Flirt [Illustration]

Artur Markowicz

Ten Examples of Female Physiognomy, The Flirt

Kitagawa Utamaro; 1 ft. 1 31/32 in.x 9 7/8 in. (image); woodcut with mica ground, oban

Marcas e metáforas do Rio de Janeiro escrito e vivido por Lima Barreto

O escritor, jornalista e literato Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto deixou registrados, em praticamente todos os seus escritos, suas impressões sobre as mudanças sociais, políticas e urbanas, sofridas pela cidade do Rio, na Primeira República. A partir de trechos de sua obra e de sua biografia, vão ser analisadas tais transformações à luz da própria avaliação do autor. Serão abordadas as marcas deixadas por modificações urbanas e topográficas ocorridas na então cidade-capital Rio de Janeiro, que se calcaram sobre o velho cenário da cidade, afundando-o, a fim de apagá-lo da memória dos habitantes, ao mesmo tempo em que se erigiam como metáforas de suposto progresso e de modernidade. Metáforas formam em nós, engramas, isto é, marcas que podem ficar retidas em nossa memória pela ação da literariedade que possuem. Literariedade que tem sempre algum espaço nos mais diversos tipos e gêneros de narrativa. Estas marcas de transformações urbanas atingiram de algum modo a rotina diária de parte considerável dos atores que viveram naquele período, entre eles o próprio Lima Barreto. Este trabalho se sustenta, então, no tripé biografia-literatura-metáfora, alinhavado pelas marcas de remodelação da cidade do Rio. Cidade contada por Lima Barreto, durante a Primeira República, numa narrativa que flerta com a etnografia.

The Abuser and the Abused : impropriety in Selected Texts by Jane Austen

Le thème de cette thèse est le droit des femmes à la fin du dix-huitième siècle dans les romans de l’auteure britannique Jane Austen. L’abus psychologique (et parfois physique) entre femmes est omniprésent au moment où le sujet de l’égalité entre hommes et femmes est à son apogée. Depuis la publication du volume Jane Austen and the War of Ideas de Marilyn Butler, on ne limite plus nos interprétations aux significations littéraires des romans, au contraire, elles se multiplient dans les champs culturels, sociaux, économiques... Ceci permet de mieux comprendre l’époque reflétée dans ses oeuvres. Les interactions humaines se compliquent: les mères essayent à tout prix de « vendre » leurs filles à l’homme le plus riche. Pour ce faire, ces mères résistent aux normes patriarcales. De plus, les femmes veuves sont problématiques car leur statut social ne peut pas être défini. Austen peint et critique les veuves autonomes qui essayent vigoureusement d’exercer leurs pouvoirs à travers leur sexualité et en manipulant leur vocabulaire dans le but de monter dans l’échelon social. En fait, les femmes de tous âges et toutes classes essayent de manipuler les autres pour leurs gains personnels. L’obtention de pouvoir fait en sorte que ces femmes compétitives ne créent pas une société inclusive: elles se marginalisent encore plus. Ce combat interne permet d’autant plus aux hommes d’injurier les femmes. Finalement, avec la montée du cinéma de nos jours, les oeuvres d’Austen sont traduites pour atteindre un grand nombre de spectateurs. Parmi la panoplie de films, l’abus est traduit et interprété à différents degrés.

Protection de la vie privée chez les jeunes adultes dans le contexte de leur utilisation de Facebook : ce qui dessine leurs choix

