在高科技運用的年代，吾人已習慣與科技共處，新型態的智慧科技逐漸影響現代人的生活，科技愈是進步就愈加速人類摒棄傳統靈光的傳承，使人類養成依賴科技技術完成各項任務的態度，這種現象在當今的教育場域已蔚然成形，使教育現場的風景發生異化與質變，這樣的現象是有助於教育更趨近於理想？抑或是與教育本質越行越遠？本論文從Walter Benjamin面對機械複製時代提出的美學觀出發，因十九世紀複製技術造成市場的流通，導致資本主義的發達，文化工業量化的劣質品充斥，降低人們的生活品味與品質卻不自知。Benjamin採取一種彌賽亞救贖的美學觀試圖消解資本主義與文化工業造成的危機，並企圖在傳統靈光消失的現代化社會中，嘗試尋找適合新時代的靈光。當今社會已邁向人類與科技相互交纏的後人文時代，針對「教育美學蘊義探析：數位科技與教育靈光的靜態辯證」而言，本研究建議面對科技與人界線混淆的後人文境遇，教育可以應用Bejamin強調「否定性」與「星叢思維」之「救贖美學觀」，透過多元觀點的自省與開展，應注重「去標準化作業模式」、「陶養美學人文內涵」、「數位科技作為輔助工具」、「鼓勵創意文化發展」與「合作分享共好共榮」等面向，據此導引教育本質的靈光持存，重塑新時代的靈光。 / Living in the high-tech era, human and technology have been closely intertwined. Emerging Technologies not only gradually change people’s way of life, but also unconsciously influence educational practice. Facing this condition of overdependence on science and technology, the author is curious to ask: will high-tech application make education better? Or worse? This dissertation takes Walter Benjamin’s aesthetics in age of mechanical reproduction as starting point, the author analyses Benjamin’s Messianic redemption aesthetics for replying the crisis which is caused by capitalism and the culture industry, and attempting to seek ”Aura” which is disappeared with the death of tradition. Under post-human context of humanity and science entanglements, this study suggests education can apply Benjamin’s aesthetics of "negativity" and "constellation of thinking" to unfold pluralistic educational horizons, and also can pay attention to "di-standardizing of educational practice "," cultivating humanities "," integrating digital technology as a instructional supplementary tool", " encouraging creativity and cultural development "and "cooperating for sharing common prosperity ", the author anticipates to lead and reshape new “Aura” for the age of digital reproduction.

Esta dissertação trata dos Estudos Animais, área que se desenvolve como um rico campo de interdisciplinaridade já em sua origem. Mas para que não se julgue aprioristicamente um campo em suas particularidades, há que se esclarecer pontos em comum aos teóricos das mais diversas origens acadêmicas que compõem os Estudos animais e traçar planos para um futuro significativo. Após estabelecer os necessários diálogos entre teoria e campo social, passo à análise de certos pontos das obras Desonra e Elizabeth Costello, com o objetivo de evidenciar o potencial deste corpus para o desenvolvimento da crítica das categorias de humanidade e animalidade segundo os aportes do Pós-humanismo e inserindo-a no campo dos Estudos Animais. O teórico fundamental para este trabalho é Jacques Derrida, principalmente em sua obra O animal que logo sou. Após apresentar um panorama dos Estudos Animais, sobretudo sob a abordagem de Paul Waldau, trago ao encontro desses autores a pós-humanista Rosi Braidotti, de cuja obra The Post-human retiro as categorias do devir-planetário e devir-animal, as quais dão consequência às análises do corpus literário deste trabalho. Dialogo, ainda, com a Mitleidsethik, a ética da compaixão de Schopenhauer. Concluo que as tarefas dos Estudos Animais e do Pós-humanismo se assemelham no que toca à maior compreensão das interações interespecíficas, para a proposição consequente de novas formas de conviver num mundo mais-que-humano. / This dissertation deals with the Animal Studies, an area that develops as a rich field of interdisciplinarity already in its origin.. But in order not to make an aprioristic judgement of a field in its particularities, it is necessary to clarify points in common to the theoreticians of the most diverse academic origins that compose the Animal Studies and to draw up plans for a significant future. After establishing the necessary dialogues between theory and social field, I proceed to the analysis of certain points of the works Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello, with the objective of highlighting the potential of this corpus for the development of the critique of the categories of humanity and animality according to the contributions of Posthumanism and inserting it in the field of Animal Studies. The fundamental theorist for this work is Jacques Derrida, mainly in his work O animal que logo sou. After presenting an overview of the Animal Studies, especially under the approach of Paul Waldau, I bring to the meeting the post-humanist Rosi Braidotti, whose work The post-human retreat the categories of becoming-earth and becoming-animal, which give consequence to the analysis of the literary corpus of this work. I also dialogue with the Mitleidsethik, the ethic of compassion of Schopenhauer. I conclude that the tasks of Animal Studies and Post-humanism are similar in relation to the greater understanding of the inter-species interactions, for the consequent proposition of new ways of living in a more-than-human world.

