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Shafer-Landau, Russell Scott. "Moral indeterminacy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185898.
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My dissertation focuses on issues of indeterminacy in ethics and the philosophy of law. My aim is to establish the existence of moral indeterminacy and to show how we can allow some degree of indeterminacy in both ethics and the law without necessarily abandoning objectivist positions that may withstand noncognitivist or legal realist criticisms. The dissertation is divided into two parts. In the first, I devote a chapter to each of three sources of moral indeterminacy. The first chapter focuses on the open texture of moral concepts. The second concentrates on value incommensurability, understood as incomparability among morally laden options. The third is devoted to what I call descriptive indeterminacy--situations where morally relevant features can be described in different, equally appropriate ways, and the moral verdict we reach will differ depending upon which description is selected. The second part of the dissertation is devoted to exploring the implications of indeterminacy for ethics and jurisprudence. Chapter Four is given over to metaethics, and is devoted to defending the compatibility of objectivism and indeterminacy. Chapter Five considers a miscellany of challenges to my conclusions in Chapter Four, and further develops the case for the compatibility of objectivism and indeterminacy. Chapter Six examines the structure of moral theories and argues that indeterminacy can be retained in either a rule-based ethic or one less sympathetic to the existence of generally-relevant moral properties. The last chapter is devoted to establishing the existence of ineliminable indeterminacy in any developed system of law.
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Ho, Cecilia Siwai. "Nexus of indeterminacy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81729.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Every year, China experiences the largest human migration in history during the 40 days of Chinese New Year (Chun Yun). It is a period when migrant workers travel from coastal industrial cities to inland rural areas for family gatherings. Just in 2012, over 235 million people migrated across the country during such short extent of event. In Guangzhou, an industrial city in China, the main rail station handles passengers of 900,000 in one week. Due to the large volume of passengers and infrequent train rides under severe winter condition, these passengers are detained for as long as a week. Waiting conditions are often harsh. Large scale of human and traffic congestions are resulted and mobility within city is greatly disturbed. An expansion of rail infrastructure and station is crucial during the high travel season. At the same time, China is experiencing a transitional economy as it is entering a post-industrial development. There is a huge need for the country to initiate a new kind of economy for further growth. Rail stations are often crucial in drawing economical developments to cities. This thesis investigates the indeterminate nature of rail stations which serves as a double agent: managing the sudden flux of Chun Yun and becoming an economical development initiator in the post Chun Yun period.
by Cecilia Siwai Ho.
M.Arch.
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Dyreson, Curtis Elliott. "Valid-time indeterminacy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186920.
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In valid-time indeterminacy, it is known that an event stored in a temporal database did in fact occur, but it is not known exactly when the event occurred. We extend a tuple-timestamped temporal data model to support valid-time indeterminacy and outline its implementation. This work is novel in that previous research, although quite extensive, has not studied this particular kind of incomplete information. To model the occurrence time of an event, we introduce a new data type called an indeterminate instant. Our thesis is that by representing an indeterminate instant with a set of contiguous chronons and a probability distribution over that set, it is possible to characterize a large number of (possibly weighted) alternatives, to devise intuitive query language constructs, including schema specification, temporal constants, temporal predicates and constructors, and aggregates, and to implement these constructs efficiently. We extend the TQuel and TSQL2 query languages with constructs to retrieve information in the presence of indeterminacy. Although the extended data model and query language provide needed modeling capabilities, these extensions appear to carry a significant execution cost. The cost of support for indeterminacy is empirically measured, and is shown to be modest. We then show how indeterminacy can provide a much richer modeling of granularity and now. Granularity is the unit of measure of a temporal datum (e.g., days, months, weeks). Indeterminacy and granularity are two sides of the same coin insofar as a time at a given granularity is indeterminate at all finer granularities. Now is a distinguished temporal value. We describe a new kind of instant, a now-relative indeterminate instant, which has the same storage requirements as other instants, but can be used to model situations such as that an employee is currently employed but will not work beyond the year 1995. In summary, support for indeterminacy dramatically increases the modeling capabilities of a temporal database without adversely impacting performance.
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Anderson, Scott Alan. "Legal indeterminacy in context." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1162267088.
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Emery, Nina R. (Nina Rebecca). "Chance, indeterminacy, and explanation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72921.
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Thesis (Ph. D. in Philosophy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2012."June 2012." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This thesis is about the philosophical and scientific significance of chance. Specifically, I ask whether there is a single notion of chance that both plays a well-defined scientific role and proves useful for various philosophical projects. I argue that there is, but that this notion of chance is importantly different from the one that we usually come across in the philosophical literature. In the first chapter, "Chance, Indeterminacy, and Explanation", I argue against the common and influential view that chances are those probabilities that arise when the fundamental laws are indeterministic. The problem with this view, I claim, is not that it conflicts with some antecedently plausible metaphysics of chance, but rather that it renders the distinction between chance and other sorts of probability incapable of playing any scientifically significant role. I suggest an alternative view, according to which chances are the probabilities that play a certain explanatory role-they are probabilities that explain associated frequencies. In the second chapter, "Chance, Explanation, and Measure", I build on the view that chances are the probabilities that play a certain explanatory role by developing an account of non-fundamental chances-chances that arise when the fundamental laws are deterministic. On this account, non-fundamental chances are objective measures over relevant classes of alternative possibilities. In the third chapter, "Chance and Counterfactuals", I show how the sort of chances I have argued for can play an important role in a very different sort of philosophical project. According to a number of recent arguments, one consequence of our current scientific theories is that most ordinary counterfactuals are not true. I argue that the best response to these arguments makes use of the non-fundamental chances that I have argued for in the first two chapters of the dissertation.
by Nina R. Emery.
Ph.D.in Philosophy
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GIRAUTA, BERNARDO MOUZINHO. "MUSICAL INDETERMINACY AND MUSIC-THOUGHT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34822@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O trabalho discorre acerca de algumas relações entre a música e a teoria, partindo da ideia de Indeterminação Musical proposta pelo artista norte-americano John Cage e suas consequências para a música, a linguagem, a ontologia e o pensamento de modo geral. O primeiro capítulo aborda o tema aproximando-se do conceito de indeterminação, das práticas musicais experimentais e das experiências verbais de notação musical, isto é, de partituras formadas apenas por palavras. No segundo capítulo, investiga-se a existência de certa zona de indiscernibilidade entre os escritos de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari e a música, procurando elementos de um possível pensamento-música, isto é, um modo de orientação do pensamento e de concepção ontológica nos quais a música e o som não estão submetidos a critérios filosóficos pressupostos, mas funcionam eles mesmos como material fundamental para a construção de uma filosofia.
