Nell’ambito delle odierne teorie del cinema e dell’audiovisivo il problema dell’autoritrattistica e dei suoi rapporti con i nuovi mezzi è oramai di acclarato rilievo. Se la teoria contemporanea pare infatti polarizzarsi da un lato intorno alla questione mediologica e dall’altro a quella dell’immagine, l’autoritratto, inteso nel senso più ampio, si colloca, per la sua peculiare e costitutiva metadiscorsività, all’intersezione di questi due ordini di problemi, interrogandone la correlazione. Ne emerge una comune strutturazione del discorso intorno alla questione fondamentale dell’opposizione e reciproca implicazione di sensibile e intelligibile, frastico e ostensivo, dicibile e indicabile. Una simile problematica si imponeva già in linguistica con Benveniste e nel campo dell’immagine, in modi diversi, con Metz e Marin, e trova oggi nuova e feconda formulazione nella riflessione recentemente sviluppata da Rancière intorno al “regime estetico delle arti”. A partire da ciò che, alla luce dell’implicita dimensione “estetica” che risulterebbe allora soggiacente all’orizzonte teorico contemporaneo, abbiamo chiamato “la scena dell’autoritratto”, quest’ultimo sembra allora assumere complessivamente una valenza di traccia, di impronta, manifestante nella presenza sensibile dell’immagine l’assenza di ciò che vi si è impresso. Modalità mediale di ciò che Derrida ha chiamato spettralità. / In the field of contemporary cinema and audiovisual theories, the subject matter of self-portrait and its relations to new media is by now noticeably relevant. If contemporary theories are indeed polarized between media and visual studies, self-portrait, as a whole, appears, because of its peculiar metadiscursivity, as a crossroad between these two main issues, and therefore as a chance to question their correlation. What emerges is a common and fundamental problem, that of the opposition and mutual implication of perceptible and intelligible, discursive and figural: what can be expressed with words and what can be shown, indicated. Such problems had already been discussed by Benveniste in the field of language and by Metz and Marin in that of the image, and finds today a new and fertile formulation in Rancière’s reflection on the “aesthetic regime of the arts”. Starting from what, in the light of what would then be the “aesthetic” dimension implied by the contemporary theoretical horizon, we called “the scene of the self-portrait”, the latter would then take value of track, imprint, displaying in the perceptible presence of the image the absence of what is impressed in it: mediated modality of what Derrida called spectrality.

The aim of the dissertation is to analyse works of a Moscow conceptualist Dmitrij Prigov. Prigov approached his medially diversified legacy (that was characterized by media diversity and quantitative hypertrophy) as a life-long project Dmitrij Aleksandrovič Prigov. (project DAP). One of the goals of the project was to remain unidentified, which means to suspend the straight-forward relation between an individual media product and the intention of the authorial subject. However, the connection between the media products and the authorial subject preserved. It is the modality of the connection that changed. The dissertation focuses on the analysis of the modality of the connection. The research begins with an analysis of the media products and proceeds toward the issue of authorial subjetʼs identity construction. Nevertheless, it is the media products that the identity of the authorial subject is constructed by. Authorial subject, however, plays the role of the (co-)agent in the production process of the media products together with other non-human agents like iterable patterns, instruments, techniques and semiotic systems. Methodologically, the dissertation emerges from the intersection of media theories, social theories and the theoretical reflection of the phenomena gathered under the umbrella...

Cultural Memory and its functions in the case of Božena Němcová The presented thesis is concerned with the topic of the construction of the portrayal of Božena Němcová and its functions in the cultural memory. Regarding the question of Božena Němcová's portrayal, this thesis is focused on the construction of gender identities in the remembering process. The influence of mediality of given representation on the process of gender identity construction is also explored here. The examination of the function of Božena Němcová's portrayal in the cultural memory is based on its intertextuality. The intertextuality is in this thesis understood as a valency plurality of Božena Němcová's portrayal in relation to other figures and themes of the cultural memory canon. The analyses in this paper is based on the concept of Cultural Memory Studies (Jan Assmann, Astrid Erll, Aleida Assmann), and Gender Studies (Judith Butler). There are different types of sources examined in this paper (textbooks, film, literature, press, social media), arranged from the present to the past. Key words: Božena Němcová, canon, cultural memory, mediality, gender identity

