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Nurnaningrum, Sri, Nazla Maharani Umaya, and Harjito. "Modernization in Wing Kardjo’s ‘Pasar’: Intertextual resonances with Baudelaire and Rimbaud’s poems." KEMBARA Journal of Scientific Language Literature and Teaching 10, no. 2 (2024): 804–21. https://doi.org/10.22219/kembara.v10i2.36000.
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This research aims to analyzehow the poem “Pasar” in “Fragment Malam –Setumpuk Soneta” by Wing Kardjo reflects and critiques urbanizationand how its intertextual connections with Charles Baudelaire’s “Le Cygne II” in “Les Fleurs du Mal” and Arthur Rimbaud’s “Métropolitain” in “Illuminations” serve as hypograms. Despite Kardjo's significance in modern Indonesian poetry, no studies have explored his poems' engagement with French literature. Through intertextual analysis using Kristeva's framework and comparative studies, it wasfound that Kardjo's poem and French poets share the same themes of modernizationand its impacts. The findings demonstrate that Kardjo’s “Pasar” resonates with Baudelaire's and Rimbaud's poems andrecontextualizesthem within the Indonesian socio-cultural landscape ofthe New Order Era. Theanalysis reveals three primary intertextual themes shared with both Baudelaire's and Rimbaud’s poems: (1) urban transformation, (2) critique of modernization, and (3) nostalgia and melancholy for the past. The themes like (1) loss and displacementand (2) alienation are drawn from Baudelaire’s work,while the theme of industrializationechoes Rimbaud’s poetry. This intertextual study in a transcultural context enhances the understanding of modernity in Kardjo’s work anddemonstrates the French influences that shaped Indonesian poetry.
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Dr., Md. Sazzad Hossain, Md. Abul Kalam Azad Dr., Md. Kamrul Hasan Dr., and Hasan Mehedi. "Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day: A Journey from Degeneration to Regeneration." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 08, no. 05 (2025): 3537–50. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15501617.
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Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai is one of many novels that visibly exposes an individual’s, a family's, and a nation’s miseries surrounding India’s Partition in 1947. In course of Sharma Sunanda’s stay at Lawley Road in Old Delhi she meets in turn a number of the Das family. Using a non-linear narrative, the story can move from olden times through the present to reflect on the breakdown of society, family, and emotional experiences followed by gradual recovery. The family’s struggles with historical injustices as well as questions of personal agency and the unspoken battles that they have had to face is thus vividly portrayed in all its complexity. From loneliness and resentment, Bim has passed through acceptance and her journey represents the strength to continue. Across the novel are strewn memory, identity, and themes of postcolonial displacement: while at the same time examining gender dynamics especially in Bim’s resistance to patriarchal norms. Desai focuses on how people and families cope with struggles from the past, a way of portraying a sense of sad fatalism which runs through her best-known works. With clear, natural art and a silence that remains in the end, we can only say that Clear Light of Day is a sensitive story about forgiving others, trying to make peace in a world of conflict and overcoming adversity. This paper attempts to redress the balance by demonstrating how Anita Desai portrays the transformation of melancholy and alienation into hope within the Das family. The results of this research should be to investigate how to move from forgiving oneself and remembering past lives, or in other words, aid that stage along by which all is not done in process. We must never let our pasts limit our movements. This novel is read in the light of such things. Symbolizing rebirth, this paper seeks to suggest that Desai’s novel may be viewed as aesthetically parallel to other great poetic works in which human suffering yields transformation and renewal.
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Preston, Michelle. "Ghostly Children: The Spectre of Melancholy in Sonya Hartnett’s The Ghost’s Child." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 19, no. 1 (2009): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2009vol19no1art1156.
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Images of alienation in young adult fictions are common, arguably because they mirror the cultural discourses around adolescence as displaced between two (constructed) 'knowable' states: childhood and adulthood. The connection between displacement and melancholy in texts for young adults provides a vast array of narrative symbolism that often blurs reality and fantasy as knowable versus unknowable states respectively. Sonya Hartnett's approach to adolescent introspection and states of melancholy-depression is often confrontational and her (critically acclaimed) young adult fiction interleaves often destructive narratives of incest, familial violence, murder and suicide with contemporary and historical landscapes.'The Ghost's Child' (2007), is a fictionalized and historicized account of individual alienation and sadness whereby, melancholy and depression serve as powerful forces (of lossdesire) able to induce spectral presences in the life of the protagonist in ways that allow fantasy to become a means to negotiate loss and combat alienation. The overt psychological dimensions of the narrative are obviated through images of melancholy, madness, abjection and death. This paper initiates a discussion of the text's psychoanalytic connotations through the ideas of both Freud and Kristeva. However, in order to question if/how the narrative moves beyond the traditional parameters that construct melancholy as either a clinical pathology or a useful literary/aesthetic device, melancholy is also discussed through the ideas of Gilles Deleuze. The incorporation of Deleuze's work enables a way to re-think conventional representations of the melancholic as an essentially abject and marginalised subject position.
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Пилипенко, С. Г. "ЗЕМЛЯ ЯК МАТРИЦЯ ЖИТТЄДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ЛЮДИНИ". Humanities journal, № 3 (3 жовтня 2019): 13–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.32620/gch.2019.3.02.
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The beginning of the XXI century is marked by a rethinking of many issues, one of which is the phenomenon of the earth. The latter was in the center of the discourse of socio-economic, socio-political, philosophical and environmental problems of our time. The history of mankind is the history of relations between the system «man – earth», characterized by ambivalence. Ukrainian philosophical paradigm has always gravitated to the space of human existence, actualizing the problem of human responsibility. However, it is the classics of Ukrainian literature that most acutely identified the problem of human relations with the earth.According to the analysis of scientific literature, the interaction of man and the earth is considered as a practical relationship, as a sacred relationship and as a condition for the formation of the worldview. These modes are considered in the plane of absolutization of the unit approach. The earth as a phenomenon is connected with the social and individual consciousness, but the earth is not considered as a socio-cultural phenomenon. This situation demonstrates the need for a polyparadigm methodology.More and more researchers note that the preservation of human existence can no longer be provided solely by increasing the material and technical base. It means that mankind should assimilate corresponding values of the attitude to the Earth. We are talking about overcoming the alienation of man from the earth as a consequence of the formation of technical civilization. One of the ways, according to the researchers, is the recognition of the sacred nature of the earth.The attitude of man to the earth as to his «body» is embodied in existentials: project, purpose, freedom, responsibility, hope, fear, etc. Architectonics of the earth is a symbol of the house where the person feels harmony with the world around. This approach overcomes the opposition of «man – earth/nature» and forms different models of human behavior. Man presents himself through the attitude to the earth: the processes of socialization, cultural identification, etc. It is the consideration of this principle that is an important methodological basis for the construction of a new system of interaction «man – earth». The destruction of this connection is felt by man at the level of existential experience. A striking example of the formation of a new paradigm of understanding the phenomenon of the Earth is the «Earth Charter». The earth appears as a multilevel phenomenon, where a person acts as a carrier of certain theoretical and practical ideas. At the same time, the earth is a space of human activity. The return to the categories of «beauty», «joy», «melancholy» indicates the beginning of the transformation of the paradigm of thinking. We witness the deviation from the idea of maximum benefit. These categories open new facets of earth existence and possibilities of their comprehension. Thus, turning to the metaphor «body» of the Earth outlines the possibility of creating an ontological image of the earth, and special attention is paid to the problem of actualization of those technologies corresponding to the essence of the earth.
