Corpus MundiPub Date : 2021-07-16DOI: 10.46539/CMJ.V2I2.43
K. Tembo
{"title":"Why Superman Will Not Save the World: Theorizing the Relationship Between Suffering and DC Comics Superman (Translation into Russian)","authors":"K. Tembo","doi":"10.46539/CMJ.V2I2.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46539/CMJ.V2I2.43","url":null,"abstract":"The hypothesis that there is an inextricable link between comic book superheroes and suffering would, to anyone with a cursory knowledge of superhero characters found in DC, Marvel, Image, Wildstorm and other houses, and their histories, ostensibly seem valid. This validity depends on which character one is applying said hypothesis to; the psychological and physical suffering of a Batman being more acceptable as such than that of a Plastic Man, for example. However, using DC Comics character Superman as a case study, this paper explores the inextricable link between Otherness, power, and suffering within the remit of the character's mythos. In order to do so, this paper refers to psychoanalytic concepts elaborated by Sigmund Freud in his text Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1922) as a way of demonstrating that despite the character's conventional appraisal as a positivist humanistic symbol of pure altruism, an insuperable, unimpeachable symbol of selflessness and good morality, there is in fact a fundamental link between Superman's 'tridentity' of selves (Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman), the character's own suffering, and human suffering on a terrestrial scale, as represented within the numerous realities of the DC Comics Multiverse.","PeriodicalId":194838,"journal":{"name":"Corpus Mundi","volume":"744 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126703193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Corpus MundiPub Date : 2020-12-25DOI: 10.46539/cmj.v1i4.30
N. Artemenko
{"title":"Oral History, Remembering Practices and the Problem of “Access” to the Traumatic Experience","authors":"N. Artemenko","doi":"10.46539/cmj.v1i4.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46539/cmj.v1i4.30","url":null,"abstract":"The method of “oral history” is quite widely used today, despite the fact that it came into being not so long ago. The origins of the method of oral history should be sought for in the studies related to interviewing, and with reference to related disciplines, i.e. sociology, ethnology, political science and, partly, linguistics. Quite soon, the disputes over the relation of oral history and historical memory became common for critical literature. The interview method is a very complex way, which requires quite an effort, as well as the awareness of researcher’s subjectivity of a high degree, therefore, some historians sees oral history as a highly unreliable source. Yet, it is impossible to ignore the fact that the method of oral history is in high demand in cases of no other sources except for the evidence of human memory being left. Oral history enables us to study not so much the facts of the past as the very human consciousness and its alteration, transformation, enables us to pose a question on the memory practices from a new perspective. Memory and remembering practices are closely related to oblivion, which, in its turn, indicates the need to eliminate the information that ravages the human psyche and the structure of public consciousness. Oblivion could be entitled “memory trauma” which should be understood as the events, destructive both to personal and social (including national) identity. Consequently the memory starts to be associated with the concept of trauma. The article delves into the relation between oral history and human memory, the problem of “accessing” the traumatic experience, special aspects of narrative in the traumatic experience.","PeriodicalId":194838,"journal":{"name":"Corpus Mundi","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125559605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Corpus MundiPub Date : 2020-12-25DOI: 10.46539/cmj.v1i4.34
R. T. Aliev
{"title":"Когда мы болеем, природа отдыхает","authors":"R. T. Aliev","doi":"10.46539/cmj.v1i4.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46539/cmj.v1i4.34","url":null,"abstract":"Рецензия на книгу McCarthy, M., Mynott, J., & Marren P. (2020). The Consolation of Nature. Spring in the Time of Coronavirus. London: Hodder Studio.","PeriodicalId":194838,"journal":{"name":"Corpus Mundi","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131742452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Corpus MundiPub Date : 2020-12-25DOI: 10.46539/cmj.v1i4.33
Maksym W. Kyrchanoff
