12 research outputs found
HENRI MESCHONNIC: A TRADUÇÃO É UM CAMPO DE BATALHA
No full textAutor de textos ensaísticos marcantes e de poemas que têm aberto novas perspectivas para a poesia francesa contemporânea, Meschonnic tem-se caracterizado por um espírito inquieto, voltado à discussão de problemas de seu tempo, ainda que possua sólida formação também sobre o passado. Uma das maiores riquezas de sua reflexão consiste na capacidade de articular, problematicamente, o passado e o presente da cultura ocidental, inter-relacionando diversos domínios dos mais heterogêneos. No campo dos estudos da tradução, Meschonnic nos legou uma obra que nos ensina que o trabalho do pensamento é inseparavelmente crítico, ético, poético e político. Não obstante, essa multiplicidade de conhecimentos em discussão no conjunto da obra meschonniqueana se impõe numa coesão de perspectiva que requer do leitor uma articulação mínima entre linguagem-tradução-ética-política. Assim, com o intuito de esclarecer pontos importantes do pensamento tradutório do autor, este artigo revisita sua biografia, a sua recepção na França e interpreta conceitos chaves, compreendendo a obra de Meschonnic pelo modo próprio como ele se lança aos desafios da linguagem, e este modo singular se encontra na abertura intelectual definidora de um pensamento sempre dinâmico e nada dogmático
NELSON RODRIGUES E O DESEJO MIMÉTICO
No full textA presente comunicação pretende mostrar que Nelson Rodrigues, em várias passagens da coletânea "A vida comoEla É", demonstra um arguto entendimento sobre o desejo amoroso. O banal tema do ciúme, recorrente em seuscontos, revela o seu caráter potencialmente teórico ao demonstrar que o amor e o ciúme estão inevitavelmenteindissociáveis. Logo, a promessa de um outro, rival/amante, real ou imaginária, torna-se indispensável para arealização amorosa das personagens rodriguianas. Para René Girard, filósofo francês, o desejo humano é sempremimético, porque, sempre, necessitamos de um modelo para avaliar nossas escolhas e legitimar nossos desejos.Todavia, a nossa falta de autonomia gera uma perpétua coincidência de desejos, pois, como o clichê rodriguiano dotriângulo amoroso, o sujeito passa a desejar o mesmo objeto que o modelo, o que os leva a uma inevitávelrivalidade. Portanto, o destino do desejo é sempre o fracasso, pois sempre caminha para uma inevitável frustração erivalidade. Ora, Nelson Rodrigues tinha total consciência desse paradoxo do desejo e é por isso que, na obrarodriguiana, para perseverar no amor se faz necessário nunca manter a posse absoluta do objeto. Daí as personagensmais felizes serem aquelas que, agindo como "O eterno marido", de Dostoiévski, sabem dividir seus casos amorososcomo um legítimo casal de três
Exploring Computer Vision for Human Awareness in Human-Cobot Interactions
No full textDesigning the future of work is a goal that is currently being tackled by both industry and academia. In a scenario where we have Human-Robot hybrid teams, it will be necessary for both human and robots to be aware of each other in their respective tasks. This thesis explores how specific robots (cobots - collaborative robots) can use Computer Vision-based methods for awareness of a human's presence, while using this data to influence the cobot's own behaviour. After explorations of the Computer Vision field in regards to this problem, and selected approaches in the domain of Human Awareness for Human-Robot Interaction in literature, this thesis presents a proof of concept software/hardware system that, given all the apriori findings, implements simple demos that demonstrate both the feasibility and the suitability of a pure vision-based system for the problem of human awareness. It then analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed system solution, ending with a road-map of recommendations for a following production prototype.Electrical Engineering | Embedded System
O mistério das combinações: A criação lexical em Ariano Suassuna
No full textApenas recentemente o
Romance d’A Pedra do Reino
(2014), de Suassuna, passou a ser alvo de estudos morfológicos mais dedicados. Antes, o que se abordava era o hibridismo e o caráter multifacetado (romance-novela-folhetim-poema-epopeia). Logo, tendo em vista a importância de se dar uma atenção mais acurada ao estudo da formação de palavras na obra do escritor paraibano, este trabalho, partindo dos conceitos de Condição de produtividade e Regras de formação de palavras, pretendeu desenvolver uma análise morfológica dos neologismos encontrados no Romance d\u27A Pedra do Reino. Dada a dimensão da obra, limitar-nos-emos ao principal processo de formação de palavras em língua portuguesa: a derivação sufixal. Percebemos que as invenções lexicais de Suassuna não foram criadas de forma arbitrária. Ao contrário, ele aplicou aquilo que a Morfologia Gerativa chama Regras de Formação de Palavra e criou combinações inesperadas.Only recently has Romance d’A Pedra do Reino (2014), by Suassuna, become the subject of more dedicated linguistic studies. Before that, what used to be addressed was its hybridity and multifaceted character. Bearing in mind the importance of heeding more accurate attention to the study of word formation in Suassuna’s work and approaching the relationship between linguistics and literature, this article used the concepts of Productivity condition and Rules of word formation to develop a morphological analysis of the neologisms found in Romance d\u27A Pedra do Reino. Given the size of the work, this article is limited to a process of formation of new words in Portuguese named suffix derivation. The study showed that Suassuna\u27s lexical inventions were not created from scratch and arbitrarily. Instead, he used what Generative Morphology calls Word Formation Rules and created unexpected combinations
Framework for Armature-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Sensorized Soft Robots in eXtended Reality
