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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Sklad zemědělských hnojiv - stavebně technologická příprava / Warehouse of agricultural fertilizers - constructional and technological preparation

Kincl, Jakub January 2014 (has links)
In my master´s thesis i worked on construction and technological preparation of construction storage of agricultural fertilizers in Vilanec. This preparation includes summary expected work on construction, time and financial plan. Thesis in detail processes montage of prefabricate rod skelet and circumferential casing from PUR panels. Component of this thesis is proposal of needed mechanisation, control and probationary plan, plan of safety and protection of health upon work, proposal of building side, assessment of thermal proprties of structural construction, contract for work and EMS plan.
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Montar uma ruÃna: Clube Alagoinha

Lis Paim Duarte 25 April 2017 (has links)
nÃo hà / Desde que foi erguida dentro dâÃgua, na ponta da orla marÃtima, a edificaÃÃo do ALAGOAS IATE CLUBE â o Alagoinha â referenciou de tal forma a junÃÃo das praias da Ponta Verde e da PajuÃara que a presenÃa da sua ruÃna passou a pairar sobre a paisagem urbana de Maceià como um Ãcone cultural e uma verruga indesejada. Unidos pelo tempo, nÃo se pode pensar sobre o antigo clube na cidade sem que os escombros do edifÃcio venham à tona como uma sombra, precisamente impressa sobre os arrecifes que lhe servem de terreno. Esta à sobretudo a viga mais resistente da sua arquitetura â a localizaÃÃo em que foi construÃda. à como se nesta exata coordenada (do mapa, das Ãguas, da cidade) pudesse estar concentrada, sempre atravÃs da degeneraÃÃo, uma narrativa que se apresenta ao pensamento como uma explosÃo de destroÃosâ De inÃcio acompanhada por uma equipe pequena, e, logo depois, sozinha, desde dezembro de 2012 passei a visitar semestralmente as ruÃnas do Alagoinha, a fim de capturar em filme e arquivar os fragmentos de tal explosÃo. Em paralelo, deparei-me com os registros do passado do prÃdio atravÃs do acervo de fotografias e de fitas em VHS e K7 cedido a mim pela FamÃlia Costa, fundadora do clube. A soma do meu arquivo abrange hoje cerca de 40 horas de gravaÃÃes em vÃdeos, 1800 fotografias e 20 horas de ambiÃncias sonoras e conversas gravadas na ruÃna com narradores que emprestaram seus diferentes pontos de vista à minha construÃÃo. MONTAR UMA RUÃNA: CLUBE ALAGOINHA propÃe, portanto, uma investigaÃÃo da poÃtica da montagem que se configura num duplo movimento: por um lado, hà uma exposiÃÃo do jogo de procedimentos na criaÃÃo e manipulaÃÃo desse arquivo na montagem dentro e fora da cÃmera, entre o espaÃo da ruÃna, da mente e da ilha de ediÃÃo; por outro, a operaÃÃo de montagem que aqui se realiza à tambÃm a do despedaÃar da possibilidade de uma narrativa linear do declÃnio do Alagoinha, alvo de ocupaÃÃes transitÃrias e de ameaÃas constantes de desaparecimento, principalmente apÃs o anÃncio da obra do âMarco Referencial do Turismoâ em MaceiÃ. Ao desdobrar a matÃria fragmentada e heterogÃnea desse arquivo precÃrio (e ainda em aberto) numa primeira trama possÃvel, experimento o exercÃcio de montagem de uma dissertaÃÃo-filme (ou seria um filme-dissertaÃÃo?), por meio de imagens fotogrÃficas ou descritas, palavras sonoras, relatos de processo e interlocuÃÃes de diversas naturezas. / From the moment its foundations were settle within the sea so that its facade could rest over the surface at a famous corner by the seafront, ALAGOAS YACHT CLUB (âAlagoinhaâ)âs presence stamped Ponta Verde and PajuÃaraâs beaches encounter in such a remarkable way that, nowadays, its remains still hang over MaceiÃâs urban landscape both as a cultural icon and an undesirable wart. Bound together by the force of time, one cannot think about the city unless the already diluted shape of the ruins rising from the reefs comes to mind. The ancient beach club location is in fact the strongest and toughest beam of this architecture. As if in that exact point of Ocean and geography, and always through a degeneration process, a bigger narrative could be surprisingly agglutinated, erupting as a precise explosion amongst the wreckageâ Formerly with a small team, later by myself, I kept visiting Alagoinhaâs ruins every six months, in order to capture in film the fragments of such eruption. In parallel, I came across the rare photograph and VHS/ K7 tape registers owned by clubâs founders, the Costa family, all of which were personally handed to me. My collection was then extended to more than 40 hours in video footages, 1800 photos, and about 20 hours in audio tapes fully recorded inside the ruins, including a number of ambient sounds plus testimonials by different narrators in a series of conversations with me. The (re)combination of all this material is what gives my own construction its particular form. MOUNTING A RUIN: ALAGOINHA CLUB proposes, therefore, an investigation on the poetics of montage that is performed in a double movement: on the one hand, it is a disclosure of the game proceedings involved in the creation and treatment of that archive inside and outside the camera, through the spaces of the very ruins, the mind, and the editing room/island; on the other, the montage operation itself is also that of the disruption of the possibility to create a linear narrative on the ongoing decline of Alagoinha, while its ruins are being targeted by transitory occupations and, especially after the announcement of a plan to build there a âtouristic milestoneâ, by the imminent threat of disappearance as well. Unfolding the fragmented content of that precarious archive in a prime possible plot, and so connecting photographic, and descriptive, images, sonorous words, process reports, and distinct conversations, I get to experience the assembling of an authentic thesis-film (or would it be a film-thesis?).
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Sensorgeführte Bewegungen stationärer Roboter / Sensor Guided Motions of Stationary Robots

