Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-491).

Proefschrift--Amsterdam. / "Bibliographie": p. 246-253.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Salzburg, 1983. / Bibliography: v.2, p. 626-638.

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Ces travaux se fondent sur l'hypothèse directrice qu'il existe un au-delà de la culture qui jouerait le rôle de niveau médiateur entre les cultures. Autrement dit, un niveau commun, ou universel, qui permet l'échange et l'intégration de la diversité de leurs visions du monde. Cette thèse vise à en dégager la pertinence en interrogeant les outils de la sémiotique à partir du concept de culture. Pour cela, elle met en perspective les théories de la culture relatives à la filiation greimassienne: Lotman (sémiosphère) et Fontanille (formes de vie) dans le but de mieux définir un modèle sémiotique permettant de décrire la dynamique de toutes les formes culturelles. Pour rendre concrète cette problématique, nos travaux s'appuient sur l'idée que toute culture produit des images du monde qui lui ressemblent (espace-temps, imaginaire collectif). Le visuel doit permettre d'observer comment les cultures échangent leurs visions du monde et s'influencent. Une discussion autour de la transformation de l'identité (Jullien, Barthes) permet de constater que la médiation est un principe naturel de la culture susceptible de s'appuyer sur des formes élémentaires de l'esprit (Lévi-Strauss, Jung). Une analyse de corpus d'images publicitaires de belles femmes au Japon (Shiseido), montre finalement qu'il existe dans la dynamique de l'échange culturel une logique sous-jacente à l'intégration des nouvelles formes d'une autre culture. Le processus de transformation est beaucoup plus prégnant que ne le suggère l'hybridation des formes. Il mobilise tout l'espace social qu'il symbolise et participe à la redéfinition de l'identité collective. / Our work is based on the hypothesis that there is something beyond culture that would act as intermediary between cultures. In other words there might be a common or universal level that allows them to share or integrate their different world-views. Our work aims to expose its relevance by questioning semiotics starting from the concept of culture. In that respect, it puts into perspective the theories of culture based on structuralism inheritance, such as Lotman’s semiosphere and Fontanille’s forms of living, in order to define a semiotics model capable of describing the dynamic of any cultural form. So as to make this problematic tangible, our work leans on the idea that any culture produces images of the world that embody their own space-time and collective imaginary. The Visual allows studying how cultures share their world-view and influence each other. A discussion of the transformation of identity (Jullien, Barthes) permits noticing that mediation is a natural principle of culture likely based on elementary mind forms (Lévi-Strauss, Jung). An analysis of adverts picturing beautiful women in Japan (Shiseido) show that cultural exchange’s dynamics follows an underpinning logic for integrating new designs from another culture. In fact, transformation process is far more significant than what hybridization of shapes suggests. It convokes the entire social environment it yet symbolizes and contributes to the reshaping of the collective identity.

Nesta dissertação estudamos o Imaginário fenomenológico da vigilância a partir de matérias publicadas pelo jornalismo de referência brasileiro que abordam mecanismos de vigilância em suas narrativas, a fim de descobrir quais as motivações pulsionais que orientam essas práticas. Iniciamos a pesquisa tendo como pressuposto a ideia de que o jornalismo tem na vigilância um elemento fundamental de composição de seu Imaginário e que, portanto, oferece um ambiente privilegiado para buscar as simbolizações sobre os mecanismos de vigiar, podendo nos dar acesso ao Imaginário da vigilância e, indiretamente, ao Imaginário do próprio jornalismo. Buscamos, inicialmente, compreender qual o cenário estabelecido entre as comunicações em rede, as novas configurações da vigilância e as formas de estar-junto, apontando o encadeamento entre essas três condições que acabam por instaurar uma socialidade própria no contemporâneo. Consideramos primeiramente que a pulsão estética (de partilha), acompanhando Michel Maffesoli, é a principal norteadora do cimento social da atualidade, sendo uma forma de transfiguração da questão política. Consideramos também o trabalho de Byung-Chun Han para compreender a extensão e a força com que se consolidou o valor da transparência no contemporâneo. Consideramos ainda que tais comunicações em rede, motivadas pela pulsão de partilha e alimentadas pelo valor da transparência, estão intimamente relacionadas aos mecanismos de vigilância do contemporâneo, que atuam de forma sutil, eficiente, descentralizada e distribuída, conforme o trabalho de Fernanda Bruno. Classificamos os mecanismos de vigilância em três grandes regimes (panóptico, escópico e de rastreamento), de acordo com trabalho de Lucia Santaella. Atentamos para o regime mais recente da vigilância e de mais difícil delimitação, o de rastreamento, estudando especialmente sua manifestação na internet e sua configuração nas bolhas de filtros, com auxílio de Eli Pariser. A partir do estudo do social e da vigilância nele implicada, partimos para o detalhamento teórico do Imaginário e da maneira com que se formam as imagens simbólicas no