The countryside has been long forgotten while technology is changing at a rapid pace, something we’re not stopping to consider. In this thesis I aim to catalogue the current state of the countryside and it’s near future. Something that’s right in front of us but that we currently lack the resources to realise. The research work will be delivered in the form of speculative architecture and storytelling. It is presented as a book, with each chapter focusing on a different aspect of this new countryside and its potential. This research provides a platform for us to begin to think about these new scenarios and future prospects in order to design sensitively.  A majority of the work is delivered through montages. The compositions utilise already existing elements in society and combine them to produce new spaces that tells us something. I chose to use montages as I felt like they were a successful way to summarise the research of a broad subject field.

This thesis examines the politics of poetry in works by the contemporary Swedish poets Jörgen Gassilewski and Lars Raattamaa. This is accomplished within a theoretical framework based on the aesthetic philosophy of Jacques Rancière and his understanding of politics, aesthetics, and artistic forms and practices. The thesis aims to elucidate the politics of poetry in Gassilewski and Raattamaa beyond the political categories of engagement and activism, and argues that poetry is political in and of itself, as a way of reconfiguring common forms of sense experience. Proceeding from the philosophy of Rancière and his understanding of montage and of historical discourse the thesis shows how the kaleidoscopic poetry of Gassilewski in skapelsens sedelärande samtal (2002) and Raattamaa’s poetry structured around names from the history of communism in Kommunismen (2014) propose political possibilities by intervening in the configurations of the forms of the sensible. The thesis also shows how a poetics of sprawl is explicitly elaborated on the basis of the concept of urban sprawl in the writings of Raattamaa which can be encountered in different ways in the work of both poets more broadly.

Det här examensarbetet har utrett riskerna för att få bindfel vid gasmetalbågsvetsning av halv V-fog på uppdrag för DEKRA Industrial AB som utför teknisk kontroll, certifiering, provning och besiktning. Arbetet utreder ett tidigare fall där indikationer från ultraljudsprovning visade att bindfel och ofullständig inträngning fanns i den större delen av svetsförbanden i en konstruktion. De svetsförbanden var svetsade med gasmetalbågsvetsning och har en halv V-fogs utformning. En litteraturstudie gjordes om ljusbågsteorin och orsaken till bindfel. Sedan svetsades fyra prover upp, två med snäv fogvinkel och två med bred fogvinkel, där det tidigare fallet försöktes efterliknas. Proverna provades med ultraljudsprovning och makroskopisk provning för att finna bindfel och andra defekter. Litteraturstudien visar att bindfel uppkommer så fort ljusbågen inte hinner smälta upp det underliggande materialet och smältan läggs på osmält material. En av orsakerna till det är fel pistolvinkel vilket ger att ena fogen inte smälts och bindfel erhålls. Dessutom så spelar elektrodutsticket stor roll där ett för långt elektrodustick antingen ger en för kall process eller ett för stort smältbad beroende på om parametrarna ändras av svetsaren. Vid svetsning i halv V-fog så är åtkomligheten dålig så det är stor risk att få både fel pistol vinkel och ett felaktigt elektrodutstick. Provsvetsningens resultat var att de snäva halva V-fogarna var svår svetsade och fick ofullständig inträngning och innehöll bindfel och slagginneslutningar. Dessutom var topsträngarna svårsvetsade med WPS:ens parameterar. Slutsatsen efter svetsningen och provningen är att risken för bindfel är hög vid snäva fogar samt att de som svetsat i det tidigare fallet inte kan ha följt sina WPS:er för att uppnå godkända toppsträngar. / This thesis work has evaluated the risks of getting lack of fusion during gas metal arc welding of single-bevel prepared T-joints. The work has been done at DEKRA Industrial AB that is specialized in certification, testing and inspection. The reason for this work is an earlier case where ultrasound testing indicated lack of fusion and lack of penetration was located in the major part of the weld joints in a construction. Those weld joints had been gas metal arc welded and had a single-bevel preparation. A literature study was done on the subject of weld arc theory and the cause of lack of fusion. Then four samples were welded trying to imitate the earlier case, two with a wide joint preparation and two with a narrow preparation. The samples were subjected to ultrasound testing and macroscopic analysis to evaluate the existence of lack of fusion and other defects. The literature study shows that lack of fusion appear as soon the weld arc miss the base material and the molten weld consumable solidify on unmelted material. One of the causes is a wrong pistol angle which will make the weld arc miss one of the joint walls. Also, another important parameter is the electrode stick-out. A too long stick-out generates a too cold process or a too large puddle of melted metal depending if the welding parameters are adjusted to compensate the stick-out. When welding with a single-bevel joint, there is a heightened risk of getting the described problems because of the bad accessibility. The results from the welding were that the narrow prepared joints were hard to weld with and get proper quality, with lack of penetration and lack of fusion. The conclusion from the welding and testing is that the risk of getting lack of fusion is high while welding narrow single-bevel prepared Tjoints.

