Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / Please refer to full text for abstract.

This thesis discusses the explication of the implicit side of language, from the perspective of the self, the social, and the text, as situated in the wider context of thinking about language 'beyond post-modernism.' Language is first discussed as an intricacy, an intricate and changing complex of explicit signs and implicit elements and processes. It is shown that the implicit processes, such the speaking of being (Heidegger), focusing (Gendlin), and the interrelatedness of language and culture (Agar), are ruptured by processes like deconstruction (Derrida) and the semiotic breach of the symbolic (Kristeva). Explication brings a part of the implicit to the surface in the form of creativity (Deleuze) and critique, which is also discussed in the examples of play (Gadamer) and care. The transformations involved are illustrated in reflections on writing (Plato), poetry (Trakl), life as immigrant, and on translation as a philosophical practice.

Cette thèse aborde la question de la valeur de la littérature contemporaine, en posant la question de la puissance de la création langagière. Dans la mesure où l’humanisme tombe en désuétude avec la fin de l’hégémonie médiatique de l’imprimerie, et où le capitalisme contemporain assigne à la culture un rôle économique et récréatif, la « littérature » se retrouve sans « critère final » pour penser sa puissance non économique. En d’autres termes, quels sont les effets intermédiaux de la création langagière livresque qui survivent à l’humanisme tout en résistant à la communication récréative? Il en va bien sûr de la nature même de la « création littéraire ». Le premier chapitre explore les liens entre l’humanisme et l’imprimerie à partir d’un concept de fongibilité, et introduit un ensemble de concepts clé. Le deuxième chapitre présente un autre ensemble de concepts (dont le geste vertical), cette fois pour penser le langage en termes de pouvoir et de puissance. Le troisième chapitre aborde le « capitalisme civilisationnel » en termes intermédiaux. On y réfléchit sur la saturation, la séparation et la fenestration, notamment à partir d’une éthique du jeu. Le quatrième chapitre traite de la question de la plasticité. Enfin, les cinquième et sixième chapitres forment deux exemples – des exemples de puissance – à partir des oeuvres de Valère Novarina (Lumières du corps) et de David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest). Le corpus théorique se compose d’éléments puisés d’une part dans l’oeuvre de Walter Benjamin et de Giorgio Agamben, selon un matérialisme messianique, et d’autre part dans celle de Gilles Deleuze. Certaines considérations sont également tenues sous l’influence de Michel Foucault et de Ludwig Wittgenstein. / This thesis broaches the value of contemporary literature as power (puissance) of language creation. Given that humanism becomes obsolete with the end of the printing press media dominance, and given that contemporary capitalism assigns an economical and recreational role to culture, “literature” is left without any “final criterion” to think its non-economical power. In other words, which intermedial effects of language creation through book form survives humanism while withstanding recreational communication? In the process, the practice of creative writing and its idea are set under a new paradigm. The first chapter explores the relationships between humanism and the printing press based on a concept of fungibility, and it introduces a set of key concepts. The second chapter presents another set of concepts (including vertical gesture), this time in order to think language in terms of ruling power (pouvoir) and virtual power (puissance). Chapter three broaches the idea of “civilizational capitalism” in intermedial terms. Saturation, separation and windowing are considered according to a game/play ethic. Chapter four is about plasticity. Finally, chapters five and six follow two examples—examples of virtual power, those of contemporary French writer Valère Novarina (Lumières du corps) and American novelist David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest). The theoretical corpus is composed of elements taken, on the one hand, from Walter Benjamin’s and Giorgio Agamben’s works (regarding messianic materialism), and on the other hand, from Gilles Deleuze’s works. Some ideas are also influenced by Michel Foucault’s and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s works.

