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William, Joseph. "Deconstruction and relativism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0023/NQ32459.pdf.
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Durie, Robin. "Phenomenology and deconstruction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1799.
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This thesis examines the nature of the supplementary relationship between Husserlian phenomenology and deconstruction. Chapter 1 gives an account of the strategies and aims of deconstruction, determining these to be an attempt to respond, using ‘other names’, to the other which is excluded by phenomenology/philosophy in its attempts to master its own limits. In Chapter 2, it is found that alterity is encountered by phenomenology on its own thresholds, informing the genetic turn in phenomenology which is necessitated as a result of the inquiries into the temporal constitution which founds the possibility of an object’s being given as such to consciousness. Furthermore, it is shown how the possibility of the genetic turn resides in the indication relation examined in the phenomenology of signification. Chapter 3 focusses on the deconstruction of phenomenology, and investigates the double movement in phenomenology which the deconstruction reveals, taking time and language as guiding threads. On the one hand, the genetic turn appears to reveal a founding alterity, which, on the other hand, phenomenology strives to suppress in accordance with its adherence to its own ‘principle of principles’. It is argued that the deconstruction aims to accord phenomenological respect to the alterity uncovered by phenomenological descriptions. This is done through thematising certain operative concepts, concepts which remain unthemtised in phenomenology precisely because such thematisation would reveal a founding non-presence intolerable to phenomenology. Deconstruction supplements phenomenology to the extent that it attempts to name, on the fissured margins of phenomenology, the radical alterity uncovered by phenomenology in a way which does not reduce the very otherness of the alterity. However, in the final Chapter, it is argued, from the perspective of Levinas, that Derrida does not in fact manage to find a sense for founding alterity in phenomenology which is ‘beyond metaphysics’. The thesis concludes by arguing that, in order to achieve its strategic aims, as detailed in Chapter 1, the deconstruction of phenomenology needs to be ethically supplemenred, one example of such an ethically supplemented deconstructive reading of Husserl being found in some of the most recent texts of Levinas.
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Roberts, B. L. "Technics and deconstruction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288842.
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This thesis explores the question of technicity in relation to deconstruction. This question of `technics' is first explored in relation to Marx's analysis of the commodity. I examine Jean-Joseph Goux's attempt in Economie et Symbolique to extend the four-stage development of the commodity fetish to all forms of symbolic value including that of the linguistic sign. Here what I demonstrate is that Derrida's understanding of arche-writing, far from representing a `material restitution' of the sign as Goux hopes, in fact represents a process of exteriorisation that is irreducibly as ideal as it is material. This `originary technicity' of the sign then helps to explicate the `technical life' of the commodity as outlined by Derrida in Specters of Marx. Secondly, I examine Bernard Stiegler's influential recent work Technics and Time which attempts to generalise a technicity understood as the `prosthesis of the human' to a general theory of `inorganic organised matter', or an evolutionary technics which Stiegler calls epiphylogenesis. Here I analyse in some detail the logic of Stiegler's argument before moving on to query some of the basic assumptions in his reading of Derrida and Heidegger. Finally, I investigate the question of technicity in relation to the politics of deconstruction. Here I explore critically Richard Beardsworth's recent claims that there are two political legacies of Derrida's work, the one building on Derrida's thoughts around original technicity (Stiegler's route), the other concerned with a more religious or literary thinking of the `promise
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NIGRO, RACHEL BARROS. "DECONSTRUCTION LANGUAGE POLITICS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=11425@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRODesconstrução Linguagem Política promete trabalhar a noção de linguagem no pensamento desconstrutor e a questão política que ela evoca. Em termos mais precisos, Desconstrução Linguagem Política pretende investigar até que ponto a desconstrução pode ser considerada uma filosofia pragmática da linguagem e qual a sua relação com a esfera política.
Deconstruction Language Politics promise to work on the notion of language in deconstruction´s though and on the political question it evokes. More precisely, Deconstruction Language Politics intends to investigate what are the possibilities to consider deconstruction a pragmatic philosophy of language and what is its relation to the political realm.
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Wu, Xiao-ming. "Deconstruction and #China'." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307298.
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Mathews, James Stanley. "Structure and deconstruction." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53141.
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My efforts to discover a means of making a more effective sculpture led me to pursue architecture. The problem with sculpture as I saw it was that it had been deformed over time from that which marked a place into a placeless isolate. Just as I worked against that placeless isolate in sculpture, so am I now working against the placeless isolate in architecture.
The aspects of architecture, the site, the plan, elements and materials, although acting phenomenally in conjunction with other coexisting elements, are often conceived as isolates. In order to elucidate the interrelation between these aspects at different scales, I turned to the work of the Poststructuralists such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, et al. They outline a deconstructive critical approach to linguistic/literary meaning, which I have used as a model for understanding the language of architecture.
Architecture comes into being at the convergence of orders, when ordered and coherent human actions (institutions) take place in a locus or place which has been made architectonic. I am for an interrelational and interactive architecture, one which maintains a critical stance vis a vis its locus, its purposes, and its elements and materials. This is not a disassociated and detached abstract "ideal," but a self-conscious choice, made in conviction and commitment to a coherent and dignified order to human existence.
The design project is an effort to make some of these thoughts operational. The proposal is for a University Museum at the parking lot at the northwest edge of the VPI Campus. The project begins with an analysis and critique of the current placeless condition of the site. The site is restructured with respect to the latent campus structure, which is itself clarified. The Museum building becomes the focal point of a new axis relating the site and the Campus. The site becomes a boundary for the Campus and promotes the growth of a coherent campus plan.Master of Architecture
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Fleming, David Lee. "Design for Deconstruction." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242668277.
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Humphries, Ralph Martin 1961. "The consequences of deconstruction." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2000. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7594.
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Wood, David. "The deconstruction of time." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1985. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2538/.
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Derrida's claim that there can be no concept of time that escapes from the sphere of the metaphysical presents us with three major questions: (1) Why does Derrida make this claim? What does he mean by it? (2) How, in the light of this claim ought we to read Husserl and Heidegger who aimed at just what Derrida rules out? (3) How can we square the claim with other things Derrida says about time and about metaphysics? We undertake a critical reading of the two major works on time by Husserl and Heidegger respectively, arguing that while each of these two texts does indeed subscribe to such metaphysical values as fundamentality, certainty, unity, identity and wholeness, they nonetheless make a substantial contribution to our release from the domination of 'the ordinary concept of time'. Furthermore, we argue, Derrida's own writing is marked by the same (perhaps inevitable) 'metaphysical' shadow, albeit in an exemplary self-conscious manner. To Derrida's claim about the impossibility of a non-metaphysical concept of time we reply (a) he elsewhere endorses a 'pluri-dimensional' temporality, and (b) when being careful, he admits that it is not concepts per se that are metaphysical, but their mode of textual articulation. From these two concessions our double strategy develops. I. His denial of an original, primitive time, coupled with his understanding of metaphysics in terms of textual articulation licences a programme for the description of temporal structures and representations of time, one abjuring any foundationalist pretensions, and resisting the temptation to spatializing interpretations. II. We redescribe the 'moment' in a way that breaks utterly with any representational element whatever. This approximates in temporal terms the time-dissolving moves found both in the latter Heidegger, and also in Derrida.
