This novel is conceived as the first in a series of seven books. It takes place 25,000 years in humanity’s future, primarily on a space station - Laniakea Station - made from the combined cultures and habitations of beings from many galaxies outside our own. It floats eternal in the space between galaxies. It is a utopia of sorts. The novel is a series of connections between: Sainn-Temo, a human clone, grown from the genetic library rescued from the plight of interstellar slavery plaguing the human species; Ailu, a human woman born from actual human parents, stowed away on Laniakea; Swasim, a non-human mining executive attempting to sell off rights to the abandoned human solar system; and Revac, Ailu’s friend, a scientist of renowned fame and importance, inventor of a gene therapy that can stop the aging of living cells. These beings coalesce and bind together across space and time, leading to a discovery with profound consequences for the galaxy and the fate of humanity. The work is not just a sci-fi series but part of a wider universe I am creating across different artistic mediums. The series of works is called Hojas, or leaves. Over the next 2 years, as part of my PhD in anthropology, I will be constructing installation works, sculptures, video art, short stories, and interactive software art (video games!) to complement and build out the backstory leading up to the novel series. I hope for these works to engage participants and readers in co-creating a future mythology where brown and black bodies are triumphant, living well, and free. I will likely keep writing Hojas books until I die (unless we crack immortality!).

[pt] A presente dissertação tem como objeto central de estudo a poesia produzida no âmbito do surrealismo português (1949-1953), com ênfase na busca por uma sensibilidade específica que identifica uma poética estruturada e realizada no interior do projeto surrealista em Portugal. Em um breve primeiro momento, o trabalho se volta para a análise do contexto histórico de surgimento e desenvolvimento do movimento. A seguir, privilegia-se a oposição entre surrealismo e racionalismo e as suas implicações estéticas, sociais e políticas. Posteriormente apresenta-se um estudo das imagens na poesia surrealista de modo geral, a fim de estabelecer paradigmas teóricos dessa imagética, em conjunto com as características constituintes do surrealismo português. Como desdobramento, faz-se o estudo das imagens produzidas a partir da análise de inúmeros poemas e de um manifesto. Além de Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, outros poetas com participação ativa no movimento são trazidos para as elaborações analíticas apresentadas. A hipótese principal é a de que a produção de imagens, como produção de pensamento, adquire grande centralidade na produção da uma sensibilidade artística específica, denominada surrealista. / [en] This dissertation has as its central object of study the poetry produced within the scope of Portuguese surrealism (1949-1953), with an emphasis on the search for a specific sensitivity that identifies a poetics structured and carried out within the surrealist project in Portugal. In a brief first moment, the work turns to the analysis of the historical context of the movement s emergence and development. Next, the opposition between surrealism and rationalism and its aesthetic, social and political implications are privileged. Subsequently, a study of images in surrealist poetry is presented in general, in order to establish theoretical paradigms of this imagery, together with the constituent characteristics of Portuguese surrealism. As an unfolding, the study of images produced from the analysis of countless poems and a manifesto is made. In addition to Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, other poets with active participation at the movement are brought to the analytical elaborations presented. The main hypothesis is that the production of images, as a production of thought, acquires great centrality in the production of a specific artistic sensitivity, called surrealist.

Historically, Surrealism is defined as a literary and artistic movement which developed from Dadaism in the early twentieth century. Many artistic and literary historians assess that the lifespan of Surrealism did not persist beyond the 1960’s – that in fact, after notable surrealist such as René Magritte, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali challenged the limited cultural assumption of rationalism, the pursuit to explore and visualize the subconscious faded from artistic ambition. However, the purpose of this paper is to propose an alternative notion that suggests that digital interactive mediums – such as contemporary games and virtual technologies – have revitalized Surrealism, enabling game developers to build upon the initial philosophies made popular by the avant-garde movement. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

