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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Technē"”.
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The search for hybrid tectonics in contemporary African architecture: encounters between the global and the local
… that highlight the encounters between techno and technē, between the global and the local, and between the global North and the global South. These binaries can and should be contested, and this study seeks to understand the underpinnings and tectonic strategies of buildings that demonstrate …
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Infinite Art: The Problem of 'Making' for a Christian Metaphysics
… original, defining discussions of poiēsis and technē in the works of Plato and Aristotle. I argue that while it is true that both Plato and Aristotle can be interpreted as defending an ‘intellectualist legend’ about making, portraying production as an instrumental procedure for exerting …
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Towards an aesthetics of theatre technology
… treat theatre technology merely as a theatrical technē -- a tool or craft of the art. The arguments presented in the thesis reposition theatre technology from the position of craft to a position of art -- as alētheia, an artistic truth revealed through poiētic means. In the repositioning of …
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Apparatus Poetica: The Question Of Technology In Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry
… how these late modernists use language's technē to rethink mid-century historical forces catalyzed by technology. Insisting on language's poetic ability to exceed instrumentalized capture, these poets share an interest in theorizing new ethical relations for reconnecting "subject" and …
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Performance Art and the Prosthetic
… and Time, (and other texts), to explore how technē belongs with poiēsis as a primal bringing-forth of something in itself, and the making of something by means of a relationship to another. What is significant here is not that something is, or is not, a prosthetic (device), but what using it …
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A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault
… of ethics as an 'art of living' (a technē tou biou), along with a series of interconnected notions (such as the care of the self) that he developed in his later work, have a triple aspect. First, these notions are constitutive parts of his later genealogies of subjectivity. Second, …