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Marrouchi, Ramzi. "From other Exiles: Alienation or the Madness of Herzog?" Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 5, no. 4 (2021): 80–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol5no4.7.
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This paper analyses how alienation in Saul Bellow’s Herzog (1964) results in madness and wisdom at the same time. Following this, the researcher will firstly examine the background of alienation and its silent assumptions by highlighting the following features: the search for truth, the marginalization, and the mental paralysis of the hero, Herzog. In line with the findings achieved at this stage, the researcher will secondly study how alienation scrupulously traces Herzog’s madness and wisdom, considering the relationships between alienation, on the one hand, and melancholy, oblivion and escapism, on the other hand. In the second part of this essay, the researcher will argue how madness is reflected in terms of wisdom and sanity. It is the wisdom of the marginalized intellectual in modern American society. Seen from this perspective, alienation and madness are argued to have satirical and allegorical dimensions as they entail reciprocal relationships with wisdom and sanity. The conclusion the researcher seeks to achieve is that when Herzog attempts to bypass and deconstruct the amoral ethics of modern American culture, he unexpectedly goes through various shifts from his being alienated, disregarded, rejected, mad and ultimately wise. Foucault’s (1967) and Deleuze’s (1968) concerns over the issues of madness and alienation prove to be an insightful theoretical platform in this paper.
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Pantović, Marija S. "TRAUMA I MELANHOLIJA U ANDRIĆEVOJ PRIPOVECI „MUSTAFA MADžAR“." Nasledje Kragujevac XX, no. 56 (2023): 279–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/naskg2356.279p.
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The paper deals with the connection between melancholy and trauma in Andrić’s story Mustafa Madžar. The occurrence of two medically established conditions proves to be a semantically fruitful ground for observing the psychic and somatic signs that the subject man- ifests cyclically. The character of Mustafa in the work is viewed through the modernist prism of internal destructiveness, which is directly related to external entities: early separation from the family, life in seclusion, war, and mythical heroism. In this way, the avant-garde character of Mustafa is interpreted through the prism of anticipation of early youth and through the prism of emotional old age and psychological disorder, crime, and the final trauma that ends the possibility of salvation. Melancholy is thus transposed into trauma, trauma into crime, and crime into absolute suffering as Mustafa’s final end. The work tries to show the chronology of events and the possibility of dissolving Andrić’s subject to the time before the crime, which is the time of initial trauma, and through the image of forced alienation, which is the begin- ning of melancholy in the hero.
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Hayes, Shannon. "Merleau-Ponty’s Melancholy." Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 24, no. 1 (2019): 201–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/epoche20191115151.
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I offer a re-evaluation of Freudian melancholy by reading it in-conjunction with Merleau-Ponty’s analysis of phantom limbs and Marcel Proust’s involuntary memories. As an affective response to loss, melancholy bears a strange, belated temporality (Nachträglichkeit). Through Merleau-Ponty’s analysis of the phantom limb, I emphasize that the melancholic subject remains affectively bound to a past world. While this can be read as problematic insofar as the subject is attuned to both the possibilities that belong to the present and the impossibilities that belong to the past world, I turn to Proust whose writings on involuntary memory indicate a way of taking up these futural (im)possibilities. I focus the discussion on the narrator’s involuntary memory of his grandmother after her death to highlight the creative transformation of his melancholy.
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Özselçuk, Ceren. "Mourning, Melancholy, and the Politics of Class Transformation." Rethinking Marxism 18, no. 2 (2006): 225–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935690600578893.
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Rosalina, Irene. "Alienation Occurred in “Melancholia” Movie." Nuris Journal of Education and Islamic Studies 2, no. 2 (2022): 116–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.52620/jeis.v2i2.16.
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A movie may mirror a person's experiences in life and is not just for amusement. Movies include moral lessons that viewers may learn from. It educates us about attitudes, behaviors, language, culture, and culture. It's simple for individuals to appreciate movies visually as literary. Melancholy is appropriately examined utilizing the alienation idea based on the movie's plot. Human alienation was at first a social phenomenon in contemporary life (Darma, 1995 in Efendi, 2005). Social psychology refers to this as alienation. According to Melville's 1996 short story "About Bartleby," alienation is a type of self-separation from everyone and everything, including other people (Bloom, 2009). The alienated emotion toward anything, including internal and exterior components, is the complexity of estrangement in and of itself. This could incite someone to be antagonistic toward other individuals or society. The purpose of this study was to identify the ways in which Justine, the main character in the film Melancholia, was alienated. The article utilizes some of the earlier research on melancholia that has been conducted by a small number of academics in order to analyze the film. This research was produced under the auspices of the alienation theory. This research fell under the heading of literature philosophy. The Lars von Trier film Melancholia, which was released in 2011, served as the study's main source of information. Analyzing the presence of alienation in the film involved observing, transcribing the screenplay, and categorizing the conversation in accordance with the subject of alienation. A type of mental disease in humans called alienation is defined by emotions of being foreign or weird to others, to nature, the environment, God, and even to oneself. Alienation is discussed in connections with oneself, other people, society, objects/nature, and capitalism in Lars von Trier's film Melancholia. The social lives of those who don't take care about their families' or children's issues are criticized in this movie. They don't express any emotional existence; only physical existence
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Drawhorn, Jerry. "The Alienation of Ali: Was Wallace’s Assistant from Sarawak or Ternate?" Sarawak Museum Journal LXXVI, no. 97 (2016): 165–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2016-991z-07.
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One hundred and sixty years ago (December-January 1855) British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and his teenage assistant Charles Allen spent New Year Eve at Rajah James Brooke’s mountain cottage on Gunung Peninjau in Sarawak. It was a melancholy holiday. Allen has just announced his decision to remain in Sarawak and train as a teacher in the Anglican mission school, and this left Wallace in something of a bind. A skilled collecting assistant would be essential in Wallace’s future destinations of the Moluccas and Papua, where he could potentially collect less common insect species and the rare and valuable Bird-of-Paradise. Although he had regularly upbraided Allen for his carelessness and laziness he now lacked a trained assistant for his subsequent journey1. Fortunately for Wallace they took along Ali, a Malay cook of about 15 years ofage to the mountain retreat. Ali would eventually accompany Wallace for almost his entire trip into the Dutch-controlled portion of the Malay Archipelago.
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Kent, Sarah. "Affective Alienation: Diasporic Melancholia in Warsan Shire's "Home"." Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies (ISSN 2455 6564) Vol. I, Issue 1 (January 31, 2016): 177–93. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1313128.
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In violent and visceral imagery, Warsan Shire’s poem, “Home,” documents the diasporic melancholia at the heart of losing a space and place of home. In conversation with Sara Ahmed’s The Promise of Happiness and Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” my paper examines the melancholic orientation of home as a radical political tool for unearthing the concealment of colonial histories. As Freud’s seminal text argues, mourning lapses into an unhealthy state of melancholia when the subject holds on to the object of loss. For the melancholy migrant, the object of loss is home. I argue that through deploying home as an unhappy object, Shire offers a vital reminder of the complex power relations which inform and determine mobility, diaspora, and dispossession. Her poem illustrates how the affective afterlives of diaspora shape the concept of home as an unhappy object which “embody the persistence of histories that cannot be wished away by happiness” (Ahmed 159). Shires’ poem becomes a generative and productive site for a movement, not towards healing, but towards affective alienation in which the reader bears witness to the trauma, xenophobia, and pain that diasporic subjects experience. By exposing home as an object of migrant melancholia, Shire’s poem announces a radical and politically charged unhappiness with the persistence of racist and colonial ideology.