No full textSoft robots are typically intended to operate in highly unpredictable and unstructured environments. Although their soft bodies help them to passively conform to their environment, the execution of specific tasks within such environments often requires the help of an operator that supervises the interaction between the robot and its environment and adjusts the actuation inputs in order to successfully execute the task. However, direct observation of the soft robot is often impeded by the environment in which it operates. Therefore, the operator has to depend on a real-time simulation of the soft robot based on the signals from proprioceptive sensors. However, the complicated three-dimensional (3D) configurations of the soft robot can be difficult to interpret using traditional visualization techniques. In this work, we present an open-source framework for real-time 3D reconstruction of soft robots in eXtended Reality (Augmented and Virtual Reality), based on signals from their proprioceptive sensors. This framework has a Robot Operating System (ROS) backbone, allowing for easy integration with existing soft robot control algorithms for intuitive and real-time teleoperation. This approach is demonstrated in Augmented Reality using a Microsoft Hololens device and runs at up to 60 FPS. We explore the influence that system parameters such as mesh density and armature complexity have on the reconstruction's key performance metrics (i.e., speed, scalability). The open-source framework is expected to function as a platform for future research and developments on real-time remote control of soft robots operating in environments that impede direct observation of the robot
The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective
No full textThe thesis discusses two directors who are never considered together in academic discourse. Cassavetes’ perceived focus on events led by the dynamics of performance and his looseness of technique opposes the calculated compositions of the Cronenberg film, with its aesthetic of horrific images and its gallery of emotionally detached protagonists. Yet it is between such opposing methods of cinematic expression that the ineffable qualities of film aesthetics can be discovered. Cassavetes’ cinema achieves this by revelling in a surplus of activity that exceeds narrative, while the indescribable characteristics of the Cronenberg oeuvre is achieved through a systematic emptying of the image’s meaning through a simultaneous commitment to paring back emotion and portraying of images that are controversial and inconceivable. Taken together, the thesis identifies these aspects of film as ‘the visceral,’ a facet of the moving image that most certainly exists, but is resolutely, and disturbingly resistant to interpretation.
Roland Barthes’ writings are integral to a theory of the visceral. His re-evaluation of Saussurean semiology as a method of analyzing and undoing ideologically-imposed meanings informs readings of sequences from Cassavetes and Cronenberg’s films. Following Barthes, the thesis suggests that the existence of the visceral is realized as a resistance to ideological interpretations of the image, and so cannot be described. Ultimately, the inability of semiology to fully grasp certain aspects of the filmed image is put forward as a rejoinder to theories of the fiction film as principally a narrative medium
Déficit político do poder judiciário brasileiro: a falta de efetividade no desempenho de suas funções institucionais e o ativismo judicial como interferência indevida em área de atuação própria do poder político
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Florianópolis, 2011A presente tese tem por objetivo demonstrar que o ativismo judicial - consistente na tendência de os juízes interferirem, pela via jurisdicional, em questões que deveriam ser decididas na arena política - é pernicio-so para a democracia e contribui para agravar o déficit político de que o poder judiciário brasileiro padece por não estar apto a realizar com efi-cácia suas funções político-institucionais, as quais, no contexto do regi-me democrático não consolidado e pós-autoritário, atualmente em vigor no Brasil, consistem em garantir a efetividade dos direitos fundamentais e do sistema de responsabilidades. A razão disso está no fato de que a estrutura e dinâmica de funcionamento desse poder guardam ainda as características moldadas ao longo da história do Estado brasileiro, cujo modelo não democrático de tipo autoritário vigorou até outubro de 1988.This thesis aims to demonstrate that judicial activism - the consistent tendency of judges to interfere by judicial action on matters that should be decided in the political arena - is harmful to democracy and is helping to worsen the political deficit that the Brazilian judiciary suffers by not being able to perform its political-institutional functions, which in the context of post-authoritarian non-consolidated democratic regime, currently in force in Brazil, are to ensure effectiveness of fundamental rights and accountabilities system. The reason lies in the fact that the structure and operating dynamic of judiciary power still keep the features molded throughout the history of the Brazilian state, specimen type of non-democratic authoritarian force until October 1988
Reforma administrativa do aparelho estatal
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Socio-EconomicoAnálise histórica do processo de reforma administrativa. O conceito de Administração Pública. O papel do Estado no Brasil. Relação entre desenvolvimento e reforma administrativa. Algumas críticas às reformas brasileiras. A reforma no mundo. As características das reformas no mundo e no Brasil. A atual reforma administrativa: características e ênfases
Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.