Winkler, Alexander 22 March 2016 (has links) (PDF)
Den Kern der vorliegenden Arbeit bilden sog. sensorgeführte Roboterbewegungen, d. h. die Nutzung von Informationen externer Sensoren zur Regelung des Roboters. Da gängige Industrierobotersysteme üblicherweise positionsgeregelt sind und seitens der Robotersteuerung lediglich der Zugriff zu den Sollwerten der Lageregelkreise erlaubt wird, kann auch der Regelkreis der sensorgeführten Roboterbewegung nur über den Lageregelkreis geschlossen werden. Aus diesem Grunde werden hier nur positionsbasierte Regelungsansätze verfolgt. Die Kraft-/ Momentregelung gilt als eine der wichtigsten Varianten sensorgeführter Roboterbewegungen. Dementsprechend widmet sich auch ein großer Teil dieser Arbeit dem Thema, mit dem Ziel durch innovative und übersichtliche Regelalgorithmen die Akzeptanz der Kraft-/ Momentregelung in industriellen Produktionsprozessen zu erhöhen. Beginnend mit der eindimensionalen Kraftregelung führt der Weg dabei über Konzepte zur Konturenverfolgung und kraft-/ momentgeregelten Montageaufgaben hin zur Kooperation von Robotern. In einem weiteren Teil wird ein Konzept zur Kollisionsvermeidung zwischen Robotern und Hindernissen präsentiert. Es basiert auf dem Ansatz der virtuellen Potential- bzw. Kraftfelder. Dabei ruft das künstliche Feld eine Bewegung des Roboters hervor, die vom Hindernis weg führt. Um das Feld zu erzeugen, wird die Methode der künstlichen Punktladungen entwickelt. Diese werden auf der Oberfläche eines Hindernisses platziert und generieren dann das virtuelle Kraftfeld. Die Platzierung kann z. B. mithilfe der CAD-Daten des Hindernisses erfolgen. Bei bewegten Objekten müssen alle Ladungspositionen ständig aktualisiert werden. Für Lehr- und Präsentationszwecke ist das sog. inverse Pendel eine oft genutzte Regelstrecke. Sein Aufrichten und Stabilisieren ist auch mit Hilfe eines Industrieroboters möglich. Dazu beschäftigt sich ein Kapitel dieser Arbeit mit Fragen zur Modellbildung der Kombination inverses Pendel und Industrieroboter und mit Regelungskonzepten für das Aufschwingen und Balancieren. Letztendlichen wird in diesem Zusammenhang noch ein Visual-Servoing System präsentiert, dass den Neigungswinkel des Pendels mit einer Kamera bestimmt. Alle hier vorgestellten Konzepte und Algorithmen werden Anhand von praktischen Experimenten verifiziert. / This work deals with so-called sensor guided robot motions, which means using the data of external sensors to control the robot. The control loop of the sensor guided robot motion can be only closed around the position control loop, because industrial robot systems usually work position controlled and only access to the desired positions is enabled. For this reason here only position based control approaches are regarded. Force/torque control is a very important type of sensor guided robot motions. According to this, a good portion of this work deals with the subject of force/torque control. Thus, the acceptance of force/torque control in industrial production processes should be increased, by using innovative and clear control algorithms. For this purpose force control in one degree of freedom, contour-following, force/torque controlled assembling tasks and the cooperation between robots are discussed here in different chapters. Thereafter, a concept to collision avoidance between robots and obstacles is presented. It uses the approach of virtual potential/force fields. In this case the artificial field induces a robot motion away from the obstacle. The method of artificial charges is developed to generate this field. For this purpose virtual charges are placed on the surface of the obstacles. Placing of the charges can be performed using e.g. CAD data of the obstacles. Having moving obstacles charge positions must be updated continuously. The inverted pendulum is commonly used teaching students in control theory. The swinging up and the stabilization of the pendulum also can be performed by an industrial robot. One chapter of this work deals with modelling of the robot mounted inverted pendulum and control algorithms for its swinging up and its stabilization. Finally, in combination with the inverted pendulum a visual-servoing system is presented, which measures the pendulum inclination angle by camera. All concepts introduced in this work are verified by practical experiments.
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Socialistický realismus a tzv. totální realismus: charakteristika básnické poetiky a pokus o komparaci / Socialist realism and so called total realism: main characteristics of poetics, similarities and differences

