COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE AS A SOCIAL POTENTIAL

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This paper analyses the phenomenon of collective intelligence, which is intriguing and increasingly important, and it presents research that provides interesting insights about its existence and presence. The central part of this paper analyzes various trends and theories which are associated with the collective intelligence in order to show it in a larger context. Furthermore, the paper provides an overview of examples of collective intelligence in humans and provides parallels with various management techniques and practices that testify that the knowledge of this phenomena and advantages of its use in a variety of human activities have been known for a long time. In conclusion, the importance of collective intelligence is emphasized for the development and evolution of the human society, constituting possible directions for further development of this field and raising questions about further potential directions. This paper was produced using the method of content analysis of domestic and foreign literature, the classification method, the description method, the comparative method, the method of analysis and synthesis and the historical method.

LOGIC OF THE EMBODIED SUBJECT AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

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The body’s emergence from theoretical anonymity offers a possibility for a different rethinking of contemporary culture. A need arises for a polyvalent thinking that follows the logic of the embodied subject of contemporary culture, as opposed to the binary thinking of modernist culture. The text will fuse the post-generic constructions of the body in anthropology and philosophy with the cyborg techno-bodies of digital culture.

ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY OF NIKOLAI BERDYAEV

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In introduction, the paper determines an anthropological propositions of Nikolai A. Berdyaev’s philosophy underlying his teachings on creativity. According to him, a man is not just an object of nature, but its supernatural subject. He is a measure of all things, a microcosm. Next follows deliberation about the nature of cognition where Berdyaev equates a gnoseology with the creativity act, because only acting can provide knowledge. Further on, in the section about creativity, Berdyaev diverges from the patristic, negative anthropology based on atonement of original sin, and directs toward a positive man’s mission that is not only to create, but to enrich „life“ of the God Himself. Finally, his learning about philosophy of history is presented: people preparing for the coming of the „Kingdom of God“ through creativity (in the form of a metahistorical order) are also created as free persons. Therefore, the process of world „objectivization“ is canceled, and the „second coming of Christ“ is prepared.

ATTITUDES OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TO ART CULTURE

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The paper presents results of a research aimed at determining how students evaluate Art as a school subject and how they assess Arts teachers’ traits. The research was based on a questionnaire given to a sample of 220 primary and secondary school students. The research results indicate that a quarter of students classify Art classes among favorite subjects, those often being the students with lower general success rate than students with the higher one. There are no statistically significant differences when comparing the results of research in relation to variables: students’ gender, the mark in Art, age and educational institutions. Art teachers’ traits are a critical factor for students who put Art classes in the group their favourite subjects, followed by the contents of the subject and the teacher’s approach to work. Results of the research on the Art teachers’ traits raise questions of teachers’ competences and motivation for work. More than a half of the respondents considered that Art as a subject is less valued when compared with other subjects, and they recognized the role of art teachers as a crucial one in encouraging the youth interest in visual arts. Concluding remarks indicate that the characteristics of the subject can be viewed through the competences of teachers to make the planned contents more accessible and interesting to each individual student. It is believed that the results of the study indicate that the subject of Art requires complex scientific research with the aim to create a solid and broad scientific basis and provide the social support for its further improvement. Key actors in encouraging the youth interests in visual arts and the promotion of multiple functions that Art has in the overall development of personality, and thereby in improving the status of arts in relation to other subjects, are not only school and Art teachers, but education policy-makers as well.

THE ELEMENTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF INCLUSION

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In Serbia, disabled people represent about 10% of the population. This marginalized social group has the potential to become a productive part of society. Social activities, first and foremost in culture and art, represent an excellent field for the application of the social model of attitude towards people with disabilities and establishment of an inclusive society. Creating an inclusive society is today’s imperative. The elements for the implementation of inclusion are presented in three steps that allow easy and sustainable way of including people with disabilities in the work of cultural institutions. This sensitive social group represents a potential that not only can increase the share of participation of audience in the work of cultural institutions, but can also become a productive factor in the work of cultural institutions with their creativity and ability.

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

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The paper examines the Easterlin paradox, regarding long-term lack of correlation between the economic growth and subjective well-being of populations. The analysis covered 14 relatively developed European countries during the 2002-2012 period. The data coming from European Social Survey confirm the paradox, i.e. indicate the lack of correlation between economic growth and changes of the average subjective wellbeing of populations. The explanation of these results can be found in the relative income hypothesis, GDP’s diminishing marginal utility, hedonic adaptation principle, and in the aspiration level theory. The results, among other things, support utilitarian idea of transition of developed societies policies’ primary goals, from economic growth to rising of subjective well-being.

ELEMENTS OF DEMAND IN THE TOURISTIC PROMOTION OF THE OUTER BELGRADE MUNICIPALITIES

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At the beginning of promotional activities, providers any tourist offer must define who they are addressing to, since tourists are a very heterogenous category different in its demographical, socio-economical, psychological and other characteristics. Outer Belgrade municipalities have real, versatile potentials and concrete offers for different kind of tourists, despite numerous limitations and generally underdeveloped tourism. However, it is crucial to define target markets and elements of tourist demand of priority significance for every tourist destination, especially for those which are just emerging on the tourist market. Therefore, it is very important to have a realistic insight into the advantages and disadvantages of the tourist offer and into the offer of competitive destinations. Emerging tourist destinations, like BLO, shouldn’t tend to meet all the elements of demand in all markets, but focus their promotional efforts on those elements of tourist offer whose demands are correspondent to the existing offer, having in mind all the limitations in regards to volume, structure and quality of the existing offer in its territory.

THE ROLE OF MODERN DESIGN IN THE CONTEXT OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

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This paper offers analysis of the role of modern design in the context of professional ethics, so as to better understand the reaches of responsibility which design has in the society and for the society. As a discipline, design can be used positively or negatively depending on whether ethical codes apply or not, both before and during designing. As an active society member, a designer cannot remain indiferent and ethically neutral, because the effects of his/her activity can be fatal. Examples will be given of how designer skills and reaches can be used to realize certain benefits both for the individual and the society as a whole.

POSITIONING OF THE RECEPTION THEORY

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The aim of this paper is theoretical positioning and defining of a reception theory, namely the theory that led to one of the most influential epistemological shifts in the theoretical discourse of the 20th century, from the analysis of art work and the author to the analysis of recipients (readers, viewers, listener), which thus becomes the main category of meaning in a contemporary theoretical discourse.

THE PLACE OF SPACE IN SOUL, OR RE-VISIONING PSYCHOTHREAPEUTIC FANTAZIES OF SPACE AND BODY

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Fantasy of space plays an important role in therapeutic psychology and covers almost anything occurring inside subjects of psychotherapy – we work on the processes which develop inside a family making it dysfunctional; we work through and clarify the primitive mental states which occur in the unconscious of the analyzand; we disentangle the problems heppeing within the transference-countertransference relation; we help people who find themselves in blind alleys; use analysis in order to aid a client to return projections back into him/herself; we apply body techniques to discover where split up traumas are hiding themselves in the body etc. Concepts so precious to therapists, without which their work in inconceivable – projection, introjection, internalization, withdrawal, wholeness, insight, reflection, embodiment, transference, replacement, substitution, regression, unconscious, subconscious, scape goat, triangulation, contact, phenomenological field, container, growth, real-unreal, subject-object and so forth – are derived from the idea of space or have relied on he idea of space. This work deals with hermeneutics of this dominant fantasy of space, which can then be used to develop an quite different paradigm serving as a phenomenological dwelling to above mentioned processes and contents of our therapeutic work.