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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Worldmaking"”.
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Virtual Worldmaking: A Phantasmal Media Approach to VRChat
… of virtual realities through the lens of virtual worldmaking. Drawing from cultural theory and D. Fox Harrell’s phantasmal media framework, I unravel the boundaries between subjective experience and computational modes of being at the perceptual interface of social VR. First, in two …
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Breaking the Republic in Half? Black Worldmaking Practices in Contemporary France
This thesis explores black worldmaking practices in contemporary France. I define worldmaking as the ongoing efforts to bring about futures made impossible in the present. In the French national context, dominant republican universalism stifles the recognition of the very existence of race and …
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Stories of Stonewall Warehouse: Queer Memories of Space and Place and its Potential for Queer Worldmaking
… the significance of queer space, place, and worldmaking through their memories. Through a qualitative study of Stonewall Warehouse, the only gay bar in San Marcos, Texas that closed in 2023, I utilized autoethnography and open-ended questionnaires to investigate how former patrons, …
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The vampire inside my camera: an exhumation of gender, monstrosity and queer worldmaking through photography and video
… an exhumation of gender, monstrosity and queer worldmaking through photography and video uses the vampire character as metaphor investigating shame and desire through a queer lens. Examining how the vampire has taken shape in the public imagination, this text discusses folktales, art- historical …
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Digital Archives as Relationship-Building: Reflections on Worldmaking in Community-Based Latin American and Caribbean Diasporic Memory Work in Southern California
<p>While participatory digital methods for conducting archival research and practice have contributed in meaningful ways to discourses on rebalancing power asymmetries in archival partnerships between academics and communities, this work has yet to effectively disrupt the status quo. Using a …
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'And That Misformed Shape, Misshaped More': The Stranger Mathematics of 'The Faerie Queene'
… the syntactic and prosodic foundations of poetic worldmaking. PART I, ‘Sixteenth-Century Poetics and Mathematics’, revisits the evolution of the idea of the poem as ‘world’, arguing that Elizabethan poets, emboldened by the claims of Aristotle’s Poetics, reshaped the Neoplatonist idea of …
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"There is Power in Being Out": A Three Article Approach Celebrating the Experiences of Queer University Leaders
… and career influence one another.</p> <p>Worldmaking and narrative will be used as a theoretical frame to help analyze the ways in which the telling of a queer individual’s story makes the world at present and in the future, more queer. This research holds significance because it disrupts …
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"Fracturing the Space of the Real": Deriving a Korean Queer Theory from the Shamanic Feminist Poetics of Kim Hyesoon
… [hyonbin] where queer Korean subjects enact worldmaking and destabilize hegemony. My subsequent resignification of wonhan works alongside Kim’s transformed feminine yin to restore dynamic cosmological force to concepts calcified under patriarchal and colonial ideology. This project brings …
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Untold Narratives: Realizing Personal Design Identities
… a design tool to emancipate their agency through worldmaking exercises, and thus promoting students’ agency in a process of developing a personal design language, geometries, and visual imagination. The study herein offers a pedagogical framework — experimental case studies part of a larger …
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White Memory and the (Counter)Stories We Might Tell
… undergird and support hegemonic storytelling and worldmaking. To explore White memory, I constructed two case studies of Virginia Tech public history events. Using queer and decolonial archival methodologies, I practice what Mira Shimabukuro (2015) called "rhetorical attendance"; then, I construct …
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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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The Promise of Technology: Politics and Advocacy in the Digital Age
… the past for the present. As such, promises are worldmaking actions. In the thesis, I read the advocacy for digital technologies, spanning private industry, government and academia, as claims to extending this political moment of technology optimism into the future. Silicon Valley technologists …
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Fantasies of citizenship: adolescence and temporality in young adult literature
… citizenship as a source of community and worldmaking that transcends political, geographic, and even temporal boundaries. The protagonists of this YA fantasy series all possess extraordinary powers that mark them as dangerous to their communities and make them vulnerable to dehumanization …
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Brother Outsider: Queered Belonging and Kinships in African American Men’s Literature, 1953-1971
… <em>Brother Outsider</em> also highlights queer worldmaking activities such as the ritual of writing, the capacity to love and empathize, and the more mundane rituals of sex, addiction, and gossip, through which the displaced and dispossessed racialized subjects formulate alternate modes of …
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Queering urban autonomy in greater Los Angeles: Latinx poli-creative survival strategies
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Looking back to look forward in the spirit: Quaring the Black Mecca through oral histories
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Ambient Lyric: Apollinaire and the Social Imaginary of Twentieth-Century US Poetry
This thesis presents a history of how poetry in the twentieth-century US became understood as a means to mediate social complexity, explored via the reception of the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire becomes a crucial figure, I argue, because the articulation that he gives of his …