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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Animal bodies"”.
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Between Species: Biopolitics, Resistance, and Interspeciesality
… My Year of Meats—in the context of posthumanist animal studies. A Foucauldian biopolitical lens foregrounds the inextricably linked ways that both human and nonhuman animal bodies are governed and controlled in a biopolitical era. Each chapter focuses on textual links between speciesism and the …
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Cutting Edge: Re-reading Iconography in Body Worlds
… licensed creations - plastinated human and animal bodies and specimens - are currently on view in each of seven, independently themed exhibits belonging to <em>Gunther von Hagen’s</em> <em>Body Worlds</em>. While academic readers typically exclude these bodies from conversations of art …
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Ecological Stoichiometry: What Role Does it Play in the Competition and Spatial Distribution Patterns of <i>Aedes Albopictus</i> and <i>Aedes Aegypti</i>?
… is the balance of chemical substances within animal bodies through interactions and processes within their ecosystem. Though relatively underexplored, it provides a wealth of information linking interactions across different levels of organization. Detritus is the base of the food web within …
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Using Animals: the use of non-human animals from the material to the metaphorical, 1100-1380
This thesis applies Animal Studies theory to a selection of texts from medieval literature and visual culture. In particular, it is concerned with the ways that the ‘fact of interaction’ impacts on an evaluation of non–human animal (NHA) and human–animal relationships. The thesis re–examines a …
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The Postnatural Animal in Contemporary Art
… method to propose novel characterisations of animal life. These characterisations aim to challenge an organicist image of non-human animals. The thesis considers animal bodies and behaviours as subject to aesthetic judgments that are underpinned by deeper ontological and epistemological …
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Re-Presenting Taxidermy: Contemporary Art Interventions in Natural History Museums
… not easily decompose, such as dried leaves and animal skeletons. Animal displays often made use of taxidermy. Attempts at a more realistic display of animals in their natural habitat took the form of the diorama. While it was popular at the time, it is perceived as problematic today in its …
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Finding balance in unequal relations: the burial of humans and animals in the Viking Age world
The nature of human-animal relationships in the past, like in the present, is intrinsically unbalanced, with humans ultimately holding power over the life and death of many other animal species. This is also true for Viking Age burial customs, where different types of animals were commonly killed …
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Old truths in new skins: animal imagery in the works of Nikolai Leskov
Animals complicate everything. They are implicated in science, in theology; they change the course of human development in its technological, cultural, and many other aspects. Animals have often provided material for thinking about what it means to be human, since they have been harnessed by …
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Empire and the animal body: violence, ecology and identity in the imperial romance
This thesis examines representations of exotic animals in Victorian and Edwardian adventure fiction and how they produce the boundary between human and nonhuman animals. Particularly, it scrutinises how violent engagements with animals participate in the construction of masculine identities and how …
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South of Here
South of Here is a coming-of-age story that follows a group of teenage boys through their journey into adulthood. Set against the backdrop of rural northwestern Connecticut, the book delves into the challenges of coping with grief, addiction, and the weight of adult responsibilities. Through the …
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Velocidad, tecnología, sociedad y poder en la obra de Paul Virilio y en su crítica
… y re-totalización de los “cuerpos en tal que animales” de hombres, mujeres y niños, los “cuerpos sociales” de familias, ciudades y naciones y los “cuerpos en tal que territorios” de bosques, océanos y montañas. Al llamar la atención sobre la obra de Virilio, esta tesis demostrará las bases …
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Separability between signal and noise components using the distribution of scaled Hankel matrix eigenvalues with application in biomedical signals.
Biomedical signals are records from human and animal bodies. These records are considered as nonlinear time series, which hold important information about the physiological activities of organisms, and embrace many subjects of interest. However, biomedical signals are often corrupted by artifacts …