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71	The Wild Things Joys, Joanne Carol 11 March 2011 (has links) No description available. American Studies Beatty, Clyde Buck, Frank Van Amburgh, Isaac concepts of wilderness and wildness celebrity circuses, menageries, zoos Perkins, Marlin Gebel-Williams, Gunther Hannah, Jack Irwin, Steve Discovery and Animal Planet
72	Prophecy Fulfilled? Walter Benjamin's Vision and Steve Reich's Process Weatherman, Andrea Dawn 23 March 2011 (has links) No description available. Germanic Literature Steve Reich Walter Benjamin music Minimalism aura fascism technology phasing reproducibility mechanical reproduction technical reproduction aesthetics politicization aestheticization politics art musicology perceptibility
73	SOCIAL SELF AND RELIGIOUS SELF: AN INQUIRY INTO COMPASSION AND THE SELF-OTHER DIALECTIC Bove, Frank John 20 November 2007 (has links) No description available. social self self-other dialectic pure experience I-Me I-Thou sunyata kenosis basho absolute nothingness George H. Mead Nishida Kitaro Steve Odin
74	Steve Biko’s Africana existential phenomenology : on blackness, black solidarity, and liberation Mpungose, Cyprian Lucky 07 1900 (has links) This study focuses on Steve Biko’s Africana existential phenomenology, with particular emphasis on the themes of blackness, black solidarity and liberation. The theoretical foundation of this thesis is Africana existential phenomenology, which is used as a lens to understand Biko’s political thought. The study argues that thematic areas of blackness, black solidarity, and liberation are inherent in Africana existential phenomenology. These thematic areas give a better understanding of existential questions of being black in the antiblack world. What is highlighted is the importance and the relevance of the revival of Biko’s thinking towards creating other modes of being that are necessary for the actualisation of blacks as full human subjects. / Political Sciences / M.A. (Politics) Africana existential phenomenology Antiblack racism Black consciousness Blackness Black solidarity Liberation Steve Biko 322.420968 Biko, Steve, 1946-1977 Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa Apartheid -- South Africa South Africa -- Race relations Blacks -- Race identity -- South Africa Political prisoners -- South Africa
75	Improvising resistance : jazz, poetry, and the Black Arts Movement, 1960-1969 Bateman, Richard Gethin January 2019 (has links) This thesis is an interdisciplinary analysis of jazz music and poetry produced by African-American artists, primarily in New York, over the course of the 1960s, set within the broad context of the civil-rights and black-nationalist movements of the same period. Its principal contention is that the two forms afford each other symbiotic illumination. Close reading of jazz musicology in particular illuminates the directions taken by the literature of the period in a manner that has rarely been fully explored. By giving equal critical attention to the two artistic forms in relation to each other, the epistemological and social radicalism latent and explicit within them can more fully be understood. Through this understanding comes also a greater appreciation of the effects that the art of this period had upon the politics of civil rights and black nationalism in America - effects which permeated wider culture during a decade in which significant change was made to the legal position of African-Americans within the United States, change forced by a newly, and multiply, vocalized African-American consciousness. The thesis examines the methods by which jazz and literature contributed to the construction of new historically-constituted black subjectivities represented aurally, orally and visually. It looks at how the different techniques of each form converse with each other, and how they prompt consequential re-presentations and re cognizations of established forms from within and without their own continua. That examination is conducted primarily through forensic close readings of records made between 1960 and 1967, which though of widely differing styles nevertheless can be said to fall under the broad umbrella term of 'post-bop' jazz, alongside equally close readings of poetry written primarily by members of the New York wing of the equally broadly-termed Black Arts Movement [BAM] between 1964 and 1969.
76	Impact et résonances du théâtre In-yer-face au Québec : Shopping and Fucking de Mark Ravenhill (adaptation de Christian Lapointe), Faire des enfants d’Éric Noël et En dessous de vos corps je trouverai ce qui est immense et qui ne s’arrête pas de Steve Gagnon Goulet, Gabrielle 08 1900 (has links) No description available. Violence Sexualité Nudité In-yer-face Trentenaires Steve Gagnon Éric Noël Christian Lapointe Gaétan Paré Mark Ravenhill Sarah Kane Théâtre québécois contemporain Sexuality Nudity Contemporary Quebec theatre
77	The puzzle of domination in society : seeking solutions in the African context Madonko, Thokozile January 2006 (has links) The presence of human destitution, impoverishment and degradation in the midst of plenty has puzzled social thinkers for millennia. One of the oldest and grandest of theories: the theory of ideology attempts to provide an answer to the puzzle of domination in society. Michael Rosen, in his book On Voluntary Servitude (1996), argues that the solution provided by the theory of ideology is problematic. Furthermore, on the basis of his critique, Rosen argues that we should abandon the theory of ideology and consider alternatives to it. Even though many contemporary academics have turned away from the theory of ideology, because they view it as an imprisoning meta-theory, this study explores the possibility of there being a meta-theory that could help us to make sense of the world. Through an examination of Rosen's critique this thesis shows that Rosen is too quick in his dismissal of the theory of ideology because he fails to consider that a revised functionalist theory of ideology can be expanded to account for the mechanism(s) that ensure that, over time, the society in question acquires ideological consciousness to further its welfare. This thesis shows that Rosen is correct in his criticism of the theory of ideology's explanation of domination because the content, history and social effects of ideological consciousness cannot be fully explained in terms of their role in promoting or stabilising relations of domination. In light of Rosen's criticism the thesis shows that if one provides both an explanation of the psychological motivations of individuals and of the nature of the oppressive society in which they find themselves then what I call an integrated theory of ideology can be developed. In order to illustrate the importance of an integrated theory of ideology the study moves away from high-level theoretical abstraction to concrete social analyses, focusing on the work of Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko and their explanations of domination. The reason this study focuses on their work is because in their role as social scientists, Fanon and Biko provided a powerful critique of colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial society. It will be argued that Fanon and Biko were able to provide a lasting critique of colonial reality because they offered their critique within the framework of such an integrated theory. Consequently, this study argues that, as Fanon and Biko's work illustrate, an integrated theory of ideology qua critical theory ought not to be abandoned because it is crucial for understanding and resisting forms of oppression that exist in the world today. Rosen, Michael. On voluntary servitude Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 Biko, Steve, 1946-1977 Ideology Blacks -- Race identity Ideology -- Psychological aspects Ideology -- Sociological aspects Power (Social sciences) Consciousness Racism
