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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Slavoj Žižek"”.
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Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek
… I use primarily the work of Michel Foucault and Slavoj Žižek in order to demonstrate how a post-structuralist theory of ideology need not be a post-Marxist theory of ideology.
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Eulogy.
… the ideas of philosophers G. W. F. Hegel and Slavoj Žižek, and art historian James Elkins.</p>
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Mother’s Ruin: Refracting the imperial gaze
… The author then invites us to think with Slavoj Žižek and Ann Stoler about ideology, violence and imperial debris. With Žižek, we consider the operation of ideology and violence. With Ann Stoler's concept of imperial debris and ruination, we expand our gaze beyond physical structures to …
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Slavoj Zizek, Radical Theology, and the Materialist Defense of Christianity
… the theological assertions of the philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Žižek, an atheist and a materialist, has produced a rather substantial body of work concerning Christianity in general and Christian theology specifically. My aim here is several. First, to provide an intellectual portrait of the …
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Positioning the Intellectual: Žižek as a Sociological Phenomenon
… examination of the rise to prominence of Slavoj Žižek—the Slovene philo-superstar and intellectual celebrity. Drawing upon cultural sociology and the sociology of intellectual interventions, the dissertation widens the application of Positioning Theory, suggesting that Žižek’s unique mode …
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Preserving bad architecture : radicaL preservation in the post-disaster era
… do is to mark repeatedly the trauma as such. - Slavoj Žižek This thesis re-examines the role of ruins preservation by speculating on the inherent tension between disaster ruins, psychological interventions and collective memorialization. It challenges the misconception of architectural …
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The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism
… Freud, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Slavoj Žižek say about women and masochistic practices, and then continue the discussion by looking at the work of several women theorists and writers, including Angela Carter, Judith Butler, Kathy Acker, and Luce Irigaray. This analysis centres …
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Sublimating the Singularity of an Author(ity): Textual Publics, Textual Agency, and a Case Study of "Eikon Basilike" (1649-1660)
… the works of Ruti, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, and others, I illustrate how, through authorial cathexis, the singularity of the foreclosed $ubject-author registers its presence in the Symbolic field through what I call sublimated metaphoric-metonymic essences of the Real. This …
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« Tu m'arracheras de moi » : la limite de la représentation dans la poésie de René Lapierre (1990-2008)
… de sens. Les théories du philosophe slovène Slavoj Žižek, telles qu’elles sont formulées dans son ouvrage The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), et notamment en ce qui a trait à l’idéologie, permettent d’éclairer certains des enjeux cachés de la représentation. La présente analyse se …
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After Fragmentation: Mental Health and Resilience in Modernist Women’s Literature
… of trauma and survival by Catherine Malabou, Slavoj Žižek, Cathy Caruth, and Bessel van der Kolk. I conclude by analyzing recent works by contemporary women writers including Ottessa Moshfegh and Katherine May to demonstrate how the entangled subjects of trauma, recovery, and resilience …
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Soliciting desire: the ad-man as narrative negotiation between art, desire, and consumer capitalism in twentieth-century novels
… these concepts are refined by Mark Bracher, Slavoj Žižek, and Kaja Silverman, all of whom insist that psychoanalysis has valuable applications extending beyond the individual, into the social and cultural realms. My dissertation finds that the ad-man character in its many manifestations …
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Unmaking the remake: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian logic, and the problem of repetition in Hollywood cinema
… so to speak. Mediating these two thinkers is Slavoj Žižek, a cultural theorist whose<br/>own ‘filmosophy’ is revealed from amongst his often frenetic writings. In so doing, I expose a<br/>dark underside to Hollywood repetition, one which provides some new tools for<br/>understanding the …
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La voz límite. Una aproximación estética a la vocalidad teratológica desde el arte sonoro
… Pardo), la visión de paralaje (propuesta por Slavoj Žižek) y la categoría biopolítica de ¿Homo sacer¿ (recuperada por Giorgio Agamben), entre algunas otras fuentes. El resultado de este planteamiento metodológico trasciende los confines más habituales del análisis estético para presentar …
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Beckett’s Bodies, 1953–1983: Movement, Gesture, and Posture
… Sloterdijk, Giorgio Agamben, Michel Serres, and Slavoj Žižek—where relevant and necessary to an understanding of bodily practices and effects. This provides a perspective by which to explore what may be termed a Beckettian body knowledge: the disciplined physical practices and techniques Beckett …
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The Transformative Possibilities of 'Noticing' in Community Gardening and my Life
… widespread concern of many. Activist scholar, Slavoj Žižek (2012) urges the embedding of the occupiers’ concerns beyond the visible spectacle of the movement. He urges wider commitment to the transformation of the issues of their concern in the very fabric of daily life. My work presented in …