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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Žižek"”.
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Positioning the Intellectual: Žižek as a Sociological Phenomenon
… examination of the rise to prominence of Slavoj Žižek—the Slovene philo-superstar and intellectual celebrity. Drawing upon cultural sociology and the sociology of intellectual interventions, the dissertation widens the application of Positioning Theory, suggesting that Žižek’s unique mode of …
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Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek
… primarily the work of Michel Foucault and Slavoj Žižek in order to demonstrate how a post-structuralist theory of ideology need not be a post-Marxist theory of ideology.
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Slavoj Zizek, Radical Theology, and the Materialist Defense of Christianity
… theological assertions of the philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Žižek, an atheist and a materialist, has produced a rather substantial body of work concerning Christianity in general and Christian theology specifically. My aim here is several. First, to provide an intellectual portrait of the dominant …
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Mother’s Ruin: Refracting the imperial gaze
… The author then invites us to think with Slavoj Žižek and Ann Stoler about ideology, violence and imperial debris. With Žižek, we consider the operation of ideology and violence. With Ann Stoler's concept of imperial debris and ruination, we expand our gaze beyond physical structures to the …
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Art in the public realm and the politics of rural leisure: Access and environment
… an application of the work of philosopher Slajov Žižek on environmental politics and complementarity - the inscription of the universal within the particular (Žižek, 2011). The thesis’ originality lies in this theoretical synthesis which sets out a complemental practice based on dissensus and the …
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« Tu m'arracheras de moi » : la limite de la représentation dans la poésie de René Lapierre (1990-2008)
… sens. Les théories du philosophe slovène Slavoj Žižek, telles qu’elles sont formulées dans son ouvrage The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), et notamment en ce qui a trait à l’idéologie, permettent d’éclairer certains des enjeux cachés de la représentation. La présente analyse se construit …
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Eulogy.
… ideas of philosophers G. W. F. Hegel and Slavoj Žižek, and art historian James Elkins.</p>
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Violence and the other in the novels of Carmel Bird
… forms of violence, the thesis uses Slavoj Žižek’s delineation of a triumvirate of violence: symbolic, systemic and subjective violence. He describes subjective violence as the most visible, physical violence of an actor or actors against an other. He determines that this subjective violence …
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Preserving bad architecture : radicaL preservation in the post-disaster era
… to mark repeatedly the trauma as such. - Slavoj Žižek This thesis re-examines the role of ruins preservation by speculating on the inherent tension between disaster ruins, psychological interventions and collective memorialization. It challenges the misconception of architectural preservation …
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The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism
… Freud, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Slavoj Žižek say about women and masochistic practices, and then continue the discussion by looking at the work of several women theorists and writers, including Angela Carter, Judith Butler, Kathy Acker, and Luce Irigaray. This analysis centres around …
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Sublimating the Singularity of an Author(ity): Textual Publics, Textual Agency, and a Case Study of "Eikon Basilike" (1649-1660)
… of Ruti, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, and others, I illustrate how, through authorial cathexis, the singularity of the foreclosed $ubject-author registers its presence in the Symbolic field through what I call sublimated metaphoric-metonymic essences of the Real. This project …
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After Fragmentation: Mental Health and Resilience in Modernist Women’s Literature
… trauma and survival by Catherine Malabou, Slavoj Žižek, Cathy Caruth, and Bessel van der Kolk. I conclude by analyzing recent works by contemporary women writers including Ottessa Moshfegh and Katherine May to demonstrate how the entangled subjects of trauma, recovery, and resilience continue to …
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Soliciting desire: the ad-man as narrative negotiation between art, desire, and consumer capitalism in twentieth-century novels
… concepts are refined by Mark Bracher, Slavoj Žižek, and Kaja Silverman, all of whom insist that psychoanalysis has valuable applications extending beyond the individual, into the social and cultural realms. My dissertation finds that the ad-man character in its many manifestations actively …
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Post- Print: a moment of compression
… Being. For this project, I will draw on Slavoj Žižek's philosophical reading of the notion of ‘Event' as a framework for my central thesis: I want to expand on how the moment of compression for a technology for looking (i.e., the introduction of the printing press and the digital device) may be …
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Unmaking the remake: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian logic, and the problem of repetition in Hollywood cinema
… to speak. Mediating these two thinkers is Slavoj Žižek, a cultural theorist whose<br/>own ‘filmosophy’ is revealed from amongst his often frenetic writings. In so doing, I expose a<br/>dark underside to Hollywood repetition, one which provides some new tools for<br/>understanding the popularity of …
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Tussen mentors en minnaars: ʼn Voorstel vir ʼn nuwe leesmodel vir die lees van werke deur skrywers soos Peter Blum en lna Rousseau, waar ʼn persoonlike verhouding tussen die skrywers bestaan het
… of intimate relationship with Prinsloo. Slavoj Žižek's theory is used as a possible solution for the question posed in this study. His work represents a bridge between the modern and post-modern readings of the works studied here. Applying his theory, the study attempts to bridge the gap between …
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Corpus Cum Figuris. Antropofilosofías e ideomitologías de la naturaleza y corporalidad humanas (con un sondeo en el Teatro Español Contemporáneo)
… para pasar luego a los "órganos sin cuerpo" (Žižek) hasta llegar al "cuerpo sin cuerpo" (Le Breton). La tercera parte representa un análisis de la presencia de los "fantasmas" de las cuatro ideomitologías de la naturaleza y corporalidad humanas, así como de la penetración del Ur-paradigma, en …
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La voz límite. Una aproximación estética a la vocalidad teratológica desde el arte sonoro
… la visión de paralaje (propuesta por Slavoj Žižek) y la categoría biopolítica de ¿Homo sacer¿ (recuperada por Giorgio Agamben), entre algunas otras fuentes. El resultado de este planteamiento metodológico trasciende los confines más habituales del análisis estético para presentar …
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From brand leadership to leadership brand: transformational leadership in higher education
… (Freud, Klein). However, I found ’looking awry’ (Žižek/Lacan) a critical theory to consider in more depth when looking at the challenge for many universities relating to branding and rebranding. I conclude with a distillation of my reflections and a summary which I hope will offer insight into the …
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Beckett’s Bodies, 1953–1983: Movement, Gesture, and Posture
… Giorgio Agamben, Michel Serres, and Slavoj Žižek—where relevant and necessary to an understanding of bodily practices and effects. This provides a perspective by which to explore what may be termed a Beckettian body knowledge: the disciplined physical practices and techniques Beckett used to …
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