A partir da noção de que o conceito de pedagogia é histórico e mutável, produzido e reproduzido nas contingências de cada tempo-espaço, nesta tese problematizo as novas formas e ênfases que a pedagogia vem adquirindo. O objetivo central é investigar as transformações no conceito de pedagogia, especificando suas articulações com as transformações culturais, vendo e procurando mostrar, por outro lado, o quanto essas tem sido elementos importantes nas flexões, formas e ênfases da pedagogia, fazendo com que seja pluralizada em sua denominação e em seus espaços de atuação. Devido a isso, a tese trabalha sobre a tensão da pedagogia às pedagogias, procurando mostrar, a partir dos Estudos Culturais pós-estruturalistas e da fecunda discussão sobre as pedagogias culturais, que há múltiplas pedagogias em funcionamento na sociedade contemporânea. Pedagogias tão díspares quanto forem as intencionalidades que as movimentem. Há a preocupação em circundar o conceito de pedagogia principalmente a partir das produtivas transformações no estado da cultura e nas relações com os saberes que tem sido perceptíveis a partir de meados da metade do século XX – abordando um espectro temporal que engloba discussões do que tem sido chamado de pós-moderno. O suporte teórico foi buscado em autores e autoras que problematizam questões referentes à condição pós-moderna, à pedagogia, às pedagogias culturais e à produção de sujeitos, especialmente, como Arendt, Bauman, Foucault, Lyotard, Ramos do Ó, Larrosa, Wortmann, Silva, Costa, dentre outros. O corpus de análise consiste em um conjunto de documentos, tais como excertos de livros da literatura pedagógica, de livros tipo best seller, uma matéria em revista e uma dissertação que analisa uma pedagogia cultural. Os achados da pesquisa mostram que é sobre a vida das pessoas como um todo que a pedagogia procura atuar. Para isso, tem se tornado uma necessidade e uma exigência que a pedagogia se prolifere, tornando possível que haja pedagogias em funcionamento na sociedade, atravessando os espaços e artefatos direcionados à condução das pessoas. De uma vontade de legislar tem havido um progressivo deslocamento para englobar, principalmente, as formas de interpretar, com as pedagogias, uma pluralidade que não cessa de se transmutar. Outro achado se deu em relação ao fato de ter identificado, a partir do conjunto de transformações que circundam a pedagogia, o funcionamento de uma vontade de pedagogia que torna possível as pedagogias – sobretudo frente as dificuldades de educar em um mundo cambiante. Em meio às condições analisadas, as pedagogias parecem atuar sobre as condições do presente para forjar, justamente, os sujeitos do presente. Um outro achado refere-se ao fato de que no cerne da pedagogia e das pedagogias está a pretensão de dar forma aos sujeitos ao atuar sobre eles, proporcionando um deslocamento, no contemporâneo, de uma pedagogia que operava com um mestre dando forma a um “outro” para, muito mais, um processo em que cada um passou a atuar sobre si mesmo, elaborando e reelaborando a si através de técnicas e práticas aprendidas com as pedagogias. / From the notion that the meaning of pedagogy is historical and changeable, produced and reproduced under contingencies of every piece of time-space, in this thesis I problematise new forms and emphases that pedagogy has owned. The main aim is to investigate changes in pedagogy meaning, showing its articulations with cultural changes, on the other hand, seeing and trying to show to what degree these have been important elements for changes, forms and emphases, so that its name and sites of action are pluralised. Therefore, from poststructuralist Cultural Studies and the fertile discussion about cultural pedagogies, this thesis works with the tension between pedagogy and pedagogies, seeking to show there are multiple pedagogies working in contemporary society: pedagogies that are as different as intentions moving them. I seek to come around the pedagogy meaning, particularly from useful changes in the culture state and relationships with pieces of knowledge noted found in the mid-20th century ― addressing a temporal space encompassing discussions about what has been called as the postmodern. The theoretical notion is based on male and female writers problematising issues about the postmodern condition, pedagogy, cultural pedagogies, and subject production, especially Arendt, Bauman, Foucault, Lyotard, Ramos do Ó, Larrosa, Wortmann, Silva, and Costa. The analysis corpus consists of a set of documents, such as pedagogical literature excerpts, best-selling books, an issue in a magazine and a dissertation analysing a cultural pedagogy. Research findings showed that the pedagogy seeks to act upon the people as a whole. For this, it is necessary and urgent pedagogy to spread out so that there are several pedagogies operating in society, cutting across spaces and artefacts meant to guide people. From a will to legislate, there has been a progressive change to encompass chiefly the ways of interpreting the plurality that does not stop transmuting. From the set of changes surrounding the pedagogy, another finding is about the fact of having identified the working of a pedagogical will enabling pedagogies, especially in the face of difficulties to educate in an interchangeable world. Under these conditions, pedagogies seem to act upon present conditions to forge exactly present subjects. Still another finding refers to the fact that in the core of pedagogy and pedagogies is the intention to shape subjects when acting upon them, providing displacement of a piece of pedagogy that was working with one teacher and forming „another one‟, towards a process in which everyone starts to act upon oneself, constructing and reconstructing oneself by techniques and practices pedagogies teach.

