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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Material Agency"”.
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Pragmatics of attachment and detachment: medium (un)specificity as material agency in contemporary art
… contexts and the tensions between subjective and material agency that arise in negotiating these positions. Through a sculptural and installational practice I propose a constellatory opening up of textile in conjunction with other materials, in terms of material agency and ‘productive …
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How to be Satisfied with Less-Than-Perfect Finish
… a novel way of creative making practice with materiality and material agency becoming an active player within the practice. I reevaluate the preconceived notion of material-based art and design, as well as the common practice of relentless production of novel objects in negligence of their …
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The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement
… ethos in its approach to technology and materials. Rather than engage with ‘complete’ technologies, such as a technology supplied as ready-to-go item, the DiY practitioners examined in this thesis engage with the raw materials of garbage and recycling, ‘incomplete’, broken and discarded …
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Understanding garden visitors: the affordances of a leisure environment.
… beyond the established approach of individual agency with its assumption of free choice to incorporate social and material agency. This movement requires a shift in theoretical perspective from the prevailing theories in the leisure literature (motivational theories) to the emerging theory of …
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Rekonstruktion als epistemisches Medium am Beispiel ‚Römische Soldaten‛
… oder bei der Untersuchung von Netzwerken der ‚material agency‛ auftauchen können und die helfen, ‚epistemische Dinge‛ zu erkennen, aufzuzeigen. Anhand verschiedener Beispiele zur Interpretation textlicher, materieller und ikonographischer Quellen wird im Anschluß gezeigt, worauf hierfür bei der …
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Taking stock
… interrelated conditions, industrial technology, material culture and architectural agency. 'Taking' refers to the act of taking control and reclaiming agency. 'Stock' under describes the vast potential of industrial sites as materially, technologically, and architecturally fertile ground. An …
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intersect/surface/body: A Choreographic View of Drawing
… to articulate and generate new understandings of material relations between moving bodies and static, receptor surfaces. Using task-based studies and other systematic structures of working that activate the horizontal plane of the floor, the research reveals how different configurations of …
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Agents, objects and the art exhibition: towards the co-relational co-formation of things
… – their flows, fluxes and their affect, is their material agency. This allows objects to shift between states of being as props, artworks and artefacts – the process of becoming, I argue, generates a trace of the co-relational co-forming act through their surface, form and matter. In …
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'A New Type of Part Writing': Notation and Performance in Beethoven's Late String Quartets
… in the mind, but rather as a mediating material that describes, enacts, engenders, and is dependent upon, social activity. Using Wagner’s notion of Beethoven’s ‘Hearing Eyes’, Chapter 1 considers the influences of Beethoven’s material, writerly approach to composition in his later years …
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Writing the New Life: Literary Form in the Spiritual Imagination of Middle-Class Ethical Socialism, 1880–1900
… the ideal nature of intellectual work and the material agency claimed for it. The thesis argues that ‘ethical’ socialists managed both dilemmas through the affordances of literary form. By constructing formal and generic hybrids, they could simultaneously gesture to the individual and the …
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Colour out of space: colour in the construction and usage of monuments of Neolithic Atlantic Europe.
… review with existing work on colour, and why the materiality and material semiotics of stone are important to this research. The aim of this research is to survey a sample of Neolithic monuments across Atlantic Europe, and see if there are any commonalities, significant patterns, and demonstrable …
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The Ark of the Covenant as a Material Actant: Adapting New Materialist Concepts for Cause and Effect
… has been limited by assumptions restricting agency to will and intention and causation to a strict linearity from subject to object. The field of new materialisms through its explorations of the meaning of matter — the materiality of the world of the reader — offers stimulating ways to …