Face à l’évolution sinueuse de l’intégration européenne, notre objectif est d’analyser, depuis la perspective de la théorie des systèmes de Niklas Luhmann, le processus suivi par le système politique en Europe. Si Luhmann n’a jamais réalisé une observation ponctuelle de la question, sa théorie nous apporte un cadre pluridisciplinaire à la capacité d’innovation remarquable au regard de la complexité de la société moderne, des relations post-nationales et de la reconfiguration du politique. Cette approche est notamment prometteuse dans un contexte de décentration du politique par rapport à la société européenne, et de décentration des Etats nationaux par rapport au système politique. Ce contexte provoque une incertitude face au futur, qui fait à la fois écho à un moment de transition dans la réalité et dans notre formulation théorique de cette réalité. Notre recherche vise donc à une reformulation de la structure conceptuelle systémique dont l’actualisation nous semble nécessaire. Par delà le caractère fécond des observations, descriptions et concepts de la théorie des systèmes tels que l’anti-régionalisme, le post-humanisme, le constructivisme ou la spécificité du politique, nous défendons l’introduction et l’application d’un schéma conceptuel qui cible l’analyse du social dans ses aspects complexes, multi-niveaux, « polycontexturels » et polycentriques, et dans ses temporalités multiples. L’Europe prend une référence particulière, au croisement d’une complexité globale (la « société-monde ») et d’une complexité héritée de la différenciation territoriale (Etats-nations et régions); ce travail se propose de trouver une perspective qui permettra d’observer ce phénomène. / Facing to the winding evolution of European integration, our aim is to analyze the process followed by the political system in Europe, from the perspective of Niklas Luhmann’s System Theory. Although Luhmann has never made a punctual observation about this question, his theory gives us a pluridisciplinary framework with a remarkable innovative ability in order to think modern society’s complexity, post-national relations and political reconfigurations. This is an auspicious approach in a context of political decentralization with regard to the European society, and a context of decentralization of the National-State with regard to the political system. This original situation provokes an uncertainty face to the future which shows a transitional moment in reality as well as in theoretical formulation on this reality. Our research focuses on reformulating the system’s structure of concepts; we consider its renewal necessary. Despites the fructiferous nature of system theory’s observations, descriptions and concepts: anti-regionalism, post-humanism, constructivism or the specificity of politics for instance; we propose the introduction and application of a renewed conceptual schema that focuses on the analysis of society in its complexity, multi-level, “policontextural”, polycentric aspects as well as multiple temporalities. Europe itself takes a particular reference in the intertwined theoretical space of a global complexity (“World-Society”) and of a complexity inherited from territorial differentiation (Nation- States and regions); our research tries to find out the best possible perspective from which we could observe this phenomenon.

