This dissertation explores how contemporary, small-press, speculative fiction deviates from other genres in depicting the processes of consciousness in narrative. I study how the confluence of contemporary cognitive theory and experimental, small-press, speculative fiction has produced a new narrative mode, one wherein literature portrays not the product of consciousness but its process instead. Unlike authors who worked previously in the stream-of-consciousness or interior monologue modes, writers in this new narrative mode (which this dissertation refers to as "the little weird") use the techniques of recursion, narratological anachrony, and Ulric Neisser's "ecological self" to avoid the constraints of textual linearity that have historically prevented other literary modes from accurately portraying the operations of "self." Extrapolating from Mieke Bal's seminal theory of narratology; Tzvetan Todorov's theory of the fantastic; Daniel C. Dennett's theories of consciousness; and the works of Darko Suvin, Robert Scholes, Jean Baudrillard, and others, I create a new mode not for classifying categories of speculative fiction, but for re-envisioning those already in use. This study, which concentrates on the work of progressive, small-press, speculative writers such as Kelly Link, Forrest Aguirre, George Saunders, Jeffrey Ford, China Miéville, and many others, explores new ideas about narrative "coherence" from the points of view of self as they are presented today by cognitive, narratological, psychological, sociological, and semiotic theories.

<p>U radu nastojimo da pokažemo da Hegelovi pojmovi spekulativne logike, povesti i objektivnog duha omogućuju da se u potpunosti shvati Aristotelov pojam praktičkog i njegovo razvijanje. Aristotelova praktčka filozofija bivstvo praktičkog dovodi do pojma=logosa, te vladajući pojam=logos praktičkih stvari, koji nije izvan onog alogičkog=žudnje, omogućuje delatnost=energeiju praktičkog. Pojam=logos praktičkog u Aristotela stoga nema teorijski i retrospektivni karakter u samom praktičkom kako to izvodi hermeneutička filozofija, već upravo jeste su&scaron;tina praktičkog odno&scaron;enja koju izlaže i ističe Aristotelova praktička filozofija. Spekulativni pojam onog praktičnog je tačka jedinstva Aristotelove i Hegelove filozofije. Hegel u pojmu političke=unutra&scaron;nje države kao običajnosnog organizma prevladava uz očuvanje Aristotelov logos entelehije polisa=pojam dejstvenosti grada-države. Razlika Aristotelove i Hegelove filozofije o praktičkom je povesna, sistemska i logička. Povesna razlika leži u Hegelovom situiranju modernog principa subjektivnosti kao prava posebnosti subjekta na zadovoljenje u pojam građanskog dru&scaron;tva sistema filozofije prava, te u sledstvenom specifičnom podru&scaron;tvljenju kako privatne sfere tako i sfere države. Logička razlika leži u Hegelovom određenju ideje praktičkog saznanja=ideje objektivnog duha i apsolutne ideje u sistemu spekulativne logike.</p> / <p>In the paper we are trying to show that Hegel&#39;s concepts of speculative logic, history and objective spirit are enabling us to fully understand Aristotle&#39;s concept of practical and its development. Aristotle&rsquo;s practical philosophy brings the being of practical down to the concept=logos, and the ruling concept=logos, that is not beyond the a-logical=desire, enables the effectiveness=energy of the practical. Therefore, with Aristotle, the concept=logos of practical does not have a historical and retrospective nature in the practical itself the way hermeneutic philosophy derives it, but it is the very essence of the practical relation proposed and accented by Aristotle&rsquo;s philosophy of practical.<br />Speculative concept of the practical is the point of unity between Aristotle&rsquo;s and Hegel&rsquo;s philosophy. Hegel, in the concept of political=inner state as ethical life overrules with retention Aristotle&rsquo;s logos of polis entelechy=concept of the effectiveness of the city-state. The difference between Aristotle&rsquo;s and Hegel&rsquo;s philosophy on practical is historical, systematic and logical. The historical difference is in Hegel&rsquo;s placement of modern principle of subjectivity as the right of one&rsquo;s individuality to satisfaction into the concept of civil system of the philosophy of right, and in the specific consequential socialization as both a private affair and a state one. Logical difference is in the Hegel&rsquo;s specification of the idea of practical cognition=idea of the objective spirit and an absolute idea in the system of speculative logic.</p>

The delegating of thought, memory and action outside of the human body, inseparable from the process of individuation and identity formation, and the following implications for music establish an underlying theme of this text. It is a reflection on the process of "supplementation," of prosthetization or exteriorization in the recent and contemporary milieu of music making, in which nothing is any longer immediately at hand, where everything is found mediated and instrumentalized, technicized, unbalanced.

