[Golongan Penyelidikan iCONADA] Kritikan Terhadap Rasionaliti Tulen: Mengapa Kesedaran Estetika Menjadi Senjata Utama Perniagaan Moden

Dalam era data raya, algoritma dan kecerdasan buatan, pendekatan perniagaan berasaskan logik, analisis data dan pengurusan saintifik semakin kehilangan kelebihan. Pasaran dipenuhi produk yang hampir serupa, manakala skandal korporat terus berlaku walaupun peraturan semakin ketat.

Penyelidik…

Daripada The Wild Robot ke Masa Depan Kemanusiaan: Renungan Budaya dan Kreatif tentang Kecerdasan Buatan serta Pembangunan Humanistik

Filem animasi The Wild Robot (2024) mendapat sambutan yang mendalam bukan sahaja kerana keindahan visual dan jalan ceritanya yang menyentuh emosi, tetapi juga kerana ia menyentuh salah satu kebimbangan budaya terbesar abad ke-21: ketika kecerdasan buatan (AI) berkembang dengan begitu pesat, adakah…

In the history of Chinese-language cinema, works were long defined by grand historical narratives and collective memory. Directors across generations anchored individual destinies within the turbulent tides of national history, seeking to answer epic questions of cultural identity. However, over the past decade, a quiet yet profound revolution has reshaped the cinematic landscape. Contemporary Chinese-language cinema has turned sharply inward. It has abandoned historical grandiosity to focus…

Ricardo Unto：'Ninavau' earns double honours at KL film critics

Kota Kinabalu: Sabahan filmmaker Bebbra Mailin received the Best Director award at the 11th Kuala Lumpur Film Critics Awards (AMPFKL11) on Saturday for her feature film “Ninavau”.

The film also earned the Best Screenplay award for Bebbra and co-writer Muzammer Rahman.

Presented annually by the Kuala Lumpur Film Critics Circle (MPFKL), the awards recognise…

Daripada Melihat Haiwan kepada Membaca Kehidupan: Potensi Zoo sebagai Ruang Kreatif Budaya

Sejak sekian lama, zoo difahami sebagai sebuah ruang pameran: haiwan ditempatkan dalam habitat tertentu dan pengunjung membeli tiket untuk datang melihatnya. Namun, dengan kebangkitan industri kreatif budaya dan ekonomi pengalaman pada era kontemporari, pemahaman ini semakin tidak mencukupi. Jika kita mengikuti kerangka pemikiran yang dikemukakan oleh iKONADA mengenai…

[Golongan Penyelidikan ICONADA] Dari Tradisi ke "Enjin Baru": Peranan Sekolah Menengah Persendirian Cina (SMPC) dalam Transformasi Budaya dan Ekonomi Biru Sabah

Kerajaan Negeri Sabah kini giat memajukan industri kreatif sebagai "enjin baru" ekonomi berasaskan Pelan Pembangunan Sabah Maju Jaya (SMJ). Langkah ini bukan sekadar strategi ekonomi, malah satu anjakan besar dalam mengangkat naratif Borneo ke pentas global. Di…

Briefly, SDG+C is not merely a framework for sustainable development; it is a mechanism for generating and strengthening cultural capital. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concept, cultural capital encompasses the knowledge, values, skills, identities, and social recognition that empower individuals and communities to participate effectively in society. By integrating Culture (C) into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development moves beyond economic growth and environmental protection…

Pada tahun 2026, industri pelancongan dunia memasuki era baharu yang dikenali sebagai “Pelancongan Budaya 3.0”. Pelancongan tidak lagi sekadar perjalanan dari satu tempat ke tempat lain, tetapi menjadi pengalaman mencari ketenangan jiwa, hubungan dengan alam dan penciptaan nilai bersama. Di hujung utara Sabah, Kudat kini muncul sebagai contoh terbaik perubahan ini.

