Submitted by ELISÂNGELA MARIA OZÓRIO null (profelisma@gmail.com) on 2018-02-26T21:53:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese A canção de Renato Russo uma poética da utopia e da distopia.pdf: 1212556 bytes, checksum: 870cdc1aef8fc439da97df0b8705bc19 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Elza Mitiko Sato null (elzasato@ibilce.unesp.br) on 2018-02-28T13:27:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ozorio_em_dr_sjrp.pdf: 1089939 bytes, checksum: 9d64a0f24c386fe1d900a050a9ecc583 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-28T13:27:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ozorio_em_dr_sjrp.pdf: 1089939 bytes, checksum: 9d64a0f24c386fe1d900a050a9ecc583 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-15 / Programa Bolsa Doutorado para Professores da Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo / As letras das canções escritas por Renato Russo deflagram um olhar crítico e reflexivo para com a existência humana e a vida em sociedade. A voz poética capta os conflitos e mostra, em primeiro plano, a face imperfeita da sociedade e do ser humano: a desigualdade, a ganância, o egoísmo e a falta de liberdade. Como resultado, há o desajuste e a sensação de não pertencimento, gerando no sujeito desconforto. A face imperfeita representada na canção de Renato Russo constrói um tipo de real que se contrapõe à volição do eu poético, que confessa o desejo de edificar uma nova sociedade, na qual haja a reintegração da igualdade, da solidariedade, da compaixão e da liberdade. O desejo despertaria o amor, a partilha e o senso de coletividade e formaria o sonho de perfeição, onde o homem seria plenamente feliz, o que representaria o real perfeito. A partir dessas constatações sobre as canções de Renato Russo, podemos afirmar que as representações de um real imperfeito e de um sonho perfeito corresponderiam à imagem da distopia e à imagem da utopia, respectivamente. Para embasar nosso raciocínio, elegemos como fonte de pesquisa teórica sobre a imagem da utopia Thomas More (2015) e Beatriz Berrini (1997); e sobre a imagem da distopia Russel Jacoby (2007) e Martim Vasques da Cunha (2012). As leituras foram ampliadas com outros autores, como Nelson Levy (2012), Teixeira Coelho (1985), Miguel Abensour (1990) e Fredric Jameson (2005) que também ajudaram a perceber que tais conceitos – de utopia e de distopia – não podem ser compreendidos de modo antagônico e estanque. Neste estudo analítico-reflexivo das canções de Renato Russo, escolhemos o álbum Dois (1986) para verificarmos a coexistência de ambos os conceitos. Além disso, o embasamento crítico-literário e musical esteve atrelado aos ensinamentos, respectivamente, de Paul Zumthor (1997; 2005; 2007) e Octavio Paz (1982), e de Paul Friedlander (2008) e Arthur Dapieve (2004; 2006). / The lyrics written by Renato Russo deflagrate a critical and reflexive look to the human existence and life in society. The poetic voice captures conflicts and shows, in the first place, the imperfect face of society and human being: inequality, greed, egoism and lack of freedom. As a result, there is the misfitting and the feeling of not belonging, generating one’s discomfort. The imperfect face represented on Renato Russo’s songs build a type of real thing that counterposes against the volition of the poetic self, who confesses the desire of building a new society, where there is the reintegration of equality, solidarity, compassion and freedom. The desire would wake loving, sharing and collectivity sense and would form the dream of perfection, in which the man would be fully happy, what would represent the perfect real. From these findings about Renato Russo’s songs, we can affirm that the representations of an imperfect real and of the perfect dream would correspond to the image of the dystopia and to image of the utopia, respectively. To support our reasoning, we chose as a source of theoretical research about the image of utopia Thomas More (2015) and Beatriz Berrini (1997); and about the image of dystopia Russel Jacoby (2007) and Martim Vasques da Cunha (2012). The readings have been enlarged with another writers, like Nelson Levy (2012), Teixeira Coelho (1985), Miguel Abensour (1990) and Fredric Jameson (2005) who also helped realizing that such concepts – utopia and dystopia – can not be understood in an antagonistic and tigh mannner. In this analytical-reflexive studying of Renato Russo’s songs, we have chosen the record Dois (1986) to check the coexistence of both concepts. Besides that, the critical-literary and musical basis was linked to teachings, respectively, from Paul Zumthor (1997; 2005; 2007) and Octavio Paz (1982), and of Paul Friedlander (2008) and Arthur Dapieve (2004; 2006).

