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Söderlund, Therese. "Materialet i förskolan." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Education and Psychology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4128.
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Denna undersökning belyser materialet, dess placering och användning i förskolan. Studien är genomförd ur ett lärarperspektiv för att ge en förståelse hur material bör placeras för att ge barnen i förskolan tillgång till det material som finns där. Vidare undersöker studien pedagogernas användning av materialet i arbetet med barnen i förskolan och pedagogers uppfattning om dess placering och tillgänglighet.
Syftet har varit att undersöka hur pedagoger i arbetet med barnen använder materialet i förskolan och hur det är placerat. Vidare har syftet varit att undersöka om det finns idéer kring materialets placering och om dessa har diskuterats bland pedagogerna.
Som metod för denna undersökning har intervjuer av ett arbetslag använts som underlag. Detta för att se om idéer kring materialets betydelse förekommer hos pedagogerna och för att undersöka hur det placeras.
En slutsats av undersökningen visar att en viss diskussion kring materialet och dess placering verkar förekomma hos pedagogerna sinsemellan. Pedagogerna anser att alla barn i förskolan har tillgång till allt material, och att materialet är placerat på barnens nivå. Genom intervjuerna visar det sig dock att pedagogernas uppfattning av material som tillgängligt för alla barn inte helt överensstämmer med dess verkliga placering. Det framgår att placeringen av materialet är gjord med vissa undantag för avdelningens yngsta barn, ettåringarna, då de placerat visst material utom räckhåll för dem.
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Daher, Joseph. "Hezbollah : a historical materialist analysis." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2015. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23667/.
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This research aims at giving a comprehensive overview and understanding of the Lebanese party Hezbollah. Previous research on Hezbollah has typically focused on one or two aspects of the party's identity, usually the military question, or has concentrated solely on the organisation's religious discourse. This thesis presents an alternative perspective, using a historical materialist analysis to situate an understanding of Hezbollah in socio-economic and political developments in Lebanon and the wider region. To this end, the thesis begins by explaining the establishment of Hezbollah, proceeding then to the party's development vis-à-vis the political situation in Lebanon and in the region. Particular focus is placed on Hezbollah's historic ties with its main sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran - ties that have remained strong from the founding of the party until today. Situated in this narrative, the thesis analyses how neoliberal policies in Lebanon following the Lebanese Civil War - and the associated socio-economic evolution of the Shi'a population - influenced Hezbollah's popular constituency and outlook. The ability of Hezbollah to build a hegemonic position within Lebanese Shi'a areas through its media and cultural wings, and use of arms, is examined. Later chapters critically analyse the party's policies towards workers' struggles, women's issues, and its orientation towards the sectarian Lebanese political system. Through this analysis, the thesis provides a holistic approach to Hezbollah - an analysis with important implications for understanding Islamic political movements more generally.
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Crich, Robert Adam. "Slavoj Žižek’s dialectical materialist Marxism." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/91897/.
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This thesis offers a systematic account of Žižek’s dialectical materialist Marxism that follows the development of his work from his initial Lacanian critique of Marxism and Stalinist totalitarianism, to his attempt to develop a new form of Communist politics including a conception of a Communist utopia. The core and overarching argument of this thesis is that Žižek develops his positions in response to three challenges that he confronts after the limitations of his previous radical democratic politics become evident. These are: an alternative to traditional Marxism and liberal democracy that continues to protect against repeating the errors of the former; an analysis of late-capitalism at libidinal, political and economic levels to explain new forms of ideology, the limitations of liberal democratic politics, and the continuing role of capitalism and class in our contemporary world; and, the reformulation of the Lacanian category of the Real in order to overcome the deadlock of the opposition between das Ding and lack and the political conservatism it produces. In the analysis of Žižek’s response to these challenges, I examine the tension that emerges between the Lacanian and Marxist dimensions of Žižek’s dialectical materialism and how he manages this tension in order to avoid returning to the problems associated with traditional Marxism.
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Jansson, Ann, and Zheno Osman. "Teknik : Tiden, materialet och planeringen." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-14808.
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Larsson, Löthman Johan. "En lugnare vårdmiljö : Med materialet trä." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-17633.
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Martach, Swantje. "Towards a New Materialist Ontology of Clothing." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670649.
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De fet, estem envoltats de molta més roba que persones. I de les persones que ens envolten, veiem més roba que pell. Per què estem tan convençuts que el que veiem són persones? Per tal de re-equilibrar les concepcions de sentit comú de el vestir ("clothing", definit aquí no com ho manifest, sinó com a relació humà/vestimenta), la tesi "Cap a una ontologia nova materialista del vestir" aspira a revelar l'equivalència immanent a aquest tipus de relació humà/cosa.