This work discusses some relationships between music and theory, starting from the idea of Musical Indeterminacy proposed by the North American artist John Cage and its consequences for music, language, ontology and thought. The first chapter approaches the subject through the concept of indetermination itself, experimental musical practices and verbal experiences of musical notation, that is, of scores formed only by words. The second chapter discusses the existence of a certain zone of indiscernibility between the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and the music, looking for elements of a possible music-thinking, that is, a mode of thinking and an ontological conception in which music and sound are not subject to presupposed philosophical criteria, but function themselves as fundamental material for the construction of a philosophy
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Reichstein, Z., B. Youssin, and zinovy@math orst edu. "Equivariant Resolution of Points of Indeterminacy." ESI preprints, 2000. ftp://ftp.esi.ac.at/pub/Preprints/esi943.ps.
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Bueya, Emmanuel. "Stability in Africa: Indeterminacy and Credence." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104360.
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Thesis advisor: David RasmussenThis dissertation explores the instability of the African postcolonial state and demonstrates that such a fundamental crisis can be solved only through discourses and practices that are designed beyond the Westphalian model of the modern state and the neo-patrimonialistic system of African governance. The challenge of instability will not be overcome by rebuilding the African nation-state undermined by social contradictions and complex emergencies; rather stability will be achieved by opening a public space of agonistic democracy that is supported mainly by an overlapping consensus on justice. I argue that by reading critically the African philosophy of solidarity that is contradicted by structural violence and inequality. The political instrumentalization of kinship provokes the exclusion of minorities, the marginalization of masses and the instability of the entire society. Governance is reduced to mere conflict management. The solution of legitimate violence becomes another version of the problem of institutional incapacity. My contention is that people are the ultimate and permanent agents of stability. State institutions and state sovereignty are not set in stone; they are contingent arrangements of human relations that evolve throughout history. The ground of stability must not be a strong state but the politics of reciprocity and union among people that implies a sense of justice in the power sharing and in the decision making process. The dissertation is divided in three parts. In the first two-chapter part, I present the paradox of the continent: on one side, there is an ethics of abundant life (vitalism). On the other side, there is a politics of permanent death (necropolitics). The hermeneutics of the two sides reveals that metaphysics (with its monism) and historicity (with its pluralism) intertwine in the dialectical rapport between the agent and the structure. The state is still the bull of international stability in a continent ravaged by violence and poverty. But paradoxically it does not contribute to the stability of the national society. The structure persists at the detriment of the agent. Instability endures. I analyze the various solutions offered to solve the crisis of the unstable state. Some are practical and others are theoretical but they are all state-centric: state institutions must be fixed to deliver social order. But such an order is a status quo perpetrated by a criminalized state in which agents and groups cannot cooperate fairly but only compete violently for power and security. Stability is undetermined. The second two-chapter is a search of stability for the right reasons. The main cause of instability is the absence of justice and not the failure or the collapse of the postcolonial state. Restoring stability implies promoting consensus in the decision making process and fostering an ethic of reciprocity in the power sharing. In the ubuntu ethics of reciprocity, alliance is preferred to social contract and is promoted through dialogue, fairness, and togetherness. In the ubuntu ethics of power, decisions are all made by consensus. Consensual democracy is preferred to the majoritarian democracy. It promotes participation in power and not appropriation of power. Although it is not an enduring strategy for stability, the Rawlsian model of the overlapping consensus plays a conciliatory role within different social groups with their various traditions and comprehensive doctrines. That consensus is an essentialized contingency that must be completed by the dissensus that the African palaver manage to control through a web of mediations which promote reconciliation, fairness, dialogue in the public sphere within which the protagonists are transformed. It promotes an agonistic pluralism in which adversaries are equal citizens who lives their individuality at the triple level of singularity, reciprocity, and community. Their violence and confrontation do not come first. Their mutual recognition is the originating reason of the political order and the ground for stability. Stability is determined and maintained. In the third one-chapter, I move from domestic politics to international affairs. I assert that security and stabilization of African societies come with the union of African states. Such a continental union requires from them democratic regimes and international cooperation that will promotes democratic peace, collective security, and regional integration. Instead of having fifty-four countries that are indebted and chronically underperforming, Africa can be organized into super-states that carry the panafricanist patriotism of micro-patriotisms. In its agenda for 2063, the African Union envisions a United State of Africa with one currency, one army, one government, and supranational institutions. The main challenge to such an ambitious project is the heterogeneity of the continent that an epistemology of credence can overcome: history and politics become a critical use of one's subjectivity. It implies an epistemological diversity that allows interactive intelligibility of human experiences. It does not present many alternatives but allows an alternative thinking of alternatives that make feasible the panafrican project of a united and stable Africa. The credence in African stability dwells in that realistic utopia. In the end, stability is not achieved in the re-building of the postcolonial state but in the rehabilitation of the human agent in domestic politics and in international affairs. Individual human beings, not states, are the agents who participate in defining society, state, power, and principles of justice or of sovereignty. They are the ultimate units of the national and international societies of all humankind
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
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Ternullo, Claudio. "Mathematical platonism and set-theoretic indeterminacy." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569151.