L’étude présentée dans ce mémoire concerne ce qui amène les jeunes adultes (18-25 ans) à afficher certains éléments et pas d’autres, sur Facebook, en relation avec leur conception personnelle de la vie privée. J’aborde ce processus en mobilisant les notions de présentation de soi, de relations en public et, plus particulièrement, de territoires du moi élaborées par le sociologue Erving Goffman (1973). Les territoires du moi sont ici perçus comme ce qui appartient à l’individu de manière privée et qu’il souhaite protéger. Ces notions de la pensée de Goffman sont pour moi interdépendantes puisque les territoires du moi d’une personne sont influencés à la fois par le rôle que la personne tient ainsi que par les normes et les règles encadrant l'interaction. Cette étude a été réalisée auprès de huit jeunes adultes âgés entre 18 et 25 ans. Une entrevue individuelle a été faite avec chacun d’entre eux. Lors de celle-ci, les participants avaient à présenter leur compte Facebook. Je les invitais, par exemple, à me raconter ce qui les motivait à afficher certaines choses, qui sont les personnes qui peuvent voir ces choses et, à l’inverse, ce qui n’a pas sa place sur la page Facebook et qui sont les personnes qui ne peuvent pas voir certaines publications. Suite à ce terrain, les analyses mettent en lumière sept dimensions s’inscrivant dans la pensée de Goffman qui dessinent la protection de ce que l’on pourrait nommer la vie privée. Il y a Se voir à travers le regard de l’autre et s’en inquiéter, Projeter une image de soi positive, Les amis Facebook : jamais nous n’avons eu autant d’amis, Flirt, relation de couple et cœur brisé : les relations amoureuses et Facebook, Avoir plusieurs rôles sur une même plateforme : la famille n’a souvent pas sa place, Gérer les paramètres de Facebook n’est pas si simple et Évolution de l’usage de Facebook : une question d’âge et un apprentissage. La plupart d’entre elles ont, pour ligne directrice, le regard de l’autre puisque l’inquiétude vis-à-vis celui-ci vient très souvent nuancer le choix de publications des usagés.

Semana Ilustrada, o Moleque e o Dr. Semana: imprensa, cidade e humor no Rio de Janeiro do 2º Reinado

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS

"Flirts and Other "Voluptuous Tyrants":Wollstonecraft, Rousseau and the Politics of Desire"

For the 18th and 19th centuries, flirtation was largely understood to be the symptom of a woman’s uncontrollable (and innate) sexual appetite. Any woman who questioned its cultural operations, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, was accused of being simultaneously sexually inappropriate in her interests, as well as prudish in her denial of feminine desire as a legitimate expression of a woman’s character. What this talk will argue, however, is that, for Wollstonecraft, the flirt is a fundamentally masculine figure who engages not in a struggle over desire, but rather in a struggle for power based on monarchical politics of the Ancien Regime.

The Atlantic and Everything After

As a reader, I am drawn to pieces that flirt with the boundaries between prose and poetry and I believe these preferences are evidenced in my own work, which not only encompasses creative nonfiction and poetry, but which also teases its way along the line separating the two. In The Atlantic and Everything After, I have worked with both prose poetry and the lyric essay, two styles that combine and highlight the different strengths of creative nonfiction and poetry.I created this work to explore the transformation I embarked upon when I first boarded that plane to Nova Scotia in August 2009. I created it to pay homage to the people and places that have moved or changed me. I created it to acknowledge the many similarities of travel and writing, both of which are often ugly, uncomfortable, a bit frightening, and terribly frustrating.In the process of its creation, I was forced to confront painful and delightful memories, to realize the significance of those memories within my own heart. I exercised the modes of poetry and nonfiction (and a few in between) in order to bring the many complicated aspects of travel together in a way that does its discomfort and enchantment equal justice. I have filled the pages of The Atlantic and Everything After with my poems and my prose, my own life-cherishing force. I am pleased to welcome you to it.

