Search for dissertations about: "Baudrillard"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word Baudrillard.

  2. 1. Televisionization : Enactments of TV Experiences in Novels from 1970 to 2010

    Author : Claudia Weber; Claudia Egerer; Julia Faisst; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; televisionization; television culture; TV experiences; Tichi; teleconsciousness; Deuze; media life; reality TV; validation; Baudrillard; hyperreality; telemorphosis; English; engelska;

    Abstract : TV’s conquest of the American household in the period from the 1940s to the 1960s went hand in hand with critical discussions that revolved around the disastrous impact of television consumption on the viewer. To this day, watching television is connected with anxieties about the trivialization and banalization of society. READ MORE

  4. 2. Arkitektur och konsumtion : Reyner Banham och utbytbarhetens estetik

    Author : Helena Mattsson; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Reyner Banham; architecture; consumption; design; aesthetic; Independent Group; Post-war period; Jean Baudrillard; late capitalism; pop art; mass production; Walter Benjamin; Richard Hamilton; differentiated market; flexible organization; the new brutalism; Alison and Peter Smithson; House of the Future; machine aesthetics; futurism; technology; tradition; environment; operative criticism; Buckminster Fuller; arkitektur; konsumtion; design; estetik; Independent group; efterkrigstiden; senkapitalism; popkonst; massproduktion; populärkultur; Civil engineering and architecture; Samhällsbyggnadsteknik och arkitektur;

    Abstract : The dissertation analyses the relation between architecture, design and consumption according to Peter Reyner Banham’s notion of an “aesthetics of expendability”. This issue is studied through such source materials as texts, buildings, competition entries and exhibitions produced from the early fifties to the early sixties. READ MORE

  5. 3. 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