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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Disembodiment"”.
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Intersection : poems and permutations
… across time and space, playing with dislocation, disembodiment and misconstruction in contexts of friendship and intimacy, culminating in poems which inscribe the failure of intimacy to establish a stable home across a wide cultural gap.
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Where Light Is: a collection of short stories & The Definition of Snow: a chapbook
… gives voice to the female narrator’s sense of disembodiment in “Series of Doors." “Fishtails" and “At Watch" probe into the kind of complex familial relationships brought about through addiction and loss, just like the young girls’ relationships with their parents in “All Around Us" and …
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BRING IT ON HOME: A Decolonial Analysis of Musical Instruments in the Penn Museum
… discussions of cultural heritage and the disembodiment of objects from ancestral homes. This research interacts with literature on decoloniality and musical repatriation to understand how musical instruments convey cultural heritage. Imagining how instruments might be used as symbols of …
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Coming to Terms with Abusive Childhood Sexual Experiences: A Listening Guide Study of Women's Stories
… avoidance, engagement, victim, agency, disembodiment, and empowerment identified. The ways in which the contrapuntal voices overlapped with one another and with the participants' identities were explored. Results suggest that coming to terms with childhood experiences of sexual abuse is …
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Investigating sexual violence through a social identity lens
… to measure disidentification, dissociation, disembodiment, social isolation, and mental health in a sample of adults who had experienced sexual violence. I found that disidentification from victim-survivors predicted (complex) post-traumatic stress symptoms, and this relationship was mediated …
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Investigating sexual violence through a social identity lens
… to measure disidentification, dissociation, disembodiment, social isolation, and mental health in a sample of adults who had experienced sexual violence. I found that disidentification from victim-survivors predicted (complex) post-traumatic stress symptoms, and this relationship was mediated …
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Surface tension: permeability, the body, and installation
… of static, 2D media to emphasize ocularcentric disembodiment. In contrast, installation is explored as a medium that demonstrates a porous capacity via the viewer's occupation of an immersive environment designed to activate multiple senses, thus aligning message and medium.
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Intramediary presence : body, interactivity and networked distribution in immersive virtual reality art
… virtual reality, examining the idea of virtual disembodiment in detail. This discussion is influenced by William Gibson's dichotomizing of "meatspace" and "cyberspace" in Neuromancer (1984). The psychological effects of avatars (the virtual body that surrogates for the physical body in virtual …
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Artistic Modulation of Consciousness by Bioelectromagnetic Stimulation
… those interacting with its forms. The aspects of disembodiment of the previously referred experiment, instrumental in provoking such impact, are argued to be consistent with those found in the philosophy and practice of Fernando Pessoa. The practice of the Portuguese philosopher is presented as …
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Teaching Bodies: Curriculum and Corporeality
… then, is to examine what I perceive as the disembodiment of curriculum, and bring the body into the educational practice and discourse in a way that is meaningful to the everyday practice of teachers and relevant to the future of curriculum at large. This project is not an attempt to …
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The effects of testosterone on embodiment: implications for social power
… and for measuring homeostatic changes related to disembodiment. In experiment three, testosterone was found to increase the implicit sense of agency as measured in terms of intentional binding, a task which exploits the tendency to perceive a contraction in time when one’s own actions are felt to …
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Matter, metaphor and meaning : the precariousness of the reality value of the representational status of Zwelethu Mthethwa's photography
… The fourth chapter nudges the viewer to consider disembodiment as an alternative discourse of Mthethwa's portraiture practice. The fifth chapter reflects on how the photographic abstractionism of the Wall Paper, 1995-2005 (Fig. 12) inverts the specificity of photography as a medium and promotes an …
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The dissection: An examination of the printmaking tradition as a means to reconsider the relationship between the human body and its representation
… Computer technologies have led to increased disembodiment, while AIDS has reinforced awareness of the body as physically vulnerable. The basic premise governing my dissertation is that the body of the individual has become a collection of parts - fragmented by its representation. More …
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Towards a postneoliberal health promotion: A journey of reifying, resisting, and reimagining health promotion in and through sport
… as a kind of epistemic injustice that results in disembodiment, and displacement from person and place, thus inhibiting the phronesis – practical wisdom – that is necessary for human flourishing. I then close by applying the above insights to the context of sport, and rope skipping in particular, …
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Annotation in nurse education : towards a hermeneutic understanding
… against the effects of the political labyrinth, disembodiment and technology. However, with an essay considered a safe space to think in preparation for the rigours of clinical nursing practice, the recall of past events refigured for the present may lead to something useful or not being …
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Walking through Walls: Artistic Strategies and Audience Engagement in Virtual and Mixed Reality Performance
… towards new understandings of embodiment through disembodiment (Popat, 2016), towards a mode of audience engagement I term ‘ethereal embodiment’, unique to the VolCap approach used. The techniques used cultivate a corporeal liminality for participants, drawing an awareness to their invisible, yet …
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COMING OUT OF THE COFFIN AS THE POSTHUMAN: POSTHUMAN RHETORIC AND HARRIS’ SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES
… to transcend these mortal bodies. This notion of disembodiment demonstrates the body being a rhetorical strategy to create an effect, such as manipulation. Since the body for the posthuman is seen as materiality and therefore they are not embedded to only exist within it, the vampire likewise is …
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`Exploring relationships': a study of young people's (hetero)sexual subjectivities, knowledge and practices
… thus reveals how the processes of embodiment and disembodiment are experienced differently by young men and women and identifies another bodily state known as dys-embodiment. The gendered nature of these corporeal states are explained through use of the concept of the 'imaginary body'. On the …
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Dreams, desire and addiction : an archetypal analysis
… "soul", themes of embodiment in relation to the disembodiment characteristic of the addict, the contemporary relevance of the archetypal imagery contained in myth and folk tales, and convergences between Jungian, ecofeminist, New Age, Eastern and postmodern discourses. Dream work, I suggest, …
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Cyber-Narrative in Opera: Three Case Studies
<p>This dissertation looks at three newly composed operas that feature what I call cyber-narratives: a work in which the story itself is inextricably linked with digital technologies, such that the characters utilize, interact with, or are affected by digital technologies to such a pervasive extent …
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