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Subedi, Bhim Prasad. "Identity Crisis: Alienation and Religious Demarcation in Bhisham Sahni’s Pali." Journal of Development Review 8, no. 2 (2023): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jdr.v8i2.59197.
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Bhisham Sahni's "Pali" the novel, delves into the devastating fallout of the Indian-Pakistani split and emphasizes the severe suffering brought on by religious enmity. Pali the protagonist of the novel a representative of solitude and melancholy, moves through a range of feelings, from solitary to identity-crisis. This research highlights the wider impact of religious prejudice and parallels the suffering of individuals caught in the crossfire. The narrative, which is linked with contemporary partition literature, reveals common trauma and its lingering effects. Pali's anguish highlights the universal narrative of suffering and reveals the pervasive effects of hatred. Despite Sahni's efforts to link experience and understanding, some agonies are still indescribable. The anguish that Pali, the main character, endured resides imprisoned, scorched too deeply for words. The book serves as a conduit for these profound effects, reflecting inexpressible sentiments. Pali encapsulates generational trauma, testifying to the religious enmity that birthed the India-Pakistan division. Pali's journey unfolds into a tapestry of emotions, revealing identity's complexity, coexistence's fragility, and prejudice's destructiveness. Sahni's work transcends his works portraying humanity's spirit, historical shadows, and a call for harmony amidst discord. This research revitalizes "Pali," its resonance reaching those seeking to comprehend the past and shape an inclusive, empathetic future.
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Tronconi, Giulia. "Aesthetics of Slowness, Aesthetics of Boredom." Screen Bodies 8, no. 1 (2023): 33–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/screen.2023.080104.
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Abstract Within the contemporary discourse on slow cinema and independent arthouse filmmaking, emerges the figure of Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang. His works, situated at a crossing between different forms of expression—film and installation, narrative film and ethnography—have often been deemed tiresome, boring. The following article explores where and how boredom may be identified in his films, and questions whether the languid feeling can be considered an aesthetic achievement. In particular, the article offers close textual analysis of I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006) and Days (2020). Leveraging on the personal quality of felt duration, these films attune the viewer to the possibility of wonder and encourage considerations of the embodied representation of profound emotions such as solitude, alienation, and melancholy.
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Ye, Yangbin, Linxuan Wen, and Shengliang Xu. "A Critique of Neighborhood Relationships from the Perspective of Social Acceleration Theory." Philosophy and Social Science 1, no. 7 (2024): 48–54. https://doi.org/10.62381/p243709.
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Traditional neighborhood relationships have undergone profound changes during the process of social modernization. This transformation, contrary to people's vision of a better life, has plunged into a crisis of alienation. From the perspective of social acceleration theory, the author delves into the transformation of neighborhood relationships in the modernization process. The article points out that with the advancement of technology, the acceleration of social change, and the increase in the pace of life, neighborhood relationships have undergone a deep transformation from traditional to modern, characterized by alienation and estrangement. The reconstruction of space, the detachment in actions, and the alienation on both individual and social levels collectively constitute the new forms of neighborhood relationships. The content is: Further exploring the roots of alienation in neighborhood relationships through the three dimensions of time critique-functional critique, normative critique, and ethical critique-and proposing the resonance path as a possible solution. Although neighborhood relationships have gradually weakened in the process of modernization, their support mechanisms and grassroots governance functions remain significant. The research in this paper holds important implications for understanding the changes in neighborhood relationships and strategies for addressing them.
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Ampolini, Geverson, and Nordino Juma Momade. "Ethics and Social Transformation in Marxist Thought." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science IX, no. III (2025): 890–901. https://doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2025.90300071.
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This study explores the relationship between ethics and social transformation in Marxist thought, analyzing how morality is historically conditioned and instrumentalized in class struggle. By critically examining alienation and dominant hegemony, it investigates the possibility of a revolutionary ethics that contributes to social emancipation. The objective of this study is to explore the formulation of a transformative and libertarian ethics within the context of a post-industrial society. Through the analysis of different ethical conceptions, particularly in Marxism and the philosophy of praxis, it seeks to understand how moral values are historically shaped and utilized in ideological disputes. Furthermore, it aims to examine the role of ethics in overcoming alienation and constructing a new social hegemony by exploring its intersections with politics, economy, and culture. This study concludes that ethics, from a Marxist perspective, is intrinsically linked to class struggle and the critique of dominant hegemony. Unlike normative conceptions, Marxist ethics is built through praxis, driven by the necessity of social transformation. By highlighting the ideological function of bourgeois morality in sustaining exploitation and alienation, the study reinforces the importance of constructing a new ethical hegemony oriented toward emancipation. In light of contemporary crises, the redefinition of human values emerges as an essential element for overcoming capitalism and building a just and solidaristic society.
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Jones, Wendy. "Narratology Talks to the Talking Cure in Persuasion." Poetics Today 45, no. 4 (2024): 671–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11381624.
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Abstract This essay puts Persuasion in conversation with psychotherapeutic approaches to Austen and cognitive literary studies (more broadly, approaches that draw on the sciences of mind). Narrative therapy provides a heuristic for Persuasion, accounting for Anne Elliot's recovery from melancholy to achieve a sense of well-being. In line with the goals of narrative therapy, she learns to tell a different story about herself than the one that has oppressed her since her broken engagement. The novel represents the therapeutic elements involved in such reenvisioning, including validation; holding; the availability of alternative, better narratives as models; and awareness of the cultural factors that have contributed to her state of mind. Conversely, narratology accounts for the representation of Anne's experience, showing how literary devices, including embedded narrative, focalization, and voice, convey Anne's transformation from melancholy and passive spinster to active and vital woman who defends her actions and renews her engagement on better terms. This transformation depends not only on interpersonal exchanges but also on her realization that cultural “master narratives” infiltrate our most intimate stories.
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Ma, Long. "Alienation in the Digital Age: Philosophical Reflections and Exploration." Philosophy and Social Science 1, no. 9 (2024): 62–66. https://doi.org/10.62381/p243911.
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The rapid development and proliferation of technology in the digital age have induced profound social, economic, and cultural transformations. This paper aims to examine the manifestations and impacts of alienation in the digital era through a philosophical framework. Utilizing theoretical analysis, the study delves into the diverse forms of modern alienation by considering the rise of digital capitalism and the effects of technology on labor, products, and social relations. Initially, the paper reviews the classic concept of alienation and applies it to analyze labor, product, and social relation alienation in the current digital context. Through a systematic review of relevant literature and philosophical reflection, the paper highlights that, alongside convenience and efficiency, digital technology exacerbates individual alienation, particularly in virtual product consumption and digital social networks. The conclusion emphasizes the necessity of addressing this alienation through education and technological ethics to achieve autonomy and agency in the digital context. The paper advocates for critical thinking about digital technology to foster more humane development and societal transformation.
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Minai, Naveen. "Desi Butch (Where the ’Twain Shall Meet)." Journal of Autoethnography 3, no. 2 (2022): 160–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.2.160.
