Habermas' concepts of lifeworld, system and rationalization is an advance on those of Weber, in recognising that modernity has 'unfulfilled potential'. This paper suggests they may nevertheless benefit from being enriched by the philosophy of Dooyeweerd. It then discusses how these notions may be applied to inform our attitude towards information technology.

This article examines the role of outer space technopolitics in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. It explores how space, technological artefact global relevance, works as a postcolonial fetish modernity that is called upon to produce what it represents, is, reality technologically advanced Kazakh nation. The shows its project becoming spacefaring nation country reiterates major incentives have motivated ...

BATEK, BATOK, AND WHATOK are various local words that denote a traditional tattooing practice among the peoples in the Cordillera Region, particularly in the province of Kalinga. Their bodies are inked with figurative designs of snake, centipede, frog, rice grain, and fern plant, among others, and interspersed with geometric motifs and patterns. These traditional tattoos speak strongly about th...

The article is devoted to the changes in perception of body and corporeal that occurred twentieth century, when traditional society was replaced by modern society, modernity. Another transition takes place second half humanity a step towards situation postmodernity, which also brings variety idea corporeal. socio-cultural construct, it produced reproduced different ways depending on both histor...

Chiaki Takagi examines modern Japan’s cultural formation from a new theoretical perspective by applying postcolonial theories to modern Japan. The author’s goal is to rethink Japan’s modernity, including its long-lasting ―sengo‖ 戦後 (postwar) period, by examining the works of Murakami Haruki 村上春樹. His works suggest that postwar Japanese society has been informed by a peculiar version of coloniza...

Soon after publishing his magnus opum, Transforming Mission, Davis Bosch wrote, what later became known as, Believing in the Future. Bosch’s critique of the Enlightenment was already apparent in Transforming Mission (1991:262-274), but soon after, at the end of 1991, he turned his thoughts to Western society specifically, furthermore addressing the problems of modernity, the questions of postmo...

This ethnographic research seeks to describe the phenomenon of artistic practices traditional artists in looking at new technologies and media. Discourse on various performing arts events outside mainstream, 'periphery' (local) areas, which are often overlooked neglected discussions about art. The findings this study confirm progressive spirit Situbondo responding uncertain situation due pandem...

The four most important King Kong films (1933, 1976, 2005, and 2017) contain religious sentiments that are related to the numinous mysterious fear of Nature death gives meaning life, institutionalization society. In this way, as observed in films, Society originated by religion is a construction against Death. Based on these hypotheses, objective work (a) show social structure tribal society li...

iranian traditional cities were created with a system based on experiments and gradual establishment of society through time. qajar era is especially important in iranian art history. until mid qajar era, iranian cities’s architecture mainly took benefit of its common traditional architecture that is already seen in most desert-surrounding cities. till this era, there was not any connection bet...