A partir da noção de que o conceito de pedagogia é histórico e mutável, produzido e reproduzido nas contingências de cada tempo-espaço, nesta tese problematizo as novas formas e ênfases que a pedagogia vem adquirindo. O objetivo central é investigar as transformações no conceito de pedagogia, especificando suas articulações com as transformações culturais, vendo e procurando mostrar, por outro lado, o quanto essas tem sido elementos importantes nas flexões, formas e ênfases da pedagogia, fazendo com que seja pluralizada em sua denominação e em seus espaços de atuação. Devido a isso, a tese trabalha sobre a tensão da pedagogia às pedagogias, procurando mostrar, a partir dos Estudos Culturais pós-estruturalistas e da fecunda discussão sobre as pedagogias culturais, que há múltiplas pedagogias em funcionamento na sociedade contemporânea. Pedagogias tão díspares quanto forem as intencionalidades que as movimentem. Há a preocupação em circundar o conceito de pedagogia principalmente a partir das produtivas transformações no estado da cultura e nas relações com os saberes que tem sido perceptíveis a partir de meados da metade do século XX – abordando um espectro temporal que engloba discussões do que tem sido chamado de pós-moderno. O suporte teórico foi buscado em autores e autoras que problematizam questões referentes à condição pós-moderna, à pedagogia, às pedagogias culturais e à produção de sujeitos, especialmente, como Arendt, Bauman, Foucault, Lyotard, Ramos do Ó, Larrosa, Wortmann, Silva, Costa, dentre outros. O corpus de análise consiste em um conjunto de documentos, tais como excertos de livros da literatura pedagógica, de livros tipo best seller, uma matéria em revista e uma dissertação que analisa uma pedagogia cultural. Os achados da pesquisa mostram que é sobre a vida das pessoas como um todo que a pedagogia procura atuar. Para isso, tem se tornado uma necessidade e uma exigência que a pedagogia se prolifere, tornando possível que haja pedagogias em funcionamento na sociedade, atravessando os espaços e artefatos direcionados à condução das pessoas. De uma vontade de legislar tem havido um progressivo deslocamento para englobar, principalmente, as formas de interpretar, com as pedagogias, uma pluralidade que não cessa de se transmutar. Outro achado se deu em relação ao fato de ter identificado, a partir do conjunto de transformações que circundam a pedagogia, o funcionamento de uma vontade de pedagogia que torna possível as pedagogias – sobretudo frente as dificuldades de educar em um mundo cambiante. Em meio às condições analisadas, as pedagogias parecem atuar sobre as condições do presente para forjar, justamente, os sujeitos do presente. Um outro achado refere-se ao fato de que no cerne da pedagogia e das pedagogias está a pretensão de dar forma aos sujeitos ao atuar sobre eles, proporcionando um deslocamento, no contemporâneo, de uma pedagogia que operava com um mestre dando forma a um “outro” para, muito mais, um processo em que cada um passou a atuar sobre si mesmo, elaborando e reelaborando a si através de técnicas e práticas aprendidas com as pedagogias. / From the notion that the meaning of pedagogy is historical and changeable, produced and reproduced under contingencies of every piece of time-space, in this thesis I problematise new forms and emphases that pedagogy has owned. The main aim is to investigate changes in pedagogy meaning, showing its articulations with cultural changes, on the other hand, seeing and trying to show to what degree these have been important elements for changes, forms and emphases, so that its name and sites of action are pluralised. Therefore, from poststructuralist Cultural Studies and the fertile discussion about cultural pedagogies, this thesis works with the tension between pedagogy and pedagogies, seeking to show there are multiple pedagogies working in contemporary society: pedagogies that are as different as intentions moving them. I seek to come around the pedagogy meaning, particularly from useful changes in the culture state and relationships with pieces of knowledge noted found in the mid-20th century ― addressing a temporal space encompassing discussions about what has been called as the postmodern. The theoretical notion is based on male and female writers problematising issues about the postmodern condition, pedagogy, cultural pedagogies, and subject production, especially Arendt, Bauman, Foucault, Lyotard, Ramos do Ó, Larrosa, Wortmann, Silva, and Costa. The analysis corpus consists of a set of documents, such as pedagogical literature excerpts, best-selling books, an issue in a magazine and a dissertation analysing a cultural pedagogy. Research findings showed that the pedagogy seeks to act upon the people as a whole. For this, it is necessary and urgent pedagogy to spread out so that there are several pedagogies operating in society, cutting across spaces and artefacts meant to guide people. From a will to legislate, there has been a progressive change to encompass chiefly the ways of interpreting the plurality that does not stop transmuting. From the set of changes surrounding the pedagogy, another finding is about the fact of having identified the working of a pedagogical will enabling pedagogies, especially in the face of difficulties to educate in an interchangeable world. Under these conditions, pedagogies seem to act upon present conditions to forge exactly present subjects. Still another finding refers to the fact that in the core of pedagogy and pedagogies is the intention to shape subjects when acting upon them, providing displacement of a piece of pedagogy that was working with one teacher and forming „another one‟, towards a process in which everyone starts to act upon oneself, constructing and reconstructing oneself by techniques and practices pedagogies teach.

