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This essay utilises Suzanne Bachelard's essay 'Forme et Contenu' as an entry point to sketch out the possibility (or impossibility) of a dialectic of mathemata following the work of Jean Cavaillès and Jean Hyppolite. Firstly, I outline what Bachelard sees as a 'dialectic' of form and content in the history of abstract algebra, highlighting a parallel between Bachelard's reading of algebra and Hyppolite reading of the relation of the human subject to logos. Secondly, I move towards Jean Hyppolite's discussion of Lautman in 'Mathematical Thought' which allows for a revealing of convergences between the work of Hyppolite and Cavaillès. I conclude by noting that the similarities between Cavaillès and Hyppolite – despite possible protestations by Hyppolite – go against Hegel's understanding of mathematics, leading to the possibility of opening up a 'Hegelian mathematics against Hegel'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O presente trabalho pretende estabelecer uma interpretação argumentativa da teoria epistemológica na filosofia bachelardiana, a fim de demonstrar o espaço em que se inserem suas reflexões sobre a psicanálise na ordem do desenvolvimento do conhecimento científico. Esta abordagem epistemológica pode ser encontrada em seu conjunto de obras que compõem o que é denominado como a vertente diurna do autor, dentro deste campo de estudos destacamos a obra do ano de 1938, intitulada de: A Formação do Espírito Científico. A partir deste contexto, nossos esforços se concentram, sobretudo, na relação que se estabelece entre sua teoria, para com aspectos conceituais advindos da psicanálise na sua origem freudiana. Abordando a elaboração de uma psicanálise do conhecimento objetivo na epistemologia de Bachelard, elencamos três estruturas teóricas que nos ajudaram a estabelecer esta ponte conectiva para com a psicanálise, sendo estas as noções de: Ruptura, Retificação e de Obstáculo Epistemológico. A partir da reconstrução destes três conceitos como premissas da epistemologia de Bachelard, desenvolve-se posteriormente um aprofundamento das mesmas noções e das relações que elas apresentam entre os conceitos de recalque e de inconsciente, postulados na teoria psicanalítica, bem como a respectiva mudança de âmbito de sentido que o autor aplica vinculado eles ao contexto do conhecimento objetivo.

This article focuses on opera for children, taking a broad overview across time and space. The aim of the research is to identify what constitutes opera for children by embracing its dramaturgical, poetic, imagistic, and symbolic aspects. The chosen approach was sensitive listening to children, and alongside this, exploring important aspects of theory and practice. A case study was used as a framework for analysis — the creative process of the children's opera Bem no Meio, which served as the basis for the production of mini-documentaries in digital snippets. These mini-docs provide pedagogical support for raising awareness and educating students, parents, teachers, and new audiences. They were intended to generate a visual literature of opera for children, a genre that is still little disseminated and studied in Brazil. The research incorporated concepts from the phenomenology of the imagination, particularly those of Gaston Bachelard (2008).

O artigo objetiva discutir a relevância da Teoria Geral dos Complexos na obra do filósofo Gaston Bachelard e autores diversos, considerando que seu olhar sobre o mundo e as coisas é profundo e curioso, remetendo-nos para uma leitura do mundo ao modo do educador-filósofo Paulo Freire. A pesquisa teve início no mestrado e se estendeu por toda a vida da pesquisadora, que compreende quase trinta anos de pesquisa e buscas em redes de internet, revistas, jornais e fontes documentais e bibliográficas. Este artigo trata de discutir a relevância de uma segunda edição, revista e ampliada com realinhamento do título nesta nova versão. A metodologia utilizada foi a crítico-investigativa.