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I examensarbetet Det post-antibiotiska köket har samhällsfrågan om antibiotikaresistens undersökts ur ett designperspektiv. Detta för att uppmärksamma och sprida kunskap om problemet med den ökande resistensen och den nutida konsumtionen av läkemedlet. Designmetoden som använts är spekulativ design och syftet har varit att tillverka fem objekt som skall påverka och motivera en publik till att förändra den aktuella användningen av mirakelmedicinen. Genom grundliga efterforskningar om problematiken och om en framtid utan antibiotika har ett scenario formulerats. Detta scenario utspelar sig 30 år framåt i tiden, år 2049, i en värld där det inte längre finns fungerande antibiotika. Hur utförs en vardagsaktivitet, som att laga spagetti och köttfärssås, när ett litet sår kan leda till en dödlig infektion? Baserat på efterforskningar, workshops och samtal kunde köksobjekten fastställas; en kniv som minskar risken för stick- och skärskador, skyddande handskar, halkfria skor, en ansiktsmask och bakteriekryddor. Objekt som kan bli en del av det post-antibiotiska köket och vardagslivet om vi inte ändrar vårt nutida beteende. / In the degree work The Post-Antibiotic Kitchen the societal issue concerning antibiotic resistance has been explored through design. The purpose of the project has been to bring attention and spread knowledge about the growing resistance and current consumption of antibiotics. Speculative design has been the used design method and the goal has been to create five objects that will influence and motivate an audience to change the present usage of antibiotics. Through thorough research on the issue and on a future without antibiotics, a scenario has been formulated. The scenario takes place 30 years in the future, in 2049, in a world where there are no longer any functioning antibiotics. How will a day to day activity, such as cooking a meal, be performed when a small cut could lead to a deadly infection? Based on research, workshops and conversations five objects were created; a knife to prevent cut- and stab injuries, protective gloves, non-slip shoes, a face-guard and bacteria spices. Five objects that could be a part of the post-antibiotic kitchen and the daily life unless we change our current behavior today. / <p>Posten kompletterad 20190813 med uppdaterad version av uppsatsen.</p>

I den här undersökningen utforskar vi hur användande av smarttelefoner skulle kunna se ut inom en nära framtid. Med designfiktion som grundpelare och förhållningssätt, verklighetsproducerar vi diegetiska prototyper som med sina utseendemässiga egenskaper och funktionaliteter, berättar om en möjlig framtida värld av smarttelefonanvändning. De diegetiska prototyperna är sprungna ur ett fiktivt scenario, baserad på tidigare forskning om aspekter kring användning av smarttelefoner, smarttelefonens tekniska utveckling och dess estimerade roll i en nära framtid. Med Scenariometoden, en egentillverkad metod som vi kallar “Lager-på-lager” och Bleeckers (2009) framställning av designfiktion, kan vi utgå från dessa aspekter för att fantisera och spekulera kring hur det en dag skulle kunna se ut. Löwgren och Stoltermans (2004) bok “Design av informationsteknik” bidrar med metodologi som bistår oss med verktyg för att realisera vår designfiktiva verklighetsproduktion, där fokuset ligger på idégenerering och ifrågasättande samt en abstrakt bild av hur designsituationer börjar, som vi använder som ett förhållningssätt under hela gestaltningsarbetet. Vi får inte bara inblick i hur smarttelefonanvändning skulle kunna se ut inom en snar framtid, men även hur designfiktion kan användas i en spekulerande undersökning, där vetenskapliga fakta, design och fiktion möts och blir ett. / In this Bachelor thesis we explore what smartphone usage could be like in the near future. With design fiction as the central method of approach, we create real life diegetic prototypes that, with their appearance and functionalities, tell of a possible future world of smartphone use. Our diegetic prototypes come from a fictitious scenario, based on aspects derived from science fact, containing smartphone