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ПОЛНЫЙ ТЕКСТ МОНОГРАФИИ Капилевич Л.В., Лукьяно... more ПОЛНЫЙ ТЕКСТ МОНОГРАФИИ
Капилевич Л.В., Лукьянова Н.А., Давлетьярова К.В.,
Роготнева Е.Н., Фелл Е.В., Мещерякова Н.Н., Медведева Е.В.,
Баранова Е.А., Бредихина Ю.П., Коршунов С.Д.
Инклюзивное профессиональное образование в России:
социальные и физиологические барьеры. – Томск : Издательский Дом Томского государственного университета, 2018. – 250 с.

На сегодняшний день большое внимание уделяется проблемам социальной и трудовой адаптации людей с ... more На сегодняшний день большое внимание уделяется проблемам социальной и трудовой адаптации людей с ограниченными возможностями. Важное место в этой проблеме занимают возможности получения высшего или среднего профессио-
нального образования. Данная проблема имеет три аспекта -медицинский (физическая реабилитация и формирование навыков обучения в группе), психологический (преодоления психологических барьеров вхождения в коллектив) и социальный
(восприятие коллективом людей с ограниченными возможностями. В монографии
представлены результаты исследования, в котором был реализован комплексный поход, направленный на решение всех трех названных аспектов.
Для руководителей образовательных организаций и преподавателей вузов и ссузов, реализующих программы инклюзивного профессионального образования, а также для научных работников и аспирантов, выполняющих исследования в данной области.

Лукьянова Н.А., Шипунова О.Д., Фелл Е.В., Налетова А.И. От репрезентации кинтерпретации: идеи... more Лукьянова Н.А., Шипунова О.Д., Фелл Е.В., Налетова А.И. От репрезентации кинтерпретации: идеи настоящего в образах будущего. Под редакцией д.ф.н., проф. Н.А. Лукьяновой, д.ф.н., проф. О.Д. Шипуновой. СПб.: Изд-во Политехн.ун-та, 2017. – 134 с.

Социальные и политические утопии, революционные идеалы, религиозные убеждения и устремления, понятия и образы загробной жизни, а также понятие ответственности перед будущими поколениями являются примерами того, как
отношение к будущему направляет или формирует представление о жизни каждого человека и общества в целом. В своем исследовании мы подчеркиваем, что представления о будущем не менее важны для понимания закономерностей динамики развития общества, чем память о прошлом.