Per atendre les agències materials i existències a part de la nostra en el vestir, aquesta tesi es va fer càrrec de el regne de el Nou Materialisme (NM). No obstant això, com NM mai s'ha enfocat en el vestir, el present projecte va haver de construir per si mateix una bastida metodològic de quatre parts. A més d'adoptar no l'assumpte sinó la forma de (1) investigació nova materialista, es va basar en (2) enfocaments teòrics de moda/vestimenta. A causa de que les aspiracions d'investigació d'aquest últim es dirigeixen a l'humà, en el camí cap al qual simplement es trobi la vestimenta; precisament no les seves respostes proporcionades fins ara, sinó més aviat els seus assumptes encara per resoldre, van ser adoptats. (3) Es va trobar més assistència en Material Culture (MC) Studies, una escola antropològica veïna a NM, en les consideracions es va incloure més vestimenta que moda des de llavors. Finalment, com una escola amb què NM sovint es confon o s'agrupa, (4) l'ontologia orientada a objectes (Object Oriented Ontology) es va utilitzar com a suport addicional, així que com un altre mitjà de contrast. Aquesta metodologia creuant el vestir i NM va permetre una re-elaboració d'el concepte de la "cosa", que els quatre àmbits d'investigació mantenen estimat, i amb que fan malabarismes amb tanta naturalitat. En lloc d'entitats d'objectes, el present projecte proposa l'esdevenir de webs/nusos com a unitat dinàmica d'investigació.
Eventualment, aquest projecte aspira a ressaltar el valor de la vestimenta i de el vestir com assumpte d'investigació filosòfica, per la qual cosa que tant de bo contribuirà a un canvi de atribuir-li una falta de serietat, a apreciar el poder que té sobre cadascun de nosaltres. En el seu statu quo, la pràctica quotidiana de el vestir és un gran contaminant ecològic, així com una càrrega psicològica freqüentment pesada. A l'relacionar-lo amb el NM, aquest projecte anima a re-conceptualitzar el vestir, i així avançar cap a una coexistència més respectuosa, responsable i estètica dels humans/vestimenta.De hecho, estamos rodeados de mucha más ropa que personas. Y de las personas que nos rodean, vemos más ropa que piel. ¿Por qué estamos tan persuadidos de que lo que vemos son personas? Con el fin de re-equilibrar las concepciones de sentido común del vestir ("clothing", definido aquí no como lo manifiesto, sino como relación humano/vestimenta), la tesis "Hacia una ontología nueva materialista del vestir" aspira a revelar la equivalencia inmanente a este tipo de relación humano/cosa. Para atender a las agencias materiales y existencias aparte de la nuestra en el vestir, esta tesis se hizo cargo del reino del Nuevo Materialismo (NM). Sin embargo, como NM nunca se ha enfocado en el vestir, el presente proyecto tuvo que construir por sí mismo un andamio metodológico de cuatro partes. Además de adoptar no el asunto sino la forma de (1) investigación nueva materialista, se basó en (2) enfoques teóricos de moda/vestimenta. Debido a que las aspiraciones de investigación de este último se dirigen al humano, en el camino hacia el cual simplemente se encuentre la vestimenta; precisamente no sus respuestas proporcionadas hasta ahora, sino más bien sus asuntos aún por resolver, fueron adoptados. (3) Se encontró más asistencia en Material Culture (MC) Studies, una escuela antropológica vecina a NM, en cuyas consideraciones se incluyó más vestimenta que moda desde entonces. Finalmente, como una escuela con que NM a menudo se confunde o agrupa, (4) la ontología orientada a objetos (Object Oriented Ontology) se utilizó como respaldo adicional, así que como otro medio de contraste. Esta metodología cruzando el vestir y NM permitió una re-elaboración del concepto de la "cosa", que los cuatro ámbitos de investigación mantienen querido, y con que hacen malabarismos con tanta naturalidad. En lugar de entidades de objetos, el presente proyecto propone el devenir de webs/nudos como unidad dinámica de investigación. Eventualmente, este proyecto aspira a resaltar el valor de la vestimenta y del vestir como asunto de investigación filosófica, por lo cual que ojalá contribuirá a un cambio de atribuirle una falta de seriedad, a apreciar el poder que tiene sobre cada uno de nosotros. En su statu quo, la práctica cotidiana del vestir es un gran contaminante ecológico, así como una carga psicológica frecuentemente pesada. Al relacionarlo con el NM, este proyecto anima a re-conceptualizar el vestir, y así avanzar hacia una coexistencia más respetuosa, responsable y estética de los humanos/vestimenta.
