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Symmetry and symmetry-breaking have, in the last one hundred and fifty years, become incorporated as central explanatory concepts within the natural sciences and mathematics. An abbreviated review of the incorporation of symmetry within the disciplines of mathematics, physics, philosophy and biology, provides a frame within which to develop of a model of mind. This thesis combines the framework provided by symmetry and symmetry-breaking with a structural understanding of self-referential dynamics in examining the implied Kantian model of mind. It considers that Kant’s assumption of a transcendental self unnecessarily isolates consciousness from being understood as a product of complex natural processes. Kant’s structural model of mind is examined and reformulated in terms of a more fundamental form and process. The space required for any non-reductionist model of mind is proposed as being generated through an enfolding of dimensionality in the occurrence of categorical level symmetry breaking during evolutionary development. The temporally extended function is accounted for in terms of self-referential structural dynamics operating within the primary temporal asymmetry. The model of mind proposed is created through application of naturalistic explanations incorporating symmetry and has attributes that may prove of interest to non-reductionists. The phenomenological geometry established provides a framework to understand the experiential phenomenon of qualia while conforming to the requirements of a natural explanation. Information is conceived as being transmitted inwaveforms propagated across spaces of enfolded dimensionalities through structural framesdemarcating nested spaces and condensing in the synthesis of unity in the object of attention,or image, and returning to distribute, the now reformulated, information outward acrosscontextual frames and spaces. This simplified dynamic is considered to operate at all levels of natural phenomena and involves the reintroduction of Bohm’s concepts of implicate and explicate order. The result is a model of mind employing a minimum structural form and self-referential dynamics that has potential for integration across the discipline theoretic frames of the natural sciences while retaining, for the domain of conscious phenomena, an independent causal significance in terms of a temporal structuralism.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / In Australian Aboriginal affairs, the acculturative strand of assimilation developed in large part from Elkin’s religious and Idealist commitment, for which in the years 1928 to 1933 he won social-scientific authority. In competition with both an eliminationist politics of race and a segregationist politics of territory, Elkin drew upon religious experience, apologetics, sociology, and networks to establish a ‘positive policy’ as an enduring ideal in Aboriginal affairs. His leadership of the 1930s reform movement began within the Anglican Church, became national through civic-religious organs of publicity, and gained scientific authority as Elkin made religious themes a central concern in Australian anthropology. But from the 1960s until recently, most scholars have lost sight of the centrality of Idealism and religion in our protagonist’s seminal project of acculturative assimilation. This thesis aims to show how Elkin dealt with problems fundamental to twentieth century Aboriginal affairs and indeed to Australian modernity more generally – problems of faith and science, morality and expediency – in developing his positive policy towards Aborigines.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008. / Title from title screen (viewed November, 11, 2008) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of History, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Includes bibliographical references.

The Postanarchist, an activist in a heterotopia : building an ideal type is the theme of this doctoral thesis. The main aim is to elaborate a design for the postanarchist figure, picking up its main characteristics from the work of the postanarchist Saul Newman. The argument also bears on two other authors: the post-structuralist Michel Foucault, considered a strong influence of postanarchism, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first author who labelled himself as anarchist and the first to embrace anarchy positively. Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari are introduced as mediators to provide deeper understanding of the main authors. The dissertation offers a novel theoretical revision of postanarchism through Michel Foucault and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. It notes the close similarities between Foucault and Proudhon - in terms of concepts of space, struggle, movement, necessity and consequently anarchy; establishes a conceptual net around them and uses Proudhon s thinking to fill the bibliographic gaps in Foucault s writings. The goal is to better understand the thought and the activist practice of Foucault in terms of anarchism and, in the last instance, to better grasp the postanarchism of Saul Newman in order to carve the postanarchist ideal type. Postanarchism is understood as the constitution of autonomous spaces; the notions of space and heterotopias - the Foucauldian space - are central in the dissertation. Accordingly, the thesis is structured by three hypotheses: (i) postanarchism is space constitution; (ii) the constitution of space is a struggle; (iii) to establish space is to survive. The sub-concepts of the dissertation are: movement, necessity, struggle, power subject, body, sign, truth and utopia. The thesis provides an interpretative analysis of primary sources - books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and manifestos - of the three main authors supported by secondary commentaries. It departs from conventions by adopting a theoretical approach inspired by Foucault s solar and circular worldview (and Tommaso Campanella s City of the Sun). This facilitates the fluid organization of the argument and avoids imposing linearity on the content, thus highlighting the interrelation between content and the structure of the argument. This thesis is an exposition, an interpretation that develops new knowledge through the connections and methods that enable us to better know who the postanarchist activist is.

