This thesis explores the creative function of the pseudonym Sara Sand, used by the author Stina Aronson for four literary works in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Två herrar blev nöjda (Two gentlemen were content), Fabeln om Valentin (The tale of Valentin), Tolv hav (Twelve oceans) and Syskonbädd (Siblingbed) are modernist and experimental works that I approach with an experimental way of reading. In order to emphasize what I find to be an inherent strive for freedom within these texts, I draw from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattaris notion of desire as a productive force and their view of the text as a rhizomatic structure, as presented in Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). The characters in Sara Sands writing are in constant movement and in continuous processes of becomings which challenges any kind of fixity, whether that be social structures and hegemonic discourses or simply the individual self.

This thesis is focused on ethics and subject in postmodernism and poststructuralism. The thesis contains methods of analysis, interpretation and comparison. These methods are primarily focused on French authors of the second half of the 20th century. In the text, there are answered questions like: "How society, knowledge and thiking of certain period affected the freedom of human being? What mechanisms exist in the language function structures that affect human way of thinking? What are the possibilities for individuals, to emancipate against the influence of powerfull government institutions and their strategies?" The aim of the thesis is to make an ethics rules that will be taken like an alternative to the codified normative morality. It shows the differences between modern universalism and posmodern pluralism. The dualism is interpreted primarily in the way of thinking of J.-F. Lyotard. There is also interpretation of dualism throught Deleuze and Guattari philosophy that is formulated due to theory of arborescent and rhizomatic structures. Most of the thesis is based on Michel Foucault's phylosophy of normalization and disciplining of a subject and authoritatively established ethics. The main topic of this thesis is Foucault's ethics based on the relationship of self to itselfs. This self-reflexive...

The dissertation Alternative Ontology, subtitled Topological Imagination and Topological Materialism, focuses on the analysis of spatial phenomena and space in the intentions of the mathematical discipline of topology, which is interested in spaces from the point of view of set theory. My goal is to present topology as a tool not only for contemporary philosophy, but also for artistic creation. For the purpose of the dissertation, I formulate two concepts: Topological imagination and Topological materialism. Topological imagination is a tool and method for creating and thinking with the consciousness of space as a dynamic structure, which is not bound only by fixed laws of geometry. This method originated as the name of my long-term artistic practice, which is largely based on the study of space, topology, knot theory and the search for ways of their application in artistic and theoretical work. I propose Topological materialism as a concept that combines the thinking of networks and multi-dimensional spaces with the philosophical currents of the materialist tradition, especially the New Materialism. My basic thesis is that these cannot be perceived separately. Materialism cannot be thought without its spatial dimension, and topology without anchoring in the material world becomes a mere abstraction. The second part of the dissertation is devoted to the analysis of specific spaces: the space we inhabit, which I call phenomenological, infrastructure, logistics space, information space and the space of capital. In addition to individual analyzes, I also focus on their intersections, connections and joint operation.

Michel Maffesoli and Zygmunt Bauman add the traits of Benjamin's flâneur to the (neo-)nomad, namely his "flâneur" gaze and his relation to commodities. But in the concept of nomad these traits gain specific nature - on the field of fashion they transform nomad into migrant, who is capable of creative work with vanitas. Nomad as a travelling flâneur is a stranger-guest and becomes a tourist, willingly getting lost in the city and voluntarily being surprised by unexpected encounters. Tourists relation to his memories could be described with Benjamin's description of mémoire involontaire as a revived punctum. A tourist prepares his memories like a nicely descending ruins. Souvenir is his materialised memory. It's not only a duplicated plastic Eiffel tower, but a magic artifact. It's a collective aura, what's on Benjamin's mind when he writes about aura regression. The private aura comes instead, turning things to talismans, reenchanting the world. The era of postmechanical reproduction reminds one, that there is a way to reproduce not just mechanically but biologically: a bricolage remix is made. Souvenirs descend and take shape of hommogenic rummage which reveals the fundamental form of postmodern metamorphosis: recyclation. This metamorphosis can finally be used when analyzing the settler turn into nomad...

