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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"modes of existence"”.
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A return to the ground: movement, land, and modes of existence in Nkambeni, South Africa
This dissertation explores the role of land in Nkambeni, a rural chieftaincy in northeastern South Africa with a history of colonial and apartheid displacement and enclosures, to engage the question of being – approached here, following Bruno Latour, as modes of existence. Based on two months of …
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The Importance of the Non-Important Re-Orientations
A multi-layered exploration of three central issues regarding the production of my artistic works. The combination of chance, non-conscious cognition combined with biological, social, and political constraints generate strategies that produce new conceptual readings and reframe modes of existence. …
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Transhumanism-Christianity Diplomacy: To Transform Science-Religion Relations
… physical, and psychological capabilities. Many of transhumanism's goals overlap the eschatological hopes of Christians, such as the elimination of sickness and death. Yet observers who see transhumanism and Christianity in monolithic terms often portray them as adversaries. Against this view, I …
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Kruiedokters, plants and molecules : relations of power, wind, and matter in Namaqualand
This thesis was born out of the post-Mbeki era and the prevailing, tense relationship between 'traditional' healing and biomedical science in South Africa. Attempting to imagine this relationship differently, and as part of an interdisciplinary project, it is based on eleven months of ethnographic …
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Transforming Ecclesiological Imagination on Liturgy: Reimagining a Dutch Reformed Church in Durbanville
This study investigates how selected members of Durbanville Gemeente, a Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, conceive of what it means to be a faithful Christian church. Their ecclesiological imagination is examined in relation to the theological and sociocultural challenges posed by whiteness. …
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Undefinitive
… Undefinitive, examines the cyclical process of destruction, transformation, and rebirth through installation, ceramics, and text. With a deep unease toward my own gendered body, I investigate how vulnerability, both physical and psychological, can become a site of resistance and empowerment. …
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Authentic Dasein as Pathway to Heideggerianism as a Political Philosophy - a Political Vibration of Being and Time
In the history of Western philosophy, Martin Heidegger is the only philosopher after Plato and Aristotle to have seriously investigated the question of being. Instead of dwelling on particulars as previous philosophers did, Heidegger probes the question of being by investigating the being of the …
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Villages of Delhi : towards inclusivity and plurality in the urbanizing countryside
The idiom of urbanization driven by financialization of rural land is purported to bring development to rapidly developing contexts. However, the nature of the resulting urban realm, functionally, socially and ecologically dispute any concept of betterment. Delhi is a poster child of this kind of …
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Anadem An Exploration of Queer Representation and Dress in Young Adult (YA) Dystopia
… renown in recent years, becoming a stylised mode of writing in its own right. Divided into a creative and critical focus element, this thesis explores Young Adult (YA) Dystopia’s problematic preference for portraying its ruling classes as queer coded and over-indulgent. Within the creative element …
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Sharing Hearts: Buddhist Charity and Urbanization in Vietnam
… City. I spoke with approximately 400 members of 25 charities, focusing on seven main groups that shared an overlapping network of volunteers. My research includes perspectives from demographic groups often excluded from positions of authority in institutionalized Buddhism and, in turn, …
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Salvation in Times of Survival: The Singular Voice of a Crypto-Muslim Scholar in Sixteenth Century Spain
Morisco communities were the inheritors of a deeply vibrant intellectual, architectural, and mystical heritage that had reigned across the kingdoms of al-Andalus throughout the medieval and early modern period. Yet, following the conquest of Nasrid Granada in 1492, the scholastic and cultural …
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Rethinking the norm of Life Beyond Biopolitics. Towards an Ethical Framework
This thesis is concerned with the qualification of forms of life in approaches of biopolitics and vitalism, two main perspectives that map discussions around the politics of life in contemporary political theorising. The literature on biopolitics highlights how modes of life are given meaning as …
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Heidegger's Hermeneutic Phenomenology and the Application to Ghanaian Women's Experiences of Unsuccessful Invitro Fertilisation (IVF) Treatment
… It appears that the concept and meanings of infertility is inadequately explored from the perspective of women experiences following unsuccessful invitro fertilisation treatment. In particular, it is vital to be knowledgeable about the challenges women encounter when undergoing IVF …
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Becoming God, Becoming the Buddha: The Relation of Identity and Praxis in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor and Kūkai
My dissertation investigates the concept of ‘divinization’, or becoming like (or identical to) God or the Buddha in the thought of two early medieval monk-philosophers from radically different religious-philosophical traditions, Maximus the Confessor (580-662 CE) and Kukai (774-835 CE). I use this …