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Turner's The Social Theory of Practices effectively criticized conceptions of social practices as rule-governed or regularity-exhibiting performances. Turner's criticisms nevertheless overlook an alternative, "normative" conception of practices as constituted by the mutual accountability of their performances. Such a conception of practices also allows a more adequate understanding of normativity in terms of accountability to what is at issue and at stake in a practice. We can thereby understand linguistic practice and normative authority without having to posit stable meanings, rules, norms, or presuppositions underlying the manifest diversity of social life.

Gaming practice is today the cutting edge of the formation of the future society, the period of global digital transformation of which can be fixed by the moment of total public involvement in digital reality in 2016, when augmented digital reality was massively introduced. Thus, completing the period of post-post-modernity, the expression of which was a person who is at a loss, and not in front of the "brave new world", but in front of the elusive old one. To date, the grounds for forecasts have been accumulated, the way for which, the authors of the presented article will try to open with this material.The authors argue that the most striking manifestations of the effects of digitalization affecting social reality hide the totality of their influence on many aspects of everyday life. The hidden restructuring of social practices that comes with every multiplayer game released comes through the game world of involved players and business structures that use the psychological, tactical, strategic achievements of the developers for their own commercial purposes. Will the gamification of social practices become a new "bottleneck" for civilization or will we be able to integrate a humanitarian approach and humanistic expertise into strategic control centers for the development of digital technologies.

This fourth edition of our bestselling text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology.This fourth edition now includes:new sections dealing with debates about spectacle and special effects an extended treatment of sound and its contribution to cinemafilm theory's discussion of the represen

It is argued that there can be no perceptible, continuous interchange between theory & practice, any more than there can be reduction of one to the other. Theory & practice are basically antithetical; one can lead to the other as a result of methodological dissociations that are just as frequently contrasting as complementary. These two autonomous poles are partly incommunicable & partly complementary; despite their conflicting relations, they are essential to each other, since theory not founded on practical experience would rapidly become ideological, & practice devoid of any theoretical basis would soon stagnate. The ways in which the human & practical sciences have contributed, over the last thirty years, to the prevailing domination supremacy of signs are delineated. Modified AA.

Majority rule is an essential element of the institution of democratic government. In three steps, I will explore the conditions of its acceptance as a mechanism of pure procedural legitimacy. Starting from H.L.A. Hart's analysis of the concept 'rule', I will argue that the validating conditions of rules are not normativ beliefs or reasons, but essentially social patterns of conduct and reasoning that manifest themselves in political agency and discourse. Secondly, I will outline a normative rationale that defends majority rule as a source of genuinely 'political' legitimacy under conditions of social pluralism. Finally, I will explain why majority rule's legitimating potential requires that political agency and discourse accept the separation of the political sphere from private spheres.