This thesis addresses the question posed to ecocriticism by Dana Phillips in his iconoclastic The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America: “What is the truth of ecology, insofar as this truth is addressed by literature and art?” by examining how ecocriticism has, or has failed to, contextualize ecocritical discourse within an ecological framework. After reviewing the current state of ecocriticism and its relationship with environmentalism, the thesis suggests that both rely on the same outmoded, inaccurate and essentially inutile ecological concepts and language, and argues for a new approach to ecocriticism that borrows its concepts and language from the geophilosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The thesis concludes with a reassessment of the work of Barry Lopez, showing how his fiction, when viewed through the lens of geophilosophy, does not support essentialist notions of nature, but rather works to articulate a world of multiplicities, and new modes of becoming.

This thesis addresses the question posed to ecocriticism by Dana Phillips in his iconoclastic The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America: “What is the truth of ecology, insofar as this truth is addressed by literature and art?” by examining how ecocriticism has, or has failed to, contextualize ecocritical discourse within an ecological framework. After reviewing the current state of ecocriticism and its relationship with environmentalism, the thesis suggests that both rely on the same outmoded, inaccurate and essentially inutile ecological concepts and language, and argues for a new approach to ecocriticism that borrows its concepts and language from the geophilosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The thesis concludes with a reassessment of the work of Barry Lopez, showing how his fiction, when viewed through the lens of geophilosophy, does not support essentialist notions of nature, but rather works to articulate a world of multiplicities, and new modes of becoming.

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This thesis addresses the question posed to ecocriticism by Dana Phillips in his iconoclastic The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America: “What is the truth of ecology, insofar as this truth is addressed by literature and art?” by examining how ecocriticism has, or has failed to, contextualize ecocritical discourse within an ecological framework. After reviewing the current state of ecocriticism and its relationship with environmentalism, the thesis suggests that both rely on the same outmoded, inaccurate and essentially inutile ecological concepts and language, and argues for a new approach to ecocriticism that borrows its concepts and language from the geophilosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The thesis concludes with a reassessment of the work of Barry Lopez, showing how his fiction, when viewed through the lens of geophilosophy, does not support essentialist notions of nature, but rather works to articulate a world of multiplicities, and new modes of becoming.

As a feminist poststructural autoethnography of deafness in social work workplaces, this thesis sets out to map d/Deafness as a cracked subjectivity. Using the work of Rosi Braidotti and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, I draw out configurations of d/Deafness as lack or cultural minority and split them apart. By positioning d/Deafness on a plane of immanence and employing specificity, I explore d/Deafness as a subjectivity constituted through space, place, time and encounters with other bodies. I argue that the constitution of material and cultural experiences of d/Deafness as specific allows for the articulation of spaces in between Deafness and hearing, disability and ability as spaces in and of themselves in order to think the new as well as to crack up fixed binaries informing traditional notions of what specific bodies can do. / Graduate

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Submitted by Biblioteca Isaías Alves (reposiufbat@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-01T13:08:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO.pdf: 989586 bytes, checksum: 221727beed1d28f76362aeee4d53546e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Biblioteca Isaías Alves (reposiufbat@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-01T13:11:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO.pdf: 989586 bytes, checksum: 221727beed1d28f76362aeee4d53546e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-01T13:11:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO.pdf: 989586 bytes, checksum: 221727beed1d28f76362aeee4d53546e (MD5) / A dissertação busca entender as condições de possibilidade de uma sociologia descentrada, os primeiros passos daquilo que pode ser chamado de uma nova revolução copernicana nas ciências sociais. Evitando mergulhar diretamente nesse terreno, o trabalho acaba sendo muito mais uma introdução, um percurso inicial, ou seja, os bastidores desse modo alternativo de conduzir o fazer científico. Gilles Deleuze será a referência o tempo todo, sendo aquele critério que organiza os argumentos, mesmo os mais sociológicos, como quando Garfinkel entra na discussão. Nesse sentido, o objetivo não é esgotar os limites da filosofia deleuziana ou o entendimento dos seus dois conceitos principais, mas apresentar, na medida do possível, sua ressonância na composição do pensamento social, sugerindo, embora não aprofundando, uma nova revolução copernicana á vista, um novo rumo trilhado pela sociologia nos dias de hoje. Deleuze, ironicamente, vai ter certos contornos, fronteiras, o que soa um pouco estranho dentro dos padrões de sua própria filosofia. Apesar de sua intensidade, de seu transbordamento, o signo precisa limitar aquilo que pode oferecer, nesse caso seu autor e suas ideias. Apesar da abertura do possível, da escapabilidade do Real, ele vai ser entendido dentro de um recorte sociológico, sendo nomeado, circunscrito, tornando a figura deleuziana apreensível, adequada, ao menos para os limites dessa dissertação e das próprias expectativas que circulam aqui, evitando se perder no cenário filosófico e sua estrutura analítica. / The dissertation seeks to understand the conditions of possibility of a “descentered sociology”, the first steps in what can be called a new Copernican revolution in the social sciences. By avoiding to plunge directly into this place, the work ends up being much more an introduction, an initial course, that is, the backstage of this alternative way of conducting the scientific doing. Gilles Deleuze will be the reference all the time, being that criterion that organizes the arguments, even the most sociological, as when Garfinkel enters the discussion. In this sense, the aim is not to exhaust the limits of Deleuzian philosophy or the understanding of its two main concepts, but to present, as far as possible, its resonance in the composition of social thought, suggesting, though not deepening, a new Copernican revolution in the horizon, a new direction followed by sociology today. Deleuze, ironically, will end up gaining boundaries, limits, which sounds a little strange within the standards of his own philosophy. In spite of its intensity, of its overflow, the sign must limit what it can offer, in this case its author and its ideas. Despite the openness of the possible, the fleetingness of the Real, it will be understood within a sociological cut, being named, circumscribed, making the Deleuzian figure apprehensible, adequate, at least for the limits of this dissertation and the very expectations that circulate here, avoiding lose itself in the philosophical scenario and its analytical structure.