Die vorliegende Dissertation stellt eine Interpretation von Thomas Paines THE AGE OF REASON (1794) und Ralph Waldo Emersons NATURE (1836) als politiktheoretische Traktate vor, die normative Demokratiekonstrukte entwickeln. Diese Demokratiekonstrukte werden anhand ihrer Parameter vergleichend und historisierend gelesen. Die Annahme ist hierbei, dass sich die normativen Demokratieentwürfe beider Autoren mithilfe der Denkfigur des rhizomatischen Panoptizismus explizieren lassen. Die Dissertation leitet diese Denkfigur anhand von Texten des französischen Poststrukturalismus und auf Grundlage des soziologischen Ansatzes der Surveillance Studies her und erläutert seine Relevanz für das Verständnis und die Verhandlung von Demokratie in den Epochen der frühen Republik und des Antebellum in den USA. Ebenso findet eine Analyse der diskursiven Vermittlung dieser Denkfigur durch das religiöse Vokabular von Deismus, Unitarismus und Transzendentalismus in beiden Traktaten statt. Ein ausführliches close reading legt schließlich dar, wie einzelne Parameter eines rhizomatischen Panoptizismus in den Texten entwickelt, repräsentiert und diskutiert werden. / The present dissertation introduces an interpretation of Thomas Paine’s THE AGE OF REASON (1794) and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s NATURE (1836) as politico-theoretical tracts that develop normative constructions of democracy. At the core of the analysis lies a comparative and historicist reading of the parameters of these constructions. The thesis informing the analysis posits that both normative constructions of democracy can be made explicit with the aid of the concept of a rhizomatic panopticism. The dissertation develops this concept on the basis of French poststructuralist texts and with theoretical approaches from the sociological field of Surveillance Studies in mind, explaining its relevance for the understanding of democracy during the Early-Republic and Antebellum periods in the USA. Furthermore, the discursive mediation of the introduced concept through the religious vocabularies of Deism, Unitarianism, and Transcendentalism in both tracts receives attention. Finally, a close reading elucidates how the distinct parameters of a rhizomatic panopticism are developed, represented, and discussed in both texts.

Världen är oupplösligt sammankopplad i sina relationer och förhållanden, ändå finner människan sätt att separera och låta skillnader hindra henne från att leva och samexistera i sin mångfald. Friedrich Nietzsche skriver ”Kanske uttrycker vårt ord ’människa’ (manas) ännu något av denna självkänsla: människan betecknade sig själv som det väsen som mäter värden, som värderar och mäter, som det ’värderande djuret i sig’.” I den här uppsatsen börjar jag i Nietzsches genealogi och filosofi som utgångspunkt för att förstå hur och när den europeiska filosofin började plocka isär sig själv inifrån och titta närmare på människans subjekt och hennes värden. Jag vill genom det se på den moderna filosofins sätt att skildra och förstå människan i världen. Vidare anser jag att filosofin måste öppna sig för en bredare kanon för att i det moderna samhället kunna vara en praktik som inkluderar alla levda erfarenheter. Min uppsats har även syftet att utforska en sådan möjlig brygga för var filosofin kan få en materiell och aktivistisk mening. Vägen jag tar för att föreslå en sådan brygga är som nämnt från Nietzsches genealogi. Sedan fortsätter analysen framåt genom Frantz Fanons avkolonialiserande tänkande som tar utgångspunkt i levd erfarenhet. Av särskild vikt är något jag här kallar för en teori om skillnad som ovärderlig, som utarbetas i närhet till Édouard Glissant framför allt, och som vilar på ett fokus på detaljen och hur den måste förstås på ett icke-hierarkiserande sätt för att ingå i Glissants tanke och term Relation. Skillnaden som ovärderlig öppnar i det dekoloniala tänkandet upp för kunskapen utanför den traditionellt överlägsna diskursen och leder oss in i Glissants filosofi och relationens tänkande. / In this paper I am asking the question about the European human values and their effect on philosophy and thought through three different philosophers. What I want to examine is how we can get past thinking human subjects as constituted by the hierarchical and often oppositional differences that were installed by means of a normalizing universal with colonial roots. The essay begins with Nietzsche’s geneological account of how and when European philosophy began to disassemble itself from within, focusing on his idea of the need for a new man. Then I turn to Frantz Fanon and the decolonization of European thought and power, as one based on violence and hiererachy. Édouard Glissants poetics of Relation is then essential for thinking man today in the entangled, constantly changing world that we live in.

