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Hevlín – place in the landscape
Šperlová, Zuzana ; Eichlerová, Eva (referee) ; Foretník, Jan (advisor)
The aim of the work is a vision of changing the approach to the landscape and agriculture. Defining a new field structure and supporting the territorial system of ecological stability. Part of the smart landscape is a series of technological support for agriculture in the form of towers. Subsequently, two of these towers are developed to the scale of detail.
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Travels to Utopia. The Image of Soviet Russia within the Czechoslovak Cultural Left in the Interwar Period.
Šimová, Kateřina ; Vykoukal, Jiří (advisor) ; Glanc, Tomáš (referee) ; Křesťan, Jiří (referee)
The proposed dissertation is devoted to the relations of the Czechoslovak cultural left to Soviet Russia in the interwar period. It focuses on the image of Soviet Russia, pointing out that for many Czechoslovak leftist artists and intellectuals it served as a framework for their own vision of an ideal socio-political arrangements. In their view, the image of Soviet Russia stood out as a utopia in the sense that the sociologist Karl Mannheim attributes to this phenomenon. The dissertation follows the evolution of this utopian image among the Czechoslovak cultural left in the early 1920s, maps the changes in its thematic structure and motives and follows its disintegration against the ideological split of the Czechoslovak cultural left in the late 1930s. This development is perceived through the analysis of travelogues in which left-wing artists and intellectuals presented their immediate impressions and experiences from this country. The semiotic text analysis method is being used for this purpose. By analysing the confrontational and transformative functions of the utopian image of Soviet Russia, the dissertation attempts to clarify the attitude of Czechoslovak artists and intellectuals towards Soviet Russia in the context of the socio-political situation of the interwar period and in the broader...
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Central Europe as an ideal space (illustrated with the works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Libuše Moníková)
Pelíšková, Klára ; Zelená, Alena (advisor) ; Březinová, Monika (referee)
This bachelor's thesis addresses the topic of myths occuring in the Central European literature. It focuses on two particual myths, the Habsburg Myth and Bohemia lying by the sea, and on the way these myths are used in the literary works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Libuše Moníková, two German-language authors of the second half of the twentieth century. The first section of the thesis includes a chapter that discusses the ambiguity of Central Europe and another one that introduces the theory of myth. The second section offers a general characteristic of the Habsburg myth and the myth of Bohemia on the sea and it describes the historical context of their origins as well as their development and variations throughout the time. Based on the analyse of selected works of Bachmann and Moníková, the author of this thesis seeks to define the function the researched myths fulfil and to expose the potential parallels between them. She also examines the connection between the specific form of the myths in the analysed works and the historical and political circumstances of the time these works were written. The thesis concludes with comparison of both researched myths as well as their adaptations in the works of Bachmann and Moníková.
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Contemplative Child
Špán, Adam ; Spalová, Barbora (advisor) ; Kotyk, Lukáš (referee)
1 Annotation This thesis addresses the vocation of a Trappist monk which I first encountered during an ethnographic stay in a monastery and later explored further through semi- structured interviews with the monk and his family. The entire thesis is inter-connected by a chronological narrative covering the course of my research which will guide the reader throughout the field notes and interviews in their proper order. Research alone follows the vocation of only one monk but examines it and its formation from the perspective of six family members. The analysis of the interviews made clear that the vocation of a Trappist monk formed linearly with continuous Christian guidance. This guidance had origins in his religious family and was further consolidated by Christian elementary and high school structures. His family was very supportive of his decision to lean into religious life, and while a tendency to asceticism or solitude was refuted in the interviews, it transpired that a strong positive relationship with nature was observable, in-keeping with secluded monastery life in an isolated woodland environment. This case study of a monastic vocation aims to contribute towards the investigation of religious experience and circumstance by combining ethnography and in-depth interviews. The objective is not a...
