Former creative resistance to environmentally hazardous activities has during the last decades, through discussions on climate change, been increasingly reoriented by meteorology, expert knowledge and policy discourse. The ecological system’s perspective on climate change, proclaiming the human not simply as a disturbance in a natural balancing system, but as changing it, has become a causal model for the possibility to change that human. This PhD thesis interrogates how statements in IPCC reports and a Swedish newspaper (DN) constitute truth claims on climate change. What subjectivities does parlance on climate change produce and what type of citizen is called upon to optimize vitality in relation to atmospheric molecules? How is self-management of every-day activities established by help to interactivity and self-techniques framed by technical artefacts? These questions are addressed by a governmentality perspective on how discourse, conceived as partaking in a process of productive power, strives to make climate change an ethico-politic question that fosters ‘Homo Clima’, climate man. What strategies and techniques this form of ‘government’ deploys are described by six interconnecting themes; “Atmospheric biopolitics fosters contingency”, “Mortality/Vitality”, “The moral population in the atmosphere moral economy”, “Homo Clima” and “Bioaesthetics through technical artefacts”, ending in a discussion upon these themes as an act which “Re-thematizes climate change”. The chapters illustrate how statements on the prevention and mitigation of climate risks mold scientific rationalities, mathematically modelled futures and calculations of molecular compounds with how these same futures and molecules correlate to individual culpability, responsibility and morality. From Foucauldian biopolitics to Foucauldian ethics, this can be conceived as an optimization of the vitality of the population by inserting the idea of the population as moral into history and foster moral en masse. Homo Clima is in line with this power/knowledge regime investigated, regarding his ambitions and receptiveness to adapt into a self-governing communicative ethico-politically active neoliberal subject, predicted to inhabit a not yet fully flourished relation between its climate moral self and its actions. By statements in the perimeter of technical artefacts, death, reproduction and consumption, Homo Clima is to become an ideal citizen, investing its own changeability in relation to those beings that are investigated, mapped, localized, archived, systematized and segmented; to simultaneously amend and protect a climate authorized aesthetizised life. This formation, together with the atmosphere as a new terrain for ‘government’ with market solutions for climate risks that links vitalisation with individual morality to moral at an aggregate level, offers an ostensible confrontation of the enterprising subject in the advanced liberal society. Homo Clima is thus conceptualized as a relay of bioaesthetics rather than as a protector of the environment. / <p>QC 20110608</p>