No / Media content is becoming ubiquitous and globally accessible, and can be held and accessed just as easily on a global network as on local devices which are increasingly intelligent and network ready. Digital intelligence is becoming seamless and invisible, enabling more attention to be paid to the content and the user’s interaction with it. The effects of convergence on the media landscape are substantial. Traditional media distribution channels are increasingly in the hands of the consumer rather than the distributor. News information can be generated by the general public by means of mobile devices and have a dynamic global impact via social networking sites. Political elections are being influenced in real time by information circulating on social networks in addition to the more formal statements of policy. This paper explores some of these transformative effects, the disruptive effects on traditional business models, and their implications for the future.

La représentation de médias non littéraires dans un roman est un phénomène encore peu étudié, voire marginalisé, au sein des études intermédiales. La difficulté de rendre compte des moments où le texte crée des effets empruntés à d’autres médialités est souvent relevée, parmi les travaux d’analyse. Ce mémoire vise donc la construction d’un modèle qui puisse servir d’outil pour l’analyse des phénomènes intermédiaux, en littérature. Revisiter certaines propositions théoriques pour mieux les mettre en relation permet, dans un premier temps, l’élaboration d’un modèle syncrétique précis et fonctionnel pour l’étude de textes qui présentent une dynamique intermédiale. Dans cette optique, le roman Océan mer, d’Alessandro Baricco, constitue un terrain fertile pour sa mise en pratique. L’application du modèle proposé au roman de Baricco permet donc, dans un deuxième temps, de tester sa fonctionnalité. Ce mémoire se veut ainsi une contribution aux recherches portant sur l’intermédialité littéraire contemporaine. / Non-literary media representation in novels is a phenomenon that has drawn little attention so far within intermedial studies – almost being marginalized. However, difficulty in setting out cases where a text creates effects borrowed from other medialities is often discussed in analysis works. This thesis thus aims for the development of a model that could be used as a tool to analyse intermedial phenomena, in literary texts. This analysis first of all goes back to some theoretical propositions, relating them better to each other, and by doing so, allows the development of a functional and accurate syncretic model for the study of texts with intermedial dynamics. In this perspective, Alessandro Baricco’s novel Océan mer constitutes fertile ground for practice. Applying the proposed model to Baricco’s novel thus allows, secondly, testing its functionality. This thesis would therefore be a contribution to research on contemporary literary intermediality.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:13:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Louis Jacob.pdf: 2520823 bytes, checksum: 6c5585ebd2abb3645cb7b26d2ce66460 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-26 / The research has as main interest to understand as sense structures are elaborated based in the relationships between space and image. In face of the multiplication of images by the technologies of information and communication, predominantly of digital nature, this understanding qualifies us to examine the nature of the visual experience that is offered nowadays by the numerous spaces of images. The fundamental hypothesis sustains that the image cannot operate out of a space; therefore, space and image participate together of this visual experience. So, the space, as process transformed in medium, imposes its material and historical reality to the formation of the image. As the image depends on a medial apparatus, transformations in the mediative nature of the space will be unavoidably reflected in the sphere of the images, and, in consequence, in culture. For that perspective, besides checking and evaluating the technical conditions of production of the image given by the technical medium, that configures its materiality, it concerns to include the spaces that shelter them, in