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Showing 1 to 20 of 5066 for “"Bodies"”.
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Uncanny Bodies
<p>In “Uncanny Bodies,” unseemly bits are revealed, sensibilities are questioned, and solid ground morphs into shaky mounds. I delve into how the uncanny challenges traditional views and societal norms about the body. My artwork emphasizes the fluid and often unsettling experiences of physical …
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Thin Bodies
Thin Bodies, is a fictional thriller revolving around a retrospective, female voice. It is a short novel-length view into the insular community of the sorority, specifically in the U.S. Deep South. The town and university are both fictional, as are the characters, sororities, and events, but they …
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Abandoned bodies
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Bodies of information : reinventing bodies and practice in medical education
… the development of graphic models of human bodies and virtual reality simulators for teaching anatomy and surgery to medical students, residents, and physicians. It considers how researchers from disciplinary cultures in medicine, engineering, and computer programming come together to build …
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Disciplining Religious Bodies, Forming Secular Bodies: Atatürk, Modern Power and Secular Affect
… Kemaliste, Atatürk's Anıtkabir Mausoleum, bodies memorialized in Kemalist museums and early Republican newspapers. I go on to examine ethnographically how a contemporary Nekşibendi sufi community in Istanbul practice embodiment and view secular life. For them and many other of my …
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Bodies, minds and materialism
It is common to describe subjective experience as a mental, and thus metaphysical, phenomenon. This core assumption is a central tenet of our intellectual history. How this bears on our ability to take seriously new theories of mind in light of progressive discovery is what is at issue in this …
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Bodies Degraded by Friction
Bodies Degraded by Friction is a collection of poetry existing in finite spaces. The first section, “A Moment and a Moment and a Moment," attempts to capture in words small passages of time as simple as clicking through a Facebook photo album and as destructive as new love. The second section, …
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Bodies: Punk, Love and Marxism
This thesis returns love to the purview of Marxism and punk, which had attempted to ban the interpersonal in respective critiques of abstractions. Love-as-sense—as it is figured by Marx— will be distinguished from the love-of-love-songs, and from commodity fetishism and alienation, which relate to …
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Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh
… installation art to create what I term "virtual bodies"—conceptual entities that exist at the intersection of imagination and material reality. These creations often reflect and critique societal norms regarding beauty, health, and identity, particularly through the lens of the female experience, …
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Marginal bodies: actualising trans Utopias
This PhD focuses on transgender subjectivity and explores the ways in which trans is negotiated and compromised by and within social space, with particular attention to the dynamics and socio-cultural norms through which the transgendered body that identifies beyond the gender binary is mediated. …
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Celestial Bodies and Other Stories
<p><em>Celestial Bodies and Other Stories </em>is a collection of short stories woven together by themes of identity and its exploration. The first four stories in the collection include forays into personal identity, including gender, sexual orientation, and neurodivergence. “Changeling” recounts …
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Models for coated elastic bodies
Several technologies involve the coating of a bulk material with a thin layer made up of another material, so as to achieve enhanced mechanical properties for the composite system. The use of coated solids embraces a broad field of applications, so that a strong research effort has been devoted to …
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Vexatious Bodies in Modern Ireland
… thesis argues that problematic or “vexatious” bodies irritated dominant structures at the point where formative expectations of conservative Catholic morality, middle class respectability and the state meet. In a cycle of containment, these formations excluded the vexatious from recognition …
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Design optimization of rotating bodies
… problems for a general class of rotating bodies with different kinds of support. The rotation of rigid bodies causes vibrations which can lead to undesired noise and to a damage of the rotor. Therefore, the target of the optimization is to change the design of the rotor such that certain …
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Teaching Bodies: Curriculum and Corporeality
… between my own interest in desires and bodies as they relate to education and the work of several of my colleagues. I began to think about the role of the body in the curriculum. Every day that we enter the classroom we bring our bodies and our desires along with us. We educate and learn …
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