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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Simulacrum"”.
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Simulacrum : situated memory for architectural space
The immediacy and transportability of digital images has changed the spatial and temporal relationship between the viewer and the image. The malleability and large volume of these images affords us the ability to set up new such relationships. This thesis introduces a system that creates an …
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The Shape of Seeing: An Ethnography of Phytolith Analysis
… researchers enact each stage around a different simulacrum which serves as a partial representation, or proxy, of the original plant context. Combining data from ethnographic methods with theory such as semiotics, enactment, and Actor Network Theory, this thesis proposes a model of …
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(Un)Social Media: A Content Analysis of the Centralized Self on Twitter
… Drawing on Baudrillard’s (1983) notion of simulacrum, the dissertation examines posts as performative discourse that reframes the trend within the personal simulacrum of the poster. Using digital humanities tools, a corpus of 102,532 tweets have been collected. A content analysis was …
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As you cannot hear the sound of losing: researching the gambling environment through performance
… what they have in common is they provide a simulacrum of reality where people can engage in the act of gambling. Whether the site is extraordinary or less extreme in style, the misery caused by gambling is a common experience. The performance As you cannot hear the sound of losing grew from …
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The virtual-musical other: creating unique worlds through musical sound in videogames
… the use of technology that sound becomes a simulacrum of its former self, and the barrier created by terms like "Western" and "non-Western" decays. The virtual Othering in these three games draws attention to the value of sound in music-making and, consequently, to the redirection of meaning …
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Places, Please!
… the uncanny, and Jean Baudrillard’s idea of the simulacrum, I question how the constructed nature of a stage set or staged scene can reflect our constructed culture. Ultimately, my work examines the antithetical nature of girlhood and asks the viewer to consider whether there can be room for both …
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Ronsard's Idoles: Epic, Ghosts and Irony in Pierre de Ronsard's Poetic Works
… (1555-1556) in light of the paradigm of the epic simulacrum identified in the first chapter by showing how the introduction of ghosts in genres such as hymnic poems can be blended with comic undertones. Drawing on the humorous identity of ghostly illusions, I finally turn to the irony underpinning …
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
… and developed by Agamben. Discussing the simulacrum I argue that Magritte problematises Agamben’s idea of threshold as a device for inclusion by way of exclusion. I conceptualise the hunched figures in Géricault, Dix and Salomon as a dark presence generated by the normative power that …
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Ballads, blues, and alterity
… what I term the ‘folkloric imagination’ is a simulacrum brought into existence by ideological fantasy––a manifestation of the colonialist Real.
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The (Im)possibility of Detective Fiction in Sicily: Sciascia, Camilleri and Piazzese
… by each author. The idea of Sicily as a simulacrum is also discussed. As each author recreates his settings in novel form, these simulacra go on to form connections with, overlap or negate other literary spaces, not all of them located in Sicily or even Italy. The places of the novels are …
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The Victorians' "unclaimed dividend" : a literary study of the middle-class spinster.
… sanctum of female experience, or she rejects the simulacrum of "authentic" womanhood that she, unmarried, can achieve. As I argue, this character experiences particular destinies in Victorian fiction: rescue, through the agency of a beneficent suitor; resignation, to a life sacrificed for the good …
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Eastern European Time-Based Art During and After Communism
… Nevertheless, it created an unprecedented simulacrum whose visual language was appropriated by a number of artists as a readymade. This artistic response to everyday reality shaped an unofficial narrative of the Communist epoch. Operating beyond the official realm these artists were subject …
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Living on the Edge of Burnout: Defamiliarizing Neoliberalism Through Cyberpunk Science Fiction
… with Jameson's characterization of Baudrillard's simulacrum to interpret postmodern cultural artifacts. For many cultural critics, the city of cyberpunk is thoroughly postmodern because parallels can be drawn between the cyberpunk city and the postmodern condition. However, very little work has …
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The Man Who Knew Mary
… of science and art. It is a novel of analogy and simulacrum, of coincidence and synchronicity. Beginning as an ethnobotanist, John Whitney, the central character through whose consciousness and unconsciousness the relevancies of the work flow, ends as a simple chaste husband-protector of an …
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A Case for Rhetorical Method: Criticism, Theory, and the Exchange of Jean Baudrillard
… his rhetoric as it relates to his notion of the simulacrum. Analyzing his discussion of "the rhetoric of simulation" in The Perfect Crime, I argue that Baudrillard was indeed a rhetorical theorist in the most robust sense, since he engages with both theory and method. Chapter five argues that …
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A polyphony of the mind: intertextuality in the music of Salvatore Sciarrino
"This dissertation examines the work of the Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947), attempting to find a pathway for analysis that can address both its apparent structural simplicity, and its equally apparent intertextual nature. The first chapter demonstrates that typical methods of …