Essays about: "Materiality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 104 essays containing the word Materiality.

  1. 1. This Devious Subject - about the future of this earthly life, my constructive failure to locate myself, and my being as a relationality of subjectivity, discourse and materiality

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Lovisa Sallén; [2019-10-10]
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    Abstract : Through articulating what I call my weave of understanding, in this thesis I aspire to come to a new understanding of the relation between materiality, discourse and ubjectivity as with my being composing a relationality that figures me a movement in and of the world. Inspired by Arendt’s concept of weaving in combination with Bakhtin’s notion of polyphony and what Icall sympathetic reading as my method I interpret and entangle notions from Foucault, Butler, Spivak, Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, hooks, Bhabha and Barad into what I call my weave of understanding. READ MORE

  3. 2. The “easy” digital documentation system - A study of the complexities of implementing technology

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Roya Kohansall; Luis Fragoso; [2019-07-03]
    Keywords : Resistance; Affordances; Constraints; Technology; Materiality; Digital Documentation System; Municipality;

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  4. 3. From “Spaghetti to Lasagna” - Exploring the role of objects in cross-disciplinary collaboration

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Patrik Bohlin; Erik Zachrisson; [2019-07-03]
    Keywords : Cross-disciplinary collaboration; materiality; boundary objects; epistemic objects; objects of activity; material infrastructure; transformation of objects;

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  5. 4. A materiality analysis meeting nonfinancial reporting requirements : With the combination of analytic hierarchy process and failure mode and effects analysis

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Adrien Delebecque; [2019]
    Keywords : corporate social responsibility; non-financial reporting; materiality analysis; multi-criteria decision-making; företagets sociala ansvar; icke-finansiella rapportering; väsentlighetsanalys; beslutsfattande med flera kriterier;

    Abstract : The assessment of the environmental and social impact of companies could be a key lever towards amore sustainable society. The aim of this report is to develop a quantitative approach based onmulti-criteria decision-making methods for organizations to conduct a corporate social responsibility materiality analysis. READ MORE

  6. 5. Facing the Inevitable : Using the modern practice of Döstädning to understand Ättestupa

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

    Author : Karl Bloomberg; [2019]
    Keywords : Ättestupa; Death Cleaning; senicide; archaeology of aging; materiality; Ättestupa; Döstädning; senilitet; akeologi av föråldrande; materialitet;

    Abstract : Ättestupa has been a contentious practice ever since the translation of Gautreks saga. This senicide practice has largely been viewed as a parody of the culture of Västergötland and has received little attention. But with new interest in the modern practice of Death Cleaning, we might finally understand Ättestupa as a real tradition. READ MORE