The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard by Pieter Duvenage

“…The point is that with the “… greater mediatization of society … we are witnessing the virtualization of our world.”2 This contribution briefly reconstructs, firstly, two phases in Baudrillard’s intellectual career – phases that shifted from an early neo-Marxist critique of the modern consumer society to a post-Marxist or postmodern view of society (which include engagements with socio-anthropology; psychoanalysis, sociology, semiology and media theory), and eventually ends in a kind of anti-theory with an extreme fatal vision of the world.3 In section 2 the implications of these two shifts in Baudrillard’s intellectual career are contextualized in the field of media and communication studies – and specifically his concept of the “ecstasy of communication”. …”
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Framing the Golgotha in Renaissance Painting by Péter Bokody

“…The coming together of frames and spaces poses a particular challenge at the dawn of early modern painting. In the master narrative of the period the emphasis is customarily put on the emergence of three-dimensional space. …”
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University management for institutional self-assessment with a formative nature of medical universities by Tamara Chaos Correa, Jorge García Batán, Jesús de Farit Rubio Méndez

“…<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> innovative universities are distinguished by their impact on the current challenges of modern society, where the progress of the university environment is crucial.…”
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The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited by Geoffrey Gunn

“…The deaths stemming from the great famine of 1944-45, which reached its zenith in March-April 1945 in Japanese-occupied northern Vietnam, eclipsed in scale all human tragedies of the modern period in that country up until that time. …”
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