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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Display zones: Modernity and the constitution of cultural difference

Nalcaoglu, Halil 01 January 1996 (has links)
This dissertation is concerned with the modern Western phenomenon of "display zones." The concept of "display zones" is defined as those spaces of representation which are marked off from the space of daily life with clearly defined borders, and constructed with the intention of causing a sense of spatial and/or temporal displacement. It argues that the dominant mode of representation within the "display zones" is based on the mimetic doctrine of truth. As the major elements of modern representational economy, "display zones" establish and regulate the process called the constitution of cultural difference from a Western perspective. In this process, the representation of non-Western cultures via their display amounts to their discursive constitution as "Other cultures." In the first part of this dissertation, the constitution of cultural difference in "display zones" is investigated in terms of its metaphysical constituents. In the second part, the concrete cases of the nineteenth-century world's fairs, the phenomenon of displaying bodies, and finally the discourse of the modern ethnography museum are analyzed.
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The politics of help: The rhetoric of suicide and suicide prevention in the mainstream press

Stephenson, Denise L 01 January 2006 (has links)
This dissertation examines the historical forces that have rhetorically and discursively transformed suicide from a philosophical, legal, religious, and political issue into a primarily medical problem subsumed under the rhetorical banner of "mental health." In this dissertation, I examine the print press' articulation of the institutional belief that suicide is the act of irrational, mentally ill, disturbed, or otherwise impaired people in need of "prevention," "intervention," "help," and "care." What is said in the mainstream press about the self-inflicted deaths of U.S. residents---who are physically healthy, have caring friends and family, are relatively well-educated, have some measure of means, and, thus, are perceived by their peers as having everything to live for---speaks directly to the political nature of discussions about suicide and suicide prevention. Mainstream news media discussions of suicide tend to focus primarily on the mental health and "personal" problems of those who kill themselves, while suicide prevention is routinely represented as a fundamental right, a necessary public service, and a form of benevolence. What are the social, economic, political, and philosophical implications of representations of suicide and suicide prevention that ignore or downplay the specific lived reality of the people who commit suicide? Are there views of suicide that diverge from the dominant view of suicide as a health issue requiring professional medical solutions? And if there are, how does the mainstream press treat those ideas as rhetorical constructs? What can and cannot be said about suicide in the major media? Who speaks and who does not? Who are the people whose stories are told in the press? Why are these particular stories told? Does the wide-spread disapprobation of suicide in the U.S. limit understandings of suicide that do not privilege medical, psychiatric, and scientific explanations? What exactly is at stake in treating suicide and suicide prevention as political issues as well as mental health issues? By mapping the historical progression of the major ideological currents informing how this culture thinks and talks about suicide, this dissertation considers suicide's potentially subversive, political, and resistive nature.
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Between empiricism and intellectualism : Charles Taylor's answer to the 'media wars'.

Caldwell, Marc Anthony. January 2008 (has links)
When the Media Wars broke out in Australian universities in the mid-1990s, journalism educator Keith Winschuttle accused cultural studies of teaching theory that contradicted the realist and empirical worldview of journalism practice. He labeled cultural studies as a form of linguistic idealism. His own worldview is decidedly empiricist.The thesis brings to Windschuttle's empiricist-idealist dualism a type of transcendental argument that uses Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor's understanding of modernity as a paradox between the Enlightenment and Romantic traditions. Taylor was an instrumental member of the New Left movement (beginning in 1956) while he was a student at Oxford. Together with Stuart Hall, he edited a journal that became a precursor to New Left Review. While at Oxford, Taylor went to Paris to study with Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Upon his return he brought back a copy of Marx's 1844 Manuscripts, which he translated into English for his colleagues. Taylor was instrumental in introducing Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology there. Hall mentions in recent interviews his debt to Taylor for their discussions on Marx and Hegel. Taylor's approach to post-Marxism and his critique of positivist social science derives significantly from his reading of Merleau-Ponty, whose Phenomenology of Perception (1962) rejects both empiricism and intellectualism (idealism) for their sharing a Cartesian model of subjectivity. British Cultural Studies began (Hall says in 1956) with a rejection of the economism of classical Marxism, and sought a more plausible theory of agency than what Marxism offered at that time. The correspondence between the debates in early cultural studies and Taylor's extensive writing on this matter, together with his overall critique of modernity, appear too close to be coincidental. Furthermore, these debates were driven by an attempt to steer between the Enlightenment and Romantic traditions, thus embracing in their own intellectual practices Marx's (and Hegel's) dialectical method. Drawing upon the correspondences between Taylor's and cultural studies' attempts to resolve the paradoxes of modernity, it becomes clear that Windschuttle's dualism can be absorbed within the problematic of cultural studies. Furthermore, drawing on Taylor's use of the humanist Marx, Hegel and Merleau-Ponty, Windschuttle's empiricist paradigm can be shown to fail to provide a plausible (and therefore ethical) model of agency. A study of TayIor's philosophical anthropology provides the basis by which this failure can be addressed. Taylor's philosophy is equally useful in addressing this lacuna in postmodern cultural studies. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.
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Excommunicatio. Ensaio para uma teoria negativa da comunicação / Excommunicatio: an essay for a negative theory of communication