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / As discussões sobre utopia, costumeiramente, partem da obra que deu origem a essa palavra: Utopia, de Thomas More, no mesmo molde de enredo dâA cidade do sol, de Tommaso Campanella, e Nova Atlântida, de Francis Bacon â o relato de viagem a uma ilha âperfeitaâ. A esse debate junta-se o da distopia, termo criado nas primeiras décadas do século XX, pelo editor J. Max Patrick, que seria o oposto da utopia. Os estudos sobre o tema, no entanto, vão muito além dessas obras, e permitem diálogo com a literatura distópica, incluindo os gêneros a ela relacionados, como a ficção científica e a pós-apocalíptica, agregando narrativas que fogem ao enredo do relato de viagem, comumente apontado como o gênero literário utópico por excelência. Assim, o estudo das concepções de utopia, e das representações utópicas ou distópicas, incluindo as literárias, é possível em narrativas as mais distintas. Nesta pesquisa, propomos uma análise dos romances Ensaio sobre a cegueira (1995) e Ensaio sobre a lucidez (2004), do escritor português José Saramago (1922-2010), a partir da utopia. O Ensaio sobre a cegueira defende a organizaÃÃo como uma experiÃncia ainda nÃo vivida â essa à sua utopia; é a personagem âmulher do médicoâ que permite os deslocamentos dessa busca. Nesse romance, as personagens são desafiadas a imaginar outro mundo, o qual se contrapõe radicalmente ao mundo conhecido. Nos dois livros, são apresentados os valores fundamentais da nova sociedade. Esses romances dialogam muitas vezes, quando questionam a suposta organização e os modelos supostamente democráticos em que vivemos, mostrando que ainda não nos organizamos e que ainda não vivenciamos a democracia, pois, no Ensaio sobre a lucidez, essa sociedade âdemocráticaâ é representada como uma distopia. Ao negar-se a imaginar um novo mundo como fizeram os utopistas projetistas, que desenhavam milimetricamente suas propostas de sociedade, Saramago não tinha outra saída senão escutar, e converter para nós em suas ficções, os sons imprecisos do futuro.

This master’s degree thesis exists in two parts: a critical introduction and an original novella entitled Side Effects. The critical introduction introduces and explains the theories on, literature surrounding, and literary uses of dystopian fiction, the novella format, and drug-based psychotherapy. Current opinion on dystopian fiction sees it characterized by a seemingly perfect societal setting that ultimately contains hidden or suppressed moral flaws. The ultimate purpose of dystopian fiction is commentary on contemporary society through a defamiliarized setting. The novella format is shown to exist in a middle-ground state between the short story and the novel, yet the format manages to maintain positive literary elements of both. Finally, a discussion on drug-based psychotherapy illustrates the use of chemical compounds to treat or cure psychological conditions, a topic of much debate amongst current psychology practitioners. The section on drug-based psychotherapy focuses largely on memoirs for purposes of first-hand experience and character creation for the original novella. The novella, entitled Side Effects, follows the character Edward, a middle-aged man who creates and tests serums that suppress by mandate the emotions that his society deems toxic to the human condition. Edward remains ignorant of any life outside the symmetry and order of the Company, the corporation responsible for the maintenance of the society. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman named Gabrielle causes Edward to explore a world outside the confines of his carefully crafted city and lifestyle. She introduces him to a community of people who reject the mandates of the Company and exist as the extreme opposition to its ideals. As Edward spends more time with this group, known as Splicers, he must confront his long-held standards and finally choose for himself what life he will live.

This dissertation offers a reappraisal of twentieth-century dystopian fiction in the roughly thirty years after World War II by identifying the environmental dimensions of many of the most genre-defining authors and novels of this period. Given the escalating climate emergency and the growing popularity of climate fiction (“cli-fi”), it would be difficult to imagine critical conversations about twenty-first-century dystopian fiction that overlook environmental anxieties in the genre. Yet, in scholarly discussions of postwar dystopian fiction, there is a limiting sense that environmental “themes” emerge only periodically, or are of secondary importance to the genre’s more typically “Orwellian” themes like totalitarianism, propaganda, the Cold War, automation, censorship, and conformism. In contrast, my dissertation shows how dystopian fiction from this period develops in conversation with emerging conceptions of environmental degradation in the anti-nuclear, anti-population growth, and modern environmental movements. By developing a history of dystopian fiction’s mutual imbrication with growing anxieties about ecological degradation, my dissertation shows that texts in the genre have grappled for decades with socioecological questions that still perplex us today: can nuclear energy power a safe and abundant future? Should there be hard limits to humankind’s population? How should humans interact with/in non-human nature? If there are ecological limits to economic growth, is humankind (a problematically capacious term) approaching ecological limits? If so, are we (another problematically capacious term) courting disaster? Over three chapters, I trace the co-emergence of dystopianism and environmentalism in the roughly three decades after World War II as major Western cultural heuristics for thinking about the future. In this historical context, my dissertation puts dystopian novels like George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano (1952), Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! (1966), John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar (1968), and Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven (1971) in conversation with trailblazing environmental texts like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) and Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (1968). As I will show, dystopian fiction produced during this period was influenced by and participated in debates about nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, overconsumption and overpopulation, and the degradation and disappearance of non-human nature. At the same time, the anti-nuclear, anti-population growth, and modern environmental movements borrowed rhetorical strategies from dystopian fiction to warn about the (in)habitability of the future. In developing these arguments, I draw heavily from primary sources and historical accounts of these movements, utopian and dystopian studies criticism, Marxist ecology and Critical Theory, and a growing collection of scholarship in the Environmental and Energy Humanities that emphasizes the centrality of energy to modern societies. This history will contribute to a better interdisciplinary understanding of how modern environmental thinking is influenced by dystopianism, and how dystopian fiction warns readers about what John Brunner calls environmental “survivability” in an age when the spectre of climate breakdown looms large in the public’s imagination.

