Role of blockchain games in shaping the cryptoculture of digital ecosystems
The article explores the role of blockchain games in the formation and development of cryptoculture within modern ecosystems. The game model play-to-earn as a key element contributing to the implementation of blockchain technologies into the daily life of users is considered. The mechanisms of staking and the use of non-fungible tokens in gaming ecosystems are analysed. Special attention is paid to the impact of blockchain games on the formation of new economic models and social interactions in virtual space. The article touches upon the adaptation of global blockchain gaming trends in the Russian-speaking segment of digital ecosystems. Discusses potential prospects and challenges related to the further development of blockchain games and their role in the evolution of cryptoculture.
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Museum-reserve «Bozok», museum of S. Seifullin, museum-office of L. N. Gumilyov: historical places of memory as instruments of commemoration
This article presents the results of a study of Astana’s historical places as places of memory. Museums are considered as spaces containing symbols of historical and cultural memory of important past events. It is noted that the historical events experienced by the country which have left their mark on several generations of citizens, occupy a significant place among these events.
The evolution of the image of Chinese rural entrepreneurs in the context of contemporary Chinese culture (late 1970s – 1990s)
This article examines the relationship between the transformation of China’s social system in the early 1980s (the period of reform and opening-up) and the development of culture and the image of Chinese rural entrepreneurs. It examines the evolution of the cultural image of Chinese entrepreneurs, changes in Chinese corporate culture, and changes in contemporary Chinese culture.
The evolution of percussion instruments in world music culture
The evolution of the interpretation of percussion instruments in the musical culture of Europe is considered, based on a fundamental change in the attitude of composers to percussion instruments and their role in the construction of the dramaturgy of a musical work. It is noted that the formation of percussion performance dates back to ancient times when percussion was freed from its functional tasks and moved into the aesthetic space, becoming the leading and most accessible group of accompanying instruments and playing a significant role in the formation of the classical symphony orchestra. It is indicated that the exchange of cultural values, the search for new means of expression along with the innovative activities of composers led to the emergence of a new direction – solo multipercussion. It is determined that the interpretation of percussion instruments as solo contributed to the creation of a percussion show.
Historiography of ethnological study of Belarusians folk medicine of the 19th – the first half of the 20th century
The article carried out an objective and comprehensive analysis of the results and prospects of the study of folk medicine of Belarusians in the 19th – the first half of the 20th century. The main directions of development of scientific ideas on the problem in question are highlighted. The contribution of some ethnographers to the collection, systematisation and scientific understanding of into about on traditional means and methods of folk medicine was noted. It was concluded that it is necessary to clarify the essence of folk medicine as a significant element of Belarusian culture and to create a programme of systematic research of this cultural phenomenon.
religious and mythological representations of Belarusians
Network culture as the foundation of national security and social development
It is substantiated that network culture is an adaptive strategy that allows states to effectively counter threats and challenges of the 21st century, maintaining the security of the development of the individual and the state. It is indicated that network culture does not simply complement the value-normative standards operating in offline reality, but creates a fundamentally new form of interaction between people, forming relevant opportunities for intercultural dialogue. The factors of digital interconnections and interactions of users are determined. The political and legal aspects of national security are outlined. The specific features of the state cultural policy in the field of network technologies are indicated.
The rhetoric-figurative approach to the history of artistic gesture
The article explicates the role of ancient rhetoric in the formation of contemporary gesture culture. The author outlines distinguishing features of the artistic gesture in different historical and cultural contexts, reveals the specifics of the evolving special scientific language which allows subjecting the socio-cultural dynamics of artistic gesture to critical analysis. The particular character of the dialogue between philosophy and contemporary choreography is demonstrated.
Migration and ethnocultural policy of the Republic of Belarus as a factor of national communities adaptation
This article examines the migration and ethnocultural policies of the Republic of Belarus in the context of the adaptation of national communities to intercultural interaction in the country's multicultural society. It analyses the legal framework and mechanisms regulating interethnic relations, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation of interethnic relations, as well as promising areas for their development. It notes the importance of expanding the legal framework for ethnocultural policy and developing a system for monitoring and evaluating integration mechanisms for immigrants.
