The role of the engineer in the late capitalist society of the last half century has been misunderstood at best. The lack of a consistent job description for engineers in various fields, a lack of job security, and a lack of respect from both industry and society have spawned severe angst in the engineering community. A classic remedy for this situation has been the rallying of engineering practitioners under a banner of increased professionalism. If engineers could make themselves more like doctors and lawyers — the respected members of professional society — they would gain similar respect and job satisfaction. This project analyzes current state of engineering practice as revealed in the self-image of the individual engineer. A survey of popular engineering literature is employed in order to develop a composite self-image of the engineer: the technical hired hand of industry. "Professionalization" is then demonstrated to be useless in the improvement of this situation and furthermore, undesirable in the late capitalist social and economic climate of the late twentieth century. Late professionalism—an alternative to a understanding of professionalism—is offered as a means by which to improve the job satisfaction of engineers in contemporary society. Suggesting that each engineer is free to negotiate the terms, conditions, and length of his/her own employment based on a personal understanding of the job requirements, late professionalism empowers the engineer to adopt a comfortable position in the late capitalist economy. A new metaphor—the commissioned engineer—is employed in support of the late professional understanding of the engineer's occupation. / Master of Science

Seizing upon G.W.F. Hegel’s unresolved problem of poverty, and more generally, of politics, in his Philosophy of Right, I theorize the emergence of Hegel’s “irrational” rabble in ostensibly incomprehensible violent riots. Specifically, I argue that such violence functions redemptively by latently symbolizing a Hegelian demand for recognition and, via Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, as a catalyst in a lineation of riots that gestures towards transformative possibilities. Violence compels self-reflective thought to interrogate the hegemony of immaterial labour that excludes the rabble under late capitalism, a speculative game with winners and losers: financial capitalists and society’s underclass. I conclude by explicating an implicit connection between Hegel’s political theory and Walter Benjamin’s philosophy and argue that this connection responds to Hegel’s own political impasse. In the context of contemporary politics, I contend that the rabble’s emergence in a Benjaminian light illuminates new means for critique against the system of late capitalism. / Graduate / 0593 / 0422 / 0615 / elliokd@gmail.com

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Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar a categoria da totalidade presente na fase tardia do pensamento de Theodor W. Adorno, sobretudo na Dialética Negativa, e sua relação com o diagnóstico de tempo proposto pelo filósofo na década de 1960. Apesar de sua crítica enfática à categoria da totalidade, Adorno não deixa de utilizá-la em âmbitos variados de suas análises, como por exemplo, no diagnóstico do capitalismo tardio mediante o conceito de mundo administrado. Se, no entanto, a totalidade deve ser exposta apenas em sua negatividade, ou se ela conserva dentro dela, de algum modo, um horizonte normativo, é uma questão que não encontra consenso na literatura secundária, e que buscaremos desdobrar nessa pesquisa. Com isso, pretendemos alcançar uma melhor compreensão acerca do próprio projeto adorniano de uma dialética negativa e de sua relação com o diagnóstico de tempo proposto pelo filósofo na década de 1960. / This research aims to investigate the category of totality in the late Theodor W. Adorno, specially in Negative Dialectic, and its relation with the time diagnosis of the 1960s. Despite his emphatic criticism of the category of totality, Adorno still uses it in several fields of his analysis, such as the diagnosis of late capitalism through the concept of administered world. If, however, the totality must be exposed only in its negativity, or if it still keeps in itself, in a certain way, a normative horizon, is a question that does not reach consensus in the secondary literature, and which will be developed in our research. Therewith, we intend to achieve a better understanding of Adorno\'s own project of a negative dialectic and of its relation with the time diagnosis proposed by the philosopher in the 1960s.

