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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Vitalism"”.
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The work of vitalism : Murano Togo
… intellectual tendency, which derived from Vitalism, informed his architectural praxis that began in the late 1910s. Bio-anthropocentrism is the discourse that conceives a society as a constantly transforming site, and positions the human subject as a central entity, represented through …
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Protest Beyond Representation: The Vitalism of Digital Protest Art's Political Aesthetics
<p>The complexities of post-modernity tend to dissolve any facile model of direct cause-and-effect in politics, and yet as a democratic polity, we look for the comfort in knowing that political expression can enact change. Protest art, or acts of creative expression intended to resist dominant …
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Melancholy Machines: On Vitalism and Mechanism in the Poetics of the Historic Vanguards in Latin America
… identifies hybridization of philosophies of vitalism and mechanism, paving the way for both new modes of resistance, by humanizing and thus decentring the technological, and new forms of domination, by reorganizing life in subtly mechanistic ways.
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'n Ondersoek na die dualisme tussen vitalisme en mortalisme in die poësie van die Nederlandse digter Hendrik Marsman
This study is an investigation of the two themes, vitalism and mortalism, in the first four anthologies of Hendrik Marsman. In the Introduction a brief explanation of the terms vitalism and mortalism is given. In Chapter 1 poems of the anthology Verzen are discussed. The speaker expresses his …
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Rethinking the norm of Life Beyond Biopolitics. Towards an Ethical Framework
… forms of life in approaches of biopolitics and vitalism, two main perspectives that map discussions around the politics of life in contemporary political theorising. The literature on biopolitics highlights how modes of life are given meaning as effect of regimes of power that construct the …
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson: a comparison of their moral philosophies
… the reactions of both thinkers to Darwinism, the vitalism that both philosophers utilized to explain life's evolution, the distinction made by the two thinkers between men and great men, the developmental frame of reference applied by both men to their moral enquiries, and the impact that these …
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The impact of ecological thought on architectural theory.
… It traces the recurring themes of naturalism, vitalism and materialism, which are emerging as significant influences on today's architecture. The thesis includes research interviews with some of the leading architectural thinkers and historians of our time in order to situate the discussion of …
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Evolution of natural medicine and biomedicine and their future roles in health care
… the natural medicine concepts of holism, vitalism, the mind-body connection, spirit, detoxification, digestion and immunity — which are clarified in the thesis. The thesis also investigates various models of integrated medicine and determines that the Australian Voluntary Integrated Model …
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An Earthly Response to Movement. Moving Images Diffracted Through New Materialism
… from this research is concerned with a material vitalism (Bennett, 2010) that considers matter as enthusiastic: I refer to clouds, fog, rocks, rivers, and light; but also, and in agreement with filmmaker Elke Marhöfer (2015), to the camera and other apparatuses of the moving image. This form of …
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"Airy Children of Our Brain": Emotion, Science and the Legacy of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy in the Shelley Circle, 1812-1821
… heal the schism between French materialism and vitalism. Chapter Four investigates the depiction of emotional effects on the mind in Byron’s Manfred and Shelley’s Alastor. Both poets draw on scientific reasoning and imagination to come to terms with grief, the failure of love, and the loss of …
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Marooning The Caribbean: Vitalistic Imaginaries In Virgilio Piñera, Héctor Rojas Herazo And Alejo Carpentier
… to, first, their attachment to various forms of vitalism-a preference for becoming over being, for seeing reality as a live organism and in terms of virtuality and actualization-which results in ontological plasticity. Second, thanks to their attempts to trace precarious maps of their …
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Transmission+Interference: A New Materialist and Machine-Oriented Approach to Collectively Make-With Noise
… the making process. Presented here is a noisy vitalism (a form of resonance) drawn from the objects and things of the previous section that is now acting within systems to form new emergent machines. Finally, the thesis discusses the making process itself - the creative workshop, where the …
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El proyecto hermenéutico de José María Arguedas: una lectura de las imágenes narrativas sobre la orolatría en Yawar Fiesta a la luz de la filosofía andina
… de Arguedas, quien en su madurez encuentra en el vitalismo hermenéutico de Dilthey un sustento teórico y metodológico para sus intuiciones iniciales sobre el valor epistemológico que concedió a su experiencia vital como fundamento de su obra. En este sentido, argumento que Arguedas representa una …
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Reading Early Modern English Poetry through the Prisms of Energy and Empire
This dissertation project examines the influence of energy in its many forms on early modern English country house verse and epic, arguing for a novel reading approach — through the prisms of energy — to arrive at more expansive understandings of the historical period, its imaginative literature, …