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Showing 1 to 20 of 144 for “"Dialectics"”.
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"Erik Sate: ""Musique D'ameublement"" (with) ""dialectics for orchestra"" "
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Affect and Critique: Negative Dialectics and Massumi's Politics of Affect
… of the wrong state of things." Negative dialectics expresses the necessity of a wholly critical 'No' within capitalist life. However, this 'No' requires extensive qualification in order to clarify what kind of intellectual and somatic commitments are required to engage in non-idealist …
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Dialectics of Eco-anxiety: Encountering Uncertainty and Negotiating (Im)possible Futures
… by the website Reddit. Findings are presented as dialectics representative of the multiple tensions and contradictions that frame and inform how people (primarily in the Global North) are currently making sense of the threat of climate change. These dialectics delineate several discursive …
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Dialectics of vision : the voyages of Louis I. Kahn, 1950-59
Kahn's genre of travel sketches offers us a visual basis to map his philosophical meandering. This thesis addresses the sketches produced from Kahn's voyages around the Mediterranean in 1950-51 and 1959 with an aim to understanding the premises that underlie them. During the trips, Kahn conjectured …
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State, Civil Society and Political Change: The Dialectics of Democratisation in Nigeria
… secondary interpretive ones to illustrate the dialectics of democratic struggles in Nigeria. The study reveals that the continuing suspension of democracy in Nigeria draws from the tendency of the ruling forces to subdue democratic forces with coercion. Also, forces controlling the state …
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The Dialectics of Cyberspace: Communication Ethics as First Response to Cyber Attacks
… The goods that shape cyberspace manifest in the dialectics of cyberspace. After reviewing historic and philosophic approaches to dialectic, this project employs a dialectical framework derived from the work of both Kenneth Burke (1941; 1945/1969) and David Gunkel (2007); Burke recognizes that …
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Intellectual Being: The Dialectics of Hyle in Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and William Wordsworth
… developed an adventure that extended from the dialectics of the potential or Sartrean puissance to the certainty of the actual or Sartrean acte to offer a new perspective on the relationship between hyle and ethics. Both promulgated that their doctrines of poetics and politics performed …
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The Dialectics of Form: Reification and Genre in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
This dissertation foregrounds genre as a politically-charged modality in early twentieth-century American literature, specifically the entangled relations between realism, romance, and naturalism through which the shifting formations of race and gender reproduce or challenge transnational …
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Radical dialectics in the experimental poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino
… and dualistic thinking. By describing a "radical dialectics," I am proposing a strategy of reading experimental work that recognizes its philosophical significance and its attempts to complicate dualistic conceptual constructions such as public and private realms of experience, subject and object …
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The Dialectics of Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: The Case of Said Nursi
<p>This dissertation analyzes Said Nursi's revivalist discourse and mobilization strategies in the context of the development of secularism in Turkey. This study starts with the exploration of the development of the secularist movement and its discourse with regard to philosophical foundations of …
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The dialectics of corporate reporting:a semiotic analysis of corporate financial and environmental reporting
The central argument to this thesis is that the nature and purpose of corporate reporting has changed over time to become a more outward looking and forward looking document designed to promote the company and its performance to a wide range of shareholders, rather than merely to report to its …
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Women's Activism in the Toxic Waste Movement: The Dialectics of Gender and Activism
This work underscores the relevance of gender identity for understanding activism and the importance of superseding essentialist constructions of gender.
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Tensions in (Agri)Culture: The Negotiation of Environmental Dialectics at an Urban Farmers Market'
… of tensions used for data analysis is the three dialectics presented by Milstein (2009) — mastery/harmony, othering/connection, exploitation/idealism. Upon analysis of these dialectics, a reoccurring theme emerged — discursive tension between economic advancement and community advancement. …
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Within Double Restraint: The Dialectics & Aesthetics of Erotic [Re]presentation in African Cinema
“Within Double Restraint” advocates for the concept and application of eroticism as an analytical lens in the study of African cinema. This thesis unveils and investigates representations of sexuality and the nude female form in African cinema. One of the most useful concepts through which one can …
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From tragedy to dialectics: the theoretical significance of Lukács' path from Simmel to Marx.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Dialectics in Intercultural Communication: a Study of Interactions Between Latinos and Anglos in Southwest Missouri
The purpose of this thesis was to explore the intercultural interactions that are occurring between Latinos and Anglos in Southwest Missouri. This topic is significant because the Latino population is increasing dramatically across the United States and specifically in Southwest Missouri. …
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Utilizing Relational Dialectics Theory to Identify Dominant and Marginalized Discourses in Women's Miscarriage Podcast Stories
<p>This study examined the discourses of miscarriages from the podcast narratives of women who have experienced miscarriage by utilizing Relational Dialectic Theory (RDT). The process of contrapuntal analysis identified the discourse of silence as the dominant miscarriage discourse in which the …
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