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Monitoring desire
… transgressive relationships. Monitoring Desire was a performance at Harvard University's Science Center that, through a guerrilla act of appropriation, captured the image on the Center's informational monitor. The act of capture was performed by two women and took place within and between …
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Desire and Hope
"Desire and Hope" is three short animations. The main concept in these three animations is human desires; the goal in each animation was to explore a ways to tell this concept by adding some level of ambiguity, so viewers can watch it through their own vision.
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Sexual Desire(s) and the Desire for Intimacy: An Autoethnographic Exploration
<p>Sexual desire has traditionally been approached and investigated through reductionist lenses that have usually overlooked its complexity. In the past 150 years, it has mainly appeared articulated within medical and sexological discourses that have actively attempted to demarcate, categorize, and …
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Defending Desire: Resident Activists in New Orleans‟ Desire Housing Project, 1956-1980
<p> <p>The Desire Housing Project opened in 1956 as a segregated public housing development in New Orleans‟ Upper Ninth Ward. The Desire neighborhood, one of the few neighborhoods in the city where black homeownership had been encouraged, was transformed by the project. Hundreds of former Desire …
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EROS: Desire in Architecture
… you see in these pages, it's me: my life, my desires, my passion for architecture, my fears, my bad moments, my good moments, my joy--all of me. Desire in architecture seemed to me at that moment something with which I didn’t know how to start working. It was so abstract that, when considered, …
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Desire for thinness and desire for health in eighteen and nineteen-year-old females
Desire for thinness and desire for health were surveyed among eighteen and nineteen year old female adolescents in north-central West Virginia to determine the incidence of these motivations within this population and their relationship to unnecessary weight loss concerns, and dieting behaviors. …
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Levinas : subjectivity, affectivity and desire
… ultimately become his notion of metaphysical Desire. His notion of ethics as the arresting of the spontaneous ego’s conatus by the face of the Other, will turn out to ultimately requires the articulation of ethical subjectivity. The notion of ethical subjectivity is made possible, and thus his …
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Desire Lines: An Annotated Screenplay
… Woolf's angel in the house. In the end, it is a Desire Line, an unauthorized footpath that is created when someone deviates from the official line, which may offer a different way to be in the world (on set), and leave a trace for others to follow.</p>
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The Rational Significance of Desire
My dissertation addresses the question "do desires provide reasons?" I present two independent lines of argument in support of the conclusion that they do not. The first line of argument emerges from the way I circumscribe the concept of a desire. Complications aside, I conceive of a desire as a …
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Prose Rhythm and Queer Desire
… and a revolution in the conception of same-sex desire. Through close attention to the experience of verse entrainments in prose, this dissertation finds a common thread of concern in the works of G. M. Hopkins, J. A. Symonds, Baron Corvo, and Sir Richard Burton; in each, what happens at the …
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Sex, drugs, and women's desire
Low desire is the most common sexual dysfunction in women. Pharmaceuticals are being developed to treat it, most notably Flibanserin, owned by Sprout Pharmaceuticals. Sometimes inaccurately referred to as "female Viagra," Flibanserin actually treats an entirely different problem. Viagra allows men …
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Desire, belief, and conditional belief
… theories treat value judgments as expressions of desire, rather than beliefs about goodness. Inference ticket theories of conditionals treat them as expressions of conditional beliefs, rather than propositions. The two issues intersect in decision theory, where judgments of expected goodness are …
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Blue Desire: Narrative Structure, Desire, and Intertextuality in Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is the Warmest Color
This thesis looks at the ways in which desire becomes a fil conducteur throughout Abdellatif Kechiches Blue is the Warmest Color (2013). My first chapter presents Kechiche's use of narrative structure in the film in order to illustrate Adèle's alternation between active and passive drives …
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Female Desire in Contemporary Indian Cinema
This thesis seeks to investigate the way women are conjunction with portrayed in Bollywood films in the development of female authorship, particularly in the last decade. The journey of women’s representation in Bollywood, from the homogeneous image of a m other, a sister and a wife who is …
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Soliciting desire: the ad-man as narrative negotiation between art, desire, and consumer capitalism in twentieth-century novels
… twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Soliciting Desire takes as its primary subjects H.G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Theodore Dresier’s The “Genius,” Frederick Wakeman’s The Hucksters, Jonathan Dee’s Palladio, and William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and demonstrates that the ad-man character’s …
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Circuits of Desire: Science, Therapy, Trauma, Femininity
… the diagnosis and lived experience of low sexual desire in women. In the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), two different low desire diagnoses are included: one for men (Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder), and one for women (Female Sexual …
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Dreams, desire and addiction : an archetypal analysis
… is best understood as spiritual hunger. The deep desire which underlies this hunger is expressed in multiple ways in our dreams. A major aspect of the thesis is an attempt to explicate the nature of the loss, and of the hunger which points to it. I suggest that both have their roots in the …
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