Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:20:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArquivoTotalIvandro.pdf: 1734738 bytes, checksum: 84520d37944daa200008ca5d81c02e40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Information Science is considered a postmodern science, it emerged for the cultural, political and economic changes occurred in the mid second half of the twentieth century. Over the decades, there are produced several concepts and attempts to delimit the field, never reaching a consensus on its epistemological configuration. However, it is certain it s as interdisciplinary field, without proper methodology and conceptual delimitation or without determination of its object of study, occasioning the need for epistemological studies that reflect on your place while scientific field. Among the models of postmodern science, understood as the most suitable one proposed by Boaventura de Souza Santos, mainly by retaining a positivist dimension, giving the field a certain stability. In this sense, this research, following the path opened by Wersig, aimed at analyzing the epistemological foundations on which it rests Information Science, reflecting on his place while postmodern science, and even on its conceptual definition. The analysis confirmed that the field sits on postmodern epistemological bases, but keeping a modern/positivist dimension, regarding the determination of the object of study, namely the information, while not embracing it in its density and complexity conceptual. / A Ciência da Informação é considerada uma ciência pós-moderna, emergente das transformações culturais, políticas e econômicas ocorridas em meados da segunda metade do Século XX. Ao longo dessas décadas, muitas têm sido as conceituações e tentativas de delimitação do campo, nunca se chegando a um consenso quanto a sua configuração epistemológica. No entanto, é certo trata-se de campo interdisciplinar, sem metodologia própria e sem delimitação conceitual ou determinação de seu objeto de estudo, ensejando a necessidade de estudos epistemológicos que reflitam sobre o seu lugar enquanto campo científico. Dentre os modelos de ciência pós-moderna, entende-se como o mais adequado aquele proposto por Boaventura de Souza Santos, mormente, por conservar uma dimensão positivista, dotando o campo de certa estabilidade. Nesse sentido, a presente pesquisa, seguindo na vereda aberta por Wersig, teve por objetivo a análise das bases epistemológicas nas quais se assenta a Ciência da Informação, refletindo sobre o seu lugar enquanto ciência pós-moderna e, mesmo sobre a sua delimitação conceitual. A análise corroborou que o campo assenta-se sobre bases epistemológicas pós-moderna, mas guardando uma dimensão moderna/positivista no tocante a determinação de seu objeto de estudo, a saber, a informação, ainda que não abarcando-a em sua densidade e complexidade conceitual.

O presente trabalho procura compreender as transformações ocorridas em Florianópolis ao longo das últimas décadas, em especial no que diz respeito ao discurso sobre a mesma e aos espaços considerados seus símbolos. O objeto deste trabalho, portanto, é o processo singular de formação da cidade em sua materialidade e vida social sob a égide de uma nova lógica cultural que domina o capitalismo contemporâneo. Por um lado, o trabalho procura relacionar as mudanças efetivas quando da crítica e contestação do projeto moderno às transformações ocorridas no campo específico do planejamento urbano. Por outro, reconhecendo a especificidade do período contemporâneo, dito pós-moderno, procurou-se primeiramente compreender os diversos estudos realizados sobre a temática para, por fim, poder remetê-las à realidade florianopolitana. Foram analisadas as dinâmicas da teoria urbana paralelamente ao desenvolvimento de Florianópolis e seus modelos de gestão e planejamento urbano, enfatizando a formação de novos espaços simbólicos, seu conteúdo e sua forma de apropriação. Foi focalizada a confluência de três campos distintos: as gestões municipais, os interesses econômicos atuantes na cidade e a população local que também poderia ser categorizada de acordo com os interesses próprios de cada camada social. Ademais, deve-se distinguir entre as dinâmicas da teoria urbana, constitutivas, e o planejamento urbano, normativo. Portanto, a análise de diversas variáveis condicionantes pode gerar diferentes aproximações das determinações do espaço simbólico, mas se buscou um conhecimento que as sintetize. Como resultado final da pesquisa, espera-se realizar considerações acerca das transformações ocorridas a partir da emergência da pós-modernidade na arquitetura e no urbanismo, enfatizando a problemática do projeto de pesquisa, ou seja, os espaços simbólicos. Em relação à Florianópolis, expõe-se o vigor do teor das transformações ocorridas nas últimas décadas na cidade reveladas pela emergência da pós-modernidade em sua arquitetura, em seu planejamento urbano e no papel das ideologias de consumo na constituição de seus mais recentes espaços simbólicos identitários. Compreendendo que o período tratado, a pós-modernidade, e os espaços simbólicos, em especial se há a possibilidade de sua formação a partir da emergência daquela, são áreas polêmicas e ainda sujeitas a aprofundamentos, a postura deste trabalho é proporcionar mais uma forma de acesso e compreensão da temática. / This research aims to understand the transformations that Florianópolis has been passing in the last decades, mainly in the speech about it and in the spaces considered its symbols. The object of this work, therefore, is the unique process of the citys formation in its materiality and social life under the influence of a new cultural logic that dominates the contemporary capitalism. On the one hand, the work intends to relate the changes derivate from the criticism to the modern project to the ones occurred in the specific field of the urban planning. On the other hand, recognizing the specificity of the contemporary period, called post-modern, it seeks to understand the diverse studies carried through on the thematic to, finally, be able to relate them with the local reality. Were analyzed the dynamics of urban theories and the urban development of Florianópolis, as well as its models of urban governance and planning, emphasizing the formation of new symbolic,spaces, its meaning and form of appropriation. It was focused the confluence of three distinct fields: the municipal managements and the urban policy; the economic interests operating in the city; and the local population, that also could be categorized in accordance with the proper interests of each social class. It also distinguishes the dynamic of the urban theory and the proper urban planning, the urban legislation. As result, this research expects to have contributed with considerations about the transformations in architecture and urban planning since the emergence of post-modernity, emphasizing the symbolic spaces. For the Florianópolis reality, it is expected to comprehend its social and urban development correlated with the characterization of its symbolic spaces - which, why and for whom they are symbolic. Since post-modernity and symbolic spaces are highly polemical research areas, in especial if there is the possibility of the formation of new symbolic spaces in this period, this work intends to propitiate a new approach and understand better this reality.