As a matter of fact, we are surrounded by many more clothes than people. And from the people surrounding us, we see more clothes than skin. Why are we thus so persuaded that what we see are people? In order to rebalance commonsense conceptions of the clothing (defined here not as the manifest thing, but as humans/clothes relation), the thesis "Towards a New Materialist Ontology of Clothing" aspires to disclose the equivalence immanent to this kind of human/thing relation. For attending to material agencies and existences apart from our own in the clothing, this thesis took over the realm of New Materialism (NM). However, as NM has never targeted clothes/clothings, the present project had to construct for itself a four-parted methodological scaffold. Apart from adopting not the matter but rather the manner of (1) new materialist research, it drew on (2) fashion/dress (cultural) theoretical approaches. As the investigatory aspirations of the latter are directed onto the human, en route to which clothes are merely met; precisely not their hitherto provided answers, but rather their yet-to-solve matters were shouldered. (3) More assistance was found in Material Culture (MC) Studies, an anthropological school neighbouring NM, in the considerations of which more dress than fashion was included ever since. Finally, as a school NM often becomes confused or lumped together with, (4) Object-Oriented Ontology was used as additional back-up as well as further means of contrast. This clothing/NM-queering methodology allowed for a reworking of the concept of the "thing", which is held so dear and juggled-around with so naturally by all four touched-upon realms of research. Instead of object entities, the present project proposes web/knot-splitting becomings as units for research. Eventually, this project aspires to highlight the worth of the clothing as philosophical research matter, whereby it hopefully will contribute to a shift from ascribing it a lack of seriousness, to appreciating the power it has over each of us. In its status quo, the everyday clothing practice is a major ecological polluter as well as an often heavy psychological burden. By relating the clothing and NM, this project animates to reconceptualize the latter and thus move towards a more respectful, responsible, and aesthetic co-existence of humans/clothes therein.
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Fourie, Elizabeth. "The representation of materialist consumerism in film." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/954.
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People are constantly bombarded with the latest technology, the latest fashion, the latest ‘must have’ item. We are encouraged to buy things that promise to change our lives and give us satisfaction or even create happiness. Interestingly we often succumb to the temptation of these material things, which is not always a negative reaction; however it does become negative when our lives are controlled by material possessions and we give up certain aspects of who we are to enable us to obtain these possessions. Further more it becomes problematic when we start to rely on material possessions to define us in terms of our identity or to help us fit into particular groups within society. With the media playing such a large role in societies at present it is almost inevitable that the phenomenon of materialist consumerism will make its way into the media. The media however holds control, to an extent, over whether or not materialist consumerism is viewed in a negative or affirmative light. An analysis of the representation of materialist consumerism in selected instances of mainstream cinema will be the aim of my proposed study. The study will look at the representation of materialist consumerism in so far as it offers viewers a place to ‘fit’ into a particular group within society. The group I am referring to can be categorised as the upper-middle class of contemporary western society. I have thus selected films that represent this group specifically. For the purpose of the treatise ‘materialist consumerism’ is understood as a way of life, or alternatively, an ideology, which assumes that the accumulation of material wealth through consumption imparts meaning to human lives. The treatise will analyse both sides of the coin, or in other words films that support or promote materialist consumerism and those that either revolt against or criticise this form of consumerism. The study will explore different aspects of consumerism in so far as these are represented in the films, with an identifiable axiological bias.
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Rosencrantz, Eric, and Oskar Saether. "En funktion- och miljöpåverkansanlays av materialet isobetong." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-82738.
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Byggbranschen utvecklas konstant, strävan efter att utveckla nya och effektivare material ärstor. Några av de viktigaste egenskaperna som byggsektorn eftersöker är hög hållfasthet, lågvärmekonduktivitet och låg miljöpåverkan.Isobetong är ett nyligen framtaget material. Det är en typ av skumbetong med egenskaper ochfunktioner som skiljer sig från traditionell skumbetong ur hänseende på hållfasthet,värmekonduktivitet och miljöpåverkan.Syftet med denna undersökning är att identifiera Isobetongens karakteristiska egenskaper ochjämföra de med egenskaper av konkurrerande material. Resultatet föreslås tydliggöramaterialets styrkor och vidare utgöra en grund för fortsatt undersökning samt främja enutökad användning. De frågor vilket undersökningen formas kring är ’Vad har materialet förmiljöpåverkan?’ och ’Hur jämför sig materialet mot mineralull och cellplast gällande funktionoch miljöpåverkan?’.Resultatet visar att miljöpåverkan av materialet Isobetong varierar från 65,5 kg CO2-ekvivalenter per kubikmeter för dess produkt med lägst densitet, upp till 230,7 kg CO2-ekvivalenter per kubikmeter för produkten med högst densitet. Beräkningarna som utförts ijämförande syfte tyder på att Isobetong i genomsnitt inte är likställd med cellplast ellermineralull inom områdena för densitet, värmekonduktivitet och miljöpåverkan. Resultatet förtryckhållfastheten av Isobetong ger ett betydligt högre värde än de övriga materialen.Slutsatsen är att relativt mot de jämförda materialen kan inte Isobetong konkurrera med varesig cellplast- eller mineralullsisoleringar då högre krav ställs på densitet, värmekonduktivitetoch miljöpåverkan. I projekt där en god tryckhållfasthet krävs har Isobetong en klar fördel.The construction industry is continuously developing, the strive to develop new and moreefficient materials is great. In the industry, some of the most sought for properties of theimproved materials are high strength, low thermal conductivity, and low environmentalimpact.Isobetong is a recently developed material. It is a variety of foam concrete with properties thatdiffer from traditional foam concrete regarding strength, thermal conductivity, andenvironmental impact.The purpose of this analysis is to identify characteristic properties of Isobetong and tocompare them to the properties of competitive materials. The results are proposed to clarifythe material’s strengths and to furthermore act as a foundation for continued research as wellas encouraging an increased usage. The questions the analysis is based on are ‘What is theenvironmental impact of the material?’ and ‘How does the material compare to mineral wooland polystyrene?’.The result displays an environmental impact of the material Isobetong to vary between 65,5kg CO2-equivalents per cubic meter for the product with the lowest density, up to 230,7 kgCO2-equivalents per cubic meter for the product with the highest density. The computationsthat have been completed for comparative purposes indicates that Isobetong on average is notequal to polystyrene or mineral wool in areas of density, thermal conductivity, orenvironmental impact. The result for the compressive strength of Isobetong yield aconsiderably higher value than the other materials.The conclusion is that relative to the compared materials is Isobetong unable to compete withneither polystyrene or mineral wool insulations when higher requirements are set for density,thermal conductivity, and environmental impact. For projects that require a notablecompressive strength does Isobetong show a clear advantage.