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The terms “desi” and “butch” are difficult to define separately but open up new possibilities for thinking sexuality and borders when located next to each other on the page. “Desi” can mean people from South Asia, and gestures toward land as home. “Butch” can mean queer masculinity, female masculinity, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual women’s subcultures. This article uses autoethnography to experiment with desi and butch next to one another to think about what desi queer and trans masculine genealogies and experiences might tell us about transnational logics of sexuality, space, home, and body. The article thinks through desi, butch, and desi butch as potential analytics of sexuality, movement, masculinity, intimacy, and desire, and attends to the work of the risks and costs of these shared terms. What does desi butch do to spatial modes of intimacy, alienation, care, fragmentation, and genealogy, in multiple vocabularies of land and home? The author asks after the complicated affects, temporalities, and desires signaled by desi butch as a category that troubles and has trouble with heteronormative border regimes and futurities across geohistories of North America and South Asia. This includes questions of translation, embodiment, and citizenship. Attending to their own desires, orientations, and experiences, the author asks what forms, spaces, and practices of care and collectivity are made possible through desi butch as negotiations of borders, and experiences of melancholy and alienation produced by different lines.
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Martin, Rosemary. "Alienation and transformation: an international education in contemporary dance." Research in Dance Education 14, no. 3 (2013): 201–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14647893.2012.732566.
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Gerlach, Joe. "Middle Hope." cultural geographies 24, no. 2 (2016): 333–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474016680105.
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How does one hope? In this short essay, I narrate moments from time spent at Middle Hope, a small coastal inlet of the Severn Estuary, England. These moments aim to offer, hesitantly, brief respite from certain liberal narratives that rely upon the promulgation of ‘hope’ as a reasonable societal disposition with which to face planetary transformation. I suggest, instead, a turn to ambivalence and melancholy.
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Conway, Steven, and Andrea Andiloro. "MAGA (metamodernism as game aesthetic)." European Journal of American Culture 43, no. 2 (2024): 141–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00117_1.
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This article considers Trump’s presidency as metamodern, embodying contradictions within the established order and resonating with contemporary cultural trends. Oscillating between modernism and postmodernism, metamodernism is defined by coexistence of seemingly contrasting affective states and dispositions: enthusiasm and irony, hope and melancholy, attachment and alienation, generating a multifaceted subjecthood. Trump’s nostalgic slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) emphasizes this vacillation, a new inflection of an old phrase, received as both facetious and sincere, promising return to a prelapsarian state, while also taking neo-liberal ideals to extreme conclusions. This juxtaposition, the nostalgic impulse for something new, is traced as an increasingly dominant aesthetic form within digital games. As we explore, certain genres and aesthetics epitomize this, providing anachronistic audio-visuals, rhizomatic exploration, punishing gameplay, revolving around intertextuality and demands for community participation. We finally locate both Trump’s presidency and this nostalgic turn in contemporary digital games as symptomatic of a metamodern impulse, a search for stability and order amongst an increasingly fragmented, imbalanced and chaotic system.
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Minar, Karla Sharin, and Anton Sutandio. "Shame and Alienation in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis." Jurnal POETIKA 5, no. 2 (2017): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/poetika.27100.
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This article explores Sartre’s concept of shame and alienation in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis through the portrayal of the protagonist. By focusing on the interpretation of the characteristics of Gregor Samsa through New Criticism approach, this article reveals that shame and alienation may occur when a person realizes that one is judged by others and sees oneself through the eyes of others. This way of looking at one’s identity is problematic because it creates complexity within the existence of the self. Through his fantastical transformation into an insect, Gregor cannot help but seeing himself from his family’s point of view. Instead of fighting for himself, he is made to believe that he deserves to be alienated. From the analysis of the protagonist, it is revealed that his being selfess and dutiful in a way trigger the shame and alienation that result in his submission to death. Keywords: alienation, Kafka, Sartre, shame
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Minar, Karla Sharin, and Anton Sutandio. "Shame and Alienation in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis." Poetika 5, no. 2 (2017): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/poetika.v5i2.27100.
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This article explores Sartre’s concept of shame and alienation in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis through the portrayal of the protagonist. By focusing on the interpretation of the characteristics of Gregor Samsa through New Criticism approach, this article reveals that shame and alienation may occur when a person realizes that one is judged by others and sees oneself through the eyes of others. This way of looking at one’s identity is problematic because it creates complexity within the existence of the self. Through his fantastical transformation into an insect, Gregor cannot help but seeing himself from his family’s point of view. Instead of fighting for himself, he is made to believe that he deserves to be alienated. From the analysis of the protagonist, it is revealed that his being selfess and dutiful in a way trigger the shame and alienation that result in his submission to death. Keywords: alienation, Kafka, Sartre, shame
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Aslanboğa, Erinç. "Essay on Different Modalities of Loss." Kilikya Felsefe Dergisi / Cilicia Journal of Philosophy 9, no. 1 (2022): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/kilikya2022915.
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This article, starting with the experience of the other's death, thinks about the questions and problems revealed by different modalities of loss. Mourning and Melancholia, the text written by Freud during the First World War and the critical rereading of this text by Derrida and Butler constitute the main axis of this article. Initially, the Freudian definition of mourning and melancholy, their distinctive features, their points of convergence and divergence, the relationship between so-called normal mourning and so-called pathological melancholy will be presented to show the ambiguity of their limits and their opposition. Secondly, one of the distinctive features of Freudian melancholy that is the transformation of the loss of the other into the loss of the self will be taken up and problematized in dialogue with Butler to bring out the place of the other as well as of its loss in the constitution of the self. This discussion makes it possible to expose how the loss of the other, which moves us from the question of detachment to that of attachment, reveals the non-identity of the self, altered by the other. The third part of this article, problematizing the finality of mourning, which is the substitution of the other, focuses on Derrida's thought that renew the approach to mourning and melancholy by introducing the concepts of “introjection” and “incorporation”. Derrida's ethic of mourning, which aims to avoid the assimilation of the other to the same, is based on a double bind between the possibility and the impossibility of mourning. The article concludes with a brief review of the relationship between identity and alterity revealed by different modalities of loss to respond differently to the question: How to return to life after the experience of the other's death?
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Almeida, Rachel de Castro, and Sabine Knierbein. "Between Alienation and Revolution." Journal of Public Space 8, no. 3 (2023): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v8i3.1417.
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Following the tracks of the soiree collectives in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte, this article aims at analysing the role of the dimension of everyday life, which according to Lefebvre means the constant movement between the tendency to repeat and the capacity for social transformation, the constant movement between routine and invention. These collectives are formed by young people, most of them residents of peripheral areas who have revealed themselves to be holders of a new subjectivity capable of explaining their place in the world and justifying their existence drawing from the pride of being peripheral, which results in a new way of political action. The daily life lived, perceived, and conceived in the context of their social and symbolic place occupied by the peripheries and their social actors has been reframed in the face of a set of social transformations and, consequently, it produces new public spheres and new ways of expression of emancipatory struggles. The ethnography carried out seeks to apprehend the intertwining of poetry, performance, and the occupation of public space. The critique of everyday life reveals those patterns of behaviour, organization strategies of groups and subgroups, networks of relationships and networks of meanings, as well as systems of material and symbolic exchanges. Indeed, such collectives are expressions of everyday resistance, manifested in poetry, in bodily expressions, in the way activities are organized and performed. In these soirees, critical and political reflections are collectively created, making the creative and liberating capacity emerge.
