Masses

Kapitola systematicky rekonstruuje Benjaminovu mediální filosofii jako klíčový prvek Benjaminova myšlení. Za tímto účelem nejprve synopticky analyzuje všechny texty, v nichž hraje zásadní roli pojem média. Ve druhé části se výklad věnuje nejslavnějšímu Benjaminovu mediálnímu textu, eseji o uměleckém dílu ve věku jeho technické reprodukovatelnosti, a kriticky se vyrovnává s jeho vlivnými interpretacemi. Studie se soustředí na otázku „proměny média vnímání": Co jí má Benjamin na mysli a je tato proměna způsobena technologicky, sociálně, či ještě nějak jinak? I kvůli odmítnutí některých reduktivních přístupů se pak pozornost soustředí na Benjaminovo specifické, netechnologické pojetí techniky. Jak rozumět Benjaminovu paradoxnímu pojetí média jako média bezprostředního působení?

Here we point to his birth, his life and his contemporaries. Then we will have a glance at his works, including masses, motets, and secular vocal music, and will analyze one of his motets: "Ave Maria … Virgo serena"

اشاره‌ای به تولد، زندگی و معاصران ژوسکن دوپره در کنار نگاه گذرا به تصنیفاتش، همانند مِس‌ها، موتت‌ها و قطعات وکال غیرمذهبی و آنالیز میزان به میزانِ موتتِ "آوه ماریای" او (ویرگو سِرِنا Virgo serena) از اجزای کوناگونِ گفتارِ مربوط به ژوسکن دوپره و موتت رنسانس است

W swoim artykule staram się pokazać, jak dwa kluczowe dla współczesności procesy, a więc digitalizacja oraz usieciowienie rzeczywistości, przeobrażają kategorię masy i umasowienia. Te ostatnie zjawiska, traktowane przez nauki społeczne jako symptomy niepokojących zmian społecznych, fenomeny przejściowe o krótkotrwałym charakterze, dziś znacząco zmieniają swoją naturą. Jej identyfikacja została w tekście oparta na prezentacji tego, jak masa ewoluuje od początków Internetu do dzisiaj, przechodząc przez trzy stadia, określone mianem masy 1.0, 2.0 i 3.0. W tym ostatnim, najbardziej współczesnym stadium, pojawia się to, co określam mianem sieciowych mas pracujących. Ich charakterystyka oraz refleksja nad tym, czym różnią się one od klasycznych mas, stanowi ważną część artykułu.

Focusing on selected “Western” conceptions of democracy, we expose and normatively evaluate their conflictual meanings. We unpack the white democracy of prominent ordoliberal Wilhelm Röpke, which comprises an elitist bias against the demos, and we discuss different assessments of his 1964 apologia of Apartheid South Africa. Our critical-historical study of Röpke’s marginalized meaning of democracy traces a neglected anti-democratic continuity in his work that is to be contextualized within wider elitist (neo)liberal discourses: from his critique of Nazism in the 1930s to the defense of Apartheid in the 1960s. We provide an alternative, marginalized meaning of democracy that draws on Marxist political science. Such a meaning of democracy helps explain why liberal democratic theory is ill equipped to tackle anti-democratic tendencies re-emerging in liberal-democratic polities.

This seminar is an introduction to the subject of affective politics on everyday, national and global level. We tend to talk about politics in terms of power struggle, strategies and tactics, global capitalist system, etc. However, ethnographically, politics is less a rational struggle than an affective situation. Although anthropology has always been attentive to sentiments, systematic and conceptual study of public emotions and affect intensified after the late 1980s and especially in the last two decades. In this course, we will discuss relatively recent anthropological works on emotions, empathy, hospitality, cultural intimacy and affect with a particular focus on mass politics.

Focusing on selected “Western” conceptions of democracy, we expose and normatively evaluate their conflictual meanings. We unpack the white democracy of prominent ordoliberal Wilhelm Röpke, which comprises an elitist bias against the demos, and we discuss different assessments of his 1964 apologia of Apartheid South Africa. Our critical-historical study of Röpke’s marginalized meaning of democracy traces a neglected anti-democratic continuity in his work that is to be contextualized within wider elitist (neo)liberal discourses: from his critique of Nazism in the 1930s to the defense of Apartheid in the 1960s. We provide an alternative, marginalized meaning of democracy that draws on Marxist political science. Such a meaning of democracy helps explain why liberal democratic theory is ill equipped to tackle anti-democratic tendencies re-emerging in liberal-democratic polities.

Populism is sort of a trend today but we should not let ourselves be misled by its 'sirens. ' While political science language is indebted to symbolism and rhetoric, a plain economic approach might be of great help. Therefore, I use concepts and rules from Ronald Coase's theory of social costs in order to reframe the populists' capture of power or of public image and to deconstruct their ruling strategy in simple cases of transactions. My hope is that in this way, we might come closer to understanding this political 'disease' and to formulating remedies against it.

Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson into a Z boson and a ρ0(770) or ϕ(1020) meson are searched for using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 13 TeV. The analysed data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1. Events are selected in which the Z boson decays into a pair of electrons or a pair of muons, and the ρ and ϕ mesons decay into pairs of pions and kaons, respectively. No significant excess above the background model is observed. As different polarization states are possible for the decay products of the Z boson and ρ or ϕ mesons, affecting the signal acceptance, scenarios in which the decays are longitudinally or transversely polarized are considered. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level on the Higgs boson branching fractions into Zρ and Zϕ are determined to be 1.04–1.31% and 0.31–0.40%, respectively, where the ranges reflect the considered polarization scenarios; these values are 740–940 and 730–950 tim...