My contribution to Bergsonian studies consists in extracting Bergson’s theory of time from h... more My contribution to Bergsonian studies consists in extracting Bergson’s theory of time from his three main texts, Time and Free Will (TFW), Matter and Memory (MM) and Creative Evolution (CE), with references to his other works, The Creative Mind (CM), Duration and Simultaneity (DS), Mind-Energy (ME), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (TSMR), An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction). This extraction, as well as offering a concise exposition of this theory, also reveals its incomplete and fragmentary nature, and the remainder of this study consists in an attempt to fill in the gaps and respond to questions which arise along the way.
I find the biggest attraction of Bergson is in his attempt to grasp the nature of time and show a way of treating time as metaphysical reality, overcoming difficulties humbly admitted to by St. Augustine. But Bergson’s theory of duration is not a completed, finalized theory. Firstly, it is not put forward in a systematic way and needs to be extrapolated from his more general discourse; secondly, it contains inconsistencies and gaps; and thirdly, it does not address some obvious issues. Moreover, some of Bergson’s claims are too strong and need to be examined carefully.
In the expository chapters (Chapters 2, 3, and 4), I examine Bergson’s theory of time, which can be called a theory of duration, from his major texts, Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory and Creative Evolution. In each book Bergson introduces duration anew as if disregarding claims made in previous texts; thus each time duration is given a different, sometimes seemingly opposite, meaning. However, where an unsympathetic critic would see inconsistencies, I see phases of conceptual development of the idea of duration. This being said, Bergson’s phases are not linked in a satisfactory way. A key strategy of this study, therefore, will be to fill gaps, raise further questions, and develop new arguments.
I move from duration as a psychological process in Time and Free Will to duration as the universal movement in Creative Evolution, via the intermediate proposal in Matter and Memory that duration is a general principle of being. Duration in Bergson turns out to be an all-embracing concept, itself equivalent to the idea of being. Indeed, can we find in Bergson anything which is not duration? Spatial objects, one may suggest, reading Time and Free Will. But as readers of Matter and Memory, we have to accept duration of matter and duration within matter. In Creative Evolution, everything non-durational is reduced to an illusion, and from this position, we can equate ‘duration’ and ‘being’. The main aspect in which the idea of duration differs from the idea of being is that duration already entails a characteristic of being as moving which, according to Bergson, is its necessary feature. What the term ‘duration’ achieves is to weld motion onto being and demonstrate that being cannot be regarded in any other way than as being in motion, the being that has a history. Also, it emphasizes the omnipresence of motion and change, so that even in those cases when we struggle to find and define substance, such as in music or thought, we still find change and motion.
I take on board Bergson’s idea that duration is heterogeneous. The idea of heterogeneity emerges when Bergson analyses psychological continuity. Elements of such continuity (emotions, sensations) are not clear-cut, even though we commonly distinguish one emotion or sensation from another. This division, I agree with Bergson, is artificial and done for convenience, as in reality one state of consciousness flows into another and ultimately there is just the unity of the conscious process corresponding to the life of a concrete person.
However, this idea of heterogeneity entails a paradox. Although its elements are inseparable, they are different and diverse, so, on the one hand, Bergson wants us to accept that we cannot individualize them as if they were autonomous units, but on the other hand he does not allow them to be merged into a homogenized stream. In Chapter 5, I attempt to resolve this paradox by claiming that the identity of elements within duration, not given ostensibly, is nevertheless manifested through their unique effects on the world. Bergson says very little about the structure of heterogeneity, and later in Chapter 5, I analyse its composition on a general metaphysical level.
In Chapter 6, I address time as such and, in particular, Bergson’s claim that time must be understood exclusively in qualitative terms. I argue that temporal ordering, pastness and futurity cannot be reduced to qualities, and that time cannot be understood without relations. Also, I dispute Bergson’s attempt to consider time in separation from space, as there is no purely temporal reality totally free from spatial features.
Chapter 7 marks a transition from duration as a general metaphysical term to its concrete manifestations. Concrete examples of duration, given by Bergson, include psychological and biological processes, movement of a physical body and, as an all-embracing duration that includes all worldly processes, the universe. I propose the duration of a concrete human being as such an all-embracing duration because a human self involves all layers of being, from minerals to mind, which can acknowledge any worldly phenomena and account for them in an epistemic process. Of course, if the universe could be said to contain all worldly processes, the self merely represents them.
In Chapter 8, I look at epistemic processes and begin to analyse the perception of one’s own selfhood in self-consciousness. According to Bergson, an epistemological act is defined either by its analytical or intuitive component, but I contest his opposition of intuition and intellect and present the epistemological act as a three-fold process of primary (pre-conceptual) intuition, intellectual rationalization and secondary (post-conceptual) intuition. I emphasize that the perception of one’s self, acquired in this way, gives a picture of an all-embracing unity of human existence, from various manifestations of matter and life to the complexities of mind.
Bergson presents duration as an uncontroversial and harmonious continuity, but Chapters 7 and 8 demonstrate that, inevitably, duration entails discontinuity in various senses. In Chapter 9, I suggest a view on reality, which reinstates its continuity. I suggest that when we observe continuity from the past to the present, in actual fact we remain in the present, retaining knowledge of the consecutive events. This knowledge interferes with our view of the past and prevents us from seeing it as a fresh present with an indefinite future. On the other hand, if we look backwards into the past, we can get a sense of continuity, moving from the latest and more complex to the earlier and less complex, without making different temporal periods overlap and interfere with one another.

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cogniti... more This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study. Aesthetic cognition has been largely abandoned by analytical philosophy, which instead tends to focus its attention on the 'non-exhibited' properties of artwork or issues concerning semantic and syntactic structure. The Cognitive Basis of Aesthetics innovatively seeks to correct the marginalization of aesthetics in analytical philosophy by reinterpreting aesthetic cognition through an integration of Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms with Paul Crowther's theory of imagination and philosophy of art. This integration has three important outcomes: 1) it explains why the aesthetic and artistic constitute a unique form of knowledge; 2) it shows the role this plays in the formation of aesthetics as a discipline; and 3) it describes why aesthetic cognition is so deeply engaging. This book's unique theoretical approach engages with important works of visual, conceptual, and digital art, as well as literature, music, and theatre.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781138652149

Existing art theory is obsessed by theories of spectatorship based on concepts of signification d... more Existing art theory is obsessed by theories of spectatorship based on concepts of signification derived from language. This book shows the weakness of such a perspective, and, as an alternative, argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one’s experience of space. In addition, it proves that this transformation is an ongoing process; pictorial art is progressively articulated through historical development, and is, therefore able to increase its cognitive and aesthetic scope.

To support such a perspective, the book brings together ideas from Ernst Cassirer and Paul Crowther. Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms offers a profound way of understanding historical transformations in our experience of space, and Crowther’s work on imagination and aesthetics shows how this can be extended to pictorial space and the uniqueness of pictorial art. By combining the two approaches, it is demonstrated how pictorial art extends our basic involvement in, and cognition of, space, and provides it with a special kind of aesthetic meaning.

