Visiones de lo irrepresentable. Análisis de la relación entre arte y mal a partir de la filosofía de Jean François Iyotard y la novela Estrella Distante de Roberto Bolaño

Bogotá (Colombia) : Universidad de La Salle. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Programa de Filosofía y Letras

PARQUE PREFEITO LUIZ ROBERTO JÁBALI E O PROCESSO DE PRODUÇÃO DO ESPAÇO URBANO EM RIBEIRÃO PRETO-SP, BRASIL

Muitos parques têm sido implantados em diferentes cidades sob o discurso da qualidade ambiental e da qualidade de vida, expressando-se como monumentos que glorificam a natureza, proporcionam lazer à população e espaços “ambientalmente saudáveis” e protegidos, à cidade. Apresentam-se como ícones importantes da capacidade de gestão municipal, conferindo visibilidade a gestores e contribuindo na difusão da imagem da cidade. No entanto, como se demonstra neste trabalho, que privilegiou entrevistas, levantamentos bibliográficos e aerofotográficos, pesquisas de campo etc., os parques, implantados em áreas específicas na cidade, sob interesse do capital imobiliário, reorientam a produção do espaço, interferem no preço da terra e contribuem para a segregação socioespacial. A análise do processo de criação e implantação do Parque Prefeito Luiz Roberto Jábali, na cidade de Ribeirão Preto, Brasil, demonstrou que o parque representa um tipo de equipamento urbano, projetado e executado no plano político e econômico, voltado ao discurso da estética urbana e da conservação/preservação da natureza. Um equipamento urbano que altera a dinâmica de produção, reprodução do espaço e de valorização do lugar, como constatado em Ribeirão Preto, onde manobras políticas permitiram implantar o parque em área de antiga pedreira sob custeio público, contribuindo decisivamente na imediata valorização do seu entorno.

ROBERTO SCHWARZ E O POBRE NA LITERATURA BRASILEIRA

RESUMO: Apesar da péssima distribuição de renda do Brasil e das diversasRESUMO:representações literárias sobre o tema, na crítica literária brasileira não hámuitos estudos marxistas, muito menos sobre a pobreza ou o pobre. Issonão impede que um dos mais importantes críticos literários do país, RobertoSchwarz, trabalhe com o materialismo e o conceito marxista de classe soci-al, estudando especialmente o pobre na literatura brasileira. O crítico, queteve como mestre Antônio Cândido e recorre a sua dialética a todo momen-to, trabalha com o conceito marxista de classe social desde seu primeiroensaio sobre Machado de Assis, Ao vencedor as batatas, publicado em1977. Em 1983, já num período de redemocratização política no Brasil,Schwarz organiza uma antologia titulada Os pobres na literatura brasileira,onde consta um ensaio seu sobre a personagem Dona Plácida como repre-sentação típica da pobreza social na literatura. Este ensaio será retomadoem Um mestre na periferia do capitalismo, de 1990, continuação do estudomachadiano. É neste estudo, em que há um capítulo especialmente dedica-do aos pobres, que Schwarz propõe que a viravolta machadiana da primei-ra para a segunda fase de seus romances é de ordem ideológica, mais doque técnica. Mais tarde, em 1997, o crítico ainda se envolve com a produ-ção do romance Cidade de Deus, onde os protagonistas são todos pobres eao qual o crítico saúda como um “acontecimento”. Sua obra, dessa forma,é uma clara evidência de que se pode, sim, estudar a relação entre literaturae sociedade a partir da prosa brasileira.

A FICÇÃO DA FICÇÃO: DERRAMAMENTOS DE UM “EU” EM ROBERTO BOLAÑO

Part of the work of the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, who died in 2003, seemsto be articulated from certain aspects of his self. In other words, the way he writes his ownname on the text, or, how do we answer the question: “who is “I” in this text?”. Many of hisshort-stories and novels, not to mention the poems, operate strategies of hide and exposure ofthat “I” that speaks. Those strategies point to an uneven reading of his works, according to theinscription of the given name. Using the short-stories “Detectives” (1997) and “Muerte deUlises” (2007), the novel Los Detectives Salvajes (1998) and the compendium EntreParéntesis (2004), this article articulates an analysis that compares Bolaño’s aestheticsstrategies regarding his own personal history. We’ll investigate the consequences of choosingthe signature Roberto Bolaño, or Arturo Belano, his alter-ego, to the essays, the interviews orthe fiction work. The question is not the verification of the truth within the fiction, but, moreprofoundly, pose the exam in the effect of reality that comes from the subject-effect. Writing,as it is, is considered as a vehicle to the construction of the “self”, that leads to the unstableoverflow of a identity that ultimately can never be Roberto Bolaño.