Orientador: Sinésio Ferraz Bueno / Banca: Renato Bueno Franco. / Banca: Robespierre de Oliveira / Resumo: Este trabalho pretende analisar aspectos específicos da transformação da ideologia, elaborada inicialmente por Karl Marx em relação à abordagem promovida posteriormente no século XX pela Teoria Crítica. O trabalho está dividido em dois momentos, inicialmente analisamos a fundamentação e elaboração do conceito de ideologia na teoria marxiana. Procuramos analisar conjuntamente os principais pensamentos que influenciaram a teoria de Marx a fim de mergulharmos em suas reflexões sobre a ideologia. A ideologia é central em toda sua obra e possui várias implicações conceituais. Durante sua vida e produção, Marx abordou este conceito de formas distintas, provocando, em seu percurso teórico, diferentes leituras. A primeira parte será destinada ao estudo da concepção marxista tradicional sobre o conceito de ideologia e, posteriormente, sua elaboração na teoria da reificação de Lukács, em que são aprofundados certos questionamentos da teoria marxiana e possibilitadas novas abordagens da realidade social. O segundo momento deste trabalho consiste na elaboração e análise do conceito de ideologia para a Teoria Crítica, representada aqui por Horkheimer Adorno e Marcuse. A constituição e o desenvolvimento do conceito na Teoria Crítica caracterizam-se por um aspecto de extrema complexidade e heterogeneidade. Inseridos no Instituto de Pesquisa Social, o estudo destes teóricos podem ser abordados singularmente, mesmo que muitos trabalhos realizados tenham nascido de parcerias e de preocupações a partir de uma mesma problemática. A ideologia era enfocada num primeiro momento, em seu aspecto marxista tradicional como esfera da dissimulação da dominação, graças ao encobrimento da materialidade. Diferentemente, no segundo momento do trabalho, analisado aqui através dos teóricos frankfurtianos, a ideologia passou a ser abordada de acordo com parâmetros qualitativamente... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The present study intends to investigate specific aspects of the ideology concept transformation elaborated initially by Karl Marx in relation to the approach promoted later in 20th century by Critical Theory. This study is divided into two moments and initially we analyzed the principles and elaboration of the ideology concept within Marxist theory. We investigated the main thoughts that influenced Marx's theory in order to go deeper in his specific analyses on the ideology concept. The theory of the ideology is central in all his work and holds several conceptual implications. During his life and production, Marx approached this concept in different ways, provoking, in his theoretical course, different readings. The first part will be destined to the study of the traditional Marxist conception on the ideology concept and, later, its elaboration in the theory of reification of Lukács. Certain discussions of Marxinian theory will be deepened and new approaches of social reality will be possible. The second moment of this study consists of the elaboration and analysis of the ideology concept for the Critical Theory, here represented by Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse. The constitution and the development of the concept in Critical Theory are characterized by an aspect of extreme complexity and heterogeneity. Placed at the Institute of Social Research, the study of these theoretical researchers can be approached singularly, even if many accomplished works have been born from partnerships and from apprehensions starting from a same problem. The ideology was focused in a first moment, in its traditional Marxist aspect as sphere of the dominance dissimulation, credited to the covering of the materiality. Differently, in the second moment of this study, investigated here through the Frankfurtians, the ideology started to be approached according to different qualitative... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-11-05Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:32:36Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 crocco_flt_me_mar.pdf: 540020 bytes, checksum: 0bd5a165526be92c67036637564b7db5 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho pretende analisar aspectos específicos da transformação da ideologia, elaborada inicialmente por Karl Marx em relação à abordagem promovida posteriormente no século XX pela Teoria Crítica. O trabalho está dividido em dois momentos, inicialmente analisamos a fundamentação e elaboração do conceito de ideologia na teoria marxiana. Procuramos analisar conjuntamente os principais pensamentos que influenciaram a teoria de Marx a fim de mergulharmos em suas reflexões sobre a ideologia. A ideologia é central em toda sua obra e possui várias implicações conceituais. Durante sua vida e produção, Marx abordou este conceito de formas distintas, provocando, em seu percurso teórico, diferentes leituras. A primeira parte será destinada ao estudo da concepção marxista tradicional sobre o conceito de ideologia e, posteriormente, sua elaboração na teoria da reificação de Lukács, em que são aprofundados certos questionamentos da teoria marxiana e possibilitadas novas abordagens da realidade social. O segundo momento deste trabalho consiste na elaboração e análise do conceito de ideologia para a Teoria Crítica, representada aqui por Horkheimer Adorno e Marcuse. A constituição e o desenvolvimento do conceito na Teoria Crítica caracterizam-se por um aspecto de extrema complexidade e heterogeneidade. Inseridos no Instituto de Pesquisa Social, o estudo destes teóricos podem ser abordados singularmente, mesmo que muitos trabalhos realizados tenham nascido de parcerias e de preocupações a partir de uma mesma problemática. A ideologia era enfocada num primeiro momento, em seu aspecto marxista tradicional como esfera da dissimulação da dominação, graças ao encobrimento da materialidade. Diferentemente, no segundo momento do trabalho, analisado aqui através dos teóricos frankfurtianos, a ideologia passou a ser abordada de acordo com parâmetros qualitativamente... / The present study intends to investigate specific aspects of the ideology concept transformation elaborated initially by Karl Marx in relation to the approach promoted later in 20th century by Critical Theory. This study is divided into two moments and initially we analyzed the principles and elaboration of the ideology concept within Marxist theory. We investigated the main thoughts that influenced Marx’s theory in order to go deeper in his specific analyses on the ideology concept. The theory of the ideology is central in all his work and holds several conceptual implications. During his life and production, Marx approached this concept in different ways, provoking, in his theoretical course, different readings. The first part will be destined to the study of the traditional Marxist conception on the ideology concept and, later, its elaboration in the theory of reification of Lukács. Certain discussions of Marxinian theory will be deepened and new approaches of social reality will be possible. The second moment of this study consists of the elaboration and analysis of the ideology concept for the Critical Theory, here represented by Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse. The constitution and the development of the concept in Critical Theory are characterized by an aspect of extreme complexity and heterogeneity. Placed at the Institute of Social Research, the study of these theoretical researchers can be approached singularly, even if many accomplished works have been born from partnerships and from apprehensions starting from a same problem. The ideology was focused in a first moment, in its traditional Marxist aspect as sphere of the dominance dissimulation, credited to the covering of the materiality. Differently, in the second moment of this study, investigated here through the Frankfurtians, the ideology started to be approached according to different qualitative... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar a categoria da totalidade presente na fase tardia do pensamento de Theodor W. Adorno, sobretudo na Dialética Negativa, e sua relação com o diagnóstico de tempo proposto pelo filósofo na década de 1960. Apesar de sua crítica enfática à categoria da totalidade, Adorno não deixa de utilizá-la em âmbitos variados de suas análises, como por exemplo, no diagnóstico do capitalismo tardio mediante o conceito de mundo administrado. Se, no entanto, a totalidade deve ser exposta apenas em sua negatividade, ou se ela conserva dentro dela, de algum modo, um horizonte normativo, é uma questão que não encontra consenso na literatura secundária, e que buscaremos desdobrar nessa pesquisa. Com isso, pretendemos alcançar uma melhor compreensão acerca do próprio projeto adorniano de uma dialética negativa e de sua relação com o diagnóstico de tempo proposto pelo filósofo na década de 1960. / This research aims to investigate the category of totality in the late Theodor W. Adorno, specially in Negative Dialectic, and its relation with the time diagnosis of the 1960s. Despite his emphatic criticism of the category of totality, Adorno still uses it in several fields of his analysis, such as the diagnosis of late capitalism through the concept of administered world. If, however, the totality must be exposed only in its negativity, or if it still keeps in itself, in a certain way, a normative horizon, is a question that does not reach consensus in the secondary literature, and which will be developed in our research. Therewith, we intend to achieve a better understanding of Adorno\'s own project of a negative dialectic and of its relation with the time diagnosis proposed by the philosopher in the 1960s.

