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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Futurism"”.
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M.I.celium mexicanus: Rejecting Modernity through Zapotec Futurism
[M.I.]celium mexicanus is an entry point for architects and humans to consider transforming their relationship to the Earth’s critical zone through reconciliation with mushrooms to cultivate fungal allyship. The thesis examines and reimagines a future of building that drives towards the biological …
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More Alive than Ever? Futurism in the 1940s
… the years most neglected by scholars of Italian Futurism. The movement had long supported Fascism, but its vocal endorsement of Mussolini’s regime and its military adventures at this time is widely considered to represent Futurism’s ultimate betrayal of those ‘progressive’, counter-cultural …
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Re-Imagining America : rural futurism, speculative fiction, And reckoning with a new era
… and cultural moment, I propose a 'rural futurism' that centers the experiences, settings, and lives of rural America in imagined futures. I then operationalize the concept of 'rural futurism' on two levels; 1) the realizable potential of local democratic institutions, the rural electric …
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Future Contingents, Freedom, And Foreknowledge
… views about branching time. One position is true futurism, which designates what will occur regardless of contingency. The opposing view is open futurism, by which no possible course of events is privileged over others; that is, there are no soft facts.</p> <p>A contextualist theory of temporal …
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Let's All Go to the Movies
… thinks you're stupid. Scientology. Retro-futurism. Taking back color from toiletries. Personal politics. Cutting off the legs of the bioscopes. The architecture of Fun. The death of Entertainment. Freedom of speech. Sticky floors. Googie. Suburbia. Popcorn. The way we live our lives. All …
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Reimagining the Baroque in Italian Modernism. From the fin-de-siècle to Lucio Fontana
… with either the avant-garde practices of Futurism or the classicism of Fascist visual culture, the Italian modernists' complex engagement with concepts of the ‘Baroque’ has yet to be explored. Through an extensive analysis of paintings, sculptures, publications, collecting practices, and …
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Intermedial Relationships Among Component Arts in Combined Art Works
… of the twentieth century including the Bauhaus, Futurism, Dadism, Surrealism, Merz Theatre, Happenings, Performance Art, and Radio Art. Each chapter introduces terminology and features examples that include John Cage and Lejaren Hiller's HPSCHD, Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and Leonide …
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Ross Caudill MFA Sculpture 2006
… with the movements of Dada, Surrealism, Futurism, and Assemblage, and amalso currently involved in solidifying the Manifesto of Raubeaux with a small group ofesteemed colleagues.
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In the Vanguard: The Colombian Novel Between the Wars
… a response to several vanguard movements from futurism and creationism to surrealism. Chapter Three analyzes Jose Felix Fuenmayor's early novels, Cosme (1927) and Una triste aventura de 14 sabios (1928). Both explore occult realities and constitute a radical stand against logic and reason. The …
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Speed and stasis: femininity and symbolism in John Dos Passos's 1919
… a symbol. By noting her obvious connections to futurism, I show that she oversteps the boundaries of acceptable femininity through speed, resulting in her ultimate death and the death of her unborn child. The second chapter is devoted to Janey Williams and Eleanor Stoddard, who both lose …
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The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism
… Campbell, and through methods such as Indigenous futurism, Indigenous moral sadomasochism, and Indigenous erotica. To theorize Indigenous women’s masochism means to reject it as a fantasy of men and look to our own culture for guidance.
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Making Hammers With Art: The Producer of House and Techno
… discussion of German modernism, disco, and afro-futurism, which are identified as the chief aesthetics legacies that shape house and techno production. I then consider the material conditions and challenges producers face as working musicians. Drawing from in-studio fieldwork conducted in Berlin …
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A Case for Utopian Dreaming: Feminisms within Canadian Artist-Run Centres
… inclusions of Indigenous and Black futures and futurism? How and by whom is feminism defined in these spaces? How does white feminism get out of the way of a flourishing future, or how doesn’t it? Throughout, I return to the concept of utopia as method, as proposed by Ruth Levitas. At its core, …
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Synthesis of Communications: A Spiritual Voice Amidst Belligerent Noise
… with the added spiritual values of Second–wave Futurism, her work conveys a vision of fantasy, one that never comes to real–world fruition. I address how the constructs of twentieth–century science and technology provided her with a means to create multisensorial depictions of ethereal spaces. …
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Futurist Aeropainting: Extended Women and the Kingdom of the Machine
… of aeropainting, or a eropittura, within both Futurism and Fascism, I am concerned in this dissertation to examine the role of the feminine within the idea of machine aesthetics and especially the ways in which women of the movement attempted to interrupt or realign the gendered understandings …
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A slap in the face of public taste: the Russian Futurists' aesthetics of revolution
… examines the historical context in which Russian Futurism formed in 1910 in order to comprehend better this significant movement’s motivations, ideologies, aesthetics, and effects on subsequent literature, art, and politics, particularly those of Russia. It identifies the primary problems of the …
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Theatres of migritude: towards a dramaturgy of African futures
… how a relationship between migration and African futurism can be put towards a dramaturgical practice mobilized in the direction of possibility, potential and a more hopeful future. The quest undertaken here is to find out what alternative understandings of African migrancy exist in the spirit of …
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The shaping of John Nelson Darby’s Eschatology
… with its system of date-setting, in favour of futurism, with its doctrine of imminency. This forced Darby to deal with the problem of what to do with the church so that God could fulfil his redemptive plan regarding national Israel. He resolved this by providing for a rapture of the church and …
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The Evolution of Airport Design: Philosophy, Function and Form
… the role of architectural philosophies such as Futurism in capturing the spirit of flight and facilitating growth and change, the engineering approach to safety and operational robustness, the planning focus on connectivity and the environmentalist’s concern with sustainability. The primary …
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Edino Krieger's solo piano works from the 1950s : a dialectical synthesis in Brazilian musical modernism
… cosmopolitan movements such as the dadaism or futurism. One should also mention the nationalistic primitivism of Mário de Andrade’s Macunaíma and Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto da Poesia Pau-Brasil and contrast it to the “universal,” “hightech” twelve-tone technique of the 1940s. In my opinion, …
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