use, the smartphone’s technological evolution and estimated role in the near future. With Scenariometoden (“The scenario method”), our own method Lager-på-lager (“Layer-on-layer”) and Bleecker’s (2009) interpretation of design fiction, we can base our fantasy and speculation on these aspects, to imagine what it one day could be like. Löwgren and Stolterman’s (2004) book “Design av informationsteknik” contributes methodology that assists us with tools for realizing our design-fictional reality production, where the focus is on idea generation and questioning as well as an abstract picture of how design situations begin which we use as an appliance throughout the design work. We not only get an insight into what smartphone use could be like in the near future, but also how design fiction can be used in speculative study, where science fact, design and fiction meet and become one.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo de estudo a relação envolvendo a periferia e o seu processo de reposição na metrópole de São Paulo, tendo por base o estudo realizado no bairro do Cabuçu, no município de Guarulhos. A complexidade urbana do momento atual comporta diferentes análises no sentido de sua interpretação. Partindo-se desse pressuposto, o que se analisa neste trabalho é a atual condição da periferia na metrópole de São Paulo face as promessas da modernidade relacionada ao desenvolvimento urbano. Essa modernidade, acompanhando a evolução do capitalismo, leva a instituição propriedade privada à posição de centralidade, transformando esta numa das principais marcas da sociedade moderna. Em meio a tantas alternativas acerca da complexidade urbana atual, a escolha aqui feita foi a de analisar a periferia enquanto uma realidade sócio-espacial que, do ponto de vista desta reprodução ampliada, deve ser incessamente resposta ao longo do território da metrópole, não excluindo as contradições inerentes a esse processo. Por sua vez, esse movimento incessante vincula-se ao próprio sentido do urbano, que é reproduzido a partir da lógica do capital, e à impossibilidade no alcance das promessas da modernidade. A metrópole chega à atual fase enquanto um território que, dentre vários outros desdobramentos, passa a enfatizar a relação entre o capital especulativo e o mercado imobiliário. Vem daí a intensificação da especulação imobiliária, que é articulada longo do território da metrópole. Como consequência, a reposição da periferia, que se consubstancia em função do drama cada vez maior da moradia, passa também a ser um movimento articulado nessa mesma metrópole. / This task has as na aim of study the relation which involves the suburb and its processo f replacement in São Paulo city, having as a fundamental support the accomplished study in Cabuçu district in Guarulhos city. The complexity, for the time being keeps diferent analysis in the way of its interpretation starting from this pretext what studies in this task is the presente situation of São Paulo metropolis suburb according to the promises of modernity in the relation to the suburb development. This modernity with the capital evolution takes private property institution to the center point, changing it into the most principal marks of the modern society. Among so many alternatives around the present urban complexity, the done choice here was to analyse the suburb as the reality of associate space that, by the point of view of this bigger reprodution must be constantly replaced in the metropolis land not excluding contradictions inherent into this process. However, this constant movement goes to its own urban way which is remade from a capital logic and impossibility in reaching modernity promises. The metropolis gets to the present moment as a territory that, among several developments, begings emphasizing the link between speculative capital and real state market. From this point, the intensification of speculative real state comes and it is articulated in the metropolis land. By as consequences, the suburb repositiion that gets worse according to the misery which becomes bigger in the dwellings and also becomes being na articulated movement in the same metropolis.

