This paper investigates the science fiction novels of Swedish crime writer Per Wahlöö, most famous for his collaboration with his writing partner Maj Sjöwall on the ten Martin Beck mysteries. During two important years, 1964 and 1968, Wahlöö wrote the novels Murder On the 31st Floor and The Steel Spring, set in a near future land ruled by a social fascist power structure where political opposition is eradicated. The pretexted notion of this paper is that these novels consists of extensive quantities of criticism against the Swedish welfare state and the monopoly-capitalistic Swedish press during the sixties. Through the lens of science fiction theory and the notion of the novels as historical sources this paper concludes that Per Wahlöö´s science fiction becomes a bridge between the classic Swedish detective novel and the new social critic crime fiction in the style of Sjöwall-Wahlöö and others. The novels are also representations of the historical process in the mid-sixties during the radical turn: the sci-fi novels as social criticism of the contemporary society – an utopian flare. Other conclusions of this paper are the connections between Wahlöö´s novels and marxist critical theory as well as their relation to the Swedish labour literature´s view on the individual in the modern society. Especially Murder On the 31st Floor forebodes a lot of the radical marxist criticism so widely spread in the latter part of the sixties.

[pt] O objetivo desta tese é apresentar a singularidade da teoria política de Jacques Rancière, discutindo a razão do dissenso como caminho para uma emancipação possível e sempre inacabada. A tese defende que a crítica elaborada por Rancière contra o que, na sua avaliação, é um antiplatonismo platônico de Bourdieu pode ser aproveitada para pensar contextos sociológicos inteiramente distintos. A questão a ser discutida é o núcleo de afinidade entre filosofia e sociologia, qual seja, entre a pretensão filosófica ao governo e a necessidade sociológica de escapar à tutela da economia. Como condição do triunfo de seu estatuto de ciência autônoma, a sociologia avança sobre o território, inaugurado por Platão, onde se formulam sínteses comunitárias através dos mitos (mythos) que embaralham narrativa e discurso. Assim, fazemos referência a algumas objeções suscitadas por Charlotte Nordmann e Alberto Toscano para desenvolver um trabalho de defesa das posições de Rancière. Contudo, a crítica à sociologia foi explorada em uma série de autores e subtemas nos quais Bourdieu não é endereçado, exceto anedoticamente. Os autores tratados são: Alfred Cobban, a partir de seu livro Interpretação social da revolução francesa, analisado por Rancière em Os nomes da História; Hannah Arendt, a partir das divergências entre sua leitura sobre o social e a de Rancière; Boltanski e Chiapello, a partir de O novo espírito do capitalismo, cuja referência a uma proximidade com Rancière, sob a rejeição deste último, é analisada. / [en] The purpose of this thesis is to present the uniqueness of Jacques Racière s political theory, discussing the reason of dissent as the path to a possible and always unfinished emancipation. The thesis defends that Rancière s criticism of what is, on his evaluation, a platonic antiplatonism of Bourdieu, can be harnessed to think entirely different sociological contexts. The question to be addressed is the core of affinity between philosophy and sociology, which is, between the philosophical aspiration to government and the sociological need to escape economy s guardianship. As a condition for the triumph of its scientific status, sociology advances on the territory inaugurated by Plato where community synthesis are formulated through myths (mythos) that shuffles the relation between narrative and discourse. Thus, we make reference to some objections raised by Charlotte Nordmann and Alberto Toscano to develop a defense of Rancière s positions. However, criticism of sociology has been explored in a number of authors and sub-themes in which Bourdieu is not addressed but anecdotally. The authors are: Alfred Cobban, from his book Social Interpretation of the French Revolution, discussed by Rancière in The Names of History; Hannah Arendt, from divergences between her readings on the social and the readings on sociology from Rancière; Boltanski and Chiapello, from their book: The new spirit of capitalism, whose reference to a proximity with Rancière is addressed, under the latter s rejection.

Using a uniquely developed research methodology called ‘feminist virtual ethnography’ this thesis explores female adolescent subculture on the social network site Facebook, looking specifically at a group of four girls who are ‘Facebook friends’ with each other as well as friends at the same high school in a large metropolitan city in south-western Ontario in Canada. The thesis is guided by research questions that focus on how these girls virtually-represent their bodies on Facebook, and develops a theory of concurrent identity formation (CIF) as a way to understand the translatability and conversion between the ‘real’ and the ‘virtual.’ Built as a collaborative inquiry between the researcher and research participants, I invited the girls to analyze screenshots of their own (and each other’s) virtual self-representations during a series of virtual conversations and to express their understandings of femininity and beauty as they problematize their identities on Facebook and in ‘real’ contexts such as at school and at home. Overall, findings reveal an interplay of body, image, and text within the girls’ systems of imagery and language. I suggest that the female adolescent body is virtually self-represented in negotiated as well as discursive ways, and that the girls’ identities are always in flux. While CIF provides a good basis for understanding these girls’ identities as ‘in flux,’ further investigation into virtual representation and CIF is needed to understand how and why adolescents display their bodies and articulate their identities in certain ways. Pedagogical implications are also discussed in my concluding chapter, where I call for a reconceptualization of literacies and methodologies, especially when dealing with girls on/and Facebook.