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Jalal, Kerollos. "Utforskandet av det nya materialet White Wood." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Industridesign, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-33021.
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Jordens resurser används åt att tillfredsställa människans livsstil vilket har lett till att jorden har börjat säga ifrån genom klimatförändring eftersom den inte klarar av det som människan gör. Hållbarhet är ett av de viktigaste ämnena i dagens samhälle och aldrig har det varit viktigare att tänka på miljön och hur man inte skadar den. Hållbarhet är ett ämne som det bedrivs mycket forskning kring, vilket företaget RISE lägger stora resurser på. De har tagit fram ett nytt material som baseras på träavfall, eftersom de vill undersöka ifall människan kan återanvända något som inte har ett värde och ge det ett nytt värde och nytt liv. I ett samarbete med RISE har jag undersökt detta material som kallas för White Wood och fått i uppdrag att hitta ett användningsområde för materialet baserat på dess egenskaper. Forskningen kring White Wood har inte ännu kommit till stadiet där det kan börja produceras i stor skala, då det krävs en hel del fortsatta studier innan det steget kan tas. Målet med min studie har varit att hitta ett lämpligt användningsområde för White Wood när det är redo att ta det steget. Jag har använt mig av Material Driven Design metoden då detta är ett materialdrivet arbete som utgår ifrån materialets egenskaper och möjligheter. Jag har haft ett öppet sinne och låtit materialet och utforskandet av detta ta mig framåt, men mina tidigare erfarenheter och kunskaper har också varit till stor nytta. Genom att utmana och testa gränserna för White Wood så har jag upptäckt unika egenskaper och tillverkningsmetoder. Denna summering använde jag mig av för att sedan kunna placera White Wood inom elektronikområdet och ge konkreta produktförslag. Jag hoppas att mitt bidrag inom denna forskning kommer till nytta och kan inspirera till ökad hållbarhet nu och för framtiden.
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Harris, Fred. "Towards a critical materialist pedagogy, Marx and Dewey." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0013/MQ53100.pdf.
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Grace, Claire Robbin. "Group Material and the 1980s: A Materialist Postmodernism." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11662.
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Group Material's seventeen-year collaboration began in New York in 1979 through the artists' shared interests in collective, politicized practices and their immersion in a localized network of countercultural activities. While GM's cadre of participants shifted over time (from the dozen who launched its first year to a smaller core comprising Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Mundy McLaughlin, Félix González-Torres, and Tim Rollins), its practice developed a consistent aesthetic vocabulary in dialogue with major figures of 1980s art and with an eye to 1960s conceptualism and the Soviet avant-garde. GM threw open the class coordinates of art's public and introduced a distinct set of responses to the central problematics of 1980s art: the debates over representation, appropriation, painting, public space, and activism.History of Art and Architecture
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Mandarini, Matteo. "Efficient material-abstraction : towards a critical materialist pragmatics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36688/.
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Marx's critique remains the most incisive analysis of capitalism to date, though the transformations which capitalism has undergone require that his conceptual apparatus be radically overhauled. I have attempted to do so through a topological twisting of his conceptual assemblage, highlighting new elements and relations. In this way I am lead to questions of time already highlighted by Marx, in relation to an immanent and constitutive ontology. However, my primary concern remains with the contemporary strategies of capitalist command, and the new conditions and strategies of resistance it demands. Concrete/Abstract: or. The German Ideology - i)The question of ideology, the failure of its problematic, and the initial step beyond: fetishism as 'dissimulation objective' (Deleuze); ii) the function of money and the emergent 'truth in practice' of an ontology of efficient material-abstraction. Total Critique is a Pragmatics - i) The transformation of Critique from partial to Total, and the emergence of a differential materialist ontology, ii) the critique of the labour theory of value, and the transformation of capitalism into a project of heterogeneity management (fundamental ontology). Subsumption - i) An account of Braudel's notion of the anti-market, and a critique of the reduction of the anti-market to capitalism; ii) an account of real subsumption in terms of a temporal ontology. Time and Resistance - i) A re-reading of 'historical determinism' in the light of Marx's letters to Vera Zasulich on the Russian commune; ii) the question of becoming as opposed to history through a diagramming of masses rather than the contraposing of classes; iii) temporality as motor of flight/control: the syntheses of time as a diagramming of efficient capitalist material-abstraction, and of the strategies of a critical materialist pragmatics.
