O materialismo cultural é uma abordagem metodológica contemporânea em Teoria Cultural. Trata-se de \"uma teoria das especificidades da produção material de cultura e literatura dentro do materialismo histórico\", conforme define Raymond Williams (1921-1988), um dos principais nomes ligados a essa perspectiva. Fundador da tradição britânica dos estudos culturais, Williams concebe a cultura, na contramão da crítica literária tradicional - de base romântico-idealista -, como produção material da sociedade. O trabalho expõe o sistema de axiomas e categorias do materialismo cultural e investiga as conexões intelectuais e políticas entre o materialismo cultural e a tradição marxista, por meio de um diálogo envolvendo o marxismo clássico e as obras de Gramsci e Raymond Williams. Argumenta-se que o materialismo cultural contribuiu para o avanço da concepção materialista histórica no campo da cultura, permitindo uma ampliação de horizontes e o enfrentamento dos notáveis dilemas que o marxismo sofreu ao abordar problemas da comunicação e da cultura. Mostra-se de que maneira o materialismo cultural pode servir de referência conceitual para as lutas políticas contemporâneas pela democratização da comunicação e da cultura. / Cultural Materialism is a methodological approach in contemporary cultural theory. It is \"a theory of the specificities of material cultural and literary production within historical materialism\", as defined by Raymond Williams (1921-1988), a leading figure associated with this perspective. Founder of the British tradition of cultural studies, Williams conceived culture not from traditional, romantic/idealist viewpoint of established literary criticism, but as being the material product of society. The work investigates the intellectual and political connections between Cultural Materialism and the Marxist tradition, through a dialogue involving classical Marxism and the works of Gramsci and Raymond Williams. The author argues that Cultural Materialism has contributed to an advance in the historical-materialist conception of culture, helping to expand its horizons and to overcome the difficulties that Marxism previously faced when addressing problems of communication and culture. The author also shows how Cultural Materialism can serve as a conceptual reference in contemporary political struggles for the democratisation of communication and culture.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo contribuir para a formulação de uma crítica da tecnologia jurídica dos direitos sociais. Sobejam na doutrina jurídica e na teoria social manifestações que apontam a função ideológica de tais direitos e os interesses de classe por trás de sua instituição. Esta contribuição, ao contrário, caminha no sentido de formular a crítica dos direitos sociais na perspectiva da forma jurídica por isso crítica da tecnologia na esteira das obras de Pasukanis e Edelman. Para atingir este objetivo, o trabalho reconstrói a epistemologia materialista histórico-dialética, extraindo-a da própria totalidade social que constitui seu objeto, e demonstra porque somente uma crítica da tecnologia jurídica pode constituir o modo adequado de fazer ciência do direito. A partir daí, o trabalho reconstrói a crítica da tecnologia jurídica de Pasukanis e Edelman como fundamento para seu ponto culminante: demonstrar como os direitos sociais se adequam ao princípio da equivalência inerente à troca mercantil e, portanto, não constituem uma alternativa viável para a superação do modo de produção capitalista. Por fim, embora consciente de que a via da transição ao comunismo não pode ser jurídica, o trabalho aponta uma alternativa para que os direitos sociais sejam aliados na luta política pela superação do modo de produção capitalista: sua universalização absoluta, única forma possível de romper com a lógica de equivalência que preside a constituição da forma jurídica. / This work intends to contribute to the formulation of a critique of social rights juridical technology. There is plenty of works in jurisprudence and social theory pointing the ideological function of social rights and the class interest behind its institution. This work, instead, intends to formulate the critique of social rights under the perspective of juridical form therefore a critique of technology following the works of Pasukanis and Edelman. To achieve this goal, this work reconstructs the historical-dialectical materialist epistemology, extracting it from the own social totality that is its object, and demonstrates why the proper mode of doing law science is criticize the juridical technology. From this point, this work reconstructs Pasukanis and Edelmans critique of juridical technology as the basis for its climax: to demonstrate how social rights accommodate to the equivalence principle that is inherent to the commercial exchange and, therefore, to demonstrate why social rights are not a viable alternative to overwhelm capitalist mode of production. In the end, although knowing that the transition way to comunism cannot be juridical, this work points to an alternative for social rights being allies of the political struggle for the overwhelming of capitalist mode of production: its absolute universalization, the only possible way to break with the equivalence logic that guide the constitution of juridical form.

