Essays about: "aesthetic worlds"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words aesthetic worlds.
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1. Transcending Memories Beyond Borders: Carrying Memorabilia from Home to Abroad. : Transferring Personal Memorabilia for a Meaningful Cross-Country Experience.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Människa-datorinteraktionAbstract : Collecting memorabilia has been a longstanding practice as it evolved around cultures and societies. Despite existing research about preserving memorabilia, meaningful preservation methods remain unclear due to the individual and idiosyncratic nature of practices [18,22,40,43,47,59]. READ MORE
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2. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE
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3. Visions of the Future: An exploration of the visual and thematic worlds of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.
University essay from Lunds universitet/FilmvetenskapAbstract : This essay examines the relationship between the two feature-length Blade Runner films, placing a certain focus on areas of aesthetic, design, and thematic content with the aim of reaching new insights into the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which the films were made. Each subchapter explores the films from a different perspective leading up to chapter IV, in which I consider the films in relation to the cultural theory of capitalist realism. READ MORE
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4. Vibraesthetics of Music : The design of BEATHOVEN: a haptic device for enjoying music through vibrotactile sensations
University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälleAbstract : The project has the purpose of designing and developing a wearable haptic device for experiencing music through tactile vibrations on the body, and the result is the product concept BEATHOVEN and a completely new way of experiencing music. Music is powerful, it touches our soul and gives form to our emotions. READ MORE
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5. "A Morbid Longing for the Picturesque" : The Pursuit of Beauty in Donna Tartt's The Secret History
University essay from Södertörns högskola/EngelskaAbstract : This essay analyzes the theme of the pursuit of beauty in The Secret History. It analyzes the main characters’ concept of beauty, their manner of seeking beauty, as well as the result of this search. READ MORE