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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"aestheticization"”.
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Walking in Late Capitalism - Dialectic of Aestheticization and Commodification
… and the practice of audio-walks. A "dialectic of aestheticization and commodification" runs through modernity that generates aestheticized forms of walking today. While walking is initially a form of aesthetic struggle against the rational principles of modernity and the forces of capitalism, this …
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Severed texts : aspects of aestheticization in Roland Barthes’ post-structural writings
… examining some of the themes and techniques of aestheticization running through his writing--reverie, pleasure, "perversion," and the hyper-textualization of the human subject and culture. Following this thread/hypothesis of aestheticization, the thesis focuses upon changing notions of the human …
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From denotation to detonation : aestheticization, memory and emphathic readings in trauma narratives
My research centers around the representation of traumatic or otherwise extreme human experiences through modes of fictional writing. I am essentially looking into the renderings of unspeakable subject matter that occupies a liminal space in language's functioning. I aim to explore the …
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The aestheticization of ugliness : the Pulcinella narrative in Giandomenico Tiepolo's Villa Zianigo
… I consider to be a part of the aestheticization of ugliness. Pushing back against the widely purported understanding of aestheticization as beautification, this paper explores how the recontextualization of an ugly subject into a beautiful, artistic context strengthens the …
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Examining the male restroom as a site of visual and material culture in the twenty-first century
Building on my prior research of the aestheticization of the male urinal, I will examine the male restroom as a visual and material culture site from both an historical and contemporary perspective with particular attention given to current and emerging trends. The aestheticized restroom suggests a …
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Death Becomes Us: The Consumptive Body in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Literature
… consumptive qualities this thesis analyzes the aestheticization of tuberculosis that has been internalized in cultural subconsciouses, and what such contents may reveal about historical processes of disease aestheticization. At present, tuberculosis is still the deadliest infectious disease in …
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"The Cartography of Epistemology: The Production of ""National"" Space in Late 19th Century Japan"
… time for modern Japan, which was grounded in the aestheticization and naturalization of Japan's geographic beauty.
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The Empire of Fashion: Taste, Gender, and Nation in Modern Japan
… and consumption of tradition and the aestheticization of the culture of everyday life."
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A love letter to the American mall
… stores, mall kiosks and, most importantly, the aestheticization of High Architecture, all became the staples of the mall. Because even though High Architecture did not want anything to do the mall, the mall wanted everything to do with High Architecture. The mall became a mash up between the …
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Legislative art: Laurie Jo Reynolds and the aesthetics of punishment
… political framework by trying to describe the aestheticization of politics in America through the various mutations of racial concepts in the legal system, as well as in education, visual art, and literature. To do this I borrow ideas from the Continental political theory canon to shed light on …
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Bollywood and Colourism: Exploring the discourse of Blackness in Hindustani cinema
… of the colour line has undergone an aestheticization as a result of the gentrification of Hindustani cinema for the purpose of transnational negotiations. Therefore, I posit my contention within the inextricable dynamics of Colourism, Afro-pessimism and ‘black face' mimicry to …
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Death becomes her : the death aesthetic in/as fashion advertising
… when one pairs aesthetics and death? Can the aestheticization of death in the fashion magazine be seen as a site of rupture in the sign system of "the fashionable"; or simply a further entrenchment of the idea of woman as nothing more than body--her perfection, inevitability, her death? Death …
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Political Sound: National Socialism and Its Musical Afterlive
… It reframes Walter Benjamin's phrase ‘aestheticization of politics’ in relation to various forms of sonic (often vocal) activity in the Third Reich. It then analyses the National Socialist radio broadcasting system as a unique, technical and bureaucratic medium of sovereign command. …
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Cruelty Counts: Anti-Asian Violence and its Queer Afterlives
… of violence, what I refer to as the aestheticization of violence. It questions how particular protocols and methods such as counting, measurement, and visualization, shape and delimit our collective sensibilities and knowledge of scenes of harm. In rearticulating anti-Asian violence …
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Paul R. Williams at Work in Photographs: Tarrying With Cites/Sights/Sites of Trouble
… through occupation portraits he engages in an aestheticization of citizenship that nonetheless works to undermine, rupture, and disrupt the forces of racism at play within the field of architecture and adjacent during the 20 th century. When this work is attended to, the dissertation concludes, …
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Technology and form : iron construction and transformation of architectural ideals in nineteenth century France, 1830-1889.
… of modem technology and architecture lay the aestheticization of material and construction, and the subjectivization of architecture. Thus, this dissertation analyzes the displacement of architectural discourses on iron construction from an objective construction to a subjective aesthetics. …