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Virtual reality – a valuable tool to advance treatment of mental disorders
Authors: Grochowska Anna , Wichniak Adam , Jarema Marek
Published: March 2019

The human-computer interactions are a new path of treatment in healthcare. Virtual Reality technology is one of interesting examples of a digital tool that can be used for the treatment of mental disorders. It may be useful to improve some personal competences or to overcome one’s deficits. This paper presents the range of successful VR applications in psychiatry and psychology. VR was found to be effective in treatment of anxiety disorders, PTSD, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and substance use disorders.
The implementation of VR to the treatment of mental disorders is promising because of repetitiveness of virtual experience in particular environment. Another asset of VR is a good control of intensiveness of therapeutic stimuli that a therapist can regulate. Moreover, the VR session can be individualized for each patient and it may be adapted to personal preferences and needs. VR meets a requirement of subject’s impression of “being here and now” during the session. It is also an engaging method of training for patients who do not want to participate in the conventional techniques training.
Recently, VR implementation became more available and acknowledged, however, there are still some limitations for its broader use in the sector of mental health. The most significant one is the fact that VR software designing, as well as VR hardware devices are still too expensive for mass adoption.
Distorted body image in women and men suffering from Anorexia Nervosa – a literature review
Authors: Kostecka Barbara , Kordyńska Katarzyna , Murawiec Sławomir , Kucharska Katarzyna
Published: March 2019

The aim of this article is to shed the light on the phenomenology of distorted body image in Anorexia Nervosa (AN). Even though body image disturbance has already been identified as one of the central components of AN (as evident in diagnostic tools criteria such as those of DSM-5 or ICD-10), it does not receive enough clinical attention in the therapeutic process. In this literature review, we will investigate empirical body of evidence addressing the relationship between distorted body image and AN pathology. Furthermore, the authors propose to introduce a Body Image Therapy programme to assist treatment as usual (TAU) in targeting AN psychopathology. Similar treatment programs have been already implemented at facilities in Great Britain and in the USA. In Poland, however, little is known about Body Image Therapy. For the purpose of better understanding of distorted body image in AN, following topics are being discussed: phenomenology and prevalence of distorted body image in AN psychopathology, its role in the aetiology and maintenance of eating disorder symptoms, neurobiological view on body image as well as recommended treatment options.
Effects of physical activity on treatmentof schizophrenia
Authors: Lebiecka Zofia , Łopuszko Adam , Rudkowski Krzysztof , Dańczura Ewa
Published: March 2019

The aim of this paper was to describe the effects of physical activity on management of schizophrenia. A critical review of literature was made and current state of knowledge presented. In line with contemporary research trends and based on available evidence, a panel of experts from the European Psychiatric Association issued a guidance on exercise interventions in the treatment of severe mental illness.
Elevated premature mortality rates in schizophrenia patients are linked largely to the effect of antipsychotic treatment, low physical activity, and/or increased somatic comorbidity, mainly of cardiometabolic origin. Physical exercise combined with psychological and dietary interventions are reported to improve parameters of the metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular fitness and cognitive performance. Moderate and high intensity training are deemed attractive forms of adjunctive therapy of schizophrenia, adjustable to patients’ age, performance and preferences.
Future research and high-quality clinical trials investigating the effects of exercise on early presentation of the disease, its pragmatic efficacy, potential adverse events, financial burden and neurobiological underpinnings could help create specific recommendations for training programs of optimal format, dose and duration.
Difficulties in preventing suicidal behaviours in spite of existing evidence-based preventive methods – An overvie
Authors: Wasserman Danuta , Cyranka Katarzyna
Published: March 2019

Suicide prevention is an important issue. Every year almost 800,000 people die by suicide worldwide, while alarmingly, many more individuals attempt to take their own life. However, despite the existence of evidence-based suicide preventive strategies, suicidal behaviours remain difficult to prevent. This overview will address some of the obstacles that arise in preventing suicide.
Despite the existing evidence about effective prevention methods, there are still many obstacles in preventing suicide. Nonetheless, these are obstacles which can be overcome. A continued effort needs to be made to ensure that evidence-based suicide prevention methods are being implemented amongst all levels of society, particularly by healthcare professionals and policymakers alike.
EDITORIAL
Authors: Cyranka Katarzyna
Published: March 2019

We are hereby presenting you with the very first issue of Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (APP) in the year 2019, which is incidentally also the first one under my editorship.
This journal, founded and managed with enthusiasm, energy and effort over the years by late Professor Jerzy Aleksandrowicz, has now been left to us as his great legacy. It is, therefore, our responsibility and expression of respect towards him to ensure that it continues to grow and develop.
My noble Colleagues from the Polish Psychiatric Association Publishing-Editorial Committee put forward my candidature to undertake the honor of running the journal. Our mission remains to disseminate the achievements of science in the field of psychiatry, psychotherapy, clinical psychology and other related medical and health sciences.
I now commence my editorship with the hope to interest both our readers and scientists, but also to maintain and increase APP’s impact measures.
The relationship of perceived social supportand locus of control subscales with illness perception in myocardial infarction patients,using Structural Equation Modeling
Authors: Shiri Mansoor , Bagherian Reza , Maracy Mohammadreza , Sanei Hamid
Published: March 2019

Aim of the study

The overall purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between perceived social support and locus and control sub-scales and illness perception in MI patients.