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Kimbril, Katrina. "The Deconstruction of Butterflies." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1641.
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Snead, John Peyton. "Deconstruction in landscape architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40641.
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Furuhashi, Ryutaro. "Deconstruction, existentialism, and art /." Online version of thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12262.
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Bojesen, Emile. "Where meaning stops and communication begins." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549640.
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This thesis presents possibilities of meaning and communication in the light of the deconstructive thinking of Jacques Derrida. The central claim of the thesis is that meaning and communication are not only possible in deconstructive thinking but that their complex and contradictory relationship with one another is at the heart of that thinking. Deconstruction will be posited as an applied understanding of the generative (that is, lived) processes of meaning and communication. Deconstruction, the thesis argues, is not, as has hitherto been suggested, a process which undermines or negates the possibility of meaning or communication. Rather, the thesis concludes that provisional possibilities of meaning are contextually resigned acts of faith, whilst faith in the impossibility of future communication is the sense of faith. Where meaning stops and communication begins is where deconstruction's faith in impossibility makes that future possible. The thesis highlights six specific contexts within which meaning and communication are provisionally and generatively explored: Derrida's writing on meaning and communication; Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy's meaningful and communicative congruities; S0ren Kierkegaard's impossible marriages; John Cowper Powys's 'marriage'; the 'realities within reality' of the 'Stonehenge' chapter of Powys's A Glastonbury Romance; and, the author's own conceptions of 'act of faith' and 'sense of faith' employed in line with the previous contexts read through John Llewelyn's 'imagination'. These six contexts are underpinned by five principal questions: what is communication? what is meaning? who or what communicates? who or what means? and, where does meaning stop and communication begin?
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Hällgren, Tomas. "Phenomenological studies of dimensional deconstruction." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Physics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-567.
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In this thesis, two applications of dimensional deconstruction are studied. The first application is a model for neutrino oscillations in the presence of a large decon- structed extra dimension. In the second application, Kaluza{Klein dark matter from a latticized universal extra dimension is studied. The goal of these projects have been twofold. First, to see whether it is possible to reproduce the relevant features of the higher-dimensional continuum theory, and second, to examine the effect of the latticization in experiments. In addition, an introduction to the the- ory of dimensional deconstruction as well as to the theory of continuous extra dimensions is given. Furthermore, the various higher-dimensional models, such as Arkani-Hamed{Dvali{Dimopolous (ADD) models and models with universal extra dimensions, that have been intensively studied in recent years, are discussed.
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Jenkins, Philip. "Jean Baudrillard : deconstruction and alterity." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341479.
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Lindsay, Stuart L. "Reading Chernobyl : psychoanalysis, deconstruction, literature." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21790.
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This thesis explores the psychological trauma of the survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986. I argue for the emergence from the disaster of three Chernobyl traumas, each of which will be analysed individually – one per chapter. In reading these three traumas of Chernobyl, the thesis draws upon and situates itself at the interface between two primary theoretical perspectives: Freudian psychoanalysis and the deconstructive approach of Jacques Derrida. The first Chernobyl trauma is engendered by the panicked local response to the consequences of the explosion at Chernobyl Reactor Four by the power plant’s staff, the fire fighters whose job it was to extinguish the initial blaze caused by the blast, the inhabitants of nearby towns and villages, and the soldiers involved in the region’s evacuation and radiation decontamination. Most of these people died from radiation poisoning in the days, weeks, months or years after the disaster’s occurrence. The first chapter explores the usefulness and limits of Freudian psychoanalytic readings of local survivors’ testimonies of the disaster, examining in relation to the Chernobyl event Freud’s practice of locating the authentic primal scene or originary traumatic witnessing experience in his subjects’ pasts, as exemplified by his Wolf Man analysis, detailed in his psychoanalytic study ‘On the History of an Infantile Neurosis’ (1918). The testimonies read through this Freudian psychoanalytic lens are constituted by Igor Kostin’s personal account of the disaster’s aftermath, detailed in his book Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter (2006), and by Svetlana Alexievich’s interviews with Chernobyl disaster survivors in her book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (2006). The second chapter argues that Freudian psychoanalysis only provides a provisional, ultimately fictional origin of Chernobyl trauma. Situating itself in relation to trauma studies, this thesis, progressing from its first to its second chapter, charts the geographical and temporal shift between these first and second traumas, from trauma-as-sudden-event to trauma-as-gradual-process. In the weeks following the initial Chernobyl explosion, which released into the atmosphere a radioactive cloud that blew in a north-westerly direction across Northern Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden, symptoms of radiation poisoning slowly emerged in the populations of the abovementioned countries. To analyse the psychological impact of confronting this gradual, international unfolding of trauma – the second trauma of Chernobyl – the second chapter of this thesis explores the critique of the global attempt to archivise, elegise and ultimately understand the Chernobyl disaster in Mario Petrucci’s elegies, compiled in his poetry collection Heavy Water: A Poem for Chernobyl (2006), the horror film Chernobyl Diaries (2012, dir. Bradley Parker), and Adam Roberts’ Science Fiction novel, Yellow Blue Tibia (2009). Analysing the deconstructive approach of Jacques Derrida in these texts – his notions of archive fever, impossible mourning and ethical mourning – this chapter argues that the attempt to interiorise, memorialise and mourn the survivors of the Chernobyl disaster is narcissistic, hubristic and violent in the extreme. It then proposes that Derrida’s notion of ethical mourning, outlined most clearly in his lecture ‘Mnemosyne’ (1984), enables us to situate our emotional sympathy for survivors – who, following Derrida’s lecture, are maintained as permanently exterior and inaccessible to us – in our very inability or failure to comprehend or locate the origin of their Chernobyl traumas. The third and final chapter analyses the third trauma of Chernobyl: the psychological and physiological effects of the disaster on second-generation inhabitants living near the Exclusion Zone erected around the evacuated, cordoned-off and still-radioactive Chernobyl region. These second-generation experiences of living near a sealed-away source of intense radiation are reconstructed in literature and videogaming: in Darragh McKeon’s novel All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (2014), Hamid Ismailov’s novel The Dead Lake (2014) and the videogame S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007), developed by the company GSC Game World. The analysis of these texts is informed by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok’s psychoanalytic theory of the intergenerational phantom: the muteness of a generation’s history which returns to haunt the succeeding generations. This chapter will explore the psychological effects upon second-generation Chernobyl survivors, which result from these survivors’ incorporation or unconscious interiorisation of their parents’ psychologically repressed traumatic Chernobyl experiences, by analysing reconstructions of this process in the abovementioned texts. These parental experiences, echoing the Exclusion Zone as a denied physical space, have been interred in inaccessible psychic crypts. By way of conclusion, the thesis then offers an alternative theory of reading survivors’ Chernobyl trauma. Survivors’ restaging of their Chernobyl witnessing experiences as jokes enables them to cathartically, temporarily abreact their trauma through the laughter that these jokes engender.
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Densley, Tingley Danielle. "Design for deconstruction : an appraisal." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3771/.
