Essays about: "Giorgio Agamben"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 19 essays containing the words Giorgio Agamben.

  1. 11. Construction of Crises : Climate, Terror and the Eiffel Tower

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

    Author : Sara Lundstedt; [2016]
    Keywords : Climate change; Terrorism; Image; Ideology; Apparatus; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This work investigates visualizations of two crises; terrorism and climate change. Focus lies on mediated images concerning Paris 2015, where terrorist attacks had an impact on the following UN climate change conference (COP21). The symbol of the Eiffel Tower was used to portrait both issues and will be studied through a semiotic analysis. READ MORE

  3. 12. Making feminist arguments against borders and regulated migration

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Disa Helander; [2015-09-09]
    Keywords : feminist theory; undocumented migration; borders; regulated migration; citizenship;

    Abstract : This thesis is about theoretical critiques and practical resistance to regulated migration specifically and borders more generally. My aim is to explore how we can make strong arguments and strategies against borders and regulated migration and, more specifically, to answer this by exploring what feminist theory can contribute to the theorising and critique of borders and regulated migration. READ MORE

  4. 13. Whore, mother, citizen? : The need for a re-definition of the citizenship of sex workers in Argentina

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Latinamerikainstitutet

    Author : Suvi Lensu; [2015]
    Keywords : Argentina; female sex work; female prostitution; Agamben; sexual citizenship; feminist theory; queer theory; Argentina; trabajo sexual femenino; prostitución femenina; Agamben; ciudadanía sexual; teoría feminista; teoría queer;

    Abstract : In the subject of prostitution there has been a growing trend towards a sex work discourse, where the selling of sex and sexual services is regarded as a form of emotional and erotic labor. The discourse emerged in response to the self-organization of sex workers into labor unions and citizenship rights groups. READ MORE

  5. 14. Human and animal in ‘the Open’: an exploration of image and worlding in the poetry of Marianne Moore and João Cabral de Melo Neto

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Enaie Maire Azambuja; [2015]
    Keywords : Marianne Moore; early poems; João Cabral de Melo Neto; The Dog without Feathers; Jacob von Uexküll; Umwelt; Brett Buchanan; Onto-Ethologies; Martin Heidegger; Giorgio Agamben; Fable; Allegory.;

    Abstract : This thesis firstly aims at discussing the early works of American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) through the bio-philosophical perspectives developed since the investigations of Estonian Jacob von Uexküll (1864-1944). The study elucidates Uexküll’s research on the web-like forms of life that is the Umwelt of animals and Moore’s creation of poetic environments. READ MORE

  6. 15. Pål Hollender’s Moment of Metamorphosis

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

    Author : Anders Ottosson; [2014]
    Keywords : Pål Hollender; Buy Bye Beauty. Survivor; Metamorphosis; Transformation; Transgression; Transgressive art; Artistic practice; Sovereign; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The thesis Pål Hollender’s Moment of Metamorphosis – Transgression through Metamorphosis as an Artistic Strategy for Communication and Power Struggle studies the transformation of Pål Hollender from the artist as media celebrity in the TV show Survivor, to the artist as sex purchaser in the documentary Buy Bye Beauty. Through this specific case from Pål Hollender’s artistic production, the thesis attempts to shed light on the conditions for artistic communication and power struggle presented by his strategy of transgression through metamorphosis. READ MORE