Cette thèse explore comment l’art actuel, plus spécifiquement vidéo, permet d’interroger le rapport entre corps et images. Un lien étroit les unit aujourd’hui ; l’art vidéo, fruit de ce temps postmoderne, paraît assez adapté à son exploration. Tout d’abord, les modalités d’influence de l’image sont déclinées. Quatre sources appuient l’élaboration d’hypothèses : les théories psychanalytiques et phénoménologiques, des faits de société, des productions artistiques (provenant aussi bien d’artistes confirmés que de notre propre pratique) et les théories de l’image (histoire de l’art et esthétique). Une série de conclusions en ont été déduites : l'Homme actuel semble peuplé d’images ; celles-ci participent à la structuration de la perception, concurrencent les souvenirs et concourent à la détermination des formes de l’élaboration mentale. De ce fait, l’image définit significativement le corps postmoderne. Mais plusieurs rapports aux images restent possibles : l’utilisation, l’interaction, l’expérimentation. Ensuite, par le potentiel oscillatoire de l’art vidéo, l’interdépendance corps/image est approfondie. La partie II met en regard corps sensible et corps représenté à travers les traces fluctuantes du référent dans la représentation vidéo – par les couples apparition/disparition, surface/épaisseur, sens/non-sens – afin d’explorer le corps rêvé, vécu et le rapport au corps représenté. La partie III montre le jeu entre la liaison et la déliaison du corps représenté avec le décor – porté par l’incrustation, le remontage et la composition vidéo. Cela permet d’aborder le positionnement et l’articulation, du corps et de sa représentation, aux images. Cette approche désigne également ce qui dans le corps représenté fait corps et ce qui dans son articulation au décor fait obstacle : le corps désirant. / This thesis explores how contemporary art, more specifically video, interrogates the relationship between body and images. A close link binds them together today; video art, native to postmodern time, seems adapted to its exploration. First, influence modalities of the image are developed. The hypotheses are constructed on four sources: psychoanalytical and phenomenological theories, socials realities, artistic productions (both from known artists and from my own practice) and image theories (art history and aesthetic). A succession of conclusions have been deducted from them: today’s human seems to be inhabited by images, these participate to the structuration of perception, compete with recollection and contribute to determine the shapes of mental elaboration. Consequently, the image define significantly the postmodern body. But various relationships to images remain possible: utilization, interaction, experimentation. Then, with the oscillatory potential of video art, the interdependence between body and image is detailed. Part II compares sensible body and depicted body through the fluctuating marks of the referent in video representation – working with the appearing/disappearing, surface/thickness, sense/nonsense pairs – to explore the dreamed, lived body and the relationship to the depicted body. Part III shows the interplay between linking and delinking of the depicted body with the backgrounds – bore by chroma keying, reediting and compositing. This allows to apprehend positioning and articulation, of the body and its depiction, to images. This approach also points out what in the depicted body reveals the sensitive body and what in its articulation to the background resists: the desiring body.

