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Memethodology
Polách, Jakub ; Bělohradský, Václav (referee) ; Magid, Václav (advisor)
With the accessibility of graphic editors and the development of social media, visual communication has reached a state where images that are important for cultural, social or political events are created by internet subcultures. Visual artists or graphic designers with academic degrees then just thematize their activity or directly exploit them on walls or objects housed in brick-and-mortar institutions, which include art and design schools. These can be characterized as a market-driven recombination of fragmented assignments, skills, guests, lectures or conferences, the nature of which is subordinated to the automated algorithm configuration of digital platforms. Schools fulfil the role of browser extensions instead of becoming browsers themselves. Paradoxically, the outputs of intensive training that are part of this non-stop, passively received infotainment of a consumer-randomized approach to education cannot be capitalized on by themselves – it is not the formal quality of the outputs that plays a role, but their skillful entanglement in the social fabric of purposeful relationships. The thesis therefore draws on the assumptions that expertise can have extremely low visual resolution, that a pointer in an orientation system may not be a vector arrow but an interpretation of Marxism on TikTok. The thesis may not only thematise these and other approaches but actively participate in them through the formation of memethodology as a formally and content-inclusive open-source medium.
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Law, Progress, and the Temporality of Politics
Géryk, Jan ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Bárány, Eduard (referee) ; Bělohradský, Václav (referee) ; Ondřejek, Pavel (referee)
Law, Progress, and the Temporality of Politics Abstract The present work is an interdisciplinary contribution to the study of late-modern temporality. Following the tradition of critical theory, it comes up with both functional and normative critique of contemporary society, which it frames with the term "anxiety society". The materialization of "anxiety society" is the experience of what Hartmut Rosa calls "frenetic standstill" in which "nothing remains the same, but nothing essentially changes". We begin our analysis with the statistics of the increasing prevalence of psychiatric patients with anxiety and depression and the related critique of how the "privatisation of stress" ignores the societal context of mental disorders. Next, the thesis will focus on the systemic causes of mental health changes in the population. We will identify the fact that the sources of mental distress are increasingly abstract as the anxiety- creating specificity of contemporary society. We live in a post-disciplinary society that is not based on the dichotomy of forbidden/allowed, but on the division of the possible and the impossible, and in which subjects increasingly control themselves in accordance with the demands of the system, so that coercion and freedom merge. However, the social pathology of the present emerges...
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Memethodology
Polách, Jakub ; Bělohradský, Václav (referee) ; Magid, Václav (advisor)
With the accessibility of graphic editors and the development of social media, visual communication has reached a state where images that are important for cultural, social or political events are created by internet subcultures. Visual artists or graphic designers with academic degrees then just thematize their activity or directly exploit them on walls or objects housed in brick-and-mortar institutions, which include art and design schools. These can be characterized as a market-driven recombination of fragmented assignments, skills, guests, lectures or conferences, the nature of which is subordinated to the automated algorithm configuration of digital platforms. Schools fulfil the role of browser extensions instead of becoming browsers themselves. Paradoxically, the outputs of intensive training that are part of this non-stop, passively received infotainment of a consumer-randomized approach to education cannot be capitalized on by themselves – it is not the formal quality of the outputs that plays a role, but their skillful entanglement in the social fabric of purposeful relationships. The thesis therefore draws on the assumptions that expertise can have extremely low visual resolution, that a pointer in an orientation system may not be a vector arrow but an interpretation of Marxism on TikTok. The thesis may not only thematise these and other approaches but actively participate in them through the formation of memethodology as a formally and content-inclusive open-source medium.