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o filme À procura de Eric(2009), do cineasta inglês Ken Loach. A análise procura fundamentar de que forma a narrativa do filme apresenta aspectos formais e conceituais que permitam aproximar os elementos constitutivos do jogo de futebol com possibilidades de explicações do mundo da pós-modernidade pautadas pelo materialismo histórico. Para tal, será necessário compreender a noção de Mapeamento Cognitivo, de Fredric Jameson, visando delimitar de que forma é possível situar os vínculos históricos do sujeito inserido na pós-modernidade. Não obstante, será necessário compreender como as práticas culturais da classe operária podem ser um bom indicativo para a aplicação desse mesmo conceito, retomando noções importantes como a manifestação de práticas Dominantes, Residuais e Emergentes, de Raymond Williams, bem como a possibilidade de mudanças sociais a partir da noção de Utopia de Ernst Bloch. Tais ideias estão dispostas na obra em questão a partir da manifestação de valores históricos em objetos culturais da indústria cultural. A narrativa busca estabelecer como esses elementos podem constituir aquilo que Pierre Nora conceitua como Lugares de Memória os quais, se ressignificados, podem ser a ponte para reestabelecer as conexões históricas entre o indivíduo e a sociedade. / This paper aims to analyze Ken Loachs movie Looking for Eric (2009). The analysis seeks to establish how the movie narrative presents formal and conceptual aspects that enable us to compare the constitutive elements of a football match with possibilities of explanations for Postmodernity oriented by the framework of Historical Materialism. In order to do so, it will be necessary to understand Fredric Jamesons notion of Cognitive Mapping, to depict how it is possible to situate a subjects historical connections in the context of Postmodernity. Nonetheless, it will be necessary to comprehend how the working class cultural practices can be an interesting sign for the application of that same concept, doing so by the assessment of important notions such as the existence of Dominant, Residual and Emergent cultural practices, as established by Raymond Williams, as well as the possibility of social change through Ernst Blochs idea of Utopia. These ideas are depicted in the work being analyzed through the manifestation of historic value in cultural objects that come from the Cultural Industry. The narrative seeks to establish how these elements can constitute what Pierrre Nora repute as Places of Memory and, if signified through a diferent perspective, could be a bridge for the establishment of historical connections between the individual and society.

Le sens commun et la philosophie se disputent la signification qu’il convient de donner à l’œuvre de Machiavel. Le premier l’accuse d’être pire qu’un sophiste car son rôle historique serait d’avoir inoculé la perversité dans la théorie et la pratique politiques. La seconde prétend qu’il serait l’un des fondateurs de la science politique moderne qui aurait avec lucidité défini les conditions de la raison d’État. Nous essayons d’abord de rendre justice à ces interprétations qui mettent chacune en lumière un aspect fondamental de l’enseignement machiavélien : d’une part, la nécessité « d’entrer dans le mal » en politique pour sortir la société de l’anomie, et, d’autre part, l’impossibilité que le sujet qui s’y résout soit bien intentionné et bien avisé. Le sujet du machiavélisme, en effet, est dans un rapport d’étrangeté à l’institution objective de l’État et à l’universel ; il veut et pense son « stato », et non l’État. Pour autant, paradoxalement, c’est parce qu’il est doué de malignité qu’il peut participer à l’effectivité du droit. Nous essayons donc de montrer, ensuite, comment Machiavel s’est efforcé de résoudre ce paradoxe. Son originalité consiste à ne pas se fier aux réquisits idéalistes de la raison pratique : ni à ceux de la moralité sociale, ni à ceux de l’éthique conséquentialiste. Dans une perspective matérialiste, il opte au contraire pour un conseil équivoque adressé à une pluralité de destinataires ; des destinataires bornés, aux appétits opposés, mais capables de se réfréner et de se corriger mutuellement, malgré eux. Car notre thèse, enfin, est que la « république » performativement activée par ses conseils est un État non-hégélien, un régime d’équilibre écologique entre des puissances socio-politiques d’espèces différentes mais appariées. / Common sense and philosophy are arguing about the interpretation of Machiavelli’s works. The first one accuses him of being even worse than a sophist, because his historical part would have been to inoculate perversity in political practice and theory. Whereas the second one claims that he would be one of the first builders of modern political science, who would have thought with lucidity the conditions of reasons of State. At first, we try to defend the pertinency of those interpretations, which bring to light, both, a fundamental aspect of Machiavellian’s lessons: the necessity, on the one hand, of “getting into the evil” in politics, in order to rise the society out of anomie, and, on the other hand, the impossibility for the subject who resolves to do it of being well-intentioned and well-advised. The subject of Machiavellianism, indeed, is in a relation of strangeness to the objective institution of State and to universal; he wants and thinks his "stato", and not the State. Paradoxically, however, it is because he is endowed with malignity that he can take part in the effectiveness of right. We then try to show how Machiavelli strove to solve this paradox. His originality consists in not relying on the idealistic requisites of practical reason: neither those of social morality nor those of consequentialist ethics. From a materialistic perspective, he opts for an equivocal advice addressed to a plurality of recipients; narrow-minded recipients, with opposite appetites, but able to restrain and to enhance one another, in spite of themselves. Our thesis, finally, is that the "republic" performatively activated by his advice is a non-Hegelian state, an ecological balance order between socio-political powers of different but paired species.

