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Complex Feedback Loops of Technoscience, Literature, and Culture: Dynamics of the Complexity Paradigm in Scientific FictionSong, Ho Rim 2010 August 1900 (has links)
This dissertation explores the emergence of the complexity paradigm in our technoscience culture and proposes "scientific fiction" as a genre of cultural studies based on that paradigm. Throughout this dissertation, I use the terms and concepts of complexity theory developed by new science, which revises the reductionism and linearity of classic science. The complexity paradigm signifies a system of all knowledge that conceives the productivity and creativity of the complexity created by interconnective and interactive dynamics among and within systems. As a literary response to the complexity paradigm, scientific fiction emphasizes the productivity and creativity of the complexity, offering the possibility of the human‘s co-evolution with technoscience. These characteristics of scientific fiction help articulate new ontological, ethical, and aesthetic visions for the posthuman. This dissertation ultimately highlights the strong feedback loops of technoscience, literature, and culture, which promote the complexity paradigm. By comparing Pat Cadigan‘s Synners as a scientific fiction novel and William Gibson‘s Neuromancer as a representative postmodern science fiction novel, Chapter II presents the defining characteristics of scientific fiction, reconfiguring humanity in relation to the technoscience environment. Furthermore, analyzing Greg Bear‘s Blood Music, the chapter claims that the human subject is an adaptive, self-organizing, interconnective system. Grounded in such understandings of humanity and subjectivity, the next chapter examines Marge Piercy‘s He, She and It to offer a new ethical perspective, or the complexity ethics, which establishes the interconnective and interactive relationship between the human and the technological as an evolutionary partner. The complexity ethics describes human behaviors and thoughts in our technoscience culture rather than prescribing a moral guideline. Next, in investigating Shelley Jackson‘s Patchwork Girl, a hypertext novel that rewrites Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein, Chapter IV explores a new aesthetics appreciating the creativity of the complexity produced by interconnective and interactive dynamics. Finally, through the analyses of the scientific fiction novels, this dissertation suggests that scientific fiction is a transdisciplinary field that can offer new cultural visions.
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Uma caracterização do conceito de identidade social a partir do paradigma da complexidade / A characterization of the concept of social identity from the paradigm of complexityFaria, Sílvia Helena Guttier [UNESP] 12 September 2017 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2017-09-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Nesta Dissertação, investiga-se o conceito de identidade social, a partir da perspectiva do paradigma da complexidade. Com amparo na teoria sistêmica, optamos por tal proposta de análise do conceito de identidade social, pois acreditamos na razoabilidade de uma investigação interdisciplinar, no que diz respeito a essa temática. A caracterização do conceito de identidade social se pautará nos conceitos de diferença e informação, assim, nos inspiramos no pensamento de Cilliers (2010), sobre o conceito de diferença, e de Bateson (1972), quanto ao conceito de informação. Bateson entende a informação como a diferença que faz diferença e, nesse contexto, é possível pensar que aspectos de identidade social emergem, seja por processos, seja por propriedades, com base na dinâmica entre os elementos sistêmicos em contato com informação sobre diferenças – em tal dinâmica, salientamos a atividade de parâmetros de ordem e de controle, conceitos que serão caracterizados no decorrer da Dissertação. Ilustramos a caracterização do conceito de identidade social através de alguns exemplos da sociedade contemporânea, relacionados ao desenvolvimento das tecnologias de informação e comunicação. / In this dissertation, the conception of social identity is investigated, starting with the perspective of the complexity paradigm. With the support on the systemic theory, it’s opted for the proposal of the analysis of the social identity conception, because it’s believed in the reasonability of an interdisciplinary investigation, concerning this topic. The characterization of the social identity will be ruled on the conceptions of difference and information, so it has been inspired on Cilliers’ thought (2010) on the conception of difference, and Bateson’s (1972) on the conception of information. Bateson understands information as the difference that makes the difference and, in this context, it’s possible to think that aspects of social identity come up, either by processes or by properties, based on the dynamic between the systemic elements in contact with information on differences – it’s pointed out in such dynamic the activity of order and control parameters, conceptions that will be characterized in the dissertation. The characterization of the social identity conception it’s emphasized through some examples of the contemporary society, related to the technologies of information and communication development.
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Comunicação e organizações na sociedade em rede: novas tensões, mediações e paradigmas / Comunicação e organizações na sociedade em rede: novas tensões, mediações e paradigmas.Mello, Selma Ferraz Motta 16 March 2010 (has links)
Este estudo analisa as metamorfoses em curso nas organizações, em decorrência da revolução digital e de seus desdobramentos na economia, na sociedade, na cultura e, sobretudo, no sistema comunicacional. O objetivo é indagar em que medida as tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TICs) estão provocando mutações também na comunicação organizacional, quais seriam os pilares do paradigma emergente e como as empresas brasileiras estão incorporando, na prática, essas novas dimensões. / This study analyses the changes in corporate structures brought forth by the digital revolution and its ramifications in society, culture, the economy and above all in contemporary systems of communication. The goal is to explore the extent to which information and communication technologies and the new socio-technical system are changing established notions of organizational communications, and how Brazilian companies are adapting to incorporate these shifting paradigms.
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Comunicação e organizações na sociedade em rede: novas tensões, mediações e paradigmas / Comunicação e organizações na sociedade em rede: novas tensões, mediações e paradigmas.Selma Ferraz Motta Mello 16 March 2010 (has links)
Este estudo analisa as metamorfoses em curso nas organizações, em decorrência da revolução digital e de seus desdobramentos na economia, na sociedade, na cultura e, sobretudo, no sistema comunicacional. O objetivo é indagar em que medida as tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TICs) estão provocando mutações também na comunicação organizacional, quais seriam os pilares do paradigma emergente e como as empresas brasileiras estão incorporando, na prática, essas novas dimensões. / This study analyses the changes in corporate structures brought forth by the digital revolution and its ramifications in society, culture, the economy and above all in contemporary systems of communication. The goal is to explore the extent to which information and communication technologies and the new socio-technical system are changing established notions of organizational communications, and how Brazilian companies are adapting to incorporate these shifting paradigms.
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