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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"New materialisms"”.
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"The Thing Became Real": New Materialisms and Race in the Fiction of Nella Larsen
… textuality in the fiction of Nella Larsen, using new materialist and affect theories as frameworks for reading her short stories, “The Wrong Man” and “Freedom” (1926), and her novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). I argue that Larsen mobilizes concepts of misrecognition and …
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THE PLURALIST PHILOSOPHIES OF THE FRENCH AND ANGLO-AMERICAN TRADITION: A GENEALOGY OF ONTOLOGICAL PLURALISM
… especially among the philosophers of the New Materialisms movement. In fact, many new materialists have expressed a keen interest in the pluralism upheld by both the French and Anglo-American tradition and they have often made use of the historical intertwinement of these two schools of …
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Between Equivocity and Univocity: Sexuality Education for a People Yet to Come
… differently, innovatively, in terms of a new metaphysics. This ontological problem is not with being itself but with the notion of ontological priority. A divisible ground is necessary for ontology to emerge and ontology reinstates this division. To think ‘ground’, there must be that which …
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Mississippian missionaries: bundling a Cahokian religious movement
… CE). Drawing from Indigenous philosophies and New Materialisms, I use the bundle and bundling concept to hypothesize that the establishment and dissemination of a Cahokia-Mississippian religion is best understood as a bundled mission comprised of missionaries (human and other-than-human), …
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Contingent and Collateral Figures in Art Institutions: Laboured Feminist Lineages
… critique, queer feminist theory, and new materialisms that inform my analyses of case studies of artistic projects that centre various forms of labour and refusals of labour within different kinds of art institutions. By examining forms of labour that retain gendered connotations such …
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The Problem of Being the Problem: creating practice-based fieldworking along climate vulnerable coastlines
… Drawing on feminist posthumanities and feminist new materialisms, this thesis takes a critical position regarding the idea of ‘witness’ in science and art. Informed by Susan Schuppli’s concept material witness (Schuppli 2020) and Stacy Alaimo’s notion of trans-corporeality (Alaimo, 2018), the …
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Women's contemporary yoga lifestyles: An embodied ethnography of becomings
… women living in the Waikato region of Aotearoa/New Zealand through in-depth and informal interviews, observations, journals and focus groups, I offer rich, embodied knowledge from the women alongside my own creative writing. Engaging in feminist methods and in dialogue with yogic principles, I …
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Encounters beyond the interface: Data structures, material feminisms, and composition
… in college writing classes along with other new media literacies. Drawing from several areas of study, this dissertation establishes a definition of data literacy, introduces a feminist methodological approach to Big Data and data studies, and makes a case for teaching data literacy in first …
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Gendered forces at work: tentacular encounters from the nursery
… and Dalit “subjectivities” intra-act to generate new theoretical connections, tensions and contradictions. Theoretical heterogeneity is thus welcomed by putting feminist “new” materialisms in conversation with anticolonial, decolonial and Dalit feminisms. These theoretical explorations have shaped …
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Living Paint: Tempera and Knowledge in the Surrealist Art of Leonora Carrington, Sylvia Fein, and Gerrie Gutmann
… but as living, thinking, and animate. Drawing on new archival material and artworks, I investigate how their tempera paint is both alive and actively means. To this end, I consider how the material contributes to the artwork’s meaning and further introduce principles from new materialisms and …
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The Ark of the Covenant as a Material Actant: Adapting New Materialist Concepts for Cause and Effect
… 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 examine nonhuman and material activity and the interrelationships between all participants in the world of …
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'Not Infinite Enough': Experimental British Poetics, Industrial Ecology and Scarcity, 1969-Present
… experiments with poetry’s own finite or renewable capacities, in search of a language ‘adequate to its insufficiencies.’ Couching my close readings within the competing discourses of historical and new materialisms, I contend that this poetry both clarifies and contests these intensifying …
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Bodies at play: On the ludic dimensions of human embodiment
This study introduces a theoretical framework for play with which to explore notions of human embodiment, drawn from philosophical, theological, and theoretical works on play, ritual, and embodiment. In order to do this, I apply an understanding of play as a force that is a part of the world and …
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Embodied female voices: sexuality and artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
… These canonical modernist authors found new ways to represent women as embodied, sexual, desired and desiring subjects through prose, poetry, and drama – Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography (1928), W.B. Yeats’ The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake …
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Rangatahi and complex entanglements of sexuality, sexuality education and secondary school: A material-discursive exploration
… Theories, Feminist Poststructuralisms, and New Feminist Materialisms to develop a framework for exploration. Nine rangatahi participated in small hui (meetings) and individual interviews, focused on the areas of sexuality education, other sexuality topics, and experiences of secondary …
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The Vigor of Creative Materialism: Making the Hidden Stories of Underrepresented Engineering Students Visible
… combines culturally responsive methodologies, new materialist theory, and arts-based research methods. Two research questions were used to guide the study. First, how do underrepresented students experience the culture of engineering? Second, how did the unique creative materialist framework …