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Showing 1 to 20 of 925 for “"embodiment"”.
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Post-mordial : esoteric embodiment
This thesis speculates that common funerary practices do not reflect a wide enough range of contemporary cultural attitudes towards religion, spirituality, and mortality. As human beings increasingly embrace the paradigms of bioinformatics and digital fabrication, this thesis proposes that …
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Beyond Binary Digital Embodiment
The late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen the creation of new forms of subjectivities that represent the integration of digital and information technologies into construction of the self and bodies. I argue that to this point there has not been a satisfactory theoretical framework for the …
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The paradox of fat embodiment
… which in turn was associated with lowered embodiment, which was in turn associated with increased psychological distress. The research also found that both positive physical engagement and understanding of societal weight bias and its impacts on fat people helped to attenuate these …
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Wilderness Women: Embodiment in Nature
Virginia Woolf makes clear in her book A Room of One's Own that "[A] woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write…." This statement extends to all endeavors by women, including sport. The gap between men and women's sports is not bridged by monetary compensation. The domination of …
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Recognizing actions using embodiment & empathy
Here I demonstrate the power of using embodied artificial intelligence to attack the action recognition problem, which is the challenge of recognizing actions performed by a creature given limited data about the creature's actions, such as a video recording. I solve this problem in the case of a …
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Breathing embodiment: a study of Middendorf breathwork
… to contemporary discourses around breath, embodiment, and experience. The author proposes that the practice of Middendorf breathwork invites a different experience of embodiment through an integration of the kinæsthetic realm with thought, emotion, and intuition through breath. This …
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Embodiment and the senses in travelogue filmmaking
This practice-based research presents an analysis of the representation of embodied experience in the travelogue film genre. It reflects upon the embodied and synaesthesic nature of the cinematic experience by tracing a shift in travelogue filmmaking from the ocular realism characteristic of early …
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Childhood embodiment : an ethnography of SEN provision.
… through their expertise in particular skills of embodiment.
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Embodiment in teacher education: widening the field
… three iterations of a new and evolving module on embodiment, which I facilitated with student teachers over a two-year period. It also includes a complementary engagement with the principles of autoethnography, aesthetic-based research and somatic education itself. While the data for analysis …
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Biocultural considerations of sex, gender, and embodiment
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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The gun-wielding bias embodiment effect under stress
Recent work has shown that the embodiment of a gun may be to blame in circumstances wherein an individual has misidentified a gun as a neutral object, such as the high-profile police shooting of Amidou Diallo. However, these embodiment effects have not been studied under stress, results of which …
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Choreographing Memory: Performance and Embodiment in Multimodal Narrative
… single composition. Analysis of performance and embodiment in multimodal texts highlights the role of emotions in memory and the ways that memory is just as much about the body as about the mind. I introduce an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that brings together media studies, affect …
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Exploring the Experience of Embodiment of Diverse Leaders
<p>The experience of embodiment is a complex phenomenon that spans a range of feelings: a sense of connection to one's physical body, a sense of capability to accomplish certain physical acts, an attunement to self-care behaviors, a connection to desire, and inhabiting the body as a subjective site …
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Networked public spaces: an investigation into virtual embodiment
… Public Spaces: An Investigation into Virtual Embodiment</i> is an exploration of issues surrounding networked public spaces in relation to three artworks created by the author between 1995 to 2000: <i>Virtual Concrete</i>, (1995); <i>Bodies© Incorporated</i> (1996-2000); and <i>Datamining …
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Experiential embodiment and human immediacy: Adorno’s negative affinity
This thesis argues for the continuing possibility of Adorno set against the backdrop of a post-modern proliferation of affects. A major theoretical contention is the concept of the subject: a sticking point within philosophy. The thesis takes this up and offers a new pathway without falling into …
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Embodiment and manipulation learning process or humanoid hand
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Embodiment - Architecture, Body and Mind (Inhabiting Urban Markers)
… with the environment. It is through our embodiment that we inhabit the world and through our body that we act within it. Embodiment is not about the body per se, but about the culture. According to Merleau-Ponty, "the body is never isolated in its activity, but always already engaged in …
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"Tuning In": Sound Perception and Embodiment for Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) is a composer of electronic and experimental music that significantly impacted how we approach music as participants and scholars. Utilizing nontraditional forms of composition, her trailblazing Sonic Meditations (1971) adapted elements of the emerging somatics movement …
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Stage, Body, Text: Beckett's And Weiss's Theaters Of Embodiment
… Body, Text: Beckett's and Weiss's Theaters of Embodiment," I compare theories of acting and spectatorship in theatre and film, focusing on representations of the human body in the work of Samuel Beckett and Peter Weiss. I argue that film and theatre acting must be theorized in specific relation …
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