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Francisco Alexandre Regina UNIVERSIDADE PAULISTA – UNIP PROGRAMA DE PÓS GRADUAÇÃO COMUNICAÇÃO E CULTURA MIDIÁTICA IMAGINÁRIO MIDIÁTICO NA FICÇÃO CIENTÍFICA: PÓS-HUMANO NO SERIADO TELEVISIVO STAR TREK - NEW GENERATION Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação e Cultura Midiática da Universidade Paulista, para obtenção do título de Mestre em Comunicação FRANCISCO ALEXANDRE REGINA SÃO PAULO - SP 2013 UNIVERSIDADE PAULISTA – UNIP PROGRAMA DE PÓS GRADUAÇÃO COMUNICAÇÃO E CULTURA MIDIÁTICA IMAGINÁRIO MIDIÁTICO NA FICÇÃO CIENTÍFICA: PÓS-HUMANO NO SERIADO TELEVISIVO STAR TREK - NEW GENERATION Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação e Cultura Midiática da Universidade Paulista, para obtenção do título de Mestre em Comunicação, sob orientação do Prof. Dr. Jorge Miklos. FRANCISCO ALEXANDRE REGINA SÃO PAULO - SP 2013 Regina, Francisco Alexandre. Imaginário midiático na ficção científica: pós-humano no seriado televisivo Star Trek – New Generation / Francisco Alexandre Regina. - 2012. 103 f. : il. color. + CD-ROM. Dissertação de mestrado apresentada ao Programa de Pós- Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Paulista, São Paulo, 2013. Área de Concentração: Contribuições da Mídia para a Interação entre Grupos Sociais. Orientador: Prof. Dr. Jorge Miklos. 1. Ficção científica. 2. Midiático. 3. Pós-humano. 4. Star Trek. I. Título. II. Miklos, Jorge (orientador). FRANCISCO ALEXANDRE REGINA IMAGINÁRIO MIDIÁTICO NA FICÇÃO CIENTÍFICA: PÓS-HUMANO NO SERIADO TELEVISIVO STAR TREK - NEW GENERATION Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós- graduação em Comunicação e Cultura Midiática da Universidade Paulista, como requisito parcial para obtenção do título de Mestre em Comunicação, sob orientação do Prof. Dr. Jorge Miklos. Aprovado em: Banca Examinadora _________________________/____/_____ Prof. Dr. Jorge Miklos - Orientador Universidade Paulista – UNIP _________________________/____/_____ Profª. Drª. Malena Segura Contrera Universidade Paulista – UNIP _________________________/____/_____ Prof. Dr. Gelson Santana Penha Universidade Anhembi Morumbi DEDICATÓRIA Dedico este trabalho a minha amada esposa Regiane que, com muito amor e carinho me apoiou e não mediu esforços para que eu chegasse até esta etapa de minha vida. AGRADECIMENTOS Quero agradecer, em primeiro lugar, a Deus, pela força e coragem durante toda esta longa caminhada. Aos meus pais, irmãos, minha filha Fernanda e a toda minha família que, com muito carinho me apoiou nesta jornada. Agradeço também a todos os professores que me acompanharam durante a Dissertação de Mestrado, em especial ao meu Orientador Prof. Dr. Jorge Miklos e à Profa. Dra. Malena Segura Contrera, responsáveis pela realização deste trabalho. Muito Obrigado ! O aspecto mais triste da vida atual é do que a ciência ganha em conhecimento mais rapidamente do que a sociedade em sabedoria. (Isaac Asimov) RESUMO Esta dissertação aborda o imaginário midiático na ficção científica, em particular a temática do pós-humano presente em alguns episódios do seriado televisivo Star Trek – New Generation. O objetivo principal é mapear a articulação entre o imaginário social tecnológico e o pós-humano representado na ficção científica. O problema que suscitou a pesquisa foi responder quais os valores do imaginário social tecnológico presentes no seriado televisivo Star Trek – New Generation, e em que medida esses valores expressam as angústias do pós- humano. As suposições iniciais apontaram a presença da imaginação nas relações entre homens e máquinas, formando um conjunto de representações sociais compartilhadas chamado de pós-humano. Essas representações são fruto da aflição do ser humano acerca da sua condição existencial. A resposta cultural promove um imaginário social pós-humano, um híbrido homem-máquina, que tenta no plano da fantasia superar as limitações do humano. Essa imagem está presente em vários produtos da indústria cultural, entre elas o seriado televisivo Star Trek – New Generation. O corpus de análise foi o personagem Data do seriado televisivo Star Trek – New Generation, um androide que convive com humanos e que, se por um lado entra em contato com as limitações dos humanos, por outro, busca tornar-se um “humano demasiadamente humano”. A pesquisa teve um caráter investigativo bibliográfico e utilizou como referencial teórico estudos realizados no âmbito do imaginário tecnológico-midiático propostos por teóricos como Juremir Machado e Erick Felinto; estudos acerca da ficção científica desenvolvidos por Raul Fiker e Iser Wolfgang, e reflexões acerca do pós-humano desenvolvidos por Donna Haraway e Fátima Regis. Palavras-chave: Imaginário Midiático, Ficção Científica, Pós-Humano, Star Trek. ABSTRACT This paper deals with the mediatic imaginary in the scientific fiction, particularly