Frequently evidentiary items contain an insufficient quantity of DNA to obtain complete or even partial DNA profiles using standard forensic gentotyping techniques. Here, various methods of post PCR purification were evaluated for their effects on the sensitivity of fluophore-based allelic detection. A method of post PCR purification is described which increases the sensitivity of standard 28 cycle PCR such that low copy number DNA templates (<100 pg DNA) can be analyzed. Full profiles were consistently obtained with as little as 20 pg template DNA without increased cycle number. In mock case type samples with dermal ridge fingerprints, genetic profiles were obtained by amplification with 28 cycles followed by post-PCR purification whereas no profiles were obtained without purification of the PCR product. Allele drop-out, increased stutter, and contamination (allele drop-in) typical of LCN analysis were observed. A single incident of contamination was observed in a reagent blank (not duplicated upon re-amplification) however, no contamination was observed in negative amplification controls.

Cette thèse étudie le statut du dessin dans l'œuvre de Sergueï M. Eisenstein, à partir de l’étude des rapports entre dessin et montage, entre dessin et mise en scène et de l’examen de la nature intermédiale de l’œuvre d’Eisenstein. Dans le système de ce réalisateur le dessin est au cœur de son processus créatif et devient un milieu-médium à l’intérieur duquel des transferts, passages, transportations de formes, d’images et d’idées sont possibles. Eisenstein s’intéresse au dessin, à la fois, comme processus et comme méthode visuelle universelle de la créativité.On constate l’analogie entre la structure globale du film Ivan le Terrible et les axes essentiels de sa réflexion théorique, en particulier les principes de sa méthode créatrice (la pars pro toto, le MLB, la plasmaticité et le montage). Subordonnée à une architectonique spatio-temporelle rigoureuse, la structure du film est en même temps une structure ouverte, vivante en évolution perpétuelle, et cela tant à l’étape de sa conception qu’au niveau de sa perception et de sa post-analyse.Les analyses conduites dans cette thèse sur la production graphique d’Eisenstein, et à partir de celles-ci sur l’ensemble de ces travaux et de ces concepts, démontrent clairement la corrélation entre la structure de l’œuvre d’Eisenstein, en particulier pour celle du film Ivan le Terrible, et le fondement de son processus de pensée créative, processus qui traduit son propre rythme intérieur et la structure de sa conscience, les deux donnant l’impulsion à son expression artistique. Le dessin devient pour Eisenstein le milieu de réflexion sur lequel il s’appuie pour exposer la problématique du médium, mais aussi celle de l’histoire du cinéma en son lien avec l’histoire des médiums expressifs. Les dessins préparatoires constituent le médium visuel d’élaboration, de vérification et de mise en pratique de ses concepts théoriques dans une situation réelle de création de film.Eisenstein a ainsi constitué, à travers ce projet transversal et intermédial du film, un dispositif sphérique d’écriture de la méthode et de l’histoire générale du cinéma, en réalisant ainsi un modèle du « livre sphérique ». / This thesis studies the status of drawing in the work of Sergei M. Eisenstein, based on the study of the relationship between drawing and montage, between drawing and staging and the examination of the intermedial nature of Eisenstein’s work. In the system of this film director, the drawing is at the heart of his creative process and becomes an environment-medium in which transfers, passages, transportations of shapes, images and ideas are made possible. Eisenstein is interested in drawing, both as a process and as a universal visual method of creativity. An analogy exists between the overall structure of the film Ivan the Terrible and the essential axes of his theoretical reflection, in particular the principles of his creative method (pars pro toto, MLB, plasmaticity and montage). Subordinated to a rigorous spatial and temporal architectonics, the structure of the film is at the same time an open, living structure, in perpetual evolution, this as much at the stage of its conception as at the level of its perception and its post-analysis.The analyzes led in this thesis on the graphic production of Eisenstein, and from them on all his works and concepts, clearly demonstrate the correlation between the structure of the work of Eisenstein, and in particular that of the film Ivan the Terrible, and the foundation of his creative thought process, a process that reflects his own inner rhythm and the structure of his consciousness, both giving an impetus to his artistic expression. Drawing becomes for Eisenstein the medium of reflection on which he relies to develop the problematic of the medium, but also the one of history of cinema in its connection with the history of expressive mediums. The preparatory drawings constitute the visual medium of elaboration, verification and putting into practice of his theoretical concepts in a real situation of film creation.Eisenstein thus constituted, through this transversal and intermedial film project, a spherical system of writing of the method and the general history of the cinema, thus realizing the model of the "spherical book".

