Search for dissertations about: "creation of concepts"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 117 swedish dissertations containing the words creation of concepts.

2. 1. Critique of Exaggeration : Thinking Beyond

   Author : Ervik Cejvan; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; critique; exaggeration; thinking beyond; Artaud; Bataille; Derrida; Descartes; Plato; creation of concepts; transgression; extravagance; excess; critique; exaggeration; thinking beyond; Artaud; Bataille; Derrida; Descartes; Plato; creation of concepts; transgression; extravagance; excess;

   Abstract : This study examines the function of exaggeration for thinking beyond the current concepts of God and the human. An example of thinking beyond in philosophy is the exaggeration “beyond being” in Plato’s Republic. In the philosophy of religion, generally, we deal with the questions of God. READ MORE

4. 2. The Purpose of Evolution : the 'struggle for existence' in the Russian-Jewish press 1860-1900

   Author : Joakim Philipson; Per-Arne Bodin; David Gaunt; Gabriella Safran; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Darwinism; evolution; struggle for existence; reception; Jews; Russia; discourse analysis; isomorphism; integration; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : In late 19th century Russia, Darwinism was viewed as a measuring-rod of modernity. Thus, the Jewish reception of Darwinism may serve as an indicator of the extent to which the Jews in Russia were part of the modernization of Russian society. READ MORE

5. 3. The crown of Arsinoë II. The creation and development of an imagery of authority

   Author : Maria Nilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arsinoë; crowns; Ptolemaic; reliefs; Egyptian art; Egyptian religion; symbolism; female pharaohs; Hathor; God s wife; Edfu; Philae; Dendera; relative scaling; relative placement; concepts of time; post-colonial theory;

   Abstract : This study deals with a unique crown that was created for Queen Arsinoë II. The aim is to identify and understand the symbolism that is embedded in each pictorial detail that together form the crown and how this reflects the wearer’s socio-political and religious positions. READ MORE

6. 4. Media Technologies in the Making : User-driven Software and Infrastructures for Computer Graphics Production

   Author : Julia Velkova; Patrik Åker; Göran Bolin; Lisa Parks; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; computer graphics; computer animation; user-driven software; infrastructuring; media practice; repair; decommodification; gifting; commons; Blender; Synfig; Morevna project; Cosmos Laundromat; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : Over the past few decades there have emerged greater possibilities for users and consumers of media to create or engage in the creation of digital media technologies. This PhD dissertation explores the ways in which the broadening of possibilities for making technologies, specifically software, has been taken advantage of by new producers of digital culture – freelancers, aspiring digital media creators and small studios – in the production of digital visual media. READ MORE

7. 5. Ecologies of the Imagination : Theorizing the participatory aesthetics of the fantastic

   Author : Per Israelson; Anders Cullhed; Marcel O'Gorman; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Media theory; genre theory; media ecology; posthumanism; ecocriticism; neocybernetics; sympoiesis; ontogenesis; fantasy; the fantastic; comic books; William Blake; Alan Moore; J. R. R. Tolkien; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This book is about the participatory aesthetics of the fantastic. In it, the author argues that the definition of the fantastic presented by Tzvetan Todorov in 1970 can be used, provided it is first adapted to a media-ecological framework, to theorize the role of aesthetic participation in the creation of secondary worlds. READ MORE