O objetivo deste trabalho é de revisitar dois filósofos contemporâneos, cujas ideias sobre a noção de imaginação são muito próximas. O primeiro é um pensador francês, Gaston Bachelard, de importância inegável. O outro, José Américo Pessanha, é um pensador brasileiro que em seus cursos e conferencias, deixava entrever nas entrelinhas, o ensinamento de suas próprias ideias filosóficas. Os dois filósofos renovam a noção de imaginação, apoiando-se na critica à tradição filosófica. Mostram que a imaginação não pode ser compreendida como simulacro do real percebido, pois isto faria com que esta fosse menosprezada diante da percepção e da ideia. José Américo propõe, então, para corroborar esta tese três exercícios de imaginação, retomando para isso a cosmogonia de Empédocles, analisando depois o quadro de Bosch “A tentação de Santo Antão” que mostra o mundo às avessas e, retomando, por último, o livro de Umberto Ecco procura mostrar que as imagens delirantes que não respeitam a sintaxe natural e ordenada do mundo não são frutos do mal e do pecado de dar asas à imaginação, mas, ao contrário, são resultado de uma hilaridade que provoca o riso e a alegria.

RESUMO: Nosso objetivo é mostrar como Bachelard edifica a noção de vida em sua filosofia ao esboçar uma reflexão sobre o problema filosófico do tempo junto às noções de instante e duração. O livro A intuição do instante (1932), obra dedicada a esta reflexão metafísica sobre o tempo confluindo, quatro anos mais tarde, para A dialética da duração (1936), obra que, por sua vez, define o conceito de duração a partir das várias temporalidades superpostas constitutivas da própria existência, são as referências privilegiadas deste estudo. Ressaltaremos a importância da filosofia de Henri Bergson nesta discussão ao estabelecermos um contraponto entre suas teses sobre a vida e a duração às mesmas teses conceituais bachelardianas, sobretudo a partir da oposição entre as seguintes noções: vida vivida (circunscrita ao tempo comum/tempo transitivo em Bergson) e vida pensada (circunscrita ao tempo do espírito/tempo imanente em Bachelard). Partimos da hipótese a ser debatida de que é porque o espírito pode chocar-se com a vida vulgar, escorregadia e homogênea que a vida superior, ou seja, do próprio espírito, deve ser entendida nesta filosofia bachelardiana como sendo uma construção racional ancorada em uma dialética pluralista de saberes sobre o tempo. Palavras-chave: Bachelard. Bergson. Tempo, Instante. Duração. Vida. RÉSUMÉ: Notre objectif est de montrer comment Bachelard construit la notion de la vie dans sa philosophie d'esquisser une réflexion sur le problème philosophique de temps ensemble les notions de temps et de la durée. Le livre L'intuition du instant (1932), un ouvrage consacré à cette réflexion métaphysique sur le temps convergeant, quatre ans plus tard, à la dialectique de la vie (1936), une œuvre qui, à son tour, définit la notion de temps de la Les différentes temporalités superposées constituant sa propre existence sont les références privilégiées de cette étude. Nous mettrons en évidence l'importance de la philosophie d'Henri Bergson cette discussion pour établir un contrepoint entre ses idées sur la vie et la durée pour les mêmes bachelardianas thèses théoriques, en particulier de l'opposition entre les notions suivantes: la vie vécue (limitée au temps commun / temps transitive Bergson) et la pensée de la vie (circonscrite à l'époque de l'esprit / temps immanent à Bachelard). Notre hypothèse débattue qu'il est parce que l'esprit peut tomber sur la vie vulgaire, glissante et homogène que la vie supérieure, qui est, l'esprit lui-même doit être compris dans cette philosophie bachelardien comme une construction rationnelle ancrée dans une dialectique pluraliste de la connaissance du temps. Mots-clés: Bachelard. Bergson. Temps, instantané. Durée Vie