Cultural identity: personal choice or social norm
The phenomenon of identity is understood as a constructed social norm. The search for one’s own cultural identity is considered as a socio-cultural obligation, not as an individual choice. A prospective analysis of the issue of the existence of identity outside the boundaries of psychology is presented. Changes in the modern philosophical and culturological understanding of cultural identity in the context of the cognitive abilities of the individual are shown. Connections between possible interpretations of the understanding of cultural identity outside the boundaries of psychology are determined. It is noted that the construction of cultural identity contributes to the search for answers to questions regarding the possibilities for rethinking human existence within the framework of culture.
Images of the elements and elemental magic in transmedia storytelling
The problem of using images of the elements and elemental magic in modern cultural industries is considered. This problem has not been adequately addressed in both domestic and foreign literature; it is new in modern cultural science. In connection with the spread of the fantasy genre the topic under study has become relevant. The use of above-mentioned images in anime, literature and video games is analysed, as well as the features of this use in transmedia narration are studied.
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Openness as a key characteristic of Internet culture
The culture of the modern information society acquires new features and characteristics, determined by the phenomenon of systemic digitisation and the spread of network forms of communication. The Internet, being a part of the economy and a reality of everyday human life, forms a new type of capitalism and interaction between people and communities, its own ethos and aesthetics, producing an original type of culture that is different from the second wave in the development of civilisation. A significant feature of Internet culture is its openness, which is revealed in the nonlinearity and multidimensionality of the structure of the global communicative space.
The deelitisation of art in the era of the «new sincerity»
Contemporary art and, accordingly, art criticism are faced with an unprecedented problem, since their traditional concepts and criteria, which have lost their epistemological significance and the predominance in the artistic process of the ideas of synergetics, pluralism, participation and immersion, today are by no means adequate to the ideological and artistic transformations that gave rise to collapse of modernism. In addition, the traditional criterion (high, elite art and the public) is losing its importance for creativity and its evaluation. At the same time, according to the author, more «tolerant» criteria are being actualised, based on the increasing importance of satisfying creative, artistic needs and, consequently, the need for respect, veneration, authority, i. e. artistic prestige (art prestige).
Traditional folk instruments as symbols of China’s musical heritage
The article explores the characteristics of traditional Chinese instrumental music, which is considered a unique synthesis of ancient musical traditions and cultural borrowings. The classification of Chinese folk instruments is considered, their historical development is described. The significance of traditional instruments as symbols of China’s cultural heritage is justified. This study contributes to recognising the necessity of adapting traditional instruments to modern needs and their importance in preserving cultural diversity in contemporary Chinese society.
Evolution of perceptions about health standards and the causes of illnesses in folk medicine of Belarusians
The article is devoted to the analysis of the patterns of formation of traditional views on ways and means of preventing and eliminating human health disorders in close connection with the peculiarities of the worldview of the Belarusian people and socio-cultural factors in the development of traditional medicine. Describing the phenomenon of illness in a historical and cultural context makes it possible to identify ways of preserving and transmitting traditional values in modern society and brings each person to an awareness of personal responsibility for their own health.
religious and mythological ideas of Belarusians
Life safety culture: peculiarities of its formation among students with different areas of training
The study of the formation of the main components of the life safety culture among undergraduate students with different areas of training after they have studied the discipline «Human life safety» has been conducted. The results of the survey showed that the majority of students, regardless of their specialty, have a satisfactory level of the behavioural component and a sufficient level of the reflexive component of the life safety culture. The information and cognitive component of the life safety culture is formed at a satisfactory level in many students of the specialty «design» and at a sufficient level of the specialty «psychology». It is proposed to strengthen the practical component of the noxological and valeological education of students at the undergraduate level.