Sieberová, Jana January 2011 (has links)
This diploma thesis mainly deals with the relationships between the poetic manifestations of socialist realism and so called total realism in the early fifties. The first part focuses on general issues; within it I try to describe characteristic features of both poetics, for total realism it is done mostly in the background of comparison with like-minded concepts (Hrabal's poems from the fifties, the works of former members of Group 42). In other chapters of the text I am thinking about a total realism from two aspects: first, as an alternative form of realism, which defines itself against the official art, as well as a program that is dependent on the official art to some extent by paraphrasing or using some of its means and resources.
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Anticipatory realism : constructions of futures and regimes of prediction in contemporary post-cinematic art

Dernbach, Rafael Karl January 2019 (has links)
This thesis examines strategies of anticipation in contemporary post-cinematic art. In the Introduction and the first chapter, I make the case for anticipation as a cultural technique for the construction of and adjustment to future scenarios. This framing allows analysis of constructions of futures as culturally and media-historically specific operations. Via anticipation, constructions of futures become addressable as embedded in specific performative and material economies: as regimes of prediction. The hypothesis is that cultural techniques of anticipation do not only serve to construct particular future scenarios, but also futurity, the very condition for the construction of futures. Drawing upon the philosophical works of, in particular, Vilem Flusser, Jacques Derrida and Elena Esposito, and the theory of cultural techniques, I conceptualize anticipation through the analysis of post-cinematic strategies. I argue that post-cinematic art is particularly apt for the conceptualization of anticipation. The self-reflexive multi-media interventions of post-cinematic art can expose the realisms that govern regimes of prediction. Three cultural techniques of anticipation and their use as artistic strategies in post-cinematic art are theorized: enactment, soft montage and rendering. Each of these techniques is examined in its construction of futures through performative and material operations in art gallery spaces. The second chapter examines strategies of enactment in post-cinematic installations by Neïl Beloufa. My readings of Kempinski (2007), The Analyst, the Researcher, the Screenwriter, the CGI tech and the Lawyer (2011), World Domination (2012) and Data for Desire (2014) propose that enactment allows for an engagement with futures beyond extrapolation. With Karen Barad's theory of agential realism, the construction of futures becomes graspable as a political process in opposition to a mere prolonging of the present into the future. The third chapter focuses on the strategy of soft montage in works by Harun Farocki. I interpret Farocki's application of soft montage in the exhibition Serious Games I-IV (2009-2010) as a critical engagement with anticipatory forms of organizing power and distributing precarity. His work series Parallel I-IV (2012-2014) is then analyzed as a speculation on the future of image production technologies and their role in constructing futures. The final chapter analyses the self-referential use of computer-generated renderings in works by Hito Steyerl. The installations How Not To Be Seen (2013), Liquidity Inc. (2014), The Tower (2015) and ExtraSpaceCraft (2016) are read as interventions in the performative economies of contemporary image production. I argue that these works allow us to grasp the reality-producing and futurity-producing effects of rendering as anticipatory cultural technique. My thesis aims to contribute to the discussions on a 'turn towards the future' in contemporary philosophy and cultural criticism. My research thus focuses on the following set of questions. What can we learn about the operations of future construction through encounters with post-cinematic art? How are futures and future construction framed in such art? What realisms do future constructions rely on? And how can anticipation as a cultural technique be politicized and democratized?
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La démarche de découverte expérimentalement médiée par Cabri-Géomètre en mathématiques: un essai de formalisation à partir de l'analyse de démarches de résolutions de problèmes de boîtes noires

