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This essay is a detailed review of Quando assim termino o nunca... (2008) of Wilton Azevedo, double work that includes a DVD with 18 videopoems (also named as interpoemas by the author) and a CD with 14 sound poems. The relations between several parts of the work are analyzed: booklet, interface/menu and an identified “playlist” (material elements for access); title, indexes, “Introducción”, “créditos”, interpoemas, sound poems and poetic texts (elements of the artistic structure in itself). A special attention is dedicated to the place of natural language, writing and litterary skills with words, as matrixes that generate the work, understanding them in the digital context and in their interactions with sound and video discourses. In this way, the poetic dimension of textual and oral language interweaves with the particulad dynamics of digital media, such as the creative delay identified by Wilton Azevedo, or the opposition between information-noise, pointed by Philippe Bootz in the foreword. Of the 18 interpoemas only a few were chosen to be appraised in depth, due to the complexity of their construction.

The article seeks, in memorialist style, to reconstruct the trajectory of the work performed by Duo Pantharei, formed by artists Wilton Azevedo and Sérgio Basbaum, between the years 2012 to 2015. The objective is to record, to take stock of the work done by the duo, and to honor the poet, teacher and multimedia artist Wilton Azevedo (1956-2016). When reconstituting this course, theoretical, formal and affective questions are confused, and therefore the article questions the limits of the formal procedures of reason in the generation of knowledge. The course of the duo is divided into 4 stages, from its beginning in 2012 to the last presentation of the Pantharei in Alcalá La Real in Spain in 2015.

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The work presents a reading of the work of Wilton de Azevedo from central concepts of psychoanalysis, between Freud and Lacan. For this course, organized in three stages, we try to present how much the idea of a material signifier implies the theory and practice of Wilton in a tradition that, from Democritus, conceives the word as matter. From this, an approach of his work is made to the concept of langangue, that shelters homophones and discharges of the meanings.

The aim of this essay is to discuss how (if possible) we should translate the idea of ‘queer’ (as in ‘queer theory’ from English to Portuguese. Our interest is not simply to translate the word ‘queer’, but to discuss what could be gained or loss in the process of translation and adaptation of queer theory from Anglophone to Lusophone contexts, in terms of the articulation of the theory in cultural analysis and literary criticism outside the Anglophone contexts.

This essay explores Brazilian digital author Wilton Azevedo’s work Atame: a angústia do precário in view of its multiple versions – as live performance, interactive DVD, and video-poem – and the possible implications of these different modes of operating. At the same time, I attempt to read the work as marked by the character’s bodily fragmentation in a post breakup scenario, in which her dilacerated body becomes materially present to us by means of how we navigate through the work. What we have is thus a double articulation in which the multiple versions of the work and the character’s attempt to reconstitute a lost body are presented as invariably frustrated by a tension between human and machine which ties the character’s and the work’s final mode of being.

Poema homenagem à Wilton Azevedo.

Assia Djebar (1936-2015) is a renowned Algerian writer who wrote in French and was given the honor of being part of the French Academy (2005), an honor that could not be awarded to Maghrebis until then, and very few women had ever obtained. As a novelist, she has been widely studied, although her extensive and intense work has been of particular importance for Gender Studies.By exploring a recurring theme in Djebar’s work, the oppression of women and their bodies in the 20thcentury Algerian society, this paper discusses two of her novels: Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement (1980) and Nulle part dans la maison de mon père (2007). For this, some current theories emanating from feminism will be used here as analytical tools.

We sought to understand the meanings that women self-identified as fat attribute to their daily bodily experiences. A qualitative research based on phenomenological method was carried out involving five interlocutors, aged between 18 and 46 years. A semi-structured interview was used as data collection technique. The material was analyzed from the phenomenological perspective of Moreira (2004), pointing out the prejudices suffered and the strategies developed by these women in their daily routine. It is important to highlight the need of further reflections on the subject in feminist theory and gender studies.

The circus has always maintained a close relation with the children's universe, stimulating magic, joy and dreams. This study analysed the children´s understanding of the circus representations and appropriations, based on their own drawings about the circus activities. It consisted of a case study of 21 children aged between 4 and 5 years old, from a kindergarten institution. It was observed that before the proposal the external structure of the circus, the canvas, was the element most represented by the children, suggesting that although some children had never seen a circus spectacle before, they were already introduced to some of its  physical structure. After 12 sessions of the pedagogical proposal, the canvas of the circus was no longer the most represented element, but also the protagonists, juggler and magicians. It was evidenced that the physical activities and dialogues have allowed the circus to be re-signified on Early Childhood Education.