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This thesis contains an assessment and discussion of the sustainability of design for deconstruction. As a basis for the work, existing literature was reviewed and the gaps in existing knowledge highlighted. Environmental assessment methods were identified as a way to incentivise design for deconstruction. An analysis of LEED demonstrated minimal achievement of reuse credits, likely due to limited availability of reused materials. The supply chain can be developed in the future through the design for deconstruction of all new buildings. Quantifying the environmental benefits of design for deconstruction was underlined as a key strategy to encourage designers to consider the incorporation of design for deconstruction. A methodology was developed to account for designed-in future reuse at the initial design stage. This is based on a PAS2050 methodology (2008) which shares the environmental impact of an element over the number of predicted lives. In the course of this work it has been assumed that the typical building has a fifty year life span, a conservative estimate. Studies in this thesis limit analysis to a hundred year period, giving a possible two lives for the majority of elements. The methodology was used as a basis for the calculation of savings that occur by designing for deconstruction. Initial feasibility studies estimated that a 49% saving in embodied carbon is accomplished by designing for deconstruction. Having demonstrated the potential scope of savings, a tool, Sakura, was developed to enable designers to investigate the savings in embodied energy and carbon for their own schemes. Sakura was used to assess the savings that could be achieved for a range of case studies. Steel and timber frame structures demonstrated the greatest potential savings from design for deconstruction. School projects exhibited the highest savings when the building types were compared.
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Baguley, Margaret Mary. "The deconstruction of domestic space." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35896/1/35896_Baguley_1998.pdf.
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I find myself in the pantry, cleaning shelves, in the laundry, water slopping around my elbows, at the washing line, pegging clothes. I watch myself clean shelves, wash, peg clothes. These are the rhythms
that comfort. That postpone. (The Painted Woman, Sue Woolfe, p. 170)
As a marginalised group in Australian art history and society, women artists possess a valuable and vital craft tradition which inevitably influences all aspects of their arts practice. Installation art, which has its origins in the craft tradition, has only been
acknowledged in the art mainstream this decade; yet evolved in the home of the 1950s. The social policies of this era are well documented for their insistence on
women remaining in the home in order to achieve personal success in their lives. This cultural oppressiveness paradoxically resulted in a revolution in women's art in the environment to which they were confined. Women's creative energies were diverted and sublimated into the home, resulting in aesthetic statements of individuality in home decoration. As an art movement, women's installation art in the home provided the similar structures to formally recognised art schools in the mainstream, and include: informal networks and training (schools); matriarchs within the community
who were knowledgable in craft traditions and techniques and shared these with younger women (mentorships); visiting other homes and providing constructive
advice (critiques); and women's magazines and glory boxes (art journals and sketch books). A re-examination of this vital period in women's art history will reveal the
social policies and cultural influences which insidiously undermined women's art, which was based on craft traditions.
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Gladston, Paul. "Art history after deconstruction : is there any future for a deconstructive attention to art historical discourse?" Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12638/.
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Over the past two decades institutionally dominant art history has been strongly influenced by the theory and practice of deconstruction. While many art historians have embraced deconstruction as a productive means of unsettling and remotivating standard forms of art historical discourse, others have raised concerns over what they see as a widespread departure from the most basic tenets of art historical discourse; that is to say, not only the belief that there is a circumscribed category of aesthetic experience (art), but also that it is possible to arrive at a truthful representation of the relationship between works of art and the circumstances of their production and initial reception (history). Moreover, many of those same commentators have railed against the way in which this departure can be understood to have suspended any sense of a stable, structural connection between a historical is and a present ought; in other words, the notion that a truthful understanding of past events has the potential to inform ethico- political activity in the here and now. Our intention here is to problematize this apparent schism by demonstrating that art historical discourse has drawn the very possibility of its continuing conceptuality since Antiquity from a chronic and, for the most part, unconscious deconstructive interaction between the signifying ‘texts’ of art history and what might be seen as the various material, social and intellectual forces pertaining to the wider historical ‘contexts’ of their production and reception. Thus, we will have attempted to show that deconstruction is indivisible from continuing discursive attempts to arrive at a ‘truthful’ understanding of the past. In addition to this we will also attempt to show - with reference both to the writings of Jacques Derrida and a Duchampian inheritance in the visual arts - that it is possible to develop deconstructive forms of historical narrative through which we might engage critically with questions of ‘ethico- political’ value.
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Cheang, I. Ian. "Deconstruction of the Disney Princess Empire." Thesis, University of Macau, 2006. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874212.
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Ware, Ianto. "Olive Schreiner's transcendentalist deconstruction of colonialism /." Title page and contents only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arw268.pdf.
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Segal, A. P. M. "Deconstruction and the logic of criticism." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234922.
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The dissertation seeks to take account of the implications of Jacques Derrida's deconstructive philosophy for literary theory and criticism through analysis of the work of non-deconstructionists theorists and critics. In particular, the dissertation deals with the attempt by much traditional Anglo-American literary theory to articulate what might be called a lq'logic of criticism' - an attempt evident in the use made by this theory of oppositions such as intrinsic/extrinsic, structural/genetic, essential/contingent, and so on. The attempt is considered with respect to three concerns of modern literary theory: organic form, authorial intention and the question of value. On the first issue, it is argued that the organicist's construal of the relation of form and content in poetry is analogous to Husserl's construal of the relation of signifier and signified in speech, and that Derrida's deconstruction of Husserl's privileging of voice provides the model for the deconstruction of organicism. In the case of intention, it is argued that modern criticism and theory has characteristically relied on a notion of the literary work as saturated by a fully conscious intention, a reliance which marks a succumbing to what Derrida calls 'the structural lure of consciousness'. Concerning the question of value, the target is the attempt to defend value by locating it as the ground, the centre, the telos or origin of the phenomenon to be accounted for. The dissertation concludes by broaching the question of the nature of a properly deconstructive literary criticism. It is argued that so-called deconstructionist criticism involves a neutralization of deconstruction, a defect which Derrida avoids in his own literary criticism.
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Sweeney-Turner, Steve. "Sonorous body : music, enlightenment & deconstruction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8204.
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How forgivable is a musicological text on deconstruction two decades after its assimilation by the other "humanities" disciplines? Moreover, how forgivable is a discipline as a whole which has allowed one of the most challenging aspects of post-war critical theory to pass it by to this extent? In no other field are Laing's remarks more likely to resonate today than that of critical musicology. Even the adoption of the critical epithet itself is a relatively recent phenomenon. However, it is indicative of an emergent desire for musicology to finally engage with contemporary critical discourse in general. Such a call has been made from "outside" the profession by cultural critic Edward Said, who calls for an end to "the generally cloistral and reverential, not to say deeply insular, habits in writing about music." [Musical Flaborations, p.58] From "within" the field, Susan McClary laments that the crucial critical debates are "almost entirely absent from traditional musicology." [Feminine Endings, p.54] Likewise, what is increasingly unforgivable according to Ruth Solie is "our customary methodological behindhandedness [sic]" [Musicology & Difference, p.3]. Various routes away from the methodological backwaters have been suggested. For instance, in a conference paper in 1984, Richard Middleton defined a twofold approach which appears to combine aspects of structuralism and Marxism. Middleton called firstly for a move in to "semiology, broadly defined and stressing the social situation of signifying practise: this should take over from traditional formal analysis." [quoted in Shepherd, Music as Social Text, p.209] Secondly, this should be supplemented with an "historical sociology of the whole musical field, stressing critical comparison of divergent sub-codes of the 'common musical competence': this should take over from liberal social histories of music" [ibid., p.209] As a method for introducing this new musicological mode, Middleton recommends the inclusion of popular music as a field of study. Indeed, his implication is that such a challenge to the classical hegemony would naturally entail a move towards this twofold approach, and would by itself open up "a golden opportunity to develop a critical musicology" [Studying Popular Music, p.123]. In this sense, an expansion of the field of study could lead to a necessary adoption of new methodologies.
