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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"shapeshifting"”.
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The Decolonial Power of Shapeshifting: Subversive Ecofeminist Rhetorics
… empathy in order to understand this kind of shapeshifting. Three primary rhetors comprise the basis of this investigation: Terry Tempest Williams, a Mormon conservationist, Gloria Anzaldúa, a queer feminist Chicana scholar, and Tanya Tagaq, a Nunavut singer. Contrasting against patterns of …
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Algorithms for planning and executing multi-roboat shapeshifting
… methods for planning and executing multi-Roboat shapeshifting sequences. Shapeshifting allows for a group of ASVs to autonomously self-reconfigure and is absolutely critical in order to realize the proposed use cases. The presented algorithms were developed for use on a fleet of heterogeneous …
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Reconfigurable Autonomous Surface Vehicles : perception and trajectory optimization algorithms
… respectively for formation changing and shapeshifting operations, enabling use cases such as ASV docking and bridge-building on water. These methods increase the potential of urban and non-urban ASVs in the field. The underlying planners in turn contribute to the motion planning and …
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Performing psychic: the performance of mentalism and psychic arts on stage, screen, and in everyday life
… artifice, and misinformation which enshroud the shapeshifting performances of mentalists and psychics. The aim of this practice-led research was to – through both embodied and theoretical knowledge – situate mentalism within theories of performance, performativity, and play, paying close …
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Dracula: Infection, Disease and Illness
… difficult times. This thesis also analyses the shapeshifting aspect of Count Dracula and how the countless forms, shapes, shapelessness and even timelessness of the vampire makes it easier for him to carry and spread fear and disease and eventually infect his victims. Finally, this paper reveals …
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Re-Alimentaciones-Cruzadas: Procesos de Re-imaginación entre Epistemologías Acústicas/Cross-Feedback: Re-Imagining processes between Acoustemologies
… into a republican state. Here we find a shapeshifting musical tradition engaging with percussive idiophonic—or self-resonating— instruments. Traditions get confined into the visual realm to capture a new multicultural identity. Lost in transduction, how, via sound, does one create …
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Timbral Transformations
… to recording studios, the flute has long had a shapeshifting, cross-cultural presence. This thesis leverages 21stcentury technologies not only to explore and extend the timbral versatility of flutes, but also to underscore the performative, fluid, and ever-evolving nature of timbre more …
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Survival of the Fittest: Persistent Memes and Their Victorian Environments
… meme. This meme's ancestral tales are stories of shapeshifting that reveal inherit dualities. Two Victorian texts that adapt this meme are Rudyard Kipling's "Mark of the Beast" and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. These adaptations respond to the discourses of …
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
… 4). Finally, I survey the Old Norse lexicon of shapeshifting, and argue that transformation terminologies are far richer and more heterogeneous than previously acknowledged, with poets and narrators drawing on a wide vocabulary of transformation to shape the audience’s understanding of a given …
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Identities In Motion: Cyberspace And Diasporic Queer Male Bodies In The Context Of Globalization
… to the illustrate the tension between the shapeshifting nature of diasporic queer identities and the diasporic queer experiences that are dictated and shaped by the rigid identity categories that are set and exercised by western societies, such as ethnicity, race, gender, and nationality. …