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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"peripatetic"”.
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A Study of the Peripatetic Mechanica
This study aims to understand the aims and methods of a less-studied work from the early Peripatos, the Mechanica. I argue that the Mechanica (Mech.) was an application of natural philosophy to the technical sphere of mechanics. The primary aim is to give causal explanations of various puzzling …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
Towards a peripatetic practice: negotiating journey through painting investigates painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. The project develops from curiosity about journeys and their potential for bringing the artist into encounters with the world, and proximate to its issues …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
Towards a peripatetic practice: negotiating journey through painting investigates painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. The project develops from curiosity about journeys and their potential for bringing the artist into encounters with the world, and proximate to its issues …
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The status of the world : rochdian creationism and peripatetic eternalism
In this thesis, we aim to explore whether the world is eternal or created through the eyes of the Hellenes and especially Aristotle and the Muslim theologians led by Ibn Rochd. Such exploration would be a sort of comparative study between religion and philosophy, and we do mean by religion here the …
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Walking away from VR as ‘empathy-machine’: peripatetic animations with 360-photogrammetry
My research partakes in an expanded documentary practice that weaves together walking, immersive technologies, and moving image. Two lines of enquiry motivate the research journey: the first responds to the trope of VR as 'empathy-machine' (Milk, 2015), often accompanied by the expression 'walking …
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Philosophy as a Path to Happiness : Attainment of Happiness in Arabic Peripatetic and Ismaili Philosophy
… between the 10th and early 11th centuries, Peripatetic philosophy, represented by al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā, and Ismaili philosophy represented by al-Kirmānī and the Brethren of Purity. They initially offer two contrasting views about philosophy in that the attitude of the Peripatetics is …
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Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939
… the fourth and final chapter, “Theorizing the Peripatetic: Constructing Networked Drag Histories Through Data-Assisted Historiographic Methods,” I argue that queer, digital historiographic methods enable new and better archives of historical drag performance and gain a deeper understanding of …
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The implementation of the new primary Physical Education syllabus in the local state schools
… distributed to all Physical Education peripatetic teachers and interviews conducted with thirteen Heads of schools and two authoritative figures occupying the highest posts in the sector of Physical Education. Data gathered was analysed and linked with the related and significant …
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Light in the Cave: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist Philosophy
… solid textual evidence, that Suhrawardī’s four Peripatetic works and ‘Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq’ (‘The Philosophy of Illumination’, his masterpiece and the only Illuminationist work) constitute one and the same Illuminationist project. Chapter II reconstructs Illuminationist presential knowledge, an …
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In the shadow of Macedon: an historiographical study of Duris of Samos
… the focus of Durian scholarship away from the Peripatetic school, which has dominated the discus ion of the Hellenistic historian, and to concentrate on the total historical circumstances of which Duris' educator was only one very important phase. As might be expected, Duris' best known work, …
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Walking in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
… consequence of placelessness. In particular, the peripatetic and mobile lives of his heroines enact what is considered disruptive female behavior in the nineteenth century. I lastly examine how walking shapes narrative elements to construct the fatalistic region of Wessex. In wandering this space, …
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Peripato Telematikos: walking, cartography and software art
… with them. The research asked how can peripatetic art practices inform the methodologies used by individuals to (re)present their environs and what media art practices would be suitable to support these (re)presentations? The project sought to provide ways for audiences to engage with …
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Drifting absence :: drafting memory
… seemingly infinite plane of the ocean. Tracing a peripatetic path across the expanse, the memorial makes manifest the intangible ephemera of memory and silence through the studied manipulation of spatial experience.
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An evaluation of a one-day activity at Dar il-lunzjata science centre
… held with the Head of the Science Centre, the peripatetic teacher running the fieldwork activities at the Centre, primary school teachers present at the Science Centre with their class during the one day visit, participating students and parents whose children attended the Science Centre. …
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Homeliness and Worldliness: Materiality and the Making of New Netherland, 1609-1740
… of meaning for objects, which have often led peripatetic lives, I focus on previously marginalized crafts and everyday objects like books, tea tables, chairs, hearth tiles, and other domestic goods found in peoples’ homes, to describe the way things connected people and places in early modern …
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Writing Geography: Traversing Early Modern English Chorographies
… practices for itinerant chorographers producing peripatetic chorographies, which contributed to the genre’s heterogeneity during this period. However, chorographies were social texts. As chorographers surveyed England in a grand, multigenerational project lacking formalized rules or guidelines, …
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Serving the man that ruled: aspects of the domestic arrangements of the household of King John, 1199-1216
… chapters. These chapters demonstrate how the peripatetic nature of John’s household was enabled through a network of local and court officials. By serving King John in his domestic needs, these officials were a vital tool in the facilitation of his rule.
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Peregrinations With Maps And Landscapes: Narrating the Spaces of Practice in Fine Art
… and contemporary art practices are rooted in the peripatetic activities of the mid-century urban avant-garde. Recently, however, artists have been grappling with a number of problems that are distinctly geographic, from studies of place, location and situation to counter-cartographic excursions …
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Nomadology in architecture: ephemerality, movement and collaboration.
… This final section expands on the potential for 'peripatetic' practices of architecture. Processes of reconciling settled and nomadic tendencies in architectural projects are outlined. Strategies are described by which engendering and collaborating may be the means for creating architecture. The …
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Through the garden fence
… nurturance and recurrence - in their silent yet peripatetic way. In this turning towards nature there is a recognition of the spiritual essence of the world as separate and distinct from humankind's inhumanity to each other. In a contemporary context, the prevalence of people from across Africa …
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