No presente trabalho se analisa a opção pela promoção do desenvolvimento industrial com participação do capital estrangeiro na forma como ocorreu nos anos 1950, em particular a partir do governo JK, com o apoio do empresariado industrial nacional. Assume-se que houve uma disponibilidade internacional de efetuar investimentos diretos no país, provocada pelo fim do Plano Marshall com o qual ocorreram elevados investimentos estadunidenses na Europa e Japão, e com eles a difusão de um estilo de administração e de tecnologias compatíveis com a escala de produção existente nos EUA, levando a um aumento da produção mundial e à integração dos mercados nacionais. Isso provocou um movimento de expansão de empresas européias, japonesas e norte-americanas rumo à periferia do capitalismo. Houve também uma disposição nacional, dos industriais e do governo, de receber esses recursos com o intuito de acelerar a industrialização. Essa visão é interpretada como um imediatismo, que seria uma instituição, um hábito de pensamento manifesto nas tentativas do governo de promover a superação do atraso do país, que motivou também o empresariado, integrado ao processo de forma secundária. Buscou-se compreender a postura do empresariado a partir de suas origens sociais e étnicas em grande parte imigrantes e de seus hábitos de vida ligados ao comércio e à agricultura de exportação, setores onde conviviam com o capital forâneo. Também se ressaltou a importância dos seus valores sociais, semelhantes àqueles das elites coloniais: o individualismo e a valorização das relações pessoais, a perspectiva de enriquecimento rápido e a atuação de caráter especulativo. O Estado, que não era alheio às influências desse ambiente institucional, para promover a industrialização e necessitando resolver problemas conjunturais como a inflação e o desequilíbrio externo, progressivamente liberalizou a movimentação de capitais e alterou a prioridade da industrialização em direção ao setor de bens de consumo duráveis. Isso se formalizou no Plano de Metas, uma estratégia de desenvolvimento em que tirava proveito da concorrência internacional e ia ao encontro dos interesses do empresariado ao facilitar as condições de acumulação privada. Pelo presente ponto de vista, fundado no estruturalismo e na velha economia institucional, aquela instituição explicaria o nacionalismo pragmático do governo, que não se opunha ao investimento externo, e o apoio dos industriais, motivado pelo convívio anterior e pela perspectiva de lucrar com a associação ao capital estrangeiro e o crescimento proporcionado pela política industrializante. / This paper analyzes the option for the industrial development with participation of the foreign capital in the way it occurred in the 1950s’, in particular from the JK government, with the support of industrial entrepreneurs. It is believed that in this year there was an international willingness to make direct investments in the country, provoked by the end of the Marshall plan which led to American investments in Europe and Japan. These investments made possible the spread of a style of administration and technologies that were compatible with the scale of existing production in the U.S.A., leading to an increase of the world-wide production and to the integration of the national markets. This provoked a movement of expansion of European, Japanese and North American companies to the periphery of capitalism. There was also a national inclination, from the entrepreneurs and government, to receive these resources with the intention to speed up industrialization. This view is interpreted as an institution, a habit of thought that manifests itself in the attempts of the government to promote the overcoming of the delay in the country’s development that also motivated entrepreneurs, which were integrated to the process secondarily. We tried to understand the entrepreneurs position from their immigrant social and ethnic origins, and from their habits of life in the commerce and the agriculture of exportation, sectors where they coexisted with the alien capital. They also had social values similar to those of the colonial elites: the individualism and the attributed importance to the personal relations, the perspective of fast enrichment and the speculative character of their economic action. The State was affected by this institutional environment. To promote industrialization and solve the problems of inflation and external disequilibrium, it gradually liberalized the movement of capitals and modified the priority of industrialization to the sector of durable goods. This was set by the Plano de Metas, a development strategy which took advantage of the international competition and took care of the interests of the entrepreneurs by facilitating the accumulation of capital in the private sector of the economy. In our interpretation, established in the structuralism and in the original institutional economics, this institution would explain the pragmatic nationalism of the government, that did not oppose to the external investment, and the support of the industrials, motivated by the previous relations with the alien capital, and by the profit perspectives that came from this association and from the economic growth provoked by the industrial politics.