about the post-human subject matter present in some episodes from the television series Star Trek – New Generation. The main objective is to map the articulation between the technological social imaginary and the post-human represented in the scientific fiction. The problem which provoked this research was to answer what technological social imaginary values were presented in the television series Star Trek – New Generation and how these values express the post-human anguishes. The initial suppositions pointed out the imagination presence in the relations among human beings and machines, forming a shared social representations group called post-human. These representations are results from the human being anxiety concerning its existential condition. The cultural response promotes a post-human social imaginary, a hybrid human being-machine, that tries to get over the human limitations in the fantasy level. This image is present in the several cultural industry products, among them the television series Star Trek – New Generation. The analyses corpus was the Data character from the television series Star Trek – New Generation, an android who lives together human beings and that, whether on the one hand gets in touch with human limitations, on the other hand, pursues to become a “human excessively human”. This research had an investigative character bibliographic investigative and used studies in the media technological imaginary scope proposed by theorists as Juremir Machado and Erick Felinto, as theoretical reference; studies about the scientific fiction developed by Raul Fiker and Iser Wolfgang; and reflections concerning the post-human developed by Donna Haraway and Fátima Regis. Key-words: Mediatic Imaginary, Scientific Vision, Post-Human, Star Trek LISTA DE FIGURAS Figura 1 - USS Enterprise NCC 1701 ........................................................................ 19 Figura 2 - USS. Enterprise NCC 1701 A .................................................................. 20 Figura 3 – USS Enterprise NCC 1701 B ................................................................... 20 Figura 4 - USS. Enterprise NCC 1701 C ................................................................... 21 Figura 5 - USS Enterprise NCC 1701 D .................................................................... 22 Figura 6 - USS Enterprise NCC 1701 E .................................................................... 23 Figura 7 – Tenente Comandante Data ...................................................................... 24 Figura 8 - Tenente Geordi La Forge .......................................................................... 26 Figura 9 - Foto de propaganda da série Clássica ...................................................... 43 Figura 10 - Capitão James T. Kirk ............................................................................. 44 Figura 11 - Sr. Spock ................................................................................................ 45 Figura 12 - Dr. Leonard McCoy ................................................................................. 45 Figura 13 – Tenente Comandante Montgomery Scott ............................................... 46 Figura 14 - Hikaru K. Sulo ......................................................................................... 46 Figura 15 - Nyota Uhura ............................................................................................ 47 Figura 16 - Pavel Andreievich Checov ...................................................................... 47 Figura 17 - Christine Chappel .................................................................................... 48 Figura 18 - Janice Rand ............................................................................................ 48 Figura 19 - Dr. McCoy, Capitão Kirk e Sr. Spock ...................................................... 49 Figura 20 - Foto de propaganda da série “New Generation” ..................................... 52 Figura 21 - Capitão Jean Luc Picard ......................................................................... 52 Figura 22 - Willian T. Riker ........................................................................................ 53 Figura 23 – Tenente Comandante Data .................................................................... 54 Figura 24 - Conselheira Deanna Troi ........................................................................ 55 Figura 25 – Drª. Beverly Crusher .............................................................................. 55 Figura 26 - Tenente Geordi La Forge ........................................................................ 56 Figura 27 - Tenente Worf .........................................................................................
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