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Mač, a ne mir; Za pravnu sigurnost građana
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The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywherein cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects that seem to have lives of their ownfrom Facebook algorithms that suggest products for us to buy to robots that respond to human facial expressions. The ubiquity of animation is not a trivial side-effect of the development of digital technologies and the globalization of media markets. Rather, it points to a paradigm shift. In the last century, performance became a key term in academic and popular discourse The idea that we construct identities through our gestures and speech proved extremely useful for thinking about many aspects of social life. The present volume proposes an anthropological concept of animation as a contrast and complement to performance The idea that we construct social others by projecting parts of ourselves out into the world might prove useful for thinking about such topics as climate crisis, corporate branding, and social media. Like performance, animation can serve as a platform for comparisons of different cultures and historical eras. Teri Silvio presents an anthropology of animation through a detailed ethnographic account of how characters, objects, and abstract concepts are invested with lives, personalities, and powersand how people interact with themin contemporary Taiwan. The practices analyzed include the worship of wooden statues of Buddhist and Daoist deities and the recent craze for cute vinyl versions of these deities, as well as a wildly popular video fantasy series performed by puppets. She reveals that animation is, like performance, a concept that works differently in different contexts, and that animation practices are deeply informed by local traditions of thinking about the relationships between body and soul, spiritual power and the material world. The case of Taiwan, where Chinese traditions merge with Japanese and American popular culture, uncovers alternatives to seeing animation as either an expression of animism or as playing God. Looking at the contemporary world through the lens of animation will help us rethink relationships between global and local, identity and otherness, human and non-human.
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The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Already, more books have been scanned and digitized than were housed in the great library in Alexandria. Is the printed book resilient enough to survive the digital revolution, or will it become obsolete? In this lasting collection of essays, Robert Darntonan intellectual pioneer in the field of this history of the booklends unique authority to the life, role, and legacy of the book in society.From Publishers WeeklyIs the age of the printed book coming to an end? If history is any guide, notes Harvard University Library director Darnton, not any time soon. In this collection of previously published essays, an unashamed apology for the printed word, Darnton, an eloquent writer and one of the worlds foremost historians of the book, offers a fascinating history of our literary past and a penetrating look at the disruptive forces shaping the future of publishing. Almost no topic is untouched, from the role of libraries to metadata, the print traditions of Europe, piracy old and new, Darntons own forays into digital initiatives and the efficacyeven the beautyof our changing literary landscape over centuries of development. This book clearly has a main character, howeverGoogle. The search giant appears often. While the individual essays are brief, in sum, the book offers a deep dive into the evolution of the written and published word. Darnton offers little cover from the winds of change, but for book lovers and publishing professionals he offers the comfort that comes from understanding the past, and hope, as he places the Internet among a litany of disruptive innovations the book has survived. (Oct. 27) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ReviewBooklistHistorian and library director Darnton has written expansively and lucidly on the history of books and libraries. This collection of his influential essays from the past decade neatly encapsulates one significant part of his immense legacy and contribution to intellectual history. Every one of Darntons essays reflects both his erudition and his good humor BookPageThe stimulating and thought-provoking essays in The Case for Books Past, Present, and Future provide us with an excellent overview of where we have been and where we are likely to be headed. Shelf AwarenessIn this collection of well-informed essays, Robert Darnton, historian and director of the Harvard University Library, offers a decidedly open-minded perspective on some of the technological changes affecting the world of books and leads an insightful and learned discussion of topics that will appeal to more traditional bibliophiles. The New RepublicDarntons volume is an informed and realistic guide to life in the first age of digital media. It argues convincingly that digitalization will createis already creatinga new kind of enlightenment, if not a new EnlightenmentIt seems entirely possible that Darnton will show scholars how we can make the digital world our servant, instead of accepting it as our master, and use it not to undermine but to complement the old powers of narrative and argument. BookpageDarnton knows this territory as well as anyone and views the subject from a unique perspectiveDarntons thoughtful and incisive essays on this important topic should be of interest to a wide range of book lovers. The ScotsmanDarntons book ticks all the boxes. It looks nice. It smells nice. Its content is intelligent and forms a valuable primer to an increasingly important debate. Times Higher Education Supplement(an) important and highly readable book. BookpageDarnton knows this territory as well as anyone and views the subject from a unique perspectiveDarntons thoughtful and incisive essays on this important topic should be of interest to a wide range of book lovers. School Library JournalThe Case for Books breaks through the babble about books and offers concerned and curious librarians an intelligent and balanced response to the anti-Google claque while assuring readers that, to paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of the death of the book are greatly exaggerated. The NationA worthy guide to the tremors created by the Kindle and electronic reading
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Living at a time of unprecedented upheaval and social chaos, Benedict of Nursia could not save the Roman Empire from collapse, but he did something more remarkable he created Europe to take its place. It didnt happen overnight but instead over centuries. Benedict took the best that classical culture had to offer, combined it with Christianity, and came up with a very specific way to live in a world where chaos was the rule. The Rule of St. Benedict proposed in specific terms, down to the amount of beer a monk was allowed to drink, how to live in a world where the empire had failed. Benedicts Rule became, in Dawsons words, the Roman standard of the monastic life and finally the universal type of Western monasticism. It brought order and classical coherence to the chaotic ethnic existence of the Germanic tribes, as well as the formation of new centers of culture in Ireland, Northumbria, and ultimately the Carolingian Empire. The Europe Benedict created is now facing another kind of threat. Europe has lost contact with its roots. The Enlightenment separates Europes contemporary inhabitants from the man who made their culture possible. Cut off from his roots and disillusioned by one failed utopian experiment after another, European Man has contracted a spiritual disease whose clearest manifestation is his inability to reproduce. If this sickness is not cured within the the next generation, Europe will almost certainly reach the demographic tipping point and become a Muslim continent. The same is true of America. Cities like New York are fast on their way to losing their European character. And they are losing it for much the same reason those of European descent are not having children. Benedicts vision of the small community is now more relevant than ever. At a time of American imperial over-extension and the threat of imminent collapse, at a time when citizen is a euphemism for taxpayer, or cannon fodder, or both, everyone needs a supportive community. At a time of demographic collapse, young people need to know that these small communities will support them so they can marry and raise families. When they fail to receive that assurance from the Church, the young simply fail to marry and have children, creating a sense of doom based on the feeling that there is no future. And they are right. Without children there is no future. Their fears have created a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cut off from Europes Benedictine past, the Europeans and their American cousins also find themselves cut off from the future by their fear-driven refusal to have children. Renowned cultural critic E. Michael Jones is the editor of Culture Wars magazine and the author of The Slaughter of Cities Urban Renewal As Ethnic Cleansing. **
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