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In this work, I will be looking at the issues raised by set-theoretic indeterminacy for a Gődelian platonist, who holds that there is a universe of independently existing math- ematical objects and that there are objective unique truth-values for any set-theoretic statement. After careful consideration of the philosophical and mathematical issues involved, I claim that Gődelian platonism is untenable. In Chapter 1, I examine dif- ferent forms of mathematical platonism and I elucidate their features. In particular, I distinguish between a substantive form (Gődel's platonism) and an operational form (anti-constructivism). I also make it clear that I will be concerned with set-theoretic Gődelian platonism. In Chapter 2, I examine the indeterminacy phenomenon in set theory through a detailed analysis of the most famous open conjecture, the Continuum Hypothesis (CH). In Chapter 3, I move on to describe the main philosophical orien- tations with regard to the indeterminacy phenomenon and I show how model-theoretic relativity is the main source of trouble for platonism. In Chapter 4, I examine the the- oretical ancestry of Gődel's conceptions (which may date back to Cantor's philosophy of the infinite) and Gődel's philosophy of indeterminacy. In Chapter 5 and Chapter 6, I deal with, respectively, Maddy's set-theoretic naturalism and plenitudinous platonism (in the form presented by Balaguer, FEP), and I raise some objections against these conceptual frameworks. In Chapter 7, I propose abandoning ontological platonism and I defend a mild form of conceptual realism resting upon the notion of non-arbitrary expansions. Finally, in Chapter 8, I tackle the problem of insolubility in contempo- rary set theory and I advise that operational platonism, qua anti-constructivism, as described in Chapter 1, is the only bit of platonism which could be upheld.
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Bishop, Robert Charles. "Chaotic dynamics, indeterminacy and free will /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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BENTZEN, Bruno. "Value-ranges, Julius Caesar and Indeterminacy." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2014. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/10802.
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Manolopoulou, Yeoryia. "Drawing on chance : perception, design, and indeterminacy." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1311700/.
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Shen, Shuo. "The Controlled Indeterminacy in Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1574713314501106.
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Wilson, David William. "On the problem of indeterminacy in fluvial geomorphology." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246883.
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Lloyd, Emma Jane. "Determinacy, indeterminacy and collaboration in contemporary music-making." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31382.
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This thesis is structured around three key phases in the process of collaborative music-making - composition, preparation, and performance - examining the function of indeterminacy at each stage, and the way in which musical factors are determined. At what point in the creative process a musical decision is made, the path chosen, and critically, by whom the decision is taken, are all explored in the context of a portfolio of pieces performed and recorded as part of this practice-led research. The portfolio comprises recordings of projects undertaken with composers, as well as pre-existing repertoire, and the written commentary explores my creative role as a performer in relation to that of the composers and the other performers I have worked with. Practical issues faced in collaboration, practice, and performance are dealt with, as are questions of musicality, and the notion of success in musical performance.
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King, David. "From Godel to Derrida: Undecidability, indeterminacy, and infinity." Thesis, King, David (1992) From Godel to Derrida: Undecidability, indeterminacy, and infinity. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1992. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51528/.
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The purpose of this thesis is to argue for a textualist view of reality. By 'textualist view of reality’ is meant a standpoint whereby any subject position can be seen to be only provisional, not absolute. It is established early in the thesis that only an approach that draws on both the analytic and the continental schools of philosophy is adequate for such a project; roughly speaking, the continental school supplies the necessary critique of foundational approaches, while the analytic school situates the argument in an overtly rigorous context. The necessity for a textualist view of reality is in part evidenced by the perception that analytic philosophy has no means whereby mathematical truth can be reconciled with truth in general. The thesis starts with an examination of number and the infinite (consideration of which is shown to be essential to a textualist view of reality) from an historical perspective, and then examines Cantor's theory of infinite sets. The four main philosophies of mathematics arising from the foundational problems associated with Cantor's ideas are then considered. It is maintained that Godel's Kantian platonism provides a means of reconciling mathematical truth with truth in general, and that Derrida's critique of Kant enables this platonism to be framed in more sophisticated. textualist terms. AS, however, a Kantian/Derridean model has implications for physics - in particular with regard to the physical infinite the thesis devotes two chapters to these implications. The final chapter shows how the thesis' textualist view of reality in many ways is most naturally expressed as a Cantorian "diagonal argument".
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Keast, Lindsay. "The Indeterminacy of Abstraction: Philip Guston 1947-1951." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18403.
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Many scholars exclude New York painter Philip Guston (1913-80) from the artistic tradition of Abstract Expressionism due to his absence from New York City during the group's early formative years. This thesis asserts, however, that Guston's role in Abstract Expressionism can be firmly established through his unique interpretation of the formative influence of surrealist automatism. Though never engaging with the surrealists directly, Guston explored automatist ideas upon meeting New York School experimental music composers John Cage and Morton Feldman. This trio's engagement with the Zen Buddhist concepts of unimpededness and interpenetration influenced Guston to create compositions through chance operations, a process Cage would call "indeterminacy." My aim is to enrich an understanding of Guston's idiosyncratic relationship to Abstract Expressionism and, ultimately, to offer a more expansive definition of Abstract Expressionism in general, allowing for a broader understanding of the formation of American modernism.
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Kerr, Janette. "Representation and indeterminacy : a study of night in painting." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420203.
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This thesis presents the findings of a practice-based research project in fine art, supported by a study of specific art historical and philosophical discourses. Up until now, night landscape painting has not been properly considered as a genre in its own right. This thesis argues for its recognition as such through a critical examination of images of night landscape in the practice of key Western landscape painters from the 17th to the 21st century. It considers the extent to which efforts of contemporary artists to record and represent 'night' are consciously or unconsciously acted upon by our trajectory knowledge of past representational culture - tracing the 'nocturne' through Romanticism and Naturalism to abstraction, and via the overarching ideologies and expectation of 'landscape'. Importantly, my research highlights a continuity of artistic feeling and intention. My own art practice as a landscape painter forms an essential part of this investigation. A visual study of night in actuality, supported through the theoretical perspective of phenomenology, has been carried out: Through a series of night walks, drawings and paintings, night is interrogated as 'subject' as opposed to 'context', and as an indeterminate and 'ambiguous' space.
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Bacon, Andrew Jonathan. "Indeterminacy : an investigation into the Soritical and semantical paradoxes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b4490a8c-0089-4c77-8d24-1ab1ca5baaf0.
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According to orthodoxy the study of the Soritical and semantical paradoxes belongs to the domain of the philosophy of language. To solve these paradoxes we need to investigate the nature of words like `heap' and `true.' In this thesis I criticise linguistic explanations of the state of ignorance we find ourselves in when confronted with indeterminate cases and develop a classical non-linguistic theory of indeterminacy in its stead. The view places the study of vagueness and indeterminacy squarely in epistemological terms, situating it within a theory of rational propositional attitudes. The resulting view is applied to a number of problems in the philosophy of vagueness and the semantic paradoxes.
