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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Baudrillard"”.
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Signification and political economy in Baudrillard.
… and political economy in the work of Jean Baudrillard. It argues that Baudrillard's work should be read as an important but flawed contribution to critical theory rather than as an exemplar of a postmodern semiotic nihilism. Expositions of Baudrillard's position in relation to political …
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Urban constellations: reading contemporary cityscapes with Benjamin and Baudrillard
… to the literature on Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, but not to merely retread old debates. It is concerned instead with a re-evaluation of the work of both thinkers in a particular context: the experience of the new cultural spaces, of twenty-first century post-industrial cities, and in …
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A Case for Rhetorical Method: Criticism, Theory, and the Exchange of Jean Baudrillard
This dissertation uses the case of Jean Baudrillard to argue that successful critics must consider rhetorical method as it relates to theory. Throughout this dissertation, I follow Edwin Black in using the term rhetorical method to describe the procedures a rhetor uses to guide composition. The …
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Forget Jerusalem: William Faulkner's Hyperreal Novel
… Faulkner, and high priest of Postmodernism, Jean Baudrillard. Specifically, this paper examines Faulkner's eleventh novel—the oft-neglected If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem—as a proto-postmodern text which, when examined by the light of Baudrillard's theory of simulacra and simulations, informs the …
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Max Weber and postmodern theory
… Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard develops Max Weber's analysis of the rise, nature, and trajectory of modem culture. Further to this, it examines the strategies which may be drawn from the work of each of these theorists to enable resistance to the further …
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Postwar Media Manifestations and Don DeLillo
… II,</em> as well as to the media theorists Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, and Antonio Gramsci. The paper is both a history and a critique of postwar consumer culture and the role that media plays in the construction of that culture.</p>
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Developing Perfection: Understanding and Redefining Photography in a Digital Age
… in modern society. Engaging the work of Jean Baudrillard, I establish the impact of image modification in everyday life through a lens of Hyperreality. I examine genealogies of photography and image modification as a means of rhetorically comparing digital technologies to the photographic …
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Theoretical Concerns In the Geometric Abstractions of Peter Halley
… of poststructuralist thinkers (particularly Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault), with little or no attention given to other influences that have exerted pressures of at least equal, if not greater significance.</p> <p>In order to provide a more thoroughly rounded view of Halley's production, I …
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Rupturing the terrain vague
… made by Jean Nouvel in conversation with Jean Baudrillard on the metamorphosis of architecture. This project set out as both a manifestation of the above philosophy, using it as an approach towards making architecture, and as an exploration to test whether architecture can really achieve this - …
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Brand Building in Three Public Libraries: Live Oak Public Libraries, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, and Richland County Public Library
… social interactionism, and the ideas of Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco were used to reflect on the findings.</p>
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The Postmodern Condition and the Commodification of Cuisine
… regarding cultural capital and habitus, Jean Baudrillard regarding sign/symbol and simulacra and Fredric Jameson regarding media reality and simulacra. Using the three independent theories, the study looks at how postmodern society struggles in its acquisition of image enhancing cultural …
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Brás Cubas: discurso e metadiscurso na construção da personagem no romance e nos filmes
… e Renata Palottini (1989), acerca da personagem, Baudrillard (1991), sobre simulacro, Genette (1982) e Chalhub (1997), sobre metadiscurso, auxiliam na análise da construção verbal e imagética da irônica personagem Brás Cubas
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… The work of French theorist and sociologist Jean Baudrillard provides me with the conceptual model and critical vocabulary to reframe feminist theory. Baudrillard conceptualizes society as governed by the system of production. As a power structure, production functions to make meaning of …
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The rhetorical structure of disability : bridging the gap between what is 'spoken' and what is 'said' with song - over-signifying with personhood against the backdrop of disease-centric discourse.
… structure. Ultimately, utilizing Jean Baudrillard's concept of "over-signification" the paper concludes with the advocacy of traversing the grammatical reasoned structure of the predicate/subject dichotomy which disease-centric discourse is founded upon, and employing a method of …
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Writing US identities in the wars without frontlines: literary perspectives on the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars
… advances transformed warfare into what Jean Baudrillard refers to as a virtual experience epitomised by “surgical strikes” and “smart-bombs”. In contrast, the Iraq War (2003-2009) was hailed by many as a return to a more conventional form of combat in which soldiers fought their enemy in …
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Power and resistance in the age of informationalization
… on how the work of Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard might be used to better understand the political problems and potentialities of informationalization. Some of the questions I address here are: What exactly are we speaking of when we call this the "information age?" Has it replaced or …
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Conceptualizing Silk Road as countercultural rebellion
… epistemological bricolage with the works of Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault was established to guide explanations of cultural exchange, relational trust, and the spatial dynamics of SR. I postulate that SR is more than an online illicit marketplace; it is a virtual …
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Presencing Absence
… work of Andy Warhol and the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard; and that of an embracing of absence, presented in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and the works of such artists as John Cage, George Brecht, Pauline Oliveros, Bill Wegman, David Hammons and others.
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A True War Story: Reality and Simulation in the American Literature and Film of the Vietnam War
… both lived experience and simulacra, defined by Baudrillard as a hyperreality, fiction and simulation are capable of representing particular realities. Vietnam was shaped by simulacra of Vietnam itself as well as simulacra of previous American conflicts, especially World War II; however, the …
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European Avant-Garde: Art, Borders and Culture in Relationship to Mainstream Cinema and New Media
… of contemporary media. The thesis rejects Baudrillard's and Virilio's proposed concepts of 'digital black hole' as the only possible form of evolution of contemporary digital media. It proposes a different concept for the evolutionary model of contemporary hybridization processes based on …
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