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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"absurdity"”.
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Absurdity in the Early 21 Century
… theorists who claim that the concept of Absurdity that flourished in Western Europe in the 1940s is now of purely historical interest. It is argued instead that while it is important to locate the concept of Absurdity in an appropriate historical context, people living in the early …
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Pronounced Absurdity: The Wedding-scape Outside a Conical Field
… consumption and simultaneously foregrounds the absurdity of both the construct per se and its uncanny collision with the existing urban ambient. In this way, the rationality of wedding infrastructures only exists in the conical field of a camera, and the dysfunctional, disordered and obscure …
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Playing with the Absurdity of Welfare: Experiences of Irish Welfare Conditionality
… lightness of conditionality’ in which the absurdity of the welfare system confronts participants with indifference rather than penalty.
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“WELL, I’VE WHISPERED ‘RACISM’ IN A POST-RACIAL WORLD”: SATIRE AND THE ABSURDITY OF “POST-RACIAL” AMERICA
<p>The purpose of this thesis project is to look at the works of contemporary African American satirists as they confront post-racial ideology. In looking at the works of Jordan Peele, Paul Beatty, Mat Johnson, and Boots Riley, thematic threads emerge to form a portrait of dire unrest amongst those …
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Neurosis - Continuum [ Architecture As Urban Therapy ]
… within the personal struggle to understand the absurdity of spaces which exist within Woodstock, Cape Town. The project draws a psychological connection between the site and its absurdities, implying that spatial absurdity is the effect of problems of the personified "sitemind". By visualizing …
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Laughing in the Void: Comic Elements in Joseph Conrad's Tragic Vision
… twentieth-century mode of comedy that faces the absurdity of a universe of artificial values. Laughter becomes a defense mechanism against the tragic void left by the loss of traditional values, which are the basis of social order. Conradian humor displays a discomfort with ideal or abstract …
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Theodicy
… a purpose, is to celebrate the alienation and absurdity common to modern day life by depicting and dramatizing their connection with the culture we have inherited from classical tradition.</p>
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Meeting the Absurd: Camus and the Communication Ethics of the Everyday
… of Camus's three cycles of work addressing absurdity, revolt, and judgment, this project firmly places Camus's engagement within the context of the study of communication ethics. Through his implicit work as a philosopher of communication Camus provided an example of a person with deep …
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Playbook
… a Kafkaesque experience, rife with bureaucratic absurdity. This memoir is a chronicle of that experience, from the days leading up to my initial application, to the days following my letter of resignation. It is also the story of a man dealing with personal demons, and struggling to find his way …
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Go Cry About It!
… My thesis explores the emotional release and absurdity of crying through the unpredictability of ceramics. Tracking emotions through cold, hard data negates the gravity of those feelings while contrasting them with bulbous, illustrative images of tears brings back the human touch. The subtle …
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Riddlehoard,
… and playful and suggests an underlying absurdity to subjective human experience.
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John Barth, Ebenezer Cooke, and the literature of exhaustion
… embellishing and exaggerating it to a point of absurdity. The novel thereby reflects this same absurdity in the modern world and thus reaches the hearts of those who must live in it. Thus, though Barth imitates an eighteenth-century poem, he creates a thoroughly modern novel that meets his …
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Encyclopædia Mundi: A digital experience
… as a genuine 90s digital encyclopedia, but the absurdity of the generated text, which is syntactically correct but semantically dubious, subverts the audience's expectation and reveals its true nature as an artwork. In this context, the audience is prompted to reflect on how we socially …
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Some Things Askew: Cautionary Quips and Satirical Scenarios
… offering comic relief and emphasizing the absurdity of existence.</p>
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INDECISION 2008: REAPPROPRIATION AS POLITICAL ARGUMENT IN THE DAILY SHOW'S COVERAGE OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
… arguments used by The Daily Show: highlighting absurdity, the political fact check and highlighting contradictions, and exposing social and media patterns. The analysis explores the strengths and weaknesses of each type of reappropriation, and the structural form of the argument.
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A Lesson in Art: Understanding and Questioning Distraction, Play, and Human Nature
… has changed and grown from times of crisis and absurdity. This set of artworks not only fits within this area of the art world, but also seeks to expand it into a contemporary light with new media such as TikTok as well as focus on current and ongoing issues.</p>
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EXPLORING DREAMING CONSCIOUSNESS FROM AN ENACTIVIST PERSPECTIVE
… distinguish them from waking experiences: 1) the absurdity in dream content and 2) the partial lack of self-awareness during dreaming states. This enactivist account of dreaming experiences is also proposed as a helpful philosophical account to inspire corresponding improvements in the method of …
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Seeing the future, speaking to the past : nomadic projects and thoughts
… deployment of prosthetic devices. Repetition and absurdity are elements that I utilize to encounter the boundaries between detachment and social engagement, perception and imagining, announcement and silence, interrogation and defiance. Through my experiences as a global nomad, I create new …
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