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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"World-making"”.
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Drawn together: illustration, community and collective world-making
… Jean-Luc Nancy whose work discusses question of worldmaking, sociality, relationality and the political – this PhD interweaves my collaborative illustration practice with philosophy in order to expose and delineate aspects of our social co-existence. Illustration, in the form of co-created visual …
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Negotiating normativities: Counter narratives of lesbian queer world making in Cape Town
… the different modes and meanings of queer world making (QWM) of lesbians in Cape Town. Through an analysis of in depth interviews and focus groups it reveals lesbians' constructions of their intersectional and permeable QWM through a series of counter narratives enacted in three …
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Building realities : Ecuadorian Amazonian Kichwa oral literature and its role in Napo Kichwa social world-making
… Napo Kichwa oral literature builds Kichwa social worlds. Each of the texts included in this dissertation explores not only the paradigms which define human and non-human beings, but these texts also participate in the active creation of worlding. These texts show what it means to be a human in the …
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Colonial world-making in future technological landscapes: a qualitative comparative case study of the Sophia the Robot and Miquela Projects
Future technologies are being produced by private actors in projects promising radical societal changes. Little attention is given to the intention of these private actors. This increases the risk of missing the ways in which private political and economic interests shape future technological …
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Towards a Poetics of Bafflement: the Politics of Elsewhere in Contemporary Black Diaspora Visual Practice (1990-Present)
… and conceptualizes new possibilities for world making. Black artists have long since occupied spaces of creative and critical thinking about aesthetics, race, and the politics of vision, which inform contemporary social, historical, and cultural climates. Multiculturalism and subsequent …
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Pauli Murray in the 1930s: portraits and post-soul eccentricity
… were part of her politics invested in Queer World-Making. I locate these ideas in portraits of Pauli Murray’s scrapbook viewed synchronously with her autobiography, Song in A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage (1987) and biographical sources.</p>
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Co-creating Agency, Remaking Worlds: Socially Engaged Participatory Art in Hong Kong and Taiwan
… the study in the concepts of agency and world-making. Complaints Choir of Hong Kong (2009-2011) and Woofer Ten (2009-2014) demonstrated how co-creative participatory art can be a lens for understanding the city’s multifaceted democratic movement in a critical period bracketed by the …
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Memory-safe microcontroller applications with the Bedrock structured programming system
… CPUS - drive digital electronics all over the world, making their safety and reliability critical. However, microcontrollers generally lack the memory protection common in desktop processors, so memory safety must come through other means. One such mechanism is Bedrock, a library for the Coq …
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Multi-agent coordination under limited communication
… have different beliefs about the state of the world that can eventually be reconciled if the agents are able to share sufficient information with one another. When communication is limited, this task becomes more difficult. To achieve robustness, coordination decisions need to be made, …
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Black jazz-informed dance: The performance of rhetoric and resistance in Los Angeles-based Jazzantiqua Dance and Music Ensemble
… investigates the cultural practices and meaning making that are performed by the predominantly Black, Los Angeles-based, concert jazz dance company, JazzAntiqua Dance and Music Ensemble. In conversation with the fields of dance studies, rhetorical arts, and Black radical thought, this research …
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Otea: Transmission and Transmedia
… calls transmedia storytelling “the art of world making,” and my goal is to build a rich and engaging story-world where the aspects of Maoritanga used are an accessible and natural part of the storytelling landscape. By embedding these cultural concepts inside a story that communicates my …
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Techniques of RNA Isolation and Characterization in Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus-Infected Chinook Salmon Embryo Cells
… cause of this virus's proliferation around the world, making it the most economically devastating viral disease for fish hatcheries. This prototype naked, double-stranded RNA virus of the Birnaviradae family was studied to test new techniques for isolation and characterization of its ambiguous …
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Identity politics and intellectual trajectories in Bukhara, 1917-1924
… movements in Central Asia and the Muslim world in an age of revolution? Second, following failed efforts at reform and Soviet conquest, how were communism and communists created in Bukhara, and how did Bukharans define their position vis-à-vis Bolshevik ideology? Third, how did Bukharans …
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Multispecies Syntopia: Collaborative Survival in the Nuclear Anthropocene
… production while eliciting an eco-centric way of world-making. It draws upon new materialism and post-humanism to reflect on cross-species communication between human and non-human agents. In conclusion, it proposes the concept of “multispecies syntopia”—a combination of “syn,” which means …
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Developing a Vocabulary of Feeling: The Spirituality of Black Feminist Self-Repair
… course of events or to manipulate the natural world. In the context of this project, I interpret “magic” as a collection of stylistic choices, inherited traditions, and behaviors that enable Black Americans to repair the psychic, physical, and emotional damage that has been internalized in the …
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Feeding Shanghai: Lanlingnese peasants and the making of "supply chain qua world" in post-socialist China
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Koalisi Lahan–Gambut: Assembling Peat–Land Futures in Kalimantan
… both peat’s inhabitants and the soil itself as world-making agents, shaped by speculative regimes of governance, rooted in planetary imaginaries of climate salvation and fantasies of productivity. This thesis proposes Koalisi Lahan–Gambut (Peat–Land Coalition), a speculative parainstitution that …
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Queer-Diva Collaboration in 20th Century Pop Music
… (Butler 41, 121) and testaments to “Queer world-making” (Muñoz 22) in order to recover the Diva’s crucial relationship with LGBTQ art directors, stylists, choreographers and music producers. This study historicises and analyses two pivotal Queer-Diva collaborations as case studies, both of …
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Il giudice costituzionale colombiano vis-à-vis dello sfollamento interno
… has the second highest number of IDPs in the world, making it a crucial social problem for human rights and humanitarian law. The Colombian constitutional judge declared the “estado de cosas inconstitucional” vis-à-vis the IDPs situation: this refers to the fact that internal displacement is …
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The Decades Of Disillusionment: Essays On Indian Literature And Cinema After Nehru
… fading allure of socialism in the former Third World. In general, literary critics have interpreted disillusionment in negative terms: as the loss of energy, commitment, or world-making confidence. This project suggests an alternative interpretation. Narratives of disillusionment and …
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