VOLUME 9 • 2010
VENUTI ON THE LIMITS OF TRANSLATION
ABSTRACT. The main focus of this paper is the study of Venuti’s work on the identity-forming process of translation, the assimilative process of the translation, and Schleiermacher’s theory of foreignizing translation. Scholarship about the dominance of transparent discourse in translation has incre..
CONTEMPORARY MAINSTREAM WEB JOURNALISM AND THE INTERACTIVE NATURE OF THE ONLINE NEWS EXPERIENCE
ABSTRACT. The material gathered in this study provides a rich and diverse context for understanding the interactive nature of the online news experience, the new globally organized news media, the dangers of the commercialization of journalism, the merging of the old and new logics of content produc..
THE VIOLENCE IN LEARNING
ABSTRACT. This paper argues that learning is inherently violent. It ex- amines the way in which Heidegger uses – and refrains from using – the concept in his account of Dasein. Heidegger explicitly discussed “learning” in 1951 and he used of the word in several contexts. Although he confines his use..
READING PICTURES: THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM?
ABSTRACT. In this paper I chart the seismic shift that has occurred over the past three decades in attitudes towards the interpretation of visual images. My strategy implies the argument that the reading of visual images would appear to be an inevitability given the accelerating change of attitudes ..
PEDAGOGIES OF THE IMAGE: ECONOMIES OF THE GAZE
ABSTRACT. This paper investigates the changes to visual culture and education in the shift from industrial to social media and proposes a critical education that rests on the pedagogy of the image by reference to the work of Sartre, Lacan and Foucault on the history of the ‘gaze’, John Berger on Way..
SUPERIMPOSING REALITY ON DIGITAL SPACES • A Search for Understanding, Explanation, and Questions
ABSTRACT. This essay looks at the concept of the real as understood in the form of digital spaces. I begin with a very brief explanation of reality in relation to media objects and the virtual, and then explore how our sense of reality affects consumers’ perceptions of new media technologies and env..
BEYOND BEAUTIFUL AND UGLY: NON-DUAL THINKING AND AESTHETIC THEORY
ABSTRACT. This essay compares Nietzsche’s philosophy with Zen Buddhist thought. It is argued that despite the number of dualisms that can be found in both – for example, master and slave morality, life-denying and life-affirming for Nietzsche, and englightenment and attachment for Buddhism – these d..
AN ELEMENTARY GRAMMAR OF RIGHTS AND THE LAW
BSTRACT. Rights are many and diverse. They are jural rather than material entities that subsist in a society of rational beings and relate essentially to property, in the limiting case, one’s property in oneself. Law is the product of social evolution and exists to vindicate rights. The conditions f..