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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"non-representational"”.
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Affect and (Un)Certainty: Exploring the Non-Representational in Ethnographic Depiction
… bodies to encounters with other bodies (mostly non-human) in the environment in search of visual and sonic intensities. The experiment is with an “objective” or realistic presentation and combines techniques of ethnographic filmmaking with techniques of acoustic-ecology’s tradition of soundscape …
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Creating non-representational art by students who are severely intellectually disabled through a pictorial and musical program
… disabled students, and to compare the non-representational art work produced by lower primary students in a special education school to similar art work being produced by lower primary students in a regular school, when taught in the same program. A subsidiary purpose of the study was …
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Send in the Clowns: Scoping Non-Representational Theory as Ally and Method to Foster Inclusiveness in Digital Innovation
… I have constructed my own interpretation of non-representational theory and methods. I make the case that these can be a fertile ground for emancipatory politics concerning research and development in/on the digital. Seeking to test my claim that such approaches can be deemed valuable to …
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Building Stories: Critical Geography of Architecture and the Study of Everyday Practice in Detroit, Michigan
… late 1990's, she began to explore the ideals of non-representational theories, or those everyday practices that provide evidence not just of what symbolic meaning one may assign to a space, but rather what that space does—how it is enacted through everyday practice. This exploration provided Lees …
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Semantic Priming with Art
… slows down cognitive processes. Completely non-representational art remains a mystery as the responses to abstract art were not significantly different from the realistic related paintings. Future studies should recruit participants with more artistic training to determine if there may be …
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Rationality without representation
This dissertation is about whether and how non-representational attitudes could play a role in our theories of rationality. In Chapter 1 ('Negation, expressivism, and intentionality') I argue that the best explanation for why two mental states are inconsistent need not presuppose that such states …
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Gestural minimalism : developing a pictorial model in light of Deleuzoguattarian and enactive theories
… research project is to define a dynamic and non- representational model of abstract painting based on Deleuzoguattarian philosophy of becoming and Varela et al.’s enactive model of cognition. The aim was to integrate it to my own pictorial practice, which, before engaging in this research, …
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Hooking the big idea: Working titles in creative problem solving by young Latino adolescents
… types of problem representation or a third, non-representational control group.
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Visual Communication on Cajamarca Ceramics from pre-Hispanic Peru, 1000 - 1460 CE
… community citizens. By examining key examples of representational and non-representational imagery depicted on the sherds, an understanding of the social agency of the vessel and the esoteric knowledge that the imagery communicated to feasting participants is explored. The use of fineware ceramic …
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In Flux
<p>This thesis explores my practice of non-representational, mixed media painting as a way to consider the passage of time and the shifting nature of memory. Working in layers of paper, pigment, paint, and other materials, I build and disrupt surfaces that mirror the instability of short-term …
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Tyttöjen Instagram-selfiet ja niiden tilallisuudet jälkihumanistisesta näkökulmasta : enemmän kuin representaatioita?
… näkökulma on ihmismaantieteellisessä ”non-representational” -teoriassa (non-representational theory, NRT). Tähän jälkihumanistiseen teoriasuuntaukseen yhdistän Noora Pyyryn ja Rachel Collsin tavoin jälkihumanistista feminismiä. Tällöin NRT:n subjektikäsitys ei jää universaalille …
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Beyond Words:Engaging young children and families in gallery education
… structuralist theories of learning together with non-representational theories, this study draws on Reggio Emilia, Deweyan and Deleuzian philosophies for thinking about children’s learning in art galleries. In doing so, it makes a case for new materialist and posthuman discourses to be considered …
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Reinterpreting the Global, Rearticulating the Local: Nueva Música Colombiana, Networks, Circulation, and Affect
… perspective influenced by actor-network, non-representational, and assemblage theory. Such theories consider a fluid social world, which emerges from the web of associations between heterogeneous human and material entities. The dissertation traces the actions, interactions, and mediations …
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Exploring the nature of models in science, philosophy of science, and science education
… Recently, however, there has been a move towards non-representational and deflationary accounts of modeling that eschew the notion that models must come equipped with both necessary and sufficient conditions. Following the philosophy of the later Wittgenstein, I develop my own narrative concerning …
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Abstract realism : Non-anthropocentric strategies for constructing non-relational artworks.
… led research methodology based upon a series of 'non-anthropocentric strategies' (following Fredric Jameson) for constructing, staging and encountering artworks as 'non-relational' (following Francois Laruelle) 'totalities' (following Carl Einstein) within the cultural-economic-socio-political …
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In visible cities : envisioning the Canadian prairie city in literature and film
… the World (2004) to determine how each work uses non-representational narrative strategies in order to reproduce the pedestrian experience of seeing the prairie city. In a tradition that is predominantly associated with rural landscapes, there is a struggle for artists who work outside of what has …
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Contingent camps: An ethnographic study of contested encampment in the northern French and northern Moroccan borderlands
… as “contingent camps”, drawing on assemblage, non-representational theory and writing on Black fugitivity to capture their dynamic ontology. Through interview extracts, field notes and visual materials, this thesis bears witness to a punitive contemporary geography of ruination, drawing on …
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The Origins and Development of English Folk Plays
… three possible origins for these plays: a non-specific mystery play from the time of the crusades, some pre- Christian fertility ritual, and primitive shamanism. All three proposals were based on over-general comparisons, and relied on the key assumption that a continuous history can be …
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Reclaiming the image. Béla Tarr's world of 'inhuman' becoming: an artistic and philosophical inquiry
… of reclaiming the image as re-thinking in non-representational terms of immanent becoming will engage the Deleuzian- Bergsonian- Nietzschean concepts of time, life and aesthetics, and Tarr's intensely felt image-world in the series of encounters – affect-thoughts – that will undermine the …
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Consuming Mutilation : Affectivity and Corporeal Transgression on Stage and Screen.
… mutilation that allows for fluid, organic and non-representational connections between on-screen bodies and spectators. Issues of cinematic identification and alignment are addressed in relation to key texts of the 'torture porn' and 'snuff films' subgenres. Ultimately, I show that the …
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