Dahan, Jean-Jacques 04 November 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Notre travail est centré sur la démarche de découverte reposant sur des expérimentations réalisées avec Cabri-Géomètre. L'analyse d'un corpus débordant le cadre des Mathématiques clarifie la manière dont la découverte arrive ou est transmise, ainsi que le rôle de l'expérimentation dans ces processus. Elle justifie notre hypothèse de décomposition de la démarche de découverte expérimentale en macro-étapes pré- et post-conjectures elles-mêmes décomposables en micro-étapes du type exploration-interprétation..<br />L'analyse de la résolution d'une boîte noire particulière permet d'affiner notre modèle a priori de la démarche de découverte en y précisant le rôle de la figure (Duval), les niveaux de géométrie (praxéologies G1 et G2 de Parzysz) et leurs prolongements que nous développons (G1 et G2 informatiques), les cadres d'investigations (Millar) et la place de la preuve expérimentale (Johsua).<br />Les analyses des expérimentations mises en place permettent de disposer d'un modèle amélioré qui doit permettre aux enseignants d'avoir une connaissance minimale des étapes heuristiques du travail de leurs élèves, de concevoir des activités d'études et de recherches ayant des objectifs précis en liaison avec les étapes formalisées de notre modélisation et d'envisager leur possible évaluation.<br />Des analyses d'activités existantes avec notre grille montrent la validité du modèle étudié. Des propositions d'activités ont été construites pour favoriser l'apparition de telle ou telle phase de la recherche; elles montrent la viabilité de ce modèle dans la conception d'ingénieries didactiques générant une démarche conforme à la démarche postulée.
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Sanning och konsekvens : En studie av den estetiska intentionen hos tre verk av Felix Gmelin / Estetik i förhållande tillverklighet : Tre verk av Felix Gmelin, Hito Steyerl och Ann-Sofi Sidén

Hydén, Malin January 2009 (has links)
<p>You could say that the Swedish artist Felix Gmelin in his art uses media to get closer or further away from what we consider to be the reality and also truth. The purpose of this study is to discuss what this means for the intention of his art works. The starting point is my own aesthetic experience of his painting and the installations <em>A Gentleman’s agreement (1996), Farbtest, Die Rothe Fahne II (2003) and Tools and Grammar 2.5 (2007).</em> Each of these works of art consists of different kinds of prefabricated material such as articles, films and documents. These kinds of material are often considered to stand in the way of the aesthetic experience, maybe because they are supposed to be closer to reality and therefore to truth. The thesis of this study is that the truth in art is inscribed in the aesthetic framework of each art piece and also in the technical support it uses. If for example the support consists of an investigative journalist’s documentary research, in Rosalind Krauss’ description, the truth might be found in the authenticity of the documentary material. If the technical support has to do with sampling instead, as in the re-use of existing materials to create new works of art, the truth can probably not be found in the different pieces of material but in the work ofart in itself. It does not matter then if the different pieces of material it consists of is traditionally considered unaesthetic. The conclusion of this study is that Gmelin’s <em>Gentleman’s agreement</em>, <em>Farbtest, Die Rothe Fahne II</em> and <em>Tools and Grammar 2.5</em> actually discuss what truth is and if there is an aesthetic truth.</p> / Examensarbetet består dels av en vetenskaplig rapport (se Huvudtitel och Abstract), dels av en vetenskaplig artikel (se Alternativ titel).
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Presence Design : Mediated Spaces Extending Architecture

