Efter första världskriget var Sovjetunionen en av de första moderna stater som uttryckligen ägnade sig åt att övervaka och styra kulturen, vilket tog sig formen av en formaliserad och institutionaliserad statlig kulturpolitik. I denna övervakningsoch styrningsprocess försåg vetenskap och teknologi staten med konceptuella och materiella resurser vilka användes för att definiera såväl själva processen som föremålet för den. Efter andra världskriget gav utvecklingen inom naturvetenskap och teknik upphov till en ny vetenskap som behandlade frågor kring kontroll och kommunikation, Norbert Wieners cybernetik, vilken fick en bred tillämpning inte enbart inom ingenjörsvetenskapen utan även i frågor som rörde förståelsen av människor, maskiner och samhällen. Denna avhandling undersöker hur cybernetiken påverkade utformningen av den sovjetiska kulturpolitiken. Fokus ligger särskilt på sovjetiska Litauen. Det huvudsakliga argumentet är att en särskilt inflytelserik diskurs rörande cybernetisk styrning och övervakning utformades i Sovjetunionen från 50-talet och framåt. Som ett resultat av en överföring från tekniska och vetenskapliga diskurser var denna diskurs användbar inte bara som ett verktyg för att tjäna staten utan kunde även användas av kulturella aktörer för att kritisera själva sovjetsystemet. Genom att analysera organisatoriska praktiker och officiella och samhälleliga diskurser avslöjar denna studie komplexiteten i förhållandet mellan styrning och övervakning, kultur och vetenskap och teknologi. / After World War I, the Soviet Union was one of the first modern states to engage explicitly in the governance of culture, which was formalised and institutionalised as state cultural policy. In this process of governance, sciences and technologies provided the state with conceptual and material resources, which were used to define both the process and the object of governance. After World War II, scientific and technological progress gave birth to a new science of control and communication, Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics, which was widely used not only in engineering, but also in the conceptualisation of humans, machines and societies. This thesis explores how cybernetics influenced the construction of cultural policy in the Soviet Union. It focuses particularly on the Soviet republic of Lithuania. The main argument is that since the 1950s a particularly powerful discourse of cybernetic governance was formed in the Soviet Union. A result of translation from techno-science, this discourse not only served the purposes of authoritarian rule, but was also used as a resource by cultural operators to criticise the Soviet government itself. By analysing organisational practices and official and public discourses, the study reveals the complexity of the relationship between governance, culture and sciences and technologies.

This paper describes the philosophical and functional framework of the MFA thesis exhibition Samsara Unlimited: towards an ecology of compassion. Samsara Unlimited was designed as a conceptual social artwork that would engage a network of art students and interested participants in developing a collaborative network. Using established high art aesthetics and familiar consumer based signifiers; the gallery was transformed over a week into a production, design and retail facility. In this torqued capitalist micro-system, financial profit was considered critical for the functioning of the system but secondary to the generation of a field of compassion. <p>The project sought to create a process through which the general public could become familiar with the perceptive processes engaged by artists in reconstructing everyday reality. It was posited that the ability to engage these perceptive processes would potentially lead to an ontological shift in the spectator. Participants who entered the gallery space could alter between the functional reality of a concept store and the altered reality of an art gallery. The public was encouraged to visit over the week of the installation to ask questions, get involved in art making process or simply socialize with the artists and artisans involved in the project.

The aim of this thesis is to study Viking Eggeling’s artwork Diagonal Symphony together with Eggeling’s own art theoretical writings. This method of reading Eggeling’s art theoretical writings with the aim to try and create a deeper understanding of his art and especially Diagonal Symphony is a new approach in Eggeling’s art historical discourse. The thesis starts with a description of how the field of art history has understood Eggeling and his art primarily through art historical research aimed at Hans Richter. I then argue that the method of understanding Eggeling’s art through his own art historical writings is a way to create an independent understanding about Eggeling’s art away from it’s explanatory relation with Richter. To understand and to analyze the relation between Eggeling’s art and art theoretical writings the thesis theoretical viewpoint are a system theoretical one with a special focus on cybernetics and the terms feedback and control. The thesis then establish that Eggeling, in his art and art theoretical writings, tried to compose his own method for creating the form figures we can see appearing in Diagonal Symphony and that this method of creating form was a way for Eggeling to control his creativity and to build up a structured system of forms. The study then concludes with the statement that Eggeling worked with the movie and the scrolls Diagonal Symphony as artistic material formations of a system of forms called Diagonal Symphony and that the system of forms called Diagonal Symphony is the result of Eggeling’s systematic method to generate form in a structured and organised way.

