Essays about: "Deleuze"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 41 essays containing the word Deleuze.

  1. 16. '...and just set that body on fire!'. Posthuman perspectives on the body, becomings, and sticky encounters in vogue femme.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Christina Tente; [2020]
    Keywords : voguing; vogue femme; posthuman theory; affect theory; becoming; stickiness; Performing Arts;

    Abstract : This thesis explores aspects of vogue femme as a highly aestheticised, performative, and radically subversive visual phenomenon. The focus lies on the posthuman characteristics of this dance and the possibilities it opens up for becoming-other. Vogue femme first appeared as a competition category at balls during the 1990s. READ MORE

  3. 17. Cultivating Critique in Folds and Pleats - Posthuman Enactments in the Dress of Rick Owens

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Wiktor Hansson; [2019]
    Keywords : Posthuman; Fashion; Anthropocene; Intra-Relationality; Rick Owens; Avant-Garde; Deleuze; Queer; MACA; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Taking as its epistemological starting point the proposed geological era of the Anthropocene, this thesis enquires the affective potential of avant-garde fashion in criticising, improving or transforming the supposed givenness of The Human as a historical concept. In order to do so, it inflects and departs from the tightly held onto-epistemological cannon of fashion studies and anthropology of dress, in which fashion is understood primarily through representation, signification and performance of identity. READ MORE

  4. 18. Unsubstantial Territories : Nomadic Subjectivity as Criticism of Psychoanalysis in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Andrey Belov; [2019]
    Keywords : Virginia Woolf; The Waves; Jacques Lacan; Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; Rosi Braidotti; psychoanalysis; subjectivity; nomadic subjectivity;

    Abstract : This essay looks at subjectivity in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves employing a psychoanalytic approach and using the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Woolf’s relation to the theories of her contemporary Sigmund Freud was unclear. READ MORE

  5. 19. 'He Spat in my Face and Said I Should Die': Queer Youth and the Process of Identity Formation in Total Institutions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

    Author : Joel Kunto; [2019]
    Keywords : Young people; queer youth; total institution; identity; gender studies; queer studies; social work; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is about queer youth in total institutions, and the meaning those institutions might have on the identity formation process. The thesis itself consists of two smaller sub-studies, a literature review of some of the existing research on queer youth in total institutions, and a discourse analysis of the identity aspect using texts written by queer youth who has spent time in a total institution. READ MORE

  6. 20. Objectiles in flux : the oscillation of interior elements through superimpositioning

    University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign

    Author : Daniel Reinius; [2018]
    Keywords : Objectiles; Memory; Colour; Deleuze;

    Abstract : An experience is always in a state of becoming as you through movement and memory, perceptions and qualia assemble it into its virtual construct. Ackording to philosopher and architecture theorist Bernard Cache who dwells on Henri Bergsonsnotion of perception & memory. READ MORE