Subject or material and methods

241 consecutive MI patients participated in this study in 2016-17. Comprehensive questionnaires along with interview were used to collect demographic and clinical information of participants during the first week of hospitalization. Four months later, the information on perceived social support, perceived locus of control subscales, and illness perception of participants was collected at their house. The data was analyzed by structural equation modeling to verify the interrelationships between variables.

Results

The mean of participants’ age was 54.53 (SD= 9.76) years. The sample consisted of 83% males. Those with better illness perception regarding MI were more prone to be diagnosed as diabetic (p=0.005) and/or may have had better perceived social support (p<0.001) and/or may have had less chance locus of control (P = 0.054).

Discussion

Discussion: The findings of this study showed that among MI patients there is a significant relationship between demographic and clinical characteristics,perceived social support, perceived locus of control sub-scales and illness perception.

Conclusions

The findings of the current study provided an overview of the relationship existed between perceived social support and locus of control and illness perception in myocardial infarction patients. This could help care teams to provide better post MI care in the course of the disease by considering these important psychological factors.
Altered functional connectivity among frontal eye fields, thalamus and cerebellum in bipolar disorder
Authors: Chrobak Adrian , Bohaterewicz Bartosz , Tereszko Anna , Krupa Anna , Sobczak Anna , Ceglarek Anna , Wielgus Magdalena , Fafrowicz Magdalena , Siwek Marcin , Bryll Amira , Marek Tadeusz , Dudek Dominika
Published: March 2019

Cel pracy

Celem naszego badania jest ocena połączeń funkcjonalnych sieci móżdżkowo-wzgórzowo-korowych łączących czołowe pola oczu (frontal eye fields -FEF) i okoruchowe struktury móżdżku: grudkę (X), czopek (IX), kłaczki (H X) i kłaczki dodatkowe brzuszne (H IX) w chorobie afektywnej dwubiegunowej (ChAD) za pomocą obrazowania aktywności mózgu w stanie spoczynkowym, metodą funkcjonalnego rezonansu magnetycznego (resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging– rsfMRI).

Metoda

19 pacjentów z ChAD w okresie eutymii i 14 zdrowych ochotników zostało zbadanych przy pomocy techniki rsfMRI. Oceniane były połączenia funkcjonalne między obustronnymi regionami FEF, wzgórza i okoruchowych struktur móżdżku.

Wyniki

W porównaniu do grupy kontrolnej pacjenci z ChAD wykazali istotnie mniejszą łączność funkcjonalną pomiędzy następującymi strukturami: prawym FEF a obustronnym wzgórzem, kłaczkami (H X) oraz czopkiem (IX); między prawym wzgórzem a prawym FEF; między prawym kłaczkiem (H X) a prawym FEF i lewym wzgórzem; lewym wzgórzem a obustronnym FEF i prawym kłaczkiem (H X).

Wnioski

Badani pacjenci z ChAD wykazali obniżoną funkcjonalność połączeń między FEF, wzgórzem i strukturami móżdżku związanymi z kontrolą ruchów gałek ocznych. Przeprowadzenie badania okulometrycznego w grupie osób ocenianych przy pomocy rsfMRI pozwoli ustalić, czy obserwowane przez nas zaburzenia połączeń funkcjonalnych związane są z deficytami ruchów gałek ocznych w ChAD.
CRIANÇAS COM DIFICULDADES ALIMENTARES CONSOMEM PROTEÍNAS E SUPLEMENTOS LÁCTEOS EM QUANTIDADES EXCESSIVAS – COMO ROMPER ESTE CICLO?
Authors: Maximino Priscila , Machado Rachel H V , Ricci Raquel , Ramos Cláudia De Cássia , De Carvalho Maria Júlia Russo , Fisberg Mauro
Published: March 2019