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Diebschlag, Natalie. "Michael Ondaatje's Inventions Literature after Deconstruction." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534427.
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Bradley, Arthur Humphrey. "Reading Shelley negatively : mysticism and deconstruction." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263790.
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Mouilek, Sabrina (Sabrina Marie). "Design for adaptability and deconstruction (DfAD)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53070.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-60).
Buildings are static elements in a dynamic environment characterized by fast changing needs and evolving environmental, social, and economic standards. Thus, today challenge for structural design through Design for Adaptability and Deconstruction (DfAD) is to create buildings that are flexible enough to answer these needs. This thesis analyses DfAD for building structures and presents three case studies: a tent, a structure with prefabricated panellised systems, and a container building. The key arguments that justify DfAD are the negative environmental impact of the current structures; the life cycle of a building; the changes expected from buildings; and the cost incentive of this design. DfAD is a combination of design approaches that deal with the different scales of a structure. The fundamental tools to achieve DfAD are the connections, the type of structure, and the use of prefabricated systems. This thesis shows that standardization and layer-and-module modelling are essential to achieve a sustainable structural design. Three case studies present the structural features and the applications of this design approach.
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Carlos, Rute das Neves Sarabando. "Deconstruction of plant biomass by autohydrolysis." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/14304.
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Mestrado em Química - Química Analítica e QualidadeThe search for better technologies for upgrading biomass wastes has received increasing attention in the recent years. Special consideration has to be given to the hemicellulosic fraction, one of the more challenging fractions. In this work, two biologically different waste materials were iorefinery concept: the materials derived from the forestry processing of the cypress cedar of Goa (Cupressus lusitanica Mill.), namely chips, bark, leaves and cones, and the wastes of the watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) industrial processing (rinds). The chemical composition of all materials was characterized taking special attention to the extractives content and to the structural polysaccharides and lignin and the autohydrolysis process was optimized aiming for the production of novel oligosaccharides. The autohydrolysis process presented a high selectivity towards hemicelluloses, yielding oligosaccharides in high concentrations, especially for the chips of cypress cedar of Goa. The oligosaccharides were characterized regarding their chemical composition and their stability under different temperature and pH values. Their potential industrial applications, namely for the food industry, are also presented and discussed. As a preliminary evaluation of the integrated upgrade of these materials, the use of biomass from cypress cedar of Goa as a source of essential oils and the digestibility of the cellulose present in the residual biomass derived from the autohydrolysis treatments as a source of glucose for fermentation were also tested and are discussed.
A procura pelo melhor aproveitamento da biomassa vegetal tem vindo a despertar o interesse no uso racional de todos os seus componentes, tendo de se dar especial atenção à valorização das hemiceluloses, uma das frações mais desafiantes. Neste trabalho selecionaram-se dois resíduos vegetais, a biomassa do Cipreste-Português ou Falso-Cedro-do-Buçaco (Cupressus lusitanica Mill.) tendo-se estudado os seus principais constituintes (madeira, casca, folhas e gálbulas) e as cascas de melancia (Citrullus lanatus), principal resíduo da potencial utilização industrial deste fruto. Estudou-se a composição química dos diferentes materiais e otimizou-se o processo de auto-hidrólise para a produção de oligossacarídeos com potenciais novas funcionalidades. Os resultados demonstram a elevada seletividade do processo de auto-hidrólise para a remoção das hemiceluloses, principalmente para a estilha do Cipreste-Português, tendo-se obtido elevadas concentrações de oligossacarídeos. Os diferentes oligossacarídeos foram caracterizados relativamente à sua composição e estabilidade química sob diferentes temperaturas e valores de pH e discute-se a sua potencialidade para aplicações na indústria alimentar. Por forma a perspetivar uma valorização integrada dos materiais no conceito da biorrefinaria, estudou-se ainda a utilização da biomassa de Cipreste-Português como fonte de óleos essenciais e a digestibilidade enzimática da celulose presente na biomassa residual obtida do processo de auto-hidrólise como método de recuperação de glucose para fins fermentativos.
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Adams, Anthony. "The Fundamentals of Fundamentalism: A Deconstruction." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244850.
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This work attempts to radically redefine religious fundamentalism and its relation to modernity; this process unfolds in three stages. First, we demonstrate the incoherence of the standard characterizations in light of a number of factual trends. We explore the various ways intellectuals have attempted to refine and adapt the standard definition in order to accommodate these facts, and the ways in which these attempts ultimately fail. The second stage is a semantic deconstruction of the term. We posit that essential problems with the standard definition arose as a result of inappropriately drawing normative conclusions from descriptive claims, paired with an unjustifiably narrow definition of who constitutes as a fundamentalist. Moreover, we analyze how the term "religious fundamentalism" is typically used in a political fashion. Finally, we demonstrate that the typical definition of religious fundamentalism is more properly understood as a characterization of mass-movements, more generally. Our conclusions are as follows: all ideologies are fundamentalist, in nature. Religious fundamentalism is not opposed to modernity. In fact, secularism and religious fundamentalism are simply competing interpretations of modernism. Accordingly, modernization will necessarily be accompanied by an increase in religious fundamentalism. Therefore, we must rethink what it means to combat extremism and the value of modernization.
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Nicholes, Zoe Clare. "Developing a measure of cognitive deconstruction." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2010. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/0d66bcafcfb7afcb3a3323a0586050c22b89fd0e57151f5efa319f4a84a076b8/3020926/65028_downloaded_stream_253.pdf.