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Thinking socialism without the tanks. A discoursive study of the role of freedom of speech in the various interpretaitons of the czechoslovak year 1968
Stropnický, Matěj ; Bělohradský, Václav (advisor) ; Keller, Jan (referee)
Matěj Stropnický Myslet socialismus bez tanků Diskurzivní analýza pojetí a úlohy svobody slova v různých interpretacích československého roku 1968 Abstract Trying to overcome the traditional analytic nihilism of papers dealing with Czechoslovakia in 1968, which arises from the military occupation, the author puts the fact of freedom of speech into his work's central interest. In a comparative study this work studies the different interpretations of its role and meaning, including: the dogmatic point of view concerning the freedom of speech being a source of organized counterrevolution; the effort of the reformers to include the freedom of speech into their reform and meanwhile to make it an instrument of it and the way it instead became an autonomous control of their politics; the realistic criticism concentrated on the manifestations of irresponsibility in the press endangering the reform on the one side and not being able to exit the temporary system imagination on the other; it equally pays attention to the 'unnamed', non-members of the Party, who process their self-establishment as an opposing political current, who however rest being no less than a source of interesting subversion; and finally examines the radical democrat approach understanding the freedom of speech as an obligatory condition of their...
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Thinking socialism without the tanks. A discoursive study of the role of freedom of speech in the various interpretaitons of the czechoslovak year 1968
Stropnický, Matěj ; Bělohradský, Václav (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
Trying to overcome the traditional analytic nihilism of papers dealing with Czechoslovakia in 1968, which arises from the military occupation, the author puts the fact of freedom of speech into his work's central interest. In a comparative study this work studies the different interpretations of its role and meaning, including: the dogmatic point of view concerning the freedom of speech being a source of organized counterrevolution; the effort of the reformers to include the freedom of speech into their reform and meanwhile to make it an instrument of it and the way it instead became an autonomous control of their politics; the realistic criticism concentrated on the manifestations of irresponsibility in the press endangering the reform on the one side and not being able to exit the temporary system imagination on the other; it equally pays attention to the 'unnamed', non-members of the Party, who process their self- establishment as an opposing political current, who however rest being no less than a source of interesting subversion; and finally examines the radical democrat approach understanding the freedom of speech as an obligatory condition of their politics together projecting the reconstitution of the society as an autonomous political subject. The work uses contemporary documents and texts...
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The end of the first italian republic. The elusion of the system anomalies
Kožichová, Tereza ; Bělohradský, Václav (advisor) ; Šušlíková, Lada (referee)
II fattore decisivo che ha provocato, nella prima meta degli anni novanta, la fine del sistema della Prima repubblica italiana, giá nella profonda crisi, é stato un intervento inaudito della magistratura, scatenato dalla Procura di Milano nel febbraio 1992, da dove si é diffuso velocemente e ha gardualmente investito tutto il paese. Rappresentanti del mondo económico ma soprattutto di quello político sono stati imputad di vasta corruzione e violazione sistemática della legge sul finanziamento dei partid e con un massicio supporto dei masmedia e dell'oppinione pubblica sono stati sottoposti ai processi penad e degradanti. La serie di indagini chiamata "Mani pulite" ha smantellato nel corso di due anni la prima repubblica con il suo intero ceto di governo e i suoi partiti tradizionali i quali sono sontanzialmente scomparsi. L'interpretazione comune dell'azione dei giudici italiani li presenta come salvatori del paese corrotto governato dal ceto di governo crimínale che é stato il responsabile único della profonda degenerazione del sistema. L'obbiettivo di questa tesi consiste nel mostrare, attraverso un'analisi delle radici dei problemi del sistema e degli aspetti importanti dell'azione dei guidici, che si tratta di un'interpretazione superfíciale e sbagliata. La prima repubblica italiana era un sistema...
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Enterprising Faith: Ethnography of Faith-Based Development in Contemporary Thailand
Ryška, Tomáš ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee) ; Bělohradský, Václav (referee)
Based on a long-term ethnographic fieldwork in northern Thailand this dissertation scrutinizes a significant part of the contemporary efforts of the international development - the faith-based development. Despite the fact that international donors and governments dedicate much of their resources and trust to the faith-based development organisations, this segment of the development industry remains largely absent from the academic literature. In this dissertation I focus on the relationships between social and economic changes in Thailand and global forces that affect lives of mountain ethnic minorities. State efforts to integrate highland people into the Thai lowland society include the development and maintenance of schools. This effort has been actively supported by Western development organizations employing activities and practices built upon fundamentalist Christianity. Since the mid 90s, the number of faith-based NGOs in northern Thailand, which were rather scarce before, began to rise. These institutions operate orphanages for highland minorities. In the process, thousands of ethnic minorities' children have left their homes and families to become "orphans" or "high risk situation children" that need to be taken care of by foreign aid workers bringing new ideas, information, hopes for a...