Drugs, Danger, Delusions (and Deleuzians?) opens up a philosophical investigation into a series of ‘extreme’ mind and body films drawn from different historical contexts. Through two sections and four distinct chapters, cinema is explored as an agent of becoming that allows viewers to think and feel in an affected manner. Investigating a broad spectrum of extreme narratives focusing on drugs, hooligan violence, insomnia and madness, the project provides a focused historical understanding of the films’ affective regimes and aesthetic agendas. The different lines of flight and escape explored on-screen all somehow appear to spiral around the same issues, concepts, ideas and philosophies. Utilising the cinematic theories of Gilles Deleuze along with his philosophical work co-authored with Félix Guattari, the thesis aims to investigate a range of related films, that in the extreme, reveal underlying models of an integrated or parallel mind and body and immanently embedded identity; wherein the concept of a stable and fixed being is replaced by that of a fluid becoming. All chapters investigate how immanently embedded characters embark upon extreme or dangerous lines of escape, where the reinvention of living and thinking is explored and made visible. The first section investigates a range of ‘head-films’ that take the mind as their theme, but are found to plicate and expand consciousness into the parallel body. The second section investigates extreme body films that push the sensory-motor schema to its limits so that thought, perception and consciousness become affected. The two interrelated sections investigate how the films and filmmakers employ different regimes of mind and body cinema to aesthetically convey and relay these concepts to the spectator. The project thus strives to develop Deleuzian paradigms beyond their original scope to explore parallel-image regimes and sequences that allow spectators to think and feel the films’ underlying philosophical concepts and positions.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Nash.pdf: 1690915 bytes, checksum: bfb10abe06787448339a20808dab6a85 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-16 / Sounds and scene have always been connected to each other. Throughout history, several ways of connecting them were developed. Regarding the understanding of the principles which motivated the development of this relationship between sound and scenic compounds, this dissertation intends to research this relation to such a hybrid process of creation, lately amplified into several media. The goal is to understand the means of connecting sound to drama elements: the spoken or sung text, or even the soundtrack, the body (gesture, light, space and other methods of capture and register). With such a goal, the work presents a detailed history of ways to relate both languages to each other (text and sound) as well as other elements which can concur to the scene. The concept basis employed to such reading was taken from Gilles Deleuze and Paul Zumthor. From these authors some concepts are fundamental. From Deleuze, the concept of ritornello and becoming; from Zumthor, the orality studies and the relation between sung voice, spoken voice and body presence into the performatic happening. The dissertation is presented in two parts, each one with two chapters, in which the first part has a map of the relation between the two languages since its beginning to the most recent results brought by the media. The second part accounts for two study cases on the relation between sound creation and scenic creation in which it focuses, above all, in the process of creation by different media, which presents the body as the element to join both sound and visual layers. Along with the theoretical and analytical text, there are also two records in digital media of both works analyzed and enabled in complete format on the site: htpp://ricardonash.spaces.live.com / Música e cena sempre se correlacionaram. Ao longo da história, foram desenvolvidas diversas formas de relacioná-los. Com o intuito de entender os princípios que motivaram o desenvolvimento entre os componentes musicais e cênicos, essa dissertação de mestrado tem por objetivo pesquisar essa forma de relação como um processo híbrido de criação atualmente implicado nas mais diversas mídias. O que se pretende com isso é entender os modos de relação do som com os elementos dramáticos: o texto falado ou cantado, ou mesmo a trilha sonora, e o corpo (gesto, iluminação, espaço e outros mecanismos de captação e registro). O trabalho apresenta um histórico detalhado das formas de relação entre as duas linguagens (o texto e o som) bem como outros elementos que possam concorrer à cena. As bases conceituais empregadas para tal leitura foram tomadas de Gilles Deleuze, Paul Zumthor e Haroldo de Campos. Desses autores, alguns conceitos são fundamentais: de Deleuze os conceitos de ritornelo e devir, de Zumthor, os estudos de oralidade e as relações entre voz cantada, voz falada e a presença do corpo no acontecimento performático; de Campos, o conceito de tradução. A dissertação apresenta-se em duas partes, com dois capítulos cada uma. A primeira traz um mapeamento da relação entre as duas linguagens, desde seus primórdios até as decorrências mais recentes trazidas pelas novas mídias. A segunda parte estuda dois casos de relação entre a criação sonora e a criação cênica, focalizando, sobretudo, o processo de criação em mídias distintas que apresenta o corpo como o elemento de acoplamento das camadas visuais e sonoras. Junto ao texto teórico e analítico, há dois registros em mídia digital, dos dois trabalhos analisados disponibilizados em formato completo no site: htpp://ricardonash.spaces.live.com