RESUMO: Este texto consiste em um estudo inicial sobre a poética de Fausto Antonio. A exposição dar-se-á a partir da interpretação da obra Poética do Devaneio de Gaston Bachelard. A proposta é de empreender a análise das profundidades das imagens impressas na escrita do nosso poeta. Nesse sentido, os espaços localizados entre a superfície e a profundidade de um texto sendo desvelados anunciam uma nova sintaxe a qual empregamos o termo: virada; que se traduz como uma inversão por meio da contradição. E o todo ontológico-poético se acomoda na ancestralidade destes espaços contraditórios. Esperamos a partir deste texto apresentar nossa proposta com o objetivo de melhor esclarecê-la ao longo da possibilidade de futuras publicações. Palavras-chave: Fausto Antonio; Bachelard; imagens. RÉSUMÉ: Ce texte se compose d'une première étude sur la poétique de Fausto Antonio. L'exposition donnera de l'interprétation de œuvre La Poétique de la Reverie de Gaston Bachelard. La proposition est de procéder à l'analyse de la profondeur des images imprimées dans l'écriture de notre poète. En ce sens, les espaces situés entre la surface et la profondeur étant dévoilé annonçant une nouvelle syntaxe qui utilisent le terme: tounant; qui se traduit par une inversion au moyen de la contradiction. Et le tout ontologique poétique qui installe les ancêtres de ces espaces contradictoires. Nous attendons de ce texte à présenter notre proposition afin de mieux clarifier sur la possibilité de futures publications. Mots-clés: Fausto Antonio; Bachelard; images.

Embora a filosofia de Bachelard não se refira a Deus, ela traz uma concepção de imaginação que apresenta pontos comuns com a defendida por Nicolas Berdiaeff. Este artigo tenta discerni-los e mostrar que os caminhos da surrealidade abertos por Bachelard são uma outra maneira de viver o processo de co-criação do mundo, associando o homem a Deus, como o enfocara o filósofo russo numa perspectiva teológica.

As relações entre Gaston Bachelard e o Surrealismo são inúmeras. Ao analisá-las em detalhe, são ressaltadas as interações, algumas divergências, mas, sobretudo as crenças comuns. Estas repousam essencialmente sobre o poder da imaginação de transformar o universo.

In his recently published 1975–76 seminar on Life Death (§3), Jacques Derrida offers a severe critique of French epistemologists and philosophers of life. On Derrida's view, they do not seem to be concerned with the question of the metaphoricity of metaphor but, rather, by taking the epistemological cut between (inadequate) metaphors and (adequate) concepts for granted, they explain the scientific process as a movement of critical rectification of metaphors by concepts. Moreover, they do not engage with Nietzsche seriously. Here I build on this last point to examine the project of accounting for the very condition of the scientific process that Derrida puts forward in 'White Mythology' (1971) and Life Death. My reading hypothesis is that this project rests on Derrida's original interpretation of Nietzsche's Darwinian-type genesis of thinking, according to which selective reproduction consists in the metaphoricity of metaphor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artigo tem por objetivo identificar obstáculos epistemológicos no processo de construção do conceito de função a partir de obstáculos listados por Sierpinska (1992). Inicialmente, apresentamos de forma sintética a noção de obstáculos epistemológicos fundamentado em Bachelard (1996) e abordaremos como Brousseau (1986) sistematizou o conceito de obstáculo epistemológico na Educação Matemática. Por conseguinte, apresentamos os 16 obstáculos epistemológicos de função listado por Sierpinska (1992), nosso principal referencial teórico. Para alcançar nosso objetivo, desenvolvemos um questionário que nos permitiram analisar que os obstáculos identificados pela autora supracitada também estão presentes e de que modo aparecem no alunado atual de nossa região. A investigação realizada está focada no contexto do Ensino Médio, mais especificamente, com estudantes que estavam cursando a 1ª série do Instituto Federal Goiano (IF Goiano), situado no município de Campos Belos-GO. Os resultados indicam que alguns obstáculos epistemológicos apresentados pela Sierpinska (1992) ainda estão resistentes quando os estudantes aprendem sobre o conceito de função no Ensino Médio.

