Since the end of the American Folk Revival, in the late 1960s, folk festivals have undergone a dramatic change. Concurrently, folk music was transformed through capital from its origins as national folkloric music to a successful popular music genre. As professional folk music emerged during the late 1950s and 1960s many young people began to get involved. This involvement, often in the promotion of community oriented folk music events, set the stage for the development of independent community folk music clubs and festivals. These two trends (folk music as cultural commodity and folk music as community expression) flowed through one another sweeping away nationalist folk music and leaving an open space. During the 1970s, political and social changes were occurring across North America. The emergence of what Michael Foucault called biopolitics began to change how young people related to the idea of folk music and to the general field of political action. At the same time, organized leftwing political groups, many of which developed out of early 20th century political movements, broke down or splintered into many smaller groups. Some disenchanted political activists turned towards cultural programming as an outlet for their political desire. Along side this, American draft dodgers and Canadian back-to-the-landers moved, from the south and the east, into the Canadian west. Out of this diverse social energy developed urban and rural folk music festivals. Until now folk music festivals in western Canada have not been systematically surveyed nor has their operation been theorized as a mode of creative production. This work develops a historically grounded approach to folk music as a means of social production and challenges the idea that folk music is only a music genre. I conclude, using a theoretical approach developed by Deleuze and Guattari, that contemporary folk music festivals make use of social capital to establish a folk music assemblage. This assemblage provides an alternative, non-centralized, and increasingly global alternative for the flow of music capital. Folk music is no longer a style of music but a mode of doing business in music that is socially oriented and politically and economically potent. / Music

This thesis addresses the question posed to ecocriticism by Dana Phillips in his iconoclastic The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America: “What is the truth of ecology, insofar as this truth is addressed by literature and art?” by examining how ecocriticism has, or has failed to, contextualize ecocritical discourse within an ecological framework. After reviewing the current state of ecocriticism and its relationship with environmentalism, the thesis suggests that both rely on the same outmoded, inaccurate and essentially inutile ecological concepts and language, and argues for a new approach to ecocriticism that borrows its concepts and language from the geophilosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The thesis concludes with a reassessment of the work of Barry Lopez, showing how his fiction, when viewed through the lens of geophilosophy, does not support essentialist notions of nature, but rather works to articulate a world of multiplicities, and new modes of becoming.

This thesis addresses the question posed to ecocriticism by Dana Phillips in his iconoclastic The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America: “What is the truth of ecology, insofar as this truth is addressed by literature and art?” by examining how ecocriticism has, or has failed to, contextualize ecocritical discourse within an ecological framework. After reviewing the current state of ecocriticism and its relationship with environmentalism, the thesis suggests that both rely on the same outmoded, inaccurate and essentially inutile ecological concepts and language, and argues for a new approach to ecocriticism that borrows its concepts and language from the geophilosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The thesis concludes with a reassessment of the work of Barry Lopez, showing how his fiction, when viewed through the lens of geophilosophy, does not support essentialist notions of nature, but rather works to articulate a world of multiplicities, and new modes of becoming.

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This thesis addresses the question posed to ecocriticism by Dana Phillips in his iconoclastic The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America: “What is the truth of ecology, insofar as this truth is addressed by literature and art?” by examining how ecocriticism has, or has failed to, contextualize ecocritical discourse within an ecological framework. After reviewing the current state of ecocriticism and its relationship with environmentalism, the thesis suggests that both rely on the same outmoded, inaccurate and essentially inutile ecological concepts and language, and argues for a new approach to ecocriticism that borrows its concepts and language from the geophilosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The thesis concludes with a reassessment of the work of Barry Lopez, showing how his fiction, when viewed through the lens of geophilosophy, does not support essentialist notions of nature, but rather works to articulate a world of multiplicities, and new modes of becoming.

As a feminist poststructural autoethnography of deafness in social work workplaces, this thesis sets out to map d/Deafness as a cracked subjectivity. Using the work of Rosi Braidotti and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, I draw out configurations of d/Deafness as lack or cultural minority and split them apart. By positioning d/Deafness on a plane of immanence and employing specificity, I explore d/Deafness as a subjectivity constituted through space, place, time and encounters with other bodies. I argue that the constitution of material and cultural experiences of d/Deafness as specific allows for the articulation of spaces in between Deafness and hearing, disability and ability as spaces in and of themselves in order to think the new as well as to crack up fixed binaries informing traditional notions of what specific bodies can do. / Graduate