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Iara H Magalhaes.pdf: 1225338 bytes, checksum: ea1a4ace24b813af850a8da1762a94c7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper aims to study the compositional technique of cinema, researching the technique of creation of the movie São Jerônimo, by Júlio Bressane, based in the design of the time. São Jerônimo was constructed from a series of documents, readings, paintings, thesis that traverse between fascination for iconography linked to the saint and the immanence of the film construction. A process of translation of the process of translating. The focus of this research is the time. The time that arises from the emancipation of the movement through light and sound time in the cinematographic image and drama. This paper was based theoretically in two works by Gilles Deleuze The image-movement and The image-time. The study of the concept image-time time emancipated from movement as the original regime of imagine and sign of the modern cinema, made it possible for us to see, hear and feel the time in São Jerônimo. We also studied the Peircian semiotics, the principles of the filmic analysis, the role of the sound in the cinema, the theoretical production of Brazilian researchers on critique of movies and unpublished works about photography in the creation of films.The method used to do the reading of the film involved three stages: in the first we studied the qualities, the shapes, the codes and their materialization in the composition of the audio-visual images, observing the framing, decoupage, the movement of the camera, the montage and materialization of the rhythmical ideas and their interactions; in the second stage we investigated the audiovisual images as aesthetical objects through the image-time concept; in the third stage we analyised the disjunction between the visual and audio images of the movie.The analysis of São Jerônimo made us to come to the following conclusion: its images immobilized the visual and sound aspects. The sound tries to take the film out of the visual field framed in the screen, in a centrifugal movement, but it detains itself in several deviations, tending to the purity of sound, while the visual aspect rapidly drags us to territories of excess or shortage of light the desert and Rome in a centripetal movement that leads, however, to disconnected and decentralized places, resisting to the photo grams and the images in movement. São Jerônimo, design of a moving material that cuts the cinematographic plan and rearrange the cuts that present the time. Jerônimo, Bressane and Deleuze s intercessor / Esse trabalho destina-se a estudar a técnica composicional no cinema, pesquisando a técnica de criação do filme São Jerônimo, de Júlio Bressane, segundo um desenho do tempo. São Jerônimo foi construído a partir de uma série de documentos, leituras, pinturas, teses que transitam entre o fascínio pela iconografia ligada ao santo e a imanência do filme sendo realizado. Um processo de tradução do processo de traduzir. O foco dessa pesquisa é o tempo. O tempo que nasce da emancipação do movimento pela luz e pelo som. O tempo na imagem e no drama cinematográficos. Esse estudo orientou-se pelas obras A imagem-movimento e A imagem-tempo, de Gilles Deleuze. O estudo do conceito imagem-tempo, tempo emancipado do movimento, como o regime original das imagens e signos da modernidade do cinema, possibilitou-nos pensar as técnicas de ver, ouvir e sentir o tempo em São Jerônimo. Ancorando a pesquisa, estudamos a semiótica Peirciana, os fundamentos da análise fílmica, o papel do som no cinema, a produção teórica de pesquisadores brasileiros sobre análise e crítica de filmes, e trabalhos inéditos sobre a fotografia na criação de filmes. A análise da técnica de luteria do filme compreendeu três etapas: na primeira estudamos as qualidades, as formas, os códigos e suas materializações nas composições das imagens audiovisuais, observando os enquadramentos, as decupagens, os movimentos de câmera, as montagens e as materializações de idéias rítmicas e suas interações; na segunda etapa investigamos as imagens audiovisuais como objetos estéticos através do conceito imagem-tempo; e na terceira etapa estudamos a disjunção entre as imagens visuais e sonoras do filme. A análise de São Jerônimo nos conduziu a uma constatação: suas imagens imobilizam o visual e o sonoro. O sonoro ensaia levar o filme para fora do campo visual enquadrado na tela, num movimento centrífugo, mas se detém em diversos desvios, tendendo à pureza do próprio som; e o visual se apressa a tragar-nos para territórios fundados pelo excesso ou escassez de luz, o deserto e Roma, num movimento centrípeto, todavia para lugares desconexos e sem centros, resistindo aos fotogramas e às imagens em movimento. São Jerônimo, desenho de uma matéria movente a cortar os planos e re-encadeando os cortes a nos apresentar o tempo. Jerônimo intercessor de Bressane e de Deleuze

Apresentamos neste trabalho um estudo sobre a processualidade das relações da escola pública com a comunidade, enfocando os agenciamentos que operam na constituição de diferentes modos de relação em uma instituição situada na região metropolitana de Porto Alegre. Sob os referenciais de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, procuramos pensar as relações como acontecimentos, efeitos de sentidos, agenciados coletivamente por instâncias heterogêneas que compõem o real social. Nosso problema se inscreve no âmbito do discurso e da subjetividade, partindo da hipótese de que é possível pensar as relações nas instituições, para além das representações individuais, para além das relações interpessoais, para além do pressuposto da reprodução social. Procuramos articular conhecimentos da Análise de Discurso na vertente Francesa com as discussões empreendidas por Deleuze e Guattari sobre uma Filosofia da Linguagem e uma Teoria da Subjetividade. Utilizamos o recurso cartográfico proposto por estes autores, trabalhando com os discursos produzidos no encontro da escola com a comunidade. Para tal acompanhamos as atividades de uma escola durante um ano, realizando entrevistas, observações, leitura de documentos, participando de reuniões e encontros festivos. Encontramos em