The thesis begins with an introductory chapter that explains the creative process, providing quotes from well-known poets and examples from my own personal history and ideas. Some of the creative concepts discussed are different manifestations of inspiration, such as the duende and the Muses. However, the act of creating a work of art--what actually occurs when an artist works--remains undiscovered. Every poet is part of the poetic tradition, yet she also strives to supersede that very tradition. In my poetry, I try to build on and deviate from the poetic tradition, while simultaneously representing events from my cultural and personal history. Twenty-nine poems follow the introduction. The poems included in this volume represent a contemporary writing style influenced by Romanticism and Modernism, apparent in nature imagery and ambiguity.

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La thèse porte sur l'intervention d'artistes dans les ateliers d'insertion sociale. Un ancrage théorique interactionniste permet de montrer en quoi le modèle traditionnel de l'insertion est déstabilisé par la présence d'artistes. Le matériau recueilli est d'ordre qualitatif. Les acteurs interrogés rassemblent des tribunitiens (porteurs de changement), des ambivalents (oscillant entre tradition et innovation) et des conservateurs (s'opposant au changement). La première partie montre en quoi les tribunitiens perturbent les valeurs et les normes de l'insertion traditionnelle. La seconde partie montre en quoi ils perturbent les pratiques et les modes de conduite. La troisième partie se centre sur le type d'innovation proposé par les porteurs du changement. Tandis que les ambivalents proposent le développement d'une insertion culturelle perçue comme un nouveau sas, les tribunitiens proposent l'émergence d'une insertion citoyenne. Mais si cette dernière proposition ouvre des alternatives à la statique du système, elle est aussi porteuse d'une forme utopique qui, si elle passait à l'état de pratique sociale légitime, pourrait renforcer le processus de marginalisation des bénéficiaires de l'aide sociale. / The thesis relates to the intervention of artists in the workshops of social integration. A theoretical anchoring interactionnist makes it possible to show in what the traditional model of insertion is destabilized by the presence of artists. The material collected is of a qualitative nature. The questioned actors gather tribunitiens (carrying change), the ambivalents (oscillating between tradition and innovation) and of the conservatives (being opposed to the change). The first part shows in what the tribunitiens disturb the values and the standards of traditional insertion. The second part shows in what they disturb the practices and the modes of control. The third part is centered on the type of innovation proposed by the carriers of the change. While the ambivalent ones propose the development of a cultural insertion perceived like a new hopper, the tribunitiens propose the emergence of a citizen insertion. But if this last proposal opens alternatives to the statics of the system, it is also carrying a utopian form which, if it passed in a state of social practice legitimate, could reinforce the process of marginalisation of the recipients of the social assistance.