A proposta desta dissertação é analisar em contos do livro Sessanta Racconti (1958) a relação entre a poética do autor e a estética surrealista. Através do exame de elementos surrealistas específicos (acaso objetivo, humor negro, sonho, maravilhoso e fantástico) utilizados por Buzzati na construção dos 16 contos selecionados, buscou-se identificar indícios de similaridade, transposição ou releitura de modo a aprofundar o conceito de surrealismo buzzatiano, diverso das demais manifestações surrealistas, mas ao mesmo tempo em diálogo com a estética vinculada a André Breton e seguidores. Desta forma, pretende-se colaborar para o preenchimento de lacunas ainda existentes nos estudos sobre o autor, auxiliando na construção de possíveis novas abordagens para análise e tradução da obra de Buzzati. / The aim of the present dissertation was to study the tales in the book Sessanta Racconti (1958) to analyze the relation between author\'s style within the surrealist aesthetics. We tried to identify similarities, transposition or review, through the study of specific surrealistic elements (objective hazard, black humour, dream, marvelous and fantastic) that was used by Buzzati to create his 16 selected tales. Thus we intend to show a idea of the Buzzati´s surrealism, different of another surrealist manifestations, but at the same time in dialogue with the aesthetic model related to André Breton and his followers. Finally we intend to improve the author\'s researches, with suggestions for the development of new approaches to analysis and translations of Buzzati\'s works.

This dissertation is mainly concerned with the photography of Christer Strömholm. In studying his work semiotics is used as a method in analysing the rhetoric of his photographs and their relations to the photographic world, the artworld and the lifeworld. Especially the phenomenologically based visual and cultural semiotics of Göran Sonesson is adopted. The work of Strömholm is first understood in the context of surrealism; especially in the ”dark” surrealism of Georges Bataille´s. In relation to the I - here and nowposition of the lifeworld the surrealism of Bataille can be seen as a downwardgoing rhetoric on the Great Chain of Being, the hierarchy of the lifeworld, from stone, via object, plant and man, to society or God. Bataille´s highlighting of the material and animal nature of man is an opposition to the upwardgoing spiritualising rhetoric of André Breton´s. The main rhetorical device in Strömholm’s photography is a downwardgoing isolation of the object from the lifeworld, according to Jan-Gunnar Sjölin surrealism’s first maneuvre. However, Bataille´s rhetoric and Strömholm´s photography may also be seen as a modern variant of the ancient grotesque degradation that according to Michail Bakhtin once took place in popular carnivals and marketplaces. The degradation of Bakhtin, George Lakoff and Mark Turner’s notion of conceptual metaphor suggests a rhetoric of the lifeworld itself, which may allow us to understand pictorial rhetoric without the help of the theories of the artworld, such as surrealism’s theories. Strömholm´s work is studied in relation to Roman Jakobsons functions in the process of communication. The dominant function in the photographs is the metasemiotic, since pictures and other signs are depicted and commented on. Also the photographs of transsexuals depict and comment signs, men that are signs of women. His photographs of transsexuals has been interpreted as a social realistic documentary, but is better understood as a surrealist union of two terms as unlike as possible, femininity and masculinity. Another important function in his photographs is the interpersonal function suggesting a conjunction of emotive and conative functions. Along with isolation concealment of the object is used, which makes the object difficult to identify. We are not allowed to complete the act of perception, we see only the point of view. In Strömholm’s photography, the point of view of the invisible ”picture-self” with its unique perspective replaces the customary photographic referential image supposed to show “reality.” The notion of ”picture-self” suggests a differentiation between photographer and ”picture-self”, a ready-prepared position for a subject, that the photographer or viewer can place him/herself in. In being placed in this position an existential particualrization occurs, which is termed ”la condition humaine”. Walter Benjamin´s idea of ”the outmoded” and ”the ruins of the bourgeoisie”, Susan Sontag´s idea of the role of ugliness in modern photography, is seen in relation to Strömholms photography and the downwardgoing surrealist rhetoric. In Benjamin´s ”age of reproduction” there is in the photographic work of Strömholm, a tension between ”centripetality” and ”centrifugality”; of remaining in or departing from the artworld. His work is also discussed in relation to postvisualization as an opposition to the well known photographic notion of previsualization.   In order to explain different rhetorical maneuvres semiotically in relation to the spatial lifeworld, the notion of familiarization is used as an opposition to Victor Shklovskys well known notion of estrangement. In the model of “the Great Cross”, with its origo as the familiarity of the I-here-nowposition of the core of the lifeworld, a vertical axis is the Great Chain of Being, ending on both ends with what is considered strange. Also ending with what is strange is a horizontal axis with rhetorical relations on the same level. A similar cross is used to explain rhetorical temporal movements between past and present and present and future with the present I - here and nowsituation of the origo. A conclusion is that visual and cultural semiotics is an enlightening tool for practical analyses even of an œuvre that is as enigmatic as that of Strömholm´s.

