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Showing 1 to 20 of 255 for “"Totality"”.
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under observation : a site of totality in uncertain futures
This thesis asks how we can integrate ourselves into the unforgiving yet susceptible cosmology of our universe, a feat we have repeatedly failed to do in recent history. Through technological advancement, we have abstracted, pixelated, consumed, and mined our world to irreversible measures, as well …
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Concepts of the global in contemporary culture : figuring the totality
… we witness a return to figurations of the totality in contemporary culture. There is not just one way of conceptualising the global today, however, and to register this four main modes of conceptualisation are identified. These are: the immanent; the transcendent; the contingent; and the …
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The Terrorizing Totality of the Bureaucratic Society of Controlled Consummption
… is still a possibility even in the encroaching totality of the bureaucratic society of controlled consumption, and that a preservation of the rebellious subjectivity can provide a basis for formulating a rebellious praxis not yet called into being.
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Totality of the circumstances: Factors affecting competence to waive Miranda rights.
Within the discipline of sociology human olfaction is rich with social significance yet remains a poorly charted frontier. Therefore, the following discourse is aimed toward the development of a foundation for the sociological study of olfaction. It is formed by the dual goals of unearthing the …
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Totality of experience: sound, music and mythology in Gus Van Sant’s “Death Quartet”
… Shatz observed that “You have to get into the totality of the experience and not just the dialogue”. Shatz’s comment expresses something fundamental about the experimental approach to cinema and to soundscapes undertaken by Van Sant in these three films, unofficially known as the “Death …
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The hospital patient service in transition: A study of the development of totality of care
… determinants in the development of the totality of patient care. A "mapping" method was adopted to analyse the data reflected different levels of concerns. The findings in this study indicated that, technological and financial factors often identified as the more important determinants …
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Realism and anti-realism in the work of George Lukács
… the central Lukácsian concept of concrete totality. Totality, for Lukács, is not a static concept but a dynamically evolving, ever-changing idea. However, he tends to view totality as simply a concept of contemplation. Lukács indicates the proletariat as the subject-object of Western …
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The differential calculus as the model of desire in French fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… of a point as part of a description of the totality of matter in the universe. When the subject considers his abandonment by a lover, he is offered a glimpse of a more profound rift, his separation from this integral totality. So this rift provides dynamic for desire that finds its sense of …
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Transitions in the Mental Health Field's System of Professions from WWII until the Present: The Case of Dubville
… having ostensibly been "sidestepped." (4) "Totality" has become an area of technocratic expertise for those working in private practice psychotherapy. However, totality is no longer exclusively conceptualized through a psychoanalytic lens, while the ground to make a claim on "totality" is …
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Signifying Ruins: The Wreck and Rebirth of Modernity, Language, and Representation
… fragmentation, invite nostalgic projections of totality only to betray totality as an illusion. Thus, the imagination of wholeness that the ruin incites allows—only to disallow—meaning. Modernity and language also initiate an allegorical process by which representation is made possible and …
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Ruralia: Death and Dissonance in the Undergrowth
Ruralia [noun]: rural America in its totality, including its inhabitants, natural spaces, agrarian culture, economic decline, out migration flows, decaying infrastructure, conservative politics, and all other characteristics, both specific and general.
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Reflecting the instant : information, image, architecture
… site, but can only be directly grasped in their totality through an armature information. The project is directed by my interpretation of Henri Bergson's notion of virtuality- that is, a notion of the totality of possibility as something that surrounds the actual, but is accessible to our minds …
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Der Begriff der Aura und einer Kunst ohne Aura im Werk von Walter Benjamin
… experience that grasps materiality in its totality Benjamin 4uestions the position of the subject in German Idealism, epitomised by Hegel's practical idea. At the same time Benjamin realises that materiality cannot be represented in its totality in the discourse of signification. Thereby …
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Embassy of Lebanon, Washington, D.C.
… A Design that reflects an Attitude toward the Totality of Space through Structure, Circulation, and Materials. A Place where Order prevails, where Sequence emphasizes Hierarchy, and Procession seeks a Rhythmic Stimulus of Higher Aspirations.
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Op. 34: Evidence of Arnold Schoenberg's Musikalische Gedanke
… of a musical idea (musikalische Gedanke); the totality of a piece represents the idea. For tonal works, he defines Gedanke as a process of resolving the "tonal relation" or "tonal problem." Contrary to the numerous tonal examples illustrating the notion of Gedanke, Schoenberg hardly expounds on …
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Order through analogy: a music school
… search for an understanding of order and totality in architecture. Through consideration of the ideas inherent in music and in mathematics, I realized order in architecture is not only enriching to the project but critically necessary. The task then became to translate these ideas from the …
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The Embrace of the Fragmented Self: The Art of Joerg Immendorff
… symbolism and form. It addresses the totality of Immendorff's formal development to a greater extent than previous discussions and shows Immendorff's formal practice and ontological concerns to be a continuing form of activism.
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La Mort Dans ``La Mort Artu'': Roman en Prose Du Treizieme Siecle
… human beings cannot understand this order in its totality, however they may learn how to die from experience of life, from meditation inspired by monastic tradition, and from thoughtful reading of romances.
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El oficio de la escritura y la estetica en la obra de Roberto Bolano
… oeuvre and individually representative of the totality.</p> <p>Throughout the works analyzed, our two primary questions--the aesthetical and ethical--intercept while we examine his understanding of the role of the writer and literature itself. <em>Estrella distante</em> (1996), <em>Los …
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Drifting in the Dead Zone in Cyprus: the mediation of memory through expanded life writing
… are investigated through a multimedia totality of poetics that deploys film, photography and live performance as well as writing. The thesis consists of this written exegesis and documentation of the performance Memory in the Dead Zone, the website MemoryMap, the film-poem DVD An …
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