Essays about: "agential realism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the words agential realism.

  1. 6. EUROPE 2020: TOWARDS A NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY? Neoliberal Dreams and Diffractive Awakenings

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Georgios Eleftherios Vordos; [2020-12-28]
    Keywords : Europe 2020; neoliberalism; biopolitics; diffraction; critical frame analysis; governmentality; European Union; inclusive growth;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the Europe 2020 strategy is of neoliberal nature and aims to adjust every aspect of life to be market-conforming. Furthermore, it examines if the target for an inclusive growth was achieved and who ended up benefitted from it. READ MORE

  3. 7. Re-imagining Trans*: A Baradian close reading of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Chris Liane Swanson; [2020]
    Keywords : Trans* becoming; Karen Barad; Agential Realism; Material-discursive and Affective Intra-action; Spacetimemattering; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In this thesis Baradian theory is applied to a close reading of the novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. The aim of the thesis is to examine how the novel can be read as a re-imagining of trans* becoming. READ MORE

  4. 8. Acid Realities. How Science Enacts the Psychedelic Experience

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Simon Toper; [2019-07-01]
    Keywords : LSD; psychedelic; science; neurotheology; agential realism;

    Abstract : The present work has explored how the psychedelic experience is discursively reproduced in contemporary psychological- and neuroscientific research. In focus was scientific articles detailing experimental human studies with LSD, or comparative studies pertaining to subjects previous psychedelic experiences and psychedelic drug use. READ MORE

  5. 9. An Ecocritical Analysis of Modern Japanese Literary History : Becomings of Self, Nature and Literature at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Shion Takei; [2019]
    Keywords : modern Japanese literature; self; nature; confession; diffraction; becoming;

    Abstract : Situated in environmental history and ecocriticism, this thesis traces the emergence of modern Japanese literature at the beginning of the twentieth century. Using agential realism and its concepts ‘diffraction’ and ‘becoming’, this thesis conducts an anti-essential ecocritical analysis. READ MORE

  6. 10. Point of Constant Departures

    University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)

    Author : Mario Maria Fjell; [2018]
    Keywords : agential realism; queer feminism; performance art; sound and impermanence;

    Abstract : We have to be specific. To take a stand. We have to tell a specific story. Therefore we need to come together. READ MORE