This paper describes the philosophical and functional framework of the MFA thesis exhibition Samsara Unlimited: towards an ecology of compassion. Samsara Unlimited was designed as a conceptual social artwork that would engage a network of art students and interested participants in developing a collaborative network. Using established high art aesthetics and familiar consumer based signifiers; the gallery was transformed over a week into a production, design and retail facility. In this torqued capitalist micro-system, financial profit was considered critical for the functioning of the system but secondary to the generation of a field of compassion. <p>The project sought to create a process through which the general public could become familiar with the perceptive processes engaged by artists in reconstructing everyday reality. It was posited that the ability to engage these perceptive processes would potentially lead to an ontological shift in the spectator. Participants who entered the gallery space could alter between the functional reality of a concept store and the altered reality of an art gallery. The public was encouraged to visit over the week of the installation to ask questions, get involved in art making process or simply socialize with the artists and artisans involved in the project.

Cybernetics, despite being initially rejected in the Eastern Bloc throughout the 1950s for ideological reasons, rose to a high level of institutional prominence in the 1960s, profoundly influencing state philosophy and economic planning. This thesis is an examination of this transition, charting the development of cybernetics from the object of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands’s (SED) opprobrium to one of the major philosophical currents within the party intelligentsia.

The birth of a child is a life-changing event in a woman's life. However, women's subjective experiences of giving birth have not been extensively researched, while the literature reflects an inherent realist approach. This has resulted in a decontextualised account of this critical event in women's lives. This conceptual study discusses the body of knowledge on the birthing experience from a widened perspective that includes not only the birthing woman, but also the people she interacts with and the context in which birth is embedded. The study comments on the way birth is managed in technological society and how its inherent Newtonian epistemology impacts on a woman's experience of birth. Ecosystemic epistemology is presented as an alternative approach which provides an holistic understanding of this experience. A reconceptualisation is proposed which acknowledges the social construction of birth. Lastly, the alternative birth movement as a more holistic approach to birth is discussed

Submitted by JOSÉ ANTONIO MAURILIO MILAGRE DE OLIVEIRA null (ja.milagre@gmail.com) on 2016-05-24T12:10:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_jamm_me_mar.pdf: 2437838 bytes, checksum: eda292f5276e7bed32388a02a57f2187 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-05-25T13:32:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_jamm_me_mar.pdf: 2437838 bytes, checksum: eda292f5276e7bed32388a02a57f2187 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-25T13:32:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_jamm_me_mar.pdf: 2437838 bytes, checksum: eda292f5276e7bed32388a02a57f2187 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-29 / O desenvolvimento da Internet transformou o mundo virtual em um repositório infindável de informações. Diariamente, na sociedade da informação, pessoas interagem, capturam e despejam dados nas mais diversas ferramentas de redes sociais e ambientes da Web. Estamos diante do Big Data, uma quantidade inacabável de dados com valor inestimável, porém de difícil tratamento. Não se tem dimensão da quantidade de informação capaz de ser extraída destes grandes repositórios de dados na Web. Um dos grandes desafios atuais na Internet do “Big Data” é lidar com falsidades e perfis falsos em ferramentas sociais, que causam alardes, comoções e danos financeiros significativos em todo o mundo. A inteligência cibernética e computação forense objetivam investigar eventos e constatar informações extraindo dados da rede. Por sua vez, a Ciência da Informação, preocupada com as questões envolvendo a recuperação, tratamento, interpretação e apresentação da informação, dispõe de elementos que quando aplicados neste contexto podem aprimorar processos de coleta e tratamento de grandes volumes de dados, na detecção de perfis falsos. Assim, por meio da presente pesquisa de revisão de literatura, documental e exploratória, buscou-se revisar os estudos internacionais envolvendo a detecção de perfis falsos em redes sociais, investigando técnicas e tecnologias aplicadas e principalmente, suas limitações. Igualmente, apresenta-se no presente trabalho contribuições de áreas da Ciência da Informação e critérios para a construção de ferramentas que se destinem à identificação de perfis falsos, por meio da apresentação de uma proposta de modelo conceitual. Identificou-se, na pesquisa, que a Ciência da Informação pode contribuir com a construção de aplicações e frameworks para que usuários possam identificar e discernir perfis reais de perfis questionáveis, diariamente despejados na Web. / The development of the Internet changed the virtual world in an endless repository of information. Every single day, in an information-society, people change, catch and turn out files in different tools of social network and Web surrounding. We are in front of “The Big Data”, an endless amount of data with invaluable, but hard treating. It doesn’t have some dimension of measure information to be able of extracting from these big Web data repositories. One of the most challenges nowadays on the Internet from the “Big Data” is to identify feelings, anticipating sceneries dealing with falsehood and false profiles social tools, which cause fanfare, upheavals and significant financial losses worldwide in front of our true scene. The cyber intelligence has by objective to look for events and finding information, subtracting dates from the Web. On the other hand, the Information Science, worried with the questions involving recovery, processing, interpretation and presentation of information that has important areas of study capable of being applied in this context hone the collection and treatment processes of large volumes of information (datas). Thus, through this research literature review, documentary and exploratory, the researcher aimed to review the International studies implicating the analysis of large volumes of data on social networking tools in falsehoods detection, investigating applied techniques and technologies and especially their limitations. Based on the identified concepts and areas of Information Science, also (equaly), it’s the scope of this research to show a suggestion of “framework” that is able to detect or indicate falsehoods, specifically, has the ability to detect profiles, false identities and misinformation, rumors, or unreliable information, processing large volumes of data on social networking tools. It was identified with this research, the Information Science can contribute to building skilled frameworks to provide criteria so that users can identify and discern actual content of questionable content, dumped daily on the Web.

