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In an effort to give a historical depth to recent discussions on taste in Aesthetic theory, this paper recovers a 19th century Hungarian paradigm. While taste first came to the forefront of philosophical reflection with the Enlightenment and especially with Kant, by now there is a growing literature on the survival of that discourse in the first half of the 19th century. The present author contributed to the research, which tried to show that in Hungary Count István Széchenyi, an influential political reformer, can be regarded as an author, who for socio-political reasons relied heavily on the British discourse of politeness and taste. This paper aims to show that the same discourse lived on and was employed in the second half of the 19th century in socio-political debates. The example is Baron Zsigmond Kemény, an admirer and follower of Széchenyi, who transformed the discourse into a bourgeois political-educational program.

In an effort to give a historical depth to recent discussions on taste in Aesthetic theory, this paper recovers a 19th century Hungarian paradigm. While taste first came to the forefront of philosophical reflection with the Enlightenment and especially with Kant, by now there is a growing literature on the survival of that discourse in the first half of the 19th century. The present author contributed to the research, which tried to show that in Hungary Count István Széchenyi, an influential political reformer, can be regarded as an author, who for socio-political reasons relied heavily on the British discourse of politeness and taste. This paper aims to show that the same discourse lived on and was employed in the second half of the 19th century in socio-political debates. The example is Baron Zsigmond Kemény, an admirer and follower of Széchenyi, who transformed the discourse into a bourgeois political-educational program.

Water in Hispano-arabic Food and Cooking during the Middle-Ages

For Hispano-arabic physicians of the Middle-Ages, water was not only a natural element but the essential condition of health and civilization. The ancient philosophical doctrine regarding the function of water was further amplified : from hydraulics developed a theory of taste to be found in the agronomical literature ('Awwārn), cooking-books (Kitāb al-tābikh), as well as in Beyṭār's considerable pharmacopoeia. As a liquid, water is also capable of effecting decompositions and new mixings ; cooking thus becomes an alchimie process involving dessication (couscous), fermentation (bread) and the determination of suitable tastes for health and pleasure.

This research examines whether opposition between higher and lower forms of youth culture still contributes to the emergence of groups with different cultural tastes. Do youth at higher levels of secondary education (for example, pre-university education) tend to display 'omnivorous' tastes nowadays (Peterson, 1992), just as highly educated adults do? A sample of Dutch adolescents (N = 226) completed a questionnaire concerning their preferences in several cultural domains (music, film and television, light reading and literature, receptive cultural participation). Four groups or clusters representing cultural styles were identified: omnivores, moderate omnivores, a group interested primarily in popular culture, and a culturally disinterested group; each group comprised about a quarter of the sample. Whereas girls were overrepresented in the first two groups, boys were more common in the latter two groups. The two groups with omnivorous tastes appear to fit the profile of 'normal' youth. Otherwise, the four cultural groups could not be linked to specific youth subcultures.

AbstractRecent debates on musical taste have centred on the collapse of cultural boundaries between high art and popular culture. This paper examines Chinese hip‐hop as a unique case study to explore taste preferences in a relatively new popular cultural phenomenon in the understudied context of Eastern popular culture. Drawing from 42 interviews with Chinese young hip‐hop followers, the article examines musical taste preferences within Chinese hip‐hop and different modes of appreciation deployed by listeners. The findings reveal that young Chinese hip‐hop fans display cultural openness to foreign influences and genre mobility. The openness is employed as a marker of cultural capital for the Chinese middle class that values hybridity and innovation. However, even the most open‐minded individuals draw thematic hierarchies within hip‐hop through the unanimous rejection of vulgar and violent themes in favour of more serious and wholesome music. This rejection is framed as a strategy to authenticate hip‐hop within the broader popular culture arena while cultivating personal qualities of civility and wholesomeness that are highly valued in contemporary Chinese society. The paper contributes to the literature on musical taste preferences in cultural consumption by shedding light on the social relevance of cultural openness and music in contemporary Chinese popular culture.

This article explicitly connects a growing body of specific literature, the political ecology of conservation, to some of the often overlooked, main conceptual components emerging from political anthropology and geography (sources of legitimacy, governmentality, territoriality, or state making), political economy (commoditization, market integration, niche markets, or gentrification), and cultural studies of the environment (cultural transformations of nature, cultural heritage and landscapes, taste, and identity politics). All these concepts and literary fields are at the basis of the contemporary social analysis of conservation policies and their consequences. The article also provides an updated large bibliography on the concepts potentially relevant to a political ecology of conservation.Key Words: conservation, governmentality, taste, nature, commoditization of nature, territoriality

This article explicitly connects a growing body of specific literature, the political ecology of conservation, to some of the often overlooked, main conceptual components emerging from political anthropology and geography (sources of legitimacy, governmentality, territoriality, or state making), political economy (commoditization, market integration, niche markets, or gentrification), and cultural studies of the environment (cultural transformations of nature, cultural heritage and landscapes, taste, and identity politics). All these concepts and literary fields are at the basis of the contemporary social analysis of conservation policies and their consequences. The article also provides an updated large bibliography on the concepts potentially relevant to a political ecology of conservation.Key Words: conservation, governmentality, taste, nature, commoditization of nature, territoriality

This article speaks of literature, society, and kings in Java in the 18th and 19th centuries. The basic concept used to analyze is the literary sociology especially developed by Hypolite Taine. Taine's paradigm is built on the assumption that literature can be "packed" from the material base of a society, including race, time, and environment. For Taine, literature is not just a personalized game of imagination, but a recording of the ways of his day. Therefore, certain societies can be claimed as the source or origin (genetic) of creation and birth of literature. Thus, consciously or unconsciously, literature always adapts or adapts to the tastes of its readers.