Objetivos: Identificar o perfil de consumo de leite e proteínas em crianças com dificuldades alimentares (DA), comparar a ingestão às recomendações para idade e buscar associação com padrões da DA. Métodos: Estudo transversal retrospectivo com 119 crianças entre seis meses e 14 anos (poder amostral >90%). Coletaram-se de prontuários: idade, sexo, tipo de DA, dosagens de hemoglobina e ferritina, IMC, padrão de seletividade alimentar, ingestão de macronutrientes e padrões da ingestão de leite (exceto leite materno), queixa alimentar, estilo parental materno, práticas coercivas e hábitos de autoalimentação. Utilizaram-se testes t-Student, Anova, GLM e correlação de Spearman, nível de significância menor que 5% e IC 95%. Resultados e discussão: Houve consumo proteico absoluto diário excessivo em todas as faixas etárias (p<0,024), e a maior contribuição percentual de leite para o consumo proteico total se deu abaixo de três anos (51,7% a 55%). A ingestão isolada de leite supriu de 80% a 138% das necessidades proteicas diárias (abaixo de 8 anos). Crianças com uso de suplementos lácteos tenderam para redução de consumo de alimentos não lácteos. O maior consumo proteico e de leite se associou ao perfil indulgente das mães (p=0,033) e a hábitos coercitivos (p=0,043), sem relação com as demais variáveis. Conclusões: Houve ingestão proteica excessiva e relação entre ingestão reduzida de outras fontes proteicas e uso de suplementos de base láctea. Comportamentos maternos indulgentes e coercivos foram associados ao maior consumo de leite. Reforça-se a necessidade de orientação quanto à substituição de refeições e suplementação nutricional em quadros de DA.DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2019.37449
Qualidade de vida de pessoas vivendo com HIV atendidas em serviços públicos de dois municípios brasileiros
Authors: Cecilio Hellen Pollyanna Mantelo , Oliveira Daniela Sousa , Marques Sergio Correa , Apostolidis Thémistoklis , Oliveira Denize Cristina
Published: March 2019

Objetivo: descrever o perfil e avaliar a qualidade de vida de pessoas vivendo com HIV atendidas em serviços públicos de saúde. Métodos: os dados foram coletados no período de março a outubro de 2016 em quatro serviços de saúde situados nos municípios do Rio de Janeiro e Niterói – Brasil, e analisados por meio de estatística descritiva. Resultados: a amostra foi composta majoritariamente por homens, com renda de até dois salários mínimos, que relataram percepção positiva da saúde. A qualidade de vida foi positivamente avaliada na maioria das facetas, as maiores médias foram nos domínios: psicológico, relações sociais, espiritualidade, religião e crenças pessoais e a menor média no domínio meio ambiente. Conclusão: a avaliação da qualidade de vida de pessoas vivendo com HIV nesta amostra apresentou-se mais positiva do que a encontrada em outros estudos realizados em municípios interioranos do estado do Rio de Janeiro.
The ‘B’ word
Authors: Morton Katy
Published: March 2019

Are childcare providers planning for the UK's exit from the European Union? And what impact is the uncertainty having on their business? By Katy Morton
A Proposal of In-Service Teacher Training Approach for Computer Science Teachers
Authors: Kert Serhat Bahadir
Published: March 2019

Recently, there has been growing interest among practitioners and scientists in teaching children computer programming languages. The international efforts to raise generations who produce technologies are supported at the national level in Turkey too. Programming language education is included beginning from secondary school curricula of computer science education. However, it can be mentioned that up-to-date methodological and pedagogical requirements of the courses are not adequately researched. Therefore, the primary aim of the study is to share innovative methods regarding programming education processes with middle school computer science teachers. This paper presents the details of a project conducted to design an in-service training model for computer science teachers and funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) with the project number of 116B298. During the training period, up-to-date methodology and technologies were presented in workshops with an integrated approach. At the end of the courses, the participants’ development and the efficiency of the activities were investigated based on the analyses of qualitative and quantitative data and positive results about the content of proposed in-service teacher training methodology were yielded.
An Analysis of Secondary School Students’ Views Regarding Basic Democratic Values in terms of Several Variables
Authors: Aslan Serkan
Published: March 2019

This research aims to explore secondary school students’ views regarding basic democratic values in terms of several variables. The research has utilized the cross-sectional survey model, which is one of the descriptive survey models. The population of the research consists of secondary school students studying at schools located within the province of Elazig. The research sample holds a total of 440 secondary school students studying at secondary schools located within the province of Elazig during 2016-2017 academic year. The participants have been selected by stratified sampling method. This research has deployed personal information form and basic democratic values as data collection tools. Descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) have been used during data analysis. Research results have suggested that secondary school students have a “high” level of participation regarding basic democratic values scale. While a significant difference has been identified across the dimensions of the basic democratic values in terms of gender, class level, academic achievement and socio-economic levels of the schools, parents’ educational status is free from any significant difference. Based upon the research findings, various recommendations have been provided. Future studies may be conducted on parents’ views regarding basic democratic values. Basic democratic values adopted by the students studying at schools with different socio-economic levels should be sought through observations.
Prediction of Risky Behaviors in Adolescents: Effect of Character Strengths and Being Virtuous
Authors: Kabakci Omer Faruk
Published: March 2019

