A new class of photographs that relies on digital processes, best exemplified by the works of Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky and Jeff Wall all exhibit a ‘not quite right’ quality that calls into question some of the most closely held truisms of photographic thought. Through novel technological processes combined with the elements of the new photography—new scale, fabulist imagery, and implied narrative—these images challenge the nature of photography as a documentary process and, beyond that, the nature of what we understand to be ‘the real’ that is supposedly documented. A visual analysis of these images through the lens of Roland Barthes’ and Susan Stewart’s scholarship reveals truths about these images and about photography as a medium. What these elements, this ‘lack of rightness’, can tell us about photography and its position as documentary medium can help us better understand the nature of contemporary photography as a truly creative medium rather than a documentation of the real. These artists are engaging in a discourse of artifice, questioning the position of photographs as documents of how it was, revealing that not only is their work not a documentation of the world as it is, but that photography never was.

Annihilation is the first novel in the trilogy named “The Southern Reach,” a ScienceFiction/Horror series of books written by Jeff VanderMeer. Annihilation focuses on a team of scientists on an expedition into an area where the very nature has been altered in mysterious ways. The scientists’ goal is to study this area to come to an understanding of what is happening, but like the eleven previous expeditions, they fail.   With the aid of narratology, I will argue that Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation is an unreliable narrative. To prove that, I will analyse and discuss specific passage’s unreliable narration used in the novel, as well as incorporating themes from the novel that directly correlate with the unreliability of the novel’s narrative.  Annihilation is filled with ambiguous language and events that are on almost every  level unexplainable using scientific methods. The way that the novel is written makes the narrator, the biologist, unreliable in her narration of the events that take place around her. She is tormented by both her past and by the beings that inhabit Area X, such as the Crawler. The results of this study exemplify the ambiguity of VanderMeer’s writing and how he uses this ambiguous language to further thrust the narrative into a void of chaotic unreliability. There is nothing in the novel that can be trusted as fact in the context of the world in which the characters inhabit, down to the characters own thoughts and memories. The presented themes of Annihilation are in direct correlation with the unreliability of the narrative and show how deep VanderMeer went into constructing the most unreliable narrative possible.

This paper examines the relationship between the sublime and the Anthropocene, the period in earth’s geological history characterized by human impact upon the planet. As the genre of Anthropocene fiction, or climate fiction, has emerged in recent years, difficulties in defining the new genre as well as identifying useful tropes and forms within cli-fi novels has given rise to several proposed methods of understanding the Anthropocene. This essay examines the problems posed within Anthropocene fiction as well as the history of the concept of the sublime before examining Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation to find evidence of the relevance of the sublime within the Anthropocene.

Uppsatsen tittar på värdeproduktionen inom konst med utgångsläge i tre samtida konstverk, som i samband med dess försäljning varit utmärkande. Dessa verk är Rabbit (1986) av Jeff Koons, Propped (1992) av Jenny Saville och Girl with Balloon (2006) av Banksy. Uppsatsen sammanför för första gången dessa tre verk och ställer sig den retoriska frågan om hur det kommer sig att Koons säljer dyrare än Saville men att Banksy är populärare än Saville? Det empiriska materialet är konstverken, litteratur och auktionskataloger. Syftet som föreligger uppsatsen är att undersöka relationen mellan konstens estetiska uttryck i förhållande till dess ekonomiska marknadsvärde samt den uppmärksamhet som genereras genom popularitet och kontroversiella handlingar/aspekter. Frågeställningarna rör både kontextuell biografisk bakgrund av verk och konstnär, samt ifrågasätter vilka gemensamma teman som är involverade inom konstens värdeproduktion i samband med försäljning. Detta görs med hjälp av social konsthistorisk teori. Uppsatsen är uppdelad i två huvudkapitel. Produktionskontext kapitlet presenterar varje konstnär och verk med hjälp av panofskys ikonologiska/ikonografiska analysmodell i tre nivåer. Det andra kapitlet Försäljningskontext tittar på försäljningen i samband med världens två största auktionshus, med grund i auktionskatalogerna och litteratur. Resultatet visar att tre olika teman är involverade inom konstens värdeproduktion. Dessa är ekonomiskt värde, konstnärligt värde och uppmärksamhetsvärde. Analysen visar att dessa tre teman är beroende och dirigerande av varandra inom konstens värdeproduktion och att de alltid är i samverkan med varandra. Det framgår också av undersökningen att uppmärksamhets värdet är flyktigt och högt beroende av produktionskontexten primärt.

Through the use of mixed media, I explore imagery that reveals the trauma of returning combat veterans, of which I am one, as we try to reintegrate into a society that does not understand the war that still lingers within us. In my work, I depict emotional disturbances that are related to my personal encounters with war. My working process starts by referencing mainstream media imagery, which I juxtapose against harsh images inspired by veterans' drug and alcohol use, trauma and death. My black-and-white pixelated paintings feature the fragmented memories of a hostile combat environment, and although "Out of My Mind" depicts the chaotic emotions associated with PTSD, my whimsical style of illustration suggests a detachment from reality. Whether we call it shell shock, battle fatigue or PTSD, the war-related disorder is real. I want society to be aware of the hidden scars that our veterans carry with them. I do not anticipate my subject matter changing any time soon.

Master of Music / Department of Music / Frank C. Tracz / This document was constructed on the comprehensive examination questions based on the Graduate Conducting Recital of Kyle D. Hopkins. The theoretical and historical analysis includes The Star-Spangled Banner by Jack Stamp, Tharsos by Jeff Jordan, Americans We by Henry Fillmore, and Cajun Folk Songs by Frank Ticheli. Along with the analysis, this document contains rehearsal plans and procedures used in the preparation of the literature. The recital was performed in two parts by the McPherson High School Band on February 5, 2009 in the McPherson High School Roundhouse at 7:30 pm and April 30, 2009 in the McPherson High School Auditorium at 7:30 pm.

This Education Resource Guide includes discussion questions, as well as activities regarding the following three topics related to Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul.

Jeff Carroll's research into Huntington's disease is not only offering hope for the afflicted; it's changing the course of his own genetic destiny.

My diploma work is an analyzation of a cooperation between the DOP and a director.

Kyrkor som är byggda innan år 1940 skyddas i enlighet med 4 kap. Kyrkliga kulturminnen ur Kulturmiljölagen. Samtidigt efterfrågar kyrkobesökare större krav på inomhusklimatet som för kyrkornas inventarier leder till skador. De två parametrarna temperatur samt relativ fukthalt, och förhållandet mellan dem, utgör därför en viktig del för både bevarandet av kulturhistoriska byggnader och dess inventarier. Vederslövs kyrka är byggd i sten och anses vara en av Kronobergs läns mest välbevarade kyrkor från slutet av 1800-talet. Efter inhämtning av mätvärden från JEFF Electronics styrsystem och utplacerade loggrar i kyrkan har simulering i IDA ICE utförts. Därefter har fyra stycken energieffektiviseringsåtgärder för Vederslövs kyrka presenterats.