nosso estudo algumas dobras das relações da escola com a comunidade, dobras que nos falam da sua complexidade, a qual temos deixado escapar, ao entendermos as relações, marcados pelo modo-indivíduo de subjetivação, que ganhou força desde a modernidade. Nossa cartografia registrou várias dobras, algumas um pouco mais intensas, como a dobra burocrática, a qual impede que outras forças possam ser potencializadas na escola. Procuramos aqui construir um modo de pensar as relações nas instituições, um pensar nas dobras, para regar um pouco o campo da Análise Institucional no âmbito da Psicologia e da Educação. / This research present a study on the manner of proceeding of the relations between public school and community, focusing on the agencement that works in the constitution of the different ways of relations in an educational institution of the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. Based on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, we try to think of the relations as events, effects of meaning collectivelly agenced by heterogeneous instances that compose the real social. Our problem concerns the field of action of discourse and subjectivity , assuming the hypothesis that it is possible to conceive the relations in the institutions beyond the individual representation, the interpersonal relations and the postulation of the social reproduction. We intend to join the knowledge of the Discourse Analysis of the French trend to the discussion proposed by Deleuze and Guattary on a Philosophy of the Language and a Theory of Subjectivity. We use the cartographic resource proposed by these authors, working with the discourses produced by the interaction between school and community. To accomplish such proposal we attended school activities during a year , having interviews, observations, documents reading as well as participating in meetings and festive gatherings.In our study we found some foldings concerning the relations between school and community. These foldings show us the complexity of this relations which we have ignored when trying to understand it based on the individual mode of subjectivity which has become stronger since modern times. Our cartography recorded many foldings, some more intense like the bureaucratic folding which prevents other forces from being more powerful at school. We intend to develop a way of thinking of the realtions in the institutions, a thought of the foldings, to feed the field of the Institutional Analysis of Psychology and Education.

Cette thèse aborde la question de la valeur de la littérature contemporaine, en posant la question de la puissance de la création langagière. Dans la mesure où l’humanisme tombe en désuétude avec la fin de l’hégémonie médiatique de l’imprimerie, et où le capitalisme contemporain assigne à la culture un rôle économique et récréatif, la « littérature » se retrouve sans « critère final » pour penser sa puissance non économique. En d’autres termes, quels sont les effets intermédiaux de la création langagière livresque qui survivent à l’humanisme tout en résistant à la communication récréative? Il en va bien sûr de la nature même de la « création littéraire ». Le premier chapitre explore les liens entre l’humanisme et l’imprimerie à partir d’un concept de fongibilité, et introduit un ensemble de concepts clé. Le deuxième chapitre présente un autre ensemble de concepts (dont le geste vertical), cette fois pour penser le langage en termes de pouvoir et de puissance. Le troisième chapitre aborde le « capitalisme civilisationnel » en termes intermédiaux. On y réfléchit sur la saturation, la séparation et la fenestration, notamment à partir d’une éthique du jeu. Le quatrième chapitre traite de la question de la plasticité. Enfin, les cinquième et sixième chapitres forment deux exemples – des exemples de puissance – à partir des oeuvres de Valère Novarina (Lumières du corps) et de David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest). Le corpus théorique se compose d’éléments puisés d’une part dans l’oeuvre de Walter Benjamin et de Giorgio Agamben, selon un matérialisme messianique, et d’autre part dans celle de Gilles Deleuze. Certaines considérations sont également tenues sous l’influence de Michel Foucault et de Ludwig Wittgenstein. / This thesis broaches the value of contemporary literature as power (puissance) of language creation. Given that humanism becomes obsolete with the end of the printing press media dominance, and given that contemporary capitalism assigns an economical and recreational role to culture, “literature” is left without any “final criterion” to think its non-economical power. In other words, which intermedial effects of language creation through book form survives humanism while withstanding recreational communication? In the process, the practice of creative writing and its idea are set under a new paradigm. The first chapter explores the relationships between humanism and the printing press based on a concept of fungibility, and it introduces a set of key concepts. The second chapter presents another set of concepts (including vertical gesture), this time in order to think language in terms of ruling power (pouvoir) and virtual power (puissance). Chapter three broaches the idea of “civilizational capitalism” in intermedial terms. Saturation, separation and windowing are considered according to a game/play ethic. Chapter four is about plasticity. Finally, chapters five and six follow two examples—examples of virtual power, those of contemporary French writer Valère Novarina (Lumières du corps) and American novelist David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest). The theoretical corpus is composed of elements taken, on the one hand, from Walter Benjamin’s and Giorgio Agamben’s works (regarding messianic materialism), and on the other hand, from Gilles Deleuze’s works. Some ideas are also influenced by Michel Foucault’s and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s works.