Esta dissertação trata dos Estudos Animais, área que se desenvolve como um rico campo de interdisciplinaridade já em sua origem. Mas para que não se julgue aprioristicamente um campo em suas particularidades, há que se esclarecer pontos em comum aos teóricos das mais diversas origens acadêmicas que compõem os Estudos animais e traçar planos para um futuro significativo. Após estabelecer os necessários diálogos entre teoria e campo social, passo à análise de certos pontos das obras Desonra e Elizabeth Costello, com o objetivo de evidenciar o potencial deste corpus para o desenvolvimento da crítica das categorias de humanidade e animalidade segundo os aportes do Pós-humanismo e inserindo-a no campo dos Estudos Animais. O teórico fundamental para este trabalho é Jacques Derrida, principalmente em sua obra O animal que logo sou. Após apresentar um panorama dos Estudos Animais, sobretudo sob a abordagem de Paul Waldau, trago ao encontro desses autores a pós-humanista Rosi Braidotti, de cuja obra The Post-human retiro as categorias do devir-planetário e devir-animal, as quais dão consequência às análises do corpus literário deste trabalho. Dialogo, ainda, com a Mitleidsethik, a ética da compaixão de Schopenhauer. Concluo que as tarefas dos Estudos Animais e do Pós-humanismo se assemelham no que toca à maior compreensão das interações interespecíficas, para a proposição consequente de novas formas de conviver num mundo mais-que-humano. / This dissertation deals with the Animal Studies, an area that develops as a rich field of interdisciplinarity already in its origin.. But in order not to make an aprioristic judgement of a field in its particularities, it is necessary to clarify points in common to the theoreticians of the most diverse academic origins that compose the Animal Studies and to draw up plans for a significant future. After establishing the necessary dialogues between theory and social field, I proceed to the analysis of certain points of the works Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello, with the objective of highlighting the potential of this corpus for the development of the critique of the categories of humanity and animality according to the contributions of Posthumanism and inserting it in the field of Animal Studies. The fundamental theorist for this work is Jacques Derrida, mainly in his work O animal que logo sou. After presenting an overview of the Animal Studies, especially under the approach of Paul Waldau, I bring to the meeting the post-humanist Rosi Braidotti, whose work The post-human retreat the categories of becoming-earth and becoming-animal, which give consequence to the analysis of the literary corpus of this work. I also dialogue with the Mitleidsethik, the ethic of compassion of Schopenhauer. I conclude that the tasks of Animal Studies and Post-humanism are similar in relation to the greater understanding of the inter-species interactions, for the consequent proposition of new ways of living in a more-than-human world.

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O paradigma cartesiano promoveu a cisão entre filosofia e a ciência e, por consequência, a fragmentação do conhecimento e a produção e um saber unidimensional/disciplinar. A necessidade da superação da fragmentação do saber enseja, no Direito, a busca por novos paradigmas e por uma perspectiva transdisciplinar que compreenda os vários níveis de realidade apresentados nos complexos problemas cotidianos. A Resolução CNE/CP nº 9/2004, que estabeleceu as vigentes Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para os cursos de graduação em Direito, manteve a exigência à observância da interdisciplinaridade na formação dos estudantes — algo já previsto, em dimensão menor, desde a Portaria do MEC nº 1.886/1994. A nova proposta de reformolução dessas Diretrizes, de autoria da OAB, amplia a relevância da interdisciplinaridade no Direito, mencionando, inclusive, a transdisciplinaridade. Apesar disso, essa proposta de reformulação ignora a necessidade da obrigatoriedade dos conteúdos do Direito Animal no currículo, muito embora tenha incluído a previsão de conteúdos relativos ao Direito Ambiental. A iniciativa da adoção da interdisciplinaridade e da transdisciplinaridade no ensino jurídico parece ser obstacularizada por uma proposta de currículo composto por disciplinas jurídicas tradicionais, com perfil e métodos compatíveis com o paradigma cartesiano e, ainda, com o paradigma antropocêntrico. Esta pesquisa concluiu que o Direito Animal, por suas características e pelas particularidades do seu objeto de estudo, por outro lado, exige a adoção de um método transdisciplinar, que se adéqua às exigências normativas do ensino jurídico brasileiro e que tem potencial para colaborar na desconstrução do viés curricular tradicional, de caráter cartesiano e antropocêntrico. Para tanto, teve-se como parâmetro uma pesquisa de caráter bibliográfico, que recorreu à análise documental, tendo como método de procedimento o monográfico e como baliza o diálogo entre o pensamento complexo e o pensamento pós-humanista no ensino jurídico. / The present research aims to analyze how transdisciplinarity, using as reference the complex thinking and post-humanistic thinking, can be presented as a method of teaching Animal Law. The Cartesian paradigm promoted the split between philosophy and science and, consequently, the fragmentation of knowledge and production and a onedimensional/ disciplinary wisdom. The need to overcome the fragmentation of knowledge gave the opportunity, in law, to search for new paradigms and for a transdisciplinary perspective that understands the various levels of reality presented in the complex daily problems. Resolution CNE/CP (National Education Advisory Council/Full Concil, in Portuguese) nº 9/2004, which established the current National Curricular Guidelines for undergraduate courses in Law, maintained the requirement for observance of interdisciplinarity in the training of students - something already expected, in a smaller dimension, since the Ordinance of MEC (Ministry of Education, in Portuguese) nº 1.886/1994. The new proposal for reformulation of these Guidelines, authored by the OAB (Lawyers from Brazil Organization, in Portuguese), extends the relevance of interdisciplinarity in Law, mentioning, including, transdisciplinarity. Despite it, this reformulation proposal ignores the need for the mandatory content of Animal Law in the curriculum, even though it included the prediction of contents related to Environmental Law. The initiative of adopting interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in legal education seems to be obscured by a curriculum proposal composed of traditional legal disciplines, with profiles and methods compatible with the Cartesian paradigm and, also, with the anthropocentric paradigm. This research concluded that Animal Law, due to its characteristics and the particularities of its object of study, on the other hand, requires the adoption of a transdisciplinary method, which adequate itself to the normative requirements of Brazilian legal education and that there is potential to collaborate in the deconstruction of the traditional curricular bias, of Cartesian and anthropocentric character. For that, a bibliographic research was used as a parameter, which used the documentary analysis, using the monographic as a method of procedure and as reference the dialogue between complex thinking and posthumanist thinking in legal education.