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In this paper, I discuss Gaston Bachelard's criticism of Henri Bergson's employment of intuition as the specific method of philosophy, and as a reliable means of acquiring knowledge. I locate Bachelard's criticism within the reception of Bergsonian intuition by rationalist philosophers who subscribed to the Third Republic's ethos. I argue that the reasons of Bachelard's rejection of Bergsonian intuition were not only epistemological, but also ethical and pedagogical. His view of knowledge as mediated, social, and historical, cannot be separated from his conceptions of society, education, and the human being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Honoring a person or an event, public monuments interrupt geographical landscapes and point to a temporal past asking us to stop, to look, and to engage memory. They invite reveries as the word, monument, derives from the Latin word monēre, meaning ‘to remind.’ In effect, they occupy public spaces asking for private thoughts that problematize a referentiality dependent on identity. An analysis of Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It,” based on viewing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., illustrates the way monuments offer a phenomenological space for an individual’s transformation. Yet in addition to an interiority the poem captures, the monument itself reifies politically official and unofficial messaging, an ambivalence that further muddies the referentiality it reifies because it privileges one cultural identity over others. The theories from the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, the psychoanalyst Jacque Lacan, and the literary critic Cathy Caruth provide the framework for investigating the loss and the gain from the construction and the removal of monuments.

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No campo da educação matemática, há pesquisas que discutem sobre o olhar que as pessoas possuem sobre o ensino de matemática em contexto escolar, expondo o pensamento de que a matemática é difícil de ser compreendida, ou ainda, a vontade de evitá-la. No entanto, acreditamos que o processo da escolarização pode contribuir para a superação de desafios e dificuldades enfrentadas, em relação à aprendizagem de conteúdos da disciplina. Assim, no presente artigo, estabelecemos como objetivo compreender possíveis obstáculos epistemológicos que se apresentam à construção da cognição matemática em contexto escolar. Para tanto, tivemos como aporte teórico a teoria bachelardiana, e realizamos uma pesquisa bibliográfica de artigos científicos no banco de dados da Scielo, delimitando o período de 2011 a 2021. Verificamos que as crianças aprendem as noções e os conteúdos matemáticos em decorrência de processos complexos que implicam uma construção, trilhando o caminho do concreto ao abstrato, na sistematização dos conhecimentos matemáticos.

Rhythm is generally taken to refer to a temporal pattern of events. Yet in recent years, across diverse fields in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, it has come to serve as the conceptual marker for a wide range of new approaches to understanding relations and relationality, following most explicitly from the late work of Henri Lefebvre. This article explores the temporal aspect of such relational thinking, in particular asking how time is implicated in relations, and how it can be meaningful in those relations. The sense of time is surveyed from the perspectives of both cognition and metaphysics as well as with reference to music scholarship and social theory, and key threads are drawn, from the writings of Gaston Bachelard and Charles Sanders Peirce in particular, in order to suggest that time can be a sign, and that the signifying properties of rhythm have critical social consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este trabalho propõe uma reflexão acerca do ensino de Física, seja na educação básica ou superior, considerando a Filosofia da Ciência, na tese de Gaston Bachelard, como prática pedagógica e associando-a ao paradigma específico do professor reflexivo, proposto por Donald Schön. Trata-se de um estudo teórico-reflexivo de natureza exploratória com abordagem qualitativa, que enxerga a Física além do ensino de suas teorias e práticas experimentais. Desse modo, idealiza-se que o ensino de Física possa promover discussões acerca do funcionamento da Ciência e sua interação com as diferentes áreas do conhecimento humano, assim como suas implicações na sociedade. Para isso, considera-se então, a questão da formação de profissionais reflexivos que, no que se trata especificamente da formação de discentes de cursos de Licenciatura em Física, possam contribuir para um processo de ensino-aprendizagem mais amplo e inter-relacionado com a vida cotidiana e no que diz respeito aos estudantes do Ensino Médio, que possam compreender a contribuição da ciência para a geração de tecnologias que impactam a sociedade e perceber seu papel diante desse contexto.

