Essays about: "metaphysics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 essays containing the word metaphysics.

  1. 1. Creation and Power : The role of creative activity in Nietzsche's posthumous fragments

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Raffale Vallorani; [2023]
    Keywords : Creation-Power-Nietzsche-Will to Power;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns the subject-reality relationship within the philosophy of the mature Nietzsche. The aim of this thesis is to highlight the interpretative dilemma that arises from apparent inconsistencies in Nietzsche’s analysis of that relationship. READ MORE

  3. 2. Future Imaginaries of Negative Emission Technologies and Folklore Myths in Icelandic Basalt: Provisional Order Emerges from the Possible Magma in the Age of ‘Hauntology’ and Broken Time

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Rikke Jespersen; [2023]
    Keywords : NETs; Desire; Green Capitalism; Imaginaries; Storytelling; Pluriverse; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Why do we in the Western part of world today tend to believe in technology’s mythical promises rather than in folklore myths? Imaginaries of the future influence political subjects’ actions in the present and play a key role in composing the trajectory towards the future. I have critically applied this notion to the implementation of negative emission technologies in the climate-neutrality strategy. READ MORE

  4. 3. Towards a new aesthetics of care : a critical reading of Nassauer’s cues to care

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Jack Richold; [2023]
    Keywords : cues to care; Joan Nassauer; Timothy Morton; strange stranger; sublime; scenic; broken windows; ecological function; aesthetics of care; design through maintenance;

    Abstract : Joan Nassauer’s concept of cues to care has been influential within landscape design since her seminal essay Messy Ecosystems, Orderly Frames was published in 1995 and her research is often used to justify the need for marking landscapes as owned, although there have been critical voices too. The enduring popularity of cues to care as a design method is due to how open it is to interpretation, and this thesis examines various landscape interventions that can be classed as cues to care, both explicitly and implicitly. READ MORE

  5. 4. Graffiti and street art in mobile landscapes

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Saga Li Ståhlberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Stockholm; everyday landscapes; visuality; graffiti; street art; mobility; sedantarist metaphysics; nomadic metaphysics;

    Abstract : Drawing from de Certeau (1984), in this thesis I investigate graffiti and street art as part of the everyday visual landscapes. The city of Stockholm has gone from zero tolerance towards all forms of street art to now including the art form as a strategy for creating a so-called attractive city. READ MORE

  6. 5. On fundamental relata : objects, individuals, and non-individuals in ontic structural realism

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Thilde Wolf; [2022]
    Keywords : ontic structural realism; fundamentality; eliminativism; dependence;

    Abstract : Ontic structural realism is the view that structure is fundamental. This view is at odds with a long-standing tradition in metaphysics which takes the fundamental structure of reality to consist of individuals. READ MORE