Essays about: "immaterial"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 62 essays containing the word immaterial.

  1. 16. Seeking their place in the sun : A case study on the self-perception of German tourists in postcolonial Namibia

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Anna Munkler; [2021]
    Keywords : Tourism; Colonial Heritage; Postcolonialism; Representation;

    Abstract : Tourism has various effects on society. Not only economic but also immaterial effects on destinations as well as on tourists themselves. Especially regarding tourism between the Global North and South, it is arguable if tourism is a social force influencing societies in a positive way or if it rather reinforces stereotypes and colonial structures. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Brexit Subject : Cognitive Capitalism and Biopolitical Production in Post-Referendum Fiction

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Emma Flodqvist; [2020]
    Keywords : Brexit Fiction; Brexit Literature; BrexLit; Autumn; Middle England; The Cockroach; Perfidious Albion; The Friends of Harry Perkins; The Wall; The Cut; Cognitive Capitalism; Immaterial Labour; Creative Labour; Cultural Labour; Gig Economy; Biopower; Biopolitics; Biopolitical Production; Bioproduction; Subjectivity; Precarity; Casualization; Subject Formation; Patriotism; Collectivism; Individualism.;

    Abstract : This thesis explores precarization of work and subject formation in seven post-referendum Brexit novels through theories of cognitive capitalism and biopolitical production. The analysis is anchored in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s reconceptualization of Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics. READ MORE

  4. 18. Why it felt wrong to remove the glass – investigating site and site-narratives at Regjeringskvartalet, Oslo, Norway

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Oskar Airijoki; [2020]
    Keywords : The travelling transect; hermeneutics; Gadamer; photographic locality; site; landscape;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to find out in what ways site narratives emerge in the interaction between the human and the site, with Regjeringskvartalet (the site of the July 22, 2011 attack) in Oslo as case study. The purpose of the investigation is to shed light on how immaterial aspects can affect the understanding of the specific site. READ MORE

  5. 19. Fjordparken : en studie om postindustriell stadsomvandling

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Mikaela Persson; [2020]
    Keywords : gestaltningsförslag; hamnområde; postindustri; park; badplats; site; platsomvandling; Filipstad; Oslo;

    Abstract : Traces of industrialization can now be found in the ports of several coastal cities and have been gaining increasing focus in various planning discourses. The aim is to determine how to create better use of the land while weaving its existing qualities in as part of the existing cities, as the challenge in some of these transformation projects is that modern ports often have similar structures and cultural themes, regardless of the areas’ geographical locations and shapes. READ MORE

  6. 20. Collaborative Drug Discovery with Blockchain Technology

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknik

    Author : Christoffer Olsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Blockchain Cheminformatics immaterial rights cryptography; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The cost of developing and researching novel molecular compounds in the pharmaceutical industry is very high today. If an actor accidentally releases too much information about a novel molecule to the public the molecule becomes prior art, and as an effect, can not be patented. READ MORE