Esta tese aborda com o tema ”A Experiência e a Pedagogia que nós surdos queremos”. Pesquiso as ferramentas dos Estudos Surdos, juntamente com o pensamento teórico pós - estruturalista de Derrida, da experiência de Joan Mèlich, fez-se criar as experiências dos professores surdos sobre a Pedagogia (dos Surdos), transcritas de filmagens, narradas: com o obstáculo e a volta epistemológica, que enfatiza-se com o desejo, os olhares e as necessidades. Com a conclusão enunciadas: Os surdos que estudam o Magistério de Ouvintes (Inclusão): “A formação vazia, não conheciam a História dos Surdos, nem Arte-Educação pois eram os currículos ouvicêntricos, baseados em Língua Portuguesa até os literários, com repetições monolíngüísticas ouvicêntricas. Rotulados de deficientes, retardados, coitados. Sentimentos de decepção e angustia pelos conhecimentos, de depressão, de vida vazia. Com o Magistério dos Surdos: Aprendiam observando os professores surdos (modelo identitário) comunicando em LS, ministrando a História dos surdos, Arte-educação e Didática de LS. Sentiam sem reclamações no currículo feito pela visão epistemológica dos surdos. Ficaram com os parceiros da mesmidade a construir a identidade surda. É a pedagogia que volta e reverbera permanentemente. Ainda sentem o desejo de traçar a Pedagogia Surda para o amanhã. / This thesis approaches with the subject ”the Experience and the Pedagogy that deaf we want”. I search the tools of the Deaf Studies, together with the theoretical thought post - structuralist of Derrida, of the experience of Joan Mèlich, one became to create the experiences of the deaf professors on the Pedagogy (of the Deaf people), solo transcribing of filmings, told: with the obstacle and the epistemological return, with that it is emphasized with the desire, the looks and the necessities. With the conclusion declared: The deaf people who study the Teaching of Listeners (Inclusion): “The empty formation, they did not know the History of the Deaf people, nor Art-Education therefore were the ‘listenercenter” curriculums, based in Portuguese Language until the literary ones, with “listenercenter” monolinguistics repetitions. Friction of deficient, been late, poor. Feelings of disillusionment and distress for the knowledge, of depression, empty life. With the Teaching of the Deaf people: They learned observing the deaf professors (identitary model) communicating in LS, giving the History of the deaf people, Art-education and Didactics of Sign Language. They felt without claims in the resume made for the “epistemological” vision of the deaf people. They had been with the partners of the identity to construct the deaf identity. It is the pedagogy that comes back and reverberates permanently. Still they feel the desire to trace the Deaf Pedagogy for tomorrow.