Devant la mort qui s’impose comme fin inhérente à tout être humain, le message hermasien, dans la neuvième similitude, évoque une vie après la mort dans une démarche qui séduit son lecteur et l’interpelle en vue d’une conversion immédiate et ponctuelle. Tout en travaillant sur des données préexistantes, Hermas monte une thématique eschatologique, avec un vocabulaire propre : il christianise ses données, en mettant en lumière, la prééminence du Fils de Dieu, déjouant ainsi les difficultés liées, à cette époque (IIe siècle), aux expressions « Messie », « Christ » ou « Jésus ». Il voudrait démontrer aux chrétiens, en général, et aux saints qui sont tombés (lapsi) qu’une possibilité est à nouveau donnée. Ils doivent sortir de la conception de damnation pour enfin bénéficier, de manière ultime, d’une metanoia (postbaptismale) qui favoriserait leur purification, et la grâce de vivre dans la félicité, quand reviendra (d’ici peu d’où parousie imminente) le Maître de la tour en construction en Sim. IX (en Arcadie). Ainsi se dévoile toute la pensée hermasienne : la metanoia ne se réalise pas pour elle-même, elle a un but qui est essentiellement eschatologique. Elle prépare les chrétiens à la venue du Fils de Dieu, à la sunteléia définitive, et leur promet (après l’acquisition du Nom, par le baptême et la vie vertueuse) une place dans la tour, symbole du royaume des cieux dans la Sim. IX. / In front of death which imposes itself as inherent end to all human beings, the Hermasian message (of Hermas) in the ninth Similitude suggests a life after death in an approach that appeals to the reader and calls him for an immediate and timely conversion. While working on existing data, Hermas mounts an eschatological theme, with a proper vocabulary : he christianized its data, highlighting the rule of the Son of God, and thwarting the difficulties related to this time (second century), to the expressions « Messiah», « Christ » or « Jesus ». He would demonstrate to the Christians in general, and the Saints who have fallen (Lapsi), that one new possibility is given. They must depart from the conception of damnation to finally benefit, in an ultimate way, a metanoia (post baptismal) that would favor their purification, and the grace to live in bliss, when will return (shortly where imminent parousia) the Master of the tower under construction in Sim. IX (in Arcadia). Thus reveals all Hermasian thought: metanoia does not occur for itself, its purpose is essentially eschatological. It prepares Christians for the coming of the Son of God at the final sunteleia and promises them (after acquiring the Name, by baptism and virtuous life) a place in the tower, symbol of the kingdom of heaven in the Sim. IX.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AndreCN_TESE.pdf: 4363081 bytes, checksum: d04b213f3fd0fa5a1d21d48c56ea7c86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-25 / This thesis is defined as a reflection on the mechanisms of expression and insertion of the homo situs in the participatory governance in Mozambique. For a better understanding of this social fact, it was settled a periodization which covered the decline of colonialism at the time of the independence, which was proclaimed in June 1975, the civil war that lasted over 16 years and the period of the democratic State, further established. Therefore, we sought to understand the mechanisms and failures of the participation of the homo situs in local development projects that absorbed the needs and problems of these peasants, not mobilizing the skills and social competences of these communities. It would be essential for the homo situs a genuine democratic practice involving a political culture based on the social construction of the territories of the traditional man which was characterized by being procedural and historical, finding in participation its higher base. In this context, it would be desirable that the community development in Mozambique could contemplate and respect the choices of the homo situs. For this purpose, it would be fundamental the consistency between theory and practice, which builds and rebuilds, continually the competence of the peasants, facilitating the possibility of realization of their primordial aspirations. In the research, it became apparent that there is not a continuous process of participation of the rural communities, which appear as participants, only at the time of the implementation of the activities. Therefore, even having the participation of the communities expected by the law, with predictable moments of discussion and necessary conditions for that, the State failed to establish an ongoing process of democratic dialogue with traditional populations, as well as it failed to organize, properly, accurate informational bases to help solve the problems of rural areas. These facts have led to obstacles to the process of conquest of the human and civil rights of the traditional communities / A presente tese define-se como uma reflex?o sobre os mecanismos de express?o e inser??o do homo situs na governan?a participativa de Mo?ambique. Para uma melhor compreens?o desse fato social estabeleceu-se uma periodiza??o que abrangeu o decl?nio do colonialismo ? ?poca da independ?ncia, proclamada em junho de 1975, a guerra civil que perdurou ao longo de 16 anos e o per?odo do Estado democr?tico, posteriormente, institu?do. Para tanto, procurou-se compreender os mecanismos e fracassos da participa??o do homo situs nos projetos de desenvolvimento local que absorveram as necessidades e problemas desses camponeses, n?o mobilizando as habilidades e compet?ncias sociais dessas comunidades. Seria imprescind?vel para o homo situs uma pr?tica democr?tica genu?na que envolvesse uma cultura pol?tica fundamentada na constru??o social dos territ?rios do homem tradicional que se caracterizasse por ser processual e hist?rica, encontrando na participa??o o seu maior fundamento. ? nesse contexto que seria desej?vel que o desenvolvimento comunit?rio em Mo?ambique contemplasse e respeitasse as escolhas do homo situs. Para este prop?sito, seria fundamental a coer?ncia entre a teoria e a pr?tica, que constr?i e reconstr?i, continuamente a compet?ncia dos camponeses, facilitando a possiblidade de realiza??o das suas aspira??es primordiais. Na pesquisa ficou evidente que n?o h? um processo cont?nuo de participa??o das comunidades rurais, as quais aparecem como participantes, apenas, no momento da operacionaliza??o das atividades. Portanto, mesmo tendo a participa??o das comunidades prevista na lei, com previs?o de momentos de discuss?o e condi??es necess?rias para tanto, o Estado n?o conseguiu estabelecer um processo cont?nuo de di?logo democr?tico com as popula??es tradicionais, bem como n?o logrou organizar, devidamente, bases informacionais precisas que ajudassem a resolver os problemas da zona rural. Tais fatos acarretaram entraves ao processo de conquista dos direitos humanos e civis das comunidades tradicionais