My contribution to Bergsonian studies consists in extracting Bergson’s theory of time from... more My contribution to Bergsonian studies consists in extracting Bergson’s theory of time from his three main texts, Time and Free Will (TFW), Matter and Memory (MM) and Creative Evolution (CE), with references to his other works, The Creative Mind (CM), Duration and Simultaneity (DS), Mind-Energy (ME), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (TSMR), An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction). This extraction, as well as offering a concise exposition of this theory, also reveals its incomplete and fragmentary nature, and the remainder of this study consists in an attempt to fill in the gaps and respond to questions which arise along the way. At that stage the debt is owed to those commentators who focus on specific Bergsonian issues. For example, my analysis and further development of heterogeneity was inspired by Čapek, and the discussion of discontinuity would not be complete without references to Bachelard.
It is possible to read Bergson in different ways. One can dismiss his philosophy as Russell does for his refutation of rationality and space; one can expect Bergsonism to be a complete and finished theory which should be able to resolve all sorts of philosophical questions; or one can take on board the Bergsonian idea that to exist means to change and, whilst analysing what Bergson explicitly said, allow his philosophy to evolve by working out what he would have said, and what else can be said. I take the latter approach, and the main aim of this project is to indicate a possible way in which the theory of duration can develop further.
I find the biggest attraction of Bergson is in his attempt to grasp the nature of time and show a way of treating time as metaphysical reality, overcoming difficulties humbly admitted to by St. Augustine. But Bergson’s theory of duration is not a completed, finalized theory. Firstly, it is not put forward in a systematic way and needs to be extrapolated from his more general discourse; secondly, it contains inconsistencies and gaps; and thirdly, it does not address some obvious issues. Moreover, some of Bergson’s claims are too strong and need to be examined carefully.
In the expository chapters (Chapters 2, 3, and 4), I examine Bergson’s theory of time, which can be called a theory of duration, from his major texts, Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory and Creative Evolution. In each book Bergson introduces duration anew, as if disregarding claims made in previous texts; thus each time duration is given a different, sometimes seemingly opposite, meaning. However, where an unsympathetic critic would see inconsistencies, I see phases of conceptual development of the idea of duration. This being said, Bergson’s phases are not linked in a satisfactory way. A key strategy of this study, therefore, will be to fill gaps, raise further questions, and develop new arguments.
I move from duration as a psychological process in Time and Free Will to duration as the universal movement in Creative Evolution, via the intermediate proposal in Matter and Memory that duration is a general principle of being. Duration in Bergson turns out to be an all-embracing concept, itself equivalent to the idea of being. Indeed, can we find in Bergson anything which is not duration? Spatial objects, one may suggest, reading Time and Free Will. But as readers of Matter and Memory, we have to accept duration of matter and duration within matter. In Creative Evolution everything non-durational is reduced to an illusion, and from this position we can equate ‘duration’ and ‘being’. The main aspect in which the idea of duration differs from the idea of being is that duration already entails a characteristic of being as moving which, according to Bergson, is its necessary feature. What the term ‘duration’ achieves is to weld motion onto being and demonstrate that being cannot be regarded in any other way than as being in motion, the being that has history. Also, it emphasizes the omnipresence of motion and change, so that even in those cases when we struggle to find and define substance, such as in music or thought, we still find change and motion.
I take on board Bergson’s idea that duration is heterogeneous. The idea of heterogeneity emerges when Bergson analyses psychological continuity. Elements of such continuity (emotions, sensations) are not clear-cut, even though we commonly distinguish one emotion or sensation from another. This division, I agree with Bergson, is artificial and done for convenience, as in reality one state of consciousness flows into another and ultimately there is just the unity of the conscious process corresponding to the life of a concrete person.
But this idea of heterogeneity entails a paradox. Although its elements are inseparable, they are different and diverse, so on the one hand Bergson wants us to accept that we cannot individualize them as if they were autonomous units, but on the other hand he does not allow them to be merged into a homogenized stream. In Chapter 5 I attempt to resolve this paradox by claiming that the identity of elements within duration, not given ostensibly, is nevertheless manifested through their unique effects on the world. Bergson says very little about the structure of heterogeneity, and later in Chapter 5 I analyse its composition on a general metaphysical level.
In Chapter 6 I address time as such and, in particular, Bergson’s claim that time must be understood exclusively in qualitative terms. I argue that temporal ordering, pastness and futurity cannot be reduced to qualities, and that time cannot be understood without relations. Also, I dispute Bergson’s attempt to consider time in separation from space, as there is no purely temporal reality totally free from spatial features.
Chapter 7 marks a transition from duration as a general metaphysical term to its concrete manifestations. Concrete examples of duration, given by Bergson, include psychological and biological processes, movement of a physical body and, as an all-embracing duration that includes all worldly processes, the universe. I propose the duration of a concrete human being as such an all-embracing duration, because a human self involves all layers of being, from minerals to mind, which can acknowledge any worldly phenomena and account for them in an epistemic process. Of course, if the universe could be said to contain all worldly processes, the self merely represents them.
In Chapter 8 I look at epistemic processes and begin to analyse the perception of one’s own selfhood in self-consciousness. According to Bergson, an epistemological act is defined either by its analytical or intuitive component, but I contest his opposition of intuition and intellect and present the epistemological act as a three-fold process of primary (pre-conceptual) intuition, intellectual rationalization and secondary (post-conceptual) intuition. I emphasize that the perception of one’s self, acquired in this way, gives a picture of an all-embracing unity of human existence, from various manifestations of matter and life to the complexities of mind.
Bergson presents duration as an uncontroversial and harmonious continuity, but Chapters 7 and 8 demonstrate that, inevitably, duration entails discontinuity in various senses. In Chapter 9 I suggest a view on reality which reinstates its continuity. I suggest that when we observe continuity from the past to the present, in actual fact we remain in the present, retaining knowledge of the consecutive events. This knowledge interferes with our view of the past and prevents us from seeing it as a fresh present with an indefinite future. On the other hand, if we look backwards into the past, we can get a sense of continuity, moving from the latest and more complex to the earlier and less complex, without making different temporal periods overlap and interfere with one another.

