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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Ruination"”.
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Ruination
<p>"Ruination" is a portion of a novel, set in Yucatán in 1923, that follows the romance of the state governor, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, and a visting journalist from the New York Times, Alma Reed, who is accompanying a delegation from the Carnegie Institute, which is bidding on a concession to …
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Ruin and Ruination, A dialogue with the ghosts of the city
There are contradictory thoughts associated with ruins. Mainly when we hear the word ruin, it reminds us of glorious ancient structures that evoked an aesthetic pleasure and inspired artists and philosophers throughout the history. But it also has a negative feeling, it means to destroy to turn …
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Layered Visions and the Teleorama: Constructing Sites of Ruination through a Contemporary Drawing Practice
… to an investigation of sites of contemporary ruination in order to create immersive drawing-based installations that offer new approaches to fine art drawing practice? The Teleoramic viewing experience is theorised through ‘layered vision’, a concept describing how the form is constructed to …
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When War Becomes Peace: Ruination and Transvaluation in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Memorial Parks
… and peacemaking was the process by which ruination became the pretext for social, political, and urban reinvention. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Memorial Parks, both unveiled in 1955, manifest the ways in which dominant public discourses of peace-making and nuclear remembrance were …
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Rethinking Trümmerliteratur: The Aesthetics of Destruction Ruins, Ruination, and Ruined Language in the Works of Böll Grass, and Celan
<p>Trümmerliteratur - literally “rubble-literature" - is a brand of literature that became important after the Second World War, led by Heinrich Böll, whom I term the apologist of German Trümmerliteratur. Typically included under this classification are the writers who began to produce in the years …
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Mother’s Ruin: Refracting the imperial gaze
… With Ann Stoler's concept of imperial debris and ruination, we expand our gaze beyond physical structures to the effects of colonial legacies that shape contemporary realities. These ideas are then distilled into a visual lexicon of images that are transformed through layering, accumulation and …
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The Stress of Her Disregard: Britannia’s Suez Fiasco in Consideration of Anglo-American Diplomacy
… during the affair are the key factors to the ruination of British efforts towards removing Gamal Abdel Nasser from power and reversing his nationalization of the Suez Canal. By examining the Suez Crisis, much light is shed on the true nature of Anglo-American diplomacy during the early Cold …
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Embracing Detroit's urban ruins
… of the fragment, abandonment, and material ruination as productive catalysts for urban revitalization, instead of as evidence used to justify more demolition of the ‘unsightly.’ Drawing inspiration from the 18th-century aesthetic valoration of the ruin, this thesis reimagines the Picturesque …
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Sick ‘scapes : boutique and corporate food geographies and Mexico’s public health crisis
… and understudied. These sites of neoliberal “ruination” are emblematic of the NAFTA-created industrialized food system impacting the livelihoods, diets, and ultimately health of Mexico’s most vulnerable residents. As a result, the Mexican foodscape reflects the violence present of global food …
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Contingent camps: An ethnographic study of contested encampment in the northern French and northern Moroccan borderlands
… witness to a punitive contemporary geography of ruination, drawing on microlevel evidence to discuss the human, humanitarian and (geo)political implications of the rise of contingent camps. It also investigates the ambiguous social formations and modes of resistance these spaces give rise to, …
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Being Vulnerable: Distances of the Sublime Anthropocene
… through agriculture, extraction, dispossession, ruination and practices of settlercolonialism. Hopes reviews and argues for a synonymy between these terms through the lens of her collaborative practice within three specific projects; Marginalia, Ruins and Speedwell. During this process of moving …
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Detroit in Decline: An investigation into the dynamics of two urban neighbourhoods
… the current research that romanticises Detroit’s ruination by focusing instead on everyday urban life. This dissertation argues that decline is not simply the opposite of growth, and therefore current scenarios speculating full recovery appear problematic.
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Monstrous Space: Architectural Production in an Age of Algorithms
… architectural fragments produced through the ruination of existing architecture and repurposed as material in new constructions. A conceptual framework is developed which situates a hybridized physical-digital domestic space in cross-disciplinary dialogue with other concepts and processes of …
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Gothic economies: Global capitalism and the boundaries of identity
… its original guise, depicts the corruption and ruination of the estate, often by economic and cultural forces emanating from the city and associated with capitalism and modernity; thus, to invoke the Gothic is also to reference middle class guilt and doubts about legitimacy. At the same time, …
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The Corroded Surface: Portrait of the Sublime
… process. Through experimentation with the ruination of both content and painting’s plastic, material properties the thesis reflects upon how the disruption or destruction of image and surface might relate to the un- representable. Within the history of twentieth century art negation has …
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The Musical Education and Involvement of the Six Wives of Henry VIII
… of Tudor court society but adversely lead to her ruination. Jane Seymour, raised on the country estate of Wulfhall, in Wiltshire, had a simple music education through her Catholic upbringing. Jane’s musical involvement, or lack thereof, was a direct reaction to Anne Boleyn’s detrimental musical …
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Writing of Death: Ethics and Politics of the Death Fast in Turkey
… indefinite lapse of time, as an allegory for the ruination of the power to die in the performance of death itself. As such, it seeks to bring about a transformation in the very language of sacrificial politics by interrupting the economy of appropriation which functions in view of a future …