Cette thèse porte sur l’impuissance de l’ambition littéraire à transcrire fidèlement la barbarie absolue. A partir de la poétique de la disgrâce, elle interroge d’abord le rapport entre écriture et expérience extrême puis, met en exergue les stratégies narratives régissant les récits qui tentent une littérarisation d’expériences jugées indicibles. Elle est ensuite une réflexion sur le statut même de la littérature contemporaine. L’analyse poétique conduit à affirmer dans une première partie que les récits de la catastrophe sont construits autour d’un dilemme : l’indicible, fondé sur l’impuissance du langage rationnel à la nommer, et la nécessité malgré tout de dépasser les frontières de « l’impossible à dire ». Et c’est le renversement de l’écriture de la disgrâce en disgrâce de l’écriture comme procédé esthétique qui permet ce dépassement. La deuxième partie permet de constater la récurrence de certains invariants se présentant comme éléments pertinents de littérarité. C’est notamment le cas du recours à la désacralisation de l’écriture. Celle-ci engendre une littérature du vide, de l’incertitude. C’est ensuite la notion de fragmentation du sujet qui place véritablement nos œuvres tantôt dans la littérature postmoderne occidentale ou bien dans littérature de la postcolonie africaine. / This thesis deals with the unability of literary ambition to faithfully transcribe absolute barbarism. Using the poetics of disgrace, it questions the relationship between writing and extreme experience on the one hand, and brings out the narrative strategies governing the stories attempting a novelization of experiences judged unspeakable on the other. It is then a reflection on the very status of contemporary literature.The poetic analysis leads us to affirm in a first part that tales of catastrophe are built on a dilemma: the unspeakable; based on the powerlessness of rational language to name it and the necessity, despite it all, to transcend the frontiers of the “impossible to say”. And it is the reversal of the writing of disgrace into the disgrace of writing as an aesthetical means which allows this transcendence. The second part allows us to see the recurrence of some invariants presenting themselves as pertinent elements of writing. This engenders a literature of the void, of uncertainty. It is then the notion of the subject’s fragmentation which truly places our works either in western postmodern literature or in African postcolonial literature.

Den här studien undersöker förhållandena för att inkludera bloggar i svenska folkbibliotekens kataloger. Varför förvärvas bloggar som blivit böcker, men inte bloggarna själva? Studien söker förståelse för och diskuterar de hinder och möjligheter som påverkar en inkludering av bloggar i katalogerna. Den teoretiska basen består av ett postmodernt perspektiv på biblioteken, och en jämförelse mellan olika sätt att se på folkbibliotekens uppdrag. Studien använder en blandad metod och kombinerar djupare intervjuer för att få insikt i folkbiblioteken, med en enkätstudie riktad till svenska folkbibliotekarier. Frågorna handlade om attityder gentemot bibliotekens uppdrag, bloggen som medieformat, och hur en inkludering av bloggar i bibliotekskatalogen skulle påverka biblioteket idag och i framtiden. Studien fann att bloggens materialitet medför hinder som behöver överbryggas för att en inkludering ska vara möjlig, och uppdragen folkbibliotekarierna håller viktiga gynnar en inkludering av bloggar.

Composer William Bolcom (1938-) has shown a remarkable capacity for incorporating disparate materials and combining them to create original compositions, while often using traditional genres and forms. This style has earned Bolcom the reputation as a leading composer of American postmodernism. This study provides a brief sketch of Bolcom's development as a postmodern composer, his repertoire for violoncello and piano, and it examines his compositional style as applied in his Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (1989). In the Sonata Bolcom applies a wide variety of musical vocabulary from serious and popular traditions. He juxtaposes contrasting ideas to create and resolve rhythmic, melodic and harmonic tensions and amalgamates concepts of three centuries of music history into one new integral work. All these disparate elements with classical, romantic, impressionist, expressionist, modernist and popular connotations are molded together to form a serious piece of musi c with a sense of humor. The three contrasting movements of the Sonata share many common rhythmic, melodic and harmonic traits. The movements form a congruent work of Classical and Romantic spirit, often reminiscent of Brahms' music, despite the mixed use of traditional, popular, and modernist musical languages.

In this particular research project the narratives and experiences of parents within reconstituted families have been the subject of reflective thought, alluding to the possible influence of the classic fairy tale or fable on these experiences. Aspects which were touched on in the research included the general validity of discussions on parenting experiences in reconstituted families, while reflecting on these parents’ ability to confide and relate their experiences openly and frankly in a society where the nuclear family is often seen as the ‘ideal family’. Cognisance was taken too of the possibility that parents were reticent in voicing their experiences so as not to enforce prevalent generalisations. Furthermore, research was undertaken to examine alternative parenting narratives and methods by which these narratives could be heard so as to minimise misconceptions and labels on parenting in reconstituted families. Attention was also paid to the role that the church and fellow-believers and brethren have in aiding the often marginalised voice of non-nuclear families to be heard. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015. / Practical Theology / Unrestricted