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In the 21st century, public museums who are collecting contemporary art has simultaneously begun to reframe the role of museums in society. Two museums – the Moderna Museet of Stockholm and M+ of Hong Kong that have completely different historic and geographic backgrounds, as well as operating models are now working closely with their acquisitions and collections to draw audience of old and new closer to them. These two museums that are located in the center of two well-defined cultures – geographically representing the west and the east, play vital roles in their respected social and cultural spheres. In view of how these two museums are responding to the present time by deploying art that are seemingly different in terms of theme and discipline, the immediate distinction that this study aims to frame is how the Moderna Museet, established in the 20th century and still prevailing in the present differ from M+ that comes from a younger generation of museums who proclaims itself as a museum of visual culture, and not art. Instead of analyzing their exhibitions, this study focuses on their policies of acquisitions, thus offering a perspective including many varying actors and networks. Hence Bruno Latour’s actor-network theories have been introduced to unfold the highly entangled networks of these two museums. Two important actants, the so-called acquisition policy and the institutional curators are taken into consideration in order to outline what constitute as acquisition policies of these two museums and investigate if the benchmarking of contemporary art, and in addition, if the notion of contemporaneity can be identified from written documents. Furthermore, this study is based on interviews with curators employed at the two museums to find out how the professionals have understood these policies and used them accordingly to justify their practices while fulfilling the museums’ missions. This study has found out there are many crucial relationships between these actants and that they are constantly interacting with each other. The strength and interaction of these relationships fostered the positioning for these two museums today and also determined how the knowledge of art can be shaped and dispensed to the public. Looking from the point of view of the history of museums, practices of donation and acquisition, late- capitalism, cultural differences between the west and east, this study provides a pragmatic explanation of how collections may transform the landscape of a museum, and in turn how a museum may perhaps alter the meaning of art.

The aim of this research paper is to identify and explore industrial workers attitudes towards labour considering the context of the late capitalist welfare state and the political term ”Arbetslinjen”. Furthermore the paper aims to critically examine how practices of power and resistance operates in the postmodern factory. The study relates this notion to a discourse analysis framework in addition to a foucauldian understanding of power, discipline and resistance. Theory is used to argue that factory workers attitudes are influenced by institutionalized and hegemonic discourse that constitute wage labour as the macro-political norm. Additionally the study asserts that wage workers basis for work-related resistance is conditional given power relations in the capitalist production hierarchy in addition to the rise of temporary work agencies. The empirical data consists of qualitative interviews with ten industrial workers which are all involved in the Swedish car or food manufacturing industry. Throughout the study applies a social constructionist approach, consequently the cardinal focus of my analysis is subjective attitudes and perceptions of the constitution of wage labour generally, and industrial work particularly.