This doctoral thesis examines the ways in which contemporary writers have adopted the critical dystopian mode in order to radically deconstruct the socio-political conditions that preclude equality, inclusion and collective political appearance in twenty-first century Britain. The thesis performs theoretically-informed close readings of contemporary novels from authors J.G. Ballard, Maggie Gee, Sarah Hall and Rupert Thomson in its analysis, and argues that the speculative visions of Kingdom Come (2006), The Flood (2004), The Carhullan Army (2007) and Divided Kingdom (2005) are engaged with a wave of contemporary dystopian writing in which the destructive and divisive forms of consensus that are to be found within Britain's contemporary socio-political moment are identified and challenged. The thesis proposes that, in their politically-engaged extrapolations, contemporary British writers are engaged with specifically dystopian expressions of dissensus. Reflecting key theoretical and political nuances found in Jacques Rancière's concept of 'dissensus', I argue that the novels illustrate dissensual interventions within the imagined political space of British societies in which inequalities, oppressions and exclusions are endemic - often proceeding to present modest, 'minor' utopian arguments for more equal, heterogeneous and democratic possibilities in the process. Contributing new, theoretically-inflected analysis of key speculative fictions from twenty-first century British writers, and locating their critiques within the literary, socio-political and theoretical contexts they are meaningfully engaged with, the thesis ultimately argues that in interrogating and reimagining the socio-political spaces of twenty-first century Britain, contemporary writers of dystopian fiction demonstrate literature working in its most dissensual, political and transformative mode.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-05-28T12:50:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Augusto Lorenz_.pdf: 11301208 bytes, checksum: 8c50f8de2f0ed9b207ee727c647fc2ee (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-28T12:50:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Augusto Lorenz_.pdf: 11301208 bytes, checksum: 8c50f8de2f0ed9b207ee727c647fc2ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-23 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Nos últimos anos, o design também passou a ser considerado como uma abordagem de pesquisa acadêmica que se apropria da prática projetual como meio de construção de objetos a fim de alcançar novos conhecimentos – a pesquisa através do design (RtD). Levando e consideração que o processo de desenvolvimento de um trabalho de pesquisa acadêmico passa por uma etapa de identificação e construção do problema a ser investigado, o presente trabalho discute o impacto do desenvolvimento de artefatos críticos na construção de problemas de pesquisa acadêmicos. Artefatos críticos são aqueles criados a partir da prática crítica, uma abordagem de RtD que propõe a reflexão e o debate a partir de estratégias provocativas. Desenvolveu-se um método compreende três workshops, nas quais oito mestrandos exploraram seus próprios problemas de pesquisa através do desenvolvimento de artefatos críticos. Os 25 artefatos criados foram analisados a partir das ferramentas Matriz Crítica e Portfólio Annotations. Grupos focais foram realizados com os designers-pesquisadores e posteriormente analisados com a ferramenta Análise de Conteúdo. A partir dos resultados, concluiu-se que (i) artefatos críticos permitem aos pesquisadores que estes alcancem novas percepções sobre seus próprios temas de pesquisa, a partir de atitudes Exploratórias e Solucionadoras; (ii) o exercício da prática crítica pode ser localizado em três diferentes momentos de uma pesquisa acadêmica, com benefícios variados; (iii) artefatos críticos incorporam conhecimentos sobre as pesquisas que exploram, o que permite que eles funcionem como meios não usuais de popularização de conhecimento acadêmico. Por fim, diretrizes projetuais são propostas visando beneficiar futuros exercícios em contextos semelhantes. / In recent years, design has also come to be regarded as an academic research approach that appropriates design practice as a means of building objects in order to achieve new knowledge - known as research through design (RtD). Taking into consideration that the process of developing an academic research work goes through a stage of identification and construction of the problem to be investigated, this dissertation discusses the impact of the development of critical artifacts in the construction of academic research problems. Critical artifacts are those created from critical practice, an RtD approach that proposes reflection through provocative strategies. A method has been developed comprising three workshops, in which eight master students explored their own research problems through the development of critical artifacts. The 25 artifacts created were analyzed using the Matrix of Common Argument Types and the Portfolio Annotations methods. Focus groups were carried out with the designers-researchers and later analyzed through the Content Analysis tool. It was concluded that (i) critical artifacts allow researchers to reach new insights about their own research themes, through Exploratory and Solving Attitudes; (ii) the practice of the critical practice can be located in three different moments of an academic research, with varied benefits; (iii) critical artifacts incorporate knowledge about the research they explore, which allows them to function as unusual means of popularizing academic knowledge. Finally, design guidelines are proposed to benefit future exercises in similar contexts.