trajeto antropológico, das pulsões às coerções. Isso é feito através do estudo das obras de Gilbert Durand, Mircea Eliade e Ana Taís Martins Portanova Barros, tendo como principal objetivo apresentar os regimes das imagens simbólicas descritos por Durand e como tais imagens se articulam entre o pulsional e o social. A teoria de Durand também nos serve de heurística para realizar a etapa analítica do trabalho, em que buscamos os símbolos universais descritos pelo autor, através de um procedimento chamado de leitura simbólica, dentro de nosso corpus – composto por 17 matérias publicadas na Folha de S.Paulo e no Estadão e que abordam diretamente mecanismos de vigilância panópticos, escópicos e de rastreamento. As leituras simbólicas, que são interpretações das matérias a partir dos grandes símbolos da humanidade, mostraram concentrações e repetições de imagens apenas do regime esquizomorfo, apresentando assim uma narrativa simbólica – paralela à narrativa textual – que dá a ver um cenário de guerra, medo, perigo, incerteza, alerta e queda. Na conclusão, realizamos, primeiramente, uma interpretação sobre a característica de equilibração e compensação do Imaginário para, a partir disso, compreender que essa reincidência de imagens semelhantes representa uma repressão de símbolos de outros regimes simbólicos, relegados no contemporâneo. Ao buscar a interpretação dos símbolos preponderantes em contato com o cenário teórico estabelecido sobre o social, percebemos que o investimento em uma hiper-transparência positiva, que visa a ignorar simbolizações “negativas” do ser, retorna como opacidade que se manifesta como violência e confusão. / In this dissertation we studied the surveillance´s phenomenological Imaginary based on reports published by reference journalism in Brazil that approach the mechanisms of surveillance in its narratives, in order to discover what pulsion motivations guide such practices. We started the research by having as assumption the idea that the journalism has in its surveillance a fundamental element of its Imaginary composition and therefore presents a privileged environment to search for symbolizations on mechanisms of surveillance, giving us access to the Imaginary of surveillance, and indirectly, to the Imaginary of journalism itself. At first, we looked for to understand what is the established scenario amongst network communications, new configurations of surveillance and be-together ways, pointing out the link amongst these three conditions that end up by establishing a particular sociality proper in contemporary. As a following step, taking the work of Michael Maffesoli as a referral, we considered the aesthetic pulsion (of sharing) is the main guide of the social cement in the present, being a form of political question transfiguration. We considered the work of Byung- Chun Han to learn the extent and force wherewith the value of transparency in contemporary has been consolidated, and we looked attentivaly at Fernanda Bruno´s work which say that such network communications, motivated by pulsion for sharing and fed by the value of transparency, are closely related to contemporary mechanisms of surveillance and operate in a subtle, efficient, decentralized and distributed way. We also classified the mechanisms of surveillance into three major regimes (panoptic, scoptic and tracking), according to Lucia Santaella´s work, and aided by Eli Pariser thoughts, we paid attention to the most recent (and more difficult to delimit) regime of surveillance of tracking, carefully studying its manifestation in the internet and its configuration in filters’ bubbles. Based on the study of the social and the surveillance implied in it, we proceeded to the theoretical detailing of the Imaginary and the way wherewith symbolic images are formed on the anthropological path, from pulsions to coercions. That was done by studying the works of Gilbert Durand, Mircea Eliade and Ana Taís Martins Portanova Barros, having as the main goal to present the regimes of the symbolic images described by Durand and how such images articulated itself between the pulsion and the social. Durand's theory also serves us as a heuristic to perform the analytical stage of the work, wherewith we looked for the universal symbols described by the author through a procedure called “symbolic reading” in the corpus – composed by 17 articles were published in Folha de São Paulo and O Estado de São Paulo, that approach in a direct way the mechanisms of surveillance: panoptics, scoptics and tracking. The symbolic readings, understood as interpretations of such articles from the great symbols of humanity, showed concentrations and repetitions of images only in the schizomorphic regime, thus presenting a symbolic narrative - parallel to the textual narrative, that makes it possible to see a scenario of war, fear, danger, uncertainty, attention and fall. In conclusion of this dissertation, we performed an interpretation on the characteristic of equilibration and compensation of the Imaginary in order to understand from this that this recidivism of similar images represents a repression of symbols of other symbolic regimes, relegated in contemporary. By seeking interpretation of preponderant symbols in contact with the established theoretical scenario on the social, we perceived that the investment in a positive hyper-transparency, which aims to ignore "negative" symbolizations of being, returns as opacity that manifests itself as violence and confusion.

