Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

This thesis identifies the attractors of Detroit’s growth and divulges into the cultural, federal, socio-economic and urban deterrents that have afflicted Detroit for the past fifty years. It probes the city of Detroit and exposes a hyper-segregated city that has been destroyed by a self-feeding cycle of nomadic behaviour and a speculative culture of endless opportunities. To initiate change this thesis examines real alternatives that are not defined for the citizens of Detroit, but are created by them. It is a self-organizing grassroots approach that applies pressure on the city to rethink its conventional methods of urban revitalization. Utilizing the city’s large inventory of vacant land, abandoned buildings and neighbourhood schools, an alternative design methodology is logically applied to atomize, consolidate, fortify and envisage a new Detroit; one where residents can remain sufficiently abreast of the social and economic problems that consistently challenge them.

This thesis identifies the attractors of Detroit’s growth and divulges into the cultural, federal, socio-economic and urban deterrents that have afflicted Detroit for the past fifty years. It probes the city of Detroit and exposes a hyper-segregated city that has been destroyed by a self-feeding cycle of nomadic behaviour and a speculative culture of endless opportunities. To initiate change this thesis examines real alternatives that are not defined for the citizens of Detroit, but are created by them. It is a self-organizing grassroots approach that applies pressure on the city to rethink its conventional methods of urban revitalization. Utilizing the city’s large inventory of vacant land, abandoned buildings and neighbourhood schools, an alternative design methodology is logically applied to atomize, consolidate, fortify and envisage a new Detroit; one where residents can remain sufficiently abreast of the social and economic problems that consistently challenge them.

This thesis is concerned with the two AIDS-era novels of Gary Indiana, a long-neglected yet essential literary figure who, as the critic Christian Lorentzen has argued, “connects the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in ways readers and critics are only beginning to apprehend” (xii). Beginning chronologically with a study of Indiana’s first two novels, Horse Crazy (1989) and Gone Tomorrow (1993), this thesis attempts to realize Lorentzen’s call to action, attending particularly to the ways in which Indiana’s novels write the neoliberal subject. More than exploring life under the AIDS crisis and embodying a radical queer approach to narrative, I contend, through the repurposed frame of noir and thematic explorations of kitsch, the novels of Gary Indiana radically interrogate neoliberal subjectivities, offering a remarkably stark vision of interior lives completely colonized by capitalism, commodified subjects incapable of intimacy.

Constatações cotidianas no fazer comunicação apontam para uma lacuna significativa entre as intenções dos profissionais e de suas organizações e a efetiva atração, retenção e transformação de públicos de interesse. Há uma distância considerável entre a projeção da identidade e a percepção gerada, o que evidencia que informar e comunicar são instâncias muito diferentes no processo de relacionamento e de diálogo. Isto é ainda mais radical numa época de multiprotagonismo, adensamento das fontes de confiança e sobrecarga de mensagens circulantes. É neste panorama que o presente estudo foi motivado e proposto: como busca por inspiração e por uma nova lógica de pensamento na estruturação de conteúdos de e sobre organizações. A proposição é reunir, observar, analisar, entender, esquematizar e auxiliar a aplicar o formato narrativo do storytelling, especialmente aquele baseado na experiência da fonte evocadora. Trata-se de suscitar a rememoração de histórias de vida e seu entrelace com a trajetória no tempo de agentes organizacionais, derivando conteúdos mais envolventes, significativos e memoráveis. O paradigma narrativo se afasta do tradicional linguajar objetivo, quantitativo, superficial e facilmente esquecível da comunicação organizacional e dá uma abertura para as afetividades e uma linguagem de encontro, compreensão, qualidade e reencantamento das relações, aplicada a estratégias de compartilhamento de organizações geridas em ambientes humanizados. Além de revisão bibliográfica, é feita uma análise de conteúdo audiovisual institucional de 10 organizações, pela técnica da análise estrutural da narrativa, e proposta uma matriz estruturante de elementos em storytelling. Tudo está a serviço da melhor compreensão das interfaces da Comunicação com ações de responsabilidade histórica e suas narrativas decorrentes, num recurso plenamente adequado a um panorama de reconhecimento da multiplicidade de vozes e do descentramento do sujeito. O storytelling pode ser a voz deste novo tempo: conversacional, inclusivo, colaborativo, afetivo, duradouro e memorável. / Findings in everyday communication to indicate a significant gap between the intentions of the professionals and their organizations and the effective attraction, retention and transformation of stakeholders. There is a considerable distance between the projection of identity and the perception generated, which shows that inform and communicate instances are very different in the process of relationship and dialogue. This is even more radical in an era of multiple players, change in sources of trust and overload of messages circulating. In this panorama the present study was motivated and proposed: to search for inspiration and a new logic of thinking in the structuring of content and on organizations. The proposition is to collect, observe, analyze, understand, and help lay to implement the narrative format of storytelling, especially one based on the experience of the evocative power. It raises the recollection of stories of life and its intertwining with the trajectory in time of organizational agents, deriving content more engaging, meaningful and memorable. The narrative paradigm departs from the traditional language objective, quantitative, superficial and easily forgettable organizational communication and provides an opening for the affections and a language encounter, understanding, quality and enchantment of relationships, sharing strategies applied to organizations in managed environments humanized. In addition to literature review, an analysis is made of audiovisual content from 10 institutional organizations, the structural analysis of narrative, and proposed an array of structural elements in storytelling. Everything is in the service of better understanding of the communication interfaces with the actions of historical responsibility and their narratives resulting in a fully appropriate to feature a scene of recognition of the multiplicity of voices and the decentering of the subject. The storytelling can be the voice of this new time: conversational, inclusive, collaborative, affective, long lasting and memorable.