Esta dissertação trata dos Estudos Animais, área que se desenvolve como um rico campo de interdisciplinaridade já em sua origem. Mas para que não se julgue aprioristicamente um campo em suas particularidades, há que se esclarecer pontos em comum aos teóricos das mais diversas origens acadêmicas que compõem os Estudos animais e traçar planos para um futuro significativo. Após estabelecer os necessários diálogos entre teoria e campo social, passo à análise de certos pontos das obras Desonra e Elizabeth Costello, com o objetivo de evidenciar o potencial deste corpus para o desenvolvimento da crítica das categorias de humanidade e animalidade segundo os aportes do Pós-humanismo e inserindo-a no campo dos Estudos Animais. O teórico fundamental para este trabalho é Jacques Derrida, principalmente em sua obra O animal que logo sou. Após apresentar um panorama dos Estudos Animais, sobretudo sob a abordagem de Paul Waldau, trago ao encontro desses autores a pós-humanista Rosi Braidotti, de cuja obra The Post-human retiro as categorias do devir-planetário e devir-animal, as quais dão consequência às análises do corpus literário deste trabalho. Dialogo, ainda, com a Mitleidsethik, a ética da compaixão de Schopenhauer. Concluo que as tarefas dos Estudos Animais e do Pós-humanismo se assemelham no que toca à maior compreensão das interações interespecíficas, para a proposição consequente de novas formas de conviver num mundo mais-que-humano. / This dissertation deals with the Animal Studies, an area that develops as a rich field of interdisciplinarity already in its origin.. But in order not to make an aprioristic judgement of a field in its particularities, it is necessary to clarify points in common to the theoreticians of the most diverse academic origins that compose the Animal Studies and to draw up plans for a significant future. After establishing the necessary dialogues between theory and social field, I proceed to the analysis of certain points of the works Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello, with the objective of highlighting the potential of this corpus for the development of the critique of the categories of humanity and animality according to the contributions of Posthumanism and inserting it in the field of Animal Studies. The fundamental theorist for this work is Jacques Derrida, mainly in his work O animal que logo sou. After presenting an overview of the Animal Studies, especially under the approach of Paul Waldau, I bring to the meeting the post-humanist Rosi Braidotti, whose work The post-human retreat the categories of becoming-earth and becoming-animal, which give consequence to the analysis of the literary corpus of this work. I also dialogue with the Mitleidsethik, the ethic of compassion of Schopenhauer. I conclude that the tasks of Animal Studies and Post-humanism are similar in relation to the greater understanding of the inter-species interactions, for the consequent proposition of new ways of living in a more-than-human world.