This thesis aspires to establish a new research direction in STS. In the first chapter a literature review is conducted and the research questions are being formulated. The second chapter is devoted to presenting research findings from the archaeological, biological and brain sciences in a unified form. The various stone tool technologies are analysed, and a brief introduction follows into human evolution and the effects that artefacts had on it; then recent neurobiological research on the deeper relationships between consciousness, artefacts and the brain is presented. In the third chapter, after an introduction in the deeper neurological relationships between language and gestures, a gestural analysis of mathematical speech follows, based on visual data generated from an interview with a working mathematician; the last section examines recent research on gesture and mathematics as special cases of Roman Ingarden’s aesthetic theory. In the fourth chapter, four approaches to the social history of mathematics in the USSR are presented, based on data generated from interviews with former professional Soviet mathematicians. Following a Maussian approach, the Soviet mathematical community is presented as a gift economy of scientific articles. Then, in line with a Marxian approach, the Soviet university mathematical school is presented as a factory with its own mode of self-production. In the following section, based on a Parsonian systemic approach, the Soviet mathematical community is presented as a banking system, with the scientific journals as the banking institutions. In the next section of the fourth chapter, following a Weberian approach, the mathematical community in the USSR is presented as a social estate, as separate and distinct from other Soviet social estates. The final section integrates the previous approaches and presents the Soviet mathematics research community as a modern version of an ancient city-state. In the fifth chapter Hilbert spaces are briefly presented, as an example of the fictional universe of modern mathematics, along with some conjectured differences between Soviet and Western mathematics research. In the final chapter, the conclusions of this research project are summarised, and this thesis is presented as an instance of a proposed revised version of David Bloor’s Strong Programme.

The "movements of the squares" involved first and foremost an awakening or re-discovering of the radical imagination both in the square encampments, and in later projects created with the movements' decentralizations. The new alternative projects born after the square have materialized the movements' radical imaginaries in urban environments, extending and deepening concerns of broad political change over everyday life. Based on ethnographic work on the Indignados' movement in the city of Barcelona, this paper delves more particularly into three Indignant urban projects. It untangles three common and interlinked radical imaginaries both embodied and actualized in participants' social practices, and further orienting their future visions: commons, autonomy and ecologism. Scrutinizing their meaning, it also sheds light on connected issues such new ways of interfacing with local state authorities and redefining the boundaries between the public and the common. It shows that the ecologism imaginary cannot be properly grasped if disconnected from the other two imaginaries, and argues that a transformative eco-politics can only be claimed as such if it is able to articulate such an integrated vision typical of "socio-environmental movements". / Series: SRE - Discussion Papers

Orientador: César Donizetti Pereira Leite / Banca: Romualdo Dias / Banca: Silvio Donizetti de Oliveira Gallo / Resumo: O curso do imaginário vai para uma esfera coletiva, além do individual. É um dinamismo que surgiu desde a mitologia e que perpassa séculos, transformando-se em si mesmo e antecipando aquilo que ainda não foi vivido. Em um mundo de sonhos, fantasias, imagens, memórias de muitas cenas que fascinam, encantam, seduzem, (des)velam, surge Afrodite - a deusa das noites - de diversas faces e personagens dançantes de tempos (ir)reais que se fazem passado, presente e futuro. Muitos são os caminhos para encontrá-la e o rumo optado faz da experiência um lugar mágico que se mistura a um lugar comum. Falar de DEUSA DAS NOITES: Personagens (des)veladas significa adentrar em um mundo de desejos, (des)encantos e seduções, movido por personagens de um paradoxo: realidade e ficção. Como a dançarina de striptease, por meio da dança erótica, cria as suas personagens entre a realidade e a ficção, possibilitando a e/ou interferindo na produção de subjetividade? Nesta perspectiva, pode-se pensar a referida pesquisa como espaço de experiências, de modos de afetação e produção de sentidos nos/pelos sujeitos em um cenário onde as danças da vida e do imaginário se entrelaçam. Tomando como princípio que a dança, inclusive a erótica, invoca a presença da imaginação, constitui-se como objetivo deste estudo discutir relações presentes entre o real e o ficcional que permeiam a criação da personagem da dançarina de striptease como processo de subjetivação. Esta pesquisa foi sendo produzida a partir de sete encontros com uma jovem dançarina de striptease de 21 anos de idade. Portanto, não busca fechar uma definição sobre o trabalho com o striptease, mas busca aliar-se à dançarina com o intuito de apontar variações e relações construídas no caminho que se traça para além da busca por uma meta... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The course of the imaginary goes to a collective domain, beyond the individual. It's a dynamism that has emerged since the mythology and has been running through the centuries, transforming in itself and anticipating what has not been lived. In a world of dreams, fantasies, images, memories of many scenes that fascinate, enchant, seduce, (un)ensure, emerges Aphrodite - the goddess of the love - of many faces and dancing characters of (un)real times that make themselves past, present and future. There are many ways to find her and the chosen path makes the experience a magical place that blends with the commonplace. Speaking of GODDESS OF NIGHTS: Characters (un)veiled means entering a world of desires, (dis)enchantment, seduction and fantasy, driven by characters of a paradox: reality and fiction. How does a stripper, through erotic dance, create her characters between reality and fiction, allowing and/or interfering with the production of subjectivity? In this perspective, one might think of a specific research as a space of experiences, ways of affectation and meaning production in/by the subjects in a scenario where the dances of life and imagination intertwine. Taking the principle that the dance, including the erotic, invokes the presence of the imagination, constitute the aim of this study to discuss present relations between the real and fictional that underlie the creation of the character of the stripper as a process of subjectification. This research is being produced from seven encounters with a young, 21 year old stripper. Therefore, it does not seek for a definition about the work with the striptease, but seeks to ally itself with a dancer in order to point out variations and relationships built in the path that is traced beyond the search for a goal. It's like "enjoy the details" in a work of art, doubting what is said, building the path to walk, casting off the call ... Do you want to dance with me? / Mestre

Nesta dissertação estudamos o Imaginário fenomenológico da vigilância a partir de matérias publicadas pelo jornalismo de referência brasileiro que abordam mecanismos de vigilância em suas narrativas, a fim de descobrir quais as motivações pulsionais que orientam essas práticas. Iniciamos a pesquisa tendo como pressuposto a ideia de que o jornalismo tem na vigilância um elemento fundamental de composição de seu Imaginário e que, portanto, oferece um ambiente privilegiado para buscar as simbolizações sobre os mecanismos de vigiar, podendo nos dar acesso ao Imaginário da vigilância e, indiretamente, ao Imaginário do próprio jornalismo. Buscamos, inicialmente, compreender qual o cenário estabelecido entre as comunicações em rede, as novas configurações da vigilância e as formas de estar-junto, apontando o encadeamento entre essas três condições que acabam por instaurar uma socialidade própria no contemporâneo. Consideramos primeiramente que a pulsão estética (de partilha), acompanhando Michel Maffesoli, é a principal norteadora do cimento social da atualidade, sendo uma forma de transfiguração da questão política. Consideramos também o trabalho de Byung-Chun Han para compreender a extensão e a força com que se consolidou o valor da transparência no contemporâneo. Consideramos ainda que tais comunicações em rede, motivadas pela pulsão de partilha e alimentadas pelo valor da transparência, estão intimamente relacionadas aos mecanismos de vigilância do contemporâneo, que atuam de forma sutil, eficiente, descentralizada e distribuída, conforme o trabalho de Fernanda Bruno. Classificamos os mecanismos de vigilância em três grandes regimes (panóptico, escópico e de rastreamento), de acordo com trabalho de Lucia Santaella. Atentamos para o regime mais recente da vigilância e de mais difícil delimitação, o de rastreamento, estudando especialmente sua manifestação na internet e sua configuração nas bolhas de filtros, com auxílio de Eli Pariser. A partir do estudo do social e da vigilância nele implicada, partimos para o detalhamento teórico do Imaginário e da maneira com que se formam as imagens simbólicas no trajeto antropológico, das pulsões às coerções. Isso é feito através do estudo das obras de Gilbert Durand, Mircea Eliade e Ana Taís Martins Portanova Barros, tendo como principal objetivo apresentar os regimes das imagens simbólicas descritos por Durand e como tais imagens se articulam entre o pulsional e o social. A teoria de Durand também nos serve de heurística para realizar a etapa analítica do trabalho, em que buscamos os símbolos universais