"Same Shit, Different Day" is a collection of three VR installations portraying short, looping animations. I am exploring routines and patterns I find myself and the people around me in to draw attention to the ways in which we mindlessly go through motions in our everyday life. / Master of Fine Arts / "Same Shit, Different Day" is a collection of three VR installations portraying short, looping animations. I am exploring routines and patterns I find myself and the people around me in to draw attention to the ways in which we mindlessly go through motions in our everyday life.

Populärkultur är en social arena där det sker reproduktioner av normer och strukturer i samhället. Att undersöka tv-serien Solsidan kan synliggöra hur människor relaterar till varandra och hur samhälleliga problem som berör klass framställs i serien. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur klass och status framställs såväl som vilken betydelse dessa frågor får. Detta görs genom att undersöka normer, respektabilitet, klasskillnader och krockar utifrån det kapital som karaktärerna besitter. En av teorierna som har använts för att undersöka detta är Stuart Halls antologi Representation och specifikt representationsteorin som berör kommunikation och tolkning. Även Pierre Bourdieus teorier om kapital, habitus och smak som handlar om, och strukturerar, bakgrund och klass har använts i uppsatsen. Slutligen har Beverly Skeggs Att bli respektabel, som tydliggör klasstrukturer och hur dessa påverkar och inkluderar strävan efter respektabilitet, använts. Det är en kvalitativ undersökningen där en konventionell innehållsanalys appliceras. Resultatet är att karaktärerna i serien konsumerar vad de anser ger mest status på Solsidan. Genom att agera och följa de normer som andra gör passar de in. Skillnaden i innehav av resurser och kapital gör att karaktärerna agerar olika i de situationer som de hamnar i men de strävar trots det efter goda framtidsutsikter genom respektabilitet.  Humor används för att förstärka och tydliggöra klasskillnaderna genom serien och gränsdragande och förstärkande av identitet skiljer på de som bor på Solsidan och de som inte gör det. Det skapar i sig en känsla av respektabilitet att bo på vad som anses som rätt område, det vill säga Solsidan. Kapital får en central roll i strävan efter respektabilitet då främst stora ekonomiska och sociala kapital tyder på en väletablerad respektabilitet jämfört med mindre kapital. Dessutom blir tillgången till respektabla beteenden större när någon besitter stora kapital.

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In utilizing humorous intervention within the psychotherapeutic milieu, researchers have indicated that there is a relationship between an individual's sense of humor and stressful emotions, specifically anxiety. However, the nature of this relationship is uncertain. While some scientists propose a direct relationship between humor and anxiety, others hypothesize an inverse relationship. This study was designed to investigate this relationship, hypothesizing that the greater an individual's sense of humor, the more likely the individual would experience anxiety in social situations. The subjects were 143 male and female undergraduates. These volunteers were administered the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ) and the Interaction and Audience Anxiousness Scales (IAS and AAS). Pearson Product - Moment correlation coefficients were computed to analyze sense of humor (SHRQ scores) and social anxiety (IAS & AAS scores). The findings revealed a significant negative correlation between sense of humor and social anxiety, i.e., the greater the sense of humor, the lower the anxiety in social situations. Discussion of the results center on the alternative explanations of this relationship.

For over two millennia, humor has been the topic of philosophical discussion since it appears to be a nearly universal element of human experience and also offers different perspectives on that experience. Humor delves deep into the cultural norms governing religion, family, sex, society, and other aspects of day to day life in order to investigate the absurdities therein. Viewing such reified aspects of life in a new, humorous light is one of the principal characteristics of the Chilean author José Donoso’s novels. Oftentimes irreverent and scathing, Donoso’s dark humor reaches entropic proportions since it accentuates (and at times even seems to celebrate) the human condition’s descent into chaos. Given this downward trajectory, a selection of the Chilean author’s novels will be analyzed under the entropic humor theory originated by literary theorist Patrick O’Neill. The notion of entropy contains the very idea of a breakdown of order that tends toward chaos, so this special brand of humor is a unique fit for a study of Donoso. Within the author’s first novels, we note extreme existential angst which, as we pass into his later works, gives way to resignation, a trajectory we see mirrored in the use of humor, going from extremely dark and bitter to more playful, albeit always caustic and acerbic in nature. By delving into the psyche of man, Donoso finds much humor behind the tragedy and then uses it to expose life’s absurdities. He toys with our expectations. His use of humor externalizes alternative ways to view life – in its tragic comedies or comic tragedies. / Spanish

It is psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who most often attempt the formal study of consciousness: it is writers who observe the impossibility of any such study. In the spirit of Joseph O'Neill, Muriel Spark, and J.K. Rowling, with reference to cross-disciplinary thinkers like Donella Meadows, Douglas Hofstadter, and Rudy Rucker, Tree of Knowledge concerns itself with the mystery of mystery and the knowledge of knowledge. This collection of short stories bespeaks the human observer's paradoxical situation in all its the diverse implications, including moral confusion, tragedy, and violence, but also comedy, beauty, and the possibility of transcendence.