[pt] Lembretes desmoralizantes (demoralizing reminders) é uma expressão criada pelo artista para designar grandes áreas habitacionais abandonadas como uma crítica explícita ao discurso arquitetônico e uma denúncia à fragilidade do sistema de produção do espaço capitalista. É também o título deste trabalho que propõe uma leitura dos buildings cuts realizados pelo artista Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) no período compreendido entre 1974-1978, ancorado em seus escritos, cartas, declarações, artcards, entrevistas, fotografias e filmes, desenvolvendo um percurso de leitura que mapeia as constelações de sua pulsão crítica cujo modo de operar baseia-se em uma visão de tempo cíclico, de separação, preparação, consumo e novas semeaduras. A espetacularização produzida pela crítica tratando seus building cuts como produtos, objetos acabados ainda que efêmeros, enquanto uma nova linguagem desenvolvida pelo artista obscureceu a especificidade tratada em cada um deles, as relações com a documentação, com a performance, com o contexto. A tese Lembretes desmoralizantes procura analisa-los à luz do discurso do artista mostrando que há um deslocamento permanente entre ideia, escrita e gesto em um processo de desdobramentos contínuo onde a ação de desfazer promovia uma necessidade permanente de questionar o estado das coisas, nos lembrando da necessidade de colocar tudo em movimento exatamente quando nos sentimos confortáveis. / [en] Demoralizing reminders is an expression created by the artist to designate great abandoned housing areas as an explicit criticism to the architectural discourse and a denouncement of the fragility of the production system of the capitalist space. It is also the title of this work, which proposes a perusal of the buildings cuts made by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) in the period between 1974 and 1978, based on his writings, letters, declarations, artcards, in his interview, in photographs and films developing a trajectory of perusal that maps the constellations of his critical pulsation, whose way of operating is based in a vision of time as cyclical, of separation, preparation, consumption and new sowings. The spectacularization produced by the critics treating his building cuts as products, objects that were finished, albeit ephemeral, while a new language developed by the artist obscured the specificity treated in each of them, the relationships with the documentation, the performance, the context. The thesis Demoralizing reminders aims to analyze them through the discourse of the artist showing that there is a permanent displacement between idea, writing and gesture in a process of continuous unfolding where the action of undoing promoted a permanent need to question the state of things, reminding us of the need to put everything in motion precisely when we feel comfortable.

Thesis advisor: Alan Lawson / Before the Civil Rights Movement began in the mid-1950s, an early movement led by white southern liberals fought for social and economic equality between the races. These men and women defied the stereotypes of bigoted white southerners and gradualist appeasers and challenged the norms and social customs of their region. Unfortunately, their legacy and accomplishments have largely been overshadowed by dramatic events of 1950s and 1960s. This thesis seeks to reexamine their work in view of their courage and unwavering determination to bring justice and equality to the South. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History Honors Program. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: History.

The Clark fault is one of the primary dextral faults in the San Jacinto fault zone system, southern California. Previous mapping of the Clark fault at its southern termination in the San Felipe Hills reveals it as a broad right lateral shear zone that ends north of the crossing, northeast-striking, left-lateral Extra fault. We investigate the relationship between the dextral Clark fault and the sinistral Extra fault to determine whether the Clark fault continues to the southeast. We present new structural, geophysical and geomorphic data that show that the Extra fault is a ~7 km wide, coordinated fault array comprised of four to six left-lateral fault zones. Active strands of the Clark fault zone persists through the Extra fault array to the Superstition Hills fault in the subsurface and rotate overlying sinistral faults in a clockwise sense. New detailed structural mapping between the San Felipe and Superstition Hills confirms that there is no continuous trace of the Clark fault zone at the surface but the fault zone has uplifted an elongate region ~950 km. sq. of latest Miocene to Pleistocene basin-fill in the field area and far outside of it. Detailed maps and cross sections of relocated microearthquakes show two earthquake swarms, one in 2007 and another in 2008 that project toward the San Felipe Hills, Tarantula Wash and Powerline strands of the dextral Clark fault zone in the San Felipe Hills, or possibly toward the parts of the Coyote Creek fault zone. We interpret two earthquake swarms as activating the San Jacinto fault zone beneath the Extra fault array. These data coupled with deformation patterns in published InSAR data sets suggest the presence of possible dextral faults at seismogenic depths that are not evident on the surface. We present field, geophysical and structural data that demonstrate dominantly left-lateral motion across the Extra fault array with complex motion on secondary strands in damage zones. Slickenlines measured within three fault zones in the Extra fault array reveal primarily strike-slip motion on the principal fault strands. Doubly-plunging anticlines between right-stepping en echelon strands of the Extra fault zone are consistent with contraction between steps of left-lateral faults and are inconsistent with steps in dominantly normal faults. Of the 21 published focal mechanisms for earthquakes in and near the field area, all record strike-slip and only two have a significant component of extension. Although the San Sebastian Marsh area is dominated by northeast-striking leftlateral faults at the surface, the Clark fault is evident at depth beneath the field area, in rotated faults, in microseismic alignments, and deformation in the Sebastian uplift. Based on these data the Clark fault zone appears to be continuous at depth to the Superstition Hills fault, as Fialko (2006) hypothesized with more limited data sets.