As well as neo-Kantianism, phenomenology and analytical philosophy, French historical epistemology also had its emergence in the context of the crisis of the sciences at the turn of the 20th century. Due to their own developments, the works of Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem broke, each in its path, respectively with the neo-Kantianism represented by Brunschvicg (in Bachelard's case) and by Alain (in Canguilhem's case). In this article, we propose to draw some epistemological, ethical, and political consequences of these two ruptures, briefly analyzing the particularities of each of the two cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geographic accounts of caving have critiqued the propensity of affects and practices which reinforce EuroAmerican coloniality and hubris, while also finding alternative paths of intimacy and lively relationality. Yet subsurface geographies can also reinforce cliched spatial and moral topographies. This article reflects on the production of an ambivalent affect of "dark humor" in caves, through caver social worlds, and in cave writing and song. I use a Bachelardian phenomenology of the imagination as a method of interpreting the geopoetics of cave space and cave emotion related topologically rather than topographically into easy interior/exterior or surface/depth oppositions. Through Jan and Herb Conn's cave ballads and poetry, imaginative place names, and accounts of irritating struggles with manganese, a different emotional culture of caving is produced than the masculine risk-seeking one might expect. Nonetheless, such phenomenological focus on immediacy of creative imagination risks precluding broader historical-political contexts of settler coloniality. Seeking a position between "ruthlessly critical" or "post-critically evasive" analyses, I consider how the Conns produced an "anti-heroic" attitude useful beyond caving and the politics of the subsurface but without purity or innocence. • Caving evokes emotions through the space of the cave and the cultural world of caving. • Herb and Jan Conn mobilized a disarming "dark humor" through their geopoetics. • The phenomenology of Gaston Bachelard clarifies a non-mathematical topology of caves. • The fraught colonial context of caving is considered alongside "anti-heroic" geopoetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The poetry of Hanni Ossott (1946-2002) is hardly known beyond Venezuelan frontiers, and so is any domestic or foreign research, almost non-existent, about her published works, an exception being El reino donde la noche se abre (1987). Such a scenario, unfortunately, continues to be so regarding her other works, especially the ones published thereafter. For this reason, this article will focus on one of her later poetry books, Casa de agua y de sombras (1992), since, as will be argued, it might be the most relevant one to understand the spatial-subjective processes that characterize the Ossottian oeuvre. Drawing upon Bachelard’s theories of space, this paper will attempt to explain how the poet goes from the versification of abstract and hostile space to the poetry of lived space, which will offer answers to her identity dilemma: we are nothing more than what we inhabit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How to make students and teachers stop Stop and think and feel Reading slow Reading aloud Savouring silence Being there with all our emotions and bodies An experiment Not a social experiment Not a psychological experiment But a poetic Accompanied by a French philosopher Gaston Bachelard was always there in the atmosphere Our classroom practice With our master's students In sustainable management We searched for poetic moments Turned into a conversation Turned into a paper A paper about the poetics of teaching Phenomenologizing philosophy Rupturing classrooms [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I reconstruct, discuss, and develop both the understanding of scientific practice and philosophy set forth by Pierpaolo Cesaroni in his book, La vita dei concetti. Hegel, Bachelard, Canguilhem. As regards the understanding of science, I focus on the investigation of the distinction between activity subjected to norms and activity elaborating norms. I also consider a number of connected issues, including the one relating to that particular form of necessity implied in the elaboration of a scientific concept. As to the understanding of philosophy, I distinguish the several intellectual performances which can be deemed as philosophical. The closing annex is devoted to the Althusserian conception of an authentic science of politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RESUMO O artigo propõe-se a explorar, a partir de uma posição bachelardiana, as relações entre imaginação e horror. Para tanto, examino o campo dos sonhos vividos durante o regime de terror nazista, e em especial o material onírico e a experiência vivida por Jean Cayrol no universo concentracionário, pondo à prova teses fundamentais da concepção bachelardiana acerca da imaginação criadora em sua significação antropológico-existencial.