Der Beitrag beschreibt die Vorlesungen von Büchern und Autoren von Borges’ Vorliebe, mit denen er einen antikanonischen Korpus, einen Kanon der Leser, einen Kanon als Ergebnis des Wunsches des Lesens (A. López) im Gegensatz zum Konzept des Kanons von H. Bloom (The Western Canon 1994) aufbaut, und er zeigt, dass Bloom mehrere grundlegende Begriffe von Borges über Literatur und Kanon verwendet wie „Fremdheit“ (oder „spcriptible“ nach R. Barthes), „Bewusstsein“ oder „Transtextualität“, „Macht der Kontamination“, d.h. die Fähigkeit der Absorption der Literatur der Vergangenheit und die Verfügbarkeit dieser Literatur, um neu kodifiziert zu werden und auf diese Weise Teil des Kanons zu werden. Es geht um die Strahlkraft von Borges insofern, als Bloom ihn für den Autor hält, der „offenkundig die gesamte kanonische Tradition absorbiert und dann absichtlich reflektiert“. Borges ist der Meister der Absorption in der abendländischen Welt des 20. Jahrhunderts und wird als „der literarische Metaphysiker des Zeitalters“ bezeichnet. Jahrhunderts und wird als „literarischer Metaphysiker des Zeitalters“ bezeichnet. Der Essay zeigt, wie Bloom ein nomadisches Konzept des Kanons entwickelt, das über seine eigene Ideologie hinausgeht, und dass Borges im Zentrum seines Kanonsystems steht. / El trabajo describe las lecturas predilectas de Borges que forman un corpus anticanónico, un canon de lectores, un canon del „deseo” (A. López) por el contrario al concepto de canon de H. Bloom (The Western Canon 1994). Pretendemos demostrar que Bloom recurre a una serie de conceptos fundamentales de Borges sobre la literatura y canon, tales como „strangeness” (o „spcriptible” según R. Barthes) „awareness” o „transtextualidad” , „power of contamination”, esto es, la capacidad de absorción de la literatura del pasado, la disponibilidad de ésta de dejarse recodificar y pasar así a ser canon. Se trata de la fuerza de irradiación de Borges en cuanto éste, también según Bloom, es quien „overtly absorbs and then deliberately reflects the entire canonical tradition”. Borges es el maestro de la absorción y subversión de occidente en el siglo XX por excelencia definiéndolo como „the literary metaphysian of the age”. El trabajo muestra como Bloom al fin aboga por un canon abierto y como Borges se encuentra realmente en el centro de su concepto de canon. / The essay describes the lectures of books and authors of Borges’ predilection with which he builds an anticanonical corpus, a canon of readers, a canon as result of the of desire of readings (A. López) contrary to the concept of canon by H. Bloom (The Western Canon 1994), and it shows that Bloom uses several fundamental terms from Borges about literature and canon like „strangeness” (or „spcriptible” according to R. Barthes), „awareness” or „transtextuality”, „power of contamination”, that is, the capacity of absorption of the literature of the past and the disposability of this literature to be recodified and to form, in that way, part of the canon. It concerns the power of irradiation of Borges in so far as Bloom considers him to be the author who „overtly absorbs and then deliberately reflects the entire canonical tradition”. Borges is the master of absorption in the occidental world of the 20th century and is defined as „the literary metaphysian of the age”. The essay shows how Bloom is developing a nomadic concept of canon that goes beyond his own ideology and that Borges is situated in the centre of his canon system.