Despite numerous preoccupations and criticisms aroused by contemporary informational relations, several authors have ventured into the search for the interdisciplinary potentialities of this scenario and a poetic creation that explores the expansion of the territories of the image, the word and the sound. Even before the advance of the digital and other current vectors of the communication, artists and researchers already experimented exchanges and mixtures between these territories. This article brings together a group of ideas from three authors - Wassily Kandinsky, Vilém Flusser and Wilton Azevedo (which is honored this edition) - that favors thinking of the transposition of the limits between mediums and languages, as well as the new paths of the interdisciplinary poetic creation. With such an approach it is expected a dialogue that opens space for new questions and observations about creative processes that articulate a scripture capable of exploring multiple combinations of visual, sonorous and verbal.

This is not an article. It does not reflect the result of a research, although it relates the coexistence with Wilton Azevedo, a personality with whom I had the pleasure to do researches and to befriend. I speak here of what it was like to work and exchange experiences with this artist, intellectual and friend, whose legacies overflow academic life and continue to influence many of my professional and personal choices.

The paper examines the way jurists, since the glosses, until Jacques Cujas, analyzed the definition of feud within the interpretation of common law, in the light of the Oberto dell’Orto’s writings. By this perspective, this author reviews aspects of the feudary real situation as an useful domain, grounding the usufruct’s technical inadequacy to express it, as well as analyzing the fiefs’ later characterization as quasi-dominium, found mainly in legal thought of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’ jurists

The present study aims to systematically review about of physical self-concept (ACF) of people with disabilities (PCD) in adulthood and to identify instruments used to analyze this construct. As methodological procedures of the work, searches were carried out in different databases, covering the entire period of existence of the databases until September 2017. The process followed the PRISMA FlowDiagram recommendations and the articles were classified according to quality criteria adapted from the STROBE instrument. Nine articles reached the final analysis of the study. The results demonstrated six different instruments for analyzing the ACF of adult PCDs, with only two instruments being validated; two articles analyzed the PCA of intellectual PCD, two articles of motor PCD, three articles analyzed different deficiencies and two studies evaluated the ACF of people with and without disabilities. It is concluded that there is a shortage of instruments that assess the ACF of people with disabilities. 

After a brief presentation of the novel A república dos sonhos, by Nélida Piñon, this paper analyzes its translations into English and Spanish and, through this analysis, aims to shed some light on what were the presuppositions guiding each translation project. The study is based on the hypothesis that, even before starting a translation, translators must make several decisions concerning the very conception of the text to be produced. These decisions are generally related to characteristics of the source text that are closely linked to the culture, the history and the language of the source country, and each translation project will search for the best way to make these characteristics known to the reader of the translation. The paratextual elements (GENETTE, 2009), which are a fundamental part of any translation project, will be analyzed together with the text itself, with special emphasis on the covers.

Clements, Rebekah. A cultural history of translation in early modern Japan. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 288 p.

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The position Karl Kraus occupied in the Austrian intellectual field is unique in the history of the intellectuals. Rather than reconstructing Kraus’s theoretical thinking, it is possible to approach him as a revelator of the the rules of the game which characterize the intellectual field. His writings invite a re-reading in terms of an «enacted sociology » which uses techniques of provocation tending to expose the mechanisms set up to disguise the relationship between intellectuals and power. By analysing Kraus’s interventions it is possible to relate his struggles to phenomena of crisis in the intellectual field. Kraus’s role was that of denouncing the implications of a process of rationalization of intellectual activities. This process is defined initially by the substitution of anintellectualmarket for a System of patronage, and later by the extension and structuring of the market in response to increasingly precise social demands.

The position Karl Kraus occupied in the Austrian intellectual field is unique in the history of the intellectuals. Rather than reconstructing Kraus’s theoretical thinking, it is possible to approach him as a revelator of the the rules of the game which characterize the intellectual field. His writings invite a re-reading in terms of an «enacted sociology » which uses techniques of provocation tending to expose the mechanisms set up to disguise the relationship between intellectuals and power. By analysing Kraus’s interventions it is possible to relate his struggles to phenomena of crisis in the intellectual field. Kraus’s role was that of denouncing the implications of a process of rationalization of intellectual activities. This process is defined initially by the substitution of anintellectualmarket for a System of patronage, and later by the extension and structuring of the market in response to increasingly precise social demands.

On the 20th century, in France, lay intellectuals, on one side, catholics, on the other, defended censorship of literary Works, expositions, artists and even of comic books. The history of French intellectuals from this period covers the existence and action of conservative and reactionary figures, virulent in the expression of their convictions, coming mostly from the clerical environment, and that had great visibility and influence, not only in France. Although less remembered, it is important to understand the reach of their ideas, the way they are broadcasted, the harmful role they played, in its time, with slander and systematic condemnation of works, authors, artists, and the way they imposed on the State and acted on its behalf. Reconstituting this dimension of French intellectual history is fundamental today, when you can hear the echoes of totalitarianism from the religious base that progressively threatens individual liberties.