Essays about: "beautiful and love"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words beautiful and love.

  1. 1. The Aesthetics of Self-Giving

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Alice Corideo; [2023]
    Keywords : love; intentionality; disinterestedness; self-giving; morality;

    Abstract : We are used to regarding aesthetic experience from the point of view of a spectator, rather than something we actively provide and give. It is not common in the aesthetic debate to analyse what it is like to offer an aesthetic experience, but it is rather the opposite. READ MORE

  3. 2. Be beautiful and speak up : Africana beauty at the forefront of an inclusive Internet beauty culture.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : KENZA ALOUI; [2022]
    Keywords : Acceptance; African; Africana; autoethnography; beauty; beauty industry; change; community; culture; decoloniality; diaspora; empowerment; existentialism; exoticization; feminist studies; heritage; inclusivity; Internet; intersectionality; interviews; norms; performativity; phenomenology; policing; race; racism; radical; self-love; utopia; women of color.;

    Abstract : The beauty industry has been booming in the last few years, generating immense profits as it now translates into an Internet global beauty culture in its own right that finally made room for women of color. As research barely mentions African women and their diasporas, this study aims to critically analyze the dynamic of this North American-dominated Internet beauty culture celebrating non-white women, looking at how it impacts African women and their diasporas and participates in affirming a global woman of color through commodity capitalism. READ MORE

  4. 3. Waste[d] Love[s]_Restor[y]ing Fyli Landfill

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE)

    Author : Vasiliki Zotou; [2020]
    Keywords : landfill; waste; restoration; ecologies; fiction;

    Abstract : Current practices of landfill restoration can be characterised as anthropocentric, violent and unsuccessful gestures of purification and control, while they erase traces of planetary history and habitats generated by waste and dirt. The dominant notion of landfill restoration insists on a concept of humans as directors of geo-bio flow who are capable of controlling and reversing the dirty chaos they created. READ MORE

  5. 4. Blue Eyes, Lacanian Real : A psychoanalytic reading of Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

    Author : Marco Rep; [2019]
    Keywords : Gustav Mahler; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Psychoanalysis; Lacan; Žižek; three Orders; Repetition compulsion;

    Abstract : Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (first published 1887) feature as their only character a miserable wayfarer who laments his unrequited love for someone and who, in spite of all his beautiful pastoral surroundings, cannot help but feel deep unhappiness. Using Lacan’s three orders (Imaginary, Symbolic and Real) and further developments of his theory by Slavoj Žižek in The Sublime Object of Ideology, I argue that the eyes of the wayfarer’s beloved are the Lacanian Real that disrupts his symbolic network and thus are the origin of his traumatic existence. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Diplomat

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Industridesign

    Author : Niclas Ekwall; [2018]
    Keywords : Technology and Engineering; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This project started out of love for the enjoyment of healthy food. A summer in France opened up my world to the wonderful beverage that is natural wine and the beautiful process of making it. But, there is a strong critical agenda in the Nordic countries, and the natural wine has not gotten a warm welcome. READ MORE