Essays about: "Postmodernity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the word Postmodernity.

  1. 1. Obstacles for Change Management in a Fragmented Digitized Postmodern Society. : A Case Study of the Digitalization Authority in Sweden.

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för ekonomi, geografi, juridik och turism

    Author : Hanna Eriksson; [2023]
    Keywords : Change management; postmodernism; fragmentation; organization culture; digitalization;

    Abstract : Change management is an increasingly prominent and complicated topic. In the postmodern digitized society, Sweden is believed to be at the forefront, yet in Swedish radio, information experts claim that the country is far from able to manage a crisis. READ MORE

  3. 2. “People, Corrupted”: Monstrous Transformations in “The Whistlers” and “Whitefall”

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Charles Perseus D'Aniello; [2023]
    Keywords : monster theory; monstrosity; gothic; internet horror; bare life; zombies; heterotopia; cannibalism;

    Abstract : This essay explores monstrosity in two contemporary horror stories: “The Whistlers” by Amity Argot, and “Whitefall” by C.K. Walker, focusing on how the humans in these texts are monstrously transformed. READ MORE

  4. 3. Chaos Magick, Discordianism and Internet Trolling : An investigation into subversive postmodern techniques online and offline

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Religionsvetenskap

    Author : Rikard Friberg von Sydow; [2023]
    Keywords : Chaos magick; discordianism; trolling; information society; postmodernity; digital humanities; doxing; William S Burroughs; sigils; memes;

    Abstract : In this thesis, the practice of Chaos magick and the practice and mythology of Discordianism are compared to different subversive techniques used in internet culture and specifically in internet trolling. Chaos magick is described from the sigil-making of Austin Osman Spare through the playbacks of William S Burroughs to contemporary practitioners. READ MORE

  5. 4. "What stunning brilliance, what modern veracity:" Jean Baudrillard's America as a Reluctantly Romantic Document

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Viktor Kovacs; [2022]
    Keywords : Jean Baudrillard; America; Romanticism; modernity; postmodernity; hyperreality; disenchantment; sublime; nature; Languages and Literatures;

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  6. 5. Wandering Through Intellectual Ashes : National Identity and the Southern Question in Postwar Marxist Italian Film. A Postcolonial Visual Ontology

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Matilde Veglia; [2022]
    Keywords : Pasolini; Gramsci; Bauman; Neorealism; Commedia all Italiana; Cinema; Italian Maxism; Postmodernity; Postcolonial Studies; The Wanderer; The Nomad;

    Abstract : This thesis is crafted as an explorative theoretical essay, which aims to disclose the continuities and shifts in constructions of Italian post-war identity through the lenses of Marxist theory and postcolonial film analysis. The research will attempt to locate three paradigmatic cases of post-war Italian cinema and their authors in relation to the historical context, as well as coeval political and theoretical developments in the country. READ MORE