Essays about: "Deleuze"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 41 essays containing the word Deleuze.

  1. 6. Grieving the Ungrievable: Searching for Home through Nonhuman Becoming in Hiromi Itō’s Wild Grass on the Riverbank and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s The Grassling

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Matilda Davidsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Hiromi Itō; Elizabeth-Jane Burnett; Home; Irrealism; Nonhuman agency; climate change; Deleuze;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to examine non-human agency in Elizabeth Jane Burnett’s The Grassling and Hiromi Itō’s Wild Grass on the Riverbank. Using a theoretical framework based on material ecocriticism, queer ecology and affect theory, the thesis explores how Burnett’s and Itō’s poetic narratives reconfigure the relationship between human and nonhuman in non-anthropocentric ways with the help of the irreal. READ MORE

  3. 7. Becoming with Rocks : Arriving in the Riddling Middle of (tourist) Places: touch, proximity, indeterminacy

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

    Author : Matt Tuggey; [2021]
    Keywords : place-assemblage; becoming with; embodiment; touch; relationality; ecofeminist materiality; tourism; sustainabili;

    Abstract : The tourism industry is both large and growing, with private and public actors investing heavily in the commodification of places to travel to, supporting individuals with the wealth to do so, to be in different places for short time periods. Correspondingly, popular discourses and research within tourism studies have arisen, looking at attitudes and social and environmental impacts drawn along delineations of the tourist and the host and spatially enclosed tourist places or ‘destinations’. READ MORE

  4. 8. What lays between two toes : Deconstruction and Affect: Exploring the Tabi boots

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

    Author : Angelika Watta; [2021]
    Keywords : Deconstruction; Affect Theory; Applied Theory; Object Study; Becoming; Tabi boots;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to explore the affective capacity of the Tabi boots by examining the object through the ideas of deconstruction. The boots by Maison Martin Margiela were first introduced in 1989 and sold in different variations over the course of the past 30 years. READ MORE

  5. 9. En arkeologi av det animistiska : Om den mesolitiska ornamentiken i Östersjöområdet

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur

    Author : Erik Solfeldt; [2021]
    Keywords : Mesolithic portable art; new animism; animacy; relational ontology; hylomorphism; rhizome theory; meshwork; rhizomatic chaîne opératoire; bone; antler; amber; Mesolitisk portabel konst; ny-animism; animism; relationell ontologi; hylemorfism; rhizomteori; meshwork; rhizomatisk chaîne opératoire; ben; horn; bärnsten;

    Abstract : This thesis is focused on the material known as the Mesolithic portable art. Earlier research have interpreted the material as representative art relating to ideology, mythology, prestige, ritual practices,and tribalism. Such interpretations are based on theoretical frameworks that build on hylomorphism and Cartesian metaphysics. READ MORE

  6. 10. Beyond Nature & Culture: A Praxiography of the Digital Classroom

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi

    Author : Emil Ahlanzberg; [2020]
    Keywords : Education technology; Market practices; Gilles Deleuze; Pedagogy; Human-computer interaction;

    Abstract : Education systems around the world face great challenges as social distancing measures force physical classrooms to close down in order to mitigate the spread of sars-cov-2. Consequently, teachers and students have resorted to digital classrooms. READ MORE