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Showing 1 to 20 of 781 for “"Visions"”.
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Approximate Inference: New Visions
Nowadays machine learning (especially deep learning) techniques are being incorporated to many intelligent systems affecting the quality of human life. The ultimate purpose of these systems is to perform automated decision making, and in order to achieve this, predictive systems need to return …
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Synecdoche: Visions of Midwestern Solitude
Synecdoche: Visions of Midwestern Solitude is an MFA Thesis Exhibition comprised of small-scale paintings of rural scenes that examine the way memory and perception is used in experiencing the landscape. By incorporating a method of nocturnal observation, the artist introduces an element of …
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M.I.Tomorrow--visions for East Campus
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning and Dept. of Architecture, 1987.
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Shanghaization of Mumbai: visions, displacements, contestations
… In doing so, I focus on the processes, actors, visions, and practices that constitute and contest these urbanization strategies. The study was based on twelve months of field work (archival research, interviews, and ethnographic observation) in Mumbai. The study contributes in problematizing …
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Cyberpunk visions of the future city
… planning has generated a number of influential visions of urban futures - from Howard, Le Corbusier, and Wright, to Fuller, Archigram, and Soleri. Yet for more than twenty years, urban planning has exhibited a conspicuous lack of critical projection about the future of urban life and form. This …
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Somewhere That's Green? visions of sustainable suburbia
… and representational practices positioning subdivisions and single-family homes as symbolic as well as symptomatic of this iconic privatized built environment, this project explores how and why various solutions posed for suburbia's perceived ecological problems envision compromises that either …
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Visions Infernales: Characteristics of Style and Interpretation
Visions Infernales by the French composer Henri Sauguet is a song cycle for the bass voice with piano accompaniment set to a text by the twentieth-century poet, }fax Jacob. This composition, published in France in 1950, is contemporary in style with considerable dissonance, and therefore is …
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Visions of Water in Lower Murray Country
… structured around four sections—four punctiform visions of waters written as a prelude to a potential infinity of others. Furtive, partial, oriented and fragmented, these visions denote times of particular significance: times open to challenge; times of hinges and articulations where radical …
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Sensory Perception in Dante's Dreams and Visions
My thesis analyses Dante’s dreams and visions in the Vita nuova and the Commedia from a sensory-cognitive point of view, examining them as moments of privileged perception, when the sensations described appear not to correspond to perceptions necessitated by immediate external surroundings. While …
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Natural Visions: Photography and ecological knowledge 1895-1939
This thesis is about ecology as visual science, and the role of photography in establishing and promoting ecology in Britain, as a new kind of knowledge and as a new scientific discipline, between around 1895 and 1939. In the historiography of early ecological science, the roles of photography and …
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Prison Sights: Carceral Counter-Visions in Documentary Film
… unique potential to challenge the naturalized visions of the carceral state through their ability to exploit these tensions. The documentaries discussed in this dissertation operate as “carceral counter-visions,” as they play with these tensions to fashion alternative ways for publics to see …
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Arresting visions : a geographical theory of Antarctic light
As a site at the margin of terrestrial systems, Antarctica disrupts the usual practices of visual representation. This thesis investigates, what I call, chronogeographical approaches to visual culture within the Antarctic terrain. The material and theoretical chronogeographies of vision are mapped …
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Writing centers professionalize: Visions and versions of legitimacy
This dissertation explores the ambiguities of professionalization for writing centers and presents an alternative way to approach what I believe is an inevitable process. Toward that end, my project is to examine how the discourse surrounding the professionalization of writing centers constructs …
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Visions of Dystopia in German Literature, 1913-1957
The following study investigates German dystopian literature. Until now, such literature has been subsumed under the much broader and poorly defined utopian genre. As a result, German dystopianism has not yet been identified as a coherent cultural phenomenon. A primary aim of the project is …
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Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility
<p>This project analyzes the concepts of social defense and enmity by focusing on the aesthetics and politics of monstrosity. Three main historical figures of monstrosity, the Monster of Ravenna, Marie Antoinette, and Henriette Cornier, are analyzed through the Foucauldian framework of power and …
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Visions in New Expanses: Blake and the Art of Complexity
No abstract prepared.
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Mural visions: viewing histories in the works of Michael Ondaatje
This thesis seeks to challenge traditional notions of literary interpretation by examining the interaction between visual and verbal representation in literature. To this end, I critically examine several elements of visual culture in the literary works of poet/novelist Michael Ondaatje and seek to …
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