuhan openly points to the intellectual tradition, which he feels part of and which he creatively develops. [...] Read more.
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THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION IN THE SPHERE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Valery NIKIFOROV, Nikita NIKIFOROV
Information Society: Education
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 19 November 2016
Abstract The international co-operation in the sphere of higher education is considered as being one of the important factors of human development, as an organic part of international relations. The international co-operation is considered at the three levels: universal, regional, and local. Analyzed were: 1 [...] Read more.