The purpose of the present study is to determine if high school students' character strengths composed of twenty-four different features, being virtuous including six dimensions and demographic characteristics predict risky behaviors. The participants of the study were 380 students aged between 14-19 years and enrolled in general high schools. The data was collected by using the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Young People and the Risky Behaviors Scale. From the findings, it was determined that the risk of school drop-out score was higher in the ninth grades and the male students had more risky behaviors compared to the their female counterparts. Moreover, it was also determined that the risky behaviors were significantly related to many character strengths. Besides this, as a result of the regression analyses, it was found that the character strengths predicted risky behaviors composed of the areas of anti-social behaviors, use of alcohol/cigarette, eating habits, suicide tendency and school leave at different levels. The findings were discussed within the context of adolescents’ psychological counseling needs and suggestionThe purpose of the present study is to determine if high school students' character strengths composed of twenty-four different strengths, virtues including six dimensions and demographic characteristics predict risky behaviors. The participants of the study were 380 students aged between 14-19 years and enrolled in general high schools. The data was collected by using the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth and the Risky Behaviors Scale. From the findings, it was determined that the risk of school drop-out score was higher in the ninth grades and the male students had more risky behaviors compared to their female counterparts. Moreover, it was also determined that the risky behaviors were significantly related to many character strengths. Besides this, as a result of the regression analyses, it was found that the character strengths predicted risky behaviors composed of the areas of anti-social behaviors, use of alcohol/cigarette, eating habits, suicide tendency and school dropout at different levels. The findings were discussed within the context of adolescents’ psychological counseling needs and suggestions were proposed.
Parafictions: UBERMORGEN.COM as a case study of parafictive practice conducted between 1998 and 2018
Authors: Smith Rebecca
Published: March 2019

This article examines and discusses the conditions that have led to parafictions becoming an important mode of practice in contemporary art. This article demonstrates how the socio-political situation during 1998–2018 has combined with the development of technological infrastructure to its current planetary-scale and affected relationships with truth. This has led to the growth of artists creating parafictions, which exploit this so-called era of post-truth and fake news. To demonstrate one model of parafictive practice, this article uses the case study of the artists UBERMORGEN.COM, who implement radical media strategies and methods of ‘hallucinated consensual hallucination’.
Spectres and stragglers: Utopia in ornament
Authors: Coubrough Scott
Published: March 2019

The use of the ornamental or decorative in art and design has been associated with backwardness, especially in the context of turn of the century aesthetics debates. This article examines two accusations levelled at the ornamental – that its practitioners are ‘stragglers’ and that it is a haunting ‘spectre’. These words are taken as a starting point from which ornamentation’s particular relationship with a non-linear experience of time can be explored. This disruptive characteristic of the ornamental aesthetic is then examined in the context of the 2014 Jeremy Deller-curated exhibition Love is Enough, which displayed works of Andy Warhol alongside works of William Morris.
Interview with Rachel Hann
Authors: Hann Rachel
Published: March 2019

Our guest editorial takes the form of an interview between the JAWS editorial team and Dr Rachel Hann.
Simulacra and the structure of the work of art
Authors: Boyer Jane
Published: March 2019

The concept of simulacra, with a propensity to diverge into in-betweenness, is a complex notion at the best of times. A dualistic structure of communication made up of signifier and signified that always produces a floating signifier, links simulacra with experience as an active agent of change. A story of divergence in an artwork can simultaneously affect the communication of it, even given no apparent narrative. This article then identifies three ways the simulacrum effects the communication of a work of art in artist-curator practice through the Deleuzian concept of simulacra, as a living recurrence of difference.
Social media as an extension of Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
Authors: Nunn Emilie
Published: March 2019

The aim of this article is to place Debord’s ‘spectacle’ in direct comparison with social media. The concept of the spectacle as presented and outlined by Debord in The Society of the Spectacle argues ‘All that once was directly lived has become mere representation’. Drawing from Debord, this article examines whether social media is a manifestation of the spectacle in contemporary society.
Unravelling the secretions of the silkworm
Authors: Atkinson Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline
Published: March 2019

This article will propose how the physical material of the silkworm might unsettle and entice us to consider an alternative means of relating to others. Examining work by the artists Kumi Oda and Candice Lin, this article will search for forms of relationships not based on the appropriation and exploitation of animal difference for the distinction and profit of the human species. Musing over both Haraway’s and Derridean theories, the article will unravel the strangeness of silkworms, mingling more intimately with their physicality in efforts to stitch together a new ontology that accommodates the multiplicity of differences present and in emergence, within both the species of our own, and those of others.
‘Mother says I’m just an odd duck’: Alan Turing, The Imitation Game and the ‘gay boffin’
Authors: Robinson Matthew
Published: March 2019

The legacy of mathematician Alan Turing comprises both his contribution to the British war effort decrypting the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park and his treatment after the war, when he was convicted of gross indecency, underwent hormonal therapy and committed suicide. The Imitation Game (Tyldum, 2014), a ‘prestige’ biopic about his life, negotiates Turing’s problematic legacy as both war hero and gay martyr by modelling him through the ‘boffin’ stereotype present in British films about scientists. The boffin’s key characteristic is his ‘outsider’ status and the biopic reworks this to construct Turing as an outsider in different communities – at Sherborne School, within the code-breaking team at Bletchley but also, due to contemporary homophobic legislation, in wider British society. This article examines The Imitation Game’s depiction of Turing as ‘gay boffin’, how it negotiates the different histories that Turing’s life embodies and how film reviewers criticized The Imitation Game for its lack of scenes depicting gay relationships. Unlike other contemporary efforts that challenged the suppression of Turing’s homosexuality in public memory, The Imitation Game’s gay boffin instead exemplifies a continued anxiety with Turing’s legacy as a homosexual war hero.
Lowering the tone in art and science collaboration: An analysis from science and technology studies
Authors: Sleigh Charlotte , Craske Sarah , Park Simon
Published: March 2019

