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Subversive aspects of American musical theatre
Critical discourse regarding musical theatre takes, for the most part, the form of a profound silence, due presumably to a dismissal of the genre as simplistic and insubstantial. Not only have the elements of musical theatre been present in the majority of theatrical history, but many of the …
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Subversive Intimacies: Resisting Settler Colonialism's Shallow Attachments
Gathering texts by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and authors, this dissertation asks, how does settler colonialism depend on disjointed and shallow attachments, and how do Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists respond to and rise above the asociality of this structure? I draw on a range of …
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The Control of Subversive Activities in Canada
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The Decolonial Power of Shapeshifting: Subversive Ecofeminist Rhetorics
… shapeshifting centers empathy in order to subversively build relationship. Shapeshifting is internally composed, while animalization is externally imposed. Additionally, the rhetoric of shapeshifting is unruly and multimodal. It is enacted across a wide range of persuasive performances, …
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Carnivalesque Inversion: The Subversive Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut
This thesis considers the novels of Kurt Vonnegut, focusing on Cat’s Cradle (1963), Player Piano (1952), and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), through the literary theories of Mikhail Bakhtin. It concentrates on Bakhtin’s carnivalesque inversion from Rabelais and his World (1965), his theoretical …
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Outline of a Subversive Technopoetic: for a Libertarian Pedartgogy
The thesis explores the relationships between knowledge and knowing in contemporary 21st century information society, using the foundation of the Faculty of Media Design & New Media Art at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milano as a research apparatus. This Faculty was established between 2003 …
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The Textuality of the Body: Orlan's Performance as Subversive Act
In this paper, I argue that the performance artist Orlan uses feminist tactics of subversion in her presentation of the body as art. I enter the feminist debate over Orlan's work to indicate that the critics who consider the history of performance art produce more fecund discourse. At the same …
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Subversive acts : the politics of the female subject in performance
… and receiving performance texts from a gender-subversive perspective. In conclusion, this study argues that there are particular problems associated with attempting gender-subversion through theatrical performance texts, due to the extent to which patriarchal ideology is entrenched within the …
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The Collective Speculators’ Playbook Subversive Market Forms for Common Wealth
In 2016, a remarkable collaboration between the State of New York and the city’s largest landlord redirected a staggering $1.6 billion from neighborhoods hosting the highest unemployment rates along the Harlem River to Midtown's Hudson Yards, marking the costliest privatized development in American …
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The Stagehands of Subversive Spaces: Site-specific Performance and Audience Labour
… for representation, The Stagehands of Subversive Spaces extends debates within site-specific performance to wider conversations in performance studies about ethics, subjectivity, and audience reception.
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A Queering of Memory, Temporality, Subjectivity: Subversive Methods in Audiovisual Practice
… and material practices, I identify a range of subversive strategies implemented by artists intent on amplifying the voices of marginalised communities. These include alternative modes of listening, seeing and feeling that complicate hegemonic notions of history, genre, representation and …
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Making Chance Meaningful: Exploring Links with Creativity and its Culturally Subversive Application
Throughout history the study of chance has largely been either neglected or dismissed as futile. This changed around the end of the 19th century and since then interest in chance phenomena has exponentially grown up to this day. This thesis addresses the question what influenced this increase in …
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Subversive Threat: the Danger of Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation to Western Security
Propaganda has long been used as a supplement to military and diplomatic influence as an instrument to support policy. Propaganda, disinformation, and deception were particularly important tools of the Soviet Union in international relations. This thesis examines how propaganda is often used and …
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Subversive speech acts? An evaluation of an imperial-critical reading of Ephesians
While recent publications have examined how NT texts engage with early Roman imperial ideology, no full-scale exploration of Ephesians has been constructed to date. This project provides an original contribution in the field of study by utilizing an eclectic hermeneutic in order to evaluate the …
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Angelic airs/subversive songs: Music as cultural discourse in Victorian literature and society
… corrective to social ills and feared it as a subversive context for these ills. In Chapter One, I examine Victorian constructions of music to promote patriotism, Christianity, culture, and domestic harmony, and suggest how often these goals were undermined by political tensions in song texts …
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Just Don't Know How She Does It: a Feminist's Showroom of Subversive Machinations
I have created a body of work that takes the form of a series of inventions or products aimed at giving their users the appearance of conforming to existing gender stereotypes pertaining to the roles of women, whilst actually allowing them to live a life of their own choosing. I have communicated …
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