78	Musical Sound and Spatial Perception: How Music Structures Our Sense of Space Saccomano, Mark January 2020 (has links) It is not uncommon to read claims of music’s ability to affect our sense of time and its rate of passage. Indeed, such effects are often considered among the most distinctive and prized aspects of musical aesthetics. Yet when it comes to the similarly abstract notion of space and its manipulation by musical structures, theorists are generally silent. My dissertation addresses this gap in the literature and shows how music’s spatial effects arise through an affective engagement with musical works. In this study, I examine an eclectic selection of compositions to determine how the spaces we inhabit are transformed by the music we hear within them. Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s theory of embodied perception, as well as research on acoustics, sound studies, and media theory, I deploy an affective model of spatial perception—a model that links the sense of space with the moment-to-moment needs and desires of the perceiver— to explain how these musical modulations of space occur. My claim is that the manner in which the music solicits our engagement affects how we respond, which in turn affects what we perceive. I begin by discussing the development of recording technology and how fixed media works deemed “spatial music” reinforce a particular conception of space as an empty container in which sound sources are arrayed in specific locations relative to a fixed listening position. After showing how innovative studio techniques have been used to unsettle this conventional spatial configuration, I then discuss examples of Renaissance vocal music, instrumental chamber music, and 20th century electronic music in order to develop a richer understanding of the range of spatial interactions that musical textures and timbres can provide. In my final chapter, I draw upon these varieties of affective engagement to construct a hermeneutic analysis of the spatial experience afforded by Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint, thereby modeling a phenomenological method for grounding interpretation in embodied, rather than strictly discursive, practices. By soliciting movement through the call for bodily action, music allows us an opportunity to fit together one world of possibilities with another, thereby providing an occasion for grasping new meanings presented through the work. The spatial aspect of music, therefore, does not consist in merely recognizing an environmental setting populated by individual sound sources. Through the embodied practices of music perception and the malleability of space they reveal, we are afforded an opportunity to reshape our understanding of the world around us. Music--Philosophy and aesthetics Space and time--Philosophy Sound recordings in musicology Electronic music Davis, Miles Macero, Teo, 1925-2008 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 Radigue, Eliane Reich, Steve, 1936- Black angels (Crumb, George)
79	Sing the Body Electric Takacs, Stephen R. 24 August 2012 (has links) No description available. Art Criticism Art History History art photography large format photography video art Duchenne de Boulogne Sing the Body Electric performance art portraiture portrait photographic portrait Stephen Takacs Steve Takacs operatingroomstudio.com stakacs.com ETC electro shock
80	Black consciousness and white liberals in South Africa : paradoxical anti-apartheid politics Maimela, Mabel Raisibe 12 1900 (has links) This research challenges the hypothesis that Biko was anti-liberal and anti-white. Biko's clearly defined condemnation of traditional South African white liberals such as Alan Paton is hypothesised as a strategic move in the liberation struggle designed to neutralise the "gradualism" of traditional white liberalism which believe that racism could be ultimately superseded by continually improving education for blacks. Biko neutralised apartheid racism and traditional white liberalism by affirming all aspects of blackness as positive values in themselves, and by locating racism as a white construct with deep roots in European colonialism and pseudoDarwinian beliefs in white superiority. The research shows that Biko was neither anti-liberal nor anti-white. His own attitudes to the universal rights, dignity, freedom and self-determination of all human beings situate him continuously with all major human rights theorists and activists since the Enlightenment. His unique Africanist contribution was to define racist oppression in South Africa as a product of the historical conditioning of blacks to accept their own alleged inferiority. Biko's genius resided in his ability to synthesize his reading of Marxist, Africanist, European and African American into a truly original charter for racial emancipation. Biko' s methodology encouraged blacks to reclaim their rights and pride as a prelude to total emancipation. The following transactions are described in detail: Biko's role in the founding of SASO and Black Consciousness; the paradoxical relations between white liberal theologians, Black Consciousness and Black Theology; the influence on BC of USA Black Power and Black Theology; the role of Black Theologians in South African churches, SACC and WCC; synergic complexities ofNUSAS-SASO relations; relations between BC, ANC and PAC; the early involvement of women in BCM; feminist issues in the liberation struggle; Biko's death in detention; world-wide and South African liberal involvement in the inquest and anti-apartheid organisations. / History / D. Litt. et Phil. (History) Biko Paton Mandela ANC PAC National Party Communism Liberalism Marxism Black Consciousness South Africa Racism Colonialism Apartheid Negritude Africanism Black Power NUSAS SASO Black Theology SACC WCC Women Liberation theology Feminism Feminist history Liberation struggle Oppression Psychological liberation 320.540968 Biko, Steve, 1946-1977 -- Influence Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa Black nationalism -- South Africa Liberalism -- South Africa

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