{"title":"Морфология тела и телесности в порно: идеологизация телесности, или как тела заговорили по-русски","authors":"Maksym W. Kyrchanoff","doi":"10.46539/cmj.v1i4.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46539/cmj.v1i4.33","url":null,"abstract":"Автор анализирует проблемы изменений представленности тела и метаморфозы телесности в порно как сегменте современной массовой культуры общества потребления. Анализ социальных мутаций и культурных трансформаций тела и телесности в порнодискурсе поп-культуры является основой целью статьи. Методологически автор, с одной стороны, использует положения сравнительно-типологического метода, предложенного Владимиром Проппом. C другой стороны, текст восходит к структуралистским концепциям Петра Богатырёва, предложенные им для изучения фольклора. Поэтому порно определяется и анализируется как проявление и форма фольклора общества потребления и массовой культуры. Автор проецирует четыре особенности волшебной сказки, сформулированные Владимиром Проппом, в те культурные пространства, где порнодискурс доминирует в современном обществе потребления. Автор анализирует как «немая» телесность в порно-культуре мутировала, став «говорящей». Анализируются проблемы сочетания и сосуществования телесности и вербальности в современном российском порнодискурсе. Автор изучает, как «тело» в порно-сегменте массовой культуры начало говорить по-русски, анализируя почему политический «месседж» неизбежно мутирует до телесности, постоянно возвращаясь к ней. Автор анализирует также культурные контексты и основания репрезентативности тела в современном российском порнодискурсе. Анализируются проблемы взаимозависимости телесности и политического языка, который использует «тело» в индивидуальном и коллективном контекстах.","PeriodicalId":194838,"journal":{"name":"Corpus Mundi","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122863293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Corpus MundiPub Date : 2020-07-13DOI: 10.46539/cmj.v1i2.21
S. Waldrep
{"title":"The Body of Art","authors":"S. Waldrep","doi":"10.46539/cmj.v1i2.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46539/cmj.v1i2.21","url":null,"abstract":"As part of a larger study on the mainstreaming of pornography in contemporary film and television, this essay attempts to examine and extend our vocabulary for discussing visual representations of the human body by revisiting Kenneth Clark’s important study The Nude from 1972. Clark’s book provides a history of the male and female nude in two- and three-dimensional art from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Renaissance and beyond. This essay focuses on places within his analysis that are especially generative for understanding pornography such as the importance of placing the nude form within a narrative (Venus is emerging from her bath, for example) or attempts by artists to suggest movement within static forms. The essay places Clark’s rich typology in conversation with other thinkers, such as Fredric Jameson, Erwin Panofsky, E. H. Gombrich, and Michel Foucault. The piece ends with a discussion of androgyny and hermaphroditism as they relate to the expression of gender in plastic art, especially the notion that all representations of the body necessarily include a gender spectrum within one figure. Artists whose work is looked at in some detail include Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Donatello.","PeriodicalId":194838,"journal":{"name":"Corpus Mundi","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126735309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Corpus MundiPub Date : 2020-04-20DOI: 10.46539/cmj.v1i1.5
Sergei V. Sokolovskiy
{"title":"Экстенсии как техносоматические сборки: к истории одной идеи","authors":"Sergei V. Sokolovskiy","doi":"10.46539/cmj.v1i1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46539/cmj.v1i1.5","url":null,"abstract":"В статье рассматривается более чем полуторавековая история понятия экстенсия, введенного в широкий оборот американским антропологом, основателем проксемики Эдвардом Холлом, и использование этого понятия в ряде дисциплин, включая антропоэкологию, психоанализ, теорию медиа и социологию. Определяется вклад отдельных исследователей в разработку этого понятия и сопряженных или конкурирующих с ним концептов. Определяется место экстенсий в ряду других типов техносоматических сборок. Предлагается рабочая типология самих экстенсий, учитывающая их относительные размеры, топологическое положение относительно тела и конкретные функции или способности человека, которые эти экстенсии усиливают, или заменяют и вытесняют. Анализ истории развития понятия экстенсия позволяет утверждать, что все артефакты человеческой культуры могут рассматриваться как экстенсии определенных телесных органов или функций, как их продолжение или амплификация, и что тело и психика человека еще до его рождения оказываются сопряженными со множеством технических артефактов (инструментов, аппаратов, машин, инфраструктур) и выступают в качестве элементов техносоматических ассамбляжей. Экстенсия как особый тип гибридной техносоматической реальности, как химерическое понятие, объединяющее в своем содержании телесное (природное) и произведенное человеком (культурное, техническое, искусственное), становится в такой расширенной трактовке синонимом техники или культуры в целом, мостом между психикой и телом, с одной стороны, и миром технокультурных артефактов, с другой. Кратко рассматриваются следствия этого утверждения для исследований человеческих телесности, смерти и памяти.","PeriodicalId":194838,"journal":{"name":"Corpus Mundi","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116725221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}