L’étonnement a une place privilégiée dans la vie des idées, considéré comme l’émotion à l’origine de toutes formes de spéculations philosophiques, il est l’objet d’étude le plus adéquat pour analyser les problèmes communs du cinéma et de la philosophie : le mouvement (Thalès, Héraclite, Zénon d’Élée), la remise en question du réel (Descartes), l’accès au savoir par les sens (Platon). Par l’incarnation de « personnages conceptuels » (l’idiot, le sceptique, le jeune philosophe), le cinéma offre la possibilité d’accéder à des raisonnements philosophiques de manière empirique. Le cinéma sera ainsi considéré comme un outil pouvant mettre en scène le doute cartésien grâce à une déconstruction progressive du réel. Chaque film étudié matérialisera une étape de cette déconstruction : Three Days of the Condor de Sydney Pollack : la remise en question du réel ; Aguirre, la colère de Dieu de Werner Herzog et Bullitt de Peter Yates : le déni du réel, la filmographie de Buster Keaton (courts et longs-métrages) : la trahison des apparences, les œuvres abstraites de Stan Brakhage : la réduction du réel à un entrelacement de formes et de sensations. Cette thèse proposera une redéfinition des causes et des conditions du surgissement de l’étonnement. En effet, étant principalement lié au nouveau dans les différents traités sur l’émotion étudiés (Descartes, Darwin, Charles Le Brun, William James), le rapport entre étonnement et mémoire nécessitera un développement. Ainsi par l’intermédiaire d’une revalorisation de la mémoire affective dans la perception d’un objet étonnant, cette émotion pourra enfin être prise en compte en fonction du passé du sujet. Les différents types de reconnaissance engagés dans la vision d’un film seront analysés pour comprendre à quel moment ce phénomène passe d’un événement mineur à un événement majeur. Le cinéma pourra de cette manière être employé comme un laboratoire mémoriel. Grâce à une approche anthropologique de la première cause de l'étonnement au cinéma : "les feuilles qui bougent" c’est-à-dire le mouvement, le mythe des images vivantes sera étudié du point de vue de sa persistance à différents moments de l’histoire du cinéma du Napoléon d’Abel Gance à Young Sherlock Holmes de Barry Levinson. Ce premier principe étonnant du dispositif cinématographique donnera lieu à une inversion, 4 l’étonnement suscité par une autre vie des images cette fois insufflée par la suspension ou l’arrêt sur image. Enfin « le phénomène saturé » défini par Jean-Luc Marion comme un étonnement surplombant le champ de vision du spectateur sera divisé en une typologie des différents types de saturation au cinéma (le réel surpris, le montage cubiste, la plénitude du cadre etc.), dans le but de trouver un équivalent visuel de l'évidence (première obsession cartésienne). Le dessein de cette typologie inspirée par Descartes sera de réhabiliser les sens dans la construction du savoir / Astonishment has a privileged place in the history of philosophy, considered as the emotion behind all forms of philosophical speculation; it is the most appropriate object of study to analyze the common problems of cinema and Philosophy: movement (Thales, Heraclitus, Zeno of Elea), questioning reality (Descartes), access to knowledge through the senses (Plato). Cinema will thus be considered as a tool able to portray Cartesian doubt through a progressive deconstruction of reality. Each film studied materializes a stage of this deconstruction: Three Days of the Condor by Sydney Pollack: questioning reality Aguirre, the Wrath of God by Werner Herzog and Bullitt by Peter Yates: the denial of reality the filmography of Buster Keaton (short and feature films); the betrayal of appearances the abstract works of Stan Brakhage: the reduction of reality to an interweaving of forms and sensations. Thus, by the incarnation of « conceptual characters » (the idiot, the skeptic, the young philosopher), cinema allows us to empirically access to philosophical reasoning. This development will also involve the redefinition of the causes and conditions of astonishment. Indeed, the relationship between astonishment and memory will necessitate a further investigation into, since it is mainly linked to the new and the extraordinary in the different treatises on emotion studied (Descartes, Darwin, Charles Le Brun, William James). Thus, by means of a revaluation of the affective memory in the perception of an astonishing object, this emotion can finally be considered according to the past of the subject. The different types of recognition involved in filmic vision will be analyzed to understand when this phenomenon moves from being a minor event to a major event. In this way, cinema can be used as a memorial laboratory. Thanks to an anthropological approach to the primary cause of astonishment in the cinema: « the moving leaves » (i.e. movement), the myth of living images, will be studied through its persistence at different moments of cinema history from Abel Gance’s Napoleon to Young Sherlock Holmes by Barry Levinson. The first principle of cinematic astonishment leads us to consider its inversion, the astonishment aroused by another aspect of life of images, one dominated by the suspension or the halting of the image. Finally, the « Saturated Phenomena » (defined by Jean-Luc Marion as an astonishment overlooking the spectator's field of vision) will be divided into a typology of the different 6 types of saturation in the cinema (cubist montage, crowded frames, etc.) in order to find a visual equivalent of the evidence (the first Cartesian obsession) and to reassert the value of the senses in the construction of knowledge