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De historiskt dominerande inslagen i teknikundervisningen på svenska grundskolor har varit att tillverka produkter genom problemlösande processer, lära sig om konstruktioner samt bekanta sig med redskap, material och tillverkningsprocesser. Det traditionella undervisningsinnehållet benämns som artefaktfokuserat, där artefakterna ses som tillverkade materiella föremål, och har utifrån sin dominans inneburit en didaktisk utmaning då mer abstrakta fenomen avsetts behandlas. Då det svenska samhället utvecklats från ett industrisamhälle till ett tjänstesamhälle, samtidigt som eleverna idag i stor utsträckning finner undervisningen som orelevant, kan det förstås som intressant att titta närmare på hur ämnet kommuniceras. Detta då det visat sig att flest lärare menar att de utgår från det centrala innehållet i kursplanen när de planerar och genomför sin undervisning. Mot denna bakgrund undersöker detta examensarbete de exempel på undervisningsinnehåll som återges i Skolverkets styrdokument, fördjupningstexter och filmer som kommunicerar teknikämnet. Syftet är att redogöra för hur stor andel av de identifierade exemplen på undervisningsinnehåll som är av den traditionella typen. Vidare avses andra typer av artefakter att identifieras och kategoriseras. Urvalet av material studeras utifrån en kvantitativ innehållsanalys som bearbetar det faktiska innehållet med hjälp av en ram bestående av definierade artefakttyper. Dessa klassificerar och kategoriserar de exempel som identifieras i materialet. Genom de 746 exempel på undervisningsinnehåll som identifierats, visar det sig att 78% av dessa är av den traditionella typen. Vidare ses mönster där de tillverkade materiella föremålen tilldelas centrala platser och där andra icke fysiska verktyg ses som hjälpmedel att utveckla de förstnämnda. Vid studier av enbart det centrala innehållet bekräftas denna dominans i avseende på antal samt att de tillverkade materiella föremålen har en central plats. Andra artefakttyper som identifieras i materialet är naturföremål, cyborger och sociokulturella artefakter. Utifrån resultatet av undersökningen och mot bakgrunden av den teori och de definitioner som utformat ramen presenteras alternativa perspektiv. Dessa vänder på förhållandet så att mer abstrakta innehåll ges centrala platser vilket skapar alternativa sammanhang att diskutera teknik utifrån. Dessa alternativ kan verka för en diskussion kring vad teknikundervisningen i den svenska grundskolan kan innehålla och utformas efter. Inte för att det ena skulle vara mer rätt än det andra men om fler perspektiv synliggörs ges förutsättningar till att på ett reflekterat sätt utforma den undervisning som eftersträvas. Kort och gott kan kunskapen om fler perspektiv skapa förutsättningar för att beslut om undervisningens innehåll fattas utifrån kunskaper om teorier och definitioner, inte utifrån traditioner, föreställningar och känslor. / <p>Teknik</p>

Student Number : 0302215H - PhD thesis - School of Language and Literature Studies - Faculty of Humanities / This study explores the meaning of contemporary Kenyan popular music by undertaking literary interpretations of song lyrics and musical styles. In making these interpretations, the fabric of popular song is shown to be a network of referents and associations with texts situated both within and outside of the song-texts. As polyphonic discourse, these vast range of textual and paratextual referents opens up various points of engagement between artiste, songtext and audience and in the process, the surplus meanings generated by both the poetry of the text and the referents embedded within it account for the significance of popular songs as concrete articulations that mediate the realities of modern Kenya. Through the six chapters that make up the core of the study we see the mini-dramas that are played out in the material conditions within which the songs are produced; in the iconographies that are generated by artistes' stage names and album titles; in the strategies of memory work that connect present-day realities to old cultural practices; in the soundtracks of urban spaces and in those of domesticated global cultural trends and finally, in the mediation of the antinomies surrounding the metanarrative of the nation and the realization of political transition. I conclude by suggesting that Kenyan popular music demonstrates how contemporary postcolonial texts inform one another, opening up a dialogue between texts and also between local events, experiences and knowledges. Equally important, the study defines contemporary Kenyan culture by working out the sources of the images and idioms built up in this music and accepting the complexities of postcolonial existence as a site of fluid interaction between various cultural practices and competing modernities.

This thesis is the result of my work with the Military Nature-Centered community. The first thing is does it examine some of the distinctive features of the population, such as its history, sense of community, magical consciousness. It then presents the military Nature-Centered community as an emergent tradition.

