Search for dissertations about: "Bateson"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word Bateson.

  2. 1. Gaming in Mohenjo-daro – an Archaeology of Unities

    Author : Elke Rogersdotter; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mohenjo-daro; Indus Valley; Bronze Age; Pakistan; play; gaming; play spectra; grounded theory; form and content; Simmel; abduction; logical types; autonomously working systems; Bateson; systems of representation; symbolic capital; deconstruction; nanoarchaeology; reflexive archaeology;

    Abstract : The main question of this thesis concerns the possibility of illuminating the presence and impact of the irrational element that is play in an ancient societal structure. With this question as a lodestar, the investigation has come to concern the development of an alternative way of work that can manage to embrace the positively loaded, ‘fun’ dimension of play. READ MORE

  4. 2. An anagram of the ideas of filmmaker Maya Deren : creative work in motion pictures

    Author : Moira Sullivan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Deren; Maya; 1917-1961; Kvinnliga filmregissörer; Experimentfilm; USA;

    Abstract : Maya Deren’s corpus of work, which has been given various designations within the American avant-garde filmmaking practice of the 1940’s and 1950’s, will be analysed according to the biographical legend—an approach that focuses on authorship within the historical conditions of conception and reception. Influences on her theories in art and ethnography will be noted through several historical discourses: the French Symbolist Poets, Henri Bergson, Kurt Koffka, T. READ MORE

  5. 3. Geo-Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-Future Essayism

    Author : Eva La Cour; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; geo-aesthetics; image politics; Svalbard; Arctic imaginaries; philosophy of ecology; the guide; live editing; essay film; experimental ethnography;

    Abstract : Propelled by the acute ecological crisis, Geo- Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-Future Essayism moves between artistic affinities and academic disciplines to craft an intervention into the imaginary of an Arctic place. Designed as an iterative set of artistic practice experiments with live editing, the aim is to demonstrate a geo-aesthetical discontent upon terrains with colonial history for visual production. READ MORE