Tras su inicial aproximación en los años veinte a la filosofía de Husserl y Heidegger, Levinas inició una década más tarde su propia reelaboración crítica del método fenomenológico. El artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la nueva comprensión de la labor fenomenológica por parte del joven Levinas a partir de sus reflexiones sobre el arte, en diálogo con el pensamiento de Gastón Bachelard, quien en la misma época propuso un intercambio fructífero entre estética y fenomenología.

Assim como o neokantismo, a fenomenologia e a filosofia analítica, também a epistemologia histórica francesa teve sua emergência no contexto da crise das ciências na virada para o século XX. Por seus desdobramentos particulares, as obras de Gaston Bachelard e de Georges Canguilhem romperam, cada uma a seu modo, respectivamente com o neokantismo representado por Brunschvicg (no caso de Bachelard) e por Alain (no caso de Canguilhem). Neste artigo, propomos tirar algumas consequências epistemológicas, éticas e políticas dessas duas rupturas, analisando brevemente as particularidades de cada um dos dois casos.

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For one of the specific and significant features of the style of current scientific knowledge is the integration of the historical perspective in the actual scientific construction, due to the fact that the deep methodological and conceptual changes that affect the general frameworks, assumptions and structures require to put to work the entire history of science in order to determine its possible directions of future development, my paper is an attempt to set forth a brief account on French historical epistemology, mainly on Bachelard’s work and his influence on Foucault. Therefore, I will focus on his reflections on the relationship between consciousness and reality, rational knowledge and affective knowledge, on the significance of the “epistemological obstacles”, on the sources of errors in the process of knowledge, on how to purify the process of knowledge in order to ensure scientific certainty, with a particular emphasis on his “psychoanalysis of scientific knowledge”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The nexus of humans and objects requires careful consideration of their interaction throughout the ages. Bill Brown's phenomenal essay "Thing Theory" (2001) has paved a new way for reexamining this affiliation. This paper is an attempt to study the different roles of miniatures in shaping the life of Petronella Oortman, a seventeenth-century Dutch woman. In so doing, the paper closely reads Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist (2014). Drawing theoretical insights from Susan Stewart, Gaston Bachelard, among others, the paper probes into the significance of miniatures in shaping anthropomorphic relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Ali Smith is a great creator of melancholic atmospheres. In her novel Autumn we are submerged in the nostalgia of life by a hundred years old man, Daniel. A nostalgia that acquires political aspects in the young Elisabeth, who is facing the loss of rights and liberties in the Brexit Great Britain. We then reflect on her childhood memories and Daniel’s recurrent nostalgia for his dead sister and the forgotten painter Pauline Boty. These situations are framed by the autumn that hangs over them, but allows the emergence of shades of colour from which the desolate environment can be surmounted. I examine this kaleidoscope of melancholic aspects, which concludes with the modern melancholy, posited by Bartra, and the consideration of the transcription with the ink of melancholy that, as Starobinski says, transforms darkness into light.

In this paper, I will analyse Joan Didion’s poetics of praise and mourning in her first published novel, Run River, understanding the Western landscape she presents in it as an instance of Gaston Bachelard’s idea of the childhood home as a felicitous, eulogised space. I will argue that Didion’s depiction of the Sacramento Valley and the struggle of the families inhabiting it to accept the changing face of the landscape results in a jeremiad narrative of the West as paradise lost. Reflecting on the limitations both of Bachelard’s discussion of the childhood home and of the West as a mythographic space, I will conclude by assessing Didion’s topophilia and her ambiguous stance as a Western writer.