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Fazi, Maria-Beatrice. "The aesthetics of contingent computation : abstraction, experience, and indeterminacy." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/12487/.
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This thesis offers a philosophical study of computation, which is understood here as a method of abstraction that systematises reality through logico-quantitative means. The thesis challenges the view that computation’s abstractive processes are simple and static ‘formulae’ that capture the world’s dynamism. By engaging with the formal and axiomatic character of computing, it argues that computation is itself dynamic, because it has a potential to actualise itself. This potentiality is theorised in aesthetic terms. Drawing from Deleuze, aesthetics is viewed as an investigation into the conditions of real experience. For Deleuze, these conditions pertain to virtuality, i.e. to the indeterminacy of sensation, and of thought’s immanence to affect. However, through a novel reading of the ontological significance of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and of Turing’s notion of incomputability, the thesis demonstrates that indeterminacy does not pertain uniquely to virtual life, but rather lies at the axiomatic heart of computational logic. Computation is thus shown to be contingent, because it is always indeterminate. This contingency is formal, not empirical; it is the status of self-sufficient processes of algorithmic determination, which always confront quantitative infinity by means of formal abstraction. Whitehead’s philosophy is used to extend aesthetics from the sensible to the intelligible. Experience is thereby understood as self-actualisation. Its conditions are tied to physical and conceptual operations of determination. Computational processes are addressed as Whitehead’s ‘actual occasions’: as events that constitute themselves through the dynamic processing of eternal and actual data. This dynamism is not pre-determined a priori, and therefore breaks with the computationalist and cognitivist paradigms, which reduce actualisation to universalising prescriptions. This dynamism cannot be flattened onto sense-empirical factuality either. Instead, an aesthetics of contingent computation conceptualises ‘computational actual occasions’ as discrete processes of determination that conclude with the production of a structure or a ‘form’ of actualisation.
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Irving, Joy. "Designating "dangerousness", implications of indeterminacy in Canada's dangerous offender provisions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60990.pdf.
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Magarian, Barry. "Indeterminacy in some of Shelley’s major poems : a critical discussion." Thesis, Durham University, 1993. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5719/.
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This thesis examines a selection of Shelley's major poems m order to delineate the way they invite and resist interpretation. I argue that Shelley's reluctance to supply simplistic meanings is bound up with his search for truth and symptomatic of intellectual honesty. Shelley's texts call upon the reader's responses in order to bring their meanings into focus. These meanings are dynamically provisional. This method of calling upon the reader's responses is specific to Shelley and is termed 'indeterminacy'. The term is not used primarily in a deconstructive sense 'Indeterminacy' incorporates the indeterminacy in a text, and the indeterminacy of the reader's response that is triggered by the text. The thesis has six chapters. Chapter One addresses Alastor, relating the indeterminacy with which the Poet is presented to the poem's problematic narrative methods. Chapter Two examines the enigma of the Maniac in Julian and Maddalo. The Maniac's soliloquy remains poised between illumination and opacity This ambivalence is linked to Julian's function and the inconclusive ending. Chapter Three examines The Cenci in the light of Shelley's tendency to let the reader assume the protagonist's viewpoint. I argue that, in evaluating Beatrice, we must also evaluate ourselves. Chapter Four examines self- consciousness and bereavement in Adonais. Chapter Five concerns the lyrics to Jane Williams, concentrating on the changing psychological currents of Shelley’s relationship with Jane. The relationship is examined in terms of the tension between poetic symbols and complex human personalities. Chapter Six concerns Rousseau’s ambiguity in The Triumph of Life; this is related to the enigma of human endeavours and the articulation of moral dilemmas that are left unresolved. Throughout I illustrate Shelley's sense of poetry as surrogate-like in that he is continually striving to recreate the absent forms and sensations of experience and often anxious to stress the reductiveness of this attempt.
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Billingham, Jimmy Patrick. "The act of viewing : indeterminacy and interpretation in narrative film." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7454/.
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This thesis argues that the presentation of narrative in film involves a fundamental indeterminacy, derived from the status of the event in film. I elaborate this idea of indeterminacy through Gilles Deleuze's ontology of the filmic image and Daniel Frampton's phenomenology of film-thinking. I analyse various manifestations of narrative indeterminacy, looking at examples from silent-era, classical and contemporary cinema from around the world, both within the studio model and outside of it. I look at how we may theorise narrative agency in light of this indeterminacy and its various forms, proposing an alternative to previous models of filmic narration, as well as examining the implications of indeterminacy for a viewer's activity in understanding narrative and how this relates to narrative agency. Here I use Wolfgang Iser's reader-response theory and his theory of literary indeterminacy to propose that this act of viewing is fundamentally interpretive, exploring the extent to which a filmic equivalent to Iser's implied reader may be identified, and the implications of this for conceptions of the relationship between the various types of viewer proposed throughout film theory. What emerges from this is a theory of the act of viewing that attends to the particular status of the event in the moving image of film and the indeterminacy that follows from this in a manner that previous theories do not, proposing an alternative to David Bordwell's theory of narrative comprehension and the related dismissal of interpretation. I suggest how viewer activity can be theorised alongside – rather than instead of – the 'passive' spectators of ideologically oriented film theory, and that what is required is attention to this intersection of viewing positions in film theory.
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Connors, Steven. "The Subject of Indeterminacy| Exploring Identity with Conrad and Salih." Thesis, Clark University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10841511.
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Literary study has long been concerned with the construction of meaning and identity through language. In the realm of postcolonialism, for instance, it is necessary to consider the ways that racism and sexism are hegemonic constructs that are transmitted and solidified through language. Furthermore, literary texts such as Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih engage themselves with revealing the ways that racism, sexism, and colonial discourse function through determinacy or certainty. Moreover, Conrad and Salih are engaged in undermining these enterprises of authoritative discourse by revealing the underlying indeterminacy of language and meaning-making. In other words, they show that meaning exists as humanity constructs it. Thus, it is necessary to consider the ways that they question racism, sexism, and colonialism as movements of thought, discourse, and action that have no rational foundations; and it is necessary to consider the ways that they seek to frame the resistance of these forces in their characters.
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Santos, J?nia de Jesus. "Um lance de dados jamais abolir? o acaso: o poema de St?phane Mallarm? como proposta de constru??o de sentidos." UFVJM, 2018. http://acervo.ufvjm.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1779.