Nascimento, Maurício Augusto Pimentel Liesen 19 March 2014 (has links)
Este trabalho de doutorado esboça uma teoria negativa da comunicação a partir da reelaboração negativa dos seus três conceitos fundamentais: a comunicação, o medium e a comunidade. Grosso modo, a comunicação é figurada como uma experiência radical de alteridade; o medium como a descrição dos modos de percepção desta experiência e a comunidade como a incorporação das possibilidades de sua ocorrência. A comunicação manifesta uma experiência que transforma o \'eu\' em \'mim\', pois o sujeito não é necessariamente causa ou efeito desta experiência, mas é exposto à ela, como uma ferida aberta. O medium é o modo de percepção que opera esta experiência: ele não é uma ponte entre o abismo que separa o mim do outro, pois ele acentua esse abismo, na medida em que ele se imaterializa no momento da experiência, como uma materialidade que se descorporifica. E quando essa experiência efetua-se, é porque se toma parte em algo comum, em uma comunidade: mesmo que precária ou evanescente, ela incorpora a possibilidade da ocorrência deste fenômeno. Na teoria negativa da comunicação, o medium torna-se transparente, a comunidade torna-se expositória e a comunicação torna-se transcendente. Ponderar sobre a negatividade da comunicação é ir ao encontro de uma ex-comunicação: uma despalavra que busca ex-pôr aquilo que nos fenômenos comunicacionais escapa à discursividade, seja a medialidade do meio, a inefabilidade da relação ou a comunidade daqueles que não constituem qualquer comunidade. O prefixo ex assinala não apenas uma simples negação, mas um deslocamento fundamental: ele é o inegável que se pré-supõe, que constitui a comunicação, mas que resiste à qualquer conceituação. Ao mesmo tempo em que possibilita, o prefixo ex assegura a impossibilidade da sua re-presentação: um comunicar que não se estrutura em signos, mas se mostra - uma comunicação negativa, existencial, intransitiva, inexprimível, mística. / Ex-communication is an «un-word» that emphasizes what eludes in the communicational phenomenon: be it the mediality of the medium, the incomprehensibility of a relation or the community of those who have no community. The «ex» means not only a negation, but also a fundamental drift: it is the irrevocable and the irreconcilable that the communication presupposes and constitutes, although it defies conceptualization. The «ex» guarantees the impossibility of re-presentation. A communication that is not structured by signs, but rather shows itself: it is an existential, intransitive or mystical communication. This PhD thesis aims to establish the general outline for a negative theory of communication. By using the negative and posthermeneutic media philosophy developed by the philosopher Dieter Mersch, this dissertation intends a negative reelaboration of the three main concepts of a communicational theory: media, community and communication. In general, communication is taken as a radical alterity experience, medium as the modes of perception of this experience, and community as the possibility and condition of the communicacional event. In other words: in the negative theory of communication, the medium is transparent, the community is what ex-poses, and communication is transcendent.
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Excommunicatio. Ensaio para uma teoria negativa da comunicação / Excommunicatio: an essay for a negative theory of communication

Maurício Augusto Pimentel Liesen Nascimento 19 March 2014 (has links)
Este trabalho de doutorado esboça uma teoria negativa da comunicação a partir da reelaboração negativa dos seus três conceitos fundamentais: a comunicação, o medium e a comunidade. Grosso modo, a comunicação é figurada como uma experiência radical de alteridade; o medium como a descrição dos modos de percepção desta experiência e a comunidade como a incorporação das possibilidades de sua ocorrência. A comunicação manifesta uma experiência que transforma o \'eu\' em \'mim\', pois o sujeito não é necessariamente causa ou efeito desta experiência, mas é exposto à ela, como uma ferida aberta. O medium é o modo de percepção que opera esta experiência: ele não é uma ponte entre o abismo que separa o mim do outro, pois ele acentua esse abismo, na medida em que ele se imaterializa no momento da experiência, como uma materialidade que se descorporifica. E quando essa experiência efetua-se, é porque se toma parte em algo comum, em uma comunidade: mesmo que precária ou evanescente, ela incorpora a possibilidade da ocorrência deste fenômeno. Na teoria negativa da comunicação, o medium torna-se transparente, a comunidade torna-se expositória e a comunicação torna-se transcendente. Ponderar sobre a negatividade da comunicação é ir ao encontro de uma ex-comunicação: uma despalavra que busca ex-pôr aquilo que nos fenômenos comunicacionais escapa à discursividade, seja a medialidade do meio, a inefabilidade da relação ou a comunidade daqueles que não constituem qualquer comunidade. O prefixo ex assinala não apenas uma simples negação, mas um deslocamento fundamental: ele é o inegável que se pré-supõe, que constitui a comunicação, mas que resiste à qualquer conceituação. Ao mesmo tempo em que possibilita, o prefixo ex assegura a impossibilidade da sua re-presentação: um comunicar que não se estrutura em signos, mas se mostra - uma comunicação negativa, existencial, intransitiva, inexprimível, mística. / Ex-communication is an «un-word» that emphasizes what eludes in the communicational phenomenon: be it the mediality of the medium, the incomprehensibility of a relation or the community of those who have no community. The «ex» means not only a negation, but also a fundamental drift: it is the irrevocable and the irreconcilable that the communication presupposes and constitutes, although it defies conceptualization. The «ex» guarantees the impossibility of re-presentation. A communication that is not structured by signs, but rather shows itself: it is an existential, intransitive or mystical communication. This PhD thesis aims to establish the general outline for a negative theory of communication. By using the negative and posthermeneutic media philosophy developed by the philosopher Dieter Mersch, this dissertation intends a negative reelaboration of the three main concepts of a communicational theory: media, community and communication. In general, communication is taken as a radical alterity experience, medium as the modes of perception of this experience, and community as the possibility and condition of the communicacional event. In other words: in the negative theory of communication, the medium is transparent, the community is what ex-poses, and communication is transcendent.
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Escuta, gravação, plataforma web : fazer mapa sonoro como conjunto de práticas de mídia

