Search for dissertations about: "phenomenology"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 255 swedish dissertations containing the word phenomenology.
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16. Hemhörighet och stadsförnyelse: belyst i fyrtiotalsstadsdelen Sanna i Göteborg
Abstract : The dissertation explores the concept of home, how relations to one's home are created and what feeling at home means. The thesis' methodology and background to understanding are inspired by phenomenology. READ MORE
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17. Mis-Movements : The Aesthetics of Gesture in Samuel Beckett's Drama
Abstract : This study explores Beckett’s use of physical movements in his plays as part of a strategy to escape the limits of semantic meaning and as an instrument of artistic expression. In a sense, the use of physical movements constitutes a phenomenological, heuristic ‘solution’ to the problem of presentation and representation that Beckett explicitly addresses already in the early 1930s. READ MORE
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18. Being connected to the world through a robot
Abstract : Robotic telepresence systems enable humans to be present physically and socially in a distant environment. Robotic telepresence technology is the latest in the line of communication technology development. The unique feature of such technology is that its users can act in a distant environment and interact with other people through these systems. READ MORE
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19. Impure vision : American staged art photography of the 1970s
Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore how American staged art photographers in the 1970s problematized a traditional, visualist approach to the photograph as mediator or interface between human subject and reality, which had been present in the straight photography that had dominated American art photography from the early decades of the twentieth century. Instead of viewing the camera as an objective, optical device and photographs as mechanically reproducible artistic products, the proponents of the new "staged photography" seized the possibilities of conveying holistic life experiences by employing a full range of sensory impressions. READ MORE
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20. Motion in Language and Experience : Actual and Non-actual motion in Swedish, French and Thai
Abstract : This thesis deals with motion in language and non-linguistic experience, distinguishing between actual motion (AM) and non-actual motion (NAM). AM is the experience of continuous change in an object’s position, expressed in sentences such as 'The man runs through the forest' and 'The woman is walking'. READ MORE