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Linha de pesquisa: Estudos da Linguagem e Cultura.Na Capa e Folha de Rosto da obra, consta o t?tulo: "Um lance de dados jamais abolir? o acaso: o poema de St?phane Mallarm? como uma proposta de constru??o de sentidos".
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O presente trabalho consiste em uma discuss?o de tra?os composicionais do texto Um lance de dados jamais abolir? o acaso (Un coup de d?s jamais n?abolira le hasard), de St?phane Marlarme (1897), a partir da transcria??o de Haroldo de Campos (2015). Identificando sobretudo tra?os de indetermina??o, de estruturas v?rsicas n?o convencionais e de constru??es aleat?rias de imagens po?ticas, este trabalho visa ? caracteriza??o do poema mallarmeano como uma composi??o deliberadamente engenhada para possibilitar diversos caminhos de leitura e, por conseguinte, mult?vocas propostas de sentido. Dada a complexidade imposta pelo objeto de pesquisa, a discuss?o empreendida nesta disserta??o mobiliza um arcabou?o de pressupostos te?ricos que buscam circunscrever a inter-rela??o entre as inst?ncias da autoria, da leitura e do texto, nomeadamente a no??o da chamada ?obra aberta? preconizada por Eco (2013) em seu livro hom?nimo publicado na d?cada de 1960. A investiga??o mostra como o poema de Mallarm? contribui ? por meio de seus planos transpon?veis, sua disposi??o de palavras em constela??o e sua constru??o de universos ficcionais fragment?rios ? para a produ??o de sentidos n?o un?vocos e para a multiplica??o de possibilidades de leitura e de frui??o poem?tica.
Disserta??o (Mestrado Profissional) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Ci?ncias Humanas, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2018.
This thesis aims at attempting to analyze the indeterminate traits, nonconventional verse structures, and random constructions of poetic imagery detectable in the text Un coup de d?s jamais n?abolira le hasard (1897) by French symbolist poet St?phane Mallarm?, based on a 2015 ?transcreation? by Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos. Given the complexities imposed by the research carried out here, the analysis mobilizes a set of theoretical frameworks which attempt to comprehend the inter-relationships among authorship, readership and the text itself, namely the notion of ?Open Work? put forward by Eco (2013) in his homonymous book published during the 1960s. The investigation shows how Mallarm??s poem contributes ? by means of its interchangeable strata, its constellation layout and its construction of a fragmentary mise-en-sc?ne ? to an equivocal meaning production and to the multiplication of possibilities of reading and poetic jouissance.
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James, D. L. "Wolfgang Iser's concept of indeterminacy and its application to Stendhal's fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233536.
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Whitney, Kathryn. "Determining indeterminacy : vision and revision in the writings of Pierre Boulez." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1ff0a118-6df6-4352-a567-303b2235ce31.
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This study is framed by questions about the wider implications of a belief in Boulez's independent indeterminate aesthetic for divergent trends such as Europeanism vs. Americanism, modernism vs. postmodernism and serial structure vs. non-serial structure. In conclusion it suggests that an ongoing tendency toward historical revisionism in Boulez's texts may be a function of the difficulty in articulating an intentional indeterminate aesthetic in light of the serial inheritance.
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Al-Obeid, Walid. "Author, indeterminacy and interpretive communities : the case of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298991.
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Wilkins, Inigo. "Irreversible noise : the rationalisation of randomness and the fetishisation of indeterminacy." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2016. http://research.gold.ac.uk/19354/.
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This thesis aims to elaborate the theoretical and practical significance of the concept of noise with regard to current debates concerning realism, materialism, and rationality. The scientific conception of noise follows from the developments of thermodynamics, information theory, cybernetics, and dynamic systems theory; hence its qualification as irreversible. It is argued that this conceptualization of noise is entangled in several polemics that cross the arts and sciences, and that it is crucial to an understanding of their contemporary condition. This thesis draws on contemporary scientific theories to argue that randomness is an intrinsic functional aspect at all levels of complex dynamic systems, including higher cognition and reason. However, taking randomness or noise as given, or failing to distinguish between different descriptive levels, has led to misunderstanding and ideology. After surveying the scientific and philosophical context, the practical understanding of randomness in terms of probability theory is elaborated through a history of its development in the field of economics, where its idealization has had its most pernicious effects. Moving from the suppression of noise in economics to its glorification in aesthetics, the experience of noise in the sonic sense is first given a naturalistic neuro-phenomenological explanation. Finally, the theoretical tools developed over the course of the inquiry are applied to the use of noise in music. The rational explanation of randomness in various specified contexts, and the active manipulation of probability that this enables, is opposed to the political and aesthetic tendencies to fetishize indeterminacy. This multi-level account of constrained randomness contributes to the debate by demystifying noise, showing it to be an intrinsic and functionally necessary condition of reason and consequently of freedom.
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Bhatt, Chetan. "Race, ethnicity and religion : agency, translocality, indeterminacy and new political movements." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503504.
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Warom, Carl Michael. "Sort of but sort of not : the theory of metaphysical indeterminacy." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9127/.
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This thesis is an investigation into metaphysical indeterminacy. The project initially aims to scope out the available options for token theories, and to clarify the choice between them in a systematic manner. Following a meta-theoretical excursion concerning the target and motivation for such theorizing, I then move on to provide a comparative and systematic framework for the discussion of the nature of indeterminacy. That model’s utility is then exemplified by its ability to distinguish some variants of Supervaluationism. Finally, some of the foregoing is utilized to reply to some arguments that seek to derive metaphysical indeterminacy from semantic indeterminacy. The project then moves on to discuss distinctively metaphysical indeterminacy, and it is shown how the previous model can be straightforwardly fleshed out to model the options. I subsequently move on to critically engage with three extant substantive proposals from the literature about the nature of metaphysical indeterminacy.
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Szarkowski, Shane C. "There is no Afghanistan : the historic indeterminacy of Afghan sovereign identity." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2017. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/c1c0988c-49d7-4e72-ae43-52491bcfc0fb/1/.
