464 research outputs found
MACONDO: O ESPAÇO DE EXISTENCIA EM GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ/ MACONDO: THE SPACE OF EXISTENCE IN GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
No full textO artigo que apresentamos trata de pensar a obra Cem Anos de Solidão, de Gabriel Garcia Márquez, a partir da concepção de “vida virtual” de Susanne Langer e “terrae incognitae” de John Wright. Para tanto, direcionamos nosso olhar sobre Macondo, o espaço de convergência de vidas e personagens; um lugar de acontecimentos felizes e trágicos que envolveu de forma muito intensa os personagens presentes na obra. Macondo, a cidade criada pelo autor e interpretada como uma terra desconhecida, se apresenta ao longo do romance e, aos poucos, se torna familiar aos seus leitores e nos mostra como o espaço imaginado de literaturas e poemas é tão instigante de ser pensado quanto outras formas espaciais.Palavras-chaves: Cem Anos de Solidão. Macondo. Vida Virtual. Terrae IncognitaeResumenEl artículo que presentamos trata de pensar la obra Cien años de soledad, de Gabriel García Márquez, a partir de la concepción de "vida virtual" de Susanne Langer y "terrae incognitae" de John Wright. Para ello, dirigimos nuestra mirada sobre Macondo, el espacio de convergencia de vidas y personajes, un lugar de acontecimientos felices y trágicos que involucró de forma muy intensa a los personajes presentes en la obra. Macondo, la ciudad creada por el autor e interpretada como una tierra desconocida, se presenta a lo largo de la novela y, poco a poco, se vuelve familiar a sus lectores y nos muestra cómo el espacio imaginado de literaturas y poemas es tan instigador de ser pensado así como tantas otras formas espaciales.Palabras claves: Cien años de soledad. Macondo. Vida virtual. Terrae IncognitaeAbstractThe article that we present tries to think the work One hundred Years of Solitude, of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from the concept of "virtual life" of Susanne Langer, and "terrae incognitae" of John Wright. To do so, we direct our gaze on Macondo, the space of convergence of lives and characters; a place of happy and tragic events that involved very intensely the characters present in the work named above. Macondo, the city created by the author and interpreted as an unknown land, presents itself throughout the novel and gradually becomes familiar to its readers and shows us how the imagined space of literatures and poems is as stimulating to be thought as others spatial forms.Keywords: One hundred Years of Solitude. Macondo. Virtual Life. Terrae Incognita
Resenha de tradução da obra "O barulho das coisas ao cair" (2005) de Juan Gabriel Vásquez
No full textJuan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer. Born in Bogotá in 1973, he graduated in law and lived for three years in Paris, where he became a doctor in Latin American literature. Besides The Noise of Things as They Fall (2005), he has written other novels, including The Informers (2004), and The Secret History of Costaguana (2007). The author has also received awards such as the Alfaguara (2011) and Qwerty (2007). In addition to being a writer, Vásquez has done some translations of the works of Victor Hugo, E.M Forster, and John Hersey, and has had his work translated into French, Portuguese (from Brazil and Portugal), English, and Italian. Here, specifically, we present the Portuguese translation of his novel El ruído de las cosas a caer, published in 2005 by Alfaguara, along with critical comments about the translation.Juan Gabriel Vásquez é um escritor colombiano. Nascido em Bogotá, em 1973, graduou-se em Direito e viveu três anos em Paris, lugar em que se tornou doutor em literatura latino-americana. Além da obra O barulho das coisas ao cair (2005), escreveu outros romances, dentre eles Os informantes (2004), e História secreta de Costaguana (2007). O autor também recebeu prêmios como o Alfaguara (2011) e Qwerty (2007). Além de escritor, Vásquez realizou algumas traduções das obras de Victor Hugo, E.M Forster e John Hersey e teve sua obra traduzida para francês, português (do Brasil e de Portugal), inglês e italiano. Aqui, especificamente, apresentamos a tradução para português de Portugal de seu romance El ruído de las cosas a caer, publicado em 2005 pela editora Alfaguara, juntamente com comentários críticos acerca da tradução
Criônica, uma guerra fria: um mapeamento de controvérsias sociotécnicas