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The aim of this thesis was to develop a reliable and valid measure of cognitive deconstruction, a defensive state marked by a person's attempted refusal to engage in meaningful thought and undertake integrative, interpretive mental acts (Baumeister, 1990a). Cognitive deconstruction has been described to occur for some people following the experience of social exclusion. Cognitive deconstruction limits meaningful thought, and subsequently allows a person to escape from aversive self awareness and emotional distress that may arise should he or she interpret the exclusion. The eight specific characteristics of cognitive deconstruction described by (1990a) include cognitive immediacy, procedure orientation, passivity and impulsivity, close-mindedness, inconsistencies, disinhibition, lack of emotion, and cognitive vulnerability. These characteristics of cognitive deconstruction had not yet been assessed simultaneously or through the use of a self-report questionnaire, so the aim of this thesis was to develop a reliable and valid measure of cognitive deconstruction that allows for the measurement of the deconstructed state and further empirical evaluation of the theory (Baumeister, 1990a). To achieve the above aim four studies were undertaken. The first study constructed and assessed the 120 item Cognitive Deconstruction Questionnaire (CDQ-120). Following the construction of the CDQ-120, this scale in conjunction with a measure of social isolation was administered to 50 males and 188 females. An exploratory factor analysis resulted in a six-factor structure accounting for a total of 74.71% of explained variance. These six factors, following appropriate relabeling, were Cognitive Vulnerability, Time Perception, Close-Mindedness, Emotion, Changeability, and Immediacy. A total of 18 items remained on the measure following factor analysis and subsequent item reduction.;The modified measure, referred to as the CDQ-18, demonstrated respectable internal consistency (a = .72) and known-groups validity. Study two confirmed the factor structure and internal properties of the revised CDQ-18. Participants involved were 110 males and 197 females. Confirmatory factor analysis of the CDQ-18 revealed that the Immediacy Factor did not fit the model. It was subsequently removed resulting in a 15-item five factor scale titled the CDQ-15. The CDQ-15 was the final version of the questionnaire and demonstrated respectable reliability (a = 77). Known groups validity was found and some factors displayed preliminary convergent validity. Study three attempted to validate the CDQ-15 in an experimental setting, implementing a modified replication of an experimental manipulation (see Twenge, Catanese, and Baumeister, 2002). Participants, 13 men and 52 women, completed the CDQ-15 under the deception of being accepted or rejected by their peers. Contrary to prediction, the CDQ-15 was unable to differentiate between participants in the exclusion condition and participants in the accepted condition, even upon removing the potential influence of prior high levels of social connectedness. The final study, involving 196 men and 150 women, found adequate criterion related validity between the CDQ-15 and variables theoretically proposed to be highly associated to cognitive deconstruction, namely personal agency, meaning in life, and self-awareness. The CDQ-15 also identified higher levels of cognitive deconstruction in participants who reported both greater exposure to exclusionary events and long-term feelings of social exclusion. The findings from this thesis suggest that the CDQ-15 is a reliable measure of cognitive deconstruction. Furthermore, it was found that this measure demonstrates content validity, construct validity, known-groups validity, and criterion related validity.;Although requiring further psychometric evaluation, the CDQ-15 is able to identify characteristics of cognitive deconstruction in people who experience social exclusion and provides further support for the theory of cognitive deconstruction (Baumeister, 1990a).
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SCALAS, ALCESTE. "A semantic deconstruction of session types." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11584/266784.
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This work investigates the semantic foundations of binary session types, by revisiting
them in the abstract setting of labelled transition systems. The main insights and
contributions are:
• a semantically unified approach to the study of session types and CCS processes
with synchronous and asynchronous semantics — the latter obtained with the
addition of unbounded buffers;
• a semantic approach to safety, based on a syntax-independent characterisation of
deadlock states, orphan messages and unspecified reception configurations;
• an I/O compliance relation between generic behaviours, that we demostrate to be
sound and complete w.r.t. safety in asynchronous session types;
• an I/O simulation relation between generic behaviours, which generalises the usual
syntax-directed notions of typing and subtyping, encompassing synchronous and
asynchronous session types;
• a proof-of-concept syntax-driven type system developed from the semantic setting
through a (partial) axiomatisation of I/O simulation.
This work extends the session types theory to some common programming patterns
which are not typically addressed in the session types literature, and aims at setting the
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De, Jager Jakobus Johannes. "Die dekonstruksie van tradisionele probleem-realiteite in 'n plattelandse gemeenskap 'n narratief-pastorale perspektief /." Access to E-Thesis, 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available.etd-12052005-144730/.
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Hällgren, Tomas. "Aspects of Dimensional Deconstruction and Neutrino Physics." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Teoretisk partikelfysik, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4480.
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The existence of at or curved extra spatial dimensions provides new insights into several of the problems which face the Standard Model of particle physics, including the gauge hierarchy problem, the smallness of neutrino masses, and the dark matter problem. However, higher-dimensional gauge theories are not renormalizable and can only be considered as low-energy effective theories, with limited applicability. Dimensional deconstruction provides a class of manifestly gauge invariant possible ultraviolet completions of higher-dimensional gauge theories, formulated within conventional quantum eld theory. In dimensional deconstruction, the fundamental theory is a four-dimensional quantum eld theory and extra spatial dimensions are generated dynamically at low energies. In this thesis, we study di erent applications of dimensional deconstruction in the contexts of neutrino masses, mixing and oscillations, Kaluza{Klein dark matter, and e ective eld theories for discretized higher-dimensional gravity. A different possibility to understand the smallness of neutrino masses is provided by the see-saw mechanism. This is a genuinely four-dimensional mechanism, where the light neutrino masses are induced by the addition of heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos or by other heavy degrees of freedom, such as scalar SU(2)L triplet elds. It has the attractive feature of simultaneously providing a mechanism for generating the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We study in this context a specific left-right symmetric see-saw model.QC 20100716
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Hällgren, Tomas. "Aspects of dimensional deconstruction and neutrino physics /." Stockholm : Fysik, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4480.
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Williams, David. "Beowulf the poet : a deconstruction of narratives." Thesis, Bangor University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367308.
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Isidianso, Chinwe. "Integrating deconstruction into the project delivery process." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/11774.
