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Item “Fluid” Temporality: The Conflict of Gender and Age in The Postmodern Socio-Cultural Context(Aesthetics Media Services, India, 2022) Vlasova, Tetiana I.; Skyba, Eleonora; Vlasova, Olha; Liashenko, IrynaENG: Temporality, being an intrinsic property of the subject/object relations in the multiplicity of the socio-cultural and gender narratives, presents one of the most complicated ideas of postmodernity. The project of temporality embraces ambivalent scripts in their “momentous transition”, revealing the attempts at generalizing ages of men and women in the certain “unified” narratives. The latter is expressed in the triad paradigm of “past-present-future” with “present” as the dominating member. While conceptualizing binary oppositions, namely, the dualism “man/woman”, it is evident that nowadays the biological “intrinsic value” of the human being’s identity has become less relevant. The man/woman’s identity is not fixed anymore by anatomy, at present it is “fluid” with the time and age “shifts” of femininity and masculinity. The decentering “situation”, having transformed the temporal aspects of man/woman’s value in the social practices and corresponding narratives, nowadays demands their valorizing by means of the conceptual impact on the transformations of the “liquid temporality”.Item Methodology Versus Theory: Historical Approaches and the Problematic Field of the Humanities in Postmodernism(Aesthetix Media Services (OPC) Private Limited, India, 2021) Vlasova, Tatiana; Vlasova, Olha; Martseniuk, Larysa V.ENG: Among diverse methodological approaches that are currently represented in the postmodern studies, the one, which dominates nowadays, is the statement that there cannot be any methodology in postmodernism per se otherwise it would be a “relapse” into constructing one more “universalizing method”. Evidently, this assertion is stipulated by the highly pluralized context of the postmodern “normalization of change”, the transformations of the socio-cultural order in accordance with the postparadigmatic shift of the theory. Postmodern researchers both implicitly and explicitly state that the only way to “manage” the increasing pluralism and diversity is unmasking prior modernist ideas and ideals in the individual and general meanings of the human experience. On the other hand, the postmodern methodological “openness” encourages academic ambivalence, which results in the denial of the universal notions and absolute moral values. With the apparent postmodernist accent on the interdisciplinary approaches the “scientific conditions” have become even more complicated: nowadays philosophy, history, theology, gender studies, arts are being connected with biology, genetics, cybernetics, economics, etc. As one of the main components of the postmodern intertextual analysis the historical method is vividly represented both in the western feminist theory and in the eastern post- colonial criticism, poetics of fiction and cultural studies. All mentioned above, appearing in the pluralized modes, occasion the turn into considering interdisciplinary techniques more scrupulously. The objective of this research is to reconstruct conceptually the comparative-historical methodology in the theoretical field of the postmodern humanities with the focus on the specific character of the interpretation of history in the cultural texts. The main thesis of the research reflects the reconstruction of the historical methods as an important systematic and meaning-conscious component in the postmodern theoretical studies. The research proves that nowadays historical approaches are significant and valid because they locate certain techniques into the contemporary scholarly work in order to properly utilize sources and evidences in writing “history”. The value of the comparative-historical method is also based on the fact that it proposes some models and patterns in dealing with the analysis of the particular theory in the interdisciplinary studies. The historical narrative with its objective to tell the “truth” cannot be reflected according to some simple schemes, without taking into account the “hard core” role of the context in the hermeneutic reading of history. Though there is a view that historiography is located “between” modernity and postmodernity, the articulated point of view is that postmodernism, being a theoretical cluster of historical disruption and “brokenness”, in fact, cannot reject the tradition of historicism in the humanitarian studies.Item Postmodern Neoliberal Discourses vs Postfeminist Theories and Practices(Institute of Political Studies and Public Law “Dr. Humberto J. La Roche”, Venezuela, 2021) Vlasova, Tatiana; Vlasova, Olha; Bilan, Nataliia; Zavaruieva, Inna; Bondarenko, LarysaENG: The aim of the article is considered the conceptual reconstruction of the relationship between postmodern feminism and the notional field of contemporary neoliberalism. The analytical methods used were based on the assertion that the complexity of textual interventions requires interdisciplinary approaches. The findings and results of the research carried out accentuate that COVID-19 has contributed greatly to the contradictions of the current global andscape in the contexts of neoliberalism and feminism. Feminism asserts as a discourse that the conceptual apparatus of neoliberalism has not served its goals; in fact, postfeminism has not yet chosen its route in the neoliberal context. The assumption that women cannot win their “vindication battle” in the world where “the game is fixed” continues to be taken as an axiom, even though the coronavirus pandemic causes some observers to proclaim the return of influential governments and social contracts. The latter accentuates the role of female representation in neoliberal social, cultural, and political discourses at the global level.Item Time and Temporality: M. Heidegger`s Interpretation Versus H. Bergson’s Intuition(Вид-во Грані, Дніпро, 2021) Vlasova, Tatiana; Makieshyna, Yuliia; Vlasova, OlhaENG: The issue of the postmodern conceptualization of temporality is realized in a number of different fields of science and scientific schools. At the same time the relationship between discourse of temporality as theory and discursive practices of temporal modes is widely represented both in "high" and popular culture. As a result, classical concepts and traditional notions have been abandoned with the consequent predominance of plurality of meanings and variability of senses, which opens theoretical space for examining time and temporality both in modernity and postmodernity. The aim of theorizing temporality in this article is presented as conceptual reconstruction of temporality in Heidegger`s and Bergson`s ideas who, while working approximately at the same period, addressed temporality from different standpoints; however, both laid the foundation for the postmodern conceptual apparatus of researching temporality. The attempts of analyzing temporality also include their most influential approaches to the interaction of "interpretation" and "intuition" in the post-paradigmatic "drift" under the "postmodern conditions". The methods of the analysis are stipulated by the interdisciplinary character of the research, which demands complex approaches and systematic investigation with the bias on phenomenological, hermeneutic and post-structural methods. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the reconstruction of the notion and models of temporality in Heidegger`s and Bergson`s conceptions with the accent on the "volumetrical" reflections of both scientists, which include the dialogue relations in their creating meanings and concept, the dialogism (M. Bakhtin) in painting the polyphonic picture of the world. At present, temporality is often used both as a flexible notion and a kind of epiphenomenon of time, occupying mid-positions between the absolute time and the relative time. Heidegger accentuates the notional character of time, however using the term "phenomenon" in some cases, as for "Bergsonism" duration is presented as a notion in its conceptual development (Deleuze). According to Heidegger, all philosophic propositions are temporal ones; still he obviously could not have introduced his "finite temporalization" without Bergson`s claim of the ontological priority of duration. Though in the postmodern theory it is accepted that the unprecedented stress on temporality is due to Heidegger, the recognition should go back to Bergson for having transformed the classical modes of time and temporality and traditional approaches to their conceptualization.