No full textTCC(graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Antropologia.Esta pesquisa consiste em um mapeamento de controvérsias sociotécnicas sobre a prática da criônica – preservação de seres humanos a baixas temperaturas – como é realizada na organização crionicista Alcor, sediada nos Estados Unidos. A pesquisa se deu na página online da organização, onde algumas controvérsias fundamentais foram apontadas desde as proposições dos próprios crionicistas da Alcor. As três controvérsias que guiam a pesquisa são as de que (1) a vida pode ser parada e recomeçada se sua estrutura básica humana é preservada; (2) a técnica da vitrificação pode preservar a estrutura biológica contra os efeitos do tempo; (3) métodos para reparar a estrutura biológica a nível molecular podem ser previstos por cientistas agora. Desta forma, esta é uma prática que implica uma série de concepções das ciências biológicas e da cibernética com a intenção de lidar com o aparelho informacional humano – as células do corpo e do cérebro –, uma vez que crionicistas apostam as suas vidas no desenvolvimento de tecnologias futuras que visam controlar a estrutura biológica e transformá-la para serem capazes de reverter o processo de morte e então os descongelar em um futuro idealizado. Os conceitos de vida, morte, indivíduo e tempo (futuro) tem local central na análise.This research consists of a socio-technical controversy mapping regarding the practice of cryonics – the preservation of human being at low temperatures – as it is done in the cryonicist organization Alcor, located in the United States. The research took place in the online page of the organization, where some fundamental controversies were pointed out from the assumptions of the Alcor cryonicists themselves. The three controversies that have guided the research are that (1) life can be stopped and restarted if its basic human structure is well preserved; (2) the vitrification technique can preserve the biological structure against the effects of time; (3) methods to repair the biological structure at molecular level can be foreseen by scientists today. Therefore, this is a practice that implies a series of conceptions of the biological sciences and cybernetics with the intention of dealing with the human information set – the cells of the body and the brain –, as long as cryonicists bet their lives on the development of future technologies that intend to control the biological structure and transform it to be able to reverse the process of death and then unthaw them in an idealized future. The concepts of life, death, individual and time (future) have a central position in the investigation
O memorialismo na prosa de Paulino de Oliveira
No full textIn order to discuss the contribuition of the brazilian historian and journalist Paulino de Oliveira (1899-1992) as a memorialist writer, the objective of the present essay is to expose from an historical and literary perspective how the author relates his professional trajectory through autobiographical and biographical passages included in his chronicles. This analysis is theoretically supported by reflections of Alun Munslow (2018), Paul John Eakin (2019), Christina Ferraz Musse (2007) e R. Thomas Berner (1999; 2010). The study indicates that Paulino de Oliveira often bases digressions on historical data to report personal and professional reminiscences. The way his chronicles explore different sources, documents, interviews, letters, life stories and memories to interpret and narrate the past, considering a potencial readership, is pertinent to the literary writing of memoirs.No intuito de discutir o contributo do historiador e jornalista brasileiro Paulino de Oliveira (1899-1992) como escritor memorialista, o objetivo do presente ensaio é expor, a partir de prisma histórico e literário, como o autor relata sua trajetória profissional por meio de passagens autobiográficas e biográficas incluídas em suas crônicas. Esta análise apoia-se teoricamente em reflexões de Alun Munslow (2018), Paul John Eakin (2019), Christina Ferraz Musse (2007) e R. Thomas Berner (1999; 2010). O estudo indica que Paulino de Oliveira frequentemente fundamenta digressões em dados históricos para se reportar a reminiscências pessoais e profissionais. O modo como suas crônicas exploram diferentes fontes, documentos, entrevistas, cartas, relatos de vida e memórias ao interpretar e narrar o passado, divisando audiência potencial, é pertinente à escrita literária de memórias
Robert Buchanan 1841-1901: an assessment of his career.
