Essays about: "Spatial Dialectics"
Found 3 essays containing the words Spatial Dialectics.
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1. EDUCATION AND THE CYBERNETIC HYPOTHESIS A synoptic View
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikAbstract : Aim: Since the end of world war II, western nation states increasingly have moved toward post-national knowledge economy where supranational organizations shape national policy and knowledge has been rendered a commodity. According to writers collective Tiqqun, the underlying master-fiction in this move is one of cybernetic character: the privileging of concepts such as information, control, communication and feedback. READ MORE
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2. Space, Class, and Revolutions
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : This essay connects to an ongoing discussion and debate on the usefulness and accuracy of the theories and the conceptual apparatus developed by the French theorist Henri Lefebvre. From an analytical reading of Lefebvre’s book The Urban Revolution, I make an original interpretation of Lefebvre’s arguments by tracing them back to Hegel’s syllogism and Marx’s two departments of social reproduction. READ MORE
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3. Concept, Space, Home: A Conceptual History of Social Space, Functionalist Homes, and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : The field of Conceptual History is often criticized for considering only a small slice of the historical vocabulary it intends to historicize. What about the discourse of the silenced, working at home, robbed of a pen? Concepts are indicative of many contexts of meaning: in this thesis, therefore, propelled by the foregoing question and statement, it is argued that the main protagonist of German, conceptual history, i. READ MORE