Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"objecthood"”.
-
Personhood and Objecthood: Examining the Speaker’s Interiority and Double Consciousness in <em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em>
<p>The interpersonal use of the “you” (the second person) in <em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em> commands the reader to not look away and bear witness to the interiority Black Americans’ consciousness. The essay examines the transformation of Rankine’s works that expands how double consciousness, …
-
A Critical re-appraisal and re-alignment of the viewing screen by means of an experimental body of fine art practice
… towards the screens increasingly invisible objecthood. Instead, a hierarchy of viewership is formed – focus on images preceding focus on the screen structures that deliver them. This research employs an experimental body of fine art practice to critically re-align and re-centre the viewing …
-
Work is What I Want
… third eye, speculation, materiality, Dixie cup, objecthood, sign, imagination, ENIAC, immateriality, myth, labor, leisure, storytelling, alien, alienation, destruction, creativity, genius, death, weed. The essay concludes that sculpture does not need a definition.
-
Anchoring the Practice — Contemporary Artists’ Books as Translational Objects
… aims to reconsider the relevance of art’s objecthood and the sense of practice by exploring the case of contemporary artists’ books. What does it mean in today’s art world and economy for practice given art’s practice turn within the post-medium condition to be presented in tangible forms, …
-
All The Small Things: Contingent Mereological Nihilism
… for what I’ll call the ‘Nomological Account of Objecthood’ or ‘NAO’ for short. If I’m right, NAO gives us answers to the SCQ and the Simple Question, which asks what the necessary and jointly sufficient conditions are for being a simple. I argue that if we assume the aforementioned methodology …
-
Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Robert Ryman, and Abstraction in the Sixties
… and Ryman from the paradigms of opticality and objecthood, my dissertation promises to revise the discourse on abstract painting in the 1960s by focusing not on what painting had been and was no longer, but rather, on what, during the 1960s, it was still becoming.</p>
-
Expanding the Object: Post-conceptual dance and choreographic performance practices
… and dance, text and movement, choreography and objecthood. Throughout I argue that post-conceptual dance operates within an extended field in which dancers and choreographers are expanding the boundaries of the art form, making dance relevant to a broader artistic, cultural, political and social …
-
Loveability: A Critical Theory for Understanding Love, Humanness, and Futurity in the Age of the Sex Robot
… period of increasingly divorced beingness and objecthood. Three narratively-encoded vectors which dominantly direct affect into Love under coloniality are identified: Intelligibility, Recognisability, and Adaptability. The genealogical formations of these vectors are examined in reference to …
-
Behind the mirror: rereading theatricality in Luciano Fabro's Allestimento Teatrale
"In the 1967 article ""Art and Objecthood,"" the American art critic Michael Fried faults Minimalist sculpture for its inherent theatricality. Theatricality, as he defines it, results from the form's anthropomorphic scale and sense of hollowness that imply a presence, like that of a human body, …
-
Morphological competence in neural natural language processing
… relying on morphology as a signal to subject/objecthood.
-
C.W.N.S.P.O.S.
Computation tends to produce discrete, self-similar parts and aggregate them together, a common concern in recent projects that we think of as computational. How can we think about using the computational techniques available to us, but in a different way than they have been studied? This thesis is …