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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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THE LEVEL OF PUBLIC SERVICES PROVIDED FOR ENTERPRISES IN EUROPEAN UNIO

Jerzy BARUK

Transformational Problems and Examples

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 6 May 2015

Abstract System creating of conditions of the cooperation between different categories of contemporary organizations functioning on market is the basic factor of their success. Industrial and service organizations - providing services for enterprises - belong to this kind of organizations. In the publication [...] Read more.

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DEATH – „ I LIKE IT”

Bogdan ZELER

Cultural and Literary Transformations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract The paper will present reflections about the phenomena that we observe in a network environment, especially on portals: peculiar fascination with death. Good news, arousing readers' interest is focused on their interest, as well Internet users. The network is also a place where we can find an authentic [...] Read more.

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THE SANCTITY CONSUMED. THE MEDIA APOTHEOSIS OF STEVE JOBS AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF CATEGORY OF "THE SACRED" IN MODERN CULTURE

Barbara ORZEŁ

Cultural and Literary Transformations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract How did Steve Jobs become a saint? In this article I compare the classical meaning of "the sacred" with the images produced within popculture. There is no doubt, that a deeply ingrained cultural scheme can be a great (and very "safe") foundation for further ideas. In the connection with that way of [...] Read more.

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LITERARY AND READER’S GAMES. ARCHETYPTURE TRANSFORMATIONS BY ANDRZEJ GŁOWACKI

Grażyna PIETRUSZEWSKA-KOBIELA

Cultural and Literary Transformations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract The article pays attention to changes of books and literature caused by leaving linear system and turning to solutions made by releasing from logical and unambiguous semantics. The common character of this phenomenon coming from artstic avant-garde traditions published at the beginning of the 20th century [...] Read more.

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THE EVERLASTING RENAISSANCE OF THE UNIVERSITY

Dominik KUBICKI

Cultural and Literary Transformations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract In the context of the contemporary postmodern consumer societies, the era of virtual technologies in he globalising world, the author raises the question of the European university. The European university is seen as a product of the medieval culture (Christianitas), integrally embedded in the civilisation [...] Read more.

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THE CITY AS THE WORK OF ART. SHAPING THE PUBLIC SPACE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ONTOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION

Bartłomiej KNOSALA, Grażyna OSIKA, Barbara ROŻAŁOWSKA

Cultural and Literary Transformations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract In the article, the authors show how the changing patterns of communication affect the approach to public space. The appearance of electronic media and, later, the digital media causes new ways of cognition and action – the quest of involving and new modes of understanding the relation between art and [...] Read more.

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THE PRESENT RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CONFLICT FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF IDEAS

Marek JEDLIŃSKI

Politics, Ideology, Conflicts

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract In my article I am analyzing and interpreting ideological foundations of contemporary Russian neo-Euroasianism. This movement is lead by Alexander Dugin – an important representative of Russian conservatism, whose political influences among circles of the highest state authority have been growing lately [...] Read more.

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ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA IN 2011 AND 2012. CHANGE OR SOCIOPOLITICAL STAGNATION ?

Marek GÓRKA

Politics, Ideology, Conflicts

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract Parliamentary elections in 2011 and presidential in 2012 proved to be the most exciting struggle for power in Russia. Despite numerous reports of irregularities, Vladimir Putin was the winner of the presidential elections in Russia. People felt betrayed by the authority, it was found that the four-year [...] Read more.

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF PERSONAL AND STRUCTURAL SECURITY IN A PERSPECTIVE OF COLOURS AND SHADOWS

Janusz ŚWINIARSKI, Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI

Safety in Technical and Anthropological Perspective

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract This article presents the analysis of security in a context of visual communication by using colors and shadows. In authors opinion this method can be useful in description and explanation of specificity of communication and information processes. Since communication is a cultural and multicultural [...] Read more.

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WAR AND NO – PEACE IN CYBERSPACE

Piotr SIENKIEWICZ, Halina ŚWIEBODA

Safety in Technical and Anthropological Perspective

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract Modern security systems, both national and international, require the consideration of new possibilities, risks and dangers. New technologies are ambivalent. They generate revolutionary changes in military areas. Military revolutions are discussed and evaluated. Cyber terrorism and info wars are new [...] Read more.