Syskonbädd, or “Sibling’s bed” in English, is a short story or drama, written by Swedish author Stina Aronson and originally published in 1931 under the pen name Sara Sand. While the story did not attract wide attention for many years, it has recently been republished and performed on stage, as well as aired on the radio. The plot is centered on Harriet, a woman who starts to see the world with different eyes, in a less strict and organized way. Her new view is welcomed neither by her husband nor society, and the book starts with Harriet’s escape from a “rest home”, where she has been placed by her husband in order for her to return to her old self. During the escape, Harriet meets several people, some like herself who believe that the world was meant to be different, and some who strive to maintain the social structure.  Swedish literature scholar Eva Adolfsson argues that Aronson’s later works take place in a landscape on the border of the wild, and that both the characters and the story move through such a landscape. I believe that this is also the case for Syskonbädd, one of Aronson’s earlier writings. My essay focuses on the momentum in the book, its double nature, the zone of uncertainty that it creates and the possibilities that it presents. Based on this, my thesis is that the idea of a “sibling’s bed” solidarity is a formula that drives the book; it is the engine for all movements. With a starting point in philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari’s theories about literature, philosophy and art, I follow and analyze these different movements; the lines of flight that dissolve and create chaos, as well as the plane of consistency that holds the work together and on which the chaos is visualized. These structural movements constitute my starting point for an analysis also on a hermeneutical level. Harriet escapes from society and from the norms that it enforces. At the same time, she seeks a new kind of community; a connection beyond knowledge that will allow new sensations. In this aspect, the outer movement of escape leads to another kind of motion, a static one, which may take place between people when they meet under such circumstances.

This thesis addresses the question posed to ecocriticism by Dana Phillips in his iconoclastic The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America: “What is the truth of ecology, insofar as this truth is addressed by literature and art?” by examining how ecocriticism has, or has failed to, contextualize ecocritical discourse within an ecological framework. After reviewing the current state of ecocriticism and its relationship with environmentalism, the thesis suggests that both rely on the same outmoded, inaccurate and essentially inutile ecological concepts and language, and argues for a new approach to ecocriticism that borrows its concepts and language from the geophilosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The thesis concludes with a reassessment of the work of Barry Lopez, showing how his fiction, when viewed through the lens of geophilosophy, does not support essentialist notions of nature, but rather works to articulate a world of multiplicities, and new modes of becoming.

As a feminist poststructural autoethnography of deafness in social work workplaces, this thesis sets out to map d/Deafness as a cracked subjectivity. Using the work of Rosi Braidotti and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, I draw out configurations of d/Deafness as lack or cultural minority and split them apart. By positioning d/Deafness on a plane of immanence and employing specificity, I explore d/Deafness as a subjectivity constituted through space, place, time and encounters with other bodies. I argue that the constitution of material and cultural experiences of d/Deafness as specific allows for the articulation of spaces in between Deafness and hearing, disability and ability as spaces in and of themselves in order to think the new as well as to crack up fixed binaries informing traditional notions of what specific bodies can do. / Graduate

This thesis investigates the theoretical and practical importance of nomadic ways of life for architecture. Nomadology is a construction of Deleuze and Guattari's 'counter-philosophy', challenging authenticity and propriety, in this case, in the context of architecture. This thesis describes how nomadology may serve contemporary architectural practice and criticism; challenging static, permanent, and heroically solitary ways of working and dwelling. Nomadology in architecture proposes ways for thinking and working temporally, dynamically, and collaboratively. The thesis suggests strategies - diagramming, ephemerality, movement, and collaboration - as ways of reconciling nomadism and architecture. The 'Contexts' section of this thesis surveys Western and global contexts of understanding nomads and nomadology, and how these pertain to architecture. Western conceptions of architecture have inhibited the study of nomadology in architecture. A case is made for challenging biases in Western views of architecture, for critically employing the ideas of the diagram and the rhizome in architectural criticism, and for recognising the role of movement. The 'Applications' section shows, through practical examples, that the potential of nomadology is latent in spatial and environmental practices of architectural production and architectural criticism. This section of the thesis identifies the significance of nomads as users and exponents of architecture, despite their frequent exclusion from architectural history. Tent architecture, practices of nomadic resistance and Bedouin life practices are considered as key examples. The 'Strategies' section suggests ways of applying principles of nomadology. This final section expands on the potential for 'peripatetic' practices of architecture. Processes of reconciling settled and nomadic tendencies in architectural projects are outlined. Strategies are described by which engendering and collaborating may be the means for creating architecture. The continuing research into, and interpretation of nomadology in architecture are proposed as a basis for critical theorisation and reflective practice of architecture. / Thesis (M.Arch.)--School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, 2002.

Thesis (M.Arch.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Architecture, 2002. / Bibliography: leaves 138-149. Also available in a print form.

Thesis (M.Arch.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Architecture, 2002. / Bibliography: leaves 138-149.

Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 29, 2008). Advisor: Gina Zavota. Keywords: diagrammatics, cartography, tracing, program, Deleuze, Foucault. Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-147).

Zugl.: Köln, Univ., Diss.

