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  1. 1. The Word for World is Forest : A multidisciplinary approach to teaching about genocide

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Marco Zalazar; [2023]
    Keywords : Genocide; Dehumanization; Peace Education; Le Guin; Cognitive Estrangement; Engaged Reading; Socratic Pedagogy;

    Abstract : The current position proposed as a possible antidote to future human conflicts is to educate our students about the horrific consequences of past atrocities. To this end, this research paper will examine the possibilities of teaching the students to recognize and reject dehumanizing attitudes in society. READ MORE

  3. 2. Supporting Caring Touch : A toolkit for sensitizing soma designers through subtle disruptions

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Christoffer Eriksson; [2023]
    Keywords : Somaesthetic design; touch; care; design methods; research through design; Somaestheticdesign; beröring; omsorgsfullhet; designmetoder; forskning genom design;

    Abstract : Touch-based interactions have been of interest within interaction design, as they can communicate large quantities of information about materials, systems, and impact affective states. This dissertation outlines the process of developing a design method to aid designers in honing their somatic sensibilities to engage in interactions of caring touch through touch-based interactions and explorations. READ MORE

  4. 3. Chimeric Mimicry : Reflection and Animality in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

    Author : Oscar Amcoff; [2023]
    Keywords : animal-studies; human-animal relation; merleau-ponty; merleau-ponty nature; chimera; chimerical; animal reflection; reflection of nature; human-animal divide; carnologocentrism; animal philosophy; animal phenomenology; phenomenology of nature; merleau-ponty and the animal; ineinander; animal embodiment;

    Abstract : In this paper, I attempt to understand how Merleau-Ponty views the relation between nature and reflection, as well as the meaning behind the terms “human” and “animal” and the relations between them. I approach this by outlining the transition from Merleau-Ponty’s early philosophy (SB, PP) to his late philosophy (N, VI). READ MORE

  5. 4. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
    Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 5. The Effects of Mass Culture on the Loman Family : The Frankfurt School Critical Theory Applied to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Henrik Levin; [2021]
    Keywords : Miller; Marx; alienation; Frankfurt School; critical theory; mass culture; conformity; consumerism; escapism; law of success;

    Abstract : This essay discusses the effects of mass culture on the Loman family in Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman. The focus is to identify whether conformation to mass culture and alienation have caused the characters to be lonely and to give up what they enjoy and to fall in line with a system where individuality is replaced by totality. READ MORE