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Considering deconstruction as a means of achieving sustainable construction, would enable the construction industry to address some of its environmental problems. In addition, the growing pressure from the public and legislation for environmental considerations, means that there is now a need for the construction industry to increasingly consider the recycling and reuse of building components used in constructing buildings. The deconstruction of buildings provides the construction industry with the opportunities to effectively deal with its unsustainable construction practices. One of the approaches taken by industry to facilitate the adoption of deconstruction is designing a building with the intention of disassembly instead of demolition at the end of its useful life. This concept is known as Design for Deconstruction (DFD). Although some research works have been undertaken to support and establish deconstruction into current construction practice, there is little or no guidance for practitioners on how best to do this. This need to fully integrate the concept of design for deconstruction into the current project delivery process is the basis of this research. In order to contextualise, corroborate and develop the research, a review of existing literature on sustainable construction and deconstruction was undertaken. Following from the review of literature, a survey and case study were undertaken to explore the current practice of deconstruction and investigate a practical example of sustainable construction practice that reflects the integration of deconstruction principles within the building process. The findings from the review of literature, the survey and case study were used to develop a mechanism for integrating deconstruction into the building process. The mechanism is a process model for the construction industry to implement the concept of DFD from inception to completion of a building project and throughout a building's lifecycle. Evaluation of the developed process model was carried out by industry practitioners to assess its suitability and practicability. The feedback from the evaluation established that the process model is effective in enabling some aspects of sustainability principles such as designing to minimise waste and encouraging the reuse and recycle of building materials and components. Several benefits and potentials of the process model were also identified. Considering deconstruction as a means of achieving sustainable construction, would enable the construction industry to address some of its environmental problems. In addition, the growing pressure from the public and legislation for environmental considerations, means that there is now a need for the construction industry to increasingly consider the recycling and reuse of building components used in constructing buildings. The deconstruction of buildings provides the construction industry with the opportunities to effectively deal with its unsustainable construction practices. One of the approaches taken by industry to facilitate the adoption of deconstruction is designing a building with the intention of disassembly instead of demolition at the end of its useful life. This concept is known as Design for Deconstruction (DFD). Although some research works have been undertaken to support and establish deconstruction into current construction practice, there is little or no guidance for practitioners on how best to do this. This need to fully integrate the concept of design for deconstruction into the current project delivery process is the basis of this research. In order to contextualise, corroborate and develop the research, a review of existing literature on sustainable construction and deconstruction was undertaken. Following from the review of literature, a survey and case study were undertaken to explore the current practice of deconstruction and investigate a practical example of sustainable construction practice that reflects the integration of deconstruction principles within the building process. The findings from the review of literature, the survey and case study were used to develop a mechanism for integrating deconstruction into the building process. The mechanism is a process model for the construction industry to implement the concept of DFD from inception to completion of a building project and throughout a building's lifecycle. Evaluation of the developed process model was carried out by industry practitioners to assess its suitability and practicability. The feedback from the evaluation established that the process model is effective in enabling some aspects of sustainability principles such as designing to minimise waste and encouraging the reuse and recycle of building materials and components. Several benefits and potentials of the process model were also identified.Considering deconstruction as a means of achieving sustainable construction, would enable the construction industry to address some of its environmental problems. In addition, the growing pressure from the public and legislation for environmental considerations, means that there is now a need for the construction industry to increasingly consider the recycling and reuse of building components used in constructing buildings. The deconstruction of buildings provides the construction industry with the opportunities to effectively deal with its unsustainable construction practices. One of the approaches taken by industry to facilitate the adoption of deconstruction is designing a building with the intention of disassembly instead of demolition at the end of its useful life. This concept is known as Design for Deconstruction (DFD). Although some research works have been undertaken to support and establish deconstruction into current construction practice, there is little or no guidance for practitioners on how best to do this. This need to fully integrate the concept of design for deconstruction into the current project delivery process is the basis of this research. In order to contextualise, corroborate and develop the research, a review of existing literature on sustainable construction and deconstruction was undertaken. Following from the review of literature, a survey and case study were undertaken to explore the current practice of deconstruction and investigate a practical example of sustainable construction practice that reflects the integration of deconstruction principles within the building process. The findings from the review of literature, the survey and case study were used to develop a mechanism for integrating deconstruction into the building process. The mechanism is a process model for the construction industry to implement the concept of DFD from inception to completion of a building project and throughout a building's lifecycle. Evaluation of the developed process model was carried out by industry practitioners to assess its suitability and practicability. The feedback from the evaluation established that the process model is effective in enabling some aspects of sustainability principles such as designing to minimise waste and encouraging the reuse and recycle of building materials and components. Several benefits and potentials of the process model were also identified. Thus, in this research, it can be concluded that integrating the concept of deconstruction into the construction project delivery process can assist the industry to better reuse and recycle building materials and achieve a sustainable environment. Furthermore, the expected impact of the research on the construction industry is a practical process model that can be used to incorporate the concept of deconstruction into the project delivery process. This can be adopted at all the stages of the building process and would benefit the industry as it offers a solution to reduce the environmental impacts caused by its activities.
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Shaw, Darrel. "Deconstruction and disposal of offshore platform topsides." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613429.
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Since the aborted dumping of the Brent Spar in the North East Atlantic in 1995 and subsequent legislation requiring both total removal of platforms and banning of disposal at sea by OSPAR in 1998, operators of offshore platforms have been left with substantially increased decommissioning liabilities. The desire to reduce these liabilities has required the offshore industry to develop new, more cost effective technology for platform removal. The author's sponsoring company, Reverse Engineering Limited (REL), has been involved with the development and engineering of a new technology, the Versatruss System. This system has been used for lifts up to 1,350 short-tons in the Gulf of Mexico and can potentially remove large topsides in one piece, thus allowing the possibility of their reuse. As such, this system provides an ideal opportunity for competitive technology development in the North Sea. This thesis therefore focuses on the development of the Versatruss System for use in decommissioning projects in the North Sea environment. Both a conceptual design methodology and a high level operating procedure for North Sea application are presented. Outline frameworks for the planning, management and execution of the onshore deconstruction and disposal phase of platform decommissioning projects have also been developed by the author. In order to provide a balanced assessment of this technology, procedures for comparing the Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) impacts of the Versatruss System with established removal and disposal techniques, along with worked examples, are also presented. Various economic models covering all phases of the decommissioning operation have been developed by the author over the period of the project. These models include for the decommissioning, removal and disposal of individual or groups of platforms by both established and new technologies. These models are presented within. A preliminary marketing analysis and recommendations for the development of a formal marketing strategy for Versatruss have also been developed. This work has shown that Versatruss can offer a potential alternative to traditional platform removal techniques. Recommendations for further development are not only confined to design and engineering, but also to the organisation for the commercial exploitation of the Versatruss technology.
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Woods, David. "Hermeneutics, deconstruction and the problem of realism." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334295.
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FREIRE, MARIA CONTINENTINO. "WRITING AND DECONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE IN DERRIDA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16176@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOEsta dissertação acompanha a desconstrução do conceito de linguagem e o desenvolvimento de uma noção alargada de escritura pensadas por Derrida na primeira parte do livro Gramatologia. O primeiro capítulo aborda a constatação de um rebaixamento da escrita em relação à fala inerente ao conceito tradicional de linguagem que marca todo o pensamento ocidental, inscrevendo-o no que Derrida chama de uma clausura metafísica. Apontando um movimento de transbordamento do conceito de linguagem, que no século XX se deixa ver melhor do que nunca, o filósofo anuncia a possibilidade de liberação de uma noção radical de escritura que nos permite pensar diferentemente da lógica binária opositiva. O segundo capítulo é dedicado à leitura derridiana do Curso de lingüística geral, de Ferdinand de Saussure, em sua desconstrução do conceito logocêntrico do signo lingüístico e à apresentação de quase-conceitos chaves para o pensamento da desconstrução como rastro e différance. E, finalmente, o terceiro capítulo, traz à tona uma discussão sobre a condição de (im)possibilidade de todo projeto científico levando-se em conta este quase-conceito derridiano de escritura.
This dissertation follows the deconstruction of a traditional concept of language and the development of an enlarged notion of writing presented by Derrida in the first part of the book Of grammatology. The first chapter approaches the perception of a degradation of the writing in relation to speaks inherent to the traditional concept of language that marks all western thought, inscribing it in what the philosopher calls a metaphysics enclosure. Pointing a movement of overflow of the concept of language, that can be felt better than never in the XX century, Derrida announces the possibility of a radical notion of writing that allows us to think differently than the binary opposition logic. The second chapter is dedicated to Derrida’s reading of Saussure’s “Course in general linguistics” and his deconstruction of the logocentric concept of the linguistic sign and the presentation of some of his most important quasi-concepts as trace and différance. Finally, the third chapter brings the discussion about the condition of (im)possibility of every scientific project taking into account Derrida’s quasi-concept of writing.