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Tamanna, Tamanna. "THE CHAOTIC KAFKA: Devouring the Absurdism in Gregor Samsa’s transformation." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9, no. 6 (2024): 082–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.96.15.
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This paper delves into the existential and absurdist themes in Franz Kafka's ‘Metamorphosis’, unravelling the protagonist's transformation as a metaphor for alienation and societal rejection. Through a critical lens, it examines the existential plight and identity crisis that arise in a world devoid of meaning, challenging conventional perceptions of humanity, purpose, and self.
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Tetiana, Bovsunivska. "IMAGES OF MELANCHOLY IN THE NOVEL «ISTANBUL: MEMORIES OF A CITY» BY ORHAN PAMUK." Наукові записки Харківського національного педагогічного університету ім. Г. С. Сковороди "Літературознавство" 3, no. 89 (2019): 17–35. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2635843.
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The article analyzes the principles of the ekphrastic combination of the text of the novel “Istanbul memories of a city” by Orhan Pamuk and the photographs in it. The functions of melancholy and the leading images of its presentation in the text are defined. In particular, the black and white color of the photo, the se- riality of family photographs, the transformation of the photographic index into a full-fledged image in the process of syncretization of the art of words and photo­graphs and the formation of an ekphrastic novel-photography. The mechanisms of the transformation of metexis into mimesis in the novel “Istanbul memories of a city”, considered by us above, reveal one pattern of modern novel: the growth of ekphrastic transformations of the text. Of course, the technological develop­ment of society, played the great role here, but the author’s choice remains the decisive factor, but he concentrates on the Istanbul melancholy. It becomes the key to understanding the world, despite its monotonous-hostile black color. Is­tanbul’s sadness becomes a space of overlapping of collective and individual memories by O. Pamuk. The novel contains the motivation of the relevance of photographs, which is written by the children’s image of the writer: they are intended to depict the contradictions between the unique moments of life and its usual routine. But in order for all this diversity of forms and contents to spill into organic aesthetic unity, the author had to find the principle of unity. It turned out to be Istanbul melancholy. This function was performed by the Istanbul mel­ancholy. It is considered in the paradigm of color monotony of photographs and accustomed to the remote vague remembrance of memories, and the mnemonic technique of the image is extremely destructive at the same time aimed at erasing and constructing the past, especially that associated with the Ottoman Empire.
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Kalam, Zakia. "A Study of Everyday Aesthetics and (De)Alienation in Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities." Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 10, no. 02 (2024): 23–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.35684/jlci.2024.10203.
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This article is a study of Wim Wenders’ film Alice in den Städtenor Alice in the Cities(1974) —the first of his Road Trilogy,which also includes The Wrong Move(1975) and Kings of the Road(1976) —where it attempts to explore the aestheticisation of the everyday images and investigate how the aestheticisation renders the everyday as a site of psycho-political transformation through the intertwined relational concept of ‘alienation’ and ‘de-alienation’. The article appraises Alice in the Citiesas symptomatic of theNeues deutsches kinoor the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Film historian Thomas Elsaesser talks about two cinematic experiences of the New German Cinema, one he describes as the ‘cinema of experience’ wherein the films are akin to realism both in content and form, and the other as the ‘experience of cinema’ wherein the films create a reality of their own as they subjectively mediate through time, memory, spaces, durations, places and occasions (207-208). Wim Wenders’ cinema conjuresthe ‘sensibilism’ of the second by virtue of their intense cinematic experiences and aesthetics very different from his contemporaries. The article thus enquires into Wenders’ filmaesthetic and propounds the dialectical interplay of cinematic and photographic images crucial to his methodology. It also examines how the aestheticisation of everyday images paves the path for an analysis of everyday modernity as a site of alienation before venturing into the consequent study of de-alienation as the transformative and emancipatory potential of the everyday. The article draws upon Nick Malherbe’s theory from the field of psychology,where he politicises the psychological understanding of alienation by combining Karl Marx’s concept of ‘alienation’ as an oppressive social condition with Jacques Lacan’s concept of ‘alienation’ as fundamental to human subjectivity in order to forge a psycho-political interpretation of de-alienation (Malherbe264). Moreover, Malherbe argues that de-alienation is a relational concept,andunderstandingit requires an understanding of alienation first because de-alienation as a concept functions only dialectically by embracing, rejecting and reconstituting facets of alienation (Malherbe264). While themes related to homesickness, technology and space, experience and memory, American presence, and identity politics have long been explored in the films of Wenders, a more determined focus on his everyday aesthetics and its psycho-political implications remains unexplored.
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Podvoyskiy, D. G. "“Dangerous modernity!”, or the shadow play of modernity and its characters: instrumental rationality - money - technology (part 1)." RUDN Journal of Sociology 21, no. 4 (2021): 670–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2272-2021-21-4-670-696.
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The article is an essay on the critical analysis of one of the fundamental issues of social theory of the 19th - 20th centuries - alienation and its manifestations in modern societies. Alienation is interpreted not in one of its special meanings (such as alienation of labor, etc.), but in the broadest way - as the transformation of products of individual and collective activities into an independent force that subjugates a person and transfers him from the position of the subject to the position of the object of social relations. Such a definition makes alienation a universal feature of social life. However, in different societies and in different historical periods, alienation can have variable specific forms. The historically specific manifestations of alienation in modern societies can be explained by referring to the classical theme of their genesis. The originality of their institutional organization is largely associated with the originality of their culture and spiritual life (in particular, with the radical demarcation between human and nature, subject and object in the modern era). The multifaceted phenomenon of scientific and technical rationality, the product of the post-Renaissance Western-European culture, becomes a source of social realities and practices fraught with alienation. The article illustrates it by a number of examples, including the logic and mechanisms of the capitalist money economy. The author refers to the heritage of world philosophy and social thought, which problematized and conceptualized the considered issues in various ways: the Frankfurt School, existentialist philosophers, pillars of theoretical sociology - Karl Marx and Georg Simmel.
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Vlahovic, Sanja. "The analogy of alienation of labor in the classical society of commodity production and the modern information society." Theoria, Beograd 68, no. 2 (2025): 143–54. https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2502143v.
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The paper presents the notions of rent, capital growth and alienation of labor, products and the very human essence of workers (irreplaceable existential time). In relation to the forms of alienation of the human life content of producers in liberal capitalist society, as well as in socialist societies of state capitalism, the transformation of labor alienation conditioned by the development of science and new technologies, especially the introduction of artificial intelligence, is considered. Through the characteristics of information as a final market product in the modern information society, the fundamental change in the act of buying and selling is analyzed and the emergence of historically new forms of alienation is noted. The direct alienation of produced material goods was replaced by the ?alienation of information and knowledge?, which led to the acceleration of capital accumulation based on other people?s commitment and in extremely short terms. This also conditioned the revaluation in the market of mass education, because ?the value of information is inversely proportional to the knowledge of its content?. Unlike classic goods that are lost when sold on the market, information is only multiplied by sale and remains the property of the seller himself. The essentially human thing that is primarily alienated in such an exchange is the creative ability of the original individual, and according to this, an analogy with the classical mechanism of alienation of goods, work and life time is claimed. In the conclusion, the possibilities of overcoming the alienation of human creative property, intellectual property and information from man, who is still the main creator of value, are considered, and he criticizes the unfounded expectation of the complete replacement of human work by robots and artificial intelligence for two reasons: robots do not have autonomous consciousness and therefore can only be recreaters (artificial automata) but not authentic creators (natural automata).