Esta é uma pesquisa antropológica sobre agenciamentos, disputas e segregações socioespaciais entre homens que se autoidentificam como gays ou homossexuais em contextos de periferia das cidades de São Paulo e Belém. Objetivamos perscrutar o processo de produção social das diferenças entre esses homens, frequentadores de bares com expressiva sociabilidade homossexual, localizados em regiões periféricas da zona leste de São Paulo e em um bairro de periferia de Belém: o Guingas Bar (em São Mateus), a Plasticine Party, que acontece quinzenalmente no Luar Rock Bar (em Itaquera), e o bar Refúgio dos Anjos (no Guamá), respectivamente. A chave analítica que nos conduziu à temática e aos espaços mencionados partiu da problemática, ainda pouco explorada na antropologia urbana brasileira, entre periferia e homossexualidade, ou melhor, entre os estudos urbanos e os estudos de gênero e sexualidade. Compreendemos que a partir dos anos 2000 a relação destes campos de conhecimento ganhou fôlego no cenário nacional a partir das pesquisas antropológicas sobre sociabilidade homossexual, porém parte desses esforços se concentraram nas regiões centrais das cidades brasileiras. Mais do que reconhecermos distinções regionais e geográficas, procuramos esquadrinhar narrativas sobre cidade que borram o binômio centro-periferia. Para isso, tomamos como um dos vetores argumentativos a mobilidade, enquanto alusão e/ou prática, mas sobretudo como empoderamento, articulando-o aos marcadores sociais de gênero, sexualidade, classe social, raça/cor e territorialidade, com vistas a observarmos como os interlocutores negociam suas existências no espaço urbano. Nossa empreitada propõe contribuir aos estudos urbanos e aos estudos de gênero e sexualidade seja para fazer conversar periferias e homossexualidades, cidades, produção da diferença e sociabilidades homossexuais, seja para mostrar que as transformações urbanas de cada contexto citadino, relacionadas ao percurso histórico dos bares e ao que denominamos de movimento-ações, são peças-chave para a compreensão de termos como resistência, família, comunidade, amizade, sinalizando, desta feita, que tais compósitos extrapolam os sinônimos da ausência e da precariedade, ao mesmo tempo em que as relações estabelecidas não se bastam pela via do lazer e da diversão. Portanto, ao longo da tese percebemos que tais contextos estão em constantes negociações e disputas interpeladas diretamente pelos modos como as cidades são acessadas e desejadas. / This is an anthropological research on socio-spatial agency, disputes and segregations between men who self-identify themselves as gays or homosexuals in periphery contexts of the cities São Paulo and Belém, Brazil. We aim to examine the social production process of the differences between these men, who are frequenters of bars with expressive homosexual sociability, located in peripheral regions of the east side of São Paulo and in a periphery neighborhood of Belém: the Guingas Bar (in São Mateus), the Plasticine Party, held every two weeks in the Luar Rock Bar (in Itaquera), and the bar Refúgio dos Anjos (in Guamá), respectively. The analytical key that led us to the theme and spaces mentioned came from the problematic, still little explored in Brazilian urban anthropology, between periphery and homosexuality, or rather, between urban studies and the gender and sexuality studies. We understand that from the 2000s the articulation of these fields of knowledge gained ground in the national scenario based on anthropological research on homosexual sociability, but part of these efforts were concentrated in the central regions of Brazilian cities. Rather than recognizing regional and geographical distinctions, we seek to sift through city narratives that blur the downtown-periphery binomial. In order to do this, we take as one of the argumentative vectors the mobility, as allusion and/or practice, but above all as empowerment, articulating it with social markers of gender, sexuality, social class, race/color and territoriality, as a way of observing the management of the interlocutors in the urban space. Our project proposes to contribute to urban studies and the gender and sexuality studies, either to talk about peripheries and homosexuality, cities, the production of difference and homosexual sociabilities, or to show that the urban transformations of each urban context, related to the history of bars and what we call movement-actions, are key pieces for the understanding of terms such as resistance, family, community, friendship, signaling, this time, that such composites extrapolate the synonyms of absence and precariousness, at the same time that established relationships are not enough for the way of leisure and fun. Therefore, throughout the thesis we perceive that such contexts are in constant negotiations and disputes directly questioned by the ways in which the cities are accessed and desired.

Frente aos preceitos ditados por Vitrúvio em seu De Architectura, arquitetos tratadistas do Quatrocentos e do Quinhentos, absortos em requalificar a arquitetura e a cidade, divisam symmetria e decor como premissas excelsas a corporificar na ars aedificatoria a perfeita ordem e beleza da natureza. A perquirição de suas acepções, não obstante os obstáculos postos à exegese dos tratados, desvela novos juízos sobre os sentidos de ordem então exalçados. Instituídas, desde a fonte antiga, pelas analogias com o homo ad circulum e ad quadratum, os tratados de Antonio Averlino, detto il Filarete, Francesco di Giorgio Martini e Cesare Cesariano consolidam e multiplicam as possibilidades de associações macro e microcósmicas com a ordo divina. Congêneres ao decor, tais symmetriai e razões do homem bene figuratus precisam expedientes inescusáveis de adequação e variedade, inerentes à vera práxis arquitetônica. / Before the precepts stated by Vitruvius in his De Architectura, architects from the 15th and 16th centuries, absorbed in requalifying the architecture and the city, perceive symmetria and decor as excelling premises that embodied the perfect order and beauty of nature in the ars aedificatoria. The search of their significances, despite the obstacles placed by the treatises exegesis, discloses new judgments about the senses of order extoled at that age. Antonio Averlino, detto il Filarete, Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Cesare Cesariano\'s treatises consolidate and multiply the possibilities of macro and microcosmic associations with the divine ordo, already settled in the ancient source through the analogy with the homo ad circulum and ad quadratum. Congeneric to decor, such symmetriai and the reasons of the homo bene figuratus determine required expedients for adequacy and variety inherent in the veracious architectural praxis.

