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21. Motorikens retorik : Kroppsobservationer, översättningar och faktakonstruktioner: en diskursanalys
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of the discourse on children’s ability to control their body movements – the rhetoric of motorics (motor control). It takes an interest in the different practices that need to be dealt with if you would like to construct a description of bodiliness in a factual way, and it is particularly concerned with the practice of transforming observations of children’s bodiliness into literary inscriptions of motor control as well as the discursive actions that make these inscriptions credible and relevant. LÄS MER
22. Makt och konstsmak : sociala och politiska motsättningar på den svenska konstmarknaden 1920-1960
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the relationships between actors on the Swedish art market during the period 1920-1960. The sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu is used as an analytical framework.One part of the thesis studies different social groups on the market. Firstly, the relationships between different galleries and art dealers are investigated. LÄS MER
23. Intimitetens villkor : kön, sexualitet och berättelser om jaget
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the drawing of boundaries between normal and abnormal, between natural and unnatural. The aim is to show how the conditions for intimacy and hence also intimacy between women have changed in modern society, how sex and sexuality have been perceived, organized, and experienced in relation to historical and cultural circumstances. LÄS MER
24. Over the Threshold, Into the World : Experiences of Transcendence in the Context of Staged Events
Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to develop an apparatus of theory and method for performance analysis, the purpose of which is to analyse potentials for experiences of transcendence. These experiences are contextualised in terms of the metaphysical, the religious, and the spiritual. LÄS MER
25. Uncontainable Life : A Biophilosophy of Bioart
Sammanfattning : Uncontainable Life: A Biophilosophy of Bioart investigates the ways in which thinking through the contemporary hybrid artistico-scientific practices of bioart is a biophilosophical practice, one that contributes to a more nuanced understanding of life than we encounter in mainstream academic discourse. When examined from a Deleuzian feminist perspective and in dialogue with contemporary bioscience, bioartistic projects reveal the inadequacy of asking about life’s essence. LÄS MER