Apesar de milenar e ricamente inserido na cultura, o consumo de drogas ainda é encarado como um tabu na sociedade de hoje. Este trabalho visa entender e discutir de maneira crítica as características do consumo de drogas na sociedade contemporânea. Para isso, no primeiro capítulo é estudado a história da formação do sujeito e da sociedade Moderna, que nas revoluções burguesas e nas guerras mundiais definem o cenário de ascensão do consumismo. No segundo capítulo é feito um breve levantamento da história das drogas com suas diferentes inserções na vida dos homens, marcando que seu consumo é histórico, e posteriormente é traçado o atual estado da discussão sobre drogas nos âmbitos políticos e científico. No terceiro capítulo discute-se sobre o sujeito que consome a droga e sua formação subjetiva e psíquica e a intima relação que esta formação tem com o social. No quarto capítulo é explorado as características sociais em que o sujeito consumidor de drogas se insere e é analisado as características contraditórias que constituem o consumo de drogas na contemporaneidade. Amplamente utilizada, as drogas são divididas em categorias quanto a sua legalidade ou sua finalidade e desse modo se incentiva o consumo de alguns tipos e se proíbe o consumo de outros. Tal contradição permite que se projete nas drogas, pelo seu consumo e pelo seu combate, toda a agressividade do instinto de morte gerado por um sistema que idolatra o novo e é excessivamente repressivo, cobrando o máximo de desempenho dos sujeito. Neste contexto, o consumo torna-se a principal atividade mantenedora do sistema produtivo, tanto pela parte econômica de dominação, quanto por romper os vínculos com o passado e com toda a tradição que poderia oferecer algum tipo de suporte ao sujeito que se encontra desamparado. O consumo de drogas, irreflexivo, serve bem a esse sistema pois dele se ignora todo o passado e o possível futuro, exigindo apenas o prazer máximo e momentâneo / Although ancient and richly inserted in culture, drug use is still seen as a taboo in today\'s society. This work aims to understand and discuss critically the drug use characteristics in contemporary society. For this, the first chapter is studied the history of the formation of the subject and the Modern society, which in bourgeois revolutions and world wars define the rise of consumerism scenario. The second chapter made a brief survey of the history of drugs with their different inserts in the lives of men, marking its consumption is historical, and is later traced the current state of the drugs on discussion in the political and scientific fields. In the third chapter discusses about the subject consuming the drug and its subjective and psychological training and the close relationship that this training has with the social. In the fourth chapter is explored social features in the drug consumer subject is inserted and is analyzed the contradictory characteristics that make up the drug use nowadays. Widely used, the drugs are divided into categories as its legality or its purpose and is thus encourages the consumption of certain types and prohibits the consumption of others. This contradiction allows you to design on drugs, its consumption and its combat, all the aggressiveness of the death instinct generated by a system that worships the new and is overly repressive, charging the maximum performance of the subject. In this context, consumption becomes the main sponsor activity manufacturing, both for the economic part of domination, as to break ties with the past and with all the tradition that could offer some kind of support to the individual who is helpless. Drug use, unreflective, serves well to this system because it is ignored all the past and the possible future, requiring only the maximum and momentary pleasure