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Lavery, Carl, Deborah P. Dixon, and Lee Hassall. "The Future of Ruins: The Baroque Melancholy of Hashima." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 46, no. 11 (2014): 2569–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a46179.
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Here, we present an iteration of our theoretical/creative writing project Hashima, begun in 2012. The paper is a collaboration and draws on the different discourses, practices and sensibilities of a performance theorist, a geographer, and a visual artist. For us, Hashima, located off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, and a former site of forced labor and intensive offshore coal-mining, is a provocation for experimentation. Hashima, exploited and abject, has offered itself, unsurprisingly, to the fetishistic gaze of artists, photographers urban explorers, and ruin enthusiasts. The logic here is to control representation, and to determine and fix the meaning of the island as always in reference to something else and elsewhere. Paradoxically, there is no sense of temporality or transformation in these representations of ruins; time has been stopped in an image. By contrast, we want to draw out the allegorical value of Hashima not as a site of loss, but as a baroque, blasted landscape of monstrous becomings that resists, and forefronts, this tendency to collapse history into nature. In the following, we introduce the island before turning to an exegesis of Walter Benjamin's writing on German baroque tragedy in order to demonstrate how representation itself becomes tainted through a material encounter with the baroque's two primary topoi, the ruin and the labyrinth. To do this, we finish with a creative narrative and two images illustrating our methodology.
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Bubnova, Irina A. "Anglicization of daily life as a tool for the consumer society and an element of modern cognitive war." Journal of Psycholinguistic, no. 3 (September 30, 2024): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.30982/2077-5911-2024-61-3-14-23.
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The article is devoted to the problem of the Anglicization of the Russian language that in recent decades has experienced a constant pressure from the English language in all spheres of life of a resident of modern Russia. Areas of everyday life where English is used are analyzed. Arguments are given in favor of the fact that the anglicization of everyday life is one of the most important tools for building a consumer society and the means by which the main goal of cognitive warfare - the alienation of the human psyche and its transformation into an object controlled from the outside - can be realized.analyzed. Arguments are given in favor of the fact that the anglicization of everyday life is one of the most important tools for building a consumer society and the means by which the main goal of cognitive warfare - the alienation of the human psyche and its transformation into an object controlled from the outside - can be realized.
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Aparna, P. "The Effects of Land Alienation on the Livelihood of Scheduled Tribes in Kerala." International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development 2, no. 3 (2018): 2678–84. https://doi.org/10.31142/ijtsrd12856.
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An agricultural economy relies largely on the predominance of land. The socio economic status of the population is often determined by the amount of land possessed. In the light of the above scenario, the Scheduled Tribes are the most deprived community in terms of possession of land. The majority Scheduled Tribes of Kerala depends on agriculture 71.98 . Out of these, the majority suffers from land alienation and as a result they are forced to work as casual labourers. The Dhebar Committee also opined that the main cause of poverty among ST families all over India is landlessness or land alienation . Land alienation resulted in loss of agricultural labour and created a new class of wage labourers. It also resulted in a process of transformation from a self reliant to a highly dependent tribal economy.This paper tries to examine the effects of land alienation, arising from low agricultural activities leading to unemployment, low income, higher indebtedness, poverty and the malignant fact of social exclusion. This analysis is based on the available secondary sources. Aparna P "The Effects of Land Alienation on the Livelihood of Scheduled Tribes in Kerala" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd12856.pdf
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Красногорова, Ольга Альбертовна. "Affect and Poetics of Melancholy in Piano Compositions by George Benjamin: Ambivalence, Transformation, Synthesis." Музыкальная академия, no. 4(776) (November 29, 2021): 59–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.34690/201.
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Frank, Susanne. "Gentrification and neighborhood melancholy. Collective sadness and ambivalence in Dortmund’s Hörde district." cultural geographies 28, no. 2 (2021): 255–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474020987253.
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Since 2000, the City of Dortmund has pursued an ambitious flagship project in the district of Hoerde. On the enormous site of a former steel plant, and in the middle of an impoverished working class district, a large new upper-middle class residential area (Phoenix) has been developed around an artificial lake. Qualitative fieldwork suggests that the project has generated mixed feelings among longtime working class dwellers in the old part of Hoerde. Widespread enthusiasm about new lakeside living is interwoven with emotions of sadness and loss, reflecting a neighborhood transformation which unmistakably demonstrates their social, cultural, and political marginalization – feelings that were not allowed to become part of the jubilant official discourse which has marketed the Phoenix project as a shining example of the City’s successful post-industrial structural change. Ever since its announcement, the project has been blamed for triggering gentrification processes – despite the fact that there are still no empirical signs of rising rents or displacement. I argue that the concept of gentrification has been taken up so readily because it is popular, polyvalent, polemical, and critical, enabling citizens to find a language to denounce the blatant social inequalities and power imbalances that competitive urbanism has fostered in Dortmund. However, I also claim that the core of the prevailing sadness – the loss of the familiar neighborhood which could not be grieved over – remains under the radar of standard gentrification discourse. The article thus proposes neighborhood melancholy as a concept to account for the unclear, subconscious, and deeply ambivalent ways in which long-established residents experience their neighborhood’s transformation, expressed within the rubric of gentrification.
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FUNAHASHI, DAENA AKI. "WRAPPED IN PLASTIC: Transformation and Alienation in the New Finnish Economy." Cultural Anthropology 28, no. 1 (2013): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01170.x.
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Czardybon, Marcin. "Purific(a)tion. Polish Literature at the Turn of the 20th and the 21st Centuries." Tekstualia 4, no. 63 (2020): 69–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.5817.
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The article shows how Polish writers at the turn of the 20th and the 21st centuries problematized the subject of the political transformation and – more broadly – of the country’s social reality after 1989. The category of purifi cation, which is key to the entire argument, refers in the above-outlined context to the tendency to reject and purify the most disappointing manifestations of the social reality of regained independence. This issue is presented within the framework of the Hegelian approach to the problem of freedom, the psychoanalytic theory of melancholy, and the diagnoses formulated by Jean Baudrillard and Alain Badiou.
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Anwesha, Karmakar. "Insect Symbolism in The Metamorphosis: An Exploration of Identity Crisis and Social Alienation." Criterion: An International Journal in English 16, no. 2 (2025): 1099–107. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15320896.
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Franz Kafka's <em>The Metamorphosis</em> is a seminal work that explores the complex themes of identity crisis and social alienation, using the grotesque transformation of the protagonist, Gregor Samsa, as a powerful metaphor. The paper examines how Gregor’s sudden transformation into a giant insect triggers a psychological and existential crisis, marking the breakdown of his identity and increasing estrangement from his family and society. Through the portrayal of Gregor’s internal struggle and his family’s apathy for him, the novel critiques the fragility of identity in a modern world where individuals are valued primarily for their roles and responsibilities. The paper also contextualizes the themes of the novella within existentialist philosophy, drawing on the ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus to discuss the absurdity of Gregor’s situation and the alienation faced by a modern individual. In a sense, <em>The Metamorphosis</em> offers a poignant commentary on the dehumanizing effects of social and familial expectations, the loss of self-worth, and the pervasive isolation in contemporary life.