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This essay demonstrates what affordances for learning the dystopia The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood has in upper secondary school to promote gender equality. The importance of covering gender equality is evident since Skolverket decided to include the topic in every subject in the Swedish upper secondary school with the start of July 1, 2022. This essay explores a possible way of covering the topic in the English subject with the help of fiction. The essay uses the concept of Louise Rosenblatt's transactional model of reading and literary analysis to explore The Handmaid's Tale's potential. The analysis demonstrates teaching potential, several aspects of "sexualitet, samtycke och relationer" 'sexuality, consent, and relationships', and educational outcomes of The Handmaid’s Tale.

This dissertation focuses on the influence of political and social history in the novels of Ana María Shua, an Argentine author who critiques her own contemporary society based upon her nation’s history and her Jewish ancestry. It examines the relationships between individuals, such as parents and children, spouses, or friends to demonstrate that people are unable to change their own situation: the circularity of time and the repetition of the past will always haunt the inhabitants and marginalize them. This work analyzes Shua’s five novels: Soy paciente (1980), Los amores de Laurita (1984), El libro de los recuerdos (1994), La muerte como efecto secundario (1997), and El peso de la tentación (2007). These selected works explore the transformations of the protagonists through their interactions with their environment in order to prove that the individual will remain isolated within the hierarchies and institutions created by contemporary society. The introduction offers an overview of Shua’s biography and literary works as well as an exploration of the connections between the history of Argentina and the author’s novels. Chapter 1 focuses on the influence of history in the present and future of the protagonists in Los amores de Laurita, El libro de los recuerdos, and La muerte como efecto secundario. Chapter 2 makes use of Michel Foucault’s system of power to explore the way in which society victimizes the protagonists. The chapter studies: Los amores de Laurita, La muerte como efecto secundario, and El peso de la tentación. Chapter 3 analyzes the hierarchies established in the institutions and how they convert the body of the individual into a jail. The novels studied include: Soy paciente, La muerte como efecto secundario, and El peso de la tentación. Chapter 4 demonstrates how the history of Argentina is represented in the political and social institutions of El libro de los recuerdos, Soy paciente, and El peso de la tentación. It connects the contemporary desire of a utopian future with Jewish tradition and the hope of a messiah. The conclusions recapitulate the pessimistic, dystopian future that remains for each of the protagonists. / Spanish

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This dissertation argues that Digital Natives, rather than employing novel ways of thinking (such as those suggested by Walter Ong's concept of Second Orality), are in fact employing a way of thinking that has always existed: repurposing. Ruth Oldenziel discusses how, historically, women used "a kind of mental quality" enabling them to re-use objects in novel ways to accomplish more of life's tasks. My research led me to investigate how a wide variety of people, especially historically marginalized people, used this kind of mental quality. This dissertation explores repurposing's real world uses as well as its uses in narratives, specifically dystopia and apocalyptic narratives. Within these narratives, repurposing plays a similar role to repurposing in the real world, filling the gap between a survival mode of life and a science/technology driven society. The last part of this dissertation explores the place of repurposing among a myriad of current concepts concerning creativity.

This project is about our social denial of death, the questioning of rationality and utopian ideals, and our fears of modernity. The intimate connection once associated with death has been hidden. In this project the remains of the dead are sacred. Death is brought to the forefront. By acknowledging a finite existence and exposing our fear of death, life can be given meaning. The activities of daily life are integrally linked to the crypt. / Master of Architecture