Essays about: "decadence"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word decadence.
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1. A Hypnotic Digital Artefact
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesignAbstract : This essay investigates what may constitute a hypnotic digital artefact from a design standpoint. This essay is meant to help designers who want to create hypnotic digital artefacts in the shape of a game, or researchers who wants to further this field. READ MORE
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2. Decadence in disguise : A Marxist view of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : .... READ MORE
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3. Grey Flowers
University essay from Konstfack/Keramik & GlasAbstract : This paper presents my master project “Grey Flowers” which is an incarnation of a poetic metaphor to a ceramic flower sculpture. The project is an installation of crafted flowers as a strong symbol of a short lived moment which has now stopped for ages. READ MORE
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4. Renewed Shall Be Blade That Was Broken: Tolkien, Modernity and Fascist Utopia
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This thesis consists of a close reading and meta-analysis of themes and patterns in the works that comprise the fictional world of “Middle-Earth” created by J. R. R. Tolkien, in specific relation to the culturally prevalent views of the decadence of modernity and the ideological dynamics of fascism. READ MORE
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5. Dirt, Decadence, and Dionysus -Treatise on the New Orleans punk scene
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : This thesis explores the relation between subcultures’ utilization of assumed working class attributes and those cultural elements tied to hedonism and boundary breaking. It does so by taking as its case a segment of the American punk- and traveling community as it expressed itself in New Orleans during the time of six spring weeks in 2012. READ MORE