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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"reification"”.
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Reification and the Closed Mind
… an alternative exploration of the concept of reification as closed-mindedness. Reification will be defined in its traditional sense with the addition that it implies a statization of concepts or interpretations. It will be argued that such reified interpretations are in effect cognitive …
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Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction
Unhappy Consciousness is a study of recognition scenes in the Victorian novel and their relation to Marx's concept of commodity fetishism. Victorian recognition scenes often show a hero's self-discovery as a retrospective identification with things. When, for example, in Henry James's The Portrait …
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The Dialectics of Form: Reification and Genre in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… effects of the reified abstraction of labor. Reification’s relation to labor frames the dissertation’s four chapters, appearing in the opening chapter as unconscious forgetting and in the final chapter as deliberate remembering. In the dissertation’s first part I devote attention to …
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Organizing for knowledge: tales of reification, resilience, and reflexivity in knowledge production management
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Revisiting Habermas's colonisation thesis: towards a communicative transformation of the theory of reification
… a communicative transformation of the theory of reification. Through these excurses, this thesis advances an expanded account of colonization processes, such that system differentiation, cultural-structural rationalization, and class struggle are all within the frame. This facilitates an …
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An Ontological Explication of Electronic Benefit Transfer as an Institutional Mechanism of Reification and Relations of Ruling
… especially objectification, interaction, and reification. Another analytical direction inculpates a hyperveillance industry: the government pays private companies to use the hypertext to manufacture socio-technical products that reify institutional ideology, then the companies further their …
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Kant With Foucault: On The Dangers Of The Theoretical Reification Of The Subject To Freedom And The Need For A Practical Psychology
<p>In this dissertation I consider the question, "Is it possible to think the subject qua subject or must any theoretical attempt to understand the subject necessarily reify it?" To answer this question, I appealed to Immanuel Kant's distinction between theoretical and practical reason, noting that …
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Incorporating the White Shadow: The Destructive Masculinities of Richard Wright
… dissonance then expresses itself in violence, reification, or fetishization of women. In "Long Black Song," the main character's desire to participate and excel in a white economy results in his reification of his wife and his lynching once he realizes the impossibility of fulfilling his …
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A complete reified temporal logic and its applications
… temporal argument methods and temporal reification methods). Generally speaking, the predicate logic approaches are more expressive than the modal logic approaches and among predicate logic approaches, temporal reification methods are even more expressive for representing and reasoning …
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The cult of culture: An analysis and plan for teaching about organizational culture
… structure, language, stability/instability, and reification. This thesis gives a broad general overview of the concept of culture as it relates to communication, analyzes the literature in terms of the above, and makes suggestions for its use to develop in students an understanding and …
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Valid Time RDF
… to binary predicates, hence some form of reification is needed to represent higher-arity predicates. To this date, there are many proposals extending RDF and OWL for handling temporal data and knowledge. They all focus on the valid time. Some of these proposals stay within the standards …
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From the drawing board into schools: An analysis of the development and implementation of a new physics curriculum in New Zealand secondary schools
… of a new senior physics curriculum. His terms 'reification' and 'participation' were seen to apply to this research: the curriculum document was taken to be a reified communication artifact, and 'participation' is involved in every stage of its development and implementation. In the context of …
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Destabilizing science from the right : the rhetoric of heterosexual victimage in the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS controversy
… in the WHO controversy actually results in the reification of master narratives.
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Synthesizing Object Models from Natural Language Specifications
… a new synthesis task known as specification reification: synthesizing concrete realizations of vague, high-level application specifications. We focus on a specific instance of this: generating object models from natural language application descriptions. Towards this goal, we present three …
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THE "FACT OF BLACKNESS" DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON'S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS
… seen these strategies can escape the suffocating reification brought about by our collective adherence to the inhuman voices of the past.
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Dwelling in the districts: the participation and perspectives of mapping traditional communities on Pine Ridge
… rather than explicitly cartographic ones, a reification of the theorized "dwelling space." A discussion of the mapping project leads to a wider explication of the general practice of mapping indigenous lands throughout history. How indigenous perceptions of place and landscape are represented …
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Shakespeare and the Earl of Warwick: the kingmaker in the Henry VI trilogy
… by his soubriquet ‘kingmaker’. Shakespeare’s reification of the reputations of characters from the regal history of late medieval England substantially maintains our interest in historical figures such as Warwick. By a process of dramatic and literary osmosis, Shakespeare infiltrates the …
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“Such a sort of pariah”: Psychosocial Marginality and the Bildungsroman in Mazo de la Roche’s Whiteoaks
… a simultaneous progression/regression toward a reification of his exemplary marginal status as an other amidst others. This paper further contends that this unique process is made possible only by Finch’s particularly unstable and eccentric otherness—established through his treatment by his …
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Historicizing the landscape : recovering the aesthetics of the Alhambra
… for centuries, achieved coherence through the reification of tropes celebrating the landscape in 19th century travel literature. Travel was a contemplative practice of decomposing and recomposing the landscape through literature and visual representation. Travelers attempted to recapture and …
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How Could This Happen? A Constructivist Analysis of Reactive State Terrorism at Ruby Ridge
… reality is constructed through the process of reification. In this research endeavor, I utilize an elaboration of Aho's (1994) steps of reality construction (naming, legitimation, mythmaking, sedimentation, and ritualism) in the understanding of how the situation of Ruby Ridge was constructed. …
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