This article analyses a collaborative project in art and science (A&S) from a science and technology studies (STS) perspective. In so doing, it reorientates discussion of the affinity between these two disciplines away from abstract epistemology and towards pragmatic questions in the areas of expertise, credit, space, institutions and money.
Medieval mad science: Depicting scientists in HBO’s Game of Thrones
Authors: Gil Steven
Published: March 2019

With its medieval-styled sword and sorcery, Game of Thrones hardly presents a narrative world where we would expect to find science or scientists. Yet science plays a prominent role in the high-fantasy narrative and at the centre of this is Qyburn, a scientist figure worth detailed consideration. Using the perennial sociocultural concept of the mad scientist as the starting point, this article examines how the morally complex world of Game of Thrones presents science as dangerous yet essential to the boundary breaking necessary for the creation of new medical and technical knowledge.
Scienfeld: A preliminary look at representations of science in Seinfeld
Authors: Tatalovic Mico
Published: March 2019

Seinfeld episodes were made available for streaming on Amazon Prime for the first time in 2017. The sitcom from the 1990s remains popular and relevant today, and yet no one has analysed how it portrays science. This article begins that analysis by investigating how Seinfeld represents science. A surprisingly large number of nuanced references to science and scientific expertise appear across the series. Seinfeld did not shy away from including science and even scientific jargon into its narratives, some of which revolve around a scientific topic. Seinfeld presents a rich source for studying science in popular culture, one that has so far been neglected but that merits study due to its continuing fame and the popular influence of the series.
Spaces of normality, pictures of monstrosity: Socio-spatial configurations of the abnormal in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man
Authors: Wierschem Markus
Published: March 2019

David Lynch’s film The Elephant Man (1980), provides a narrative to explore concepts of normality and abnormality, specifically, how each is shaped by and in return shapes social space, scientific discourse, and institutional power. Against the socio-historical background of Victorian London around 1880, the article draws on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the narrative chronotope to analyse the cinematic framing and systemic challenge presented by the extraordinary life of ‘abnormal’ titular hero John Merrick. Investigating spaces like the hospital, freak show, and theatre, this article argues that Lynch’s film transcends its historical subject matter by fostering awareness about how we conceive of and are governed by socio-spatial and institutional configurations of (ab)normality.
Switch on, switch off, or transcending boundaries: Contemporary currents in dramaturgy of performing arts in Novi Sad Theatre
Authors: Burić Igor
Published: March 2019

In my review of Zoltán Puskas’s OFF at the Novi Sad Theatre, I considered the implementation of contemporary performing currents, especially verbatim, in an atypical, most creative albeit minority-determined theatre environment. The work, based on regulatory administrative documents, problematizes the relation of society to art and vice versa, suggesting a new – or quite old – view of such engagement.
Matter that matters
Authors: Hölscher Stefan
Published: March 2019

The two edited volumes on ‘New Materialism’, entitled Power of Material/Politics of Materiality (2014) and Fragile Identities (2015), edited by Susanne Witzgall and Kerstin Stakemeier, are based on an ongoing lecture series organized by the CX – Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Both volumes bring together international theorists and artists alike and initiate a dialogue amongst them. They furthermore document and extend the talks that were presented at AdBK Munich, as well as the following discussions, and also include various artistic works that were created by students at the academy in the wider context of the unfolding public events of the CX. Neither of the volumes, this is explicitly made clear by the editors already in the first volume, wants to participate in the establishment of a new paradigm. What they try to do instead is to show tendencies within a diverse field that is indeed materialist but not necessarily ‘new’.
Passion for performativity
Authors: Rošker Anja
Published: March 2019

Reflecting on Blaž Lukan’s book Performative Writings (Aristej and AGRFT, 2013), the author thinks about writing, which Lukan uses not only to interpret the performative act but also to express himself as the spectator. She also follows Lukan in dividing the spectator’s position into four different types, namely, the spectator as a witness, the spectator as an accomplice, the ignorant spectator and the spectator as the one who knows. Comparing Lukan’s book and the article ‘An hour brings what time cannot’ by Danae Theodoridou, the author differentiates ways in which, through writing, the spectator is liberated from passivity and emancipated in the independent act of performative writing.
Theatre and repetition: An interview with Mladen Dolar
Authors: Kolenc Bara
Published: March 2019

Repetition is essentially related to routine and at the same time the transformation involved in every instance of repetition. Theatre is an art that repeats, but remains live and non-fixed, opening the possibilities of something new. Artaud’s attempt to cut repetition with something unique and unrepeatable is subject to repetition and art that wants to radicalise by being shocking, whereby it moves away from the gesture of reflection, can get caught in a similar trap. Art and culture are caught between market and state logic, with the first being a singular cut and the second a continuity of cultural politics. The power of art lies in creating universal effects out of the singular and the personal.
On repetition and theatricality: Dialogue with Samuel Weber
Authors: Kolenc Bara
Published: March 2019