RELEITURAS DA PICARESCA CLÁSSICA PELO NOVO ROMANCE HISTÓRICO: CONFLUÊNCIAS EM O CHALAÇA (1994), DE JOSÉ ROBERTO TORERO

Por meio da composição do novo romance Galantes memórias e admiráveis aventuras do virtuoso conselheiro Gomes, o Chalaça (1994), de José Roberto Torero, apresenta-se a vida de Francisco Gomes da Silva que, enquanto narrador de sua própria história, expõe sua participação em grandes momentos da história do Brasil. Esta retomada do passado dá-se sob a visão de quem exercia o posto de secretário pessoal de D. Pedro I. Subordinado a este ponto de vista interno aos eventos históricos, a imagem deste que se tornaria Imperador do Brasil é configurada por meio da utilização dos recursos bakhtinianos da paródia e da carnavalização. A visão intradiegética é possível devido à proximidade entre Francisco Gomes e o príncipe. Tal empresa é romanescamente motivada pelo anseio de desconstruir as imagens cristalizadas e tradicionalmente conhecidas da realeza e de eventos como, por exemplo, a proclamação da independência (1822); é a releitura crítica da história que o novo romance histórico propõe, e que no romance de Torero se mescla às premissas da picaresca espanhola, sendo Francisco Gomes da Silva o exemplo de pícaro que anseia pela ascensão social e cuja vida e história sempre ficam a margem. O Chalaça é uma personagem que realmente existiu, mas que a história oficial não fez questão de lembrar, já que ele não conduzia o imperador às ditas ações edificantes, mas sim, à picardias e aventuras extra-conjugais. Assim, objetivamos analisar a construção discursiva de D. Pedro I sob um novo foco, que aponta para a Literatura como leitora privilegiada dos signos da história.

Open City, Rossellini and neorealism : sixty years on

For Bakhtin, it is always important to know from where one speaks. The place from which I speak is that of a person who grew up in Italy during the economic miracle (pre-1968) in a working class family, watching film matinees on television during school holidays. All sort of films and genres were shown: from film noir to westerns, to Jean Renoir's films, German expressionism, Italian neorealism and Italian comedy. Cinema has come to represent over time a sort of memory extension that supplements lived memory of events, and one which, especially, mediates the intersection of many cultural discourses. When later in life I moved to Australia and started teaching in film studies, my choice of a film that was emblematic of neorealism went naturally to Roma città aperta (Open city hereafter) by Roberto Rossellini (1945), and not to Paisan or Sciuscà or Bicycle Thieves. My choice was certainly grounded in my personal memory - especially those aspects transmitted to me by my parents, who lived through the war and maintained that Open City had truly made them cry. With a mother who voted for the Christian Democratic Party and a father who was a unionist, I thought that this was normal in Italian families and society. In the early 1960s, the Resistance still offered a narrative of suffering and redemption, shared by Catholics or Communists. This construction of psychological realism is what I believe Open City continues to offer in time.

Network

Network has emerged from a contempory worldwide phenomenon, culturally manifested as a consequence of globalization and the knowledge economy. It is in this context that the internet revolution has prompted a radical re-ordering of social and institutional relations and the associated structures, processes and places which support them. Within the duality of virtual space and the augmentation of traditional notions of physical place, the organizational structures pose new challenges for the design professions. Technological developments increasingly permit communication anytime and anywhere, and provide the opportunity for both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. The resultant ecology formed through the network enterprise has resulted in an often convolted and complex world wherein designers are forced to consider the relevance and meaning of this new context. The role of technology and that of space are thus interwined in the relation between the network and the individual workplace. This paper explores a way to inform the interior desgn process for contemporary workplace environments. It reports on both theoretical and practical outcomes through an Australia-wide case study of three collaborating, yet independent business entities. It further suggests the link between workplace design and successful business innovation being realized between partnering organizations in Great Britain. Evidence presented indicates that, for architects and interior designers, the scope of the problem has widened, the depth of knowledge required to provide solutions has increased, and the rules of engagement are required to change. The ontological and epistemological positions adopted in the study enabled the spatial dimensions to be examined from both within and beyond the confines of a traditional design only viewpoint. Importantly it highlights the significance of a trans-disiplinary collaboration in dealing with the multiple layers and complexity of the contemporary social and business world, from both a research and practice perspective.

Patterns

In recent years there has been widespread interest in patterns, perhaps provoked by a realisation that they constitute a fundamental brain activity and underpin many artificial intelligence systems. Theorised concepts of spatial patterns including scale, proportion, and symmetry, as well as social and psychological understandings are being revived through digital/parametric means of visualisation and production. The effect of pattern as an ornamental device has also changed from applied styling to mediated dynamic effect. The interior has also seen patterned motifs applied to wall coverings, linen, furniture and artefacts with the effect of enhancing aesthetic appreciation, or in some cases causing psychological and/or perceptual distress (Rodemann 1999). ----- ----- While much of this work concerns a repeating array of surface treatment, Philip Ball’s The Self- Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature (1999) suggests a number of ways that patterns are present at the macro and micro level, both in their formation and disposition. Unlike the conventional notion of a pattern being the regular repetition of a motif (geometrical or pictorial) he suggests that in nature they are not necessarily restricted to a repeating array of identical units, but also include those that are similar rather than identical (Ball 1999, 9). From his observations Ball argues that they need not necessarily all be the same size, but do share similar features that we recognise as typical. Examples include self-organized patterns on a grand scale such as sand dunes, or fractal networks caused by rivers on hills and mountains, through to patterns of flow observed in both scientific experiments and the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.