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Mourenza, Daniel. "Walter Benjamin, film and the 'anthropological-materialist' project." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8041/.
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This thesis examines Walter Benjamin’s film aesthetics within the framework of his ‘anthropological-materialist’ project. His writings on film are dispersed among essays, notes and letters and may appear at first sight to be an incoherent collection of thoughts on film. However, I will try to argue that they form part of the same philosophical and political project as his ‘anthropological materialism.’ Thus, these writings sought, first, to analyse the transformation of the human senses brought about by the appearance of film technology; and secondly, to envisage the possibility of undoing the alienation of the senses in modernity through that very same technology in order to, eventually, create a collective body (Kollectivleib) out of the audience. This project dates back to Benjamin’s anthropological texts from the early 1920s and was central to texts such as One-Way Street, the Surrealism essay and ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.’ The reconfiguration of aesthetics as aisthēsis that takes place in the latter text is analysed as forming part of this project, in which Benjamin is concerned with the transformation of the human body according to its interaction with technology. From this anthropological-materialist perspective, I address from the second chapter onwards the film figures—directors, actors, characters—and films that most concerned Benjamin. Thus, I analyse his writings on Soviet film with regard to the use and conception of technology in the country; the impact of the bungled reception of technology in Germany upon films from the Weimar Republic and National Socialism, especially in their representation of mass movements; the rehabilitation of allegory in the twentieth century with Charlie Chaplin and the possibility of undoing the numbing of the senses through his gestic and allegorical performance; and, finally, Mickey Mouse as a representative of the new barbarism that Benjamin advocated within his critique of bourgeois humanism.
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Lacy, Rachel. "Hamlet's Objective Mode and Early Modern Materialist Philosophy." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32430.
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Hamlet's tragedy is constructed as a perspective of matter that is destined for decay, and this "objective," or "object-focused," mode of viewing the material world enhances theatrical and theological understandings of the play's props, figurative language, and characters. Hamlet's "objective mode" evokes early modern materialist philosophies of vanitas and memento mori, and it is communicated in theatre through semiotic means, whereby material items stand for moral ideas according to an established sign-signified relation. Extending an objective reading to Hamlet's characters reveals their function as images, or two-dimensional emblems, in moments of slowing narrative time. In the graveyard scene (5.1), characters and theatrical props cooperate to materialize the objective perspective. As a prop, Ophelia's corpse complicates the objective mode through its semantic complexity. Thus, she stands apart from other characters as one that both serves to construct and to deconstruct the objective mode. Hamlet's tragic outlook, which depends upon an understanding of matter as destined for decay, and of material items as ends in themselves rather than vehicles for spiritual transformation, is an early modern notion concurrent with theological debates surrounding the Eucharist. Drawing upon art-historical, linguistic, feminist, theological, and theatrical approaches, this thesis contributes to concurrent discourse on Hamlet's tragic genre.
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Roberts, Stephen John. "Environmentalist views on science and technology : a materialist critique." Thesis, Keele University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409549.
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Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla. "Theatre-ting : toward a materialist practice of staging documents." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2016. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/theatre-–-ting(dd5f299e-6fdc-4c69-bed6-7ae690de6a8d).html.
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This Practice-as-Research project investigates documentary performance from the perspective of the dramaturg. Through analysing two specific practical approaches to working with documentary material; one with non trained performers related to methods of socially engaged and participatory art practices, and the other with professionally trained performers, I argue for moving away from the perceived dichotomy between the discourse of reality and fiction in documentary work entirely. Introducing object-oriented philosophy and new materialism as an ethical framework, I propose a third way of framing work that use testimonial, tribunal or other materials derived from contemporary lives, arguing that a document is neither real nor fictional – it is a thing. I have explored practical ways for performers and dramaturgs to work with text-things, and a conceptual framework for the theatrical event called theatre-ting. The etymological root of the word ‘ting’ (thing) connects to practices of assemblage and gathering, still found in the Nordic languages. The theatre-ting brings the factual into the spaces of the fictional, which destabilizes both demonstrating how they are equally theatrical, truthful and mystical. It is a space where common questions and issues can be staged and discussed. It is an arena for testing, rehearsing, and practicing ethics. The materialist practice of staging documents questions notions of authorship, subjectivity, relation, and control in performative practices. In dialogue with object-oriented philosophy I have developed a conceptual framework to work from, challenging anthropocentrism and pointing to the ways things (including human bodies) are co-dependent and form each other, and where neither have the power of definition over the other. This demands ways of dealing with listening, time, relation, chance, and uncertainty. It is a matter of moving the attention to a materialist rather than individualist view.
