Šiauliai University Journal
"Inter-studia humanitatis"
New Identities In Cultural Industries
Nr. 3 / 2006, ISSN 1822-1114

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN. Utopia with no topos

To measure the life ‘as it is’ by a life ‘as it might or should be’ is a defining, constitutive feature of humanity. The urge to transcend is nearest to a universal, and arguably the least destructible, attribute of human existence.

BRIGID DOHERTY. The Work of Art and the Problem
of Politics in Berlin Dada*

“Der Kunstlump” (The Art Scoundrel) is a diatribe by Berlin Dadaists George Grosz and John Heartfield that appeared in the journal Der Gegner (The Opponent) in April 1920.

Christopher May. THE INFORMATION SOCIETY AS MEGA -MA CHINE. The Continuing Relevance of Lewis Mumford

It has become a conventional wisdom that technological revolutions produce profound shifts in social relations.

Jean-Michel Rabate. Duchamp's Ego

The concept of the Ego, I hope to show, should not be read merely in a philosophical or in a biographical manner, but half-way between the two. Like Picasso, who was originally
very close to Catalan anarchism, Duchamp¡¦s first years in Paris were influenced by the then dominant anarchist culture in the Montmartre Bohemia.

ANTON KARL KOZLOVIC. TECHNOPHOBIC THEMES IN
PRE-1990 COMPUTER FILMS


Popular feature films dealing with computers and artificial intelligence (AI) devices are not just sources of diversionary entertainment for a lazy Saturday afternoon.

The tourist syndrome. An interview with Zygmunt Bauman
Adrian Franklin

This interview with one of the world’s leading sociologists, Zygmunt Bauman, explores how his work on liquid modernity, consumerism, space, hospitality, the ‘full planet’ and extra territoriality impact on tourism theory.

Habermas, Jurgen. Author's Preface. I. Introduction: Approaches to the Problem of Rationality.
From: Habermas, Jurgen (1984) The theory of communicative action vol. 1 : Reason and the rationalization of society. Boston: Beacon Press

More than a decade ago, in the preface to Zur Logik der Sozialwissenschaften, I held out the prospect of a theory of communicative action.

Zygmunt Bauman. On Postmodern Uses of Sex

HIS BEAUTIFUL book-long essay La llama doble Amor y erotismo, published in 1993, the great Mexican thinker Octavio Paz explores the complex interaction between sex, eroticism and love three close relatives yet so unlike each other that each needs a separate language to account for its own existence.

Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle

By Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
(sbest@elp1.rr.com and kellner@ucla.edu)

"But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence, ... illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

William C. Wees. Light Moving in Time.
Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film
Chapter 1—The Camera-Eye:Dialectics of a Metaphor

"Everybody who cares for his art, seeks the essence of his own technique," said Dziga Vertov.[1]