Aragão, Thaís Amorim 27 April 2018 (has links)
Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-07-30T12:51:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Thaís Amorim Aragão_.pdf: 9690556 bytes, checksum: cdf0a881c684e9f465d6e823b334cbc2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-30T12:51:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thaís Amorim Aragão_.pdf: 9690556 bytes, checksum: cdf0a881c684e9f465d6e823b334cbc2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-27 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho investiga o fazer mapa sonoro a partir do pensamento da filósofa Sybille Krämer acerca do que é um medium. Para ela, medium é aquilo que, em uma transmissão, recua e autoneutraliza-se, aparentando desaparecer enquanto torna perceptível outra coisa em seu lugar. A partir da obra da filósofa, foi desenvolvida a ferramenta teórica do dial mediológico, para auscultar processos midiáticos envolvidos nas práticas constitutivas dessa nova cartografia. O objetivo foi identificar o que se torna transparente e qual opacidade lhe corresponde, no curso de uma cadeia de transmissões. Partindo da proposta de uma epistemologia crítica da mídia lançada por Krämer, entendemos que o mensageiro e o rastro, a representação e as condições de sua produção, são duas dimensões indissociáveis da mídia, além de duas posições epistemológicas complementares e interdependentes. A pesquisa de campo também foi orientada pela abordagem pós-representacional de Rob Kitchin e Martin Dodge, que sugerem o acompanhamento de como emerge um determinado fazer mapa. Reconstituindo o desenvolvimento do mapa sonoro da plataforma Radio Aporee, desde suas raízes na net art dos anos 1990, encontramos uma situação em que o som é elemento fundamental em uma estratégia de revelar os espaços da mídia. Mapa sonoro é aqui considerado como uma audiovisualidade híbrida tornada possível pela digitalização e que opera entre duas fortes tradições: o mapa e a gravação sonora. / This work investigates soundmapping within Sybille Krämer's theoretical framework on what a medium is. According to the philosopher, in a transmission, medium is what seems to disappear behind the sensible surface of what comes to appearance. Based on her ideias, we developed a theoretical tool called mediological dial, in order to auscultate media processes involved in the constitutive practices of this new cartography. Our aim was to identify what becomes transparent and which opacity corresponds to it, in the course of a chain of transmissions. We assumed Krämer's proposal of a media-critical epistemology, understanding that the messenger and the trace, the representation and the conditions of its production are two inseparable dimensions of media, as well as two complementary and interdependent epistemological positions. Field research was also guided by Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge's post-representational approach to cartography. They suggest tracking how a particular process of map-making emerges. We reconstituted the development of the Radio Aporee platform's sound map, since its origins in the net art of the 1990s, and found a situation in which sound is a fundamental element in a strategy to reveal media spaces. In the context of this research, sound map is considered as a hybrid audiovisuality made possible by the digitalization and which operates between two strong traditions: the map and the sound recording.
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DIGAREC Keynote-Lectures 2009/10

Aarseth, Espen, Manovich, Lev, Mäyrä, Frans, Salen, Katie, Wolf, Mark J. P. January 2011 (has links)
The sixth volume of the DIGAREC Series holds the contributions to the DIGAREC Keynote-Lectures given at the University of Potsdam in the winter semester 2009/10. With contributions by Mark J.P. Wolf (Concordia University Wisconsin), Espen Aarseth (Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen), Katie Salen (Parsons New School of Design, New York), Laura Ermi and Frans Mäyrä (University of Tampere), and Lev Manovich (University of Southern California, San Diego).

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