In this article, I question the notion of theatricality, which points to the ever-problematic encounter of philosophy and theatre. I do this in dialogue with Samuel Weber’s elaboration of this concept in his book Theatricality as Medium from 2004 as well as with his reading of Kierkegaard’s Repetition, An Essay in Experimental Psychology, which can be found in Weber’s discussion with Terry Smith titled Repetition: Kierkegaard, Artaud, Pollock and the Theatre of the Image. I argue that viewing the encounter of philosophy and theatre through the perspective of repetition offers a very productive reading, which can be, in general, also referred to Weber’s notion of theatricality, as far as this notion points to certain hollowness or a gap in the processes of representation. To show this, I delineate the concept of productive repetition through Kierkegaard’s concept of Gjentagelsen and link it to Weber’s general notion of theatricality. However, Weber’s elaboration of the concept of theatricality in Theatricality as Medium proves to be very open and therefore also pretty vague, which makes it harder to explicate its clear function. I further proceed by examining Weber’s thesis about theatre setting the scene of possibility in relation to Kierkegard’s theory of posse and the notion of coincidence. I conclude that, unlike Weber’s notion of theatricality in Theatricality as Medium, his suggestion of understanding theatre as the space of possibility proves to be an exact concept, which connects philosophy and theatre through the mechanism of repetition.
Philosophy and its double: Nietzsche, Deleuze and the Theatre of Repetition
Authors: Anđelković Bojan
Published: March 2019

In the article, the author rejects Badiou’s claim that there is no space in Nietzsche’s philosophy for theatricality, pointing out that an important concept in Nietzsche’s philosophy is the mask. The main issue is the problem of representation, which is also central in Deleuze’s work. In thinking about the struggle against representation, an important reference in Deleuze’s work is Artaud. Although Deleuze did not write any monograph on theatre, the author stresses that theatre is one of the main areas of his philosophy and that it appears as such in all his books and even methods, such as the method of dramatization or the double.
Touch in the town of Goga: Touch and repetition in Slavko Grum’s An Event in the Town of Goga
Authors: Komel Mirt
Published: March 2019

The article discusses An Event in the Town of Goga (1927), an expressionistic grotesque by Slavko Grum, through the optics of touch understood in three ways. A fetishistic touch changes an object into a being and a being into an object, with a traumatic experience of the touch possibly developing on the side of the touched. In addition to fetishistic touch and traumatic touch, the author also points out metaphorical touch, also expressly present in the play, in the character of the flautist Klikot: metaphorical touch is actually a non-touch, a touch that does not take place but nevertheless touches us in a way unimaginable through mere bodily touch.
Untangling the oxymoron of repetition of the unrepeatable in dance improvisation
Authors: Brezavšček Pia
Published: March 2019

The article explores repetition and the unrepeatability of the dance event using the example of Steve Paxton’s improvisations on Goldberg Variations, referred to by Jurij Konjar’s exploration of the thinkable body and Spångberg’s ‘Deleuzian bastardy’. Similarly, Jonathan Burrows and Jan Ritsema also look for the stuttering of dance language while also trying to avoid their own constraints.
Challenges of transformation of research data into open data: The perspective of social sciences and humanities
Authors: Kelli Aleksei , Mets Tõnis , Vider Kadri , Värv Age , Jonsson Lars , Lindén Krister , Birštonas Ramūnas
Published: March 2019

The authors address the transformation of research data into open data. The article draws on the experience in four countries: Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Lithuania. The transformation process presents several challenges where legal, organizational and individual aspects influence the process. Research data often contain personal data. Research data could also be covered with intellectual property (IP) rights. This means that personal data and IP regulations should be integrated into the dissemination model. While there is a potential conflict between the policies for open data that aim to make data freely available and those of an entrepreneurial university that emphasize commercialization of research results, these policies need to be made compatible. Researchers producing data are vital for reconciling the two, but they currently lack the motivation to contribute towards the implementation of the open data policy due to missing career incentives.
Are there specific factors that increase the possibility of success for university spin-off companies? A longitudinal study of 50 companies over nineteen years
Authors: Jonsson Lars , Santurio Mateo , Micucci Patrick
Published: March 2019

By a longitudinal analysis of all university spin-offs (USOs) created through the Holding Company of Uppsala University, Sweden, during the nineteen-year period between 1998 and 2016, we compare existing literature to our empirical data to identify factors that increase the probability for success. During the period studied, 82 companies were formed, of which 55 were defined as USOs and 50 were mature enough to be analysed. The overall survival rate was 78 per cent and fifteen USOs fulfilled the defined criteria as being successful while fourteen were considered failures. Using descriptive statistics, we concluded that the successful USOs had a surrogate entrepreneur almost six times more often and had been incubated 3.4 times more often than the failing ones. The two major barriers to overcome for a USO during its development seem to be to have a clear entrepreneurial commitment in the founding team of researchers and to overcome the so-called ‘threshold of credibility’. The latter corresponds to the challenge for a new venture to be accepted and embedded in the existing business network, which is crucial to be able to reach sustainable returns.
Entrepreneurship education: Understanding the failure of entrepreneurial act for learners
Authors: Toumi Manel , Smida Ali
Published: March 2019

