Essays about: "Visuality"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 31 essays containing the word Visuality.

  1. 21. Visualising Balance, Balancing Visualities: Race, Epistemology and Equality in Visual Culture

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Sarah el-Taki; [2018]
    Keywords : visual culture; race; racism; epistemology; ontology; visuality; postcolonialism; equality; justice; Operation Black Vote; Critical race studies; Black studies; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is based on my interpretation of three particular visual examples that were created in relation to the racial tensions that were occurring at the time of their production. My visual examples are (1) the 2016 campaign advert commissioned by Operation Black vote (2) The music video I’m not Racist by the American rapper Joyner Lucas relaesed in 2017 (3) Sir Davey’s Proclamation Board to the Aborigines 1816 which circulated around 1850-1888. READ MORE

  3. 22. Occupied Peripheries: Rethinking Landscape in the Anthropocene Visuality

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Lena Quelvennec; [2018]
    Keywords : Landscape; visuality; experimental geography; Anthropocene; The ZAD.; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Although landscape representations in the US-European culture have traditionally been acknowledged as a peaceful ordering of the world or the tool of imperialism, nationalism and private property (sometimes all simultaneously), a new shift in the landscape scopic regime seems to be happening. Produced by the current rise of concerns around climate change and environmental crisis, this shift seems to be related to a specific attention to land use and land value. READ MORE

  4. 23. Worth it? - A visual reading of spectacle, food porn and culinary capital in YouTube food media

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Josefin Larsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Food; Visuality; Youtube; “Worth it”; Spectacle; Food porn; Culinary capital; Cultural Sciences; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Studies on food media rarely engage with the visual aspects. If it does it is mostly concerning cookbooks, television and film. This thesis will take another approach by examining food media on YouTube, through the YouTube channel Buzzfeed and their series “Worth it”. READ MORE

  5. 24. Neither victim nor fetish : ‘Asian’ women and the effects of racialization in the Swedish context

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle

    Author : Mavis Hooi; [2018]
    Keywords : racialization; racism; Asian women; Sweden; Western context; Nordic context; panethnicity; stereotypes; visuality; coercive mimeticism; epistemic injustice; narratives; Critical Race Theory; intersectionality; everyday racism; structural racism; rasifiering; rasism; asiatiska kvinnor; Sverige; västerländsk kontext; nordisk kontext; panetnicitet; stereotyper; visualitet; epistemisk orättvisa; kritisk rasteori; intersektionalitet; vardagsrasism; strukturell rasism;

    Abstract : People who are racialized in Sweden as ‘Asian’—a panethnic category—come from different countries or ethnic backgrounds and yet, often face similar, gender-specific forms of discrimination which have a significant impact on their whole lives. This thesis centres women who are racialized as 'Asian', focusing on how their racialization affects, and is shaped by, their social, professional and intimate relationships, and their interactions with others—in particular, with white majority Swedes, but also other ethnic minorities. READ MORE

  6. 25. Power Nap: Visualising sleep and neoliberal governmentality

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Eilidh Urquhart; [2018]
    Keywords : Neoliberalism; sleep; governmentality; reality TV; quantified self; self-tracking; biopolitics; time; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how representations of sleep and sleeplessness in mass culture can be reflective of shifts in the constitution of time and self-image driven by neoliberal capitalism, using Shattered, a reality TV show and Sleep Cycle, a self-tracking app, as points of analysis. The first part of the thesis introduces various discourses around sleep, optimisation and productivity that exist in present day late capitalism, and authors and theorists who have studied them. READ MORE