Orientador: Abílio da Costa-Rosa / Banca: Sílvio José Benelli / Banca: Erika Alvarez Inforsato / Resumo: Nosso objetivo principal foi pensar as práticas em Terapia Ocupacional à luz da análise paradigmática postulada por Costa-Rosa, que define o Paradigma Psicossocial como um passo além da Reforma Psiquiátrica brasileira. A partir da práxis clínica e institucional, tentamos fundamentar uma modalidade de terapia ocupacional na qual a psicanálise do campo de Freud e Lacan e o Materialismo Histórico são os referenciais teóricos técnicos e éticos políticos. Especificamos o enfoque desta reflexão no campo da Saúde Coletiva, na Atenção Psicossocial. Partimos do Dispositivo Intercessor, como um novo Modo de Produção de subjetividade e conhecimento. De natureza transdisciplinar, o Dispositivo Intercessor parte, principalmente, da psicanálise e do Materialismo Histórico - bem como de inspirações da Análise Institucional francesa e da Filosofia da Diferença - para definir dois momentos de produção radicalmente diferentes: o momento da práxis clínica junto aos "sujeitos do tratamento" e da práxis institucional junto ao "coletivo de trabalho"; e o momento da reflexão teórica, produzida a posteriori, sobre o processo de produção realizado no primeiro momento. Nossas reflexões pretendem demonstrar que (re)inventar a clínica na Terapia Ocupacional no contexto do Paradigma Psicossocial é tão possível quanto eticamente necessário. Na terapia ocupacional psicossocial, a saúde e a subjetividade são tomadas em sua continuidade moebiana e as dimensões subjetiva e social são indissociáveis. O sujeito... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Our main objective was to reflect about Occupational Therapy's practices in the light of the paradigmatic analysis postulated by Costa-Rosa, who defines the Psychosocial Paradigm as a step beyond the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform. From a clinical and institutional praxis, we have attempted to found a modality of occupational therapy in which Freud and Lacan's psychoanalysis and the historical materialism are the technical theoretical and ethical political references. We specify the focus of this reflection in the field of Collective Health, in the Psychosocial Care. We start from the Intercessor Device as a new Mode of Production of subjectivity and knowledge. Of transdisciplinary nature, the Intercessor Device originates mainly from psychoanalysis and Historical Materialism - as well as from inspirations of the french Institutional Analysis and Philosophy of Difference - to define two radically different moments of production: that of clinical praxis together with the "subjects of treatment" and of institutional praxis with the "collective of work"; and the moment of theoretical reflection, produced a posteriori, on the production process carried out along the first moment. Our reflections intend to demonstrate that (re)inventing the clinic in Occupational Therapy in the context of Psychosocial Paradigm is both possible and ethically necessary. In the psychosocial Occupational Therapy the health and the subjectivity are taken in their mobius continuity, so the subjective and ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

The discussion of worldviews is today dominated by two worldviews, Theism and Naturalism, each with its own advantages and problems. Theism has the advantage of accommodating the individual with existential answers whilst having problems with integrating more recent scientific understandings of the universe. Naturalism on the other hand does well by our developments of science, the problem being instead that this understanding meets difficulty in answering some of the essentials of our existence: questions of mentality and morality. These two views differ fundamentally in stances of ontology and epistemology, and seem not in any foreseeable future to be reconcilable. To deal with this issue, Panpsychism is presented here as the worldview that can accommodate for both existential issues and scientific understanding.