This thesis explores the nature of contemporary sculptural practices in relation to the broader field of installed sculpture (which deploy articulated, interrelated, but autonomous components) and in the context of recent approaches to both curation and display. The artistic work and attendant commentary constitute a response to the issues of sculptural agency and display raised by both the practice-based outcomes and key works of several contemporary artists: Gabriel Kuri, Gedi Sibony, Melanie Counsell, Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Michael Dean. In a number of exhibitions ‘post-installation’ practices and the function of ‘montage’ sculpture is examined. Through outlining the current landscape of sculptural production and medium specificity a progressive notion of the monument is established. The sculptural artwork is seen to retain a political resistance, as both art-object and thing in the world. An assessment is made of how sculptures produce space within and through their exhibition context, directly related to the production of space as a whole (a social morphology posited by Henri Lefebvre). Applying a conception of time in reference to spatial production opens up the artwork’s potential to draw on complex codes of mnemonic function, which can potentially generate emancipatory agency from ideological issues in late-capitalism. Re-readings of key installed works by Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Mark Dean, through contexts derived from Nietzsche and Mark Fisher, reveal how sculptures can activate specific mnemonic codes, or collective memory. Such art works utilise a ‘forgetful memory’ – a reflexive process of positing, junking and reimagining relationships to cultural information. The body of artistic work produced for this research, intertwined with its critical reflection, makes an original contribution to knowledge by interrogating theoretically and experientially the potentials of ‘the sculptural’, as part of the plural production of art and exhibition-making. By means of practice and its outcomes, the research engages the current dynamics of spatial production and radicality of sculptural objecthood. The work examines the complex relationships between social memory and historicity, with which sculpture in an exhibition environment can engage.

Notre projet porte sur la relation entre la bande-annonce et le film qu’elle présente. Plus précisément, nous nous intéressons à la manière dont le remontage effectué par la bande-annonce amplifie le film. En premier lieu, nous avons effectué une analyse intertextuelle et esthétique de cinq bandes-annonces contemporaines en cernant le concept spécifique de chacun des exemples et en isolant ce que nous avons appelé des effets d’emphase, c’est-à-dire la mise en valeur de certaines qualités du film par l’entremise du montage du film-annonce. Nous avons ensuite exploré conceptuellement la logique transformante de la bande-annonce en considérant des pistes complémentaires : le montage attractif, la structure ouverte et l’évocation d’une mémoire virtuelle. / Our project focuses on the relationship between the trailer and the film it presents, specifically, how the re-editing of the trailer amplify the film. First, we conducted an intertextual and aesthetic analysis of five contemporary trailers by identifying the specific concept of each example and by isolating what we called the effects of emphasis, that is to say accentuation of certain qualities of the film through the editing of the trailer. We then explored conceptually the transforming logic of the trailer considering complementary ideas: attractive editing, open structure and the evocation of a virtual memory.

