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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Performative Act"”.
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Reimagining Christian Doctrine? A Critical Analysis of Anthony Thiselton's Hermeneutics of Doctrine
… from its perceived marginalisation and abstraction from everyday life. This research assesses the efficacy of Thiselton’s hermeneutical framework in bridging the gap between abstract doctrinal formulations and its potential for transformative practice. Using analytical and dialogical methods, …
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Motherhood, performance, and mommy blogs: the political power of maternal online rhetoric
… redefine reality. Autobiographical writing is a performative act that forms - not reflects - identity. Mommy blogs are autobiographical acts with dual performativity: identity and maternity. With performativity, mommy blogs have the power to, as Anzaldúa writes, "rewrite culture." Yet, …
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Plaster, as a vital material: The agency of plaster in the curation of the Çatalhöyük skull
… discovery of Neolithic plastered skulls has attracted widespread interest but there has been a disproportionate focus on the construction and meaning of the skulls, with little regard paid to the material, plaster, itself. In 2004, in Çatalhöyük, a plastered skull was excavated, which had been …
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Artistic voice in music performance as/and complex thinking
Artistic practice typically aims toward expressing the ineffable aspects of life. Yet neither the ineffable nor the lived experience of the expressive act is fully claimed by the observable object. This irreducibility is constituted through a process and/as its product. Within this co-dependent …
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Hearing Miles Davis: A Pedagogy of Autobiographical Performance and Jazz
… amongst macro-structures and micro-practices. In order to develop this ethic of listening, I pay specific attention to my solo autobiographical performance, Miles away from "The Cool," in which I present my autobiographical and musical reading of the autobiography of trumpet player …
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Archidrome
… Advancing through the rungs of academia and practice, Architects become diligent estheticians, building and maintaining carefully moisturized semblances. As mediatic cosmetologists, they are acutely aware of the public relations exercises that build their identities as practitioners. Every …
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Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
… Morgan,” the two young black men give orders and act powerful, thus performing their perceived role of whiteness. This scene is more than an ironic comment on the characters’ distance from the lifestyle of the J. P. Morgans of the world; their acts of whiteness are a representation of how …
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Subject to Change: Democracy, Disidentification, and the Digital
… democratic politics in the digital age is characterized by the widespread emergence of participatory spaces generated by state actors and social movements. These new formats of citizen engagement are situated in the context of social inequalities and discrimination of marginalized identities. …
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Merchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Acts
… interviews with deck officers, studies in actor-network theory, explicit and tacit knowledge theory, and performativity theory in this work. I prove that bridge technologies produce what are called mimeomorphic (repeatable with some variation) actions that contain no deck officer collective …