Phenomenological Observations on the Aesthetics of Socialist Realism

Terras, Victor

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“…Its decline commenced in the late 1960s during the early years of Leonid Brezhnev's until its eventual end with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. For phenomenological observations on the aesthetics of socialist realism vide Terras (1979).…”

Section: Existentialism and The Philosophy Of Playmentioning

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From Poetics to Metapoetics: Architecture Towards Architecture

Bianco¹

2018

Balkan Journal of Philosophy

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An undiscovered chapter in the history of architecture comes from the ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia. Poetics of Architecture is the name given to the studioworkshop at the Georgian Technical University set up by the Georgian architect Shota Bostanashvili (1948-2013). From 1990 until his death he delivered insightful, playful and rather provocative lectures on architecture at this university. He preferred to call his architectural philosophy, critical discourse on architecture. Themes ranged from poetics to metapoetics of architecture. His philosophy of architecture is illustrated by some of his designs and executed projects which demonstrate a drift from existentialism to the philosophy of play. This study includes reference to his last building, a project whose demolition Bostanashvili witnessed before passing away. Based on the concept of the return of the sacred, this edifice was a sort of counter movement to technogenic architecture.

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Section: Existentialism and The Philosophy Of Playmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Poetics to Metapoetics: Architecture Towards Architecture

Bianco¹

2018

Balkan Journal of Philosophy

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“…Theoretically, socialist realism is defined in various ways such as “the essence of which lies in true, historically concrete reflections of reality, taken in its revolutionary development‐in the movement of society toward Communism” (Fizer, , p. 327), “the signifier of a domain assembled by force and legitimized by a myth of a modernizing “mission civilisatrice” that was reflected in the reform of the built environment” (Castillo, , p. 33), “a truthful reflection of life in its entirety: not only of its empirical facts, but also of the ideal, inner links between Life's various phenomena” (Terras, , p. 445), “requires, first and foremost, an extensive re‐examination of its cultural and historical roots” (Rogachevskii, , p. 36), “cultural revolution from 1928 to 1931 […] as it affected literature, theater, cinema, music, and the fine arts and have uncovered general trends involving culture as a whole” (Pouncy, , p. 172).…”

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Cold war ideology: The Rocky 4 movie

Yüksel

2018

Journal of Labor and Society

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The purpose of the article is to analyze the clash between capitalism and socialism on the basis of the movie Rocky 4. The striking differences between capitalism and socialism have been reflected to the cinema particularly in the aftermath of World War II in parallel to the development of the Cold War taking place 1947 and 1991. In this period, the economic, political, social/ideological, and technological contradictions of capitalism and socialism became rigidly clear. Actually, the world is divided into two: on the one hand, there is USA: a western global power that wanted to control economy, policy, society, popular culture, and the technology as a whole; on the other hand, there is USSR: an eastern hegemonic power that has the same goals as USA. From the commencement of Cold War Period to the fragmentation of USSR, the competition between these two dominant forces perpetuated. Therefore, this article aims to evaluate the reflections of this rivalry between USA and USSR on a specific movie named Rocky 4. Generally cinema, as an industry or specifically a movie or as a sort of soft power, can be put to use to manipulate the masses ideologically. This is an exploratory study based on a qualitative research. As a method, discourse analysis was used to determine the dimension of the clash between USA and USSR on the basis of economy, policy, society, culture, and technology and within the framework of Rocky 4. These clash areas were qualitatively and visually analyzed using MAXQDA 2018. The research was conducted on a particular film which was actually a limitation for this article and it is suggested that various kinds of films are to be analyzed for further studies. By using discourse analysis method and a qualitative technique of MAXQDA 2018, the article looks at the conflict between capitalism and socialism through the eye of a fundamental film, which makes the article original.

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“…They were often involved in the analysis and advancement of the artistic movement known as 'Socialist Realism' . Their theories were centred around the fundamental notion of the 'artistic image' (hudozhestvennyj obraz), borrowed from Vissarion Belinskij (1811Belinskij ( -1848 (see Terras 1979). The term 'obraz' is quite unique to Russian thought, and it could be translated, in different contexts, as 'image' , 'symbol' or 'form' .…”

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Semiotics and dialectics: Notes on the paper “Literary criticism must be scientific” by Juri Lotman

Restaneo

2022

SSS

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The present paper is an introduction to and analysis of the article “Literary criticism must be scientific”, presented here for the first time in English translation. The original was published by Lotman in 1967 in the journal Voprosy Literatury. The article by Lotman is a part of a wider debate, started in 1963, that saw structuralists and their opponents dispute the validity and heuristic value of structuralist methodology in literary criticism. The aim of the introduction is to explore Lotman’s engagements with his intellectual context as they emerge in his 1967 article. The first part of the paper discusses the wider context of the debate, and explores the positions of the opponents of structuralism and the ways in which Lotman relates to them. The second part of the paper analyses how Lotman and his structuralist colleagues related to the official Soviet ideology, the diamat. In both cases, it will be seen how Lotman engaged certain aspects of his opponents’ ideas, as well as the official ideology, in order to further his goal of reconciling structuralism and historicism.

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Phenomenological Observations on the Aesthetics of Socialist Realism

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From Poetics to Metapoetics: Architecture Towards Architecture

From Poetics to Metapoetics: Architecture Towards Architecture

Cold war ideology: The Rocky 4 movie

Semiotics and dialectics: Notes on the paper “Literary criticism must be scientific” by Juri Lotman

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