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Thinking socialism without the tanks. A discoursive study of the role of freedom of speech in the various interpretaitons of the czechoslovak year 1968
Stropnický, Matěj ; Bělohradský, Václav (advisor) ; Keller, Jan (referee)
Matěj Stropnický Myslet socialismus bez tanků Diskurzivní analýza pojetí a úlohy svobody slova v různých interpretacích československého roku 1968 Abstract Trying to overcome the traditional analytic nihilism of papers dealing with Czechoslovakia in 1968, which arises from the military occupation, the author puts the fact of freedom of speech into his work's central interest. In a comparative study this work studies the different interpretations of its role and meaning, including: the dogmatic point of view concerning the freedom of speech being a source of organized counterrevolution; the effort of the reformers to include the freedom of speech into their reform and meanwhile to make it an instrument of it and the way it instead became an autonomous control of their politics; the realistic criticism concentrated on the manifestations of irresponsibility in the press endangering the reform on the one side and not being able to exit the temporary system imagination on the other; it equally pays attention to the 'unnamed', non-members of the Party, who process their self-establishment as an opposing political current, who however rest being no less than a source of interesting subversion; and finally examines the radical democrat approach understanding the freedom of speech as an obligatory condition of their...
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Enterprising Faith: Ethnography of Faith-Based Development in Contemporary Thailand
Ryška, Tomáš ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee) ; Bělohradský, Václav (referee)
Based on a long-term ethnographic fieldwork in northern Thailand this dissertation scrutinizes a significant part of the contemporary efforts of the international development - the faith-based development. Despite the fact that international donors and governments dedicate much of their resources and trust to the faith-based development organisations, this segment of the development industry remains largely absent from the academic literature. In this dissertation I focus on the relationships between social and economic changes in Thailand and global forces that affect lives of mountain ethnic minorities. State efforts to integrate highland people into the Thai lowland society include the development and maintenance of schools. This effort has been actively supported by Western development organizations employing activities and practices built upon fundamentalist Christianity. Since the mid 90s, the number of faith-based NGOs in northern Thailand, which were rather scarce before, began to rise. These institutions operate orphanages for highland minorities. In the process, thousands of ethnic minorities' children have left their homes and families to become "orphans" or "high risk situation children" that need to be taken care of by foreign aid workers bringing new ideas, information, hopes for a...
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Thinking socialism without the tanks. A discoursive study of the role of freedom of speech in the various interpretaitons of the czechoslovak year 1968
Stropnický, Matěj ; Bělohradský, Václav (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
Trying to overcome the traditional analytic nihilism of papers dealing with Czechoslovakia in 1968, which arises from the military occupation, the author puts the fact of freedom of speech into his work's central interest. In a comparative study this work studies the different interpretations of its role and meaning, including: the dogmatic point of view concerning the freedom of speech being a source of organized counterrevolution; the effort of the reformers to include the freedom of speech into their reform and meanwhile to make it an instrument of it and the way it instead became an autonomous control of their politics; the realistic criticism concentrated on the manifestations of irresponsibility in the press endangering the reform on the one side and not being able to exit the temporary system imagination on the other; it equally pays attention to the 'unnamed', non-members of the Party, who process their self- establishment as an opposing political current, who however rest being no less than a source of interesting subversion; and finally examines the radical democrat approach understanding the freedom of speech as an obligatory condition of their politics together projecting the reconstitution of the society as an autonomous political subject. The work uses contemporary documents and texts...
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