Search for dissertations about: "Walter Benjamin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Walter Benjamin.

2. 1. Det kritiska ögonblicket : Hölderlin, Benjamin, Celan

   Author : Aris Fioretos; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Celan; Paul; 1920-1970; Benjamin; Walter; 1892-1940; Hölderlin; Friedrich; 1770-1843; Aesthetics;

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4. 2. Haloed Objects on Mental Parade : Myth and Magic in Post-War Surrealist Cinema

   Author : Kristoffer Noheden; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Malin Wahlberg; Patricia Allmer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; surrealism; André Breton; mythology; esotericism; intertextuality; intermediality; Wilhelm Freddie; Benjamin Péret; Nelly Kaplan; Jan Švankmajer; Gaston Bachelard; Walter Benjamin; primitivism; embodied experience; initiation; art history; Pierre Mabille; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : Following the end of World War II, the surrealist founder André Breton organized the exhibition Le Surréalisme en 1947. In conjunction with it, he announced a “change in direction” for surrealism, towards the search for a new myth, replete with magic. READ MORE

5. 3. Nihilism, Art, and Technology

   Author : Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Staffan Carlshamre; Arnfinn Bö-Rygg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; nihilism; art; technology; avant-garde; architecture; critical theory; Martin Heidegger; Walter Benjamin; Ernst Jünger; Mies van der Rohe; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : The thesis investigates the role of technology in the formation of the artistic avant-garde, along with various forms of philosophical reflection on this development, with a particular emphasis on Heidegger. Setting out from an analysis of three paradigmatic cases in the interplay between art and technology—the invention of photography, the shift from Futurism to Constructivism, and the interpretation of technology in debates on architectural theory in the 1920s and ’30s—it proceeds to a discussion of three philosophical responses to this development, those found in Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and Ernst Jünger, all of which share a certain avant-garde sensibility and a notion of art as a response to nihilism. READ MORE

6. 4. The Life and Times of Targeted Killing

   Author : Markus Gunneflo; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Targeted killing; assassination; international law; constitutional law; human rights; law of armed conflict; law of occupation; history; politics; Roberto Esposito; Walter Benjamin; Carl Schmitt; sovereignty; community; immunity;

   Abstract : Against the background of the ongoing shift in the perception of the legality and legitimacy of extraterritorial lethal force in counterterrorism, this thesis analyses the emergence of so-called “targeted killing” in the history of Israel and the US, as well as in international law. It finds that the relationship between targeted killing and law, particularly international law, is not a straightforward case of more or less determinate and legally binding norms being applied to state measures adopted in situations of insecurity (in this case, those of the second Intifada and 9/11) but rather one of a much longer and mutually productive relationship. READ MORE

7. 5. 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