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ESTEVES, LEONARDO GOMES. "DIALECTICS OF DECONSTRUCTION: MAY 68 AND CINEMA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=36953@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
PROGRAMA DE DOUTORADO SANDUÍCHE NO EXTERIOR
Dialéticas da desconstrução: Maio de 68 e o cinema tem como objetivo o estudo da desconstrução do cinema francês que emerge motivado pelo Maio de 68 tendo como referência principal a filmografia de três grupos que surgem no período: Dziga Vertov, Zanzibar e Medvedkine. A desconstrução é analisada tendo como base processos dialéticos que visam demonstrar uma qualidade movente, que permita dissociá-la do debate entre críticos para a qual é geralmente associada. O período sobre o qual a filmografia analisada aqui está confinada (1968-1974) compreende não apenas o surgimento e término dos grupos citados, mas mudanças internas nas artes marxistas utópicas que se veem impulsionadas por 68. Estas transformações no cinema são estudadas nesta tese tomando como referência a obra de Herbert Marcuse, no período que contempla a aparição das obras O homem unidimensional (1964) e A dimensão estética (1977). Desta forma, a tese investiga uma desconstrução histórica, na transmissão de técnicas e estéticas entre neovanguardas francesas do pós-guerra; uma desconstrução teórica, entre os críticos da Cahiers du cinéma e Cinéthique a partir de 1969; e uma autodesconstrução, referente a um reposicionamento que inverte política e estética na obra dos três grupos citados.
This doctoral thesis analyzes the deconstruction of French cinema that emerges with May 68, having as main reference the filmography of three groups that appear in the period: Dziga Vertov, Zanzibar and Medvedkine. The deconstruction will be analyzed from dialectical processes that demonstrate a moving feature that allows its separation from the episode that is managed by the critics and which it has been occasionally associated. The period which the analyzed filmography is confined (1968-1974) reaches not only the beginning and end of the mentioned groups, but the internal changes in the Marxists arts that are influenced by 68. This thesis studies those transformations in cinema, having as reference the work of Herbert Marcuse, during the period that contemplates the appearance of the books The unidimensional man (1964) and The aesthetic dimension (1977). This thesis intends to investigate one historical deconstruction, which appears in the transmission of technics and aesthetics between French neo-avant-gardes of the post-war; one theoretical deconstruction, between the critics of Cahiers du cinéma and Cinéthique after 1969; and one auto-deconstruction, which answers to a repositioning that reverse politic and aesthetic in the work of the groups that are mentioned above.
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McGavock, Karen Louise. "Children's literature and the deconstruction of childhood." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439182.
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Commentators such as Neil Postman (1989) and journals such as the Critical Quarterly( 1997) announced the "death" of childhood towards the end of the twentieth-century, two hundred years after it was reputedly "born". Philosophers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke constructed modern childhood in the eighteenth-century. Their construction of childhood radically differed from the previous construction of childhood. Instead of representing children as miniature adults and original sinners, Rousseau and Locke constructed the child as sentimental, innocent, natural, special and separate from adults. The modern sentimental construction of childhood corresponded to the rise of consumerism in the eighteenth-century. Childhood was commodified by the consumer society so that adults regarded children as an investment, an object of desire and a civil saviour. Though the child was represented,in this Romantic construction, as in need of protection, childhood was exploited, separating childhood from adulthood therefore created a gap between categories, which provided a niche to be exploited in the marketplace. Rousseau forged a connection between the innocence of the word and of the child. The rise of the child corresponded to the rise of print media resulting in the commodification of childhood through fiction. Texts such as Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) were the first generation of texts to be created after modern childhood had been constructed. Instead of reinforcing and stabilising childhood through the medium of children's literature, however, Carroll's texts undermined the construction and destabilised childhood. The tensions present when childhood was conceived, the child being protected and yet exploited, valued as subject and yet rendered object, are therefore manifested in this fiction. This thesis contends that childhood began to "die" as soon as it was "born". In other words, childhood began to deconstruct as soon as it was constructed. This thesis will explore texts published at fifty-year intervals over one hundred and fifty years, spanning the period from the "birth" to the "death" of childhood. In addition to Carroll's Alice books, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) will be explored, along with C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997-). Each text has been chosen since it is deemed to be central to the genre of children's fiction and considered to stabilise the notion of childhood, yet ironically, each undermines and destabilises this notion. Through mapping the deconstruction of childhood from its birth to its death, this thesis will attempt to illustrate the ways in which children's literature has deconstructed childhood since its construction. Particular attention will be given to tensions within and between childhood and adulthood, the ways in which these tensions are represented in the language and characters of the texts, and the extent to which they address and "resolve", "dissolve" or "evade" these tensions. Investigation will be made into the closure of the gap between childhood and adulthood over this period. Since each text is concerned with deconstruction and fragmentation, each is considered to be postmodern. Despite being "seminal" to, and "canonised" as works of children's fiction, they are not religious or moralising texts. Instead this thesis contends that they are theodical in their exploration of conflicts, such as existential dilemmas, the fear of time, death and absence of meaning, and help to negotiate the space between childhood and adulthood. Corresponding to contemporary thought regarding the dismantling of the whole notion of the canon, I argue that childhood is also destabilised. Through utilising a different approach to their predecessors, who attempted to rid children of original sin by didacticism, each text considered in this thesis contributes to the process of cultural, particularly educational, reform, and theories of development. Unlike their predecessors, these writers allow readers spaces to explore themselves, they show rather than tell, confront rather than escape difficulties, and allow child characters to speak directly to the reader without the medium of an adult character. The central character and form of each work symbolises process. Each work can therefore be regarded as a catalyst for change in the construction of childhood and adulthood. This thesis will therefore argue that children's literature was instrumental to the deconstruction of childhood. It will conclude with an analysis of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and offer the suggestion that since the "death" of childhood in the twentieth-century, children have reverted to being represented as miniature adults. Childhood and adulthood have imploded, lost their signifiers and have become homogenised due to the volatility of tensions within and between these constructions. Children have become empowered in the marketplace as "consumers" rather than the "consumed". The twenty-first-century is therefore heralded, as Philippe Ariès (1962) implied, as the privileged age of adulthood, with emphasis on adults over the child. Ironically, the consumer society, which constructed childhood in the eighteenth-century, is also responsible for deconstructing childhood in the twenty-first-century. Thought will be given to the prospect of childhood being resurrected and reconstructed as postmodern.
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Rizo-Patrón, de Lerner Rosemary. "Dialogue and Deconstruction. The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112883.
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Rutledge, David. "Reading marginally : feminism, deconstruction and the Bible /." Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E. J. Brill, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb372069687.
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Wang, Youxuan. "Buddhism and deconstruction : towards a comparative semiotics /." Richmond : Surrey (U.K.) : Curzon, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38869209x.
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Andrews, Richard Peter. "Spherical deconstruction and the Maldacena-Nunez compactification." Thesis, Swansea University, 2006. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42949.
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Vrablikova, Lenka. "Tremendous pedagogies : feminist theory, deconstruction and the university." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18458/.
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This thesis contributes to the theorization of the concept of the university and strives to imagine its future by bringing together particular threads within feminist and deconstructive thought. Through deconstructive textual analysis of three theoretical debates – on the disciplinarity of women’s studies, on resistance against the so called ‘neoliberalization’ of the university, and on narratives of feminist studies – this study seeks to establish the theoretical ground necessary for generating a university beyond its phallocentric and neoliberal predicament. This attempt is conveyed under a heading ‘tremendous pedagogies’. Part I discusses how the possibility of women’s studies can be further re-thought. This discussion triggers a critique of the discourses through which the current university is most commonly accounted for. Part II examines how deconstructive scholars theorize resistance to the so called ‘neoliberalization’ of the university. Here, the exploration proceeds through the word and the concept of ‘accountability’. Finally, drawing form these insights, Part III examines how narratives of feminist studies can help us articulate premises under which a university and its future beyond its current ‘neoliberal’ and ‘phallocentric’ predicament can be made possible.
