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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"Ruins"”.
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City of Ruins
… point of view, the story begins within the ruins of post-war 22nd-century London, England. The novel centres around two main characters: Aviah Knight and Terian Tesla. Aviah Knight has been genetically designed by her scientist parents to be a super soldier, and now she has become a monster …
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Our city, what ruins
Leaks, demolitions, vacancy and ruins. Our City, What Ruins is a double entendre we use to describe the conditions of urban life at the peak time of our practice. On the one hand, one third of the land lay vacant, transforming into blight, and targeted for demolition. The city was the world's …
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Tiny Ruins: Short Prose Works
Tiny Ruins is a collection of short prose works consisting of flash fiction, prose poetry, and vignettes. The collection examines the everyday experiences of being an urban millennial, including current electronic methods of communication, such as Twitter and text messaging. Short prose forms …
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Life behind ruins : constructing documenta
A transnational index of contemporary art, documenta in its current form is known in the art world for its scale, site-specificity and rotating Artistic Directors, each with their own theme and agenda. On a unique schedule, the expansive show is displayed in Kassel, Germany from June to September …
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Ruins and Wrinkles: Revaluing Age through Architecture
In this thesis I argue that an architecture that selectively intervenes in the aging landscape to provide opportunities for regeneration and mentorship can weaken our societal divisions. I tested this hypothesis in the context of an adaptive reuse, multi-generational, mixed use design for the …
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Havana ruins : post-embargo habitación regenerative prototypes
MIT American tourism influx is inevitable in the rapidly 'capitalizing' political context of Cuba. From the 1920's through the 1950's Americans were the dominate tourist on the island. Fast forward to today and Americans account for only about 5% of all visitors. But, this is all about to change. …
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Nightlands: Playwriting in the Ruins of the Soviet-Arctic
The Norwegian territory of Svalbard is home to a diverse history of multinational settlements owing to the Svalbard Treaty of 1922, which allows signatory states to establish visa-free communities on the archipelago. The Soviet Union controlled the mining settlement of Pyramiden from 1927 until its …
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Splendor of Ruins: Gang, State, and Crime in Honduras
Splendor of Ruins examines the growth of street gangs in Honduras in the aftermath of the Cold War, as a flourishing criminal economy and the devastation of Hurricane Mitch destabilized life in the capital, Tegucigalpa. I examine the displacement of smaller gangs in the city by the broad community …
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Play Among the Ruins: David Jones, Meaning, and Play
… often used by his readers. “Play Among the Ruins: David Jones, Meaning, and Play” begins with an Introduction that examines the working sense of play that emerges in Jones’s essays and letters. After defining play as a gratuitous act, this introductory chapter positions Jones’s sense of the …
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The ruins of science : whatever happened to the Tevatron?
… question: what can and should be done with the ruins that lie in the wake of progress? In doing so, it examines a difficult challenge facing today's science and technology museum curators, namely how to preserve the historical and scientific value of important artifacts amid the acceleration of …
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Amid the debris: ruins of underdevelopment in contemporary Brazilian documentary
This thesis defines an aesthetics of ruins in contemporary Brazilian documentary. It examines strategies of spatial representation employed by present-day documentary-makers and places their films into three groups. The first focuses on the federal capital, Brasília (The Age of Stone (2013) and …
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The culture of the Mayas as shown by their ruins
<p>It is the purpose of this paper to deal with the high state of culture attained by the mysterious Mayas of Central America and Yucatan.</p><p> How old is their civilization? No one knows.</p><p> Where did they come from? Who can say?</p><p> What did they wish to tell us in their writings that …
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Aesthetics in Ruins: Parisian Writing, Photography and Art, 1851-1892
… lines of inquiry concerning representations of ruins in Paris. I first identify a turning point in the evolution of the ruin leitmotif beyond Romanticism in its transfer into a new context: modern Paris. The analysis demonstrates the correlation between this leitmotif and urban environment in …
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The Dancer Walking The Ruins: Laura Riding and Dialectical Thought
This thesis explores the origin and expression of dialectical thought in the life and writings of the American modernist Laura Riding. Within a biographical framework, I trace the steps by which it became the defining characteristic of her poetic, literary and critical works. A few have noted …
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Signifying Ruins: The Wreck and Rebirth of Modernity, Language, and Representation
… explores formal and thematic representations of ruins in twentieth century literary texts, including James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck.” Analyzing these texts and concepts of ruins in the …
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Nature, History, and the Sacred in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
… communities, in the post-colonial city. In the ruins of a fourteenth century palace in the center of modern Delhi, Hindus and Muslims from various castes and communities come to deposit photocopies of letters petitioning saintly jinn (superhuman spirits) for fulfillment of their personal and …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
<p>Long before “modernism” achieved currency as a literary term, a striking number of British authors turned to what had already been termed “modernist” in architecture to make sense of the modern movement in literature. In modern architects' ultra-visible ability to destroy the forms of tradition, …
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