This article attempts to conceptualize the failure of the learner’s entrepreneurial act and to propose a typology. The conceptualization and typology proposed here are articulated around three dimensions. The first dimension is based on environmentbased approaches and the context of young firms that play a predominant role in the entrepreneurial context. The second dimension ascribes an important role to entrepreneurial training. In this perspective, we rely on the theory of the planned behaviour of Ajzen and the model of the entrepreneurial event of Shapero and Sokol (1982). The third dimension ascribes an important role to rationality, the logic of the entrepreneurial act and the construction of meaning. According to this vision, and by mobilizing the theory of decision, the failure of the act of undertaking is due to the absence of one or more dimensions of the decision to undertake. The combination of these three dimensions allows us to identify a typology of eight scenarios or categories of failure. Therefore, we have opposed the ‘failure of the transition to the entrepreneurial act’ to the ‘passage to the entrepreneurial act’. Between these two extremes we distinguished, respectively, three scenarios of ‘marginal failure’ and three scenarios of ‘partial failure’. This work, of which the theoretical aim is interesting due to its conceptual contribution, is a result of the transition failure to the entrepreneurial act and its various factors. The managerial interest lies in the diagnosis of the learners’ failing situations.
Conceptualizing university-industry linkages in resource-constrained environments
Authors: Datta Surja , Souleh Samah
Published: March 2019

This article problematizes the conventional models of U-I linkages by pointing to the fact that they assume a resource-abundant context in which research funding is not a constraint. While such an assumption generally holds true in developed countries it is unlikely to be the case in the context of developing nations. Paucity of research funding leads to a situation where universities possess few formal intellectual properties such as patents and copyrights. The conventional U-I linkages that are predicated on explicit knowledge are therefore generally absent in developing countries. The article argues that it is possible for universities to develop productive linkages with the industry even in resource-constrained environments (RCE) by leveraging their human capital and knowledge assimilation and dissemination capabilities. The article presents several case illustrations drawn from the higher education sector in India. The Indian case suggests that while conventional university–industry (U-I) linkages are not prevalent in the country, there are other forms of university and industry collaborations that have been largely ignored in the extant literature.
Práticas e Concepções de Educação Ambiental e Meio Ambiente em contexto não formal
Practices and Conceptions of Environmental Education and Environment in non-formal context
Prácticas y Concepciones de Educación Ambiental y Medio Ambiente en contexto no formal
Authors: Vorpagel Fernanda Seidel , Uhmann Rosangela Inês Matos
Published: March 2019

A Educação Ambiental (EA) é uma temática que por vezes é discutida em diversos contextos formal e não formal. Este trabalho se apresenta no campo da educação não formal e se constitui a partir do objetivo de saber quais as práticas realizadas, como e qual a concepção e percepção que se tem de meio ambiente. O que nos levou a fazer uma revisão bibliográfica na Revista Eletrônica de Mestrado em Educação Ambiental (REMEA), período entre 2010 a 2012 com foco nas práticas desenvolvidas em contexto não formal. O caminho trilhado apontou indícios para práticas ambientais que superam as questões enraizadas, a exemplo, da percepção naturalista para avançar na concepção e percepção de meio ambiente em direção à concepção globalizante, entendendo que nós seres humanos somos o meio ambiente e não parte dele.

Environmental Education (EE) is a subject that is sometimes discussed in several formal and non-formal contexts. This work is presented in the field of non-formal education and is based on the objective of knowing which practices are performed, how and what is the conception and perception of the environment. This led us to make a bibliographic review in the Electronic Journal of Master's Degree in Environmental Education (REMEA), period between 2010 and 2012 focusing on practices developed in a non-formal context. The path traced pointed indications to environmental practices that overcome the issues rooted, for example, from the naturalistic perception to advance in the conception and perception of the environment towards the globalizing conception, understanding that we human beings are the environment and not part of it.