The book has been reviewed by Colby Dickinson, The Heythrop Journal Volume 55, Issue 4, pages 719–720, July 2014. See the review here:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/heyj.2014.55.issue-4/issuetoc

This is the Introduction to a book of the same title (to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press... more This is the Introduction to a book of the same title (to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2015). It explains the philosophical and historical development of pictorial art.To do this, we make use of Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms, and especially his understanding of space. Equal consideration is given to Paul Crowther's large corpus of work on the philosophy of visual arts, and to his work on imagination, aesthetic empathy, and the definition of art.
Our theory is an alternative to semiotic theories. It looks directly at the picture as a made spatial artifact with aesthetic meaning. This leads us to important visual categories that can be used as the foundation for studies in art history as well as aesthetics.
The Introduction considers our general method of investigation and our special reasons for choosing Cassirer and Crowther as an alternative to semiotics. There is a summary of each chapter included.

Papers by Elena Fell

ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies, 2023

FELL, E. (2023). Russian Academia in 2022 and Research on Ukraine. ESSACHESS. 16(32): 73-96. h... more FELL, E. (2023). Russian Academia in 2022 and Research on Ukraine.
ESSACHESS. 16(32): 73-96. https://doi.org/10.21409/ZHEK-CJ39

In this paper, I offer a critical review of Russophone academic research published in 2022 focusing on the Ukraine-Russia crisis. As part of this study, I have examined a selection of articles that appeared in peer-reviewed journals in March – November 2022. Where appropriate, I pay special attention to the rhetoric and the context of published research, taking into account the personal circumstances of the authors and editors and their communicative actions outside scholarly work. I chose to analyse articles deposited in cyberleninka, a Russian Open Access electronic library. Texts analysed in this paper are freely accessible in Russia, so the Russian audience (academic or not) can read and share them without restrictions, complying with the Russian legal system and the sanctions imposed from outside. Hence, by familiarising themselves with some of the material that Russian academics publish and read, the readers of this article will achieve, to some extent, an insider’s view of the Russian academic environment in 2022.

Keywords: Ukraine, Russia, Russian academia, sanctions on Russia, Russian legislation

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Dans cet article, je propose une critique de la recherche universitaire en langue russe publiée en 2022, axée sur la crise Ukraine-Russie. Dans le cadre de cette étude, j’ai examiné une sélection d’articles de revues à comité de lecture de mars à novembre 2022. J’ai accordé une attention particulière à la rhétorique et au contexte de la recherche publiée, en tenant compte de la situation personnelle des auteurs et de leurs actions communicatives en dehors du travail scientifique. J’ai choisi d’analyser les articles déposés dans cyberleninka, une bibliothèque électronique russe en libre accès. Les textes analysés dans ce document sont librement accessibles en Russie, afin que le public russe (universitaire ou non) puisse les lire et les partager sans restriction, en respectant le système juridique russe et les sanctions imposées de l’extérieur. Ainsi, en se familiarisant avec certains articles que les universitaires russes publient et lisent, les lecteurs de cet article parviendront, dans une certaine mesure, à une vision interne de l’environnement universitaire russe en 2022.