Materialism has an ugly face. The dominant view of materialism regards materialists as self-prioritizing individuals who oppose collective and prosocial goals in favor of a lifestyle led by money, possessions, and status. The present research argues that there is a side of materialism that is concerned with collective-oriented interests. We examine the nature and consequences of collective-oriented materialism - the belief system that ascribes importance to possessions for their symbolic and signaling capacities to construct desirable social attributes. Drawing from cultural and consumer theories, we find considerable support that materialists espouse a collective-oriented quality to an otherwise self-oriented interest towards possessions.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar as atividades experimentais como recurso de ensino-aprendizagem, com base na Teoria da atividade. As atividades experimentais têm sido apontadas por muitos professores e pesquisadores como responsável por diminuir as dificuldades e proporcionar uma aprendizagem mais prazerosa. Porém, pesquisas ainda não mostraram de maneira clara qual a relação entre a realização de atividades deste tipo e a aprendizagem. Diante da diversidade de sentidos atribuídos à atividade experimental buscamos entender como este tipo de atividade tem sido concebida. Este panorama geral nos permite entender o grande número de abordagens que se pode conseguir com este recurso. Com isso, evidenciamos problemas que têm sido associados a realização de atividades experimentais, os quais exploramos, sob a perspectiva cultural-histórica, suas origens. Nesta perspectiva, entendemos que a Física é uma manifestação da atividade do homem no mundo, isto é, não pode ser compreendida de maneira descontextualizada, fora das práticas humanas. Dessa forma, a educação deve proporcionar aos sujeitos a imersão nas práticas culturais já estabelecidas e fornecer a ele instrumentos de mediação, inclusive os da ciência, para que atue no mundo de maneira consciente. A atividade experimental, como parte dessa produção cultural, só adquire sentidos quando mergulhada em uma práxis, onde sujeitos compreendem seu papel na atividade, quando compartilham certos instrumentos mediadores comuns que os farão ter acesso ao mesmo objeto, ou seja, participar de uma mesma atividade. Como fruto desta atividade, após um processo de significação e ressignificação, de reconhecimento dos contextos de validade dos instrumentos mediadores, os sujeitos, de posse destes instrumentos, tem chance de atuar em outros contextos dando novos significados a sua vivência. / The main objective of this work is to analyze the experimental activities as tools for teaching and learning based on Activity Theory. The experimental activities have been pointed out by many teachers and researchers as responsible for reducing the difficulties and provide a more enjoyable learning. However, researches do not show clearly what is the relationship between perform such activities and learning. Facing the diversity of meanings attributed to the experimental activity we initially review the literature about the ways this type of activity has been designed. This overview allows us to understand the numerous approaches that can be achieved with this resource. Then, we highlight problems that have been associated with the use of experiments and we explore them from the cultural-historical perspective. From this point of view, we understand that physics is a manifestation of human activity in the world, i.e. cannot be understood decontextualized from the human practices. Thus, education should provide subjects\' immersion in the cultural practices already established and providing mediation tools, including science, to act consciously in the world. The experimental activity, as part of cultural production, only acquires meaning when imbibed into a practice where subjects understand their role in the activity, they share common mediating tools that will provide access to the same object, or part of the same activity. As a result of this activity, after a process of meaning and reinterpretation, the recognition of the contexts of validity of the mediators\' instruments, the subjects in possession of these instruments have a chance to perform in other contexts, giving new meaning to their living situation.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a symptomatically defined and debilitating condition that presents as a range of physiological and psychological effects. Post-exertional fatigue and ongoing low energy levels are cardinal features. Whilst ME-like conditions have been recognised for at least two hundred years, they have been characterised over recent decades by a fiercely contested debate as to whether aetiology is primarily psychological or physiological. ME sufferers experience profound changes to their self-perception, ability to maintain daily routines and activities and how they are perceived in terms of their capacity to carry out social roles, including illness-status. The contested aetiology results in-part from a climate of dualistic thought and the biomedical model upon which ME is treated and theorised. Whilst the effects of ME on self experience have been investigated from various qualitative and quantitative perspectives, the primary purpose of this thesis is to develop a psychosocial framework from which to explore previously neglected dimensions of the effect of ME on self experience. Developing a psychosocial understanding of ME is in keeping with a turn towards post-Cartesian and non-dualistic thinking. The second interconnected purpose of this thesis is to address the role played by the material environment and objects and to