Essays about: "Objects in literature"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 253 essays containing the words Objects in literature.

  1. 21. Accessible preservation: An investigation of conditions for public access to museum collections in storage

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

    Author : Anna Djuvfelt; [2022-07-05]
    Keywords : collections management; peoples-centred conservation; accessibility; museum storage; systems theory;

    Abstract : The societal role of museums has changed through time. As of 2022, ICOM is in the process of developing an updated museum definition. The proposal for a new definition emphasizes that museums are institutions in service of society, inclusive and accessible to the public. READ MORE

  3. 22. What did I just learn? : How commercial video games could underhandedly teach players environmental sustainability

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Maria Johanna Horsten; [2022]
    Keywords : commercial video games; environmental sustainability; environmental gaming; Dimensions of Environmentally Sustainable Gameplay; Horizon Forbidden West;

    Abstract : Commercial video games have a great potential in battling the ongoing environmental crises. However, literature has so far largely neglected a connection between environmental sustainability and commercial video games. READ MORE

  4. 23. The Relationship Between Humans and the Environment in The Grapes of Wrath

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Anna Zsofia Orosz; [2022]
    Keywords : realism; realist fiction; fiction; steinbeck; naturalism; john steinbeck; the grapes of wrath; great depression; great depression literature; environmental impacts; climate fiction; socialism; communism; human agency; environment; human environment relationship;

    Abstract : The paper explores the human-environment relationship in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. It argues that every impact on humans by the environment or by human-made objects is initially triggered by human actions. The paper questions humans' and objects' agency. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Strategic Adoption of Additive Manufacturing in the orthopedic industry in Sweden

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

    Author : Louis Bertrand Ndangamira Shema; [2022]
    Keywords : Additive manufacturing; orthopedic; surgeon; framework;

    Abstract : Additive Manufacturing (AM) is another name for rapid prototyping and 3D printing (3DP), an advanced manufacturing technology that creates 3D objects. AM's ability to produce complex shapes in industrial production is one of its chief advantages. READ MORE

  6. 25. Zooësis and Contemporary Art : Animal, Plant, and Machine Ontologies: Art Representations Beyond the Human

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Anna Pernilla Olofsson Hjorth; [2022]
    Keywords : Human-Nonhuman-Animal Studies; Zooësis; Biopolitical Aesthetics; Material Semiotics; Historical Animal Studies; Cultural Plant Studies; Taxidermy; BioArt; Plant-Art; Cyborg; Hybrid-Artifact;

    Abstract : What does it mean to take Animals, Plants, and Machines seriously when engaging in hybrid natures such as bioart, plant-art, taxidermy art and cyborgs in contemporary art?  Traditionally within art history the focus has been on human culture as the fundamental underpinning for cultural behaviour and productions, consequently rendering animal and plant histories invisible from the analysis of artworks. In this thesis I attend to the bodies of animals, plants, and machines put in the context of the zooësis (places/contact zones) of these bodies as biopolitical aesthetics (aesthetic bodies/objects) in contemporary art. READ MORE