The thesis analyses a dispute of two anarchist movements promoting Anarcho-Capitalism and an automated non-monetary economy. It asks the question whether the dispute can be explained in terms of paradigm conflict and not exclusively in political terms . The goal is to search for signs of scientific paradigm in an apparently ideological dispute. The thesis also examines the reasons why did the debate deteriorate into a personal and moral conflict of the representatives. The method of analysis is Grounded Theory, with reference to authors who interpret Kuhn's paradigm conflict as the consequence of an unconscious language barrier. Paradigm was operationally defined as a hierarchy of concepts with physical reference, theoretical network of the concepts and the scientific field objectives. The field objectives are the only reliable reference points between paradigms. The thesis sums up the debate between Anarcho-Capitalists and proponents of Resource-Based Economy and recovers the scientific answers and field objectives which were demanded yet missing in the debate. The thesis concludes that the debate can legitimately continue and that the ideological differences were mostly caused by a different scope of technical instruments and their describing paradigms, regardless of historical origin and...

What can 15th century France and heavy metal have in common? In Heavy Metal Humor, Gary Powell explores metal culture through the work of Mikael Bakhtin‘s “carnivalesque theory.” Describing the practice of inverting commonly understood notions of respectability and the increasing attempts to normalize them, Bakhtin argues that carnivals in Francois Rabelais’ work illustrate a sacrilegious uprising by the peasant classes during carnival days against dogmatic aristocrats. Powell asserts that Rabelais’ work describes cartoonish carnivals that continue in as exaggerated themes and tropes into other literary styles, such as comedy and horror that ultimately inform modern-day metal culture. To highlight the similarities of Bakhtin’s interpretation of Rabelais’ work to modern-day metal culture, Powell draw parallels to between Bakhtin’s carnivalesque theory and metal culture with two different, exemplary “humorous” metal performances, GWAR and Anal Cunt. Powell chooses “humorous” metal groups because, to achieve their humor, they exaggerate tropes, and behaviors in metal culture. To this end, Powell explores metal culture through GWAR, a costumed band who sprays their audience with fake body fluids as they decapitate effigies. He points out examples of Rabelais’ work which Bakhtin uses to describe carnivalesque tropes, and threads them to modern-day metal culture. Powell then indicates how carnivalesque performances amplify with Anal Cunt, a “satirical” hateful, grindcore group. In the band’s performance which is both serious and humorous at once, Anal Cunt draws on several carnivalesque behaviors. To dissect this band’s performance, Powell augments Bakhtin’s carnivalesque theory with Richard Schechner’s theory of “dark play” and Johan Huizinga’s “play communities” to more describe and illustrate why some aspects of modern-day metal culture do not match Bakhtin’s theory based on medieval French literature. However, carnivalesque humor becomes ambiguous and social and political problems arise as it escalates. As disrespectability is promoted, social and political tensions surface. Countering Bakhtin’s utopian notion of carnivalesque uprising, Powell highlights how socio-political turmoil presents itself in carnivalesque performance by referring to examples of confusion and concern regarding racism and sexism, something left unexplored in Bakhtin’s work. Powell suggests expanding and modernizing Bakhtin’s carnival could open pathways toward solutions to carnival culture’s socio-political ills.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-08-12Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:25:43Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mendes_sc_me_fran.pdf: 1500801 bytes, checksum: 54305ee1bc58534f461aadaa2157fb5f (MD5) / O presente trabalho visa observar e entender as teorias e práticas das mulheres anarquistas atuantes no movimento operário paulistano durante a Primeira República (1889 – 1930), buscando suas especificidades e práticas em comum aos movimentos anárquicos de outras localidades e objetivando mostrá-las como sujeitos históricos. Para tal não há como deixarmos de analisar o anarquismo em suas variadas facetas, como o anarco-comunismo e o anarco-coletivismo, assim como seus principais teóricos, considerados clássicos, como Bakunin, Kropotkin e Malatesta e outros anarquistas paulistanos do sexo masculino, com os quais essas mulheres dialogaram direta ou indiretamente. Também analisaremos o contexto histórico paulistano da Primeira República, período marcado pela imigração européia, intensa urbanização e industrialização – fundamentais para o desenvolvimento do movimento operário anarquista aqui analisado -, bem como as libertárias de fora do país que influenciaram enormemente o pensamento das libertárias por aqui. Fizemos isso através da análise de textos e relatos das mulheres libertárias, como Izabel Cerruti e Iza Rutt nos jornais anarquistas da época (“A Terra Livre”, “A Plebe” e “O Internacional”), das memórias das militantes libertárias, como Emma Goldman, Louise Michel e Maria Lacerda de Moura e da “Revista Renascença”, editada pela última / This work aims to observe and understand the theories and practices of anarchists womens acting at the Sao Paulo’s worker moviment during the First Republic (1889 – 1930), searching their specificities and practices in common with anarchist movements of other localities and objetifying show them like historical subjects. For this we have to analyze anarchism on your various facets, like anarcho-communism and anarcho-collectivism, as well as theirs main theoreticians, considered classicals, like Bakunin, Kropotkin and Malatesta and other Sao Paulo’s male anarchists, which those womens spoke directly or indirectly. We will also analyze the Sao Paulo’s historical context of the First Republic, period marked by european immigration, intense urbanization and industrialization – fundamental for the development of anarchist worker moviment here analyzed – as well as foreign libertarians which enormously have influenced the libertarians pensaments here in Brazil. We have done it through the analysis of texts and reports of libertarian womens, like Izabel Cerruti and Iza Rutt at anarchist newspapers of that period (The Free Land, The Mob and The International), the memories of libertarian millitants, like Emma Goldman, Louise Michel and Maria Lacerda de Moura and of the “Renaissance Magazine”, published by Maria Lacerda