A proposta desta dissertação é analisar em contos do livro Sessanta Racconti (1958) a relação entre a poética do autor e a estética surrealista. Através do exame de elementos surrealistas específicos (acaso objetivo, humor negro, sonho, maravilhoso e fantástico) utilizados por Buzzati na construção dos 16 contos selecionados, buscou-se identificar indícios de similaridade, transposição ou releitura de modo a aprofundar o conceito de surrealismo buzzatiano, diverso das demais manifestações surrealistas, mas ao mesmo tempo em diálogo com a estética vinculada a André Breton e seguidores. Desta forma, pretende-se colaborar para o preenchimento de lacunas ainda existentes nos estudos sobre o autor, auxiliando na construção de possíveis novas abordagens para análise e tradução da obra de Buzzati. / The aim of the present dissertation was to study the tales in the book Sessanta Racconti (1958) to analyze the relation between author\'s style within the surrealist aesthetics. We tried to identify similarities, transposition or review, through the study of specific surrealistic elements (objective hazard, black humour, dream, marvelous and fantastic) that was used by Buzzati to create his 16 selected tales. Thus we intend to show a idea of the Buzzati´s surrealism, different of another surrealist manifestations, but at the same time in dialogue with the aesthetic model related to André Breton and his followers. Finally we intend to improve the author\'s researches, with suggestions for the development of new approaches to analysis and translations of Buzzati\'s works.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2018-03-15T15:39:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 lienemariameirelesquinet.pdf: 4753526 bytes, checksum: 396ca767e311fad6d99929d859855ec7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-03-19T17:40:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 lienemariameirelesquinet.pdf: 4753526 bytes, checksum: 396ca767e311fad6d99929d859855ec7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-19T17:40:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lienemariameirelesquinet.pdf: 4753526 bytes, checksum: 396ca767e311fad6d99929d859855ec7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-18 / PROQUALI (UFJF) / Esta dissertação de Mestrado investiga no romance O anjo (1934), de Jorge de Lima, os aspectos surrealistas que levaram a crítica literária a classificar a obra como herdeira da corrente estética surrealista. Apresenta um panorama geral do movimento surrealista francês idealizado e liderado por André Breton, bem como sua contextualização histórica. Visando a demonstrar o campo ideológico e estilístico do qual Jorge de Lima herdou influências para sua produção artística e literária, retrata, em linhas gerais, como ocorreu a repercussão das ideias surrealistas no Brasil. Com o intuito de mostrar evidências de como Jorge de Lima absorveu a herança surrealista em sua diversificada atividade criativa, bem como para uma melhor compreensão da dimensão do surreal em sua obra, apresenta uma breve reflexão sobre alguns fragmentos de poemas da obra A túnica inconsútil (1938) e de algumas imagens de seu livro de fotomontagens A pintura em pânico (1943). / This Master's degree dissertation investigates in the romance O anjo (1934), by Jorge de Lima, the surrealistic aspects that led the literary criticism to classify the novel as heir of the current of surrealistic aesthetics. It makes a general view about the French surrealist movement which was idealized and headed by André Breton, and its historical contextualization. It aims to demonstrate the ideological and stylistic field which Jorge de Lima inherited influences for his artistic and literary composing, depicting in general lines how the repercussion of the surrealist ideas occurred in Brazil. With the intention of showing evidence about how Jorge de Lima absorbed the surrealistic inheritance in his diversified creative activity and for a better comprehension of the surreal dimension in his literary work, it makes a brief reflection about some fragments of poems in the book A túnica inconsútil (1938) and of some pictures of his book of photomontages A pintura em pânico (1943).