descritos pelo autor, através de um procedimento chamado de leitura simbólica, dentro de nosso corpus – composto por 17 matérias publicadas na Folha de S.Paulo e no Estadão e que abordam diretamente mecanismos de vigilância panópticos, escópicos e de rastreamento. As leituras simbólicas, que são interpretações das matérias a partir dos grandes símbolos da humanidade, mostraram concentrações e repetições de imagens apenas do regime esquizomorfo, apresentando assim uma narrativa simbólica – paralela à narrativa textual – que dá a ver um cenário de guerra, medo, perigo, incerteza, alerta e queda. Na conclusão, realizamos, primeiramente, uma interpretação sobre a característica de equilibração e compensação do Imaginário para, a partir disso, compreender que essa reincidência de imagens semelhantes representa uma repressão de símbolos de outros regimes simbólicos, relegados no contemporâneo. Ao buscar a interpretação dos símbolos preponderantes em contato com o cenário teórico estabelecido sobre o social, percebemos que o investimento em uma hiper-transparência positiva, que visa a ignorar simbolizações “negativas” do ser, retorna como opacidade que se manifesta como violência e confusão. / In this dissertation we studied the surveillance´s phenomenological Imaginary based on reports published by reference journalism in Brazil that approach the mechanisms of surveillance in its narratives, in order to discover what pulsion motivations guide such practices. We started the research by having as assumption the idea that the journalism has in its surveillance a fundamental element of its Imaginary composition and therefore presents a privileged environment to search for symbolizations on mechanisms of surveillance, giving us access to the Imaginary of surveillance, and indirectly, to the Imaginary of journalism itself. At first, we looked for to understand what is the established scenario amongst network communications, new configurations of surveillance and be-together ways, pointing out the link amongst these three conditions that end up by establishing a particular sociality proper in contemporary. As a following step, taking the work of Michael Maffesoli as a referral, we considered the aesthetic pulsion (of sharing) is the main guide of the social cement in the present, being a form of political question transfiguration. We considered the work of Byung- Chun Han to learn the extent and force wherewith the value of transparency in contemporary has been consolidated, and we looked attentivaly at Fernanda Bruno´s work which say that such network communications, motivated by pulsion for sharing and fed by the value of transparency, are closely related to contemporary mechanisms of surveillance and operate in a subtle, efficient, decentralized and distributed way. We also classified the mechanisms of surveillance into three major regimes (panoptic, scoptic and tracking), according to Lucia Santaella´s work, and aided by Eli Pariser thoughts, we paid attention to the most recent (and more difficult to delimit) regime of surveillance of tracking, carefully studying its manifestation in the internet and its configuration in filters’ bubbles. Based on the study of the social and the surveillance implied in it, we proceeded to the theoretical detailing of the Imaginary and the way wherewith symbolic images are formed on the anthropological path, from pulsions to coercions. That was done by studying the works of Gilbert Durand, Mircea Eliade and Ana Taís Martins Portanova Barros, having as the main goal to present the regimes of the symbolic images described by Durand and how such images articulated itself between the pulsion and the social. Durand's theory also serves us as a heuristic to perform the analytical stage of the work, wherewith we looked for the universal symbols described by the author through a procedure called “symbolic reading” in the corpus – composed by 17 articles were published in Folha de São Paulo and O Estado de São Paulo, that approach in a direct way the mechanisms of surveillance: panoptics, scoptics and tracking. The symbolic readings, understood as interpretations of such articles from the great symbols of humanity, showed concentrations and repetitions of images only in the schizomorphic regime, thus presenting a symbolic narrative - parallel to the textual narrative, that makes it possible to see a scenario of war, fear, danger, uncertainty, attention and fall. In conclusion of this dissertation, we performed an interpretation on the characteristic of equilibration and compensation of the Imaginary in order to understand from this that this recidivism of similar images represents a repression of symbols of other symbolic regimes, relegated in contemporary. By seeking interpretation of preponderant symbols in contact with the established theoretical scenario on the social, we perceived that the investment in a positive hyper-transparency, which aims to ignore "negative" symbolizations of being, returns as opacity that manifests itself as violence and confusion.