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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Becoming-Animal"”.
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Art and Becoming-Animal: Reconceptualizing the Animal Imagery in Dorothea Tanning's Post-1955 Paintings
… aid of Deleuze and Guattari’s conception of the becoming-animal, this thesis will investigate how Tanning’s post-1955 paintings create and promote new ways for viewers to think about the relations between humans and animals in the human-dominated modern world.
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Toward a Becoming Encounter: Arts-Based Research, Representation and Animal-Human Relations
… concepts from Deleuze and Guattari’s Becoming-animal and Buber’s I-Thou Encounters to create a conceptual metaphor that I call A Becoming Encounter. Through an arts-based methodology, the production and examination of several art objects (my own and others), and the ways in which they …
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Untimely mutations: deterritorializing H.G. Wells's scientific romances
… a number Deleuzian concepts; for example, ‘Becoming-Animal’ in The Island of Doctor Moreau, the ‘Body Without Organs’ in The War of The Worlds and ‘Nomadology’ in The Time Machine. Characteristically, rather than simply applying philosophy to the arts, Deleuzian theory attempts to extract …
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Empathising With Animals: Non-Human Subjectivity In Documentary Film
… allow a spectator to empathise with an onscreen animal. It argues that a spectator cannot be told to feel empathy, and instead should be offered an experience that allows them to practise empathy whilst watching and listening. Henceforth, both theory and practice explore how audience and onscreen …
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Deleuzian Mappings With Rafael Chirbe's "little Machines"
… "reterritorialization," and "becoming," find resonance in Chirbes's novels, especially within the context of advanced capitalism. Capitalism, on Deleuze and Guattari's account, has the advantage of liberating people from debilitating social structures only to reterritorialize …
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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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Entering the Contact Zone: Encountering the Animal in Children's Fantasy Fiction and Film
… literature, philosophy, posthumanism and animal studies meet. The term ‘contact zone’ describes the act of two entities moving into a physical space where their world views collide. Placing a philosophical lens over the spaces of children’s stories, opens up a dialogue between humans and …