No full textPhDRobert Buchanan was widely regarded during his
lifetime as a poet of distinction, a capable and powerful
novelist, and a critic of some perception, yet his name is
now associated only with one regrettable episode, while
those of lesser men and women continue to be remembered for
work inferior to his. A man possessing large reserves of
energy, and pressed to write for a living at an early age,
he produced much work that deserves the oblivion it has
found; but his early verse, expressing his profound compassion
for the sufferings of the unfortunate in the simplest
language, some of his ballads, and not a little of his
later more vatic verse, is still worthy of study. As a
novelist his work is provocative and readable, but too
often descends to the level of the sentimental melodrama
which earned him, for a while, a very good income from the
stage. As a critic he was not profound, but was quick to
detect and praise expression of his own sympathy for humanity
that came to represent for him art's highest aspiration;
Dickens, Browning and Whitman were his heroes, and for the
last two he did sterling work in helping them to gain widespread
recognition. As a polemist he rushed into several
arenas, for some of which his talents were not especially
suited; but he publicly supported C. S. Parnell and Oscar
Wilde when few found the courage to do so. An interesting
man of impressive variety and undoubted talent has found an
undeserved neglect, and a full-scale critical biography of
Robert Buchanan is long overdue
Rudolf Carnap e o pragmatismo americano: ferramentas para a filosofia da ciência
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em FilosofiaA presente tese investiga a relação de Rudolf Carnap, autor geralmente associado às tradições de pesquisa do empirismo lógico e da filosofia analítica, com o pragmatismo americano. O objetivo, com isso, é de elaborar ferramentas para a filosofia da ciência. Tal relação é trabalhada inicialmente a partir do livro de Carnap publicado em 1928, Der logische Aufbau der Welt, que é apresentado, seguindo Alberto Coffa, como o auge da tradição logicista, isto é, o projeto filosófico que procurava uma alternativa lógico-linguística à epistemologia de Kant. Compara-se, assim, a obra de Carnap ao projeto pragmatista da forma como foi apresentado nos primeiros textos de Charles Sanders Peirce, e nota-se que há uma similaridade nos projetos no que diz respeito a uma relação de oposição a certos pontos de vista de Kant - ao mesmo tempo em que ambas as propostas focam os mesmos objetivos da epistemologia kantiana. Em um segundo momento, apresenta-se e discute-se o contato que Carnap teve com Charles Morris e John Dewey a partir do final dos anos 1930. Os três autores estiveram envolvidos na elaboração da International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (Enciclopédia), projeto de Otto Neurath. A partir da correspondência entre os autores envolvidos em tal projeto, nota-se que Dewey desaprovava as ideias de Carnap e de Morris, tendo se desiludido com a Enciclopédia após a publicação dos primeiros números. Essa oposição afastou Dewey de Carnap, favorecendo sua associação com Arthur Bentley, com quem Dewey desenvolveu algumas críticas ao empirismo lógico e à semiótica de Morris. A tradição recente de comentário da obra de Carnap costuma considerar esse afastamento entre Dewey e Carnap como evidência de que as propostas de tais autores são irreconciliáveis, mas a presente tese procura mostrar que há possibilidade de aproximar as duas filosofias, especificamente após a associação de Carnap com Morris. Assim, prestando atenção aos elementos pragmatistas da semiótica de Morris que Carnap adotou em sua obra, esta tese apresenta uma interpretação diferente das propostas tardias de Carnap, em especial de sua lógica indutiva. Com isso, encontram-se possibilidades de aplicação das ferramentas de Carnap: o último capítulo da presente tese procura desenvolver uma dessas aplicações, a saber, na elaboração de um conceito pragmático de valor de confirmação de modelos científicos. Tal conceito depende, além da interpretação semiótica da lógica indutiva de Carnap, de certas ferramentas do cálculo de probabilidade, como cadeias de Markov, e da filosofia da mente e teoria da ciência de Luiz Henrique Dutra. A ferramenta desenvolvida permite analisar certas características da relação entre as comunidades científicas e as teorias produzidas por tais comunidades a partir do comportamento manifesto (verbal) dos cientistas, sondado por meio da análise de artigos publicados. A aplicação das ferramentas de Carnap em contextos pragmáticos é possibilitada pela valorização de elementos tipicamente pragmatistas em sua obra; isso serve como argumento a favor da proposta de conciliar as obras de Carnap e Dewey e abre o caminho para aproximações mais gerais entre propostas geralmente caracterizadas como lógico-empiristas ou analíticas e aquelas classificadas como pragmatistas.The present thesis investigates the relation of Rudolf Carnap, an author generally associated to logical empiricist and analytic philosophy traditions, with American pragmatism. The aim, with that, is to elaborate tools for philosophy of science. Such relation is considered in first place from Carnap's 1928 book Der logische Aufbau der Welt, which is presented, following Alberto Coffa, as the peak of the logicist tradition, that is, the philosophical project that sought a logic-linguistic alternative to Kant's epistemology. Carnap's work is hence compared to the pragmatist project as it appeared in the early texts by Charles Sanders Peirce, and it is noted that there is a similarity between the two projects in what respects the relation of opposition to certain Kantian standpoints - at the same time in which both