Mots-clés : Ukraine, Russie, système académique russe, sanctions contre la Russie, législation russe

Social Semiotics, Apr 20, 2022

Вестник Томского государственного университета, 2021

The article deals with the issue of stereotyping disability in Russia and the Russian education s... more The article deals with the issue of stereotyping disability in Russia and the Russian education system. As educators make attempts to ensure that people with disabilities begin to access quality education in Russia, results often disappoint. Aiming to uncover the fundamental reasons that underpin failures in the implementation of inclusive practices, the authors suggest that the perception of disability understood as the social construction of atypical corporealityconditions the implicit understanding of what inclusive education is.The purpose of this article, therefore, is to identify the specific features of the social construction of atypical corporeality and explore ways in which these features are manifested in educational practices. Accordingly, the complexity of the object of study determined the need to refer to a wide range of methodological frameworks of cultural, semiotic and constructionist schools, which allowed the authors to determine the coding methods involved in the social construction of an atypical body. The theoretical investigation allowed the authors to conclude that the construction of atypical corporeality is the outcome of an underlying social agreement regarding the implementation of a particular model of disability (in particular, the article compares the social and medical models). Furthermore, a comparative analysis of educational practices used in the systems of inclusive education in conjunction with the problems of the body in society reveals the inconsistency of their implementation in Russia. Consequently, the authors conclude the article by outlining the key conditions for the social construction of atypical corporeality. Moreover, they identify the following controversy as the main obstacle preventing the implementation of effective inclusion practices into the Russian education system: while declaring the adherence of the “social model” of disability, the Russian education system continues to rely on the medical understanding of the body persistently implementing the medical model.

Social Science Research Network, 2015

Perspectives of Science and Education

Problem and Aim. Authors highlight the following contradiction: whilst on the one hand, in Russia... more Problem and Aim. Authors highlight the following contradiction: whilst on the one hand, in Russia, as in many European countries, disability services have been created to support career design for students with disabilities (SWD), on the other hand, career support in universities is loosely related to the accessibility of the environment. This inconsistency determines the relevance of this study. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the negative impact that environmental barriers have on SWD' career prospects, as well as to reveal the role of environmental barriers at the moment when a person becomes aware of a new stage of their life trajectory. Materials and research methods. The study is based on the methodology of conducting narrative interviews based on the methodology of F. Schutze. The narrative interview methodology allows revealing the basic barriers of career design as they emerge and shows the importance of instrumental barriers at the time of choosing a futur...

Векторы благополучия: экономика и социум, Apr 26, 2016

This review essay delves into the exploration of Russian identity over the past century through ... more This review essay delves into the exploration of Russian identity over the past century
through the analysis of three books. The study begins by examining the role of Zhdun as a
metaphor for the post-Soviet self, highlighting its connection to a sense of suspension and
the search for a stable identity, as suggested by Borenstein. Referring to the identity debates
during the early Soviet society, the author discusses the transformation of individuals into
Soviet citizens and the impact of Soviet policies on personal expression, as exposed in
Postoutenko and Tikhomirov’s volume. The difficulties faced by foreign correspondents
reporting on Soviet Russia reveal the challenges of obtaining accurate information due to
censorship and political limitations, as Rodgers emphasizes in his account. This contributes
to the creation of a mythical Russian identity. The review concludes by suggesting a reading
order for the three books, highlighting their different organizational approaches and scopes. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02673231231199883

Is atheist spirituality an oxymoron, and if so, did Soviet citizens brought up in a definitively ... more Is atheist spirituality an oxymoron, and if so, did Soviet citizens brought up in a definitively atheist environment have no spiritual pursuits? The author asks this question drawing on Dostoyevsky's dark prophecy and interrogating Yuri Levada's model of a Soviet simple person as a distinct anthropological type. Taking on board Riegel's concept of political religion and testing Marxism-Leninism as a source of wisdom for Soviet nonbelievers, the author seeks to uncover a version of spirituality compatible with Soviet-style atheism. The discussion also involves the examination of Russian literary tradition and Borodina's philosophical theory of spirituality, which accords with Sharafutdinova accounting for the phenomenon of inner exile in the late Soviet period and Bekmetov's reminder that the Buddhist worldview had a significant influence on Russian cultural metalanguage.

Fell, E. (2023). ‘Atheism and spirituality in the USSR: Can atheists be spiritual?’, Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 14:1, pp. 43–60.
https://intellectdiscover.com/.../10.1386/ejpc_00052_1

Russian Journal of Communication, 2019

In Losing Pravda, Natalia Roudakova tells a story of change in Russian journalism and political c... more In Losing Pravda, Natalia Roudakova tells a story of change in Russian journalism and political culture which spans more than three decades; a story that runs from tensions in the late Soviet perio...

