Miguel Said Vieira

Bens comuns: uma análise linguística e terminológica

Using an abstract graph model we describe a hypothetical transformation of a literary entity through the active connections in the graph. First, we weakly define a set of transformations (“morphology”) over a particular entity as a series of the recent activities distinguishing them into categories according to their effect on the entity. Second, to our conjecture, the emerging paths of forms are slowly abandoning the original “birth context”, shaping a decreased, cleaned set of entities, to replace the gap with entities derived from the dynamic set of “recipient context”. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_4In this interview Joao Luis Lisboa talks about the History of the Book as a discipline, and about the forms and uses of books.My article proposes an exercise of archeophony – or voice archeology – focusing, on this occasion, on the possibility of establishing the complex figure and imagining of the ‘avatar’ as a comparandum of the notion and representation of the ‘cyborg’. The gains of this comparison allow us to debate different objects, such as ‘the voice of the avatar’, the ‘voice as avatar’ and, finally, the archive of the vocal representations, ‘avatars of the voice’. Case studies under concise scrutiny include Spike Jonze’s feature film Her ; fragments of the Bernardo Soares/Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet ; lastly, the digital simulation of John Donne’s voice, accessible online as a result of the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project: A Digital Re-Creation of John Donne’s Gunpowder Day Sermon , based at the North Carolina State University.The present article aims to discuss the materiality of the book through graphic design. It begins with two different ways of looking at the object: the emotional design approach by Donald Norman (complemented by Antonio Damasio’s affects theory) and the production of presence approach by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. To understand how those theories can be related and how they can apply to books, one of the sections is dedicated to describing the haptic qualities of three books. By contrasting a traditional book with two books whose design explores their tactile materiality, this article tries to understand how the physical embodiment of the book influences our perception of art through affective interactions.In general, the article seeks to understand the production of a specific area of media art focused on a variant of Environmental art (tentatively called ecomedia aesthetics) that could contribute to technological resilience and ethical formulations concerned about the future of humanity and the planet. Therefore the research is divided into two areas: on the one hand, artists, collectives and designers involved in research on unconventional computing systems, alternative infrastructures and green energy; on the other hand, relations established between ecomedia artistic production and philosophical concepts applied to a theory of responsibility. This article combines two branches of philosophy (ethics and aesthetics) and, in particular, covers areas such as computer science, ecology, renewables, among others.Recensao critica a obra de Stefan Herbrechter, Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis. London: Bloomsbury, 2013, 239 pp. ISBN 978-1-7809-3606-2 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_19Review of Johanna Drucker, Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production , Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014. 215 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-72493-8 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_14Review of Lori EMERSON, Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound , Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2014, 225 pp. [1a ed.]. ISBN 978-0-8166-9125-8Recencao critica a Siegfried Zielinski, [… After the Media] News from the Slow-fading Twentieth Century . Minneapolis, Minnesota: Univocal, 2013. 276 pp. ISBN 9781937561161. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-1_16Review of Jussi PARIKKA, What is Media Archaeology?, London: Polity, 2012, 200 pp. ISBN 978-0745650265.Review of Alexander Starre, Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization . Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2015, 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-60938-359-6 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_17half a door and clown right clasp, your knobck ck ck l icks un g ate sleep inside the hoseyr Faucet vapor eats my end raw nor meatThe expansion of practices for sharing cultural artifacts made possible by digitization and communication networks has led researchers to apply the notion of commons to the field of intellectual property – in cases such as open-source software, Wikipedia, and open-access scientific publication, for example. This article deals with linguistic and terminological issues raised by this concept and its translations (in particular, into Portuguese); examines common sources of misunderstanding, such as the conflation of the legal, economic, and theological meanings of “commons”; reviews similar words and phrases in other languages; and discusses the merits and disadvantages of the existing options in Portuguese – mainly the option for “common goods” [“bens comuns”].Recensao critica a obra de Martin Paul Eve, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future . Cambridge University Press, 2014, 209 pp. ISBN 978-1107484016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_21