Dahulu, Kudat dikenali sebagai kawasan terpencil dengan keindahan alam semula jadi yang masih asli. Warna hijau…

Listen, my children, and you shall hear

Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;

Hardly a man is now alive

Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, “If the British march

By land or sea from the town to-night,

Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch

Of the North Church tower as a signal light,—

One if by land, and two if by sea;

And I on the opposite shore will be,

Ready to…

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Barry D (1996). “Artful Inquiry: A Symbolic Constructivist Approach to Social Science…

Corporate aesthetics is one of such emerging arena, where value is put on the beautiful, sensuously pleasing and aesthetical aspects of organizations. Contemporary writers of organization theory suggest that the field not only draws from Natural Sciences and Economics but from multiple and diverse disciplines. They do not rule out Literature and Arts from these parent perspectives. The symbolic interpretive view of organization theory cognizes that organizations are socially constructed and…

Metaphors are used in organization theory as tools to

convey meanings and to illuminate and illustrate theories

by linking them with some more familiar word, phrase or

object (Hernes, 2004). For example, the metaphor of jazz

is used to reflect the “temporal, emotional and ambiguous

aspects of organizational structure (Kamoche et al.,

2005; Lewin, 1998; Zack, 2000). Similarly organizations

are metaphorically described as theatres (Cornelissen, …

The poem is highly metaphorical reflecting the imagination of a rejected lover who is viewing his beloved’s

honeymoon with someone else. The rejected lover is

viewing the honeymoon as a kind of ‘post-mortem’. The

key metaphorical words are ‘bread’, ‘platter’, ‘knife’, ‘flesh’

and ‘hunger’. Bread is the frigid and unwilling beloved,

whose flesh is cut across by the maleness (knife) of her

husband. Hunger is the reflection of carnal desires of her …

Some specific examples from English poetry

Metaphoricity or symbolism of Yeats is occult in nature.

He uses metaphors of hound with one red ear, a white

deer with no horns, and an island in the sea to capture the Irish legendary characters. He also uses many metaphors to represent the Kabalistic traditions. The

metaphors of ‘Immortal Rose’ and the ‘seven lights’

capture Rosicrucian flower and the seven planets and

astral lights (William York Tindall as in…

LITERATURE AND METAPHORS



The language of poetry according to P.B. Shelley “is vitally metaphorical; that is, it makes the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehensions”. This means metaphors create new meanings and insights. They are a tool of revitalizing the language. By creating something new, through employing metaphors, the poet also restores something old, ancient and lost (Hirsch, 1999).



In a generalized way, a metaphor is defined…

ce the times of Western modernity, knowledge is compartmentalized as different fields. This has however, not mitigated the influence of natural science model of theorizing on social sciences. As a result the discipline of organization theory has grown without the influence of abstract, ephemeral and metaphysical fields such as; religion, history, mystic philosophy, arts and literature. With the rise of organizational cultural studies and the emergence of…

Ken Swift formed his own chapter of Rock Steady in 1996, RSC Seven Grandmasters, based on the Joseph Kuo movie 7 Grandmasters. RSC Seven Grandmasters was a battle clique. Ken Swift, “And that was the elite unit of Rock Steady that was all about win, lose, or draw, battling anybody, going out there to war, and it had the same concept as Seven Grandmasters, going all over the country, doing different styles, fighting and challenging, that’s a little what the movie was about.”

RSC Seven…

The B-Boys that started out imitating their heroes on the big screen eventually got to be in movies themselves, performing their own footwork, kicks and flips in films like Flashdance, Wildstyle, and Beatstreet. Beatstreet features the rivalry between RSC and NYCB prominently in the story line. Kuriaki is doing footwork, and Powerful Pexter says, “You’re biters, all you’re homeboys are biters.” Kuriaki responds, “I ain’t never stole no moves from you, your moves ain’t’ worth to be bit, so…

While serious filmgoers denounced kung fu films, the B-Boys took to the films as their own. Ken Swift explains, “42nd St. was like ‘wow!’, these are subtitled, they’re putting these English voices over, these movies aren’t even made in the States, that’s even more like ’wow!,’ you feel like you’re really a part of something.”

The DJ’s, MC’s, B-Boy’s, and graffiti artists would go to see these films together, and it was a participatory experience. They would get so hyped up during the…

Back in the mid-to-late 1970s, the earliest power moves of Breaking were created by B-Boy masters living in New York City. One of the biggest influences on the creation of moves like the “headspin” and the “windmill” was the Hong Kong kung fu movie. B-boys watched the amazing physical abilities of their favorite kung fu actors in films by Shaw Brothers, Seasonal Films, and Golden Harvest Studios. They imitated and expanded upon the ritualized combat they saw in these films, adding new moves…