Orientador: Rene Jose Trentin Silveira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-31T08:34:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pechula_MarliAparecida_D.pdf: 913491 bytes, checksum: 1b27d258db01fd567c853ff53940b21e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: A idéia de utilizar pensamentos ou teorias filosóficas para solucionar problemas, conflitos ou crises existenciais dos indivíduos tem conquistado adeptos no mundo todo. Inaugurada por Gerd Achenbach, na Alemanha, em 1981, essa idéia encontrou ressonância na França, com Mare Sautet; nos EUA, com Lou Marinoff; no Brasil, com Lúcio Packter, além de estar presente em vários outros países. Esses autores alegam que na Academia, a filosofia foi reduzida à uma produção intelectual para poucos, ou quase ninguém, e garantem que a nova forma como eles a propõem, possibilita sua utilização prática e, portanto, o retorno à sua verdadeira origem. São muitas as possibilidades de investigação a respeito dessa nova forma de compreender a filosofia e das práticas profissionais que dela brotam. O nosso trabalho procura mostrar que tanto a concepção de filosofia como a prática dos filósofos expressadas pela proposta de uma "filosofia prática" são equivocadas. A concepção de filosofia subjacente nesta proposta está tão distante da Filosofia em seu sentido cultural grego, quanto o está o filósofo "terapeuta", "médico da alma" ou "conselheiro", do filósofo, educador político, do período clássico grego. / Abstract: The idea of using philosophical thinking or theories to solve individual problems, conflicts or existential crises has found followers all over the world. Starting with Gerd Achenbach in Germany, in 1981, the concept was developed in France, with Marc Sautet; in the USA, with Lou Marinoff; in Brazil, with Lucio Packter, and it has been present in other countries as well. These authors claim that Philosophy has been reduced to an intellectual production of very few, or almost no one, in the academy, and they guarantee that their proposal leads to daily use, and, therefore, takes it back to its classical roots. There are many possibilities of investigation of this new way of understanding philosophy and the professional practices that come from it. This work shows that both the concept of philosophy and the philosophers' practice expressed in a proposal of "philosophical practice" are equivocal. The underlying concept of philosophy in this proposal is as distant from Philosophy, in its Greek cultural sense, as the "therapy philosopher", "the soul doctor" or "counselor" is from the philosopher, the political educator, in the classic Greek period. / Doutorado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Doutor em Educação

The aim of this study is to reflect on biblical-theological perspectives on the relationship between the church and families. The study is undertaken against the backdrop of the challenges facing mainline churches, of which the decline in numbers, the lack of the support for programmes and initiatives on behalf of families, and the apparent inability to minister effectively to young people, are the most pressing. At the same time modernisation and globalisation have a negative impact on the well-being of families. This study aims to contribute to interplay between the church ministry and the ministry of families. Two research questions guide this study. The first is whether Reformed churches, and for the purposes of this investigation the Dutch Reformed Church and the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa, do enough to support and strengthen families in a postmodern context. The second question examines the underlying theories and family ministry programmes of existing family ministry initiatives. Four sub-movements within practical theology form the methodological framework of this study. The first movement describes the crisis within the church and families today (descriptive theology). The second movement explores some normative texts of the Christian tradition (historical theology) with regard to families. At different stages of the Old and New Testament, different theological perspectives and strategies can be identified. In the post-biblical period the biological family was central to the process of the institutionalisation of the church and the spiritual aspect of family was underplayed. The challenge of the church in a postmodern world is to engage in responsible biblical theological reflection on marriage and family, and specifically the relationship between the church and families from the perspective of the kingdom of God. The third movement within practical theology brings the findings of the previous two movements into dialogue with each other (systematic theology). In the love ethic of equal regard following this dialogue, marriage is seen as a non-hierarchical, post-patriarchal, life-long bond between two people. The family is iii described as the primary context for faith formation. Although several studies suggest that family form, and not only family function, plays an important role in the well-being of children and family members, the primary concern of the church should be to develop a spirituality of marriage and family. The fourth movement (strategic theology) within practical theology is made up of two separate, but related inquiries. Firstly, different models and methods for family ministry are investigated by means of a literature study. Secondly, a qualitative study done in five selected congregations is described in order to point out the underlying theories and resulting family ministry programmes. The findings suggest that only one of the five selected congregations has an integrated, coherent family ministry model. Although several different family ministry programmes were found in practice, a critical family ethic was lacking. This is the focus of the contribution of this study. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Practical Theology / unrestricted