In this article, I undertake several lines of enquiry in the history of ideological and political movements centered on the “modernity” polemic at the transnational level. By analyzing these movements in juxtaposition, I explore the possibility of more diverse narratives of modernity and antimodernity than are assumed by conventional dichotomies in contemporary academic writings. The results of my enquiry challenge several pervasive “dogmas” of post-colonial theory: that orientalism is a purely modernist intellectual project, while anti-orientalism is by necessity its more “local” discursive counterpart in a dualism of East and West.

This study examines a late-modernity model of society where consumption is the conduit through which individuals meet society. This model is contrasted with Wilkinson's (1991) model that sees the community as the place where individuals make contact with society. Using Brown et al.'s (1996) Outshopping Index, residents of two rural Mississippi Delta communities were asked how often they shopped for 30 consumable items outside of their communities both in 1996 and again in 2007. Logistic regression demonstrates a significant interaction effect between year and outshopping such that outshopping was significantly and positively associated with community sentiment in 1996 but not in 2007. Such a transformation in the locus associated with consumption habits and community can be explained as an effect of globalization on rural residents during the period under observation. The results may be indicative of larger shifts in society as described by Bauman (2007), who argues that late modernity is a shift from mass consumer society to a society of consumers. This shift changed the meaning of community, eroding its traditional function as a point of access to society. Hyper-individualized consumption now serves this role. Though acknowledging that community is not a phenomenon exclusive to rural communities, I contend that they serve as ideal natural laboratories for observing late-modern societal shifts.

This dissertation combines an assemblage theory ontology of urban sociology with the concept of Bauman's 'liquid modernity' (2000, 2012). It subsequently incorporates the nascent "liquid" constructs of liquid retail, liquid legitimacy, and liquid community to analyze consumers, community, and retailscapes in a violent and impoverished inner city area that has experienced constant and dramatic change. Through this lens, ethnographic fieldwork reveals a construct called consumption lifelines, which explains how consumers and communities use market-facing resources to find and create relative stability in the midst of turbulence, whether they choose to enter, stay in or leave a highly territorialized community with contested boundaries. The study adds complexity to Bauman's concept of liquidity and the construct of urban assemblages, and it has implications for other inner city communities that are similarly affected by changing times and challenging circumstances.

<p>Martin Heidegger is generally regarded as one of the most significant—if also the most controversial—philosophers of the 20th century. Most scholarly engagement with Heidegger’s thought on Modernity approaches his work with a special focus on either his critique of technology, or on his more general critique of subjectivity. This dissertation project attempts to elucidate Martin Heidegger’s diagnosis of modernity, and, by extension, his thought as a whole, from the neglected standpoint of his understanding of mathematics, which he explicitly identifies as the essence of modernity. </p><p> Accordingly, our project attempts to work through the development of Modernity, as Heidegger understands it, on the basis of what we call a “mathematical dialectic.“ The basis of our analysis is that Heidegger’s understanding of Modernity, both on its own terms and in the context of his theory of history [Seinsgeschichte], is best understood in terms of the interaction between two essential, “mathematical” characteristics, namely, self-grounding and homogeneity. This project first investigates the mathematical qualities of these components of Modernity individually, and then attempts to trace the historical and philosophical development of Modernity on the basis of the interaction between these two components—an interaction that is, we argue, itself regulated by the structure of the mathematical, according to Heidegger’s understanding of the term. </p><p> The project undertaken here intends not only to serve as an interpretive, scholarly function of elucidating Heidegger’s understanding of Modernity, but also to advance the larger aim of defending the prescience, structural coherence, and relevance of Heidegger’s diagnosis of Modernity as such.</p> / Dissertation