The article aims at exploring the possibilities of establishing connections between Heidegger and Bachelard from the perspective of space, world, dwelling, and house. We used works written by Heidegger between 1936 and 1939, after the "second" period, and those written by Bachelard between 1933 and 1948, which deal more with earth and space. Reflection on the similarities and differences between the philosophers makes it possible to find points of divergence and convergence. The latter are greater than the former in the possible in-between spaces, mainly regarding the views on art, but not that many with respect to the language used by each one. For this reason, the breaks in the possible continuity of these philosophic views are challenging and encourage further reflection.

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Nas obras A intuição do instante (1932) e A dialética da duração (1936), o problema do tempo nos é apresentado em paralelo a um psicologismo temporal bachelardiano que objetivamos situar. Inicialmente, será através de um não-bergsonismo — ou seja, um bergsonismo generalizado — que convirá introduzirmos as nuances psicológicas das teses bachelardianas, elencando: 1) sua interpretação de memória, amparada pelas teses sobre a conduta do psicólogo Pierre Janet (contra a imediaticidade) e 2) a evidenciação do dinamismo e liberdade presentes na psyché a partir da valorização da ideia de intervalos imanentes às estruturas temporais da consciência (descontinuidade).

A procura pela certeza é parte da história do pensamento. A ciência moderna, fundada no mecanicismo das leis físicas, determinou a ideia de objetividade como fonte de um método eficaz a fim de obter previsibilidade a respeito dos fenômenos. Contudo, a física contemporânea estabeleceu uma ruptura com essa concepção clássica ao instaurar novos métodos e estabelecer a função de probabilidade como princípio do indeterminismo no mundo quântico, como esclarece Bachelard. Mas, as relações de incertezas não permaneceram no domínio microfísico. Elas se destacaram também no domínio sociocultural, explica Bauman. Pensamos que a chegada da pandemia de SARS-CoV-2 reforçou a sensação de insegurança dos indivíduos ao romper com os modos habituais de existência cuja crença moderna em um mundo estável e harmônico se encontra enraizada. Este artigo tem como objetivo destacar o problema da incerteza em tempos de pandemia evidenciando suas origens, e de propor alguns elementos que possam contribuir no domínio da filosofia prática com base nas ideias de Bachelard. Ressalta-se então que em tempos de pandemia e pós-pandemia é importante pensar em uma “filosofia da reinvenção”.

The article presents a laconic outline concerning the french reception of Henry David Thoreau. In contrast with previous studies that lament the scarce interest aroused by the works of the transcendentalist, it highlights diverse lines of interpretation that honor the multiplicity of his thought. The influence of Thoreau on David Le Breton and Fréderic Gros informs their ideas about technical civilization and inspires a philosophy of walking. On the other hand, Bachelard turns to the man of Concord to nourish his inquiry into the reveries of repose. After comparing these readings, the article explores the affinity between Thoreau's meditations on hospitality and the conferences on that subject by Derrida. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How is the desk, or the room in which one works and day-dreams, a concern for critical political economy? How does this theme open onto thinking about 'the new normal'? Marx's concept of the consumption fund and Bachelard's poetics of space will help us plot the basic terms of a poetical/political economy adequate to law's involvement in the intimate topographies of post-pandemic capitalism. This paper proposes a phenomenology of intimate lived space that can provide the intellectual tools to understand the topographies of bedroom offices, kitchen table desks and car/taxis where capital takes possession of daily life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ciclos míticos podem modificar uma linguagem – costumes, imaginário – para além do reconhecimento, alterando profundamente as relações de uma população com a sua terra. Relações estas que transitam entre tradição e progresso, manutenção e destruição, quebra e continuidade, e que permeiam a narrativa de Assim na terra, romance de Luiz Sérgio Metz. O espaço do Rio Grande do Sul, seus edifícios e seus personagens, além de seu processo histórico, encontra na literatura e em seu repertório de mitos, símbolos e tradições, um novo vigor que ilustra o consolo dos eufemismos frente ao esquecimento e a morte. Entre a afetividade poética dos espaços de Gaston Bachelard (1975) e as harmonias e redundâncias da imaginação simbólica de Gilbert Durand (1982;1988;1996), testemunhamos na obra de Metz uma jornada rumo à afirmação da saudade, intuição afetiva que dá sentido ao olvido e aos ciclos míticos da qual deriva.