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This thesis considers how we conceptualize the meaning of state failure with reference to specific so-called failed states. The term implies certain prescriptions in an era of nation-building projects, and as such imposes certain identity aspects on any state labeled as failed. Yet the specific histories, experiences and political culture of those states must also have meaning – not only in understanding how the current conditions came to be but also in understanding how and why we are able to talk and think about that state in whatever particular ways we do. The importance in this is that much of the academic and policy conversation around state failure takes into account the former, but not the latter. Accordingly, this project will focus on the specific case of Afghanistan. This country is largely seen as a very straight-forward example of classic state failure. Yet it displays attributes which are quite different from many of those often assumed in both liberal and critical scholarly literature. Further, Afghanistan has a long history of interaction with the West, which this thesis analyses in episodic detail by way of critical discourse analysis. Analysis is leveled on narratives and discourse on Afghanistan through five historic encounters – the First, Second and Third Anglo-Afghan wars, USSR-US competition in Afghanistan during the Cold War, and the post-September 11 intervention. This analysis suggests that Afghanistan has been assigned a certain indeterminacy in its character through the course of those interactions to the extent that assumptions of statehood which necessarily predate state failure are problematic. This project contributes to academic knowledge by bringing a careful deconstructive treatment to the notion of “state failure”. Through the recognition of binaries underpinning the narratives on Afghanistan specifically and its place as a “failed state” generally, this thesis seeks to disrupt certain “settled” knowledges about state failure too often taken for granted in liberal and critical approaches to state failure alike.
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Gillott, Brendan Charles. "The indeterminacy of longform poetics in John Cage and Charles Olson." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271190.
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This thesis is concerned with the longform poetics of Charles Olson and of John Cage, and with the role indeterminacy plays in their constitution and reception. The work of these authors poses unusual and particular challenges to readers, and it is towards readers and reading that this thesis is primarily oriented. Each chapter describes a problem or difficulty which these texts create for readers, and attempts to model that difficulty as clearly as possible in order to demonstrate how it forces readers to reassess received readerly protocols. As such, the thesis is also concerned with the limits of traditional critical methodologies in the face of such works. Though the concrete examples presented are mostly taken from a relatively circumscribed time and culture – the USA post-World War Two – I claim that the problematics of indeterminacy herein discussed are generally prevalent in long poetic forms, and in a certain sense constitutive of them. The thesis maps how ‘indeterminacy’ as a concept within literary criticism conflicts with that model of criticism concerned primarily with the ‘close reading’ of texts and the hermeneutic elucidation of ‘meaning’ thereby. Between historicism and close reading, it argues that this indeterminacy is most pervasive and yet most critically overlooked within traditions of what I call ‘longform’ poetics. The Introduction, discusses the unfitness of Cage’s early text ‘Indeterminacy’ to traditional modes of close-reading as exemplified in I.A. Richards and William Empson. It then recounts the developing discourse around poetic indeterminacy as it emerged through Roman Ingarden, Wolfgang Iser, Marjorie Perloff and Charles Altieri, and how that discourse increasingly configures the question of indeterminacy less around meaning and more around reading as an activity in itself. Chapter One provides a critical redescription of Olson’s hugely influential manifesto-essay ‘Projective Verse’ via comparison to Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry. Chapter Two addresses the problem of reading speed with reference to Olson’s interest in the cinema. Chapter Three describes the poetics of heterogeneity and surprise exemplified by Cage’s Mushroom Book. Chapter Four investigates the arrangement and disarray of Olson’s ‘archive poetics’ and his insistent habit of listing. Chapter Five considers how Cage’s cavilling over the idea of ‘ideas’ informs and deforms his huge mesostic lectures I-VI. Chapter Six uses Olson’s interest in models to tease out the constitution of his longform poetics on a set of indeterminate part-whole relations. Chapter Seven traces the effects of typos in two editions of Cage’s Anarchy, and in the thought and editorial practices of Olson. Throughout, the thesis delineates various protocols for reading, models for how to engage the longform texts of Olson and Cage, aiming to demonstrate how for these poetries one needs to select and ‘read through’ a poetics as a sort of optic, one through which such reticent texts can be made legible.
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McLaughlin, Scott Graeme. "Strange attractors : a commentary on applications of indeterminacy in my recent music." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2009. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/14530/.
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This commentary reflects on how indeterminacy has been used in the music I have written over the period of my doctoral studies, 2005-2008. Non-musical ideas play a major role in my compositional language and this is reflected in the use of 'strange attractors' as a metaphor for the philosophical and aesthetic stance behind composing with indeterminacy. After a brief introduction chapter, the links between strange attractors—and chaos theory in general—and indeterminate music are discussed. And applications of indeterminacy to pitch organisation techniques such as spectral modelling and frequency modulation are examined as part of a frequency-based harmonic continuum. Different methods of generating ambiguous pitch percepts that sit at the boundaries of the harmony/timbre duality are considered In pieces with text processes.
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Beckett, Jason A. "The end of customary international law? : a purposive analysis of structural indeterminacy." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2754/.
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Where CLS, and other critical discourses, seek to “uncover” and “explode” the ideologies and biases of law, to demonstrate its inability to fulfil its promises, the present work is intended to initiate the task of demanding that law, and especially CIL, live up to those very promises. But first, the nature of these promises, and the structure and purpose of law must be examined, analysed, and where necessary contested and decided, or rather, defined. In this regard, the hidden assumptions of legal theory must be uncovered and problematised; the debates over law must be disaggregated, before law itself can be properly determined. Only after these tasks have been completed can the nihilist challenges of NAIL be met. This thesis argues that CIL is best understood as an independent system of rules, against which state conduct may be assessed; rather than as a necessarily authoritative institutional reality. This highlights the distinction between law-creative, and merely legally evaluable, state actions. The theory presented in the final chapter - which is developed from the methodology outlined in the preceding four chapters - acts as a lens through which those actions of states which alter or develop CIL may be distinguished from those actions which ought, merely, to be judged in the light of CIL. This allows us to distinguish legal from illegal state conduct, regardless of the absence or presence of enforcement. This distinction between the legal and the illegal is distinct from, analytically prior to, and more important than, the enforcement of legal commands.
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Savage, R. W. H. "Structure and sorcery : The aesthetics of post-war serial composition and indeterminacy." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377937.
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CARVALHO, Mayara Pinho de. "O sujeito como operador de uma indeterminação: dialética, psicanálise e ato educativo." www.teses.ufc.br, 2015. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/16427.