The subject of the study is female subjectivity, viewed through the prism of its socio-cultural stigma, as well as body language as a «conductor» of norms and regulations from patriarchal culture. The article pays attention to subjectivity as a category that reflects the uniqueness of a person who has not been identified with a woman for a long time. Stereotypical attitudes towards the feminine were and are a consequence of natural gender discrimination, leading to economic and political exploitation. Women’s subjectivity is defined in the context of a value-based attitude towards oneself as an individual with a system of choice, not necessarily marked by marriage or motherhood.
Innovative forms of cultural and educational activities in museums of higher education institutions of Belarus
The article examines the cultural and educational activities of museums of higher education institutions of Belarus. Traditional and innovative forms of work with visitors are analysed, the main categories of visitors and the features of their interaction with museums are identified. Prospective directions for the development of cultural and educational activities of museums of higher education institutions related to the use of modern technologies and formats have been identified.
The purpose of the article is to study the game factors of childhood subculture and their influence on it. The article provides a brief description of such concepts as childhood, game, subculture and childhood subculture. The influence of game factors on a person at various stages of his growing up is considered. Both positive and negative aspects of the game’s influence are revealed. After the analysis, it was established that game is one of the cultural values, thanks to which a person learns to interact with cultural society, to develop as a full-fledged personality, while still a child, undergoing a kind of preparation for adulthood. This follows from the fact that gaming practice is on a par with various types of human activity (labour, social, communicative), since children absorb information and learn primarily through gaming activities. Therefore, it can be argued that game, to a certain extent, is a component of human activity in children’s subculture.
Features of using reminiscence in designing a fashion suit
The article analyses the meaning of the concept «artistic image» in the designing a fashion suit, as well as the peculiarities of the perception of the costume in the modern cultural space. Thanks to artistic image unique artistic and figurative products were created and are being created now, filled with inspiring examples and ideas of the past and the fantasy future. The artistic image in the costume is revealed through the reminiscence of ideas borrowed from the visual, theatrical or any other kind of art. To create an artistic image in a costume, as a work of cultural and artistic significance, the designer uses a historically established set of artistic means and techniques, which implies the choice of artistic foundations and proportions that form the artistic style of a fashion costume, the organisation of compositional and constructive lines and external silhouette forms, the choice of corative elements characteristic of the selected source of inspiration, based on which the product is created. At the stage of designing a fashion suit, the designer searches for means to satisfy human tastes, followed by their implementation into a finished unique product. The process of implementing the designer’s ideas implies not only a technical component, but also an artistic one. For the process of artistic design, reminiscence is used as one of the methods of shaping a fashion suit. Reminiscence in the process of creating a costume, as a rule, is secondary and retrospective, but always gives the product the quality of novelty and uniqueness. In completely new readings and in other semantic and compositional combinations, previously known themes, plots, motifs, forms and elements are interpreted in the costume.
Advertising discourse as a form of communication: cultural code in the advertising space
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of advertising communication as a specific form of communication, as well as the communicative space in which verbal manifestations of cultural code are realised. The author systematses the available research results of foreign and Russian-speaking scientists on this topic and identifies the features inherent in the communicative advertising discourse. The author pays special attention to the consideration of the linguistic features of advertising. The researcher identifies the manifestations of cultural code in the space of advertising discourse: variability, belonging to the mentality, and emotionality. In the context of the manifestation of cultural code in advertising dicource the author presents functions implemented by advertising communication. The advertising narrative of the Belarusian and Russian communicative space is used as empirical material for the paper. The results of the study can be presented in the study of the relevant problems of a theoretical and applied nature in the following areas of knowledge: cultural studies, sociology, linguistics, theory of advertising and marketing communication.