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Ray, Jonathan Paul. "A New Materialist Approach to Visual Rhetoric in PhotoShopBattles." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6364.
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The purpose of this project is to examine the visual rhetoric of one online community. Drawing heavily from the work of Laurie Gries (2015), I track the evolution of an image as it circulates through a forum of photo manipulators in the group “PhotoShopBattles.” While Gries’ work traced the evolution of the iconic Obama Hope poster and its iterations in various media, this project restricts its observations to the images posted to one webpage, focusing on one evolutionary chain. By narrowing the focus to one internet forum page that evolved over the course of one week, we can observe linear evolution that occurs quite rapidly. While the study of Obama Hope covered years, the works in this study were constructed in a matter of days. Additionally, the site records the step-by-step progress of the reformed work.
The Obama Hope work offers guidance to the work in this project. Using this method, an image’s evolution is broken down into steps and principles noted in the life of the image or multiple-image. By recreating a slightly modified version of Gries’ method, this work seeks to decode the meanings and outcomes that are created and changed around one set of evolving images. New materialism offers a way to explore the visual rhetorical moves of members of an online community and discuss the outcomes associated with those moves. With a deeper understanding of the environment surrounding image creation and the outcomes derived from an image, we can better understand the way image is used rhetorically online.
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Gerdemark, Ida. "Papper! : En studie om materialet papper ur ett konsthantverksperspektiv." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Estetiska avdelningen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-93663.
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Denna studie syftar till att belysa papper som konsthantverksmaterial. Studien aktualiserar hur konsthantverkare som arbetar i papper beskriver sin relation till materialet och hur konsthantverkare som arbetar i papper upplever att deras val av material påverkar deras arbetssituation. Uppsatsen bygger på kvalitativa intervjuer med sex konsthantverkare som arbetar professionellt i Sverige med att på olika sätt skapa objekt i papper eller på olika sätt skapa materialet papper. Resultatet visar att konsthantverkare som arbetar i papper har en relation till materialet som genomsyras av trygghet, närhet, glädje och kontroll. Genom utbildning och/eller experiment har konsthantverkarna stärkt sin relation ytterligare till materialet. Pappret upplevs billigt, lättillgängligt och enkelt att bearbeta vilket medför att informanterna kan vara flexibla i deras arbeten och djupt utforska materialet. Papprets förgänglighet medför att konsthantverkarna kan uppleva det svårt att sälja sina produkter, men denna egenskap anses även korrelera med deras pappersprodukters avsedda funktion. Uttrycksmedlet papper har gett konsthantverkare en bättre arbetssituation än vad de tidigare upplevt när de till exempel tecknat eller målat då det innebär färre problem och ger fler idéer till gestaltning, de menar att pappret innehar stora möjligheter. I den nuvarande trenden som råder för pappershantverk, som bland annat kan ses på internet, kan arbeten i materialet bli särskilt uppmärksammade. Att arbeta med papper innebär också att konsthantverkarna ibland möter oförstående reaktioner från andra människor vad gäller materialet och den använda tekniken, vilket tyder på att föremål i papper normalt inte är särskilt vanligt och medför att de med tal behöver förklara sina arbeten. Arbetet i papper betyder även att konsthantverkarnas insats i form av tanke, kreativitet och tid blir viktig i det anspråkslösa materialet.
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Johansson, Rasmus. "Arbetsförmedlingens användaranpassning : En studie kring materialet riktat mot ungdomar." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-57369.
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Att anpassa sitt material efter olika målgruppers tilltänkta behov och förförståelse syftar till att bättre nå ut med information till gruppen ifråga. Detta riskerar dock att alienera de inom målgruppen som identifierar sig med den bild av målgruppen som anpassningen riktar sig mot. Anpassningen kan också resultera i att informationen blir bristande.
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Fahlstedt, Linda, and Hillevi Hydmark. "Livskunskap : elevers uppfattning om ämnet livskunskap och materialet Livsviktigt." Thesis, Stockholm University, The Stockholm Institute of Education, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7786.
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Vi har i denna undersökning valt att fokusera på ämnet livskunskap och materialet ”Livsviktigt” med utgångspunkt i hur eleverna uppfattar ämnet, om de har uppfattat varför de har ämnet och vad de anser att de lär sig. Vi undersökte även om det finns skillnader i hur pojkar och flickor uppfattar ämnet samt om elever i de olika skolåren uppfattar det olika. Vi har använt oss av enkäter till fyra skolår (skolår 1 till skolår 4) samt två gruppintervjuer i skolår 3. Då livskunskap är en form av värdegrundsarbete har vi med hjälp av litteratur undersökt vad skolans värdegrund innefattar. Vi har i vår undersökning kommit fram till att eleverna uppfattar att de lär sig de saker som materialet säger sig lära ut och de flesta elever säger sig veta syftet med ämnet. Det som flest elever uppfattar att de lär sig är hur andra kan känna sig och hur de kan lösa olika konflikter som kan uppstå. Vi kunde inte se några större skillnader i hur pojkar och flickor uppfattar ämnet. Mellan de olika skolåren kunde vi se vissa skillnader men inte några övergripande.