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Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Tejml, Ladislav ; Vaněk, Vojtěch (referee) ; Krekovič, Slavomír (advisor)
My diploma thesis follows the unfinished EGBA cycle, which started in late October 2016. The name EGBA is the result of the uncertainty, anxiety and loss of trust in man as a healthy individual. I see the EGBA project as a candy with a filling, the content of which is composed of taste that influences one another. Even though it's a great advertisement, the great packaging itself looks great, the candy itself is inedible. The first of the mixed tastes is the term postcapitalism, as a constantly persistent system of capitalism, which, despite all possible peripetions, can not and does not overcome. Despite the growing interconnection of influential entrepreneurs with the state apparatus into the incomprehensible web of ties and relationships associated with deepening financial inequality among people, high indebtedness of countries, degrading environment, etc. The second taste is the temporality in which I am the primary acceleration as an alleged tool of progress. Accelerating is a long-term process that comes with modern times as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Today's time brings us a freneticly fragmented reality in which we try to squeeze as many acts or performances as possible into shorter time intervals. Speed has become a sign of success, so it's no surprise that many of us end up on the pill of hope as it is clear that our biorhythm can not be stretched indefinitely. The current, accelerated society can be likened to a swamp. The faster it rotates its gear, the faster it sinks in the liquid period. The third taste is posthumanism, which we have achieved by constantly simplifying and reducing the problems that nature poses before us. This relief has led us to create a machine that is so effective in reducing it, that it also creates its own problems. Technology keeps coming close to us, constantly evolving new technological advances that are increasingly "more sophisticated, useful and smarter". The inconspicuous disappearance of human nature gradually transforms into the form of Thésa's ship. The fourth taste is anthropocene. The theme of anthropocene circulated most of the news channels. Yes, it is serious and undeniable, although in many conspiracy theories it is completely misunderstood, for example, the blue, not the green palette, Donald's tricks, etc. In short, a long-term game of chess, man versus nature seems to be more advantageous for blacks. The last ingredient is a binder named Internet, like saliva flowing through all of these tastes. All of these candy essences are frustrating for me, and the best solution to me was the theme of apocalypse in my previous work. Dystopic thinking, however, does not last long and I have begun to overflow the hopes of hope that it could all have some positive effect. So if I come somewhere to see a bowl of candy, I will not hesitate and taste it. Most of these are places where it is necessary to wait, to withstand, or to buy something, so I will enjoy plenty of time and quiet to enjoy the tastes of candy and wait for the rainbow.
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TEMPORARY PARADISES
Volfová, Marika ; Sterec, Pavel (referee) ; Magid, Václav (advisor)
My diploma work is focused on topic of environmental responsibility, priviledge of mobility, nomadism, borders and dreaming of utopic un/realities. In site-specific instalation I combine sound, video, painting and text.
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attributes of corporeality
Lukešová, Eva ; Bartlová, Milena (referee) ; Gabriel, Michal (advisor)
My thesis titled Attributes of corporeality is a continuation of my thinking on the topic of identity. Now I approach identity as a category, not as an identity that belongs to a particular person. I consider the question of how is identity shaped in a postmodern, globalized world and how is it related to corporeality. My answer is based on the reality I know, on the current state of society. However, the intention of my work is above all to express my idea, which is rather a utopian scenario than anything else.
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Utopian topics in 20th and 30th of 20th Century in Czech Literature
DOUCHOVÁ, Martina
The submitted bachelor thesis deals with utopian and anti-utopian literature of both global and Czech production. The main topic is Czech utopian literature of 1920´s and 1930´s. To illustrate this topic in the chosen period, four literary works have been chosen for analysis: Továrna na Absolutno (The Absolute at Large by Karel Čapek), Velkovýroba ctnosti (Jiří Haussmann), Firma prorokova (Čestmír Jeřábek), and Dům o tisíci patrech (Jan Weiss). These works are put into the literary-historical context of the given time period, their content is analysed, and their acceptance by contemporary critics is included as well.
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The Influence of European Tradition on the Culture of Spanish America in the Essays of A. Reyes and P. Henríquez Ureña
Lukešová, Alice ; Poláková, Dora (referee) ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (referee)
This thesis focuses on the transformation of European tradition in the multicultural Hispanic America, as reflected in the essays of Alfonso Reyes and Pedro Henríquez Ureña. The first part is devoted to the theory of essay. It analyzes utopia as a way of thinking, not a literary genre and gives an overview of the life of artists and their collaboration in Ateneo de la Juventud. The second part deals with selected essays. Different topics are divided into three areas.The first area deals with the specific way of the Spanish colonization of the Americas and concerns the attitude, which the newly created states adopted to that heritage. The second area focuses on the interconnection between the Hispanomerican culture and the European tradition; influence, transformation and new forms, which European culture receives in Hispanic America; questions related to European cultural heritage (imitate or create?); creating a distinctive culture; universalism and cultural synthesis. The third area is directed into the future. It highlights the importance of culture where the greatest sense of belonging among the countries is felt and stresses the demand to restore humanities in education. Finally, it demonstrates the maturity of American culture, which is not a mere imitator of Europe, but enriches the...
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