LIMA, Jefferson Pinheiro. A doutrina transhumanista como moral transcendente & a filosofia de Deleuze & Guattari como resistência ética imanente na contemporaneidade. 2017. 266f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Fortaleza (CE), 2017. / Submitted by sebastiao barroso (jrwizard2209@hotmail.com) on 2017-10-05T12:02:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_jplima.pdf: 2142223 bytes, checksum: 40fb00af3d9578e534591aa57bb00fb5 (MD5) / Rejected by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br), reason: Estamos devolvendo a dissertação de JEFFERSON PINHEIRO LIMA para fazer as alterações indicadas pela bibliotecária Eliene Vieira de Moura: margens, espaçamento das folhas pré-textuais, sumário (formatação), espaçamento das citações longas, citações (escolher autor-data ou notas de rodapé), referências (corrigir), que estão em desacordo com a ABNT. 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No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_jplima.pdf: 2101023 bytes, checksum: 635975d93b702b6b6a3b54dceb27ffc5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / This research seeks to present the post-humanist doctrine, conceptualise it, and present how this way of thinking has been utilising high-end current techno-scientific development (digital technology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence) as a promise of mankind‟s progressive improvement, having in its sights the total domination over life on the planet. Through the presentation of the research and discourse of some of transhumanism‟s most prominent theoreticians, this research seeks to demonstrate how the transhumanist philosophy constitutes as morally transcending through the technical overcoming of senses. Furthermore, it also seeks to establish what is the transhumanist philosophy‟s relation with the powers of the State and with cognitive capitalism and what are the ethical dangers of such an association, especially given its projections of infinite and unlimited betterment of the so-called human characteristics (super anthropocentrism with pretensions of immortality. In order to problematise and suggest ways of resisting the transhumanist intent, the works of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (19301992) form the basis of this endeavour. These authors, by offering us a philosophy that affirms a purely inherent mode of thought, provide us with their concepts of selftransformation and of the body without organs, for example; intensive ways of living, of experimenting singularising ethics, that are not limited to the totalising moral of mere extended life promised by the transhumanists. Deleuze and Guattari propose life not as something to be conserved and improved upon at any cost, but a life as a potent existence that resists, that combine with other unique forces of life, not human, not majoritarian (to become animal, become child, become aboriginal), that configurates itself with the outside; a finite and non-evolving minoritarian life, that does not allow itself to be seduced by the salvationist discourse of the end of all suffering and of the perfecting in obedience to the majoritarian power, here represented by transhumanism. / A presente pesquisa busca apresentar a doutrina transhumanista, conceituá-la e demonstrar como tal maneira de pensar vem se utilizando do atual desenvolvimento tecnocientífico de ponta (tecnologia digital, engenharia genética, nanotecnologia, inteligência artificial) como promessa de aprimoramento progressivo da humanidade, tendo em vista sua máxima dominação sobre a vida do planeta. Através da apresentação das pesquisas e dos discursos de alguns de seus teóricos eminentes, procura demonstrar como a filosofia transhumanista se constitui como moral transcendente, pela superação técnica do sensível. Investiga ainda qual a sua relação com os poderes de Estado e do capitalismo nomeado cognitivo, quais os perigos éticos de tal associação com suas projeções de melhoramento infinito e ilimitado das chamadas características humanas (super antropocentrismo com pretensões de imortalidade). De modo a problematizar e sugerir maneiras de resistir ao intento transhumanista, o trabalho se vale, sobretudo, da filosofia de Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) e de Félix Guattari (1930-1992). Os autores, ao oferecerem uma filosofia que afirma um modo de pensar puramente imanente, nos proporcionam com seus conceitos de devir e corpo sem órgãos, por exemplo, maneiras intensivas de viver, de experimentar éticas singularizantes, que não se bastam na moral totalizante da mera vida extensiva prometida pelos transhumanistas. Deleuze e Guattari afirmam a vida não como algo a ser conservado e melhorado a qualquer custo, mas uma vida como existência potente que resiste, que se compõe com outras forças de vida únicas, não humanas, não majoritárias (devir-animal, devir-criança, devir-índio), que se configura com o fora, vida minoritária finita não evolutiva, que não se deixa seduzir pelos discursos salvacionistas do fim de todo o sofrimento e do aperfeiçoamento em obediência ao poder majoritário aqui representado pelo transhumanismo.

Our social world is increasingly chaotic. Perhaps there has always been chaos; but our increasingly globalized landscape and information economy seems to place chaos on the frontlines—as videos of military strikes in Iraq, or mundane narratives about making it through another day are available for consumption at any time. Our social world produces. The question: What to do with it all? This dissertation explores the concept of affect, using a collage methodology. To conduct an exploration of affect, which “transpires within and across the subtlest of shuttling intensities” (Seigworth and Gregg 2), this dissertation both explores and performs collage; taking collage as both an artifact for investigation using affect theory, as well as a methodological approach participating in the creation of affect theory. As a result of this commitment, the reader is invited to enter this document in any order they wish—reading directly through, or skipping around chapters as it suits them. As a method, collage operates through placing at least two different things next to each other, and then looking for similarities and differences. Each chapter explores differences by juxtaposing artifacts selected because of a similarity that they shared. Spatial (Harvey Butchart and the Havasupai Native Americans), methodological (the It Gets Better project and Ray Johnson), temporal (September 11, 2001 and September 11, 1973), or praxis-based (Chelsea Manning and Aaron Swartz) similarities guided the juxtaposition of artifacts within each chapter. In addition, each chapter explores a distinct version of affect theory to add to the collage created within and throughout this dissertation. Each chapter is a canyon, collected within the grand canyon of the dissertation as a whole. Ultimately, this dissertation is guided by both academic and artistic impulses. I seek to explore and produce affect theory through deploying the methodology of collage. Drawn to moments that often escape rational interrogation, this dissertation invokes echoes as evidence in order to mobilize a system of resonance through juxtaposition that realizes the power of collage: Establishing interpretive frames that refuse to be finished or fixed. Through the performance of collage methodology, this dissertation seeks to implicitly argue for rhizomatic knowledge systems as a method of resistance to structures of oppression via an aesthetic mobilization of collage.