In the context of the modern information society, it is difficult to overestimate the educational and cultural potential of children's books. A carefully selected children's book is always a strong effective means of mental education and the formation of artistic and aesthetic preferences and tastes of the child. Children's literature can be used in the process of moral, economic, and environmental education. Children's literature is created specifically for children (preschool, primary school and secondary school age) and includes the best classical, folk, poetic and prose works.

Literature is a measure of a nation's spiritual development, as well as an expression of its spiritual and educational experiences. It is well known that fiction, which embodies a great social power, exerts an active influence on the expansion of human consciousness and the formulation of aesthetic taste. In the evolution of Arabic, Persian, Chinese, and Afghan literature, the progression of the narrative genre toward prose, the plot of the stories, and the compositional structure are analyzed. This article explores the issues surrounding the evolution of Arabic, Chinese, and Afghan narratives.

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The money culture of a given time and place can have a profound influence on literature, a medium that allows for the artistic expression of aesthetic taste. This article takes money culture as its analytical lens to explore the cultural transformation of literary concepts that were prevalent in Chinese novels. It will delve into the transition from agricultural production and lifestyles, which were focused on productive and consumptive survival, to industrialized production and lifestyles, which were centered on monetary survival. Additionally, it will trace the evolution from farming literature, which is rooted in Confucian morality, to commercial literature, which is characterized by themes of wealth, lust, and the search for novelty.

This article analyzes the importance and advantages of essays in teaching English in a specialty, teaching speaking skills, and is important for the student's language learning. This article also discusses the educational value of articles and the benefits of using them. Russian and English translations of articles on a specific topic in Uzbek are given and analyzed. The use of these proverbs serves to shape the spirituality of the youth.

As consumers in Western consumer culture have increasingly turned from high cultural to low cultural consumption categories to cultivate themselves, the meanings of the traditional and socio-cultural concepts used to represent different forms of consumer expertise have been blurred or altered. Drawing upon sociocultural literature on taste and distinction we attempt to provide theoretical clarity to the concepts of connoisseurship, snobbery, and nerdery; concepts that are often used interchangeably and without rigor in both (contemporary) popular and academic discourse. The outcome of our conceptual analysis is concretised using a semiotic square to illustrate how the concepts differ from each other. Our analysis suggests that the democratisation of consumption through the imprinting of status meanings upon traditionally illegitimate cultural objects may lead to the "bastardisation" of taste regarding those same illegitimate cultural categories – a performance formerly restricted to high culture.

The article examines the effect of systems of cultural reproduction in the 1990s, changes of preferences within different social and demographic groups of the Russians relating to cinema, literature, and music. Basing on the VCIOM survey findings during 1992-98 and data of the government statistics for 1999-96, the author demonstrates how tastes of the public accumulate features of mass culture and routine, including the more urbanised and better educated population. The reproduction of symbolic resources of specialised institutions and groups is significantly reducing, coupled with a decline of the productivity of culture-creating groups themselves. ; The article examines the effect of systems of cultural reproduction in the 1990s, changes of preferences within different social and demographic groups of the Russians relating to cinema, literature, and music. Basing on the VCIOM survey findings during 1992-98 and data of the government statistics for 1999-96, the author demonstrates how tastes of the public accumulate features of mass culture and routine, including the more urbanised and better educated population. The reproduction of symbolic resources of specialised institutions and groups is significantly reducing, coupled with a decline of the productivity of culture-creating groups themselves.

Prologue -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 History of Communication and Technological Advances -- 1.1.1 From Nonverbal to Digital -- 1.2 Modern Communication -- 1.2.1 Means of Communicating and the Need to Communicate -- 1.3 What Is Hyperconnectivity? -- 1.3.1 Applications of Hyperconnectivity in Society -- 1.3.2 Promises of Hyperconnectivity -- 1.3.3 Future of Hyperconnectivity -- References -- 2 Modeling Literary Culture Through Interactive Digital Media -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background -- 2.3 Related Research -- 2.4 Framework of Modeling Literature -- 2.4.1 Literature Regeneration -- 2.4.2 Pervasive Experience -- 2.4.3 Mass Accessibility -- 2.4.4 Social Connectivity -- 2.5 Poetry Mix-Up -- 2.5.1 System Overview -- 2.5.2 Detailed System Description -- 2.6 System Evaluation -- 2.6.1 Design of the Evaluation -- 2.6.2 Results of the Evaluation -- 2.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 Electric and Magnetic User Interfaces for Digital Smell and Taste -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Literature Review of Previous Digital Interfaces for Foods -- 3.2.1 Electrical Interfaces -- 3.2.2 Magnetic Interfaces -- 3.3 Current and Work in Progress Prototypes -- 3.3.1 Electrical Interfaces -- 3.3.1.1 Electric Taste Interface -- 3.3.1.2 Electric Smell Interface -- 3.3.2 Magnetic Interfaces -- 3.3.2.1 Magnetic Table and Magnetic Foods -- 3.4 Discussion -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Love and Sex with Robots -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The First Crude Sex Robot -- 4.3 Lovotics -- 4.4 The Formulation of Love -- 4.5 The Probability of Love -- 4.6 The Artificial Endocrine System -- 4.7 The Affective State Transmission System -- 4.8 The Kissenger -- 4.8.1 Design Features -- 4.8.2 Design Flow -- 4.8.2.1 Input Kiss Sensing