No full textApocalypse should not be thought of as merely a synonym for chaos or disaster or cataclysmic upheaval; more properly we should think of disclosure, unveiling and revelation. The exact status of literary apocalyptic is the subject of some debate, and in an attempt to help clarify matters an introductory historical survey examines both the formal characteristics of apocalypse and the various critical positions taken in regard to the genre's social influence. Texts considered in the chapter include the Revelation of John and Thomas Pynchon's short story Entropy (1959); theoretical works by Frank Kermode, John Barth, and Jean Baudrillard (amongst others) are also discussed. Chapter One traces the development of William S. Burroughs's apocalyptic sensibility through readings of his correspondence with Allen Ginsberg and the novel The Naked Lunch (1959); the latter's apocalyptic title referring to the "frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork". Chapter Two considers Burroughs's experiments with the "cut-ups" and their application in a number of texts, most notably Nova Express (1964). Chapter Three is concerned with Burroughs's work in the 1970s and 80s, and specifically his concept of Here to Go, a theory of mutability presented as a transcendental antidote to the threat of nuclear annihilation (the author's alleged misogyny and the views of radical US feminists are also taken into account). Chapters Four and Five explore the apocalyptic fiction of J. G. Ballard; topics covered include Ballard's concept of inner space, his debt to Surrealism, and the coded landscapes of his more experimental texts; in particular the "condensed novels" which comprise The Atrocity Exhibition (1970). A concluding chapter returns to the work of Thomas Pynchon, offering a reading of Gravity's Rainbow (1973) which allows us to consider his treatment of such related themes as Paranoia, Holocaust, Apocalypse, and finally, Counterforce
The self-conscious chanson : creative responses to the art versus commerce debate
No full textThis thesis investigates self-consciousnessin chanson. It examines,in particular, French popular songs that question and problematise the chanson form and the role of the chanson artist. While certain forms of self-consciousnessc an be traced back to the troubadours, this thesis will argue that the specifically self interrogatory nature of self-consciousness found in modern French chanson can
be attributed to artists responding to the 'art versus commerce' debate. It is precisely through their responses that a particular conception of chanson is constructed. Chanson, in this self-conscious discourse, differs from both varieties and Anglo-American pop music as well as from governmental and institutional definitions of the genre. The thesis examines the diverse, and at times ambiguous,
effects of this self-consciousness. Moreover, it argues
that reading chanson from a self-conscious perspective suggests a redefinition of chanson's relationship to
cultural debates. It also provides a new interpretative grille for its analysis, and enables the researcher to find different and possibly deeper meanings than those revealed through an examination of overriding thematic preoccupations.
The thesis is in three parts. Part I comprises two introductory chapters: an Introduction and a Literature Survey and Methodology (Chapter 1). Part 11 consists of a thematic investigation of the guises self-consciousness takes in chanson. It focuses, in particular, on the conscious evolution of a chanson genre (Chapter 2); the constructed role of chanson (Chapter 3); and the figure of the chanson artist (Chapter 4). Part III comprises three case studies: Serge Gainsbourg, Renaud and MC Solaar. Each artist in Part III was chosen because, on the one hand, his work is especially self-conscious in nature, and, on the other, he makes an original contribution to the art versus commerce debate