Gullström, Charlie January 2010 (has links)
This thesis is a contribution to design-led research and addresses a readership in the fields of architecture as well as in media and communications. In juxtaposing the tools of the designer (e.g. drafting, prototyping, visual/textual/spatial forms of montage) with those of architectural theory, this thesis seeks to extend the disciplinary boundaries of architecture by observing its assimilation of other media practices. Its primary contribution is to architectural design and theory, and its aims are twofold: Firstly, this thesis applies the concepts of virtual and mediated space to architecture, proposing an extended architectural practice that assimilates the concept of remote presence. Through realized design examples as well as through the history and theory of related concepts, the thesis explores what designing mediated spaces and designing for presence entails for the practicing architect. As a fusion of architecture and media technology, video-mediated spaces facilitate collaborative practices across spatial extensions while simultaneously fostering novel and environmentally sustainable modes of communication. The impact of presence design on workplace design is examined. As an extended practice also calls for an extended discourse, a preliminary conceptual toolbox is proposed. Concepts are adapted from related visual practices and tested on design prototypes, which arise from the author’s extensive experience in designing work and learning spaces. Secondly, this thesis outlines presence design as a transdisciplinary aesthetic practice and discusses the potential contribution of architects to a currently heterogeneous research field, which spans media space research, cognitive science, (tele)presence research, interaction design, ubiquitous computing, second-order cybernetics, and computer-supported collaborative work. In spite of such diversity, design and artistic practices are insufficiently represented in the field. This thesis argues that presence research and its discourse is characterised by sharp disciplinary boundaries and thereby identifies a conceptual gap: presence research typically fails to integrate aesthetic concepts that can be drawn from architecture and related visual practices. It is an important purpose of this thesis to synthesize such concepts into a coherent discourse. Finally, the thesis argues that remote presence through the proposed synthesis of architectural and technical design creates a significantly expanded potential for knowledge sharing across time and space, with potential to expand the practice and theory of architecture itself. The author’s design-led research shows that mediated spaces can provide sufficient audiovisual information about the remote space(s) and other person(s), allowing the subtleties of nonverbal communication to inform the interaction. Further, in designing for presence, certain spatial features have an effect on the user’s ability to experience a mediated spatial extension, which in turn, facilitates mediated presence. These spatial features play an important role in the process through which trust is negotiated, and hence has an impact on knowledge sharing. Mediated presence cannot be ensured by design, but by acknowledging the role of spatial design in mediated spaces, the presence designer can monitor and, in effect, seek to reduce the ‘friction’ that otherwise may inhibit the experience of mediated presence. The notion of ‘friction’ is borrowed from a context of knowledge sharing in collaborative work practices. My expanded use of the term ‘design friction’ is used to identify spatial design features which, unaddressed, may be said to impose friction and thus inhibit and impact negatively on the experience of presence. A conceptual tool-box for presence design is proposed, consisting of the following design concepts: mediated gaze, spatial montage, active spectatorship, mutual gaze, shared mediated space, offscreen space, lateral and peripheral awareness, framing and transparency. With their origins in related visual practices these emerge from the evolution of the concept of presence across a range of visual cultures, illuminating the centrality of presence design in design practice, be it in the construction of virtual pictorial space in Renaissance art or the generative design experiments of prototypical presence designers, such as Cedric Price, Gordon Pask and numerous researchers at MIT Media Lab, Stanford Institute and Xerox PARC. / QC 20100909
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Sanning och konsekvens : En studie av den estetiska intentionen hos tre verk av Felix Gmelin / Estetik i förhållande tillverklighet : Tre verk av Felix Gmelin, Hito Steyerl och Ann-Sofi Sidén

Hydén, Malin January 2009 (has links)
You could say that the Swedish artist Felix Gmelin in his art uses media to get closer or further away from what we consider to be the reality and also truth. The purpose of this study is to discuss what this means for the intention of his art works. The starting point is my own aesthetic experience of his painting and the installations A Gentleman’s agreement (1996), Farbtest, Die Rothe Fahne II (2003) and Tools and Grammar 2.5 (2007). Each of these works of art consists of different kinds of prefabricated material such as articles, films and documents. These kinds of material are often considered to stand in the way of the aesthetic experience, maybe because they are supposed to be closer to reality and therefore to truth. The thesis of this study is that the truth in art is inscribed in the aesthetic framework of each art piece and also in the technical support it uses. If for example the support consists of an investigative journalist’s documentary research, in Rosalind Krauss’ description, the truth might be found in the authenticity of the documentary material. If the technical support has to do with sampling instead, as in the re-use of existing materials to create new works of art, the truth can probably not be found in the different pieces of material but in the work ofart in itself. It does not matter then if the different pieces of material it consists of is traditionally considered unaesthetic. The conclusion of this study is that Gmelin’s Gentleman’s agreement, Farbtest, Die Rothe Fahne II and Tools and Grammar 2.5 actually discuss what truth is and if there is an aesthetic truth. / Examensarbetet består dels av en vetenskaplig rapport (se Huvudtitel och Abstract), dels av en vetenskaplig artikel (se Alternativ titel).
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Poétiques de la crise dans les dramaturgies européennes des XXe et XXIe siècles / The poetics of crisis in european drama (20th and 21th centuries)