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Lindgren, Anton. "Järnframställning eller matavfall? : Animalosteologisk analys av materialet från Signallottan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385909.
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Cremated bones from animals has been recovered in conjunction with a number of hearths in Visby, Gotland. This find has started a controversial discussion in the archeological field regarding usage of bones as a supplement in iron working. Archeological investigations often tend to overlook the information that could be gained from osteological materials. Animal bones can give us insight and contribute with new perspectives on economics, diet, livestock and much more. The aim of this bachelor is therefore to look closer at the relations between bones and iron working and to establish if the bones were used to enhance the phosphorus levels of the iron. This will be achieved by analyzing cremated bones from the archeological site Visby RAÄ 230. The material will also be compared with previous studies regarding iron working.
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Isaksson, Elin. "Fult trä : Om den estetiska värderingen av materialet trä." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44321.
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Denna studie undersöker de estetiska värderingarna av materialet trä i möbelproduktion och hur det påverkar materialåtgången. Tidigare forskning har främst undersökt träslaget furu och det estetiska urvalet som händer redan i träproduktion. Resultat i denna studie har visat att ett så homogent material som möjligt är att föredra, utan kvistar, färgförändring och ojämn fiberriktning. Större produktionsbolag ser till att spillmaterial som blir över efter sortering blir pappersmassa eller spån. Möbeltillverkare har inte resurser för att ge sitt spill ett andra liv utan eldar upp det. Liknande studier har kommit fram till att det finns estetiska preferenser på trä men inte hur man kan påverka konsumentens val. Hur kan man genom design förändra den estetiska värderingen kring valet av material och förhindra onödigt svinn? Syftet med detta projekt är att genom kritisk design belysa problematiken kring hur vi konsumerar material utifrån estetiska värderingar och konsekvenserna det medför. Kvalitativa metoder i form av expertintervjuer har gjorts för att samla information om hur möbelproducenter väljer sitt material utifrån estetiska preferenser. Resultatet påvisar att en möbel kan generera spill på upp till 70 procent av en planka. Ur ett hållbarhetsperspektiv är det viktigt att visa på de negativa följderna som kommer av att välja bort ett värdefullt material för att det inte är estetiskt tilltalande.This study examines the aesthetic values of the material wood in furniture manufacturing and how it affects material consumption. Previous research has mainly examined the wood species pine and the aesthetic selection that occurs in wood production. Results in this study have shown that a homogeneous material as possible is preferable, without knots, irregular coloration, and uneven grain. Larger production companies ensure that waste material that remains after sorting becomes pulp or flakes. Furniture manufacturers do not have the resources to give their waste another life, instead they burning the wood for heat. Similar studies have concluded that there are aesthetic preferences on wood but not how to influence consumer choice. How can design change the aesthetic value of the choice of material and prevent unnecessary waste? The purpose of this project is to shed light on the problem of how we consume materials based on aesthetic values and the consequences it has through a critical design perspective. Qualitative methods in the form of expert interviews have been made to gather information on how furniture manufacturers choose their materials based on aesthetic preferences. The results show that a piece of furniture can generate wood waste up to 70 percent of a plank. From a sustainability perspective, it is important to point out the negative consequences that will opt out of a valuable material because it is not aesthetically pleasing.
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Frank, Jenny. "Material för utomhusundervisning : Lärarens förhållningssätt och användning av materialet." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för elektroteknik, matematik och naturvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36837.
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Gardner, Rachael. "Conrad and Quinn : a case study in materialist canon formation." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44436.
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This thesis examines Joseph Conrad’s legacy as a modernist writer and argues that patron John Quinn was instrumental to securing it. The novelist wrote before the peak of modernism, belonged to non-modernist social spheres, and ultimately attained popular and commercial success unavailable to – and undesirable for – most authors considered modernist. In 1922, Ezra Pound rejected T.S. Eliot’s reference to Heart of Darkness in drafts of The Waste Land, doubting that Conrad was “weighty enough to stand the citation.” Virginia Woolf, despite admiring Conrad’s writing, predicted in 1917 that he could “never be among the classics” (“Mr. Conrad: A Conversation”). Ultimately, however, literary history has refuted the refutations of two prestigious modernist figures to place Conrad alongside them. Not only is he “among the classics;” Conrad is also a standard topic in books on modernism and in undergraduate courses on the movement. I argue that lawyer, collector, and patron John Quinn provided a network of financial and social resources that distinguished Conrad’s name from popular, middlebrow literature and situated it among an insular and elitist grouping of modernist names.