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CARVALHO, Mayara Pinho de. O sujeito como operador de uma indeterminação: dialética, psicanálise e ato educativo. 2015. 117f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2015.Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-04-25T11:30:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_mpcarvalho.pdf: 827996 bytes, checksum: 6d2c1e944b3c1d9e2a2cc09dab12498e (MD5)
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The experience of modernity enables a comprehension of the subject based on regularities on the way of being, acting, judging and so on. There is a normativity that regulates social life, and the subject exists as this possibility of setting up its own field of experience. A theory of the subject, from this perspective, corresponds to an understanding that the human founds his ground of experience as a process of unity and self-identity, lying there the core of normativity that organizes social life. Criticising the category of the subject corresponds to grounding a theorisation that is not compromised with identitary modes of determination of the subject, but that understands how the field of experience structures itself through events from a negativity. In Žižek, we can find the problem of the subject as the main core of his thought, but he operates an inversion from the tradition that contains a fundamental passage from a metaphysics of identity to a negative ontology. This way, the main problem of this paper is to develop alternatives in relation to a theory of the subject committed with the idea of human finitude, chained to an identitary principle: thinking the ways of comprehending the humane beyond representation. In opposition to a philosophy of identity, Žižek’s work has been directed on the problem of excess/lack in the order of being, and it is through the relation between German idealism and psychoanalysis that he developed his reflections. This perspective opens a fundamental political field, because the power of dismission of structural modes of subjetivation guards the possibility of new modes of subjectivation. Thus, the subject is the one who carries the transcendental condition of possibility and impossibility of the ways of being. A politics aiming at emancipation must break with the comprehension of man based on identitary figures. In face of these problemes, it is necessary to establish an humanity freed from the category of the “human”, that allows new political arrangements. The “inhuman”, then, would be precisely this dimension of the impersonal and depersonalized, that which cannot be singled out through the recognition of individual psychological processes. Thus, the critical pedagogical-political act institutes its own legality, suspending the Law of the prevailing oppressive power, opening up spaces for creativity and the establishment of a process of socioeconomic, cultural and political emancipation.
A modernidade possibilita uma compreensão da experiência do sujeito a partir de regularidades dos modos de ser, agir, julgar etc. Há uma normatividade que regula a vida social, e o sujeito existe enquanto essa possibilidade de fundar seu próprio campo de experiência. Uma teoria do sujeito, a partir dessa perspectiva, corresponde a uma elaboração do modo como o humano funda seu lugar enquanto processo de unidade e autoidentidade, estando aí o cerne de normatividade que organiza a vida social. Diante desse problema, criticar a categoria de sujeito corresponde a fundamentar uma teorização que não se comprometa com modos de determinação identitária do sujeito, mas que compreenda como o campo de experiência se estrutura através de acontecimentos a partir de uma negatividade. Em Žižek, podemos encontrar o problema do sujeito como o núcleo central de seu pensamento, mas esse realiza uma inversão da tradição que articula a passagem fundamental de uma metafísica da identidade para uma ontologia negativa. Dessa forma, o problema fundamental desse trabalho é desenvolver alternativas em relação a uma teoria do sujeito comprometida com a ideia de finitude humana, atrelada a um princípio identitário: pensar modos de compreensão do humano para além dos reconhecidos pela representação. Em contraponto a uma filosofia da identidade, o trabalho de Žižek tem se direcionado sobre a questão do excesso/falta na ordem do Ser, e é pela relação entre idealismo alemão e psicanálise que ele elabora suas reflexões. Essa perspectiva abre um campo político fundamental, pois a potência de desligamento de modos estruturais de subjetivação guarda a possibilidade de novas formas de subjetivação. Assim, o sujeito é isso que carrega a condição transcendental de possibilidade e impossibilidade dos modos de ser. Uma política que tem por horizonte a emancipação deve fazer um tipo de ruptura na compreensão do homem a partir de figuras identitárias. Diante desses problemas, é necessário estabelecer uma humanidade liberada da categoria "humano" e que possibilite novos rearranjos políticos. O “inumano”, então, seria precisamente essa dimensão do impessoal e do despersonalizado, o que não pode ser singularizado através do reconhecimento dos processos psicológicos individuais. A partir dessas reflexões sobre processos que acontecem para além dessa categoria de humano, o ato político-pedagógico crítico instaura sua própria legalidade, suspendendo a Lei do poder, abrindo espaços para a criatividade e a instauração de um processo de emancipação econômico-social, cultural e político.
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Reoch, Shane Derek. "Words as weapons, the indeterminacy of language, race and sexuality in Richard Wright." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq30545.pdf.
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Harris, John Richard. "Moral indeterminacy and the specification model of political obligation (John Locke, Thomas Hobbes)." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/colorado/fullcit?p3190397.
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Georgi, G. F. "Optimum elastic design of prestressed concrete structures with particular reference to statistical indeterminacy." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370493.
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Herman, David. "Perceiving Indeterminacy: A Theoretical Framework of the Perceptual Rite of Passage for Preadolescents." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248481/.
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It is the fundamental insight of phenomenology that meaning is first and foremost - not something which we intellectually reflect on. It is not a product of the mind reworking raw, perceptual experiences. Rather meaning, and our connection to the world, are perceptual phenomena. Thus, to understand the ways in which children find meaning demands a turn toward perceptual experiences - how children see and feel. In this theoretical dissertation, I explore questions of perceptual experiences through a phenomenological framework that I refer to as the perceptual rite of passage (PRoP). The conceptual framework, which centers on attentiveness, labors to help us understand the ontology of perception for preadolescents and how meaning emerges through everyday encounters.
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Gregory, Jason M. "Music for flute and piano and a script for violinist." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3458.
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Music for Flute and Piano is a determinate composition for these two instruments. The technique used consists of serial saturations of pitch and rhythm as a starting point; however, the end result departed from strict adherence to serial procedure toward an intuitive variation of an 'A' and 'B' theme. A Script for Violinist incorporates determinacy and indeterminacy into a score; it is an exploration of violin idioms made 'in the moment,' capturing the many possibilities of bowing, fingering, and timing that become individualized by the performer.
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Hutchison, Benita Turnbull. "Enabled death as euthanasia, decisional indeterminacy and the physician's role as central classificatory factors." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0025/MQ31217.pdf.
