Search for dissertations about: "Thing Theory"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 swedish dissertations containing the words Thing Theory.
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1. Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies
Abstract : Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies is an ongoing transdisciplinary artistic research, which encompasses the spectrum of experiences and practices that I have developed as a choreographer, dancer and Feldenkrais practitioner. My interest in anatomy and somatic practices grew out of multiple shoulder dislocations. READ MORE
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2. The Archaeological Encounter in British Fiction, 1880–1940
Abstract : Ancient artefacts appeared frequently in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century British fiction. Prehistoric stone circles, enigmatic potsherds, Egyptian mummies, and other such antiquities featured in everything from fin de siècle adventure narratives to the major works of High Modernism. READ MORE
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3. becoming things, becoming-world : On Cosmopolitanism, Reification and Education
Abstract : What if education were not about becoming something, making something of yourself, becoming some thing? What if we were to consider education as becoming-world? These questions are posed against the background of the current populist nationalist backlash against the consequences of globalization, along with growing anti-intellectualism and anti-democratic sentiment. How can education contribute locally and globally to fostering and safeguarding the very possibility of democratic practices against the neoliberal consecration of reified social relations? Becoming Things, Becoming-world contributes to contemporary discussions in philosophy of education by developing a vision of a critical educational cosmopolitanism founded upon a renewed critique of reification. READ MORE
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4. A theory of the emotional self : from the standpoint of a neo-Meadian
Abstract : In this dissertation, two fundamental questions are posed: (1) what is emotion, and (2) what part does it play in the social processes of self-formation and self-realization? How do we as behaving beings, who experience sensations, become interacting beings, who experience emotions? And, how are our emotional experiences related to who we are and our ability to acquire a positive relation to ourselves? By attempting to answer these questions I point out the social conditions that are necessary to enable emotional experiences, and in turn self-formation and self-realization. The focus is on the form, rather than on the content of the emotional self. READ MORE
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5. Catastrophe, Ruin and Death - Some Perspectives on Insurance Mathematics
Abstract : This thesis gives some perspectives on insurance mathematics related to life insurance and / or reinsurance. Catastrophes and large accidents resulting in many lost lives are unfortunatley known to happen over and over again. READ MORE