A partir da noção de que o conceito de pedagogia é histórico e mutável, produzido e reproduzido nas contingências de cada tempo-espaço, nesta tese problematizo as novas formas e ênfases que a pedagogia vem adquirindo. O objetivo central é investigar as transformações no conceito de pedagogia, especificando suas articulações com as transformações culturais, vendo e procurando mostrar, por outro lado, o quanto essas tem sido elementos importantes nas flexões, formas e ênfases da pedagogia, fazendo com que seja pluralizada em sua denominação e em seus espaços de atuação. Devido a isso, a tese trabalha sobre a tensão da pedagogia às pedagogias, procurando mostrar, a partir dos Estudos Culturais pós-estruturalistas e da fecunda discussão sobre as pedagogias culturais, que há múltiplas pedagogias em funcionamento na sociedade contemporânea. Pedagogias tão díspares quanto forem as intencionalidades que as movimentem. Há a preocupação em circundar o conceito de pedagogia principalmente a partir das produtivas transformações no estado da cultura e nas relações com os saberes que tem sido perceptíveis a partir de meados da metade do século XX – abordando um espectro temporal que engloba discussões do que tem sido chamado de pós-moderno. O suporte teórico foi buscado em autores e autoras que problematizam questões referentes à condição pós-moderna, à pedagogia, às pedagogias culturais e à produção de sujeitos, especialmente, como Arendt, Bauman, Foucault, Lyotard, Ramos do Ó, Larrosa, Wortmann, Silva, Costa, dentre outros. O corpus de análise consiste em um conjunto de documentos, tais como excertos de livros da literatura pedagógica, de livros tipo best seller, uma matéria em revista e uma dissertação que analisa uma pedagogia cultural. Os achados da pesquisa mostram que é sobre a vida das pessoas como um todo que a pedagogia procura atuar. Para isso, tem se tornado uma necessidade e uma exigência que a pedagogia se prolifere, tornando possível que haja pedagogias em funcionamento na sociedade, atravessando os espaços e artefatos direcionados à condução das pessoas. De uma vontade de legislar tem havido um progressivo deslocamento para englobar, principalmente, as formas de interpretar, com as pedagogias, uma pluralidade que não cessa de se transmutar. Outro achado se deu em relação ao fato de ter identificado, a partir do conjunto de transformações que circundam a pedagogia, o funcionamento de uma vontade de pedagogia que torna possível as pedagogias – sobretudo frente as dificuldades de educar em um mundo cambiante. Em meio às condições analisadas, as pedagogias parecem atuar sobre as condições do presente para forjar, justamente, os sujeitos do presente. Um outro achado refere-se ao fato de que no cerne da pedagogia e das pedagogias está a pretensão de dar forma aos sujeitos ao atuar sobre eles, proporcionando um deslocamento, no contemporâneo, de uma pedagogia que operava com um mestre dando forma a um “outro” para, muito mais, um processo em que cada um passou a atuar sobre si mesmo, elaborando e reelaborando a si através de técnicas e práticas aprendidas com as pedagogias. / From the notion that the meaning of pedagogy is historical and changeable, produced and reproduced under contingencies of every piece of time-space, in this thesis I problematise new forms and emphases that pedagogy has owned. The main aim is to investigate changes in pedagogy meaning, showing its articulations with cultural changes, on the other hand, seeing and trying to show to what degree these have been important elements for changes, forms and emphases, so that its name and sites of action are pluralised. Therefore, from poststructuralist Cultural Studies and the fertile discussion about cultural pedagogies, this thesis works with the tension between pedagogy and pedagogies, seeking to show there are multiple pedagogies working in contemporary society: pedagogies that are as