Justification of the scientific discipline «Design studies»
Appeal to the study of design and determination of scientific discipline of design research, dictated by the need to comprehend the problems associated with changes in modern culture, which has entered the post-industrial era. The subordination of design to the general trend of transformation is revealed by the obvious multidirectional and multiscale processes both within the practice of design and in the process of its comprehension and theorising. The transformational processes taking place in design are the result of the general trend of civilisation development and are revealed by the polyphony of practice, expansion and blurring of the phenomenon boundaries, as well as institutionalisation of the scientific discipline. Design as an active participant in the processes occurring in society and culture is subject to structural and qualitative transformations. Developing design practice and a growing interest in the phenomenon of design by researchers from various fields of knowledge form new approaches to its study and justification and actualise a new discipline «Design studies». The growing interest to design on the part of humanitarian studies reflects the results of its influence on social life and proves its total character. The processes of such penetration we can observe everywhere in the public, professional and individual-personal spheres, as from a type of activity on design of communication design turns into a language of communication, performing the task of socio-cultural integrator of social interaction. The relevance of the study is due to the need to introduce the term design research as a new area including all aspects of design practice and design theory in the Russian-speaking space. The application of the comparative method allowed determining the research of design as a discipline in different contexts and noting the relevance of the inclusion of Russian-speaking scholars in the global processes of studying such a complex and transforming phenomenon as design. The main result of the study is the conclusion that design research appears to be a space that can be characterised as expanding and frangible. As a result of the inclusion of other disciplines in this space and the often frontier position of research, design research may well be considered interdisciplinary.
Postmodern archival turn and «archive fever» of the Belarusian folklore community
The article deals with the concept of an archive, which is seen in postmodernism as an ordered, power-determined representation of the past within a certain community. This kind of archive is full of ambiguities, lacunas and distortions, which makes the past unavailable in some objective, pure form. According to J. Derrida contemporary culture is gripped by «archive fever», the desire to find out what of the events, objects, ideas of the past was intentionally or accidentally cashed and hidden. Conceptually, this «archive fever» is an expression of such trend of contemporary culture as its orientation towards the past. This tendency is manifested in Belarus as well, in particular, through increasing attention to Belarusian traditional, or folk cultural forms. In today’s Belarus there is a folklore movement, which responds to global and foreign tendencies. Its representatives in the «archive fever» turn to the lost, displaced cultural forms (such as traditions of amateur photography, village non-professional music, naive drawings on glass), investigate what place they occupied in the past and how they can be actualised in the present.
New forms of dialog of authorities with Islamic culture in France
The article deals with the process of building the relationship between the state authorities in France and representatives of the Muslim population of the country. The attempts to institutionalise Islam initiated by the state are noted, and the reasons for their failure are revealed. The author analyses a new stage in the search for forms of dialogue acceptable to the parties, expressed in the creation of a new structure – the Forum of Islam in France. The author sees a special role for the development of communication on Islam in the establishment of the French Institute of Islamology, whose activities should inspire the development of French Islam, not confronting the values of the French Republic. It shows how the cultural policy of the state has changed from an externally regulative form of influence on the Muslim population to a process of defining common values and initiating a critical reflection (through science and education) of norms and customs within Islamic traditions.
Injection microchipping technology in biohaсking culture
The theme of biohacking as one of the directions of transhumanism philosophy and cultural phenomenon, including convergent technologies to improve human biological quality is revealed. The culturological problem of using personal data of a person in microchipping technologies is raised. The spectrum of implementation of these technologies in the culture of biochipping is considered, as well as forecasts and consequences of the processes that condition the unification (homogeneity) of world development, which can lead to the unity of civilisational progress, i. e. integral civilisation, and the loss of each person’s sense of his own uniqueness and rights to personal life.