In hierdie studie word stiefma’s en die mites wat daar oor stiefma’s bestaan, ondersoek. Dit word gedoen in die postfundamentele praktiese teologie en volgens die narratiewe benadering. Die studie word ook gedoen in die sosiaal-konstruksionistiese paradigma. Vier stiefma’s se unieke verhale oor stiefma-wees word weergegee. Nadat die stories geinterpreteer is, is diskoerse vasgestel wat ‘n invloed het op die mites wat daar oor stiefma’s bestaan. Daar word onder andere gekyk na sprokies en die oorsprong daarvan. Daar word ook gekyk na families deur die eeue, asook na moederskap. Die Godstaal wat die stiefma’s gebruik het, word ook ondersoek. Daar is ‘n interdissiplinêre ondersoek gedoen aan die hand van transversale rasionaliteit. Hierdie verhale wys onder andere op die druk wat op stiefma’s geplaas word deur die kerk en gemeenskap om onmiddelik in die rol van ‘n ma te funksioneer en die perfekte gesin te hê. Konflik in die nuwe gesin gee ook aanleiding tot skuldgevoelens by die stiefma. Met hierdie studie word daar gepoog dat daar beter begrip vir stiefma’s se unieke omstandighede en rolle sal wees. Dus ontstaan nuwe verhale, wat weer moontlikhede vir nuwe navorsing skep. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / gm2014 / Practical Theology / Unrestricted

Thesis advisor: James F. Keenan / The queer natural law is an ethical framework at the intersection of queer theory, queer theology, and the natural law ethical tradition largely used in Roman Catholic moral theology. As a framework, queer natural law adopts the eudaimonist, realist, and teleological emphases of the natural law virtue ethics tradition exemplified by Thomas Aquinas and restored by revisionist natural lawyers, and it refines the operations of these normative emphases through queer theory’s critical investigation of conceptual normativity. Conceived as a dynamic dialectical enterprise, queer theory offers to the natural law tradition a toolset for a more comprehensive assessment of human nature, specifically by taking a critical look at the operation of heteronormativity in normative frameworks. Symbiotically, the natural law tradition offers to queer theory a scaffold for conceiving of an ethics based in equality and nondiscrimination that allows queer theory’s ethical impulses to avoid postmodernity’s tendency towards circularity in ethical reasoning, precisely by grounding queer theory’s ethical motivations in a participatory discourse based in universal human goods. Using sexuality as a test case, this dissertation proceeds in four chapters. In the first, the notion of a queer natural law is explained in more detail. In the second, an account of human flourishing compatible with the queer natural law is articulated. In the third, a review of two natural law accounts of sexuality—magisterial and revisionist—is conducted. In the fourth and final chapter, differences between a revisionist natural law account of sexuality and a queer natural law account of sexuality are explored, defending the queer natural law thesis that the telos of sex is inter/personal pleasure. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

The thesis deals with the study of issues of escape, nomadism and territorialisation with regard to postmodern society. These concepts are explored on the basis of works by two French postmodern authors: Giles Deleuze and Michel Maffesoli. However, the analysis of seemingly similar ways of telling about these topics is to prove their considerable difference with respect to their understanding of life, world and society. In the theoretical part, the research focuses on Deleuz's concepts of becoming, multiplicity and division of space into smooth and grooved and Maffesoli's concepts of postmodern society associated with neotribalism, its desire to wander and dynamic rooting. The analytical part of the thesis is based on these concepts to interpret the documentary cycle "Kmeny", which relates to the topic of urban subculture within the Czech Republic.