La Educación Ambiental (EA) es una temática que a veces se discute en diversos contextos formal y no formal. Este trabajo se presenta en el campo de la educación no formal y se constituye a partir del objetivo de saber cuáles son las prácticas realizadas, cómo y cuál es la concepción y percepción que se tiene de medio ambiente. Lo que nos llevó a hacer una revisión bibliográfica en la Revista Electrónica de Maestría en Educación Ambiental (REMEA), período entre 2010 a 2012 con foco en las prácticas desarrolladas en contexto no formal. El camino trillado apuntó indicios para prácticas ambientales que superan las cuestiones arraigadas, a ejemplo, de la percepción naturalista para avanzar en la concepción y percepción del medio ambiente hacia la concepción globalizadora, entendiendo que los seres humanos somos el medio ambiente y no parte de él.
A relevância dos conceitos arendtianos para uma ética ambiental
The significance of Arendtian concepts to an environmental ethics
La relevancia de los conceptos arendtianos para una ética ambiental
Authors: Dalmoro Isabel Cristina , Castanheira Nuno Pereira
Published: March 2019

O presente artigo resulta de um estudo mais alargado que teve como objetivo expor e analisar a concepção de Hannah Arendt dos conceitos de sociedade de massas e de sociedade de consumo. A análise consistiu na investigação do modo de vida dos integrantes da sociedade de massas e da sociedade de consumo, tendo em vista identificar e examinar os padrões de comportamento que impulsionam a crise ambiental e que podem, por conseguinte, servir como foco de atuação da ética ambiental, compreendida como uma das subdisciplinas da ética prática. Neste estudo, lançou-se mão de alguns elementos da obra Ser e Tempo (1927), de Martin Heidegger, com o propósito de melhor iluminar e compreender os conceitos arendtianos.

The present paper is the result of a larger study whose purpose was to explore and analyze Hannah Arendt’s conception of mass society and consumers society. The analysis consisted in the research of the way of life of its members aiming to indentify and examine patterns of behavior that promote the environmental crisis and could, therefore, become the focus for environmental ethics, understood as one of the subdisciplines of practical ethics. In this study, some elements of Martin Heidegger’s the work Being and Time (1927) were used with the purpose of illuminating and understanding the Arendtian concepts.

El presente documento es el resultado de un estudio más amplio cuyo objetivo fue explorar y analizar la concepción de Hannah Arendt sobre la sociedad de masas y la sociedad de consumidores. El análisis consistió en investigar el modo de vida de sus miembros con el objetivo de identificar y examinar patrones de comportamiento que promuevan la crisis ambiental y podrían, por lo tanto, convertirse en el foco de la ética ambiental, entendida como una de las subdisciplinas de la ética práctica. En este estudio, algunos elementos de la obra de Martin Heidegger Ser y Tiempo (1927) fueron utilizados con el propósito de iluminar y comprender los conceptos arendtianos.
A construção ontológica do campo da Educação Ambiental: 30 questões fundamentais ao debate
The ontological construction of the field of Environmental Education: 30 fundamental issues to debate
La construcción ontológica del campo de la Educación Ambiental: 30 cuestiones fundamentales al debate
Authors: Carvalho Andréa Macedônio , Saheb Daniele , Torales-Campos Marília Andrade
Published: March 2019

Elaborar perguntas bem estruturadas e coerentes é fundamental quando se pensa em metodologia e objetivos de pesquisa. O objetivo deste artigo foi o de discutir as inquietações formuladas por doze pesquisadores do campo da Educação Ambiental, entrevistados por Arias-Ortega (2013), e colocá-las em forma de perguntas. As indagações resultaram em um conjunto de 30 questões provocadoras que demandam aprofundamento teórico e olhar crítico para compreender suas origens e os argumentos dos entrevistados. Organizadas em quatro categorias, as perguntas foram elaboradas em um contexto de reflexão sobre a constituição ontológica do campo da Educação Ambiental e estimulam reflexões mais aprofundadas sobre questões fundamentais, como o resgate de conceitos básicos, a ponderação sobre metas e caminhos a serem tomados, a identificação de conquistas e a consideração de novas estratégias para o campo.

Elaborating well structured and coherent questions is fundamental when thinking about methodology and research objectives. The objective of this article was to discuss the concerns raised by twelve researchers from the field of Environmental Education, interviewed by Arias-Ortega (2013), and put them in the form of questions. The inquiries resulted in a set of 30 provocative questions that demand theoretical deepening and a critical look to understand their origins and the interviewees' arguments. Organized in four categories, the questions were elaborated in a context of reflection on the ontological constitution of the field of Environmental Education and stimulate more in-depth reflections on fundamental questions, such as the rescue of basic concepts, consideration of goals and paths to be taken, identification of achievements and consideration of new strategies for the field.

Elaborar preguntas bien estructuradas y coherentes es fundamental cuando se piensa en metodología y objetivos de investigación. El objetivo de este artículo fue el de discutir las inquietudes formuladas por doce investigadores del campo de la Educación Ambiental, entrevistados por Arias-Ortega (2013), y colocarlas en forma de preguntas. Las indagaciones resultaron en un conjunto de 30 cuestiones provocadoras que demandan profundización teórica y mirada crítica para comprender sus orígenes y los argumentos de los entrevistados. Organizadas en cuatro categorías, las preguntas fueron elaboradas en un contexto de reflexión sobre la constitución ontológica del campo de la Educación Ambiental y estimulan reflexiones más profundas sobre cuestiones fundamentales, como el rescate de conceptos básicos, la ponderación sobre metas y caminos a ser tomados, identificación de conquistas y la consideración de nuevas estrategias para el campo.