Sökning: "Irrational"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 65 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Irrational.
1. The Alevi-Bektasi Legacy: Problems of Acquisition and Explanation
Sammanfattning : Mystics and amateur politicians in the margin of Turkish society. The specific case of marginalisation in the specific context of my choice provides a wealth of details to be accounted for. All details taken together are real life itself and can thus not be accounted for in a book. LÄS MER
2. Driving Violations : Investigating Forms of Irrational Rationality
Sammanfattning : Several aspects contribute to road crashes and one important part is the ‘human factor’. This information is interesting but insufficient unless we also try to understand what is meant by the term. LÄS MER
3. Digital lines, Sturmian words, and continued fractions
Sammanfattning : In this thesis we present and solve selected problems arising from digital geometry and combinatorics on words. We consider digital straight lines and, equivalently, upper mechanical words with positive irrational slopes a... LÄS MER
4. Tarot : New age i bild och berättelse
Sammanfattning : In the course of my dissertation work, I have sought knowledge about what New Age is, contains, and conveys by looking at practice and rhetoric, how the participants act and reason regarding their commitment, as well as how the contents of the field is discussed. I have put an emphasis on the small details: the objects, the rituals, and the narrating. LÄS MER
5. Situated Freedom : Exploring the Aesthetic Practice of Rem Koolhaas/OMA
Sammanfattning : The thesis advocates that architecture can, as an operative medium, situate freedom. Following the work of Michel Foucault, the thesis develops an argument for an emancipatory endeavor, termed “situated freedom in architecture. LÄS MER