different as intentions moving them. I seek to come around the pedagogy meaning, particularly from useful changes in the culture state and relationships with pieces of knowledge noted found in the mid-20th century ― addressing a temporal space encompassing discussions about what has been called as the postmodern. The theoretical notion is based on male and female writers problematising issues about the postmodern condition, pedagogy, cultural pedagogies, and subject production, especially Arendt, Bauman, Foucault, Lyotard, Ramos do Ó, Larrosa, Wortmann, Silva, and Costa. The analysis corpus consists of a set of documents, such as pedagogical literature excerpts, best-selling books, an issue in a magazine and a dissertation analysing a cultural pedagogy. Research findings showed that the pedagogy seeks to act upon the people as a whole. For this, it is necessary and urgent pedagogy to spread out so that there are several pedagogies operating in society, cutting across spaces and artefacts meant to guide people. From a will to legislate, there has been a progressive change to encompass chiefly the ways of interpreting the plurality that does not stop transmuting. From the set of changes surrounding the pedagogy, another finding is about the fact of having identified the working of a pedagogical will enabling pedagogies, especially in the face of difficulties to educate in an interchangeable world. Under these conditions, pedagogies seem to act upon present conditions to forge exactly present subjects. Still another finding refers to the fact that in the core of pedagogy and pedagogies is the intention to shape subjects when acting upon them, providing displacement of a piece of pedagogy that was working with one teacher and forming „another one‟, towards a process in which everyone starts to act upon oneself, constructing and reconstructing oneself by techniques and practices pedagogies teach.

This thesis explores the renewal process within the Moderate Party from a postmodern perspective, focusing on epideictic rhetoric and theories of pseudo-events. By analyzing the party's strategic repositioning and communication methods, the study examines how the Moderates reshaped their public image and relationship with the electorate. Utilizing examples from political statements and internal documents, the thesis demonstrates how staged events and media appearances were used to direct public discourse. It also highlights how this renewal work contributed to shaping the party's identity and strategy in an era characterized by the increasing significance of media and image-focused political communication. This study thereby contributes to a deeper understanding of the nature of contemporary political communication and its effects on democratic processes and political engagement.

This thesis examines contemporary street art and its exhibition in galleries and museums in connection with Walter Benjamin's concepts of aura and authenticity in the postmodern period. Street art is posited as a marginal art evolving out of the tradition of 1970's New York graffiti that can be made to function as a type of anti-spectacle within the spectacle of the mainstream. Situationist theory and concepts within the agenda of Unitary Urbanism (psychogeography, the dérive, and détournement) are used to evaluate contemporary street art as anti-spectacle. Photography, as a primary method of documenting street art, is considered as a mechanically reproduced medium bringing into play discourses of repetition and originality, which are in turn related back to Benjamin's concepts of aura and authenticity. Andy Warhol, his Pop Art iconography, and practice of seriality are also considered as an influence on contemporary street art's imagery and underlying practice. Warhol's promotion of an "art star" persona is also related to such contemporary street art "stars" as Banksy and Mr. Brainwash.

