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The Body as an Interface
Kučerák, Michal ; Fulka, Josef (advisor) ; Češka, Jakub (referee)
MK: Telo ako rozhranie bakalárska esej Abstract: This bachelor thesis discusses the topic of body in video games in philosophical perspective. The main issues are: What is happening with the body of player during the play? How does this "works"? The essay itself contains definition of game as well, definition of video game provided by Juul and roots of video game itself as cyber culture (Levy) and technical image (Flusser). It shows the history and present of video gaming. The question whether the body will or will not play important role in the future of gaming is being discussed in Hansen's, Virilio's and Deleuze and Guattari's definition of body itself. The essay claims there are two ways of playing the video games through our body: active playing and passive playing. Key words: video game, body, active/passive, visual semiotics
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Media Presentation of the Pope Benedict XVI.
Pániková, Klára ; Češka, Jakub (advisor) ; Fulka, Josef (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to analyse the media presentation of the Pope Benedict XVI. in the Czech press. We arise from the assumtion that the way the Czech press writes about the present Pope is set by a certain discourse. That is why we use the method of dicourse analysis designed by Michel Foucault. Having carefully analysed altogether 690 articles from selected newspapers and magazines published between 02/04/2005 and 31/12/2007 we reached a number of fragmental results which in the end turned to be the parts of the searched for discourse. In so doing some hidden motives, which seem to form an esential part of the media presentation of the Pope Benedict XVI., emerged. Along with that the absence of the journalists' ability to assess the proper meaning of some words or to lay proper stresses appeared too. As this thesis brings out, the journalists are at the same time impossible to take a step forward in this as their way of thinking about the Pope is set by the discourse (that they themselves first created). So, we came to the conclusion that the media presentation of the Pope Benedict XVI. is influenced by, e.g. stereotypes we Czechs have about the German nationality or artificially (by journalists) connected events in Benedict's life. We also show that the present Pope is a very good object of...
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The Borges - Eco Labyrinth
Nováková, Šárka ; Hubík, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Češka, Jakub (referee)
The task of the thesis is to define notion of the labyrinth according to Umberto Eco (mostly in his Notes on the Name of the rose) and J. L. Borges in his short stories. The idea of the labyrinth as the metaphore for the textual universum will be brought up within the wider context in the following chapters. Concept of "the labyrinth" and "the Library" is mainly connected with deconstructive philosophical line and the second part is about their philosophical basis clarification. This section explains the possibilities of reader's moves in the maze: his strategy (Lyotard), way of the movement (Derrida) and potential restrictions (Eco). Another important part of the thesis is the topic reflexion in media - specifically in the film. Interpretation of the selected motion pictures will be aimed at those elements, which are important for the subject of the writing (labyrinth, book, intertextuality…).
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