This thesis addresses the question posed to ecocriticism by Dana Phillips in his iconoclastic The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America: “What is the truth of ecology, insofar as this truth is addressed by literature and art?” by examining how ecocriticism has, or has failed to, contextualize ecocritical discourse within an ecological framework. After reviewing the current state of ecocriticism and its relationship with environmentalism, the thesis suggests that both rely on the same outmoded, inaccurate and essentially inutile ecological concepts and language, and argues for a new approach to ecocriticism that borrows its concepts and language from the geophilosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The thesis concludes with a reassessment of the work of Barry Lopez, showing how his fiction, when viewed through the lens of geophilosophy, does not support essentialist notions of nature, but rather works to articulate a world of multiplicities, and new modes of becoming.

This project addresses the problem of monovalent interpretations of habit’s role in a creative means of living within the literature. Analyses tend to opt for an either/or logic, in which the majority of research conducted reflects a detrimental, constraining role for habit as regards creativity while responses to this dominant position still operate under a singularly-positive understanding of habit. Introducing a multivalent conception of habit is a component within the broader purpose of challenging dominant conceptions of political improvement or “progress” (acknowledging how historically- and contemporarily-loaded such a term remains), while leaving open the much-needed potential for change. The research demonstrates the dangerous, immobilizing interaction between individual habit formation and the modern, linear teleological focus on political prediction and destination. Concurrently, it points to the benefits to creativity habit can provide when individual habituation is immersed in a different sense of political engagement. This bipartite argument is made through a Bergsonian method, built up from the intuitive primacy of flow and becoming and their decomposition into apparently stable forms and relations. Inspiration is drawn not only from the works of Bergson, but also Deleuze, Heidegger, and successors. By examining the multiple lines internal to habit, the research prescribes the importance of a balanced approach to the direction of political effort between a sense of improvement which advances to livable destinations and a sense which departs from unlivable locations. This is not a balance of the middle way, but of the constant passage between polar extremes (a both/and logic of habit) and individual negotiation amongst free and constrained political actions. By opening up the complexities of habit, subsequent work can interrogate further social and political elements which enable the persistence of teleological ideology and develop new political mechanisms to promote meaningfully diverse engagement and openness to the radically unpredictable. / Graduate

A proposta dessa dissertação é ler o romance A paixão segundo G.H., de Clarice Lispector, à luz das filosofias de Leibniz (via Deleuze) e Espinosa, atentando para os momentos em que cada uma delas predomina na obra. A primeira parte foca na existência de um sistema barroco, que faz da vida de G.H. uma construção harmônica mediada por uma moral e que faz do mundo um lugar marcado pela presença de uma sociedade hierarquizada, simbolizada pelo edifício da personagem. A segunda parte apresenta o processo de perda desse sistema a partir do encontro de G.H. com a barata no quarto de Janair. Já a terceira parte mostra o resultado da transição. O mundo moral torna-se ético, a hierarquia deixa de vigorar e o contato entre as coisas se dá por meio de uma comunhão pautada pela igualdade dos seres. Por fim, assinala-se que essa transformação não é perene, dada a forma espiral do romance. Logo, o mundo moral que se tornou ético pode reaparecer em algum momento futuro e, caso isso aconteça, o mundo ético também pode retornar e assim sucessivamente. / The present dissertation proposes to read Clarice Lispector\'s novel The Passion According to G.H. in the light of the philosophies of Leibniz (via Deleuze) and Spinoza, closely noting the points where each of them predominates in the book. The first part focuses on the existence of a baroque system which makes G.H.\'s life a harmonious construction mediated by a particular moral as much as it makes the world a place marked by the presence of a hierarchical society, symbolized by the building the character lives in. The second part presents the process of losing this system as G.H. encounters the cockroach in Janair\'s room. In turn, the third part shows the result of that transition. The moral world becomes ethical, hierarchy is no longer valid, and the contact between things takes place through a communion based on the equality of beings. Finally, we argue that this transformation is not perennial, given the novel\'s spiral form. Thus, the moral world that preceded the ethical world may reappear at some future time, and if it does, then the ethical world, too, may return, and so on.