The field of adult literacy and basic education (ALBE) has undergone dramatic changes in recent years with the advent of labour market programs, accreditation, competency-based assessment and competitive tendering for program funds. Teachers' working conditions have deteriorated and their professional autonomy has been eroded. ALBE has been increasingly instrumentalised to fulfil the requirements of a marketised economy and conform to its norms. The beliefs and value systems which traditionally underpinned the work of ALBE teachers have been reframed according to the principle of 'performativity' and the demands of the 'performative State' (Lyotard, 1984: 46, Yeatman 1994: 110). The destabilisation of teachers' working lives can be understood as a manifestation of the 'postmodern condition' (Lyotard 1984; Harvey 1989): the collapse of the certainties and purposes of the past; the proliferation of technologies; the impermanence and intensification of work; the commodification of knowledge and curricula; and the dissolving of boundaries between disciplines and fields of knowledge. The critiques of the modernist grand narratives which underpin progressivist and critical approaches to adult literacy pedagogy have further undermined the traditional points of reference of ALBE teachers. In this thesis I examine how teachers are teaching, surviving, resisting, and 'living the contradictions' (Seddon 1994) in the context of struggles to comply with and resist the requirements of performativity. Following Foucault and a number of feminist poststructuralist authors, I have applied the notions of 'discursive engagement' and 'the politics of discourse' (Yeatman 1990a) as a way of theorising the interplay between imposed change and teachers' practice. I explore the discursive practices which take place at the interface between the 'new' policy discourses and older, naturalised discourses; how teachers are engaged by and are engaging with discourses of performativity; how teachers are discursively constructing adult literacy pedagogy; what new, hybrid discourses of 'good practice' are emerging; and the micropractices of resistance which teachers are enacting in their speech and in their practice. My purpose was to develop knowledge which would support the reflexivity of teachers; to enrich the theoretical languages that teachers could draw upon in trying to make sense of their situation; and to use those languages in speaking about the dilemmas of practice. I used participatory action research as a means of producing knowledge about teachers' practices, structured around their agency, and reflecting their standpoint (Harding 1993). I describe two separate action research projects in which teachers of ALBE participated. I reflect on both projects in the light of poststructuralist theory and consider them as instances of what Lather calls 'within/against research' (Lather 1989: 27). I analyse written and spoken texts produced in both projects which reflect teachers' responses to competency-based assessment and other features of the changing context. I use a method of discourse mapping to describe the discursive field and the teachers' discursive practices. Three main configurations of discourse are delineated: 'progressivism', 'professional teacher' and 'performativity'. The teachers mainly position themselves within a hybridising 'progressivist /professional teacher' discourse, as a discourse of resistance to 'performative' discourse. In adapting their pedagogies, the teachers are in some degree taking the language and world view of performativity into their own vocabularies and practices. The discursive picture I have mapped is complex and contradictory. On one hand, the 'progressivist /professional teacher' discourse appears to endure and to take strength from the articulation into it of elements of performative discourse, creating new possibilities for discursive transformation. On the other hand, there are signs that performative discourse is colonising and subsuming progressivist /professional teacher discourse. At times, both of these tendencies are apparent in the one text. Six micropractices of resistance are identified within the texts: 'rational critique', 'objectification', 'subversion', 'refusal', 'humour' and 'the affirmation of desire'. These reflect the teachers' agency in making discursive choices on the micro level of their every day practices. Through those micropractices, the teachers are engaging with and resisting the micropractices and meanings of performativity. I apply the same multi-layered method of analysis to an examination of discursive engagement in pedagogy by analysing a transcript of the teachers' discussion of critical incidents in their classrooms. Their classroom pedagogies are revealed as complex, situated and eclectic. They are combining and integrating their 'embodied' and their 'institutional' powers, both 'seducing' (McWilliam 1995) and 'regulating' (Gore 1993) as they teach. A strong ethical project is apparent in the teachers' sense of social responsibility, in their determination to adhere to valued traditions of previous times, and in their critical self-awareness of the ways in which they use their institutional and embodied powers in the classroom. Finally, l look back on the findings, and reflect on the possibilities of discursive engagement and the politics of discourse as a framework for more strategic practice in the current context. This research provides grounds for hope that, by becoming more self-conscious about how we engage discursively, we might become more strategic in our everyday professional practice. Not withstanding the constraints (evident in this study) which limit the strategic potential of the politics of discourse, there is space for teachers to become more reflexive in their professional, pedagogical and political praxis. Development of more deliberate, self-reflexive praxis might lead to a 'postmodern democratic polities' (Yeatman 1994: 112) which would challenge the performative state and the system of globalised capital which it serves. Short abstract Adult literacy and basic education (ALBE) teachers have experienced a period of dramatic policy change in recent years; in particular, the introduction of competency-based assessment and competitive tendering for program funds. 'Discourse politics' provides a way of theorising the interplay between policy-mediated institutional change and teachers' practice. The focus of this study is 'discursive engagement'; how teachers are engaged by and are engaging with discourses of performativity. Through two action research projects, texts were generated of teachers talking and writing about how they were responding to the challenges, and developing their pedagogies in the new policy environment. These texts have been analysed and several patterns of discursive engagement delineated, named and illustrated. The strategic potential of 'discourse polities' is explored in the light of the findings.

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The work called Fashion as a Differend presents the demands of critics of fashion and shows that they are in decomposition with its definition as defined by J. - F. Lyotard in the context of a postmodern condition. It argues that discourse overriding the demands of fashion critics is asymetrical with discourse within which fashion is defined. It turns out that there is a logical paradox with regard to the essence of fashion, which is transience or rapid change (at least as fast a change in society) and the floating demand for slowing down, stability and other criticisms that are linked to its transformation.