title: The thinning physicality of an artifact
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metadata.value: Shorkin, Alex D.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-08-25T19:54:30Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-08-25T19:54:30Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Shorkin A. D. The thinning physicality of an artifact. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 2, pp. 322–337.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.211
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/32985
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article compares two versions of the development of cultural studies. In the first (wide)
  version, culture is traditionally understood as the whole artificially created “second nature”.
  According to the second, currently prevailing narrow version, the subject of cultural studies is
  the mental (ideational) aspects of cultures; the physicality of artifacts is supplanted to the periphery
  of research. A narrow interpretation of culture leads to a number of conceptual flaws
  and thematic gaps. The prospects of cultural studies are seen by the author in the advantages
  of a broad interpretation of culture. A model of the morphology of culture is proposed, which
  includes the frontier, discursive practices, and core values. Three types of artifacts form the
  frontier of culture on its border with the external environment (nature and other cultures):
  artificial things, modified organisms and social institutions. The nomenclature of discursive
  practices that make it possible to build a frontier includes knowledge, technology, and norms.
  Their historical and cultural configurations undergo significant metamorphoses. A special
  function of intergenerational translation of cultural achievements is performed by enculturation
  technologies. The values of cultures are presented, first of all, by symbols. In addition,
  they are transferred and rebuilt by simulacra, which are capable of performing both destructive
  and creative functions. Symbols promote following traditions and, simulacra — enriching
  or changing them. Symbols and simulacra direct the dynamics of cultures. To describe the
  dynamics of cultures, it is advisable to use the synergistic concept of persistent and transmutation
  attractors. In persistent attractors, cultures are delicately adapted to external challenges
  they are accustomed to. A drastic change in challenges pushes culture into one of two transmutation
  attractors, where it either perishes or gets a chance to become a civilization.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: artifact
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: discursive practices
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: simulacra
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: frontier of culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural dynamics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The thinning physicality of an artifact
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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