Актуальность представленного исследования объясняется проблемой получения высшего образования для... more Актуальность представленного исследования объясняется проблемой получения высшего образования для инвалидов и лиц с ограниченными возможностями здоровья. По мнению авторов, следует обратить внимание на зрелость корпоративной куль- туры вуза. Речь идет о процессах социализации личности у абитуриентов с ограниченными возможностями здоровья посредством органичного включения в «дружелюбную» корпоративную культуру вуза. Цель работы: провести анализ понятия «комфортность образовательной среды» на основании пилотных интервью с экспертами - специалистами-педагогами, которые, будучи непосредственно занятыми работой с детьми с ОВЗ старшего школьного возраста, дают свою оценку сложившейся ситуации и раскрывают нюансы подготовки подростков с ОВЗ к обучению в системе высшего образования. А также предложить комплексное решение проблемы. Методы исследования: анализ научной литературы и текстов СМИ об инклюзив- ном образовании в вузе, анализ педагогической практики, сравнительный анализ концепций, ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781138652149

ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies, 2023

Keywords: Ukraine, Russia, Russian academia, sanctions on Russia, Russian legislation

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Mots-clés : Ukraine, Russie, système académique russe, sanctions contre la Russie, législation russe

Social Semiotics, Apr 20, 2022

Вестник Томского государственного университета, 2021

Social Science Research Network, 2015

Perspectives of Science and Education

Векторы благополучия: экономика и социум, Apr 26, 2016

Russian Journal of Communication, 2019

В настоящее время перспективы образовательной и научной деятельности в России неразрывно связаны ... more В настоящее время перспективы образовательной и научной деятельности в России неразрывно связаны с развитием международного сотрудничества, причем одним из достаточно востребованных направлений является взаимодействие с британскими образовательными учреждениями. Образовательное сотрудничество предполагает наличие определенных компетенций у тех, кто стремится к участию в международных проектах, и это обуславливает актуальность исследования российско-британского кросс- культурного общения. Методологическим основанием настоящего исследования является анализ конкретных кросс-культурных ситуаций, возникавших в контексте общения российских и британских ученых и студентов за последние годы. The future of Russia’s academia and higher education is inevitably linked to a successful development of internationalconnections, with Britain and British universities playing an important part in this. University collaborationpresupposes specific competencies of those who seek to participate in intern...

Duration, Temporality, Self

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015

Актуальность темы исследования будущего вызывается необходимостью ответить на вызовы настоящего. ... more Актуальность темы исследования будущего вызывается необходимостью ответить на вызовы настоящего. В статье рассматривается вопрос о предполагаемых направлениях, методологии и возможных результатах в исследовании процессов формирования образа будущего. В качестве методологического основания исследования заявлен метод конфигуративного моделирования. Предполагается, что исследование процесса конструирования образа будущего возможно через построение трех моделей: первая, функциональная модель, позволяет описать процесс конструирования будущего в определенной последовательности этапов; вторая модель может быть представлена как взаимосвязь и взаимообусловленность символических и когнитивных элементов доминирующих в представлениях о будущем; объектом третьей модели, рефлексивной, являются когнитивные процессы формирующие реальность субъектов в представлении о будущем. Основаниями для построения моделей будут когнитивные и символические процессы. Когнитивные процессы порождают символические ...

Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 2020

When we communicate with others, we usually know when we are expected to contribute to an evolvin... more When we communicate with others, we usually know when we are expected to contribute to an evolving dialogue, such as during a debate, or when it is suitable to generate predictable responses, for example, at a marriage ceremony. However, in cross-cultural communication situations, communicating partners may have different assumptions in this respect. In particular, when a western communicator expects a dialogical development, a Russian participant may expect the same communication situation to progress as a sequence of predictable communication acts. This clash of implicit expectations often results in communication failure, without either party realizing that implementing incompatible approaches to information sharing is the reason for this failure. In this article, I introduce the terms ‘dialogical engagement’ and ‘monological sequencing’ whilst exploring cross-cultural communication problems between Russia and the West. I use these terms to describe mechanisms that characterize b...

Essachess, 2015

In Bergsonism, we come to a halt when it comes to communication because it involves static immobi... more In Bergsonism, we come to a halt when it comes to communication because it involves static immobile elements such as concepts and words, which, for Bergson, make it impossible to gain an adequate understanding of each other's nature. Peirce offers an epistemological model, where the immobility of a linguistic sign is dissolved in semiosis. Peirce's concept of interpretant, reflecting the dynamic relation of the subject, object and the sign that is being interpreted, offers a model of cognition that is based on the dynamism of meaning making, which provides a foundation for communication as a meaning making process, a case of duration in its own right.

Russians and Westerners access, process and communicate information in different ways. Whilst Wes... more Russians and Westerners access, process and communicate information in different ways. Whilst Westerners favour detailed analysis of subject matter, Rus-sians tend to focus on certain components that are, in their view, significant. This disparity makes it difficult to achieve constructive dialogues between Western and Russian stakeholders contributing to cross-cultural communication problems. The author claims that the difference in the ways Russians and Westerners negotiate information is a significant cultural difference between Russia and West rather than an irritating (and in principle amenable) lack of analytical skills on the Russian part-ners' part. Understanding the reasons behind the Russian-specific approaches to dealing with information would be a positive step towards a more effective cross-cultural communication, important in business situations and essential in diplomacy. Résumé : Les Russes et les Occidentaux accèdent à, traitent et communiquent l'information...

