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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"techne"”.
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Grounding Techne
"Technê is the ancient Greek word for ""both a practical skill and for the systematic knowledge or experience which underlies it"" (Aristotle and Tarán, 2000). Landscape architects have delegated the tool-making aspects of the technê of landscape design to others. By not taking full responsibility …
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Making memory: techne, technology, and the refashioning of contemporary memory
… persuade? I argue that my interpretation of <i>techne</i> suggests possibilities for the creation and production of new types of memory in combination with digital media. To interrogate this connection, I suggest three interpretations of the Greek concept, <i>techne</i>: as a process that is …
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KL-Metamatic Ghost Ship
… along the terminal. 3· To work in the spirit of techne. Techne, in the true sense of the word, refers to the act of uncovering the mysterious. Such experiments bear testament to a rigorous process of self-discovery through invention. This is a function of both craftsmanship and · imagination. …
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Tragedia y retórica en la Atenas clásica: la rhesis trágica como discurso formal en Sófocles
… temprano del desarrollo de la retórica como techne. Además, al comparar esa argumentación con la que se desarrolla en el Sófocles tardío, apreciamos la evolución que tuvo lugar en ese momento clave. 2) Composición de las rheseis. El nivel de desarrollo retórico de un discurso se percibe en …
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"Plato's ""Ion"": An Exegetical Commentary With Introduction"
… ability in reciting Homeric epic stems not from techne (""craft"") or episteme (""knowledge""), but rather is a ""gift from the gods"" (theia moira). In the introduction to the dissertation I argue that Plato's purpose in writing the dialogue is to attack indirectly, via the Homeric rhapsode Ion, …
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Αξιολόγηση της προστιθέμενης αξίας νέων στελεχών HR μέσω του μεθοδολογικού προτύπου VIRTUS-MODERNUS: μια εμπειρική μελέτη.
… DIKAIOSYNE, ANDREIA, SOPHROSYNE, EMPATHEIA, TECHNE και KOINONIA), οι οποίες στοχεύουν στη μετάβαση του HR από διοικητικό ρόλο, σε στρατηγικό εταίρο. Η έρευνα υιοθετεί μικτή μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση, συνδυάζοντας ποσοτικά και ποιοτικά δεδομένα από δείγμα είκοσι επαγγελματιών HR, που …
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Encounters in documentary practice: a narrative hermeneutic inquiry with undergraduate first-time filmmakers.
… clearly involves production knowledge or techne, seen as the ability to produce a well-crafted artefact, this study focuses on the practical knowledge or phronesis that is demanded of documentary filmmakers. Drawing on the virtue practice perspective of Alasdair MacIntyre, the research …
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The pornographical: a mimetic ethics of bodies
… pornographical’ is discussed in terms of its techne of comic humour, as a way of creating substance without lapsing into abyssal logics of lack; and the manner in which sexual meaning of fantasy is pleasurable, forming compressed data. The comic is suggested as something found, a cultural …
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Beyond Invention: How Hackers Challenge Memory & Disrupt Delivery
… The dissertation then uses Jim Porter's techne of digital delivery to analyze three specific moments in 2600's history (the 1985 U.S. Government raid on New Jersey hackers, the E911 lawsuit, and the DeCSS narrative), illustrating how our spaces of textual production have become …
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Some Assembly Required: The Structural Condition of Collage in Architecture and Urbanism
… as its meaning arises through the deliberate techne - the act of its making, and not through reflection on any pre-existing qualities, as there are none. The whole of a collage does not merely encompass an accumulation of elements, but embraces a greater totality through a fragmentary …
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Opening a World From Categorial Intuition to Art
… proper, but which also appears in the techne of the artist which points to the origin of our pre-ontological understanding (i.e. world) in the fundamental event of disclosure/concealment that occurs in art.
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The Early-Modernization of the Classical Muse
… but on an independent human production, so that techne, or art, becomes not only the prime factor in the recognition of human being but also the vehicle for its re-orientation. A chief contribution of this dissertation is its identification of an ontological poetics. Impossible outside of poetic …
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Thinking through making : the rural building workshop
… built this year to illustrate the concept of 'techne', or the process of creation that is guided by the thing made, in order to demonstrate the qualities that materials possess, as well as how the act of making can be a design generator. It also describes how the initial stage of building …
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Negotiated Access: Haccessibility, Autonomy, and Infrastructure in the Age of the Abstraction
… to reclaim some small portion for ourselves as “techne,” ways of knowing and doing that enable, rather than erode, autonomy.</p>
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Radicis: Ideology, Argument, and Composition Courses in American Colleges
… in</p><p>their lives and provide them with a techne, a set of skills that can be used to analyze and</p><p>generate discourse for a variety of audiences, including academic ones.</p><p>I begin by showing that current-traditional composition methodologies and</p><p>theories do not allow for …
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.infiltrate.destroy.rebuild
This thesis is an infiltration into the world of craft, woodworking and joinery. The destruction of presupposed form and tectonics, and a rebuilding through the mind's eye and an obscured lens.
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Alienation and Dwelling: The Pursuit of Happiness in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature
… through the lens of Heidegger’s notions of techne and poiesis. The thesis concludes by reflecting upon the ways in which technicity influences our contemporary approaches to happiness and instead argues for the benefits of a poietic approach to the good life.
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
<p>This dissertation is a genealogical study of historical intersections between rhetoric and ecology. Studying the works of Heraclitus, Francis Bacon, T.H. Huxley and Darwin as "bridge figures" in the history of rhetoric, science and ecological thought, I examine how their rhetorical theories and …
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Engineering as Technology of Technology and the Subjugated Practice
Two sets of concerns have motivated and sustained the research in my dissertation. First, modern ideas of technology and engineering have been over-represented by their dominant forms: that technology is all about progress and the more advanced "high" technology and that engineering chiefly …