Essays about: "commodification"

Showing result 36 - 40 of 115 essays containing the word commodification.

  1. 36. Exhibiting Performing Subjects : Curating Outsourced Performance Labour in Museum Settings

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Anne Vigeland; [2020]
    Keywords : Performance art; performance curation; art museum; affective labour; outsourced labour; de-skilling re-skilling; reperformance; Marina Abramović; Dora García;

    Abstract : The thesis examines challenges museum curators face when outsourced performers – whose role it is to embody the work of other artists – are included in exhibition projects. The research questions are: What are the practical, juridical and ethical challenges that come with situating outsourced performance labour in the museum setting? What does the inclusion of live performance in exhibition projects mean for the role of the museum curator? Two exhibition cases in Stockholm are studied in the thesis: Marina Abramović – The Cleaner (2017) at Moderna Museet and Dora García, I Always Tell the Truth at Bonniers Konsthall (2018–19). READ MORE

  3. 37. Housing for whom? Urban development and housing commodification in a suburban area of Stockholm, Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Márcia Cezar Zaccaria Endrighi; [2020]
    Keywords : Conversion; Displacement; Neoliberalism; Planning; Power; Privatization; Renoviction;

    Abstract : Departing from a critical perspective to the neoliberalization of planning and housing policies in Sweden, this study aimed to investigate the existing housing dynamics and the proposed residential developments in a Focus Area for Urban Development, as well as the relationship between these processes. The research was conducted as a single case-study in the neighboring areas Hagsätra and Rågsved, where the City of Stockholm is expecting to build at least 3,000 new dwellings. READ MORE

  4. 38. Popularizing implants : Exploring conditions for eliciting user adoption of digital implants through developers, enthusiasts and users

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DVMT)

    Author : Mikael Ericsson Duffy; [2020]
    Keywords : implants; user adoption; service design; UX; user experience; disruptive innovation; body augmentation; data privacy; datafication; NFC; RFID; sensors; corporations; commodification; enthusiasts; biometrics; bio-data; e-health; wireless data transfer; embodied interaction; commodification;

    Abstract : Digital implants have become a new frontier for body hackers, technology enthusiasts and disruptive innovation developers, who seek to service this technology for themselves and to new users. This thesis has explored conditions for future user adoption of human body augmentation with digital implants. READ MORE

  5. 39. Framing Food Geographies : Framing analysis, food distancing, and the democratic imagination in rural and urban Ontario, Canada

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Sarah Ramsay; [2020]
    Keywords : framing analysis; democratic imagination; food distancing; food geographies; alternative food systems; virtual mapping.;

    Abstract : The current global food system is market-driven and depends on the exploitative commodification of our basic need to eat. It has been consistently condemned for its incapacity to account for justice, sustainability, welfare, and health. READ MORE

  6. 40. Big Dyke Energy? : Commodification and Queer Female Meaning-Making in the Reception of Ocean’s 8 (Gary Ross, 2018)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Esmé Fransen; [2020]
    Keywords : Ocean’s 8; commodification; queer female reception; epiphenomena; popular Film; commodity lesbianism; Cate Blanchett;

    Abstract : In a media landscape that continues to be characterized by heteronormativity, queer female audiences are continuously finding ways to make popular texts their own. Previous scholarship on queer female reception has largely approached queer meaning-making as a text-audience relationship, a perspective which disregards the position of films as commodities surrounded by an extensive promotional network. READ MORE