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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Michel Serres"”.
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Virginia Woolf & the Ontology of the Swerve
… Woolf's writing. By using Gilles Deleuze, Michel Serres and likeminded theorists, the idea is to not only explicate Lucretian thought, but to also succinctly incorporate it into the Woolfian oeuvre.</p>
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Mobile limits and the limits of mobility in French representations of urban space
… Each chapter engages with cultural theorists—Michel Serres, Bruno Latour, Michel de Certeau, Régis Debray—and intellectual movements—existentialism, surrealism, posthumanism—that all emphasize the importance of borders as specific zones of creative possibilities. Such an approach requires a …
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String Theory and Our Relationship with Nature: The Convergence of Science, Curriculum Theory, and the Environment
… metaphors from Deleuze and Guattari, Michel Serres, and Donna Haraway, our approach to environmental issues and environmental education allow us to include alternative ways of looking at the world.
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Three is a Crowd: A potential exception to an oppositional rule
… homogenous ‘third hand’ of collaboration theory. Michel Serres’ assertion that to ‘hold a dialogue is to suppose a third man and seek to exclude him’ positions the ‘third man’ of communication as a disruptive force. The excluded third is a noise in the background of ideological unity, the …
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Appréciation thermodynamique des Rougon-Macquart d'Émile Zola
… French philosopher and historian of science, Michel Serres, published Feux et signaux de brume: Zola, in which he postulates that the well-known Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola was an "epic of entropy." His seminal book stirred up interest in the Zola criticism community, with several …
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Spatial Operations: Peter Sloterdijk and Contemporary Military Atmospheres
… Roger Caillois, Rosalind Krauss, Roland Barthes, Michel Serres and Jakob Von Uexküll, along with several artists, including Char Davies, Trevor Paglen and Marcel Duchamp. This is presented through close interdisciplinary analysis of two examples of contemporary ‘atmospheric’ military practices: …
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Towards an ethics of otherness: re-considering birth, time, and silence in education
… addressed through the works of Henri Bergson and Michel Serres. In this chapter, time is likened to poetry, and the notion of modern time is criticized for its insistence on linearity, for which Bergson and Serres offer alternate possibilities. The work returns to Serres to discuss the possibility …
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Copyright and Technology: Hearing the Dissonance
… theory, the work of the French philosopher Michel Serres, media and sound studies. By traversing different fields of study, in the end, the thesis immerses itself into a soundscape, and thus ‘aurality’ becomes a sensible manner for answering the guiding research question of what is the …
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Rhizomes, Parasites, Folds and Trees: Systems of Thought in Medieval French and Catalan Literary Texts
… using two of four interrelated network theories: Michel Serres’ notion of parasites and hosts as the basic interconnecting units that combine to constitute all relational networks; the ubiquitous organizational tree; Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the fold as the primary factor in producing …
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Critical approaches to Soweto poetry : dilemmas in an emergent literature
… and connections that permeate Soweto poetry. Michel Serres, with his post-deconstructionist "approach", is presented as the closest aspirant. Bibliography: pages 117-123.
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Beyond Playthings: Materiality and Embodiment on the Modern Stage
… to the theories of Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, Michel Serres, and Brian Massumi, this analysis treats the extensive networks of objects in The Contractor (1969) and The Changing Room (1971) as essential catalysts in the alignment of embodiment, labour, and collectivity. Chapter 3 zooms in on …
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Sonic, infrasonic, and ultrasonic frequencies : the utilisation of waveforms as weapons, apparatus for psychological manipulation, and as instruments of physiological influence by industrial, entertainment, and military organisations
… Drawing on authors such as historian/sociologist Michel Foucault, economist Jacques Attali, philosopher Michel Serres, political geographer/urban planner Edward Soja, musician/sonic theorist Steve Goodman, and cultural theorist/urbanist Paul Virilio, this study engages a wide range of texts to …
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War Machines of the Charitable City: Fundraising and the architecture of territory in Paris
… continental theory, particularly the work of Michel Serres and of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as concepts arising from literature in relational geographies and in business studies. Unlike many scholarly accounts, which obscure the fact that this property-challenged, property-desiring …
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Beckett’s Bodies, 1953–1983: Movement, Gesture, and Posture
… Deleuze, Peter Sloterdijk, Giorgio Agamben, Michel Serres, and Slavoj Žižek—where relevant and necessary to an understanding of bodily practices and effects. This provides a perspective by which to explore what may be termed a Beckettian body knowledge: the disciplined physical practices and …
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Transmission+Interference: A New Materialist and Machine-Oriented Approach to Collectively Make-With Noise
… Levi Bryant, Jane Bennett, Elisabeth Grosz, and Michel Serres. In order to deal with the creative complexity in the topic and to aid the contextualisation of the discourse a variety of practical projects are introduced throughout as examples of and influences upon this practice-led research. …
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Michel Serres’s Philosophy of Limits. Passages between the Philosophy of Science and Critical Theory
This thesis examines Michel Serres’s philosophy of limits. Its aim is to trace limit formations as operative functions of thought, which perform interdisciplinary translations between philosophy of science, aesthetics, and critical theory. In order to pursue this aim, a number of Serres’s works …
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Bounded Surface
The relationship between surface, perception, and structure has occupied my graduate studies. Locating, transforming, and transcending the surface requires play with perceptive abilities not only of vision, but of touch, hearing, and the other senses as well. How do the interactions of sense with …