Process mining manifesto

Process mining techniques are able to extract knowledge from event logs commonly available in today’s information systems. These techniques provide new means to discover, monitor, and improve processes in a variety of application domains. There are two main drivers for the growing interest in process mining. On the one hand, more and more events are being recorded, thus, providing detailed information about the history of processes. On the other hand, there is a need to improve and support business processes in competitive and rapidly changing environments. This manifesto is created by the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining and aims to promote the topic of process mining. Moreover, by defining a set of guiding principles and listing important challenges, this manifesto hopes to serve as a guide for software developers, scientists, consultants, business managers, and end-users. The goal is to increase the maturity of process mining as a new tool to improve the (re)design, control, and support of operational business processes.

Structural damage detection using frequency response functions and neural networks

This paper illustrates the damage identification and condition assessment of a three story bookshelf structure using a new frequency response functions (FRFs) based damage index and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). A major obstacle of using measured frequency response function data is a large size input variables to ANNs. This problem is overcome by applying a data reduction technique called principal component analysis (PCA). In the proposed procedure, ANNs with their powerful pattern recognition and classification ability were used to extract damage information such as damage locations and severities from measured FRFs. Therefore, simple neural network models are developed, trained by Back Propagation (BP), to associate the FRFs with the damage or undamaged locations and severity of the damage of the structure. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated and validated by using the real data provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. The illustrated results show that the PCA based artificial Neural Network method is suitable and effective for damage identification and condition assessment of building structures. In addition, it is clearly demonstrated that the accuracy of proposed damage detection method can also be improved by increasing number of baseline datasets and number of principal components of the baseline dataset.

Developmental components of resting ventilation among high- and low-altitude Andean children and adults

This paper evaluates the age-associated changes of resting ventilation of 115 high- and low-altitude Aymara subjects, of whom 61 were from the rural Aymara village of Ventilla situated at an average altitude of 4,200 m and 54 from the rural village of Caranavi situated at an average altitude of 900 m. Comparison of the age patterns of resting ventilation suggests the following conclusions: 1) the resting ventilation (ml/kg/min) of high-altitude natives is markedly higher than that of low-altitude natives; 2) the age decline of ventilation is similar in both lowlanders and highlanders, but the starting point and therefore the age decline are much higher at high altitude; 3) the resting ventilation that characterizes high-altitude Andean natives is developmentally expressed in the same manner as it is at low altitude; and 4) the resting ventilation (ml/kg/min) of Aymara high-altitude natives is between 40–80% lower than that of Tibetans. Am J Phys Anthropol 109:295–301, 1999. © 1999 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

The effects of truth in the hinterlands and abused [in Portugese] Os efeitos de verdade em os sertões e abusado

O presente livro propõe-se a refletir sobre a construção dos efeitos de verdade em dois modos de produção de ordem discursiva: Os sertões, romance de Euclides da Cunha, e Abusado: o dono do morro Dona Marta, romance-reportagem do jornalista Caco Barcellos. A autora apresenta a fragilidade do discurso jornalístico em legitimar-se como o discurso do verdadeiro, em dura oposição ao discurso da literatura, lugar da ficção, expressão dos sentimentos, imaginário, da não-verdade. [Portugese]

Glider path-planning for optimal sampling of mesocale eddies

Ocean gliders constitute an important advance in the highly demanding ocean monitoring scenario. Their effciency, endurance and increasing robustness make these vehicles an ideal observing platform for many long term oceanographic applications. However, they have proved to be also useful in the opportunis-tic short term characterization of dynamic structures. Among these, mesoscale eddies are of particular interest due to the relevance they have in many oceano-graphic processes.

First steps towards modeling a multi-scale Earth system

Recent advances in computational geodynamics are applied to explore the link between Earth’s heat, its chemistry and its mechanical behavior. Computational thermal-mechanical solutions are now allowing us to understand Earth patterns by solving the basic physics of heat transfer. This approach is currently used to solve basic convection patterns of terrestrial planets. Applying the same methodology to smaller scales delivers promising similarities between observed and predicted structures which are often the site of mineral deposits. The new approach involves a fully coupled solution to the energy, momentum and continuity equations of the system at all scales, allowing the prediction of fractures, shear zones and other typical geological patterns out of a randomly perturbed initial state. The results of this approach are linking a global geodynamic mechanical framework over regional-scale mineral deposits down to the underlying micro-scale processes. Ongoing work includes the challenge of incorporating chemistry into the formulation.