Search for dissertations about: "Walter Benjamin"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Walter Benjamin.

  2. 6. Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures : a supplement to the Arcades Project from a Caribbean Perspective [and a call for a careful practice of epistemológica]

    Author : Luis Berríos-Negrón; Leif Dahlberg; Håkan Nilsson; Florian Dombois; Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; greenhouse; colonial memory; phenomenotechnologies; global warming; sculpture; installation art; Art; Technology and Design; Konst; teknik och design;

    Abstract : Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures is a doctoral work that supplements the unfinished modern opus The Arcades Project [in German Das Passagen-Werk (Mit Bindestrich und Werk mit Capital W) ]. The supplement takes the form of a sculptural, historical, and technological deposition of ‘greenhouse’ that presently oscillates between a past-background and future-foreground to Walter Benjamin's ‘theatrical’ handling of the Parisian arcades. READ MORE

  4. 7. The Mild Boredom of Order : A Study in the History of the Manuscript Collection of Queen Christina of Sweden

    Author : Eva Nylander; digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap Avdelningen för ABM; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Queen Christina of Sweden; Isaac Vossius; Nicolas Heinsius; Gabriel Naudé; history of book collecting; manuscript collections literary war booty; classification systems; cataloging traditions; Vatican Library; Fondo Reginense Latino; Codices Reginenses Latini; Domenico Teoli; the order of books; sociology of collections; Baroque book culture;

    Abstract : This study examines how the Latin manuscript collection of Queen Christina of Sweden was formed, what function it served for the queen and for others, and how various attempts to impose order on it reflect different epistemological traditions. A recurring theme of the study is the creation of order and the title, The Mild Boredom of Order, a quotation taken from an essay on book collecting by Walter Benjamin, refers to this pervasive theme. READ MORE

  5. 8. Taken by Stealth : Everyday Life and Political Change in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy

    Author : Fredrik Tydal; Danuta Fjellestad; Brian McHale; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Dos Passos; American modernism; everyday life; the 1930s; Henri Lefebvre; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy (1938) tells the story of an erosion of American values and ideals – an ideological shift – during the first three decades of the twentieth century. READ MORE

  6. 9. Situated Freedom : Exploring the Aesthetic Practice of Rem Koolhaas/OMA

    Author : Katja Hogenboom; Helena Mattsson; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Helene Frichot; Robert Somol; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Situated Freedom; Assemblage; Fabulation; Any-Space-Whatever; Irrational Cut; Time-Image; Montrage; Non-Object; Theatre of Variation; Power of the False; Politics of Aesthetics; Messy Method; Aesthetic Practice; Rem Koolhaas; OMA; China Central Television Headquarters; Seattle Central Library; Villa dall’Ava; Maison à Bordeaux.; Arkitekturens historia och teori; History and Theory of Architecture;

    Abstract : The thesis advocates that architecture can, as an operative medium, situate freedom. Following the work of Michel Foucault, the thesis develops an argument for an emancipatory endeavor, termed “situated freedom in architecture. READ MORE