Notre mémoire de recherche-création a pour point de départ deux conceptions sonores filmiques, auxquelles nous avons contribué en tant que monteur et concepteur sonores. Ces films – et leur bande sonore – ont, par leur forme, leur contenu, mais aussi par la dynamique ayant rythmé leur création, redéfini un aspect ou un autre de notre pratique. Ainsi, au moyen d'une auto-poïétique, nous explorons les différentes conditions de la création sonore mises en jeu, qu'elles soient d'ordre technique – le film Saint-Denys Garneau – ou d'ordre esthétique – le film Ma famille en 17 bobines. Dans chaque cas, nous cherchons aussi à explorer les problèmes poétiques et pratiques posés. Au creux de cette conjugaison de ces conditions émergent alors des outils de médiation, des relations humaines, des mouvements esthétiques et des postures d'écoute qui jettent un éclairage inédit sur notre pratique sonore. / This research-creation project finds its roots in two film sound designs to which I contributed as a sound editor or sound designer. These films – and their respective soundtracks –, by their form, their content, but also by the dynamics that pulsed their creation, have redefined certain aspects of my own sound work. In this study, by the means of an autopoietic analysis, I explore the creative conditions at play in the elaboration of my sound designs, as they answer to technical matters – the film Saint- Denys Garneau – or aesthetic matters – the film Ma famille en 17 bobines. In each case, I also seek to deepen poetic and practical problems. From deep in the combination of these conditions emerge mediation tools, human relations, aesthetic movements and modes of listening that shed new light on my sound practice.

Publicado em 1929, o romance Berlin Alexanderplatz de Alfred Döblin foi considerado, desde as primeiras resenhas, um marco na literatura alemã. Sua novidade residia, sobretudo, na utilização das técnicas da colagem e da montagem, por meio das quais os fragmentos recolhidos da metrópole foram inseridos no romance como sua própria matéria formal. Döblin tentou, com isso, deslocar o espaço concedido à metrópole, de objeto de representação a sujeito da enunciação. Essa dissertação analisa a composição formal de sua narrativa para compreender o que o novo espaço angariado pela metrópole, em Berlin Alexanderplatz, implica para o gênero. Esse problema dialoga diretamente com a importante discussão da \"crise do romance\", que animava os debates de então sobre literatura e encontrava franca ressonância também na produção teórica de Döblin, desenvolvida entre 1910 e 1930. Contrapor Berlin Alexanderplatz às questões levantadas nesses textos teóricos torna ainda mais explícita a relação da obra com seu próprio tempo. Ademais, há uma estrita coincidência entre a importância da objetividade em boa parte da teoria de Döblin e os pressupostos do movimento artístico mais característico dos anos da República de Weimar, a Neue Sachlichkeit. Examinar essa convergência ajuda a iluminar os problemas de uma narrativa que oscila, dialeticamente, entre a representação do destino individual e busca uma montagem realista da metrópole. Todos esses diálogos, além do confronto com a tradição do gênero, ajudam a entrever alguns dos elementos que levaram à configuração, nas palavras de Döblin, dessa \"épica da modernidade\". / Published in 1929, Berlin Alexanderplatz, a novel by Alfred Döblin, was considered - since its first reviews - a landmark in German literature. Its novelty resided above all in the use of the techniques of collage and montage, the use of which made possible that fragments collected in the metropolis could be inserted in the novel as its own formal matter. What Döblin has tried to do with that was to displace the position usually afforded to the metropolis, from object of representation to subject of enunciation. This dissertation engages in an analysis of the narrative formal composition in order to understand what this new position - conquered by the metropolis in Berlin Alexanderplatz - implies to the genre. This problem is in constant dialogue with the very important \"crises of the novel\" issue, which supported much of the literary debate of the time and has a corresponding development in Döblin\'s own theoretical production from 1910 to 1930. Contrasting Berlin Alexanderplatz to the questions posed in these theoretical texts makes the relationship of the novel with its own time even more explicit. Moreover there is a strict coincidence between the importance of objectivity in a good deal of Döblin\'s theory and the presuppositions of the most characteristic artistic movement of the Weimer Republic, the Neue Sachlichkeit. To examine this convergence helps us cast some light on the problems of a narrative that dialectically oscillates between the representation of an individual destiny and the search for a realist montage/image of the metropolis. All this dialogues, besides the confrontation with the novel tradition, help us glimpse some of the elements that headed towards the configuration of this, in Döblin\'s own words, \"epic of modernity\".