The article discusses two opposing trends in Ukraine's philosophical field in the 21st century. The first trend involves the decreasing demand for university-level philosophy as a discipline, evidenced by its exclusion from the mandatory curriculum in 2015. The second trend involves an increasing social demand for philosophical knowledge outside the academic environment, leading to the development of non-academic forms of philosophy with specific means of information transmission, functions, methods, institutions, and language. These trends are not unique to Ukraine and are part of a broader methodological shift, which can be called the "public turn." This shift includes the institutionalization of "public" fields in the social and humanities, such as "public sociology" and "public history." The article also discusses the institutionalization of public philosophy, which is still in its early stages, and its theoretical exploration, which lags behind the practice.
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Yasna, I. (2016). The sexualization of blood in contemporary art. The First All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference of Graduate and Postgraduate Students "Philosophical, Anthropological, Psychoanalytic and Existential Dimensions of Human Being" on the topic: "Love, Death, Sexuality in Modern Philosophy and Psychology" (Kyiv, December 1-2, 2016).
The report considers the concept "blood" as a category of culture, and its representation in art. The main cultural narratives of blood are singled out. 1) Blood as a symbol of vitality, life, and death, which in the vast majority of cultures is associated with the idea of blood as a receptacle for the soul and, accordingly, a “channel of communication” with the divine and demonic. 2) Blood as a symbol of power, which today includes, among other things, the interpretation of blood as a symbol of the fertility of a woman, which is transformed in the context of feminist theories into a metaphor for female subjectivity. On the examples of modern painting, cinema, literature, computer games, music, and advertising, the author shows that today both metanarratives are refracted through the category of sexuality, as a result of which blood, at least in art, acquires sexual connotations.
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Yasna, I. (2016). The turn to Scopus: the path to international academic communication or the destruction of the Ukrainian-language humanities? SCDA16, 4th International Conference on Scientific communication in the Digital Age (Kyiv, March 30-31, 2016).
http://www.ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8765In this report, the author analyses the possible negative consequences of the forced introduction of scientometric methods to assess the activities of specialists and research institutions in Ukraine. The author considers the specific features of humanities research, which determine the irrelevance of traditional scientometric methods for their evaluation. The author suggests that one of the possible ways to overcome this contradiction may be the creation of domestic mechanisms of scientometric analysis; an example for humanities (mostly for philosophy) is the Ukrainian Index of Philosophy portal, being developed under the author's guidance.
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Yasna, I. (2016). New media during the Euromaidan and after: an incentive for democratization or a security threat? Forum of Recent Eastern European History and Culture, No. 1, 45-60.
https://www1.ku.de/ZIMOS/forum/inhaltruss25.htmlThe author analyses the essence of modern wars, which are called wars of words, meanings, metaphors, as well as semantic, conceptual, psychological wars, etc. on the example of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, and examines the role of modern communication technologies, including social networks, for the events on the Independence Square, Kyiv (called the Euromaidan) at the end of 2013. The author claims that even two years after the Euromaidan, new media continue to play a crucial role both in the Russian-Ukrainian war and in the development of Ukrainian identity. According to the author's thought, information, and communication technologies, like any powerful tool, can bring both benefits (awakening and development of national identity and subjectivity of Ukrainians) and threats (as a potential tool for information attacks and even the emergence of authoritarian regimes).
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Yasna, I. (2014). Approbation in popular media as a requirement for an academic career. Philosophy as a cultural politics of the present: Proceedings of the II All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference (Ostroh, July 17–18, 2014), 51.
In the post-Soviet space, the isolation of the academic community within itself has become a typical situation, inevitably leading scientists to fixate on one point of view and “scientific blindness”. The solution lies in the approval of the approbation of scientific research in popular periodicals and at public non-specialized events as a requirement for maintaining scientific status.
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Kyselova, Y. (2013). Internet: virtual paradise or the reality of a God-man? First prize in the competition of philosophical essays within the National student’s academic competition in philosophy and religion studies (Donetsk, 2011). International scientific conference “Days of Science of Philosophical faculty 2013” (April 16-17, 2013): conference proceedings. Kyiv: Publishing house “Kyiv University”. Part 5, 141-143.
One of my early conference reports, rewritten from the competition essay which won first place at the National student’s academic competition on philosophy and religion studies.
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Kyselova, Y. (2012). Transformations of the subjectivity in the digitalized society of the early 20th century. Third prize in the competition of research papers within the VI competition for All-Ukrainian scholarship program “Zavtra.UA” of Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
In this competition work, I continue developing the issue of European subjectivity in terms of its transformations influenced by digital information and communication technologies development. The research paper won the third prize among more than two thousands of participants and more than 500 finalists that obtained the scholarship.
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Kyselova, Y. (2011). Information revolutions and the change of paradigmatic foundations of modern social and cultural reality. Informatics and computer technologies: Papers of the VII International scientific-technical conference of students, postgraduate students, and young scientists (November 22-23, 2011). Donetsk: DonNTU. Volume 2, 28-34.
The abstract of my Plenary report at the VII International scientific and practical conference “Informatics and computer technologies” at Donetsk National Technical University. I was invited as a President of the Association for philosophy and religion studies and a Spokesperson of the Center for practical philosophy and Cognitive research of the Donetsk State University of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence.
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Kyselova, Y. (2011). New study of the new reality: promising vector of philosophical reflection. The role of science, religion, and society in formation of moral person (subtopic: Development of the means of communication as a transformation factor for contemporary religious life): Proceedings of the XXX International scientific and practical conference (Donetsk, 2011). Donetsk: Publishing house “Science and Education”. Pp. 24-27.
The abstract of my Plenary report at the opening of the XXX International scientific and practical conference “The role of science, religion, and society in the formation of moral person” (subtopic: Development of the means of communication as a transformation factor for contemporary religious life) traditionally held by the Philosophic department of Donetsk State University of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence. I was invited as a President of the Association for philosophy and religion studies and a Spokesperson of the Center for practical philosophy and Cognitive research of the university.
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Kyselova, Y. (2011). Collaborative creativity in the cyberspace, and its role in overcoming contradictions of the postmodern society. First prize in the competition of research papers within the National student’s academic competition in philosophy and religion studies (Donetsk, 2011).
This research won first prize in the National student’s academic competition in philosophy and religion studies held in Donetsk in 2011, and later became the part of my bachelor thesis. Based on Marshall McLuhan’s idea that the change of dominant communication channels and vectors shapes corresponding information revolutions, I extrapolate his periodisation tracing one more paradigmatic shift related to the invention of dialogical means of internet communication called Web 2.0. Then I analyse the influence of this shift that provides conditions for the creative transformation of society and the emergence of a new kind of social actor.
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Kyselova, Y. (2010). “Panauthority” phenomenon and the issue of identity in the contemporary network society. The role of science, religion, and society in the formation of moral person: Proceedings of the XXVIII International scientific and practical conference (Donetsk, 2010).
My first conference report as a philosophy student within the research project “World 2.0: social dimensions of mediatized reality”. I proposed the first draft of the “panauthority” concept which had become the central idea of my master's degree theses.