Constatações cotidianas no fazer comunicação apontam para uma lacuna significativa entre as intenções dos profissionais e de suas organizações e a efetiva atração, retenção e transformação de públicos de interesse. Há uma distância considerável entre a projeção da identidade e a percepção gerada, o que evidencia que informar e comunicar são instâncias muito diferentes no processo de relacionamento e de diálogo. Isto é ainda mais radical numa época de multiprotagonismo, adensamento das fontes de confiança e sobrecarga de mensagens circulantes. É neste panorama que o presente estudo foi motivado e proposto: como busca por inspiração e por uma nova lógica de pensamento na estruturação de conteúdos de e sobre organizações. A proposição é reunir, observar, analisar, entender, esquematizar e auxiliar a aplicar o formato narrativo do storytelling, especialmente aquele baseado na experiência da fonte evocadora. Trata-se de suscitar a rememoração de histórias de vida e seu entrelace com a trajetória no tempo de agentes organizacionais, derivando conteúdos mais envolventes, significativos e memoráveis. O paradigma narrativo se afasta do tradicional linguajar objetivo, quantitativo, superficial e facilmente esquecível da comunicação organizacional e dá uma abertura para as afetividades e uma linguagem de encontro, compreensão, qualidade e reencantamento das relações, aplicada a estratégias de compartilhamento de organizações geridas em ambientes humanizados. Além de revisão bibliográfica, é feita uma análise de conteúdo audiovisual institucional de 10 organizações, pela técnica da análise estrutural da narrativa, e proposta uma matriz estruturante de elementos em storytelling. Tudo está a serviço da melhor compreensão das interfaces da Comunicação com ações de responsabilidade histórica e suas narrativas decorrentes, num recurso plenamente adequado a um panorama de reconhecimento da multiplicidade de vozes e do descentramento do sujeito. O storytelling pode ser a voz deste novo tempo: conversacional, inclusivo, colaborativo, afetivo, duradouro e memorável. / Findings in everyday communication to indicate a significant gap between the intentions of the professionals and their organizations and the effective attraction, retention and transformation of stakeholders. There is a considerable distance between the projection of identity and the perception generated, which shows that inform and communicate instances are very different in the process of relationship and dialogue. This is even more radical in an era of multiple players, change in sources of trust and overload of messages circulating. In this panorama the present study was motivated and proposed: to search for inspiration and a new logic of thinking in the structuring of content and on organizations. The proposition is to collect, observe, analyze, understand, and help lay to implement the narrative format of storytelling, especially one based on the experience of the evocative power. It raises the recollection of stories of life and its intertwining with the trajectory in time of organizational agents, deriving content more engaging, meaningful and memorable. The narrative paradigm departs from the traditional language objective, quantitative, superficial and easily forgettable organizational communication and provides an opening for the affections and a language encounter, understanding, quality and enchantment of relationships, sharing strategies applied to organizations in managed environments humanized. In addition to literature review, an analysis is made of audiovisual content from 10 institutional organizations, the structural analysis of narrative, and proposed an array of structural elements in storytelling. Everything is in the service of better understanding of the communication interfaces with the actions of historical responsibility and their narratives resulting in a fully appropriate to feature a scene of recognition of the multiplicity of voices and the decentering of the subject. The storytelling can be the voice of this new time: conversational, inclusive, collaborative, affective, long lasting and memorable.

This thesis project is composed of two major parts: my English translation of No decir—a collection of short stories by Chilean author Andrea Maturana—titled Don’t Tell, and an academic introduction to that translation. The first chapter of the introduction gives biographical and cultural information about Andrea Maturana and her work, and it provides a summary of most of the criticism that has been written about her fiction. In the second chapter of the introduction I describe my translation goals and analyze challenges encountered while translating No decir. I first discuss the general problems of any translation project and then focus on several difficulties involved in Spanish to English translation. Finally I analyze a variety of specific challenges from my translation project, providing examples to both emphasize the partial nature of any translation and describe how I attempted to achieve my translation goals.