This thesis investigates the theoretical and practical importance of nomadic ways of life for architecture. Nomadology is a construction of Deleuze and Guattari's 'counter-philosophy', challenging authenticity and propriety, in this case, in the context of architecture. This thesis describes how nomadology may serve contemporary architectural practice and criticism; challenging static, permanent, and heroically solitary ways of working and dwelling. Nomadology in architecture proposes ways for thinking and working temporally, dynamically, and collaboratively. The thesis suggests strategies - diagramming, ephemerality, movement, and collaboration - as ways of reconciling nomadism and architecture. The 'Contexts' section of this thesis surveys Western and global contexts of understanding nomads and nomadology, and how these pertain to architecture. Western conceptions of architecture have inhibited the study of nomadology in architecture. A case is made for challenging biases in Western views of architecture, for critically employing the ideas of the diagram and the rhizome in architectural criticism, and for recognising the role of movement. The 'Applications' section shows, through practical examples, that the potential of nomadology is latent in spatial and environmental practices of architectural production and architectural criticism. This section of the thesis identifies the significance of nomads as users and exponents of architecture, despite their frequent exclusion from architectural history. Tent architecture, practices of nomadic resistance and Bedouin life practices are considered as key examples. The 'Strategies' section suggests ways of applying principles of nomadology. This final section expands on the potential for 'peripatetic' practices of architecture. Processes of reconciling settled and nomadic tendencies in architectural projects are outlined. Strategies are described by which engendering and collaborating may be the means for creating architecture. The continuing research into, and interpretation of nomadology in architecture are proposed as a basis for critical theorisation and reflective practice of architecture. / Thesis (M.Arch.)--School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, 2002.

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Submitted by Biblioteca Isaías Alves (reposiufbat@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-01T13:08:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO.pdf: 989586 bytes, checksum: 221727beed1d28f76362aeee4d53546e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Biblioteca Isaías Alves (reposiufbat@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-01T13:11:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO.pdf: 989586 bytes, checksum: 221727beed1d28f76362aeee4d53546e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-01T13:11:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO.pdf: 989586 bytes, checksum: 221727beed1d28f76362aeee4d53546e (MD5) / A dissertação busca entender as condições de possibilidade de uma sociologia descentrada, os primeiros passos daquilo que pode ser chamado de uma nova revolução copernicana nas ciências sociais. Evitando mergulhar diretamente nesse terreno, o trabalho acaba sendo muito mais uma introdução, um percurso inicial, ou seja, os bastidores desse modo alternativo de conduzir o fazer científico. Gilles Deleuze será a referência o tempo todo, sendo aquele critério que organiza os argumentos, mesmo os mais sociológicos, como quando Garfinkel entra na discussão. Nesse sentido, o objetivo não é esgotar os limites da filosofia deleuziana ou o entendimento dos seus dois conceitos principais, mas apresentar, na medida do possível, sua ressonância na composição do pensamento social, sugerindo, embora não aprofundando, uma nova revolução copernicana á vista, um novo rumo trilhado pela sociologia nos dias de hoje. Deleuze, ironicamente, vai ter certos contornos, fronteiras, o que soa um pouco estranho dentro dos padrões de sua própria filosofia. Apesar de sua intensidade, de seu transbordamento, o signo precisa limitar aquilo que pode oferecer, nesse caso seu autor e suas ideias. Apesar da abertura do possível, da escapabilidade do Real, ele vai ser entendido dentro de um recorte sociológico, sendo nomeado, circunscrito, tornando a figura deleuziana apreensível, adequada, ao menos para os limites dessa dissertação e das próprias expectativas que circulam aqui, evitando se perder no cenário filosófico e sua estrutura analítica. / The dissertation seeks to understand the conditions of possibility of a “descentered sociology”, the first steps in what can be called a new Copernican revolution in the social sciences. By avoiding to plunge directly into this place, the work ends up being much more an introduction, an initial course, that is, the backstage of this alternative way of conducting the scientific doing. Gilles Deleuze will be the reference all the time, being that criterion that organizes the arguments, even the most sociological, as when Garfinkel enters the discussion. In this sense, the aim is not to exhaust the limits of Deleuzian philosophy or the understanding of its two main concepts, but to present, as far as possible, its resonance in the composition of social thought, suggesting, though not deepening, a new Copernican revolution in the horizon, a new direction followed by sociology today. Deleuze, ironically, will end up gaining boundaries, limits, which sounds a little strange within the standards of his own philosophy. In spite of its intensity, of its overflow, the sign must limit what it can offer, in this case its author and its ideas. Despite the openness of the possible, the fleetingness of the Real, it will be understood within a sociological cut, being named, circumscribed, making the Deleuzian figure apprehensible, adequate, at least for the limits of this dissertation and the very expectations that circulate here, avoiding lose itself in the philosophical scenario and its analytical structure.

This translation and commentary thesis presents a theory of literary translation based on the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, informed by and applied to a translation of parts 0, 1 and 2 of the novel A fuego eterno condenados (1994) by Chilean author Roberto Rivera Vicencio. Using an approach based on the iterative development of a theoretical framework and translation, it examines how specific translation problems from the text can contribute to and benefit from a translation theory based on the ideas of Deleuze. Analysing the work of Lawrence Venuti as indicative of a shift by Translation Studies from thinking of translation in terms of equivalence to thinking of it in terms of difference, the thesis builds on Venuti’s research, offering a systematic treatment of Deleuze’s earlier work to theorise translation as the production of simulacra in which the translator creates solutions in the domain of the Actual to a translation problem that exists in the Virtual. It then goes on to examine Deleuze’s later work, written in collaboration with F ́elix Guattari, to develop a conceptual framework based on the concept of the texture of prose derived from the principles of a minor, or nomad, science. This framework is used to address specific problems arising in the translation, deriving a series of practical techniques and considerations that can be used to create this kind of texture in the application of a Deleuzean theory of translation to literary texts.