Fell, Elena. “Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory.”

According to the author of Communication and Capitalism, the modern-day policymakers’ position on... more According to the author of Communication and Capitalism, the modern-day policymakers’ position on class-related issues is that ‘the analysis of class, class struggle and the critique of capitalism are outdated and wrong’ (p. 313). It may be suggested that the Equality Act disregards the concept of class because the latter has become redundant because, in the contemporary world, the problem of inequality is more complex than is implied by the idea of class division.
However, Fuchs refutes this position. He seeks to refresh and expand the Marxian conversation about class and class struggle in the context of the twenty-first century’s technologically enhanced globalised world.

Scholars’ interest in Bergson has had its highs and lows, but if the XXI century philosophy reade... more Scholars’ interest in Bergson has had its highs and lows, but if the XXI century philosophy readers and commentators turn to Bergsonism with a renewed enthusiasm, I would not be surprised to find that Adam Lovasz’s Updating Bergson played a significant part in this.
Unlike other scholars who engage with Bergson by working through his texts chronologically, Lovasz negotiates them in reverse order. Accordingly, beginning with Bergson’s later writings, he leaves Time and Free Will, the philosopher’s initial discussion of time and being, till the end.

"In Search of a Simple Introduction to Communication" lays foundations for a philosophical introd... more "In Search of a Simple Introduction to Communication" lays foundations for a philosophical introduction into communication studies with the focus on the methodological problems of communication research: it is ‘a meta-theoretical survey of the methodological state of affairs in the field’ (p. 178).

Elizabeth Barnes’ new book offers a much-needed philosophical discussion of disability capitalizi... more Elizabeth Barnes’ new book offers a much-needed philosophical discussion of disability capitalizing on relevant research in bioethics, feminist philosophy and disability studies. Barnes’ aim is to provide a philosophical argument for the disability rights movement's understanding of a disabled body as ‘a minority body’ rather than ‘a defective body’.

Communication problems that arise as a side effect of someone having a disability include difficu... more Communication problems that arise as a side effect of someone having a disability include difficulty accessing Internet content and participating fully in online activities. This book offers a thorough account of obstacles that affect Internet users with special needs as the author alerts her readers to the fact that ‘digital media cultures take for granted an able-bodied user position, potentially restricting access for users with a variety of disabilities’.

Elena Fell, The Closing of the Net, European Journal of Communication, Vol 31, Issue 5, pp. 604 –... more Elena Fell, The Closing of the Net, European Journal of Communication, Vol 31, Issue 5, pp. 604 – 606, First published date: October-01-2016, doi: 10.1177/0267323116670809. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0267323116670809

Slater's nested continua model of religious interpretation is a hermeneutical model which he us... more Slater's nested continua model of religious interpretation is a hermeneutical model which he uses to demonstrate logical relations between more or less concrete and more or less vague interpretations of what there is. This model is intended to be ‘therapeutic’ (p. 5) in a metaphysical sense because it ‘offers its users…a means of integrating concrete, historically rooted problems with abstract, theologically informed resources for addressing those problems’ (p. 5).

Having created a significant body of research on various aspects of aesthetics (such as the aesth... more Having created a significant body of research on various aspects of aesthetics (such as the aesthetics of nature and architecture) Glenn Parsons brings together and systematizes philosophical findings relevant to design from the fields of ‘aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of technology’ (p. 2).

Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteen... more Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited By Gordon Graham. (Oxford: OUP, 2015. Pp. xii + 352. Price £60.)

Fell, Elena Book review of Dan Zahavi’s ‘Subjectivity and Selfhood. Investigating the First Perso... more Fell, Elena Book review of Dan Zahavi’s ‘Subjectivity and Selfhood. Investigating the First Person Perspective’, The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol 40, No 1, January 2009, pp. 98 – 99.

The review can be found here:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00071773.2009.11006669

British Journal of Aesthetics;Oct2014, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p504 Paul Crowther, Phenomenologies of A... more British Journal of Aesthetics;Oct2014, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p504

Paul Crowther, Phenomenologies of Art and Vision: A Post-Analytic Turn, Bloomsbury, 2013.

Paul Crowther has created an important body of philosophical writing about visual art. The present work develops it further. Crowther argues that the analytic and phenomenological traditions of philosophy need one another if visual art is to be understood in ways going beyond the spectatorial viewpoint alone. He shows this through critical discussions of a range of relevant thinkers. He shows their strengths and weaknesses, and gradually develops his own position in the course of doing this.

