Search for dissertations about: "Bernard Lewis"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Bernard Lewis.

  1. 1. Cultures of Denial : Comparing Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Denial

    Author : Maria Karlsson; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Denial; denialism; genocide; Holocaust; Armenian genocide; 1915; negationism; historiography; scholarship; Bernard Lewis; Arno Mayer; objectivity; genocide studies; revisionism;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the phenomenon of modern genocide denial, focusing in particular on the Western denialist cultures surrounding the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide of 1915.While those denying, rationalizing or trivializing the Holocaust may be completely separated from those engaging in denial of the Armenian genocide, both cultures of denial have undergone similar historical phases and developments. READ MORE

  2. 2. Art and the Real-time Archive: Relocation, Remix, Response

    Author : David Crawford; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; art; aura of information; continuous partial attention; duration; ndexicality; inscription technologies; law of relocation; light of speed; material metaphor; net art; real-time archive; remix; simulated materiality; subject effects; technological addiction;

    Abstract : If Internet artists have recently relocated their work to galleries and museums, there has meanwhile been an increasing engagement on the part of gallery artists with the media. While these migrations are often discussed in aesthetic if not economic terms, this essay asks what such phenomena can tell us about the changing nature of subjectivity in relation to media and technology. READ MORE