Measures: Monastery for an Atomic Priesthood; Hanford, WA

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06

QUANDO OS ESPÍRITOS SAEM DO ABISMO: O ESTABELECIMENTO NARRATIVO DO TERROR ESCATOLÓGICO EM APOCALIPSE 9,1-21

O Apocalipse de João é uma obra instigante. Sua linguagem cheia de violência, com monstros aterrorizantes, pessoas clamando por justiça, anúncios de mortes e desespero, em um quadro de espetáculos celestes, fascina os que gostam de ficção e alimenta a esperança dos que esperam um dia entrar na Nova Jerusalém, onde não haverá mar nem morte, quando as lágrimas serão enxugadas. Contudo, o livro do Apocalipse será lido como uma narração da realidade. Nesse sentido, o texto não é visto como reflexo de qualquer opressão, mas construção discursiva a respeito do sistema que, para o visionário, é a negação da ordem. Neste trabalho, a partir dos conceitos de texto e memória cultural, à luz das pesquisas de I. Lótman, da escola russa de semiótica da cultura e das pesquisas dos Assmann, observar-se-á como as memórias de seres celestes caídos e aprisionados da tradição enoquita estão presentes na literatura judaico-cristã e servem para a construção narrativa do cenário de terror escatológico na quinta e sexta trombetas de Ap 9,1-21. Assim sendo, a tese defende o terror como instrumento de persuasão, o qual serviu, na estratégia do visionário, para descrever o seu contexto como realidade caótica. Por meio de estratégias narrativas, o narrador deseja que sua visão seja levada a sério e que seus interlocutores aceitem a sua interpretação da realidade, deixando a associação com a vida e sistema romanos, pois se assim procederem serão comparados aos selados e receberão as mesmas recompensas. Dessa maneira, sua descrição com linguagem escatológica joga com o futuro e com o presente; prevê o caos, mas o vive em nível narrativo. Por isso o livro do Apocalipse, com um dualismo extremamente radical, não dá espaços para dúvidas. A tese defende, portanto, que essa obra pode ser lida como instrumento retórico de terror e medo que leva seus leitores implícitos a não flertarem com Roma, a não aceitarem seus discursos ou os que com ela se associam.

Thermal imaging as a biometrics approach to facial signature authentication

This dissertation develops an image processing framework with unique feature extraction and similarity measurements for human face recognition in the thermal mid-wave infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The goals of this research is to design specialized algorithms that would extract facial vasculature information, create a thermal facial signature and identify the individual. The objective is to use such findings in support of a biometrics system for human identification with a high degree of accuracy and a high degree of reliability. This last assertion is due to the minimal to no risk for potential alteration of the intrinsic physiological characteristics seen through thermal infrared imaging. The proposed thermal facial signature recognition is fully integrated and consolidates the main and critical steps of feature extraction, registration, matching through similarity measures, and validation through testing our algorithm on a database, referred to as C-X1, provided by the Computer Vision Research Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. Feature extraction was accomplished by first registering the infrared images to a reference image using the functional MRI of the Brain’s (FMRIB’s) Linear Image Registration Tool (FLIRT) modified to suit thermal infrared images. This was followed by segmentation of the facial region using an advanced localized contouring algorithm applied on anisotropically diffused thermal images. Thermal feature extraction from facial images was attained by performing morphological operations such as opening and top-hat segmentation to yield thermal signatures for each subject. Four thermal images taken over a period of six months were used to generate thermal signatures and a thermal template for each subject, the thermal template contains only the most prevalent and consistent features. Finally a similarity measure technique was used to match signatures to templates and the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to validate the results of the matching process. Thirteen subjects were used for testing the developed technique on an in-house thermal imaging system. The matching using an Euclidean-based similarity measure showed 88% accuracy in the case of skeletonized signatures and templates, we obtained 90% accuracy for anisotropically diffused signatures and templates. We also employed the Manhattan-based similarity measure and obtained an accuracy of 90.39% for skeletonized and diffused templates and signatures. It was found that an average 18.9% improvement in the similarity measure was obtained when using diffused templates. The Euclidean- and Manhattan-based similarity measure was also applied to skeletonized signatures and templates of 25 subjects in the C-X1 database. The highly accurate results obtained in the matching process along with the generalized design process clearly demonstrate the ability of the thermal infrared system to be used on other thermal imaging based systems and related databases. A novel user-initialization registration of thermal facial images has been successfully implemented. Furthermore, the novel approach at developing a thermal signature template using four images taken at various times ensured that unforeseen changes in the vasculature did not affect the biometric matching process as it relied on consistent thermal features.