Esta dissertação trata das relações de poder que marcam a produção científica ocidental moderna a partir da abordagem dos estudos sobre Gênero e Ciência da feminista historiadora da ciência estadunidense Donna Haraway. Esta autora propõe a concepção de toda a produção de conhecimento como pratica política, assumindo a perspectiva parcial como fundamento para uma ciência objetiva e apontando a perspectiva de objetividade calcada na ideia de imparcialidade como produtora de um tipo de saber que historicamente serviu como instrumento de dominação: o conhecimento que se propõe como universal. Em sua narrativa, o androcentrismo, o etnocentrismo, o racismo e as divisões de classe operam na conformação e nas transformações desta ciência a partir da construção de um sujeito privilegiado do conhecimento, o cientista, figura constituída a imagem e semelhança do homem branco ocidental independente. Meu recorte de sua obra são as reformulações dessas relações ao longo da historia da ciência ocidental moderna observadas por ela na emergência e nas produções de um conjunto especifico de disciplinas do campo das ciências naturais biológicas, fortemente marcadas pelas teorias e tecnologias da informação e da comunicação produzidas no campo da cibernética. Na construção de um discurso critico sobre os saberes / poderes hegemônicos, Haraway traz para a cena da ciência figuras monstruosas, entre elas o ciborgue, tanto como meio de revelar categorias culturais atuando na produção do conhecimento como para materializar novos significados para natureza, os corpos e as relações de diferença. Em conexão com esses monstros, refigurados em suas narrativas, a autora defende uma relação de conexão, e não de divisão, entre sujeito e objeto do saber. / This dissertation abords the power relations that mark the modern occidental scientific production from the point of view of the Gender and Science studies of the north-american feminist and historian of science Donna Haraway. The author proposes a conception of all the knowledge production as a political practice, assuming a partial perspective as a fundament to an objective science and pointing the objectivity perspective based on the idea of impartiality as a producer of a type of knowledge that historically served as an instrument of domination: the knowledge that proposes itself as universal. In her narrative, the androcentrism, ethnocentrism, racism and the class divisions operate on the conformation and the transformations of this science from the construction of a knowledge privileged persona, the scientist, character developed from the image and similarity of an independent western white man. My extract of the book is the reformulations of these relationships along with the modern western science observed by the author in the emerging and in the productions of a specific group of disciplines in the field of biological natural science, which were strongly marked by the theory and technology of information and communication produced in the cybernetic science. In the construction of a critic discussion about the hegemonic nowerpowers, Haraway brings monstrous characters to light, among them a cyborg, as much as a way to revel cultural categories acting in the knowledge production as to materialize new meanings to the nature, bodies and the differences relationships. Compromised with these monsters, human figures and non-human redefined in her narratives, the author defends a relationship of connection, and not of division, between the subject and the object of knowledge.