<p>Föreliggande effektivitetsstudie med individuell KBT-behandling för 17 diagnostiserade socialfobipatienter genomfördes på två allmänpsykiatriska öppenvårdsmottagningar under en period av 18 månader. Syftet med studien är att utvärdera effekten av en KBT-behandling. Alla patienter uppfyllde kriterierna för social fobi enligt DSM-IV. Patienterna erbjöds en behandling med upp till 14 sessioner plus möjlighet till tre uppföljningssamtal. KBT-behandlingen har varit tidseffektiv och deltagarna har framfört positiva synpunkter om samarbetet med terapeuten och de uppnådda målsättningarna i behandlingen. Resultaten visar statistiskt signifikanta förbättringar i samtliga använda mått; BAI, BDI, SPS, LSAS, SIAS. Resultaten visar också måttlig effektstorlek.</p>

Föreliggande effektivitetsstudie med individuell KBT-behandling för 17 diagnostiserade socialfobipatienter genomfördes på två allmänpsykiatriska öppenvårdsmottagningar under en period av 18 månader. Syftet med studien är att utvärdera effekten av en KBT-behandling. Alla patienter uppfyllde kriterierna för social fobi enligt DSM-IV. Patienterna erbjöds en behandling med upp till 14 sessioner plus möjlighet till tre uppföljningssamtal. KBT-behandlingen har varit tidseffektiv och deltagarna har framfört positiva synpunkter om samarbetet med terapeuten och de uppnådda målsättningarna i behandlingen. Resultaten visar statistiskt signifikanta förbättringar i samtliga använda mått; BAI, BDI, SPS, LSAS, SIAS. Resultaten visar också måttlig effektstorlek.

Friedrich Nietzsche, 100 years after his death, remains a controversial figure in philosophy. Much of this controversy stems from Nietzsche's view of truth, which seems superficially hopelessly contradictory, vacillating between relativism and denial of truth on the one hand, and praise for science and hard truths on the other. Thus, any person wanting to defend Nietzsche's positive philosophy must first make sense of his epistemology. The solution to this puzzle regarding Nietzsche's theory of truth is the realization that Nietzsche changes his view on truth. Much like Wittgenstien, Nietzsche had an early and a late period in his epistemic views, and a middle period where he is struggling with two very different, incompatible views. The late view of truth is surprisingly straightforward: Nietzsche can be seen as an early pragmatist. Once we have a coherent truth theory, we can then start to conclude some of the more contentious arguments in Nietzsche's philosophy, such as: what is the Will to Power, and how does Nietzsche's view of truth interact with his criticism of morality? This thesis will trace the development of the former and endeavor to answer some of the latter.

Graduation date: 1956

Canada's relations with Nicaragua changed greatly during the 1980s after the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) came to power in a revolution which overthrew the Somoza dynasty. For the first few years of the new regime in Nicaragua, Canada provided little support, declaring that Canadians had no significant interests in the country and there was no reason for them to get involved in Central America's ongoing conflicts. When Brian Mulroney first came to power with Joe Clark as his Secretary of State for External Affairs, the Progressive Conservatives generally held to the course set by the previous Liberal government. However, as the 1980s went on the Conservatives began providing Nicaragua with more bilateral aid, and became increasingly involved in the regional peace process known as Esquipulas; this culminated in Canadian peacekeepers entering the region in 1990 as part of a UN peacekeeping force. The major impetus for the government's change in attitude was the strong and consistent pressure placed on the government by the Canadian public. Aid raised privately by Canadians for Nicaragua overshadowed government aid for much of the decade, making the government response look weak. The support of the Canadian public for action in Central America was the major factor which pressured the federal government into becoming more involved in Nicaragua, even though the government was not as supportive of the new regime in Nicaragua as a large portion of the Canadian public often was.

There is little consensus among scholars as to what Nietzsche’s “perspectivism” is or what it entails. I will focus on a limited number of Nietzsche’s commentators, describing and commenting upon the writings of Brian Leiter, R. Lanier Anderson, Maudemarie Clark, Christoph Cox, and John Wilcox. Each commentator provides insight into the problems generated by the interpretations previous commentators have given, while simultaneously generating different problems within these newer interpretations. I hope to draw together the salvageable elements of each of these five interpretations in order to alleviate some general interpretive problems. My own interpretation is as follows: perspectivism entails the two positions ‘knowledge coherentism’ and ‘truth constructivism.’ ‘Knowledge coherentism’ is the need for coherence within a system of knowledge. This position saves perspectivism from relativism. ‘Truth constructivism’ is the claim that we humans intersubjectively create truth; this entails a rejection of the dichotomy of the real and the apparent.

I show that we have reason to believe a view on scientific theory change can be discerned in what I call the “Copernicus passages” of Nietzsche’s published work—specifically, the incommensurability thesis. Since this view denies what Maudemarie Clark calls the “equivalence principle,” she claims incommensurability cannot reasonably be attributed to Nietzsche. I argue, however, that we can reasonably attribute incommensurability to Nietzsche in the Copernicus passages, so my reading should not be ruled out. The first upshot to this project is that I provide a reading of passages that have received no scholarly attention to date. The second upshot is that we can understand Copernicus in light of the broader, better-known themes in Nietzsche’s published work: Nietzsche’s moral skepticism about the value of self-denial motivates his opposition to the ascetic ideal and to the emerging dogmas of scientists.