proposals focus the same objectives of Kantian epistemology. In a second moment, the contact Carnap had with Charles Morris and John Dewey after the late 1930's is presented and discussed. The three authors were involved in the elaboration of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (Encyclopedia), a project by Otto Neurath. From the correspondence among the authors involved in such project it is noted that Dewey disapproved Carnap's and Morris's ideas, and that he felt disappointed with the Encyclopedia after the publishing of the first numbers. Such opposition took Dewey apart from Carnap, favoring his association with Arthur Bentley, with whom Dewey developed some criticisms to logical empiricism and to Morris's semiotics. The recent tradition of comments on Carnap's work usually considers this distance between Dewey and Carnap as evidence that their proposals are irreconcilable, but the present thesis seeks to show that there is possibility of bringing together the two philosophies, specially after Carnap's association with Morris. Therefore, paying attention to the pragmatist elements of Morris's semiotics that Carnap adopted in his works, this thesis presents a different interpretation of Carnap's late proposals, especially his inductive logic. Hence some possibilities of application of Carnap's tools are found: the final chapter of the present thesis seeks to develop one of such applications, to know, in the elaboration of a pragmatic concept of value of confirmation of scientific models. Such concept depends on, apart from the semiotic interpretation of Carnap's inductive logic, some tools of probability calculus, such as Markov chains, and of Luiz Henrique Dutra's philosophy of mind and theory of science. The developed tool allows the analysis of certain features of the relation between scientific communities and the theories produced by such communities stemming from the overt (verbal) behavior of scientists, studied by means of the analysis of published articles. The application of Carnap's tools into pragmatic contexts is made possible by the highlighting of typically pragmatist elements in his work; this is an argument in favor of the conciliatory reading of Carnap#s and Dewey's works and it establishes the stream for more thorough approximations between proposals generally characterized as logical empiricist or analytical and those classified as pragmatist
Masques: Utilización de los tipos teatrales en la obra de John Hejduk
No full textJohn Hejduk realiza una serie de proyectos bajo el título de MASQUES agrupados en diversas localizaciones en tres países, Italia, Alemania y Rusia, y que se recogen en sus libros “Mask of Medusa”, “Victims”, “Bovisa” y “Vladivostok” principalmente. Esta investigación analiza esta serie de proyectos, ampliando el campo a proyectos anteriores, contemporáneos y posteriores, en la búsqueda de la referencia o uso de tipos teatrales y escenográficos. El título Masque tiene su origen en la forma teatral desarrollada en Europa entre los siglos XVI y XVII. Pero, más allá de esta serie de proyectos en los que el autor hace explícita la referencia a esta manifestación teatral concreta, a lo largo de su obra podemos observar la utilización de elementos, tipos y recursos teatrales más o menos explícitos. El trabajo estudia el uso de estos elementos teatrales, con los que el autor compone un lenguaje y una sintaxis propio. Elementos que inundan su arquitectura y que son utilizados por su pertinencia para
la transgresión en los programas con los que afronta sus proyectos. Una propuesta en la que este recurso teatral refuerza el carácter simbólico y crítico de su arquitectura. El objetivo de la investigación se centra en identificarlos, analizarlos,
clasificarlos e interpretarlos, reelaborando su definición planimétrica y volumétrica e interpretando su sentido para comprender esta metodología en la creación de nuevos programas de uso.John Hejduk carries out a series of projects under the title of MASQUES grouped in various locations in three countries (Italy, Germany and Russia), and which are collected in his books “Mask of Medusa”, “Victims”, “Bovisa” and “Vladivostok”.” mainly. This research analyzes this series of projects, expanding the field to previous, contemporary and later projects, in search of the reference or use of theatrical and scenographic types. The title Masque has its origin in the theatrical form developed in
Europe between the 16th and 17th centuries. But, beyond this series of projects in which the author makes an explicit reference to a specific theatrical manifestation, throughout his work we can observe the use of more or less explicit theatrical elements, types and resources. The work studies the use of these theatrical elements, with which the author composes his own language and syntax. Elements that flood his architecture and that are used for their relevance for the transgression in the programs with which he confronts his projects. A proposal in which this theatrical resource reinforces the symbolic and critical nature of its architecture. The objective of the research is focused on identifying, analyzing, classifying and interpreting them, reworking their planimetric and volumetric definition and interpreting their meaning to understand this methodology in the creation of new use programs.Universidad de Sevilla. Grado en Arquitectur
Investigation and modelling of rubber friction
No full textPhDThe friction between a rubber surface in contact with a rigid surface is still not fully
understood. Unlike other materials, friction behaviour in rubber is significantly
dependent upon a variety of parameters due to its viscoelastic nature. The aim of this
work is to understand frictional phenomena occurring on different length scales of
intrest.
