Essays about: "Theodor Adorno"

Found 5 essays containing the words Theodor Adorno.

  1. 1. Breaking Down the Reflex-Machine in Three Works by Philip K. Dick

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Sara Gaarn-Larsen; [2018]
    Keywords : Philip K. Dick; Postmodernism; reflex-machine; androidization; science fiction; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; A Maze of Death; A Scanner Darkly;

    Abstract : This thesis expands upon Philip K. Dick’s philosophy surrounding ‘androidization’, a process of degradation leading to the devolution of individuals into what he termed as ‘reflex-machines’. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Devils of History : Understanding Mass-violence Through the Thinking of Horkheimer and Adorno – The Case of Cambodia 1975-1979

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Lior Becker; [2016]
    Keywords : genocide; cambodia; khmer; khmer rouge; pol pot; frankfurt school; dialectics; adorno; horkheimer; folkmord;

    Abstract : Why does mass-violence happen at all? This paper takes the first steps to establish a model to answer this question and explain extreme mass-violence as a phenomenon. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the field of research, in which models exist to explain the phenomenon of violence, with cases of genocide being seen as problems or exceptions, and as such researched as individual cases rather than as part of a wider phenomenon. READ MORE

  4. 3. “Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World”: the Decolonized Chronotope, Liminality, and Dialogics in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Clarissa Grace Chang; [2016]
    Keywords : contemporary literature; Junot Díaz; decolonized chronotope; decolonial imagination; heteroglossia; New Jersey; Dominican Republic; Afro-Latinidad; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Narratives focusing on People of Color often suffer from neocolonial treatment with narrow focus on race at the expense of character development, working with stereotypical monoliths rather than complex individuals. These types of narratives tend to use Whiteness as a “neutral” reference point. READ MORE

  5. 4. Artivism in Tunis - Music and Art as tools of creative resistance & the cultural re: mixing of a revolution

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Tilia Korpe; [2013]
    Keywords : Artivism; Cultural Production; Post-revolution Tunisia; Tunisia; Artistic Freedom of Expression; Youth Subculture; Artistic Activism;

    Abstract : This Thesis explores artistic activism or artivism in the context of youth in post- revolution Tunisia. During and after the Arab Uprisings, the MENA region has experienced a tendency, wherein resistance is undertaken by artivists through in situ art interventions, music, and performances that create ‘new cultural spaces’, in which cultural hybridism through the mix of urban youth subculture, communication and traditional culture, creates new contexts of authenticity. READ MORE

  6. 5. The naked king : on the desire to replace philosophy with Conceptual art during the years 1966-1972 and the aesthetic response by Theodor W. Adorno, Umberto Eco and Jacques Rancière

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Giuseppe Di Lecce; [2011]
    Keywords : Conceptual art; Theodor Adorno; Umberto Eco; Jacques Rancière;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to investigate the reconfiguration and, to some extent, the total deconstruction of the aesthetic field, such as we have know it since Baumgarten, that is promoted by Conceptual art. It is our intention to show the philosophical importance and the theoretical implications of the questions raised by this artistic movement, which somehow instigated the tumultuous debate directed to overwhelm much of the art world from the late 1960's onward. READ MORE