Sökning: "Walter Benjamin"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden Walter Benjamin.

1. 11. Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures : a supplement to the Arcades Project from a Caribbean Perspective [and a call for a careful practice of epistemológica]

   Författare :Luis Berríos-Negrón; Leif Dahlberg; Håkan Nilsson; Florian Dombois; Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; greenhouse; colonial memory; phenomenotechnologies; global warming; sculpture; installation art; Art; Technology and Design; Konst; teknik och design;

   Sammanfattning : Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures is a doctoral work that supplements the unfinished modern opus The Arcades Project [in German Das Passagen-Werk (Mit Bindestrich und Werk mit Capital W) ]. The supplement takes the form of a sculptural, historical, and technological deposition of ‘greenhouse’ that presently oscillates between a past-background and future-foreground to Walter Benjamin's ‘theatrical’ handling of the Parisian arcades. LÄS MER

3. 12. The Mild Boredom of Order : A Study in the History of the Manuscript Collection of Queen Christina of Sweden

   Författare :Eva Nylander; digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap Avdelningen för ABM; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Queen Christina of Sweden; Isaac Vossius; Nicolas Heinsius; Gabriel Naudé; history of book collecting; manuscript collections literary war booty; classification systems; cataloging traditions; Vatican Library; Fondo Reginense Latino; Codices Reginenses Latini; Domenico Teoli; the order of books; sociology of collections; Baroque book culture;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines how the Latin manuscript collection of Queen Christina of Sweden was formed, what function it served for the queen and for others, and how various attempts to impose order on it reflect different epistemological traditions. A recurring theme of the study is the creation of order and the title, The Mild Boredom of Order, a quotation taken from an essay on book collecting by Walter Benjamin, refers to this pervasive theme. LÄS MER

4. 13. Upplysningens självreflexion : Aspekter av Theodor W. Adornos kritiska teori

   Författare :Anders Ramsay; Sociologiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social psychology; Social structures; Sociology; Socialpsykologi; Sociala strukturer; Sociologi; kulturindustri; förtingligande; Frankfurtskolan; Ontologi;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of a collection of previously published or otherwise presented essays dealing with the philosophical, sociological and aesthetic writings of Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). The title of the dissertation is intended to cover a common programmatic theme running through Adorno's writings. LÄS MER

5. 14. Taken by Stealth : Everyday Life and Political Change in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy

   Författare :Fredrik Tydal; Danuta Fjellestad; Brian McHale; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Dos Passos; American modernism; everyday life; the 1930s; Henri Lefebvre; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy (1938) tells the story of an erosion of American values and ideals – an ideological shift – during the first three decades of the twentieth century. LÄS MER

7. 15. Burkkänslan : surrealism i Christer Strömholms fotografi : en undersökning med semiotisk metod

   Författare :Anders Marner; Roland Spolander; Henning Hansen; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; semiotics; cultural semiotics; visual semiotics; photography; semiotics of photography; surrealism; surrealist photography; rhetoric; photographic rhetoric; Art; Konstvetenskap; konstvetenskap; History Of Art;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is mainly concerned with the photography of Christer Strömholm. In studying his work semiotics is used as a method in analysing the rhetoric of his photographs and their relations to the photographic world, the artworld and the lifeworld. LÄS MER