other words, the spaces multiplied to and by the image, the activities that exist in them and among them, and the derived sociocultural consequences of that dynamism, whose investigation becomes the main objective of the research. By the process of espatialization of the image, four categories were discriminated, allowing to understand their construction, circulation and exhibition ways, that constitute the operative chain of that emerging imagetic spatiality. This categories are: constructability/mediality and visuality/presentability that make possible to explore the conditions of appearance of networks of relationships installed among all the participants, operated by the intermediality and responsible for the hibridization and multiplicity of the media images, in the extent of an ecology of the image. It is verified the formation of a system that operates by the dynamics of relation of their elements, formed by the means of media and the medium, and its interaction with another wider space, the environment (milieu), that counts with the spectator s presence. The course of the research is located among the producers, in their way of doing and showing, and the spectators, in their way of seeing and contemplating cultural and historical changes of communicative environments, that allow the installation of a critical perspective of the theory of the visuality, of multi‐disciplinary character, close to the space‐image relationship, imposing as theoretical‐methodological articulation contributions of concepts and examples extracted from authors of different theoretical fields, to underline the indications supplied by the work in its presentation / A pesquisa tem como principal interesse entender como se elaboram estruturas de sentido baseadas nas relações entre espaço e imagem. Em face da multiplicação de imagens pelas tecnologias de informação e comunicação, de natureza eminentemente digital, tal entendimento capacita‐nos a esquadrinhar a natureza da experiência visual que hoje é oferecida pelos múltiplos espaços das imagens. A hipótese fundamental sustenta que a imagem não pode operar fora de um espaço; portanto, espaço e imagem participam juntos dessa experiência visual. Assim, o espaço, como processo transformado em meio, impõe sua realidade material e histórica para a formação da imagem. Como a imagem depende de um aparato medial, transformações na natureza mediativa do espaço inevitavelmente se refletirão na esfera das imagens e, em consequência, na cultura. Por essa perspectiva, não se trata apenas de aferir e avaliar as condições técnicas de produção da imagem dadas pelo meio técnico e que configuram a sua materialidade, mas também incluir os espaços que as abrigam, ou seja, os espaços multiplicados para e pela imagem, as atividades que existem neles e entre eles, e as consequências socioculturais derivadas desse dinamismo, cuja investigação torna‐se o principal objetivo da pesquisa. Pelo processo de espacialização da imagem, discriminaram‐se quatro categorias, permitindo compreender seus modos de construção, circulação e exposição, que constituem a cadeia operatória dessa emergente espacialidade imagética. As categorias observadas são a medialidade/construtibilidade e a visualidade/exponibilidade, que possibilitam explorar as condições de surgimento de redes de relações instaladas entre os interagentes, operadas pela intermedialidade e verdadeiras responsáveis pela hibridização e multiplicidade das imagens mediáticas, no âmbito de uma ecologia da imagem. Verificase aqui a formação de um sistema que opera pela dinâmica relacional de seus elementos, formado pelo meio e o medium, e sua interação com outro espaço bem mais amplo, o ambiente, que conta com a presença do espectador. O percurso da pesquisa situa‐se entre os produtores, no seu modo de fazer e mostrar, e os espectadores, no seu modo de ver, e contempla mudanças culturais e históricas de ambientes comunicativos, que permitem a instalação de uma perspectiva crítica da teoria da visualidade, de caráter multidisciplinar, próxima à relação espaço‐imagem, impondo como articulação teórico‐metodológica contribuições de conceitos e exemplos extraídos de autores de campos teóricos distintos, para sublinhar as indicações fornecidas pelo trabalho na sua apresentação