conceptualise their importance and relation to self and how it is affected by ME. This is currently absent in the literature on ME. Developing a psychosocial framework suitable for this purpose rested on a synthesis of Actor Network Theory (ANT) and a psychoanalytically influenced use of metaphor and metonymy. At the heart of this synthesis are the notions of relational ontology (Latour, 1997; DeLanda, 2002) and assemblage (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987; DeLanda, 2002; Hodder, 2012). A relational ontology focuses on the relations between disparate objects such as material artefacts, humans, other organisms and concepts and avoids prioritising any one ‘thing’ as more important than another. The notion of assemblage has emerged alongside ideas concerning complexity, chaos and indeterminacy and informs a vocabulary addressing the problem of causality, determination and the stability of social and psychological phenomena (Venn, 2006). As part of a psychoanalytically informed psychosocial framework these concepts enable an exploration of ME by bringing together disparate aspects such as everyday objects, experiences, symptoms and environments in a non-causal, non-dualistic and processual manner. The psychoanalytic element also enables an exploration of the unconscious and irrational aspects of experience, which is most pertinent with regards to the effects of ME. Thus, the premise of this research was to establish a psychosocial methodology and theoretical basis from which to explore the effects of ME on self experience. Moreover, this methodology was designed to engage with the complex, coincident and entangled nature of the symptoms, discourses, objects, material artefacts, environments and non-human organisms that ME appears to be comprised of. Methods were developed which enabled the researcher to be with and explore the day-to-day life and routines of eight ME sufferers in their everyday environments over a six month period. This involved working with the ME sufferers taking part primarily in their own homes and spaces around their home which they frequented, such as shopping malls and even a cemetery; in itself novel in terms of qualitative research into ME. Of these eight sufferers, three were male [age range 49 – 65; earliest formal diagnosis of ME occurring in 2005] and five females [age range 25 – 63; earliest diagnosis 2002]. Two sufferers were in paid employment, one was retired and five were unable to work due to their ME. Due to the extensive nature of the data, only 3 case studies, two male and three female, were selected for in-depth analysis. Cases selected were those that most clearly illustrated central analytic themes. Data comprised talk, audio-visual material and the affective responses of the researcher. Analytic methods were devised which initially adopted a thematic approach before metaphoric and metonymic equivalences were drawn between what ME sufferers discussed and aspects of the routines, objects and environments they were engaged with. This informed descriptions of how these things became networked, in an ANT sense, and how self experience was implicated. A key finding which emerged is the notion of debilitating spaces. This term captures the manner in which, for certain sufferers, the experience and hence the maintenance of ME was intrinsically enmeshed with their immediate physical environment. Further findings discussed include the way in which seemingly everyday objects such as food blenders can be co-opted by sufferers as a means of enhancing their self-experience in light of ME. Overall, the findings of this PhD are discussed in terms of the success and applicability of that premise and its contribution to the field of psychosocial approaches. The key assertion is that the methodology enhances an understanding of ME and its effects, highlighting the variable yet particular nature of ME and its effect on self experience and in incorporating the hitherto unconsidered range of objects outlined above.

Esta dissertação se pretende um estudo e reflexão sobre o papel do rádio para mobilização e conscientização de grupos sociais. Focada no movimento sindical, analisará meios e modos de produção do Jornal Brasil Atual, programa de rádio mantido por sindicatos ligados à Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) dentro do Estado de São Paulo, assim como as formas de direcionamento aos públicos que atendem. Também estudamos as formas de mensuração deste público pelo emissor, como foco nas expectativas de público pelos trabalhadores da rádio. Na pesquisa nos propomos ainda a auxiliar na melhoria do uso do rádio na manifestação estudada, propondo alternativas para sua utilização em favor de seu público ideal, a partir de referencial gramsciano de análise, fazendo uso da dialética materialista ao refletir sobre estrutura e conjuntura da mídia estudada. / This paper is intended to study and to reflect on the role of radio for awareness and mobilization of social groups. Focused on the trade union movement, will examine ways and means of production of the Brazil Current Newspaper (Jornal Brasil Atual), radio program maintained by unions in the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) in the state of São Paulo, as well as forms of guidance to the public they serve. We also studied the ways of measuring this public by the issuer, a focus on the expectations of public workers by radio. In the research we intend to further assist in improving the use of radio in the demonstration study and propose alternatives to its use in favor of his \"ideal audience\" from reference in gramscian analysis, making use of dialectical materialism to think about structure and conjuncture media studied.