Constitutional values as the normalisation of societal power: from a moral transvaluation to a systemic self-valuation

In this article, I argue that values are fluid societal expectations which cannot be used as normative foundations of modern society. Despite their transcendental validity claims, they operate as immanent tools of the normalisation of societal power and contribute to the transformation of potentia of societal forces to the constitutional auctoritas. I subsequently argue that a sociology of constitutional values must address the distinction between moral values in law and law as a moral value. Constitutional processes of the transvaluation of values are complex forms of societal expectations in which understanding, consensus and conformity must be taken into account as much as confusion, dissent and deviance. I conclude by claiming that constitutional valuations and transvaluations need to be explained as part of the legal and political self-referentiality unlimited by nation-states and stretching into contemporary supranational and transnational regimes of law and their internal value productions

How Josef Škvorecký Sought and Could Not Find a Path to Socialism

The article focuses on the writer Josef Škvorecký and follows the development of his civic and political attitudes after the defeat of German Nazism, i.e., approximately from 1941-45. In the context of Škvorecký’s literary writings it concerns a period in which culminates the inevitable phase of the author’s youthful poetic creativity and his early prose writings, while simultaneously his most important novel, The Cowards, is in the making. (Still, Škvorecký in the said period didn’t publish, his entire work remained in manuscripts and could be read only by his closest friends.) After 1945 Škvorecký’s natural Christian-social orientation confronted ideas of state socialism, buttressed by the political prestige of the Soviet Union and the Czech Communist Party, but also the social degradation of conservative values and the status of the bourgeoisie. The evidence that Škvorecký sought a personal path towards an authentic “worldview”, independent of the obviously prevailing social trends, is provided principally by Škvorecký’s manuscript published only in the 1990s (The New Canterbury Tales), and were often published only fragmentary (the epic poem Do Not Despair!, the collection February Tales) or were never published (fragments of the novel The Sons of the Just, the poem Things of Life); some of which are here presented the first time ever. The significant source in the articles subsumes also Škvorecký’s published and unpublished correspondence from the 1940s and the 1950s. Although Škvorecký was considered an explicit political opponent to the most of his peers from the Youth Union, the cited sources demonstrate that in difficult times he kept his faith in the idea of socialist humanism, but would not bow to its being vulgarized by communist ideology and its means of coercion

Management of project communication with the application on the selected project

Předložená bakalářská práce je zaměřena na projektové řízení a řízení projektové komunikace. Cílem této práce je analýza komunikace ve vybraném projektu a na základě zpracované analýzy navrhnout vhodná doporučení pro zlepšení. Práce je rozdělena na dvě části, část teoretickou a praktickou. Teoretická část se zabývá představením východisek ke zvolené problematice. Jsou zde vysvětleny pojmy pro projektové řízení, obecnou teorii komunikace, a především pojmy pro řízení projektové komunikace. V praktické části jsou teoretické poznatky aplikovány na projektu implementace plánovacího systému Concerto ve společnosti Škoda Transportation a.s. Nejprve je zde společnost i s projektem stručně představena. Následně jsou v práci sestaveny základní projektové plány se zaměřením na projektovou komunikaci. Dále se práce zabývá analýzou komunikace v projektu a na základě zpracované analýzy jsou navržena doporučení pro zefektivnění projektové komunikace.ObhájenoThe submitted bachelor's thesis focuses on project management and project communication management. The aim of this thesis is to analyze communication in a selected project and propose suitable recommendations for improvement based on the analysis conducted. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with the introduction of the background to the selected issue. Concepts for project management, general communication theory, and, most importantly, project communication management concepts are explained. In the practical part, theoretical knowledge is applied to the implementation project of the Concerto planning system at Škoda Transportation a.s. Firstly, the company and the project are briefly introduced. Then, essential project plans are created with a focus on project communication. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the analysis of communication in the project, and based on the analysis conducted, recommendations are proposed to improve project communication efficiency

UWB @ DIACR-Ita: Lexical Semantic Change Detection with CCA and Orthogonal Transformation

In this paper, we describe our method for detection of lexical semantic change (i.e., word sense changes over time) for the DIACR-Ita shared task, where we ranked 1st. We examine semantic differences between specific words in two Italian corpora, chosen from different time periods. Our method is fully unsupervised and language independent. It consists of preparing a semantic vector space for each corpus, earlier and later. Then we compute a linear transformation between earlier and later spaces, using CCA and Orthogonal Transformation. Finally, we measure the cosines between the transformed vectors