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Yen-Unovna, Pak Galina. "Gregor zamza as a posthumanistic transformation of "the excessive person"." International Journal Of Literature And Languages 5, no. 6 (2025): 45–47. https://doi.org/10.37547/ijll/volume05issue06-14.
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This article explores the metamorphosis of the figure of the "superfluous man" in the work of Franz Kafka, particularly through the character of Gregor Samsa in the novella The Metamorphosis (1915). A comparative analysis is carried out between Samsa and the classical representatives of the Russian type of "superfluous man" — Onegin, Pechorin, and Chatsky. Special attention is given to the themes of alienation, silence, non-functionality, and the collapse of the humanist model of the subject. The study combines methods of hermeneutics, existential philosophy, and literary comparativism.
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Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Ngozi, and Toochukwu John Ezeugo. "Bush allowance and alienation: a challenge to African leadership and development in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow." UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities 20, no. 3 (2020): 40–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ujah.v20i3.3.
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African countries have experienced various forms of alienation both from natural occurrences and human forces. Environmental hazards have displaced some people from their parents and their ancestral homes. On the other hand, exploitation, privatization and uneven distribution of natural resources of the people by few privileged individuals, especially the politicians, have also alienated the people from their environment. Attempt to agitate or these factors of displacement and alienation often leads to a compromise and reliance on meager allocation of bush allowance which serves as compensation to the people. It is no doubt that this denial of collective participation of people in decision, especially as it concerns their welfare and natural minerals, has contributed to poor leadership and under development of Africa amidst her abundant resources. The alienation of people from decision has become some sort of abortion of dreams and suppression/ obliteration of ingenuity capable of transformation and development. This study is a qualitative research which seeks to textually explore the concept of bush allowance and alienation in Agary’s Yellow-Yellow in order to examine the extent they affect leadership quality and development in Africa, especially in Niger-delta of Nigeria. To do this the principle of Eco-centrism and the theory of Empowerment are used as analytical models as well as theoretical framework. Findings revealed that exploitation of natural minerals by those in authority has more adverse effects on the people than the environmental forces. The alienation of people from the decision making process creates imbalance and violence in society which deter development especially in Africa. This study also shows that over dependence in bush allowance affects self development and empowerment. The study therefore concludes that the development of a people is in their hands.
 Keywords: Bush allowance, leadership, alienation, development, Yellow-Yellow
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Ye, Ying, and Kaung-Hwa Chen. "Hospitality employees and digital transformation: The mediating roles of alienation and motivation." International Journal of Hospitality Management 119 (May 2024): 103731. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103731.
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Crispim, Pedro. "Kōji Wakamatsu: Alienation and the Womb." Disegno 6, no. 1 (2022): 34–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21096/disegno_2022_1pc.
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This essay intends to analyse four feature films from Japanese filmmaker Kōji Wakamatsu: The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966), Violated Angels (1967), Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969) and Violent Virgin (1969). Besides its narrative simplicity bordering on appalling eroticism, this informal tetralogy shares a particular design and spatial trademark: all four films are set in a single, tight, claustrophobic space. By resorting to Wakamatsu’s poetics of cruelty, political criticism and his use of sexuality as social commentary, I intend to inquire into the actual nature of his tetralogy’s use of filmic space in three particular dimensions: firstly, through an understanding of postwar Japan—especially the 1960s—, which contextualises Wakamatsu’s blossoming career in pink films during chaotic times; secondly, through individual analysis of each film, underscoring common denominators like their use of horrific sexual violence, themes of pseudo-revolution that degenerate in alienation, and Brechtian stylistic flourishes: all emerging from these films’ spatial dramatic unity, its chamber-like enclosure which recurrently resonates with metaphorical designs of the “womb;” and thirdly, by the tetralogy’s—and Wakamatsu’s other work from this period—ability to conceptually predict the ultimate paroxysm of its sociopolitical context, when revolution, sexuality, and death came together in Yukio Mishima’s bizarre suicide in 1970. Hence, Wakamatsu’s use of womb-like design of space in his informal tetralogy acts as a nihilistic, feverish cinematic rendering of all those major Japanese aff lictions that, climaxing in Mishima’s attempted coup, ultimately put an end to the social turmoil of 1960s Japan, and paved the way for the social transformation that steered the country in a mostly steady, conservative way from the mid-twentieth century onwards.
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Mankovskaya, N. B. "Aesthetics of Early French Romanticism and Its Literary Aspects. Germaine de Stael." Art & Culture Studies, no. 3 (October 2021): 44–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.51678/2226-0072-2021-3-44-81.
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The article reconstructs the early romantic philosophical aesthetics of Madame de Stael, which was embodied in her literary work. She made a significant contribution to the creation of the theory of romanticism, compared the romantic and classical types of creativity. De Stael was one of the first French romantics to use the term “romanticism”, define it and analyze from a philosophical and aesthetic point of view a number of key concepts for this new direction of artistic life: love, passion, enthusiasm, spirituality, sensitivity, reflection, self-reflection, melancholy, self-sacrifice, loneliness, alienation, imagination, inspiration, imagery, aesthetic pleasure, taste, talent, genius, ideal. She conceptualized the trend that would become prevalent in mature romanticism — a combination of the incongruous, sharp contrasts and tragic collisions of opposite principles — the sublime and the low, the beautiful and the ugly. De Stael attached particular importance to the national characteristics of artistic creativity, its rootedness in popular culture, and the influence of social institutions on art. She made a significant contribution to the development of aesthetic aspects of literary theory, put forward an innovative thesis about the “metaphysical” language that distinguishes the romantic style. The aesthetic vector of de Stael is directed to the future associated with the development of romantic art. All these ideas were reflected in her literary works.
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Ester, H. "Sprachliche Entfremdung als Phänomen des Umbruchs in der früheren DDR." Literator 18, no. 3 (1997): 155–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v18i3.571.
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Linguistic alienation as phenomenon of the transformation in the erstwhile DDRThe Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic have not yet grown into a coherent unity since the political unification of the two 'Germanies' in 1990. The reason for the lack of sympathy and the irritations on both sides possibly lies in the fact that the actual developments did not meet the general expectations during the first years after 1990. The thesis of my article is that the more profound reasons for the alienation between the western and the eastern part of Germany can be found in the little interest on the western side for the developments in the GDR from 1949 until the fall of the Wall in 1989. The lack of interest in the forty years of the GDR’s existence finds its expression in the alienation of language. In order to improve communication between the Germans of both spheres, the reading of literary texts from the former GDR by members of the entire new Federal Republic of Germany can be a reconcilliatory device. In this way the reader can obtain insight into forty years of history.
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Kuznetsov, Vasily A. "Algeria: Political Participation During the Transformation of Political Regime after 2019." Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 1 (2023): 209. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013038640021357-0.