Non-classical teaching methods in inclusive education: author’s experience at the university of arts
The article presents non-classical teaching methods in inclusive education through the author’s experience at the university of arts at the faculty of art. In inclusive education in Kazakhstan, there has been a stable trend towards reorientation of the higher education system towards important values, where a key place is given to the humanisation of the pedagogical process for inclusive education. The author’s cases considered in the work help students with special educational needs to think, analyse, search, compare, argue and find. In the study group where students with special needs study, the lecturer needs to revise the cases without affecting the theme of the lecture, but partially change the case itself, taking into account new conditions and circumstances. A contemporary lecturer working in the line of inclusive education must develop a syndrome of dedicated attention for himself, so that he does not escape the fact that it is important for a lecturer to keep special students in focus in the auditorium, to hook them, to interest them so that learning is a joy and pleasure for them. In such conditions the orienting function of the humanistic approach in inclusive education comes to the fore, where philosophical and methodological prerequisites are valuable, such as the formation of a personality, creativity, spiritual, humane and culturally creative truths.
The problem of blended forms of learning in the research work of the university department
The author considers organisational forms of learning as an educational matter of topical interest at the department of English for humanities, faculty of social and cultural communications for the indicated period (2018–2023), which is characterised by numerous social conflicts, geopolitical transformations, as well as unfavourable pandemic conditions. The latter actualised the problem of educational design in the emergency situations. The results of the completed research are analysed, and the necessity to continue research its topic in terms of creating information and educational environment and didactic support is substantiated. A pilot version of the model of synchronous hybrid learning is proposed as the most perspective in the conditions of social instability and non-standard pedagogical situations.
The anthropomorphic structures of London in contemporary British fiction
The article deals with the image of London as a central character in the British prose of the turn of the 20th–21st centuries. Despite the accumulated experience of describing the British capital in the Victorian and realistic novel, the writers of the late 20th – early 21st century manage to bring a new perspective on this topos by means of personification. The tendency to use personification of a topos as a key literary strategy of a work is viewed, on the one hand, from the perspective of the rapid development of the worldview paradigm of anthropocentrism, which has found application in all spheres of humanitarian knowledge. On the other hand, it is explained by art laws, since the very fact of transferring a non-anthropomorphic character from secondary to the title character gives it a certain degree of anthropomorphism. The article analysis the topic image of London in «London» (1997) by E. Rutherford, «London. The biography» (2000) by P. Ackroyd and «Capital» (2012) by J. Lanchester, as well as «Conventional» (2006) by H. Simpson. The research reveals the ways of constructing anthropomorphic figurative structures in the analysed works: physiological personification in Ackroyd’s biography, a cultural-historical excursion in Rutherford’s novel, a contemporary social snapshot in Lanchester’s one and a phenomenological reduction in H. Simpson’s story. It is noted that all the authors, to varying degrees, resort to historical and literary allusions, depersonalisation of Londoners, enumeration rows, polyphony, and eco-motifs.
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Reflection of the problem of social exclusion in japanese cultural industries
The hikikomori phenomenon has become a global socio-psychological problem. Social alienation and loneliness has become the subject of research in various fields of science. This is especially true for modern Japan. It is shown that the study of the production of modern Japanese authors in the field of literature and anime allows you to better understand the depth of the problem. The most popular light novels are analysed, the main motive of which depicts the rebirth of a young hikikomori man into a hero in another world or transfer to a computer game. An attempt is made to analyse the influence of Japanese literature on the minds of young people.
Geometry as the beginning: a modular design system in modern printing
The article deals with the geometric aspect of constructions in the field of graphic design. The emphasis is on using one of the basic principles of the Swiss style – a modular design system from its first prototypes in ancient civilisations to modern visible and invisible grids in printing and web design. The study affirms the exceptional role of geometry as the basis of any printed and virtual publication.
Intercultural dialogue in art: theoretical aspect
An important methodological device in the study of Belarusian art is the intercultural, or cross-cultural, dialogue. This approach allows us to see the dialogical border between the cultures of different countries and explain the options for adapting foreign stylistics in the art of Belarus and the art of Eastern and Western Europe. The formulation of this problem allows us to understand the degree and levels of perception of art associated with different regional peculiarities and the cultural level of those who perceive art artifacts.