Valentine Penrose est une poète, romancière et collagiste surréaliste moins connue que certaines de ses homologues telles Frida Kahlo ou Claude Cahun. Si les quelques études qui lui ont été consacrées reconnaissent l’omniprésence du féminin et le caractère inquiétant de certaines manifestations de la femme dans son œuvre, les sources de ces représentations n’ont guère été explorées. Pour combler cette lacune, notre mémoire s’applique à analyser l’œuvre de Penrose afin d’y mettre en lumière la présence textuelle et picturale du saphisme littéraire et du roman gothique, deux influences majeures de l’auteure-artiste. En plus d’étudier en détail les collages insérés dans le recueil de poèmes Dons des féminines, nous explorerons également les nombreuses images in absentia du corpus, car nous constatons que l’écriture penrosienne a très souvent recours aux effets de style « picturaux ». Par conséquent, au fil de nos analyses, nous allons osciller entre une étude littéraire et une approche intermédiale des rapports texte/image, afin de mettre en relief la réactualisation polymorphe de deux traditions ; la présence du saphisme et du gothique transparaît à travers l’emploi de certaines figures de femme, les partis pris thématiques de Penrose, le choix des décors et des trames narratives. Au terme de la présente étude, nous aurons mis en évidence trois figures de femmes propres à l’univers penrosien : la femme-nature, la fugueuse et la rebelle exemplifient, à nos yeux, la manière dont l’œuvre de Penrose se situe à la croisée du saphisme littéraire et du roman gothique. / Valentine Penrose was a surrealist poet, novelist and collagist, less well-known than many of her female counterparts such as Frida Kahlo or Claude Cahun. Albeit few, there are studies on Penrose that recognize both the omnipresence of women and their often disquieting portrayal. The origins of these representations remain, however, largely under-explored. In order to fill this considerable lacuna in existing knowledge on Penrose’s work, this thesis will analyze her œuvre, highlighting the textual and pictorial presence of two major influences: literary Saphism and the Gothic novel. In addition to analyzing the collages that accompany the poetry in Dons des féminines, we will also study the corpus’ many images in absentia, as we believe that Penrose’s style very often has recourse to “pictorial” literary devices. Consequently, throughout our analyses, we adopt both a literary and an intermedial approach, looking closely at both textual and pictorial representations of women in order to demonstrate the polymorphous borrowing of two traditions; Saphism and the Gothic appear via the representation of certain characters, Penrose’s thematic biases and the choice of particular spatial environments and narrative structures. The present study thereby sheds light on the representation of three female figures specific to Penrose’s universe: the woman of nature (la femme-nature), the fugitive (la fugueuse) and the rebel (la rebelle) each exemplify the way in which Penrose’s œuvre is located at the crossroads of literary Saphism and the Gothic novel.

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Lollipop, Don’t Be a Hero explores the conceptual and visual themes that are presented in my MFA thesis exhibition. This thesis recounts the development of my work during the two years of graduate study at the VCU Photography and Film Department. The research looks into historical and contemporary ideas within art, social and philosophical commentary and literature, which influence my creative process and aesthetic. This work investigates the idea of giving a voice to a specific section of the working class.