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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Jean Baudrillard"”.
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A Case for Rhetorical Method: Criticism, Theory, and the Exchange of Jean Baudrillard
This dissertation uses the case of Jean Baudrillard to argue that successful critics must consider rhetorical method as it relates to theory. Throughout this dissertation, I follow Edwin Black in using the term rhetorical method to describe the procedures a rhetor uses to guide composition. The …
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Postwar Media Manifestations and Don DeLillo
… II,</em> as well as to the media theorists Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, and Antonio Gramsci. The paper is both a history and a critique of postwar consumer culture and the role that media plays in the construction of that culture.</p>
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Developing Perfection: Understanding and Redefining Photography in a Digital Age
… in modern society. Engaging the work of Jean Baudrillard, I establish the impact of image modification in everyday life through a lens of Hyperreality. I examine genealogies of photography and image modification as a means of rhetorically comparing digital technologies to the photographic …
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Rupturing the terrain vague
… thesis started with the above statement made by Jean Nouvel in conversation with Jean Baudrillard on the metamorphosis of architecture. This project set out as both a manifestation of the above philosophy, using it as an approach towards making architecture, and as an exploration to test whether …
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Forget Jerusalem: William Faulkner's Hyperreal Novel
… Faulkner, and high priest of Postmodernism, Jean Baudrillard. Specifically, this paper examines Faulkner's eleventh novel—the oft-neglected If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem—as a proto-postmodern text which, when examined by the light of Baudrillard's theory of simulacra and simulations, informs …
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Brand Building in Three Public Libraries: Live Oak Public Libraries, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, and Richland County Public Library
… social interactionism, and the ideas of Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco were used to reflect on the findings.</p>
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The Postmodern Condition and the Commodification of Cuisine
… the commodification of cuisine, the theory of Jean Francois Lyotard is used to define the postmodern condition. Using the seven common themes found in postmodernism, a textural analysis of cultural artifacts is undertaken of the equal representation, multiplicity and simulacra found in the …
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The rhetorical structure of disability : bridging the gap between what is 'spoken' and what is 'said' with song - over-signifying with personhood against the backdrop of disease-centric discourse.
… in grammatical structure. Ultimately, utilizing Jean Baudrillard's concept of "over-signification" the paper concludes with the advocacy of traversing the grammatical reasoned structure of the predicate/subject dichotomy which disease-centric discourse is founded upon, and employing a method of …
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Writing US identities in the wars without frontlines: literary perspectives on the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars
… advances transformed warfare into what Jean Baudrillard refers to as a virtual experience epitomised by “surgical strikes” and “smart-bombs”. In contrast, the Iraq War (2003-2009) was hailed by many as a return to a more conventional form of combat in which soldiers fought their enemy in …
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Power and resistance in the age of informationalization
… focus on how the work of Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard might be used to better understand the political problems and potentialities of informationalization. Some of the questions I address here are: What exactly are we speaking of when we call this the "information age?" Has it replaced …
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Conceptualizing Silk Road as countercultural rebellion
… an epistemological bricolage with the works of Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault was established to guide explanations of cultural exchange, relational trust, and the spatial dynamics of SR. I postulate that SR is more than an online illicit marketplace; it is a virtual …
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Presencing Absence
… in the work of Andy Warhol and the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard; and that of an embracing of absence, presented in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and the works of such artists as John Cage, George Brecht, Pauline Oliveros, Bill Wegman, David Hammons and others.
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As you cannot hear the sound of losing: researching the gambling environment through performance
… hyperreal gambling environments analysed by Jean Baudrillard as well as the common, suburban sites examined by Charles Livingstone. Although at first glance the styles of these two environments seem vastly different, what they have in common is they provide a simulacrum of reality where …
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The Little Weird: Self and Consciousness in Contemporary, Small-press, Speculative Fiction
… and the works of Darko Suvin, Robert Scholes, Jean Baudrillard, and others, I create a new mode not for classifying categories of speculative fiction, but for re-envisioning those already in use. This study, which concentrates on the work of progressive, small-press, speculative writers such as …
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" Από τον Πλατωνικό Μύθο του Σπηλαίου έως τον Descartes και το Matrix : Η Μεταφυσική της Αλήθειας στον Ψηφιακό Κόσμο της Προσομοίωσης".
… της προσομοίωσης μέσα από τις προσεγγίσεις των Jean Baudrillard και David Chalmers, οι οποίοι επαναπροσδιορίζουν τη σχέση μεταξύ πραγματικού και εικονικού. Τέλος, η εργασία δείχνει ότι το Matrix λειτουργεί ως σύγχρονος φιλοσοφικός μύθος που συνδέει τον πλατωνισμό, τον καρτεσιανισμό και τη …
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Televisual Images in Presidential Politics: A Baudrillardian Reading of Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential Campaign
… made by a controversial french social theorist, Jean Baudrillard. Applying his ideas of hyperreality, simulation, "will to spectacle," fate, and power to Bill Clinton's 1992 appearance on 60 Minutes (in which he denys allegations of an affair with Geniffer Flowers) and that year's Democratic …
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Global Wreckage and Consumer Illusions: Responses to the Human Effects of Economic Globalization in Sub-Saharan African Francophone Novels and Films, 1973-2006
… theoretical models, in particular that which Jean Baudrillard conceptualized as a stand-in for democracy. I also consider the connection between globalization and imposed cultural uniformity, which African novels and films denounce as promoting a system of cultural superiority and submission. …
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Poétique(s) de la révolution: construction d’identité au travers des littératures Algérienne et Haïtienne
… concepts of testimony (Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard), nationalism (Benedict Anderson), terrorism (Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas) and psychoanalysis (Nicolas Abraham, Sigmund Freud, and Maria Torok). Using these diverse models of interpretation, my …
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A critique of the logic of consumption in postmodern architecture : the museum as a case study
… The writings of the French social theorist Jean Baudrillard present an analysis of the nature of consumption in this emerging cultural condition, claiming it as the "main climatizer of life and social relations." Building on the premise that architectural production is representative of the …
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Max Weber and postmodern theory
… thesis analyses the ways in which the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard develops Max Weber's analysis of the rise, nature, and trajectory of modem culture. Further to this, it examines the strategies which may be drawn from the work of each of these theorists …
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