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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Fetish"”.
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The Anthropomorphic Body as Genre: Comics and Fetish
… the anthropomorphic body in comics as a site of fetish, desire, and othering in order to understand the use of such bodies to represent or subvert discourses surrounding gender, race, and power. Because the anthropomorphic body itself is a hybrid and a fetish object, and therefore fluid and …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art. The term fetish conjures sensuous objects of fixation and perversion. The dissertation argues that the negative perceptions of the fetish derive from its history as an Occidental construction and allude to the …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art. The term fetish conjures sensuous objects of fixation and perversion. The dissertation argues that the negative perceptions of the fetish derive from its history as an Occidental construction and allude to the …
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The Relationship Between Superstition and Confidence in Sport
… were the most used, while superstitions from the Fetish subscale were the most effective. Three Pearson correlations among Team Rituals use subscale and confidence were negative and statistically significant. Correlations among superstition effectiveness and confidence were positive and …
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Producing Humans: An Anthropology of Social and Cognitive Robots
… I use the core anthropological concept of the ‘fetish’ as elaborated by William Pietz (1985). By interrogating the robot as ‘fetish’, I elaborate how the robot is simultaneously a territorialised, historicised, personalised, and reified object. This facilitates an exploration of the disparate, …
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Necessary Myths
… W.J.T Mitchell’s image framework of idol, fetish and totem, and Joseph Campbell’s work in archetypes and mono-mythology, I explore the history of the image-religion relationship through the philosophical concepts they share. In categorizing them I attempt to parse out the role each has had …
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Self-fashioning, Consumption, and <em>Japonisme</em>: The Power of Collecting in Tissot’s <em>Jeunes Femmes Regardant des Objets Japonais</em>, 1869
… collector. This thesis also explores the role of fetish as an operative analytical tool. By employing the theories of Freudian and Marxist fetish, I am able to scrutinize the collectible objects' inclusion and meticulous representation, account for the obsessive nature of the collector and …
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The Body Politics of Data
… on “bodily bureaucracies” with Autonomous Tech Fetish (2013-2016) and Accumulative Care, a feminist model of care for labouring in the age of extractive digital technologies. This research offers an embodied feminist methodology for artistic practice to become investigative of how processes of …
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Paraphilias and the Medicalization of Criminal Behavior
… used by professionals to indicate that a sexual fetish is severe enough to warrant being called a mental health disorder. Even after the release of the fifth edition of the DSM (DSM-5) paraphilias remain controversial. Although philosophers and scientists alike have argued that some paraphilias …
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'All Job's stock of asses': The fiction of Laurence Sterne and the theodicy debate
… when analysed with Slavoj 'i–ek's concept of the fetish: the lie which enables one to live with an unendurable truth. The thesis is organised into six chapters. After setting Sterne's fiction in the context of contemporaneous theodicies, these examine in turn its theodictic features, its narrative …
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Aesthetic Redemption: Psychedelia, Film, and Walter Benjamin’s Sensory Revolution
… György Lukács’ theory of reification and Marx’s fetish character of the commodity which Benjamin ultimately believes lead to an erosion of the human sensorium and the destruction of human nature. As such, we explore Benjamin’s revolutionary aesthetic theory which seeks the reversal of these …
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Cineplastick: Synthetic Materials in the Films of Mary Ellen Bute, Jim Davis and Jeff Keen
… to Hong Kong. Harking back to Salvador Dalí’s fetish for the ‘edible’ beauty of Art Nouveau, Keen’s work uses plastic as a viscously fleshy medium in both his live action and animated films.
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Bulimic bodies and “bearers of production” : representing bulimia in Todd Haynes’s Superstar: the Karen Carpenter story and Mika Rottenberg’s NoNoseKnows
… by artist Mika Rottenberg, in which a 6’4” fetish performer repeatedly sneezes out plates of noodles after her sneeze reflex is triggered by a pulley-powered fan that blows pollen in her face, to examine bulimia in the context of waste and production. I argue that the bulimic body is not a …
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Sex and Gasoline: Selling Sex in Twentieth Century America
… printed media books, magazines, sex tourism and fetish paraphernalia as well a brothel industry. The United States came into its own in terms of the sex industry at the same time the nation first really stepped on to the world's stage, becoming part of the international industrial revolution. The …
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Saudades de Arcoverde: nostalgia and the performance of origin
… the musicians acquire a ghostly status as a fetish of culture loss, hovering between the center and the margins, never settling on one or the other. Locating nostalgia itself in the oral/aural vs. written divide, this written document is implicated in the production of the circumstances …
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Unmaking the remake: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian logic, and the problem of repetition in Hollywood cinema
… his own Dutch original, Spoorloos (1988), as a ‘fetish’ of<br/>Hollywood’s desire in the European ‘Other’. Rather than expose Deleuze to a Lacanian<br/>framework I subject the one to a reading of the other in a möbius relation, turning them<br/>inside-out, so to speak. Mediating these two …
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A Host of Memories: Mixed Race Subjection and Asian American Performances Against Disavowal
… of retribution surfaces as a response to racial fetish. This chapter spotlights performances by Chanel Matsunami Govreau and Maya Mackrandilal. Chapter three forwards the concept of muscle memory to study how the accumulation of history is deposited into the body and enacted through movement. …
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Economies of fantasy, pleasure and desire in explicit sex films
… authenticity operates through disavowal as a fetish. The thesis will ask what it means to assign authenticity to the sexual acts depicted in these films and will furthermore ask what it means to call Explicit Sex films transgressive. It will be argued that the mainstay of analyses of these …
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Towards a political economy of the sacred: a Marxist critique of the sacred dynamics of society
… theory behind them also developed. Ideology, the fetish and money, three crucial categories of the set-apart sacred, are considered in terms of their function within the political economy of the sacred. Conclusions reached include the argument that religion as a category needs to be set aside and …
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The Many States of Excess: Everyday Statecraft and Imperial Entanglement of Iraqi Exiles in Amman
… as an “excess” in encounters with the fetish of the state. This analytical turn demonstrates how exile had emerged not only as technology of colonial governance, but also as one of the legitimation practices of modern statecraft through a logic of excess.
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