This study attempts to offer a reading of Msimang's poetry from the perspective of deconstruction. In this course it is necessary to introduce and elaborate on certain deconstruction strategies. This is mainly effected in the second chapter, where consideration is given to diachronic and synchronic perspectives on deconstruction. However, not all the ramifications of the various radical insights offered by deconstructive approaches into the various fields are explored, only the significant texts by mainly French theorists and their American disciples are investigated. Secondly, this study seeks to show that the Zulu poems under consideration are highly amenable to a deconstruction reading. This thesis examines the various practices to absorb, transform, and integrate deconstruction and to make the theory applicable as a critical method within the African languages critical environment. In the third chapter, I am chiefly concerned with the claim that a text never has a single meaning, but is a crossroads of multiple ambiguous meanings. Explaining the historical context, the interdisciplinary scope, and the philosophical significance of Derrida' s project are explored in the fourth chapter. Language has no determinate centre nor any retrievable origin or truth. Belief in such is no more than nostalgia, says Derrida. What actually exists is a complex network of differences between signifiers, each in some sense carrying the traces of all others. With psychoanalysis in the fourth chapter, the focus is not on the differences between the deconstructive and psychoanalytic critics, but on their shared assumption that works ofliterature are in some sense indeterminate. These properties lead to the sixth chapter, which deals with intertextuality according to Derrida, Barthes and Bloom. The seventh and last chapter is the general conclusion in which main observations are summarized and important aspects highlighted. Finally, this thesis attempts to illustrate why the deconstructive procedure of analysing texts in such a way as to explicate their partial complicity with the theory, makes this deconstructive reading of Msimang' s poetry possible. / African Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

[pt] A tese tem como tema a ênfase dada por Lacan à linguagem na experiência psicanalítica, em diferentes momentos de seu ensino. A partir da oposição entre modelos de linguagem que reduzem seu objeto às leis internas ao sistema da língua, e modelos que abarcam a posição dos falantes e o contexto discursivo, buscamos verificar qual concepção de linguagem Lacan usa quando teoriza sobre a linguagem na experiência analítica. A fim de demarcar a especificidade do campo psicanalítico, cotejamos a noção de linguagem em Lacan com o modelo estruturalista e com a filosofia pragmática da linguagem. / [en] This thesis has as its theme the emphasis given by Lacan to the language in the psychoanalytic experience, during different moments of his teaching. From the opposition between language models that reduce their object to the internal laws of the language system and models that embrace the position of the speakers and the discursive context, we seek to determine which is the conception of language Lacan uses when theorizing on language in the psychoanalytic experience. In order to demarcate the specificity of the psychoanalytic field, we compare the notion of language in Lacan with the structuralist model and the pragmatic philosophy of language.

Esta tese aborda com o tema ”A Experiência e a Pedagogia que nós surdos queremos”. Pesquiso as ferramentas dos Estudos Surdos, juntamente com o pensamento teórico pós - estruturalista de Derrida, da experiência de Joan Mèlich, fez-se criar as experiências dos professores surdos sobre a Pedagogia (dos Surdos), transcritas de filmagens, narradas: com o obstáculo e a volta epistemológica, que enfatiza-se com o desejo, os olhares e as necessidades. Com a conclusão enunciadas: Os surdos que estudam o Magistério de Ouvintes (Inclusão): “A formação vazia, não conheciam a História dos Surdos, nem Arte-Educação pois eram os currículos ouvicêntricos, baseados em Língua Portuguesa até os literários, com repetições monolíngüísticas ouvicêntricas. Rotulados de deficientes, retardados, coitados. Sentimentos de decepção e angustia pelos conhecimentos, de depressão, de vida vazia. Com o Magistério dos Surdos: Aprendiam observando os professores surdos (modelo identitário) comunicando em LS, ministrando a História dos surdos, Arte-educação e Didática de LS. Sentiam sem reclamações no currículo feito pela visão epistemológica dos surdos. Ficaram com os parceiros da mesmidade a construir a identidade surda. É a pedagogia que volta e reverbera permanentemente. Ainda sentem o desejo de traçar a Pedagogia Surda para o amanhã. / This thesis approaches with the subject ”the Experience and the Pedagogy that deaf we want”. I search the tools of the Deaf Studies, together with the theoretical thought post - structuralist of Derrida, of the experience of Joan Mèlich, one became to create the experiences of the deaf professors on the Pedagogy (of the Deaf people), solo transcribing of filmings, told: with the obstacle and the epistemological return, with that it is emphasized with the desire, the looks and the necessities. With the conclusion declared: The deaf people who study the Teaching of Listeners (Inclusion): “The empty formation, they did not know the History of the Deaf people, nor Art-Education therefore were the ‘listenercenter” curriculums, based in Portuguese Language until the literary ones, with “listenercenter” monolinguistics repetitions. Friction of deficient, been late, poor. Feelings of disillusionment and distress for the knowledge, of depression, empty life. With the Teaching of the Deaf people: They learned observing the deaf professors (identitary model) communicating in LS, giving the History of the deaf people, Art-education and Didactics of Sign Language. They felt without claims in the resume made for the “epistemological” vision of the deaf people. They had been with the partners of the identity to construct the deaf identity. It is the pedagogy that comes back and reverberates permanently. Still they feel the desire to trace the Deaf Pedagogy for tomorrow.