La représentation de médias non littéraires dans un roman est un phénomène encore peu étudié, voire marginalisé, au sein des études intermédiales. La difficulté de rendre compte des moments où le texte crée des effets empruntés à d’autres médialités est souvent relevée, parmi les travaux d’analyse. Ce mémoire vise donc la construction d’un modèle qui puisse servir d’outil pour l’analyse des phénomènes intermédiaux, en littérature. Revisiter certaines propositions théoriques pour mieux les mettre en relation permet, dans un premier temps, l’élaboration d’un modèle syncrétique précis et fonctionnel pour l’étude de textes qui présentent une dynamique intermédiale. Dans cette optique, le roman Océan mer, d’Alessandro Baricco, constitue un terrain fertile pour sa mise en pratique. L’application du modèle proposé au roman de Baricco permet donc, dans un deuxième temps, de tester sa fonctionnalité. Ce mémoire se veut ainsi une contribution aux recherches portant sur l’intermédialité littéraire contemporaine. / Non-literary media representation in novels is a phenomenon that has drawn little attention so far within intermedial studies – almost being marginalized. However, difficulty in setting out cases where a text creates effects borrowed from other medialities is often discussed in analysis works. This thesis thus aims for the development of a model that could be used as a tool to analyse intermedial phenomena, in literary texts. This analysis first of all goes back to some theoretical propositions, relating them better to each other, and by doing so, allows the development of a functional and accurate syncretic model for the study of texts with intermedial dynamics. In this perspective, Alessandro Baricco’s novel Océan mer constitutes fertile ground for practice. Applying the proposed model to Baricco’s novel thus allows, secondly, testing its functionality. This thesis would therefore be a contribution to research on contemporary literary intermediality.

En partant de l'édition et de l'élaboration informatisée d'un corpus de chartes franc-comtoises (AD de la Haute-Saône et du Jura) du XIIIe siècle en langue française, notre thèse étudie les caractéristiques syntaxiques des chartes en les considérant sous leur aspect de genre textuel. L'analyse poursuit le but d'éclairer les structures syntaxiques et discursives qui construisent la charte dans ses différentes parties en prenant en considération les stratégies médiales et communicatives mises en œuvre. En plus de l'analyse selon des modèles contemporains comme la macro-/microsyntaxe, des phénomènes de jonction et de connexion et de l'ordre des constituants syntaxiques, l'analyse complète des temps verbaux et des circonstants temporels nous a permis d'établir des caractéristiques propres au genre textuel, propre à un type de document à l'intérieur du genre, propre à une partie de discours du genre textuel. / This work is based on the transcription and electronic edition of unedited charters from 1243-1296 in French language. It analyses the syntactical and discursive characteristics structuring the different parts of speech. The medial and communicative strategies of a charter are questioned with the help of recent models, like macrosyntax or the temporal semantics by Gosselin, always considering the specifics related to a certain type of text. Hence, phenomenons of junction and connection as well as the order of syntactical components are taken into consideration, a special focus is put on analyzing the organization and the meaning of tenses in the corpus.

The dissertation deals with the transformations of historiography and perception of the historical time in the last third of 18th and at the beginning of the 19th centuries. The central questions it investigates are: How has the way of locating (Czech) society in time changed? How did representations of past fundamentally change between 1760s and 1820s, in the era of the so-called "Sattelzeit"? What is the relationship between these changes and the way in which history was represented? What impact did the changes of media, book markets, and culture of reading have in this time? What are the political and aesthetic consequences of these changes? The answer to these questions is found in five fundamental innovations of Enlightenment historiography. These innovations (understood according to Niklas Luhmann's system theory in order to reduce complexity) - fundamentally influenced the way in which late Enlightenment thinkers conceptualized the flow of historical time and the praxis of historiography. It is about the spread of cumulative concepts of knowledge in historia litteraria related to the growth of book markets, narrativisation of the historical experience (as a result of emergence of the newly incoming fictional genres of the historical novels),, philosophy of history as a new idealistic...

ANTROPOLOGICKÝ SERIÁL - Kognitívne a semiotické modely kultury Abstract /english version/: The author of the thesis has developed a methodological framework of visual anthropology by collecting relevant information concerning the subject and by verifying this knowledge practically in an authentic living environment. This interconnection represents the main twist in the methodology, which turns away from the informative and interpretative version of ethnographic (anthropological) film and moves towards its functional, socio-cultural analysis. The subject of the thesis is an interdisciplinary research and possibilities of applying cognitive and semiotic analytical schemes into the process of directing an anthropological series. The entire project of an authentic ethnographic research and the film tumenge (I., II., III.) attempt to display the interethnical relations in the village Palota in the North-East of Slovakia, particularly bringing the life in the local Roma settlement and its individual members into sharp focus.