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Pai, Ashlynn Kouchiyama. "Sign und Zeit : deconstruction and the medieval text." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27161.
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Shildrick, Margrit. "Leaky bodies and boundaries : feminism, deconstruction and bioethics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1994. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36102/.
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This thesis draws on poststructuralism/postmodernism to present a feminist investigation into the human body, its modes of (self)identification, and its insertion into systems of bioethics. I argue that, contrary to conventional paradigms, the boundaries not only of the subject, but of the body too, cannot be secured. In exploring and contesting the closure and disembodiment of the ethical subject, I propose instead an incalculable, but nonetheless fully embodied, diversity of provisional subject positions. My aim is to valorise women and situate them within a reconceived ethics which takes account of the embodied feminine. My project entails an analysis and deconstruction of the binaries of those dominant strands of postEnlightenment thought that shape epistemology, ontology, and ethics, which in turn set the parameters of modern bioethics. More importantly, it goes on to reclaim a radical sexual difference beyond the binary, in which the female is no longer the other of the male. My enquiry, then, is strongly influenced by the discursive approach offered by both Foucault and Derrida in differential ways, but I counter their indifference to feminist concerns by qualifying their insights in the light of strategies developed by Irigaray and Spivak, among others. The main method of investigation has been through library research of primary and secondary sources in mainstream and feminist philosophy, and in bioethics. In addition, archival work in both textual and iconographic collections was carried out at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The contribution made by this thesis is to go beyond modernist feminisms - which would simply revise and add women into existing paradigms - to radically displace and overflow the mechanisms by which women are devalued. And in developing a postmodern critique around some issues in bioethics, I have suggested a new ethics of the body which precedes the operation of moral codes.
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Lee, Kyoo Eun. "Cartesian deconstruction : self-reflexivity in Descartes and Derrida." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4364/.
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In this study, I propose a reading of Derrida as a Cartesian thinker. The mode of reading is closely textual and not historical; and the analysis focuses on the methodological or dispositional affinities between a sceptical Descartes in cogitation and a deconstructive Derrida, to the exclusion of the onto-theological aspects of their arguments. I locate the source of such epistemological affinities between them in the self-reflexivity of philosophical self-doubt or self-criticism, and highlight, in the course of analysis, the formatively self-referential aspects of both Cartesian scepticism and Derridian deconstruction; The point of contention is that, in both cases, the starting point of thinking is the self that self-reflects. Standard interpretations tend to view Derrida as an anti-Cartesian thinker; Against this reading, I advance the following two points of contention. Firstly, I argue that Derrida can be read as a Cartesian thinker in that his reflexive tendency is indicative of his implicit commitment to the methodological or epistemological Cartesianism, i. e. the reflexive mode of cogitation. The claim here, limited to such an extent, is that there is a structural resemblance between the reflexive form of Descartes's cogilo and that of Derrida's deconstructive move in that both thinkers follow performatively reflexive, and reflexively repeated moves; The Derridian move is only one "step" beyond, and in this sense derivative from, the Cartesian. Secondly, I argue further that Derrida can be read as a radical Cartesian. For this, I present a reading of Derrida's reflexive hauntology as a sceptical radicalisation of Descartes's reflective ontology. By bringing to the fore a structurally Cartesian dimension which underlies the Derridian economy of writing and thinking, I argue, against Derrida's self-understanding of his (non-)project, that deconstruction is to be read as a conservative intra-metaphysical trajectory rather than as a transgressive endeavour to go beyond metaphysics. In highlighting the traditional aspects of deconstruction as opposed to the revolutionary sides of it, my aim is both to explicate the significance of Derrida's deconstructive project and, at the same time, to expose its constitutive limits, deconstruction taken as a meta-critical, reflexive endeavour to transcend the limits of philosophy by philosophy. The critical point I raise against Derrida is the following: Insofar as the logic or strategy of his deconstruction remains structurally locked in, and at the same time exploitative of, the implicit binarism of Cartesian scepticism, i. e. the logic of either-or, the deconstructive gesture that attempts to think "the Other" by reflecting critically upon its own condition of thinking, is bound to be self-reflexive or self-referential, therefore, self-corrosively ineffectual. Part I sets out to articulate the aforementioned two contentions of thesis. It aims to discover the recursively self-reflexive movements in the writings of Derrida. For this, chapter 2 offers an analysis of some of Derrida's central terms of hauntology that are descriptive of the movements and moments of meta-reflection, viz. double, mark, fold, interest, and law. Although Part I deals mainly with Derrida, the reflexive dimension of Descartes's cogito argument is also analysed in an early stage [1.31] to the extent that it can set the terms for the subsequent reading of Derrida as a Cartesian [1.32 -2.3]. Part II elaborates the key points made in Part I, first by providing a detailed account of the Cartesian economy of self-reflexivity [Chapter 4], and second, by closely reading selected passages from Den ida's essay on Descartes, 'Cogito et histoire de lafolie' [Chapter 5]. Derrida's defensive and sympathetic reading of Descartes's madmen against Foucault's, the last chapter argues, exemplifies a case of Derrida as a committed Cartesian with a mind bent on methodic meta-reflection.
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Jovejoy, James Grant. "Heidegger's early ontology and the deconstruction of foundations." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1992. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2349/.
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This dissertation is a polemical exegesis of Heidegger's 1920's position with respect to the foundational, extracting from his thought an original pre-conception of the foundational which does not conform to current patterns of Heidegger interpretation. This might be expressed as a rescuing of foundations from metaphysics. The first half of the dissertation concentrates on methodological idiosyncracies in the semantic, syntactic and macrostructural organisation of foundational ideas, an analysis which begins to yield a number of "patterns" embedded in the language and thinking of Heidegger, patterns which, for example, subvert the propositional and reverse the normal processes of understanding. These patterns are "paratypes", the tools of "disas-sembling" (the latter term describes that in Heidegger's thought which provides the original motivation for the later development of deconstruction). The second half of the dissertation applies and extends these findings in two directions: firstly, with respect to the internal development of the Sein und Zeit project, by exploring the coalescence of temporality and foundations; secondly, with respect to the direction and fate of the Sein und Zeit project, by exploring a limited number of "foundational" aspects (fugue, Kehre, Abgrund, Ereignis) of a single but singularly important writing from the 1930's: Beiträge zur Philosophie. In so doing the dissertation aims to bring out the Copernican thought-revolution in the early work, and to provide both the conceptual motivation and the methodological tools for a more farreaching reappreciation of Heidegger's early work. Thus the dissertation has consequences, not only for the foundational, but also for the language-thought problematic, for the possibility of overcoming metaphysics, for Heidegger's general development, and for the appraisal of the position of time in his work.
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Ramprogus, Vinod Khemraj. "Project 2000 : instrument for the deconstruction of nursing." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359201.
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