Diaz, Sylvain 24 November 2009 (has links)
Notion dramaturgique majeure au vu de la récurrence de son emploi dans les traités d’esthétique, la crise souffre toutefois d’un déficit théorique : ignorée par Aristote dans La Poétique, par Corneille dans ses Discours sur la tragédie ou encore par Hegel dans son Cours d’esthétique, la crise est une notion encore à construire. C’est à partir du XIXe siècle qu’est développée une interprétation de la tragédie classique comme crise : il s’agit alors de penser en quoi la représentation de dérèglements tant intimes que politiques participe d’une remise en cause de la conception classique du monde fondée sur un principe d’ordre et d’harmonie. Résolument, la crise se donne à penser, à partir de la tragédie classique, comme mise en crise. Une telle conception se trouve toutefois contestée dans le drame bourgeois qui conçoit la crise comme état de crise : dans le prolongement de l’esthétique du tableau que développe Diderot, il s’agit en effet de dépeindre sur scène des situations critiques qui ne menacent en aucun cas la conception bourgeoise du monde.C’est dans une hésitation face à ces deux définitions concurrentes de la crise que trouvent à s’inventer, aux XXe et XXIe siècles, des poétiques de la mise en crise et des poétiques de l’état de crise qui prétendent expliquer le monde ou simplement l’explorer, l’élucider ou simplement l’étudier. Pour Bertolt Brecht, Peter Weiss ou encore Edward Bond qui ont une approche processuelle de la crise, il s’agit en effet de susciter chez le spectateur un ébranlement qui lui permettra d’envisager à nouveaux frais la réalité et de déterminer comment agir pour pouvoir la transformer. À l’inverse, pour Ödön von Horváth, Michel Vinaver ou encore Martin Crimp qui ont une approche contextuelle de la crise, il s’agit d’inventer une situation à partir de laquelle il devient possible d’explorer de manière inédite la relation de l’homme à lui-même, aux autres et au monde, d’explorer la « condition de l’homme moderne », pour reprendre la formule d’Hannah Arendt. Dès lors, l’étude de ces poétiques de la mise en crise et de l’état de crise se révèle déterminante en ceci qu’elles sont fondatrices de deux traditions dramatiques qui structurent intégralement l’histoire du théâtre occidental : celles du théâtre critique et du théâtre clinique. / The dramaturgic notion of crisis recurrently appears in aesthetic treatises, which attests its importance in the frame of theatre theory. Nevertheless, a definition of this notion is still missing : crisis is not even mentionned in Aristotle's Poetics, in the Discourses on tragedy by Corneille, or in Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics. Theatrical crisis therefore needs to be thoroughly examined and defined. From the 19th century, French neoclassical tragedy has been read as a theatre of crisis : attention was then drawn to the way the disorders depicted on stage – on intimate as well as political level – put into question a classical conception of a world based on order and harmony. From this startpoint, theoricians resolutely use the notion of crisis to think this undermining questioning of the world. However, this definition of crisis is not relevant to the 18th century drame bourgeois, in which crisis is only used as a dramatic plot device : in line with the tableau in his Aesthetics, Diderot calls for a theatre of critical situations, which do not however threaten a bourgeois conception of the world. The gap between these two definitions of theatrical crisis has left a space for invention in the 20th and 21th centuries : dramatists have used crisis in various ways to explain the world, or simply explore it, to decifer it, or simply reflect upon it. Bertold Brecht, Peter Weiss and Edward Bond have shaped crisis as a process of involvement of the audience : they aim to shake spectators to make them consider real life with new eyes, and to ask themselves how they can transform it. On the opposite, Ödön von Horvath, Michel Vinaver and Martin Crimp have used crisis as a contextual device : they invent a situation which allows them to explore in a totally new way how man behaves towards himself, towards the others, and towards the world, that is, to explore the modern « Human Condition » according to the words of Hannah Arendt. The study of these two different poetics of crisis is therefore decisive, inasmuch as they have given birth to two different dramatic traditions which structure the whole history of Western theatre : on the one hand, the critical theatre, on the other, the clinical theatre.

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