Synthesis of antiaromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons (PHs) is challenging because the high energy of their highest occupied molecular orbital and low energy of their lowest unoccupied molecular orbital cause them to be reactive and unstable. In this work, two large antiaromatic acene analogues, namely, cyclopenta[pqr]indeno[2,1,7-ijk]tetraphene (CIT, 1a) and cyclopenta[pqr]indeno[7,1,2-cde]picene (CIP, 1b), as well as a curved antiaromatic molecule with 48 πelectrons, dibenzo[a,c]diindeno[7,1,2-fgh:7′,1′,2′-mno]-phenanthro[9,10-k]tetraphene (DPT, 1c), are synthesized on the basis of the corona of indeno[1,2-b]fluorene. These three antiaromatic PHs possess a narrow energy gap down to 1.55 eV and exhibit high kinetic stability under ambient conditions. Moreover, these compounds display reversible electron transfer processes in both the cathodic and anodic regimes. Their cation and anion radicals are characterized by in situ vis−NIR absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroelectrochemistry. The X-ray crystallographic analysis confirms that while CIP and CIT manifest planar structures, DPT shows a curved πconjugated carbon skeleton. The synthetic strategy starting from ortho-substituted benzene units to construct five-membered rings in this work provides a unique entry to novel pentagon-embedding or curved antiaromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons. In addition, besides the detailed chemical and physical investigations, microscale single-crystal fiber field-effect transistors were also fabricated.

This thesis "Anything is thing enough to party" seeks to explore the knowledge base of Jane Bennett's vital materialism and analyzes the connections between advanced capitalism, mobility and unpredictable movement of goods and things from the perspective of object oriented ontology. The thesis also focuses on the new perspective of ready-made object and perspective of installation. In order to research the topic and implement the practical part of the project, this study took place in Mexico as a self-initiated art residency in order to explore flows of found objects under the gaze of a foreigner.

Viele Wissenschaftler_innen glauben daran, dass eines Tages möglich sein wird, was bisher nur die Filmindustrie illustriert hat: Die Entwicklung von künstlichen Menschenwesen, die dem biologischen Homo Sapiens weit überlegen sind. Doch obwohl intelligente Roboter gegenwärtig nur auf der Leinwand realisiert werden können - die ethischen Fragen, die sich aus ihrer Existenz ergeben, sind durchaus real und relevant: Hat ein intelligentes Computerprogramm ein Recht auf Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung? Ein Film, der diese ethischen Fragen aufwirft und zudem eine hohe filmästhetische Qualität aufweist ist „Ex_Machina“ von Alexander Garland. In der folgenden Arbeit wird der Film medienpädagogisch analysiert und herausgestellt, inwiefern er für Jugendliche geeignet ist und ebenjene wichtigen ethischen Fragen thematisiert, welche für die heranwachsende Generation in ihrer immer technologischer werdenden Umwelt von großer Bedeutung sind.

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Over the past decades, functional group manipulation of aromatic precursors has been a common strategy to access new aromatic compounds. However, these classical methods, such as Friedel-Crafts alkylations and electrophilic/nucleophilic aromatic substitutions, have shown lack of regioselectivity besides the use of activators in excess amounts. To this end, numerous benzannulations to form benzo-fused substrates via Diels-Alder (DA), ring-closing metathesis (RCM), cycloaddition, and transition-metal-promoted processes have been reported. Appending a benzene ring directly onto a pre-existing ring is preferable to many classical methods due to the likely reduction of reaction steps and superior regiocontrol. However, many of these benzannulation reactions require air- and/or moisture- sensitive reaction conditions, a last oxidation step, or the use of highly functionalized precursors. Here we disclose three ‘complementary’ intramolecular ring-opening benzannulations to access a large array of functionalized (hetero)aromatic scaffolds utilizing cyclopropenes-3,3-dicarbonyls, alkylidene cyclopropanes-1,1-diesters, and 2,3-dihydrofuran O,O- and N,O- acetals as building blocks. More than 70 benzo-fused aromatic compounds were synthesized using this complementary approach with yields up to 98% and low catalyst loadings. With these benzannulation reactions in hand, we aim to open the synthetic door to a handful of bioactive natural products.