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The article focuses on the issues of political regime transformation in Algeria after the overthrow of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Describing the dynamics of Algerian political life, the author points out that the country&apos;s current regime can be characterised as hybrid and authoritarian. Nevertheless, the prospects for its further evolution remain unclear. The author opines that these prospects would be determined by the ability of the system to overcome the alienation between the public and the authorities. With this in mind, two key linking mechanisms need be analysed: electoral and direct political participation. When analysing electoral processes, the author compares the events and results of the 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2021 parliamentary campaigns, concluding that the mutual distrust between the public and the government constantly affects the social life of Algeria. Looking at direct forms of participation, he focuses on the “Hirak” Movement, which made the 2019 power transition possible. Indication of its specific traits shows why it did not facilitate the creation of a new social contract. The author concludes the article with the assumption that the alienation between the government and society has not been overcome because Algerian political culture was formed in the colonial and post-colonial periods. The article’s methodology is based on the hybrid regime and social orders theories. Furthermore, the author uses the typology of political parties proposed by Maurice Duverger. The sources and materials used for the study include official documents, media publications and results of the author’s field research.
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OGARKOV, ALEKSANDR, and LYUDMILA SMETANKINA. "ROUSSEAU’S “SOCIAL CONTRACT” AND THE CONCEPT OF ALIENATION." Sociopolitical sciences 10, no. 4 (2020): 143–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.33693/2223-0092-2020-10-4-143-148.
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The article actualizes the problem of the possibilities of achieving freedom in civil society. The authors consider this problem through the analysis of the conceptual essence of the phenomenon of “social contract” in its relationship with the concept of alienation. Purpose of the article: to analyze the concept of alienation in versatile historical interpretations of historical and socio-philosophical thought. The article examines the views of Rousseau on the relationship between citizens and the state. The texts of Hobbes, Locke, Hegel and Marx, which considered the concept of alienation, are analyzed. The article substantiates the escalation significance of the socio-philosophical understanding of the state of “civil” freedom, analyzes the essence of the general logic of legal consciousness, identifies the main positions of Rousseau’s concept, which defines a social contract as a dialectical unity of alienated potentials that form a dynamic whole “political machine”. The article also details the positions of Hobbes, Locke, Hegel and Marx, given in comparison with the views of Rousseau. The category of “alienation” is analyzed in the context of specific relations between the subject and his definite function, arising as a result of the loss of the initial integrity/unity and being a predictor of the impoverishment of the nature of the subject itself, leading to the transformation of the function itself. The article concludes about the relevance of Rousseau’s theory of alienation for socio-philosophical knowledge. The authors come to the conclusion that the concept of alienation in versatile historical interpretations makes a full turn before returning to its most “balanced” interpretation - Rousseau’s “social contract”. These provisions remain relevant today. The social contract destroys the “natural” generic quality of a person - to be free, alienating her arbitrary, and often just random gifts in favor of a voluntary association that rationally uses all possible and ultimate values of this ideal and real state of a person burdened with social duty.
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Sumertini, Ni Wayan. "Benang yang Hilang: Mengurai Alienasi Kultural Hindu dan Aniaya Budaya di Tengah Urbanisasi Generasi Z." Kamaya: Jurnal Ilmu Agama 7, no. 1 (2024): 42–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.37329/kamaya.v7i1.3061.
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Cultural alienation has resulted in changes in the religious culture and feelings of generation Z with several cultural cases causing a sharp decline in cultural values, customs and religious practices. This is especially sad in the context of Hinduism, where traditional traditions are at risk of extinction, as a result of cultural persecution and cultural alienation. The aim of this research is to reveal the extent of the cultural transformation experienced by Generation Z during the urbanization process, as well as identify specific factors that contribute to cultural alienation and persecution within the Hindu community by proposing effective solutions and interventions to mitigate the decline in cultural values, customs, and Hindu religion. Researchers use qualitative research with the research approach that will be used is ethnography. Data collection techniques using in-depth interviews, surveys and participant observation. In a novel way, this research introduces a new perspective by focusing on the intersection between urbanization, Generation Z, and Hindu culture, revealing the intricacies of cultural alienation and cultural persecution. The results of this research show that traditional customs are giving way to a more contemporary lifestyle, which shows that there is a complex negotiation between cultural heritage and modernity, so that factors emerge that contribute to cultural alienation, including (1). Peer influence, (2). The impact of media hegemony (flexing content) and the rapid pace of urban life emerge as the main factors contributing to cultural alienation among Generation Z. Several solutions to increase the fighting power of Generation Z return to the axis of Hindu culture and religion, without abandoning the positive innovations of the impact of urbanization, including: (1) Strengthening Cultural Education, (2) Community Engagement Initiatives, (3) Adapting Traditions in a Modern Context, (4) Digital Platforms for Cultural Awareness, (5) Intergenerational Cross Experience. It is concluded that the cultural structure of Generation Z in a dynamic urbanization landscape requires special handling and that preserving values and traditions is a shared responsibility for all aspects of social life.
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Abane, Henrietta. "Incorporation, dispossession and social transformation in rural Ghana: case study of a forest community." Oguaa Journal of Social Sciences 4, no. 4 (2009): 148–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/joss.v4i4.574.
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This case study examines the social transformation that has occurred in a rural forest community in southern Ghana. It revisits various explanations for societal change or transformation from a Sociological viewpoint and situates change in the community within the context of a radical political economy paradigm. Hence Neo Marxist identification of incorporation of peripheral areas into capitalist production systems through monetization of production systems and alienation of the bases of livelihoods- land and labour have been identified to be crucial in the social transformation that the case community is undergoing. The findings of this study indicate that contrary to beliefs of modernization perspectives, social change is not all progress but can alienate communities further as well as create tensions and cleavages in traditional societies.
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ZHAO, Tianjiao. "Introduction to Hiromatsu Wataru's "relational ontology"." Region - Educational Research and Reviews 6, no. 5 (2024): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.32629/rerr.v6i5.2152.
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Hiromatsu Wataru proposed that there was a "discontinuity" in the transformation of Marxist thought between 1844 and 1845, mainly manifested as the transformation of early Marxist philosophical thought from entity ontology to relational ontology. In the process of exploring the transformation of early Marxist thought, Hiromatsu Wataru formed the cornerstone of his "relational ontology" – Versachlichung. When exploring the leap from alienation to Versachlichung in Marxist thought, Hiromatsu attempted to combine Marxist relativism with phenomenology. Based on the logic of the development of "Versachlichung", in order to break the epistemology featuring binary opposition of "subjective -objective" since modern philosophy, and understand and transform the world in the way of "limb structure", a key link in the "relational ontology" has been formed.
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Santoso, Mutiara Winda, Dinawati Trapsilasiwi, and Randi Pratama Murtikusuma. "The ANALISIS KESALAHAN SISWA DALAM MENYELESAIKAN SOAL CERITA SPLDV BERDASARKAN TAHAPAN NEWMAN DITINJAU DARI TIPE KEPRIBADIAN FLORENCE LITTAUER." KadikmA 12, no. 2 (2021): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/kdma.v12i2.25014.
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The aim of this qualitative research is to describe the types of student errors in solving the two-variable linear equation system story problem based on Newman's error analysis in terms of Florence Littauer's personality type. The data sources consisted of 8 students of grade IX C SMP Nuris Jember who had been taught the material of two-variable linear equation systems. The data taken were the results of the questionnaire used to group students into four categories of personality types, the results of the student's story problem solving test results, and the results of the interviews of the students who were the research subjects. The results showed that in solving the two-variable linear equation system material story problems, students sanguinis experienced reading errors, comprehensior errors, transformation errors, process skill errors, and encoding error. Melancholy and phlegmatis students experience transformation error, process skill error, and encoding error. Koleris students experienced process skill error and encoding error. 
 Keywords: Error, Newman, Personality Type, SPLDV