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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"futurity"”.
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Futurity
… contemplates them” —David Hume My art series, "Futurity" celebrates the richness of color, translucency, reflectivity, curvilinear geometry, and high craftsmanship. Within these low-relief works, dimension, depth, and mirrored luminosity arise from an ongoing dialogue between digital design and …
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Envisioning utopia: the aesthetics of black futurity
… exemplifies the ways in which "performance of futurity [is] embedded in the aesthetic" (Muñoz 87), Kelela Mizanekristos' "Take me Apart" evokes a queer black vulnerability through a conceptual "hauntology," and Tierra Whack's "Whack World" utilizes black camp as a creative and expansive tool to …
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Spectral futurity: The performative afterlives of mourning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Queering the Museum: Utopian Futurity in Contemporary Exhibitions
Queering the Museum: Utopian Futurity in Contemporary Exhibitions expands the history of American art beyond its tightly policed borders to include curators, viewers, artists, and artworks as key players in contemporary queer exhibition surveys in U.S.-based museums. Exhibition histories are not …
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Queer futurity and toxic temporalities in the Anthropocene
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Your Change Is Still Behind: Futurity in Early Modern Literature
… evaluation of the concept of early modern futurity, of which I propose three categories: "Material futurity"; "Biological futurity"; and "Political futurity." In the moments that I identify in texts composed during the Tudor and early Stuart reigns in England, I demonstrate that the …
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Testing purebred and commercial combined selection in Angus: Tri-County Steer Carcass Futurity
… heifers enrolled in the Tri-County Steer Carcass Futurity (TC). Feedlot traits evaluated were initial body weight at time of delivery (IBW) and final BW at time of harvest (FBW) and carcass backfat thickness at the 12th rib (CFAT), marbling score at the 12th rib (CMAR) and ribeye area at the12th …
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Citizens of Tomorrow, Today: Political Futurity and Youth Citizenship in a High School Student Council
… to the promise of young peoples political futurity.
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Disordering the Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Creating Futurity and the Otherwise in Contemporary Caribbean Art
… Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Creating Futurity and the Otherwise in Contemporary Caribbean Art” seeks to destabilize static meanings and complicate conventional academic sources, thus shifting away from the over-reliance on traditional archives and toward expansive Caribbean, African, …
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Loveability: A Critical Theory for Understanding Love, Humanness, and Futurity in the Age of the Sex Robot
This thesis centres on the emotion of Love as a grand narrative into which experiences of affect are ordered. While many critical works have explored which beings are imagined to possess lives that matter to the project of coloniality, these writings have largely centred on rationality as the trait …
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Female Pleasure and Theories of Desire in Narrative Structure: Evolution, Futurity, and Species Survival in the Post-Human and Science Fiction Imaginary
<p>This dissertation explores the complex relationship between an expanded narratological theory of narrative desire, inseparable in its relation to evolution and biological reproduction, and the future survival of humanity imagined across the narrative structures of three 21st-century works of …
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Aztlán Potentialities: Queer Male Chicanx Affect and Temporalities
… a “Queer Aztlán” in conversation with the queer futurity framework that José Esteban Muñoz theorizes in <em>Cruising Utopia</em>. In considering Aztlán as a queer futurity, I theorize a model of affective potentiality that offers a hopeful working towards, a politic to strive for that can help us …
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Marginal bodies: actualising trans Utopias
… material embodiment here and now of that mode of futurity transgender subjectivity evokes. Futurity contains within itself the seed for producing the re-energisation of thought and ‘ethical space’ does not only entail the inclusion of what is real and tangible but must also account for what is …
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Hambo buza unyoko: on future Real conditionals
… re-envision how the women in my family performed futurity. Although these women lived through colonial and apartheid oppression, these photographic archives show how they created liberatory worlds despite the violence they lived through. My creative work surfaces these archives as a matriarchive, …
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Kaleidoscope
… the relationship between scent, pain, and futurity in my work. I argue that sensory stimulation can allow us to imagine alternate universes that bring pleasure into pain. I also look at scent as an obsession that leads to vibrant language, putting my work in conversation with three major …
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Imagining Un Futuro Digno: Indigenous Youth Striving For Non-Migration In Guatemala
… that these practices are a form of pragmatic futurity through which Indigenous youth navigate the problem space of migration with the goal of animating the repressed potentials of their communities. Through their diasporic knowledge production and pragmatic futurity youth reframe their …
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Unconquerable Monsters Of The Imperial Periphery: Early Dinosaur Fiction, 1864-1912
… evolutionary threat encourages visions of human futurity, whether reproductive or homosocial, that cross race and class boundaries.
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The Givens-Theus Archive: Collection Management, Memory, and Narrative
… every day or quotidian material history achieves futurity outside of the institution of the museum. The ability to research, examine, and archive material culture should not be limited to institutions like the museum, which often removes the context and affect necessary to understanding individual …
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The prophetic imagination of P. B. Shelley
… to discussions of prophetic inspiration, futurity, and rhetoric – divorcing the work from its impetus for social change. The prophetic imagination, as utilized by Shelley, is instead connected to an ancient Old Testament tradition of radical challenge to authority that possesses a …
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A Wound Designates a Subject
… toward predictive governance and managed futurity preemptively neutralize rupture, sealing wounds before they can fester, reroute, or become sites of transformation. Through the works gathered here, I explore how ghostlessness functions not simply as absence but as affective and …
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