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  1. 6. Are Beautiful traffic environments safer than Ugly traffic environments?

    Författare :Helena Drottenborg; Trafik och väg; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; driving behaviour; traffic safety; eye blink; heart rate; mood; basic emotional process; environmental psychology; gestalt theory; ugly; aesthetics; beautiful; speed.; Road transport technology; Vägtransportteknik;

    Sammanfattning : To link aesthetics to traffic safety, the field of environmental psychology was consid-ered. A new model of driving behaviour was developed, based on Lewin’s (1951) equation, B = f (P,E) and by employing Küllers’ (1991) model of the basic emotional process. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Elis Eriksson: Ting och tecken

    Författare :Fred Andersson; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Systematisk filosofi; ideology; epistemology; metaphysics; aesthetics; ethics; Systematic philosophy; Konstvetenskap; Art History; Verbal Visual information; Avant-garde practises; Low culture; Dialects; Swedish artworld; Social theory; Semiotics; Rhetorical aspect; etik; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi; Sculpture and architecture; Skulptur och arkitektur; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; syntax; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik;

    Sammanfattning : The title of this thesis translates as "Elis Eriksson: Objects and Signs" and concerns the life and work of the Swedish artist Elis Eriksson (1906-2006) as analysed from a semiotic point of view. The semiotic theory applied in the thesis is to be regarded as a theory of cultural semiotics or socio-semiotics, explicitly critical towards the rigid application of linguistic models so often associated with semiotic studies in the human sciences. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Spectral Inheritance : Unlearning the Maturity-trope

    Författare :Ruben Hordijk; Madina Tlostanova; Edyta Just; Sophie Withaeckx; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Spectral inheritance; Developmental man; Vulnerability; Childhood; Family abolition; Unlearning; Hauntology; Sociogeny; Genealogy; Figurations; Feminist theory; Decoloniality; Continental philosophy; Spektralt arv; Utvecklingsmänniska; Sårbarhet; Avlärning; Hemsökologi; Sociogenes; Genealogi; Figurationer; Feministisk teori; Dekolonialitet; Kontinental filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : Drawing on continental and decolonial feminist philosophy, Spectral Inheritance: Unlearning the Maturity-trope addresses the centrality of the notions of “maturity” and “development” in discussions of human subjectivity, temporality and ethics. Building on Sylvia Wynter’s framework, the dissertation proposes to read the Euromodern genres of Man in developmental terms. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Existentiella konfigurationer : Om hur förståelsen av livet tar gestalt i ett socialt sammanhang

    Författare :Caroline Gustavsson; Anders Gustavsson; Annika Ullman; Peder Thalén; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Existential configurations; young adults; meaning-making; existential themes; life questions; life-view; life-interpretation; hermeneutic approach; Existentiella konfigurationer; unga vuxna; meningsskapande; existentiella teman; livsfrågor; livsåskådning; livstolkning; hermeneutik; pedagogik; Education;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis contributes to the research field of education, or more specific to the field of religious education. The aim of the thesis is to interpret how young adults of today describe and understand their lives, with a specific focus on existential themes, and furthermore, to develop useful concepts that can help us understand individual meaning-making in a social and cultural context. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Wearing Sound : Foundations of Sonic Design

    Författare :Vidmina Stasiulyte; Clemens Thornquist; Daniëlle Bruggeman; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Textiles and Fashion Design ; Textil och mode konstnärlig ;

    Sammanfattning : Fashion is primarily a visual ontology consisting of definitions, theory and methods that are based on visual language. This research revises fashion by approaching it from a different—sonic—perspective wherein sound is considered not as a negative aspect but as a potential source of a new theory and facilitator of the evolution of new methods. LÄS MER