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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Automatism"”.
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Automatism and art practice
… is to develop an understanding of the use of automatism in the practice of art derived from an interrelationship between the material process of art and critical text. As these practices converge in their vocabularies of the psychic and the somatic, they formulate a discourse of …
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The Use of Automatism in Mixed Media Watercolor Painting
… study is (1) to investigate the principles of automatism, (2) to apply these principles and means in developing a series of original mixed-media watercolor paintings, and (3) to draw conclusions relevant to the process.
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Methods of Surrealism and Intermedial Contemporary Dance
… the creative method of Surrealism referred to as automatism within the setting of contemporary dance. The research acknowledges the origins of the Surrealist movement, the use of automatism across various disciplines, and its application within the thesis research. The practice of automatism is …
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Involuntary action and criminal responsibility.
… law. In particular it examines the defence of automatism. The discussion of the defence by the courts in England and Wales and jurisprudential commentary regarding involuntary action are considered. Present legal definitions of involuntary action do not take account of current scientific or …
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Die Erfindung der Moderne: Das Manifest Refus global und die identitätsstiftende Rezeption von Surrealismus und Automatismus in Québec
The manifesto of the Quebecer art movement Automatism, the Refus global (Montreal, 1948), is today one of the best known socio-political writings of Quebec. It is considered to have been the beginning of Quebec's cultural modernity and an early sign of its political modernity. In the early 1940's …
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Automatic Modernism: Habit, Embodiment, and the Politics of Literary Form
… of thinkers who would associate physiological automatism with politics in the coming years. By century's end, the belief that habit determined social action and circumscribed individual volition was to find wide currency in a variety of cultural fields, including literary …
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Transcending inaccessibility : reassessing the Action Painters in the light of rhetorical theory
… of nonobjective painting, the technique of automatism, and the Action Painting movement is given. Following this, the semiotic character of the visual elements within Action Paintings is discussed and their behavior catalogued through descriptive analysis, using Kenneth Pike's theory of …
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Redistribution within a Democratic society : the 'finished business' of he Italian agrarian reform
… relaxation of the expropriation procedure, whose automatism and objectiveness left few chances to the landowners to influence the process at the implementation stage.
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Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington
… engagement, reaching out to similar uses of automatism and surrealist reverie in the prose of these three women writers during their turbulent experiences of life in the shadow of war.
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Asperger Syndrome and perceived offending conduct: a qualitative study
… liability, recklessness and risk. The notions of automatism and insanity are examined in light of the data. The possibility of post traumatic stress disorder as a contributory factor to unlawful conduct is presented. The study examines the possible AS specific and AS inferred elements that appear …
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Responsible filmmaking: ethics and spectatorship through the lens of Michael Haneke
… are underpinned by Cavell's understanding of automatism and the manner in which Haneke uses and reflects upon film's automatisms. Finally, I illustrate Levinas' concept of responsibility for the Other through a reading of Georges and Majid's relationship in Caché, Kelly Oliver's work on …
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Assessing the European Union’s Energy Policy: the nature of interests and conflicts in a changing historical environment
… prob-lematic features, such as state-centrism, automatism, determinism, and cultural relativism. Drawing on the neo-Gramscian approach, informed by a historical institution-alist perspective, and certain elements of the post-structuralist account, I provide a more convincing and thorough …
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Unfolding the act of photography
… the photograph, issues of representation, time, automatism, agency, the twofold nature –trace and picture- as well as depiction theories of the medium are put into scrutiny towards formulating an apprehension scheme. This body or knowledge, along with my visual practice’s research outcomes, …
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Técnicas de automatización avanzadas en procesos industriales
… control is proposed, which is able to detect automatism failures and system behavior deviations. Starting from models developed with high-level formalisms, a methodology to implement automations in programmable logic controllers and industrial devices of automatic control is presented. The …
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Neofunctionalism Vs Liberal Intergovernmentalism; The Creation Of The European Stability Mechanism And The Limits Of Political Theory
… fiscal portfolios, and which enhances the automatism of early sanctions imposed by the European Commission in order to more effectively enforce the ""convergence criteria"" as formulated by the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). On the other hand there is the ""Pact for the Euro"", which …
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Individualism and the role of the individual in British and French socialism : the early years, 1800-1848
… a social order based upon dehumanization and automatism. Thus, the key question was, to quote Louis Blanc again "how to change it?" Their persistent love of humanity led such intellectuals to seek out the real, not necessarily the true, laws· of nature and history. Such laws, they assumed, …
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L¿ESECUZIONE DELLA PENA E L¿ORDINAMENTO PENITENZIARIO PER IMINORENNI: L¿EVOLUZIONE E LE NUOVE PROSPETTIVE ALLA LUCEDEL D.LGS. 2 OTTOBRE 2018, N. 121
… Court severely censured any form of automatism that prevented, in practice, those who were minors at the time of the crime, from benefiting from measures less segregating than prison. The motivations underlying these decisions find their common denominator in the interpretation of …
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Transmutational Harmony
The work that I have produced during my graduate studies at the University of New Orleans addresses the impact that humans have on the environment in our contemporary world. A primary focus, but not exclusive, includes industrial materials or objects, their overwhelming presence that informs the …
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Situace surrealistického subjektu
Univerzita Karlova v Praze Filosofická fakulta katedra estetiky Diploma thesis Šimon Svěrák Situation of the Surrealist Subject (abstract) 2012 thesis supervisor: prof. PhDr. Vlastimil Zuska, CSc. Abstract This thesis focuses on the situation of a substantial subject in the historical development …