This study focuses on the Welfare Party elite's conceptualisation of modernity during the party's last 4-5 years before its closure in 1998. Since the party was the most important Islamist organisation in Turkey. it was at an important point of interaction between Islamism and modernity. The study tries to determine the significance of the WP discourse on key modernisation issues by answering such questions as how the WP elite conceptualised modernity; how this conceptualisation was formulated, constructed and what was modernity's relationship with the West in their view. It argues that, the WP elite had a distinct (Islamist) understanding of modernity which, despite its differences in its approach to some basic issues (e. g. secularism) overall remained within modernity by sharing most of its major characteristics. The WP elite, similar to many other Islamist movements, advocated a more Islamic (less secular and less Westernising) route to modernity; and they could not be considered as anti-modernists. The study contributes towards a better understanding of the critical role that a version of Islamism plays in Turkey's politics and process of modernisation and provides insights about the impact of Western modernity on the sizeable Islamist section. The study employs important concepts such as secularisation, nationalism, the modern state, economic development (science, technology, industrialisation), capitalism and democracy as important components of modernity. (It also provides a general analysis of Islamism in the Middle East vis-ä-vis modernity through these concepts). An analysis of the views of the WP elite with regard to these concepts and processes serves to better understanding the Islamist stance towards the particular path of modernisation in Turkey, modernity in general, and also the West.

Sammanfattning I dagens samhälle har förändringstakten och ökad individualism inneburit att individen måste ompröva tankar och värderingar utifrån de för tillfället rådande förutsättningarna. En vägledning för att ändå skapa en stabil bild av identiteten är genom personliga varumärken. Det innebär att en individ framhäver sina unika egenskaper på arbetsmarknaden. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka faktorer som bidragit till fenomenet personliga varumärkens framväxt, vilka likheter som finns mellan en individs personliga varumärke och identitet, samt hur framtiden för personliga varumärken kan tänkas se ut. Teorierna som används är Giddens teorier om modernitetens följder, samt Stiers teorier om identitet. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats och datainsamling har skett genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Informanterna har bestått av tre personer som arbetar inom Human Resources, och som dagligen kommer i kontakt med personliga varumärken. Resultatet visar på att framväxten av personliga varumärken kan bero på utvecklingen av individualismen och globaliseringen. Sociala medier har en betydande roll för personliga varumärken. Individens identitet, självuppfattning samt medvetenhet om hur omgivningen ser på individen har betydelse för framtiden.

The aim of the essay is to show that Albert Camus’ novel The Fall despite the seriousness of the subjects it deals with can be read as a satirical work. To support thisargument a brief explanation of the term satire will be made and the definitions itholds will likewise be discussed.A careful textual analysis shows that satirical ruses are evident in The Fall.Another aim of the paper is to depict how the satirical devises that are used, confront and discuss the objects of “attack”. The essay will focus on finding satirical instances in relation to two major themes that are targeted in the novel: Christianity and modernity. The research method is based on a close reading and the support of secondary sources. The conclusions made, based on argumentative and analytical explorations, are that The Fall in fact can be read as a satirical novel; that the book, through mockery and satire, tries to criticize Christian and Modern values.

After the Meiji Restoration of 1862, Western philosophy was imported and infused into Japanese culture and its intellectual climate. By the early 20th Century, Kyoto School philosophers and romantic authors sought to reaffirm Japanese culture, believed jeopardised by the hastened development of Western capitalist modernity. This movement became politically charged, and is not without fascist allegations. After the Second World War modernism again became a primary intellectual concern, as modernists and Asianists alike attempted to struggle with the idea of fascism in Japan. Works of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) and Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960), and the prewar contexts within which they were written, will be compared to the postwar thinkers Maruyama Masao (1914-1996) and Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977). The purpose of this thesis is to examine how Japanese thinkers before and after the Second World War understood and responded to the global process of modernity, and how it relates to such political movements as liberalism and fascism.