Esta dissertação trata das relações de poder que marcam a produção científica ocidental moderna a partir da abordagem dos estudos sobre Gênero e Ciência da feminista historiadora da ciência estadunidense Donna Haraway. Esta autora propõe a concepção de toda a produção de conhecimento como pratica política, assumindo a perspectiva parcial como fundamento para uma ciência objetiva e apontando a perspectiva de objetividade calcada na ideia de imparcialidade como produtora de um tipo de saber que historicamente serviu como instrumento de dominação: o conhecimento que se propõe como universal. Em sua narrativa, o androcentrismo, o etnocentrismo, o racismo e as divisões de classe operam na conformação e nas transformações desta ciência a partir da construção de um sujeito privilegiado do conhecimento, o cientista, figura constituída a imagem e semelhança do homem branco ocidental independente. Meu recorte de sua obra são as reformulações dessas relações ao longo da historia da ciência ocidental moderna observadas por ela na emergência e nas produções de um conjunto especifico de disciplinas do campo das ciências naturais biológicas, fortemente marcadas pelas teorias e tecnologias da informação e da comunicação produzidas no campo da cibernética. Na construção de um discurso critico sobre os saberes / poderes hegemônicos, Haraway traz para a cena da ciência figuras monstruosas, entre elas o ciborgue, tanto como meio de revelar categorias culturais atuando na produção do conhecimento como para materializar novos significados para natureza, os corpos e as relações de diferença. Em conexão com esses monstros, refigurados em suas narrativas, a autora defende uma relação de conexão, e não de divisão, entre sujeito e objeto do saber. / This dissertation abords the power relations that mark the modern occidental scientific production from the point of view of the Gender and Science studies of the north-american feminist and historian of science Donna Haraway. The author proposes a conception of all the knowledge production as a political practice, assuming a partial perspective as a fundament to an objective science and pointing the objectivity perspective based on the idea of impartiality as a producer of a type of knowledge that historically served as an instrument of domination: the knowledge that proposes itself as universal. In her narrative, the androcentrism, ethnocentrism, racism and the class divisions operate on the conformation and the transformations of this science from the construction of a knowledge privileged persona, the scientist, character developed from the image and similarity of an independent western white man. My extract of the book is the reformulations of these relationships along with the modern western science observed by the author in the emerging and in the productions of a specific group of disciplines in the field of biological natural science, which were strongly marked by the theory and technology of information and communication produced in the cybernetic science. In the construction of a critic discussion about the hegemonic nowerpowers, Haraway brings monstrous characters to light, among them a cyborg, as much as a way to revel cultural categories acting in the knowledge production as to materialize new meanings to the nature, bodies and the differences relationships. Compromised with these monsters, human figures and non-human redefined in her narratives, the author defends a relationship of connection, and not of division, between the subject and the object of knowledge.

O surgimento das tecnologias da informação e da comunicação na sociedade moderna, faz emergir também novas formas e possibilidades de comunicação e educação, em um processo de inter-relação. A mediação tecnológica presente nos espaços educativos altera a maneira de pensar e intervir, produzindo novas educações e modificando de fato as relações sociais. Os grupos de estudo instalados dentro de universidades são, na atualidade, diretamente influenciados pelo avanço tecnológico e permitem, com o advento da Internet, a comunicação e a interação com outros espaços educativos, possibilitando a criação de uma rede de conhecimento. O Grupo de Estudo Cibernética Pedagógica Laboratório de Linguagens Digitais LLD, reforçando seu histórico na relação entre comunicação e educação por meio das novas tecnologias, propõe ampliar essa discussão, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento de pesquisas na área. / The emergence of information technology and communication in modern society, bring out new forms and possibilities of communication and education, in a process of interrelationship. The technological mediation present in the educational spaces, changes the way of think, producing \"new educations\" and changing the social relations. The study groups are installed in universities, in currently, are influenced by technology advanced and allow, with the advent of Internet communication and interaction with other educational spaces enabling the creation of a knowledge network. The Study Group Pedagogical Cybernetics - Digital Language Lab - LLD, increasing its history in the interrelationship communication and education through new technologies proposes to extend this discussion by contributing to the development of research in the area.