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T18:40:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Milton Almeida da Silva.pdf: 951427 bytes, checksum: 2eb314059433ac66640426ac17114465 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-05 / The central goal of this research was to increase the debating about efficacy from rules, legal actions and Corporate governance to protect the non qualified minority shareholders in the Brazilian IPOs (Initial Public Offering) programs. The theme has showed growing interest, because the number of personal investors and the Bovespa s (São Paulo Stock Exchange) IPO market has been in progress strongly. The event study was the methodology used to measure the abnormal returns in the portfolio s samples with between 23 and 98 shares from 106 IPOs going public in 2004-07, using de market price from January, 2004 to June, 2008. Further, four statistic tests were applied to detect if the speculative bubble dynamic affected the Bovespa from January, 1999 to June, 2008. The empiric results from event study evidenced the overpricing phenomenon measured from the offering price to the market price at the end of the first day of trading estimated between 4,80% and 9,26%, and a underpricing phenomenon in the sequel. The cumulative average abnormal returns, ruled out of the first day return, achieved -11,52% at the end of the 6º month, -16,60% at the end of the 12º month and -35,74% at the end of the 24º month, presented a underperfomance phenomenon with economic and statistic significance, widely documented by the academy, specially on the north American capital market. The empiric results from four statistic tests showed, with statistic significance, that speculative bubble dynamic affected the Ibovespa (Index of São Paulo Stock Exchange) in the period from January, 1999 to June, 2008. Thus, evidences were found of the minority shareholders that bought shares in the Bovespa s IPOs programs in the studied period were induced by market anomalies to overpay the share s portfolios. Consequently, the research suggests that actions to improve the rules, legal actions and Corporate governance is necessary to protect of the non qualified minority shareholders in the Brazilian capital market / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo central ampliar as discussões quanto à eficácia das normas, procedimentos e Governança Corporativa na proteção dos acionistas minoritários não qualificados nos processos de IPO s (Initial Public Offering) ou abertura de capital das companhias no mercado de capitais brasileiro. O tema apresenta importância crescente em face do recente aumento do número de investidores individuais e do forte incremento do mercado de IPO s na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (Bovespa). A metodologia empregada foi um estudo de evento para a identificação da presença de retornos anormais em carteiras compostas por uma amostra entre 23 e 98 ações de um total de 106 IPO s realizados na Bovespa entre 2004 e 2007, abrangendo as cotações das ações no período entre janeiro de 2004 e junho de 2008. Também foram realizados quatro testes estatísticos visando detectar indícios da presença da dinâmica de bolha especulativa na Bovespa no período entre janeiro de 1999 e junho de 2008. Os resultados empíricos do estudo de evento demonstraram evidências de sobre-valorização nos preços das ações no primeiro dia de negociação, com retornos anormais entre 4,80% e 9,26%, seguida de significativas quedas nas cotações subseqüentes. Os retornos anormais médios acumulados, excluído o retorno do 1° dia, atingiram -11,52% no final do 6º mês, -16,60% no final do 12º mês e -35,74% no final do 24º mês, evidenciando relevantes perdas de valor das carteiras analisadas no período, tanto em termos econômicos quanto em nível de significância estatística, caracterizando o fenômeno da underperformance, amplamente documentado pela academia, notadamente no mercado de capitais norte-americano. Os resultados dos testes estatísticos demonstraram indícios, com significância estatística, da presença da dinâmica de bolha especulativa na formação do Índice da Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (Ibovespa) no período entre janeiro de 1999 e junho de 2008. Desse modo, foram encontradas evidências de que os acionistas minoritários que participaram dos processos de IPO s na Bovespa no período estudado foram induzidos, por anomalias de mercado, ao pagamento de valores acima dos preços justos das carteiras de ações. Como conseqüência, a pesquisa sugere a necessidade do aperfeiçoamento dos mecanismos de proteção dos acionistas minoritários não qualificados no mercado de capitais brasileiro