Elena Fell’s Duration, Temporality, Self: Prospects for the Future of Bergsonism, half-a-century ... more Elena Fell’s Duration, Temporality, Self: Prospects for the Future of Bergsonism, half-a-century after Deleuze’s reorientation apropos Bergson’s continued relevance, appears to be a significant contribution that builds on almost a dozen of other recent reassessments of Bergson’s import.

-Alex S. Kohav, PhD, dept. of philosophy, Metropolitan State University of Denver, author of The Sod Hypothesis (MaKoM 2013).

Review of Duration, Temporality, Self: Prospects for the Future of Bergsonism by Colby Dickinson

This special issue of Procedia Social and Behavioral Science covers a wide range of topics relat... more This special issue of Procedia Social and Behavioral Science
covers a wide range of topics related to international education and cross-cultural communication.

Just as people differ in their physical characteristics and their aptitudes, they also differ in ... more Just as people differ in their physical characteristics and their aptitudes, they also differ in the way they negotiate time. Some of us do things faster or slower than others, and Bergson reflects on this stating that temporal rhythm is an important characteristic of human consciousness. He describes consciousness as “a duration with its own determined rhythm, a duration very different from the time of the physicist, which can store up, in a given interval, as great a number of phenomena as we please.”
Each instance of “duration” is different, as everyone’s consciousness operates at different rhythms: “In reality there is no one rhythm of duration; it is possible to imagine many different rhythms which, slower or faster, measure the degree of tension or relaxation of different kinds of consciousness and thereby fix their respective places in the scale of being.”
However, society implicitly assumes that humans’ temporality, their perception of time and their capability to operate at standardised rates is or should be the same for all able-bodied individuals. Failure to fit in with the standardised rhythms of societal engagement can lead to social exclusion in the form of, for example, a timed exam failure or a job loss (if one cannot keep up with the pace).
It is implicitly assumed that acting in accordance with externally prescribed rhythms is in principle achievable via training. Those who do not acquire the necessary skills of time management are not accommodated by society unless they have a disability that warrants “reasonable adjustments”, which may include allowing the individual more time to complete a particular process.
But if some minds naturally operate at a faster rate, and some at a slower rate, then making someone’s natural rhythms fit in the procrustean bed of the standardized societal tempo that significantly differs from their own could be traumatic for some and unfeasible for others.
Should people be excluded from work or education on the basis of the way they negotiate time? Everyone will say no to this, but what the consequences would be if we decided not to do this – what would that mean for the practical norms and rules of social interaction?

Researching this type of question would link ethics with the fundamental ontology of human being, inasmuch as temporality is irreducible from human existence and human actions. This discussion would directly correspond to the proposed theme “The role of time in social inclusion and exclusion” and provide an entry point into a wider thematic linking time and ethics.

Молодые люди и устойчивое развитие – отношения с будущим? ГОДЕМАНН Джасмин (Аннотированный перево... more Молодые люди и устойчивое развитие – отношения с будущим?
ГОДЕМАНН Джасмин (Аннотированный перевод и комментарий Е.В. Фелл, Н.А. Лукьяновой)

Настоящая статья была впервые опубликована в 2007 г. в первом номере журнала «UNESCO today» (Journal of the German Commission for UNESCO) [1]. Исследуется роль молодежи в реализации тенденции устойчивого развития. Наблюдения и выводы автора носят, скорее, теоретический характер и относятся к немецкой молодежи. Предлагается комментарий к исследованию Дж. Годеманн, который позволяет получить представление о том, как проблемы, связанные с отношением молодежи к вопросам устойчивого развития, решаются в Великобритании.
Ключевые слова: будущее, западноевропейская молодежь, устойчивое развитие, экология, переработка отходов.

Percebendo a identidade como construção ideológica, veiculada em práticas discursivas, esta obra ... more Percebendo a identidade como construção ideológica, veiculada em práticas discursivas, esta obra apresenta uma reflexão sobre a identidade dos professores de língua portuguesa construída nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais e nas Orientações Curriculares Nacionais para o ensino de Língua Portuguesa. Este estudo foi motivado, porque em tais documentos curriculares há uma imposição de uma nova postura teórica e prática a estes profissionais que impõe uma nova identidade. O autor utilizou a abordagem discursivo-desconstrutiva apresentada por Coracini em reflexões que tratam da mesma temática. A obra gira em torno da questão kantiana “quem somos nós?”, tendo como preocupação principal a identidade do professor de Língua Portuguesa construída sob força de lei, num processo que envolve uma certa violência simbólica em termos da teoria de Bourdieu e Passeron.

Рускоязычные авторы научных статей часто переводят на английский слово "особенность" некорректно.... more Рускоязычные авторы научных статей часто переводят на английский слово "особенность" некорректно. Я решила записать видео с методическими рекомендациями на эту тему.