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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"material world"”.
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In a Material World: Analyzing Religious Peacebuilding in Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina
… re-anchoring religious peacebuilding theory in a material theory of religion, both the fields of theory and practice benefit by looking at religion as a more holistic and dynamic conflict variable- one that is shaped by conflict as much as it affects the course or tone of a conflict itself. I …
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Understanding pedagogy through the material world: lessons from a pre-service Saturday art school
… in which Saturday art school teachers use the material world in teaching art. Specifically, this research investigates how pedagogy can be enacted through the presentation of the materiality of the classroom. Drawing on Bresler's (1994) three orientations within visual arts curricula: …
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Cosmic Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
… the Epistle of Hebrews expects to happen to the material world at the eschaton. A popular view is that Hebrews combines Jewish apocalyptic eschatology with Platonic cosmology and thus depicts the eschatological annihilation of the material world. I counter that Platonic cosmology offers a poor …
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The production of built form : some notes on dialectical materialism, methodology and an associative/projective architecture
… the beginning of a parallel study of dialectical materialism and built form, with the objective of understanding how our observation of, association with, and construction of the material world is conditioned by social practice and production. I am convinced that we must produce non-reductive and …
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Controlled Arrangements, Liberated Perceptions: Marianne Moore's Early Poetry Through the Lens of Shklovskian Russian Formalism
… and innovation in the human mind, as well as the material world. Her poetry discusses art and also exemplifies what art is, and does, by offering a mixture of specifically configured objects and general meditations upon those objects to fortify her notion of art, to reveal the supreme moral …
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Urban Market and Farm for Nashville
… via architecture speaks to our perception of the material world given to us.
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Postemancipation Landscapes and Material Culture: The Bethel Community and the Benjamin W. Jackson Plantation
… through the rise of black land ownership and material culture collected at two households occupied by generations of the Davis family. The Davises were tenant farmers whose ancestors were previously enslaved on the plantation and members of the family continued to occupy the lands through the …
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Methodology and Reductionism in the Philosophy of Mind
… our naïve intuitions concerning the mind and the material world. Iclaim that standard anti-reductive argumentative strategies rest upon systematicallydeceptive and underdeveloped intuitions. As a result, we should reject these intuitionsand forms of argumentation and adopt instead a pragmatic …
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Calling All Cast Members: Elevating Material Objects and Ambient Environments to Non-Human Rhetorical Actors in Arden of Faversham
Material rhetoric and ambient rhetoric frameworks offer a unique lens to view the materiality in early modern drama. Using these principles, as well as Actor-Network Theory and Affect Theory, objects and environments can be elevated to non-human actors in a play’s rhetorical situation. Arden of …
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Nietzsche's will-to-power ontology : an interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil
… were a traditional substance ontology (i.e., a world made up of forces; a duality of conflicting forces described as 'towards which' and 'away from which'). However, 1 argue that what defines this ontology is an understanding of valuation as ontologically fundamental—^the basis of …
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Out of order
… on the role that the activity of engaging with materials plays in the shifting conceptions of artistic process in the work of Robert Morris and his contemporaries throughout 1960s art historical discourse. During this time, Morris explored rigidly-defined approaches to art production associated …
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How Far Does the Grid Go?
… as a Latin American immigrant, I incorporate materials from my suburban home environment in my multidisciplinary approach. I create organic forms and grids that abstract, excavate, ground and find universal truths in the quotidian. They also serve as platforms for engaging obliquely with …
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Distant Localities: The Rhetorical Contradictions Of Local Food Narratives
… as the deployment of that narrative into the material world and in the construction of particular identities. Ultimately, I argue that the narratives of local food give the impression that this way of eating and living is for everyone, while simultaneously entrenching an elite position that …
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You Matter To Me; Mattering, Materialising and Unmattering.
New materialism is at the forefront of modern artistic movements, the art of being, the art of matter-ing. This essay will explore what it means to matter, to be matter, and how relationships between the self and the rest of the world are forged. There is space for exploration of what it means to …
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Agricultural approaches to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Four Quartets.
… the way it elevates the spiritual value of the material world. Fittingly, Eliot stages images of proper and disordered land management at key moments of spiritual crisis and renewal in this work.
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Turbulent Bodies: Disruptive Materiality in American Painting, 1880-1940
… shaped by beliefs and attitudes towards the material world and the function of painting. More specifically, this study examines what I identify as these artists' struggles, in selected paintings, with the viscous and voluptuous nature of oil painting as a process rooted in the visceral world …
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From revelation to resource: the natural world in the thought and experience of Quakers in Britain and Ireland, 1647-1830
This thesis explores the place of the natural world in the spiritual and intellectual lives of British and Irish Quakers (Friends) from the earliest evidence in 1647 up to the rise of evangelical Quakerism around 1830. Whilst Quakers agreed that God had made and continued to uphold the creation, …
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Toward an Extraordinary Everyday: Li Yu's (1611-1680) Vision, Writing, and Practice
… and market a new experience of the everyday. The world in which Li Yu's cultural products were best sellers was rife with novelty. The Ming dynasty had collapsed in 1644, yet many of its defining features remained: urban centers brimmed with gadgets, both Chinese and foreign, that offered new …
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Shakespeare and the Grace of Words: A Doxological Reading of "King Lear" and "The Winter's Tale"
… relationships and blessings and care for the material world. Part Two develops this approach through my readings of King Lear (Chapter 3) and The Winter’s Tale (Chapter 4). Taking language as such as my hermeneutical key, I associate to the transition between the two plays a narrative of …
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