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Morse, Barry Ray. "Indeterminacy, the I Ching, and John Cage: A New Design Method for Landscape Architecture." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/190216.
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The creative use of indeterminacy (i.e. "chance") is an often overlooked design opportunity despite the universality of chance in art, nature, science and life. How can "chance", a seemingly capricious phenomenon be made to work for someone? One controlled use of chance is through the Chinese I Ching "chance operations" method of composer and artist John Cage (1912-1992). This thesis addresses the questions of how one might approach using this method in landscape architectural design, what would be the outcome of such an indeterminate design and whether or not it could lead to a constructed landscape. In addition, this thesis will answer the question: what is the relationship between the I Ching, John Cage and the constructed landscape, anyway? The final product of this thesis will be a new redesign of an existing plaza using Cage's techniques and a comparative evaluation among the new indeterminate concept and two preexisting designs using the original plaza program objectives as a guide against which the three designs can be judged for effectiveness.
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De, Bievre Guy. "Open, mobile and indeterminate forms." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6361.
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Since the early fifties “open form” has become a generic description for many different compositional concepts having in common musical outcomes which to a certain degree are indeterminate. The introduction looks into different meanings given to “form” in music and gives a historical survey of the origins of compositional indeterminacy. Next, the concept of “open form” is elaborated into a territory which is usually not associated with it: jazz. The introduction is followed by five case studies. Folio (1952-54) by Earle Brown is considered to contain the first intentionally “open form” works. It is driven by improvisational ideas, either at the compositional stage or at the interpretative stage. Brown's affinity with jazz also offers connections to other topics of the thesis. Miles Davis' Ife (1972) may at first seem like an odd inclusion in this study, but it is not. Its only oddity could be that of all the works discussed it has no score. But it is a composition; it is recognizable throughout its various incarnations and repeatable, and its outcome is indeterminate. Adam Rudolph did not conceive Ostinatos of Circularity as an “open form” work, but it is an indeterminate composition: it does have a score the musical result of which depends on the decisions made by the composer/conductor during the performance as well as the choices made by the performers. In Peter Zummo's Experimenting with Household Chemicals the performers play the same, often ambiguous, score, moving in the same direction at their own speed and discretion. The lack of synchronicity and the ambiguous notation result in a very elastic organic form. Anne La Berge refers to her recent works as “guided improvisations”. The scores mainly consist of suggestive text materials, software preset descriptions and rudimentary verbal indications, leaving major decisions to the performers. The last chapter is about my own work. It presents seven works (the scores of which can be found in the accompanying portfolio), composed between 2007 and 2011. Each of these works uses the score as a “field” through which the performers roam.
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Rossi, Laura Lucia. "Indeterminacy in the Italian novel : five case studies from Tozzi, Landolfi, Vittorini, Gadda and Ortese." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19609/.
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This research analyses the manipulation of literary indeterminacy (i.e. the interpretative openness of a literary work) in the novel. It is based on reader-response theory and on the notion of literary indeterminacy as theorised by Wolfgang Iser and Roman Ingarden. Its objective is twofold. Firstly, it aims to explore how textual strategies manipulate indeterminacy, and how the latter triggers the reader’s interaction with the text. Secondly, it aims to examine how indeterminacy is handled in five Italian case-study novels, which critics have often described with terms belonging to the same semantic field as “indeterminacy” (for example: “openness” and “ambiguity”). Consequently, this research does not necessarily study how indeterminacy is increased or limited but, rather, the effects of its manipulation. The introductory chapter focuses on the notion of indeterminacy, its potentiality for textual exploration, and the research methodology. Moreover, it introduces the Italian context and the analysed corpus. Subsequently, one chapter is dedicated to each of the novels examined. Each individual analysis considers indeterminacy as operating in the text at different levels and with different strategies. In doing so, the case studies bring to light the different way in which each novel manipulates indeterminacy, as well as its links with each individual author’s poetics. In particular, we find: a textual vertigo effect in Federigo Tozzi’s Con gli occhi chiusi; an interplay with the fantastic mode in Tommaso Landolfi’s La pietra lunare; an open and dialogical structure in Elio Vittorini’s Conversazione in Sicilia; the use of accumulative devices in Carlo Emilio Gadda’s La cognizione del dolore; and an hybrid form with elements from literary nonsense in Anna Maria Ortese’s L’Iguana. In the conclusion, comparative remarks are drawn on how these novels manipulate indeterminacy to cope with the problem of realism in literature and how they elicit the reader’s intervention.
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Piggins, Ashley James. "Essays on quasi-orderings and population ethics." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324363.
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Boon, Carl J. "Parataxis and Possibility: Ron Silliman's Alphabet." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1178035006.
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Dey, Pascal, Hanna Schneider, and Florentine Maier. "Intermediary Organisations and the Hegemonisation of Social Entrepreneurship: Fantasmatic Articulations, Constitutive Quiescences, and Moments of Indeterminacy." Sage, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840616634133.
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The rapid rise of alternative organisations such as social enterprises is largely due to the promotional activities of intermediary organisations. So far, little is known about the affective nature of such activities. The present article thus investigates how intermediary organisations make social entrepreneurship palatable for a broader audience by establishing it as an object of desire. Drawing on affect-oriented extensions of Laclau and Mouffe's poststructuralist theory, hegemonisation is suggested as a way of understanding how social entrepreneurship is articulated through a complementary process of signification and affective investment. Specifically, by examining Austrian intermediaries, we show how social entrepreneurship is endowed with a sense of affective thrust that is based on three interlocking dynamics: the articulation of fantasies such as 'inclusive exclusiveness', 'large-scale social change' and 'pragmatic solutions'; the repression of anxiety-provoking and contentious issues (constitutive quiescences); as well as the use of conceptually vague, floating signifiers (moments of indeterminacy). Demonstrating that the hegemonisation of social entrepreneurship involves articulating certain issues whilst, at the same time, omitting others, or rendering them elusive, the article invites a counter-hegemonic critique of social entrepreneurship, and, on a more general level, of alternative forms of organising, that embraces affect as a driving force of change, while simultaneously affirming the impossibility of harmony and wholeness.
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Dean, Brian Edward. "The problem of moral luck the indeterminacy of moral responsibility and the instability of moral judgment /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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