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New Flesh? The Limits of the Body in the Films by David Cronenberg
Hladonik, Jan ; Marcelli, Miroslav (advisor) ; Fulka, Josef (referee)
Diploma work New Flesh? The Limits of the Body in the Films by David Cronenberg deals with the human body as one of the main motives in the filmography of the Canadian director David Cronenberg. Its mission is to implicate new approaches to the human body in the theories of postmodern philosophy, philosophy of media and posthuman therories, which fundamentally transform the principles of previously applied concept of body and mind dualism and point out that media and new technologies has a significant influence on our perception of a human body. New approaches to the human flesh and fleshliness are applied in the final part of this work through the interpretation of selected movies by David Cronenberg - Videodrome and eXistenZ. The main point of this work is to show the complete change of conception and perception of the human flesh, which is summary reviewing here as a "new flesh". Key words body - controlled body - body extension - reality - hyperreality - media - new technologies - cyborg - post-human - body horror - new flesh
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In front of an object. The question of distance and aura in thought of Georges Didi-Huberman
Váša, Ondřej ; Fulka, Josef (referee) ; Petříček, Miroslav (advisor)
The essay concebtrates around the thinking of french philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman and his reception of Walter Benjamin's term aura, which is strongly connected to the critique of classical art history and re-thinking colour and material as stain, it's symptomal nature and not only compositional, but also de-compositional features. One of the centres of this essay is interpretation of Titian's painting Apollo and Marsyas, painting, which sophisticatedly problematizes viewing the painting as pure illusion or manifestation of ideas in matter. The second milestone are works of american minimalism, which are places of radiating aura, but aura in stae of her own decay. We tried to show, that if the original meaning of aura was connected to cultic works of art and their presented inaccessibility, in case of american minimalists it is surviving as a experience of turn-arounded vertigo.
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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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Brain and event
Malečková, Dita ; Fulka, Josef (referee) ; Petříček, Miroslav (advisor)
In my work I aspired to clarify the relationships between the vision and thinking. In the first part I was above all trying to show that the vision is not unchallenged, automatic process. Than I specify the intersection between vision and thinking and I went to the problem of motion and corporality (sensuality). In the second part I arrived to the theme of the space - with regard to the vision and thinking, as a "inscape", and I also outlined the probleme of metamorphosis of space in forms of toplological space, virtual space, or cyberspace. In the third part of my work I developed the theme of chaos and the afinity of chaos and creativity in three zones of human creativity - philosophy, art and science - on the concrete examples of three creators: philosopher (Deleuze), artist (Boudník) and scientist (Mandelbrot). In the last part I concluded with the question of connection of chaos and "brain" as the actual degree of the human knowledge, and also with the contexture of the brain and the event. And I finished with the notion of noosphere. The whole writing is based mainly on work of the french philosophers Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Teilhard de Chardin and partly also Jean-Francoise Lyotard or Paul Virilio. From the czech authors it is Michal Ajvaz or Egon Bondy.
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