En littérature comparée, la phénoménologie bachelardienne est un outil puissant pour rendre compte de la convergence thématique qui relie certaines œuvres, au-delà des évidences premières. Quand l’origine de l’image poétique est appliquée à la fonction première d’habiter, se pose la question suivante : « Comment les refuges éphémères et les abris occasionnels reçoivent-ils parfois, de nos rêveries intimes, des valeurs qui n’ont aucune base objective ? » Pour répondre à cette question, nous étudierons les images poétiques liées au rêve de hutte dans deux récits : L’île d’un autre (Perry, 1979) et L’île à midi (Cortázar, 1966). Les résultats de l’analyse démontreront que deux archétypes irriguent cette convergence thématique : le primitivisme et la nostalgie des origines.

This paper intends to start from the recent reprint of the "new scientific spirit" of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. The questions we ask to the text are linked to the sociology of the imaginary and to the sociology of the media. To investigate the new scientific spirit means to highlight what innovationis it contains and what (even today) can be useful both for the disciplinary fields from which we have decided to investigate the text, and for the question we have decided to be the central question of investigate: can there be a new scientific spirit?

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Swimming, like reading, is an immersive activity: words wash away, and words arise. Engaging with writings by critics who are also swimmers, principally John Berger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this article explores their writings about swimming in relation to how being in water can ‘conjure stories from the water’, and open up particular kinds of reflection and reverie. The fluidity of water spaces creates an imaginary that enables intellectually sensuous dreaming, while the ebb and flow of movements and identifications establish a poetics of swimming as a form of life writing.

The concept of 'problem' has been recently promoted by the official academic institutions and put at the centre of a new field of research, self-styled 'transdisciplinary studies', in order to provide a foundation to a resolutely transdisciplinary approach to research and thought in general. The paper notes that the same move (i.e. connecting a problem-centred approach to thought with transdisciplinary method) can be found in Deleuze's philosophy, which provides us with what the technocratic image of thought advocated by transdisciplinary studies ultimately cannot provide: a positive concept of problems where those are not negative moments but originary and active matrices of thought. It then argues that Deleuze owes this concept to the French epistemological tradition, and more specifically to Bachelard, where it is nothing other than the concept of structure. It ends by explicating what particular version of structuralism Deleuze was thus led to construct in order to account for the role of problems in a radically transdisciplinary account of thought: it is the fact that all structures are multi-structured that grounds the essentially transdisciplinary nature of thought. The fact that we could think differently is precisely what makes us think. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I will argue for the relevance of certain distinctive features of messaging systems, namely those in which data (a) can be sent and received asynchronously, (b) can be sent to multiple simultaneous recipients and (c) is received as a "potentially infinite" flow of unpredictable events. I will describe the social technology of the stock ticker, a telegraphic device introduced at the New York Stock Exchange in the 1860s, with reference to early twentieth century philosophers of synchronous experience (Bergson), simultaneous sign interpretations (Mead and Peirce), and flows of discrete events (Bachelard). Then, I will show how the ticker's data flows developed into the 1990s-era technologies of message queues and message brokers, which distinguished themselves through their asynchronous implementation of ticker-like message feeds sent between otherwise incompatible computers and terminals. These latter systems' characteristic "publish/subscribe" communication pattern was one in which conceptually centralized (if logically distributed) flows of messages would be "published," and for which "subscribers" would be spontaneously notified when events of interest occurred. This paradigm—common to the so-called "message-oriented middleware" systems of the late 1990s—would re-emerge in different asynchronous distributed system contexts over the following decades, from "push media" to Twitter to the Internet of Things. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]