La thèse présente en premier lieu l'historique de la découverte du texte, les sources textuelles, les différentes éditions et commentaires du sāmavidhānabrāhmaṇa. La partie succédante de l'étude expose le corpus du sāmaveda qui, à ce jour, compte cent sāmagrantha avec une recension la plus complète possible et une présentation de chaque œuvre. Puis quelques notions-racines sont revisitées afin de mieux circonscrire le pouvoir d'expression du Mot intuitif dans son application sāman. La manière dont s'exécute le stotra, cette louange chantée, est décryptée jusqu'à son emploi particulier dans le yajña et la place de l'udgātṛ. S'il est des variantes justifiées entre les deux sam̐hitā (ṛc, sāma) celles-ci sont relevées pour leur pertinence au texte, puisque chaque résultante de l'action est déclenchée par le chant de l'ardent. Un examen de l'éthique de vie, l'art de vie, la biosphère, l'environnement sociétal et économique du quotidien qui émane de ce texte indatable, permet de saisir aussi l'évolution de la culture indo-iranienne depuis la proto-histoire dans sa tradition orale. En dernière partie de ce volume est présentée la composition textuelle du sāmavidhānabrāhmaṇa. Un accent est mis tout particulièrement sur ses traits remarquables. Les études historiques, philologiques et épistémologiques sont revisitées au regard de leur contexte. Le volume se clôt par le chapitre douze portant sur les questions ouvertes soulevées par le texte. Le deuxième volume présente le texte sanskrit des trois éditions du sāmavidhānabrāhmaṇa, texte devanāgarī en mode continu et translittéré en mode padapāṭha reconstruit. / The thesis first presents the history of the discovery of the text, the textual sources, the different editions and comments on sāmavidhānabrāhmaṇa. The succeeding part of the study presents the corpus of the sāmaveda which, to date, counts hundred sāmagrantha in the most comprehensive review possible and a presentation of each work. Then a few basic concepts are revisited in order to define in a better way the power of expression of the intuitive Word in its application sāman. The ways and means the stotra is executed, this chanted praise, is decrypted unto its specific employment in the yajña and the udgātṛ in his place. If there have been justified variations between the two sam̐hitā (ṛc, sāma), these have been taken up as regards their relevancy throughout the text, since each resultant of action is triggered by the chant of the ardent one. A review of the ethics of life, the art of life, the biosphere, the societal and economic environment of everyday life that emerge from this undatable text also allows us to capture the evolution of the Indo-Iranian culture since the proto-history in its oral tradition. In the final part of this volume is presented the textual life of the sāmavidhānabrāhmaṇa. Emphasis is specially laid on its remarkable traits. The historical, philological and epistemological studies are reconsidered from their context. The volume ends with chapter twelve which deals with open questions raised by the text. The second volume presents the Sanskrit text of the three available editions of sāmavidhānabrāhmaṇa, continuous devanāgarī text, and then transliterated in reconstructed padapāṭha mode.

嚴淑儀. / "2002年6月" / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2002. / 參考文獻 (leaves 197-205) / 附中英文摘要. / "2002 nian 6 yue" / Yan Shuyi. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2002. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 197-205) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / 麥金太爾著作縮寫表 --- p.VIII / 引言 --- p.IX / Chapter 第一章 --- 當代倫理學困境 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 麥金太爾對當代道德困境的描述 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節 --- 不可共量性與不相容性 --- p.10 / Chapter 第三節 --- 啓蒙運動以來的單一理性觀 --- p.24 / Chapter 第四節 --- 情感主義、相對主義與觀點主義 --- p.42 / Chapter 第二章 --- 麥金太爾對傳統之合理性的說明 --- p.55 / Chapter 第一節 --- 由傳統建構之理性觀的特色 --- p.55 / Chapter 第二節 --- 在傳統中體現的理性探究 --- p.71 / Chapter 第三節 --- 知識論危機 --- p.86 / Chapter 第四節 --- 與啓蒙運動理性觀的對比 --- p.100 / Chapter 第五節 --- 真理和理性證立 --- p.108 / Chapter 第六節 --- 理性探究傳統的理性證立 --- p.116 / Chapter 第七節 --- 道德困境的理性出路 --- p.124 / Chapter 第三章 --- 「傳統之合理性」觀點的理性證立 --- p.128 / Chapter 第一節 --- 對麥金太爾的批評(1) -傳統的理性比較涵蘊普遍主義？ --- p.133 / Chapter 第二節 --- 對麥金太爾的批評(2)- 歷史證立的原則是否自我指涉地不融貫？ --- p.138 / Chapter 第三節 --- 對麥金太爾的批評(3）- 跨傳統的解釋是否可能？ --- p.142 / Chapter 第四節 --- 對麥金太爾的批評(4）- ¯‘ة未效忠任何傳統的個人？ --- p.153 / Chapter 第五節 --- 對麥金太爾的批評(5)- 傳統之間的比較是否解決道德爭議的唯一方法？ --- p.161 / Chapter 第六節 --- 對麥金太爾的批評(6）- 多瑪斯主義包含不容質疑的信仰？ --- p.170 / Chapter 第七節 --- 對啓蒙運動理性探究觀與相對主義的批評 --- p.178 / 結語 --- p.191 / 參考書目 --- p.197