In the first part of this work the influence of an entirely geometric factor on friction is
confirmed by FEA and is validated by experiments for the first time. Under certain
conditions, it can increase the frictional force significantly above that expected from a
consideration of the interfacial coefficient of friction alone. This term is thought likely
to make a considerable contribution to frictional sliding applications such as a tyre on a
road surface.
In the second part of this work an instability, observed at the rubber surface during
sliding, is investigated. Despite experimental research in the past, virtually no
information has been published on the modelling of the so-called Schallamach waves
using FEA techniques. This work models successive Schallamach waves, giving the
opportunity to investigate the transition of individual waves throughout the area of
contact, for the first time. The use of FEA allows for a detailed stress and strain analysis
at the interface and thus gives new insights into the onset of buckling instabilities.
So far, Schallamach waves have only been observed experimentally for optically
smooth rubber surfaces, however, during this work, surface waves have been also
noticed for rough rubber surfaces. Furthermore, the examination of the frequency
dependence of Schallamach waves allows for the consideration of a relationship to
stick-slip behaviour.
The third part of this work investigates the influence of the rubber surface topography
as well as the rigid slider geometry on rubber friction under a wide range of
experimental conditions. It was noted that subtle changes of surface finish significantly
change the resulting frictional force. The knowledge gained from this can help in the
design and understanding of more complex frictional interfaces
O conceito de modernidade nos escritos primeiros de Kierkegaard: uma análise semântico-contextual
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Ciências HumanasTrata-se nesta tese de explorar, a partir de uma leitura semântico-contextual, os primeiros textos, tanto os publicados quanto os não publicados, produzidos pelo teólogo e filósofo dinamarquês Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855), os quais têm como questão central a assunção da modernidade. Com efeito, argumento mais especificamente que por mais que Kierkegaard não tenha desenvolvido uma clara articulação do conceito propriamente dito de modernidade, sua compreensão do fenômeno da modernidade, não obstante, revela-se das mais claras, assim como das mais importantes e mais frutíferas em termos de uma abordagem crítica desse objeto, o que o torna, consequentemente, uma das vozes incontornáveis em termos da articulação da consciência da modernidade no século XIX. Assim, de maneira a explicitar tal conceito nesses escritos, recorro a um instrumental heurístico ou exegético formulado a partir da obra de dois teóricos os quais, já à luz do século XX, tiveram a questão da modernidade como centro de suas preocupações, a saber, Marcel Gauchet e Reinhart Koselleck. A partir destes, pois, analiso a chegada da modernidade tal qual retratada nos escritos primeiros de Kierkegaard precisamente enquanto momento em que as sociedades, no caso a dinamarquesa da primeira metade do século XIX, passavam a se desligar do passado com vistas a se deixarem requisitar pelo futuro.The present thesis has as its goal the exploration, based on a semantic-contextual interpretation, of the first works, both published and unpublished, written by the Danish theologian and philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855), which have as their central subject the assumption of modernity. Indeed, my argument is that notwithstanding the lack of a clear articulation of the concept of modernity, Kierkegaard came to a very profound and engaging understanding of the phenomenon of modernity, an understanding which makes of him one of the most important voices in the XIXth century in terms of the articulation of the consciousness of modernity. In this sense, in order to unearth Kierkegaard's concept of modernity, I make use of concepts developed in the XXth century by two thinkers who both had as their main concerns the very question of modernity, that is, Marcel Gauchet and Reinhart Koselleck. Thus, using such concepts as heuristic tools, I analise the the arrival of modernity such as portrayed in Kierkagaard's first works as precisely the moment when societies, in this case the Danish society from the first half of the XIXth century, started to unbound themselves from the past in order to be engaged from the future
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