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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"tabula rasa"”.
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Hitler’s musical 'Tabula Rasa' - Restitution - Restoration
The works that constitute the submission of this PhD are broken down into the recording series for London/Decca: “Entartete Musik” and the book FORBIDDEN MUSIC – THE JEWISH COMPOSERS BANNED BY THE NAZIS (henceforth: Forbidden Music). Adjacent and central as a means of research was a period of eight …
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RE: Edificio Gazeta
… cambio y el crecimiento, evitaremos la noción de tabula rasa y la limitación de expandirse únicamente en las periferias. Este trabajo surge de la premisa de trabajar con lo ya construido, evitando comenzar desde cero. Al estudiar y absorber la energía de lo existente, reorganizaremos materialmente …
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The Eventuality of Space : Adaptability and Incrementality in the Suburban Hinterland of Mamelodi
… in the contemporary South African city. The tabula rasa approach of Apartheid and modernist planning had little consideration for these natural spatial patterns. This dissertation argues for a democratic approach to architecture and space-making in the contemporary South African city, one …
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Études in non-interactive zero-knowledge
… make this possible, Prover and Verifier are not tabula rasa, but rather born with some setup information. Much in the fashion of a musical TUDE, in this thesis, we explore several variations on the setup assumptions for non-interactive zero-knowledge in order to enjoy a richer understanding. Our …
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Checking in on the channel
… of Washington, DC. By using a Modernist tabula rasa approach in their remaking, the architects of the redevelopment obliterated the quadrant's historical context, and left the Southwest without much of a discernible identity, other than a stylistic one. While it may be too late to …
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Representations of Identity in Three 21st-Century Dystopian Novels: Omar El Akkad’s American War, Naomi Alderman’s The Power, and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl
… la disidentificación: lo que se denomina una tabula rasa que se consigue a nivel micro, aunque con connotaciones a nivel macro. En este modelo, la protagonista, una figura posthumana, construye una identidad social completamente distinta y alejada del humanismo presente en la distopía. Esto …
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Postwar art and historical roots of Beirut's cosmopolitanism
… this body of work as emerging out a tabula rasa for the visual arts: no audience, no institutions, and no markets. This dissertation argues instead that the postwar generation did not develop out of a historical eclipse created by the civil war, but is part of the much longer history …
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The Trinity : myth, vision, and form in Dallas's River
… collectively held urban myth-the frontier as a "tabula rasa." This myth repeatedly allows city builders to accept visions for the Trinity River that are untethered to reality of the alluvial river. The thesis argues that urban planning in the TBD repeats a cycle, which begins with the …
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Oxygen defect engineering for silicon solar cell applications : process design and modeling
… form possible, a new cell processing step call tabula rasa (TR) is explored. TR is a high temperature process for a short duration. In this work, TR is found to be a kinetically-limited process through several oxygen precipitate dissolution experiments from which the activation energy of …
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Masculinities in Immigrant Women's Writing in France and Canada
… that the migratory experience creates a form of tabula rasa which destabilizes identity, I chart the various ways in which the texts examined permit a reconfiguring of masculinities within the migratory spaces represented by France and Canada. I explore texts by Léonora Miano (Cameroon), Fatou …
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[ORIGINS]_Constructing A Spatial Lexicon: A Catalyst For Finding Place_[Locatedness]
… speculative, the land within the Cape was not ‘tabula rasa' [terra nullius] which draws on the ‘empty land myth' of the colonial hegemony. But, instead it's a land that is imbued in meaning, multiple aspects of lives lived and lives living. Through the trauma of the past, and misrepresentation, …
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Border as nomos : an alternative for the Stateless
… of camps. The finding of the jurisdictional tabula rasa at the extraterritorial space of the non-Schengen borders of the EU is the opportunity supporting the design of an autonomous entity for the stateless. I suggest a network of complementary settlements that allow the self-determination of …
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Harsh and Philanthropic War: U.S. Success and Failure in Third Party Counterinsurgency
… I compare cases of intervention in tabula rasa or erased governance in the Philippines 1898-1913 and Iraq 2003-2010. The former employed high degrees of embeddedness in both governance and security development and the latter low degrees in both. I also compare cases of intervention …
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Utopia And Commons: Enclosure And Blank Slate In The Americas
… commons while its very articulation must posit a tabula rasa to be enclosed, improved, and defended? This question lies at the heart of my own project. I investigate and critique a series of moments that mobilize the twin concepts of utopia and commons: More's original 1516 text and the conquest …
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Parental investment and physical aggression among males
… involve variants of learning theory and a tabula rasa psychology. Sexual selection theory provides a more coherent ultimate explanation for sex differences in this and other domains of behaviour. The key processes in sexual selection (preferential mate choice and intra-sexual competition) …
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Drawing The Void - Fabricating The Ruined Garden
… over time, in itself a stratified ruin, a marked tabula rasa, much like the city. The spatial questions and issues are constructed in parallax, a spatial dialogue between two gardens within the bounds of Cape Town, `the Company Gardens` and the “Void Garden” found in Salt River. The void garden is …
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A museum of movement : reinterpreting the industrial landscape
… site and the existing structures, assuming a non-tabula-rasa condition. Reclaiming this zone for human use, and celebrating the manifests of history, has led to a design proposal and investigation. In order to stimulate concern for the important industrial history of Boston, and the larger New …
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« L'illusion de l'amour n'est pas l'amour trouvé » : Camp and queer desire in Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, and Peau d'âne
… and feminine qualities, as well as the ideal tabula rasa onto which the queer viewer's desire and longing can be projected. Ultimately, the triptych's reconciliation of the visually confectionary and the narratively somber is celebrated, as it points to a victory over tragedy through affective …
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Adaptive Reuse: Produce Warehouse to Apartment Lofts
… 21st Century? We are no longer working with the tabula rasa that we were two-hundred years ago; we are dealing with leftover infrastructure. Perhaps we should alter our mindset from "creating" to "RE-creating." We must accept the fact that cities have already been developed, they have already …
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Freight transport modal choice in North West England's Atlantic Gateway
… present one particular region of England with a tabula rasa for the development of new policies to influence the modal split of freight transportation. England’s economy is currently based around a London-centric model. The current move towards developing what has become known as a Northern …
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