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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Non-place"”.
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Terra Nullius: Encountering the Non-Place
… study examines the potential conception of urban non-places through art photographic practice and writing (the text). The term “non-place(s)” (borrowed from Marc Augé, the French anthropologist) is used within this study as a deliberate provocation to the reader to re-engage with those …
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Non-place and the acceptance of the scantiness of reality
… disorder , considered as an entropical phenomenon, no longer is to be seen as a destruction of order. It is a potential source of a new kind of contemporary attitude and construction, of an activity that transforms the multitude of the components of a scanty system in a novel scanty totality …
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Il recupero dei vuoti: creare nuovi scenari urbani
… of the common trend to consider the road as a non- place designed for the mere car transit. This presumed car hegemony is the main cause of degradation in urban areas . The increase in vehicular flow and there lated harmful phenomena ( accidents , harmful emissions , noise , landconsumption) …
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Bos > AIR
… of the airport, where Marc Augé describes as a "non-place," and a product of "Supermodernity." This thesis looks at rethinking the role of the airport terminal at three scales - the urban potential of a new airport city configuration that can increase the value and promote the growth of East …
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VELO[city] : rethinking the multi-modal urban station
… activity; it is a connector, a facilitator, a non-place. The station program includes access to three underground subway lines (one proposed), on-grade bus connections, a secure high-speed airport train with baggage and ticket check-in, a portion of the pedestrian walkway which snakes …
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Site specific performance and the mechanics of becoming social
… Augé’s (1995) concerns around the prevalence of non-place are challenged and interwoven with Massey’s optimistic calls for spatial rethinking to answer the key research question: how can becoming social be framed as a site-specific process when realised through particular performance mechanics? …
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Irish as Symptom: Language, Ideology and Praxis in the Post/Colony
… a standard narrative exists about the rightful (non-)place of the Irish language in post/colonial society. It is a tautological narrative because the apparent unfitness of Irish for the exigencies of postmodern life both explains its disappearance and prevents its full revival (i.e., Irish is …
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Site-Specific Art as an Exploration of Spatial and Temporal Limitations
… the dialectic exchanges between my work and the places in which its meaning is defined. Oppositions between space/place, place/non-place, and immobility/movement, articulate the spatial and temporal limitations that delineate my site-specific practice and its experience. The exploration of the …
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Distil - Liminal Architecture
… Therefore, the need to create space in this non-place is identified as this can capture its energy and define the threshold, which is the chosen site for this study. The intention is for the architectural intervention to become a transitional device; allowing the user passage from the urban- …
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I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs of Where: Contemporary Alt-folksong and Articulations of Place
… and its role(s) in the articulation of place through a collection of twelve original songs with accompanying written research. The thesis relates the term ‘place’ to the notion of subjectivity, autobiography and the performance of identity as they relate to geographic experience (Tuan …
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'I don't really notice where I live' : Philip Larkin's literary nationalities
… takes the perspective of a foreign European and non-native speaker of English to crack open dated perceptions.Indeed, Larkin’s engagement with cultural Otherness is profound. Tim Trengrove-Jones notes that “Larkin’s aesthetic took root and found its mature expression through specific moments of …
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Presencing Place: an enquiry into the knowing and shaping of place through expanded art practices
… examines ways of working in local everyday places that enable shifts from the ‘non–place’ to the rediscovery of the particular in everyday places, amplifying and enhancing ways of knowing and sensing through presencing place. A series of forty-five gestures, expanded art practices, form the …
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To bry or not to bry: the social meanings of Afrikaans rhotic variation in the South Cape
… South Africa. The study combines approaches to 'place as location' (traditional dialectology and sociolinguistics) and 'place as meaning' (ethnography and linguistic anthropology) to explore the relationship between geographical place, local social meanings and linguistic variation. …
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The world is in my head : my body is in the world : a condição paratópica em Paul Auster : incidências e projecções do espaço na produção literária em prosa
Este trabalho analisa, de forma detalhada, as representações do espaço na produção literária, em prosa, de Paul Auster, publicada entre 1987 e 2004. Partimos do princípio de que cada obra austeriana analisada funciona como mapa de uma colocação individual e social, porque nela escritor e leitor …
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A Casa dos Afetos: mulheres rurais e a performance/escrita de si como forma de resistência
… deconstruct the concept of the countryside as a non-place and/or in-between place; the most important point is the construction of the perception of the nine women/characters as tireless fighters who undertook micro-revolutions in their daily lives, metamorphosing life and trying not to fall …
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Traces de terre, traces d'encre... La rappresentazione dello spazio nella letteratura caraibica. (Francofona e Anglofona)
… and the rule of space had a relevant place. So, the thesis explores the literary modalities of this representation. The work is constituted of 5 chapters and the critical and methodological approaches are both of an analytical and comparative type. The first chapter “The caribbean …