Multiple Exposure

No. 2 - Year 8 - 06/2018

University of Zadar | ISSN 1847-7755 | SIC.JOURNAL.CONTACT@GMAIL.COM

Editorial

This issue of [sic] plays with the technique of multiple exposure, which we borrow from photography. In a similar way that the superimposition of several exposures creates a single and unique image, so all the articles here presented individually deal with different overlapping concepts, which produce distinctive images, texts, and readings. Thus, for example, superimposing Nigerian traditional practices on Shakespeare’s themes creates a unique phenomenon in modern Nigerian theater; similarly, Christmas customs in Croatia, overlapping the fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien, form a particular product intended for the child reader. Additionally, this [sic] also engages in a game of meaning, working around the polysemy of the word exposure. To this effect, the presented selection of articles deals with exposure as appearance in various (multiple) digital sources, the exposure of the viewers to multifarious effects cinema can have, or the exposure (revelation) of the ideas underlying the translation process. ...

Literature and Culture
Josip Ćirić and Maja Jadrešin:

This paper discusses links between digital humanities and philosophy, which have been connected for a long time. The paper focuses on the representation of Croatian philosophers in specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries. Main areas at the intersection of the two disciplines are targeted: generating repositories, creating social networks for experts, and new approaches to analyzing digitalized content. In this context, the paper analyzes the (under-)representation of several Croatian philosophers in tertiary sources. The results show that the number of philosophers with name entries in encyclopedias is small, that the number of languages for the existing articles is also small, and that there are certain inaccuracies in those articles. Finally, the paper suggests certain procedures to remedy the present condition.Keywords: digital humanities, national philosophies, encyclopedia, dictionaryUnutar humanistike posljednjih je godina očit pomak u metodologiji, te dijelom i u predmetu ist...

DOI: 10.15291/sic/2.8.lc.2
Literary Translation
Norbert Gstrein and Davorka Ljubenkov:

Prošlog sam proljeća nekoliko tjedana na opatijskoj gradskoj promenadi prolazio pored kipa Miroslava Krleže. Stoji tamo izliven u metalu, s rukama u džepovima jakne, nezgrapan kolos, pred hotelom Milenij i gleda prema moru i u obližnji otok Cres. Prorijeđeni vijenac kose na njegovoj glavi mogao bi jednako tako biti i od ostataka lovora koji mu je stavio neki uviđavni potomak, a koji sad brišu vjetar i vrijeme. Osim mještana, tek rijetki turisti znaju nešto o tom imenu, a kamoli da pred sobom imaju jednog od velikih europskih književnika prošlog stoljeća. Nešto u njegovu držanju, to što je blago pogrbljen i jako nagnut ustranu, daje mu nadmoćno ironičnu crtu ne samo kao da se ne slaže sa svime što mu se događa nego kao da događanja oko njega točno potvrđuju sliku čovjeka koju je skicirao u svojim romanima i kazališnim djelima. Mora da sam zbog tog ozračja, zbog ironije i opuštenosti, vrlo brzo ušao u dijalog s njim. Ja sam postavljao pitanja, a njegov bi odgovor uvijek bio isti: odmahiv...

DOI: 10.15291/sic/2.8.lt.4
Literature and Culture
Mario Vrbančić and Senka Božić-Vrbančić:

Haptic visuality is for Laura Marks the possibility of vision to be tactile, “as though one were touching a film with one's eyes.” An intercultural visual work, for Marks, more than any other work does this sensory exploration. This article does both: it builds on Marks’s work on haptic visuality and distinguishes its reading of the possibilities of an intercultural work to translate to “an audiovisual medium the knowledge of the body.” Inspired by a relatively recent anthropological school of thought, developed particularly around the works of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, the article offers new readings of haptic visuality and invites us to think of the political dimension of film and the role of haptic translation as a possibility of decolonization of thought. Keywords: haptic cinema, intercultural haptic, horror haptic, oriental haptic, Deleuze & Guattari, Benjamin, Viveiros de CastroKako se sve može iskusiti zvuk, boja, gesta, u kolikoj mjeri i na koji način ta iskustva u nama bude ...

DOI: 10.15291/sic/2.8.lc.6
Literary Translation
João Paolo Cuenca and Petra Petrač:

VijestOtkrio sam da sam umro dok sam pokušavao napisati knjigu. To još nije bila ova knjiga. Živio sam sa suprugom u stanu s pogledom na dvorište, dva kata iznad restorana. Osoblje restorana voljelo se družiti u dvorištu u prizemlju, u onom unutarnjem prostoru od kojeg zgrade oblikuju poliedar izopačene prisnosti. Ondje bi jeli, pušili, pričali na telefon, brbljali. Njihove riječi prolazile su kroz zidove mog doma. Kao da sam bio u Strindbergovu Paklu i slušao glasove koji su ga slijedili po jeftinim pariškim hotelima na zalasku 19. stoljeća. No to je bio Rio de Janeiro i za razliku od švedskog pisca, ja nisam bio lud. Ili sam želio vjerovati da nisam. Budući da su me svako jutro budili glasni razgovori koji mi danju nisu dali raditi, a noću ševiti, često sam se žalio na buku. Kada moji prigovori ne bi urodili plodom, zaurlao bih kroz prozor: „Zašuti, kurvin sine!”. Jedne noći nakon kratke izmjene uvreda, bacio sam na njih prvo što mi je došlo pod ruku: vreću smeća punu pisama. Zauzvra...

DOI: 10.15291/sic/2.8.lt.6
Literary Translation
Carlos Fonseca and Ela Varošanec:

1.Na trenutke, u tišini nastanjenoj krajolikom, jedino što se može čuti jest bljeskalica fotografskog aparata. U tom kratkom trenutku postoje samo on, kamera i kadar koji će ostati zabilježen za budućnost koju još ne zna, ali na tu je kartu stavio sve. Samo u tom kratkom trenutku ne postoji ništa osim njega i njegove vjere. Njega i njegove budućnosti. Potom ga, suptilno, prekida ona kratka zvučna katastrofa koja ga vraća natrag u prašumu: tropska šuma koja ječi i vrije u pozadini, kakofonija ptica, graja slobodnih kokoši, hrkanje umornog Indijanca, štucanje pijanog Engleza. Još dalje, na grozno jedinstvenom i bolnom mjestu, jecaji kćeri čije jauke tek sada ponovno čuje.Tek tada odvaja oči od kamere i pogleda je.Jedva joj je deset godina, pogled težak od nesanice i strašno bljedilo koji ga podsjete na one nordijske širine koje nikada nije posjetio. Pokraj djevojčice, žena zasljepljujuće ljepote, lijevom rukom čiji oblik i predobro poznaje, umiruje jecaje djevojčice. Drugom rukom, njegov...

DOI: 10.15291/sic/2.8.lt.1
Literature and Culture
Marko Vučetić, University of Zadar, Croatia:

This article discusses the relationship between anthropology and art in the philosophical work of contemporary Croatian philosopher Raimundo Kupareo. Anthropology is the study of man, and art is the study or manifestation of human presence. Man is a being of value that connects mysticism and rationality, knowledge and emotions, idea and matter, anthropology and art. The possibility of a touch between anthropology and art allows for the avoidance of dichotomous tendencies of separation between art and anthropology, works and authors. The artistic process, viewed from anthropological positions, is the process of rise and resurrection of the artist as the author and his/her work as a particular value. The author has been legitimized in the world as a being that conceives different ideas and is able to express them in matter, while his work has been publicly presented as a true, human value without the predetermined exclusivity of belonging to someone. That man presents a value, the same a...

DOI: 10.15291/sic/2.8.lc.1