This thesis posits post-humanism as a philosophy that engages directly with the problem of anthropocentrism and is concerned primarily with the metaphysics of subjectivity. It studies five literary texts (James Joyce's Ulysses, Virginia Woolf's Flush, Djuna Barnes' Nightwood, Brigid Brophy's Hackenfeller's Ape and J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons) that challenge the humanistic or classical subject through critical engagement with what this subject traditionally saw as its antithesis - the animal. These texts contest various fixed assumptions about animality and disrupt the status-quo of the human. Breaking with the tradition that treats animals exclusively as a metaphor for the human, they attempt to see and understand animality outside the framework of anthropocentric suppositions. This project aims to describe the strategies these texts employ to conceptualize animality as well as the methods they apply to delineate its subversive potential and to disrupt the human- animal binary. Its theoretical framework combines the work of thinkers belonging to the new but thriving field of Animal Studies with the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. It is this project's great ambition to contribute towards the development of new post- humanist ethics defined by its...

<p>This research uses the composition practices of three experienced letterpress typesetters as a case study for the development of a methodology for studying human-technology interaction. This methodology tries to take seriously the implications that theories of materiality have for empirical research in writing and technology.</p> <p>Data was collected from three experienced typesetters, each of whom was observed setting type for two hours, then interviewed for 1 ½ to 2 hours, using observation footage to inform interview questions. Interview transcripts and observation footage were then coded for observable material intra-actions and the influences that characterized those actions and brought them into being.</p> <p>Data analysis produced six desiderata, or desires for design, that emerged as driving the composition process: 1) a desire to use the technology, 2) a desire for efficiency, 3) a desire to imitate/defer to historical practices, 4) a desire for letter-level correctness, 5) attention to aesthetics, and 6) a desire to communicate.</p>

This essay analyzes Mette Edvardsens performative work oslo, which usually falls under the label of dance and choreography. The performance is in many ways making use of and staging language though, so the aim here is to examine how the linguistic and textual material of the performance is enacted in relation to its mediating devices and vice versa. The essay is making use of the media theory by David J. Bolter and Richard A. Grusin to show that no medium stands by itself but always exists and works in a web-like relation to other medias. Language will therefore not be seen as isolated but always interacting with other mediating instances. Their theory will also stand as a base in trying to track different medias ideological origin. With inspiration from actor-network theory, this essay tries to map the performance as a network made up by components. The components will be understood, through material- semiotic theorists as Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, to exhibit agency. That is, they are seen to be doing something, they affect the network in a way which is beyond the control and possible intention by an author. The essay shows that Edvardsens performance is being enacted by its network, wherein the author or choreographer is one but not the only actor. The essay also examines how we come to understand a body or and object for what they are, how we define their borders, and will argue that borders are not static but are open for negotiation.

Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att illustrera vilka effekter olika medietyper och medieteknologier har på biblioteksutformning samt på vilket sätt. Detta undersöks genom två grupper av frågeställningar där den ena fokuserar på medieteknologier som en aktör i ett nätverk och den andra hänvisar till medieteknologiers placering och effekten därav. Teori: För att besvara dessa frågeställningar används i uppsatsen tre huvudsakliga teorier som består av materiell media-teori, posthumanism samt aktör-nätverksteori (ANT). Metod: Den genomförda undersökningen är en fallstudie, och använder sig av en kombination av observationer, existerande dokument och semi-strukturerade intervjuer för att samla in ett empiriskt dataunderlag. Vidare används en kvalitativ innehållsanalys för att bearbeta det insamlade materialet. Slutsatser: Uppsatsen kommer fram till att processen att utforma ett fysiskt bibliotek kan karakteriseras som ett aktör-nätverk med ett stort antal aktörer som inverkar på bibliotekets design. Medier och medieteknologier är en av dessa aktörer som påverkar bibliotekets utformning genom deras kopplingar till andra aktörer, till värderingar och symbolism samt genom deras materiella förutsättningar.