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1	Progressive and Reactionary Attitudes towards Technology in Twentieth Century Literature, 1937-2013 Potts, Michael Gordon Ralph January 2014 (has links) In this thesis I trace the origins, morphology, and attributes of a particular strain of anti-materialism in the Western literary and cultural imagination of the second half of the twentieth century. With reference to previous work done on this topic I discuss how this anti-materialism rejects materialistic and rationalistic aspects of modernity and emphasises instead the importance of non-material aspects of society such as cultural integrity and cohesion, tradition, and instinct. I demonstrate that this strain relies on what Raymond Williams termed “organic form”, the fallacious belief that human society can and should follow a set of rules which can be objectively deducted from nature and I argue that it should be placed within the context of a long established anti-enlightenment tradition. Through an analysis of such writers as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, JRR Tolkien, Edward Abbey, James Howard Kunstler, Chuck Palahniuk, Brian Aldiss and others I show how a common feature of this anti-materialism is concern and anxiety over the potentially destabilising or degenerative effects of life in a technologically advanced society where mechanisation, mass production, and scientific advances have brought relative comfort and prosperity to most people in society and hence I refer to this particular strain of anti-materialism as anti-technologism. More specifically, I am interested in this thesis with examining the way in which this reaction allows for a curious confluence and convergence of progressive and reactionary tendencies. I argue that anti-technologism is a distinct and detectable mood in Western literature, and I trace its origins and influences. Without claiming to provide a functionalist analysis, I consider the role of anti-technologism in Western literature which I see as broadly facilitating an exploration and discussion of themes of cultural vitality and cohesion in the increasingly cosmopolitan and technologically advanced societies of the West. anti-technology technology reactionary Malthusian counter-culture organic organicism fascist fascism fascist aesthetic negative classicism
2	Évolution dans des populations structurées en classes Soares, Cíntia Dalila 05 1900 (has links) No description available. Populations structurées par âge. Théorème du taux de croissance. Paramètre Malthusien. Valeur reproductive. Populations structurées en classes. Modèles démographiques. Croissance démographique. Sélection dépendante des fréquences. Séparation par échelle de temps. Équation de réplication. Théorie de Perron-Frobenius. Théorie des jeux évolutionnaires. Matrice de Leslie. Probabilité de fixation. Deux échelles de temps. Coefficient d'ascendance. Processus généalogique. Jeu de bien commun. Age-structured populations. Growth-rate theorem. Malthusian parameter. Reproductive value. Class-structured populations. Demographic models. Population growth. Frequency-dependent selection. Timescale separation. Replicator equation. Perron-Frobenius theory. Evolutionary game theory. Age-class-structured population Leslie matrix. Diffusion approximation. Fixation probability. Two timescales. Population-structure coefficient. Fixation fitness coefficient. Ancestry coefficient. Genealogical process. Public goods game.

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Progressive and Reactionary Attitudes towards Technology in Twentieth Century Literature, 1937-2013

Évolution dans des populations structurées en classes