My research in this thesis takes its cue from scholarship that brackets close textual analyses to perform what Franco Moretti has called “distant reading” (1). It draws upon a branch of modernist studies– represented by scholars including Michael North, Lawrence Rainey, Catherine Turner, and John Cooper – that attempts to re-contextualize modernism into its socioeconomic milieu to determine how market forces affected the movement’s literary production. My first chapter is devoted to tracing Conrad’s absorption into a modernist canon, transitioning from cultural reviews by his contemporaries to the scholarship conducted by future generations of readers. In a second chapter, I outline Quinn’s contributions to Conrad’s career and lasting reputation. While Quinn is most remembered for his avant-garde artistic and literary associations, he was also the popular Conrad’s earliest collector and one of his strongest promoters and supporters in America. I argue that Quinn’s money and connections were instrumental in securing Conrad’s modernist legacy.
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Jareščenko, Oleksandr T. "Holodomor 1932 - 1933 rr. v Ukra·ini : na materialach Pivdnja Ukra·iny." Odesa "Astroprynt", 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&docl̲ibrary=BVB01&docn̲umber=017120308&linen̲umber=0001&funcc̲ode=DBR̲ECORDS&servicet̲ype=MEDIA.
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Leske, Benjamin Patrick. "The Haider phenomenon : Austrian politics in a post-materialist setting /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arl629.pdf.
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Muhe, Ulrich. "Labour, politics and emancipation, arendt and the historical materialist tradition." Thesis, University of Kent, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.509622.
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Loomba, A. "Disorderly women in Jacobean tragedy : Towards a materialist-feminist critique." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378281.
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Gadsby, P. "Ideology reconsidered : Arguments for ideology from a social materialist position." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382553.
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Pittel, Harald. "Feelings without Structure: A Cultural Materialist View of Affective Politics." Universität Leipzig, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21118.
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The term ‘affective politics’ is sometimes used to dismiss political strategies as being directed merely at affects at the expense of rational analysis (Massumi 2015: 65f). While such uses are meant to criticize certain politics, appeals to the affects – and consequently, forms of propaganda or populism – do not have to be bad at all. The point here is that affects not only play a role for manipulative governments or populist movements, but are a crucial factor for the political in general, which in a post-modern world can no longer be naïvely understood as being grounded in nature or reason (Massumi 2015: VIIIf). So, if politics are always entangled with affects, when do political affects become problematic? I will suggest that cultural materialism offers a few concepts that we can draw on to differentiate acceptable from harmful kinds of affective politics. More specifically, I am going to encourage a new reading of Raymond Williams’ concept of the structure of feeling and the way it is transformed in his later appropriation of Gramsci’s theory of hegemony.
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Fältenhag, Ulrica. ""En läsande klass" : På vilka sätt stödjer materialet elevers läsförståelse?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-19646.
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Detta examensarbete studerar på vilka sätt ”En läsande klass” stödjer elevers läsförståelse. Arbetets syfte har varit att undersöka och analysera materialet utifrån litteratur och forskning för att utläsa hur elevernas läsförståelse stöds. Materialet består av studiehandledningen ”En läsande klass” som skickades ut gratis till skolorna under våren 2014. Handledningen hänvisar också till texter, läsloggar och arbetsblad som finns på studiehandledningens hemsida. Metoden i studien har varit analyserande och tolkande närläsning utifrån ett hermeneutiskt perspektiv för att få en förståelse för materialet och dess upplägg. Av resultatet i studien framgår att kritik kommit från forskarhåll att materialet fokuserar för mycket på lässtrategier och dess betydelse istället för att eleverna får fokusera på texten och fördjupa sin kunskap. Av några forskare har materialet setts som en tipskatalog där eleverna mekaniskt läser text efter text utan någon större förståelse vilket förenklar undervisningen och innebörden med läsförståelse. Mycket av det som framkommer i analysen befäster dessa forskares synpunkter då studiehandledningen är mycket detaljerat och styrd. Men används materialet på rätt sätt det vill säga att lärarna gör materialet till sitt eget och plockar ut de bästa bitarna som passar för sina elever kan materialet istället bli det där lilla extra som lärarna behöver för att stödja eleverna i deras läsförståelse. Materialet har många bra texter som lärarna kan använda sig av i sin undervisning. Lärarna och eleverna har också mycket att vinna på att utgå från det viktiga textsamtalet som studiehandledningen förespråkar och som fokuserar på det kooperativa och ömsesidiga lärandet. ”En läsande klass” är ett steg i rätt riktning mot Dysthes (1996) flerstämmiga klassrum och ett utmärkt verktyg och stöd till lärarna för att kunna förbättra och hjälpa elever till bättre läsförståelse men följs studiehandledningen från pärm till pärm kan det motsatta inträffa och materialet kan istället leda till en isolerad färdighetsträning vilket är forskarnas farhågor.
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Hjorth, Helena, and Isabella Hylin. "Läsförståelse - en text- och innehållsanalys av materialet En läsande klass." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-35517.
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Syftet med vår text- och innehållsanalys är att närmre undersöka det kostnadsfria materialet En läsande klass (2014) ur ett literacyperspektiv. En läsande klass (2014) utger sig för att vara ett verktyg för yrkesverksamma lärare att arbeta med läsförståelse genom olika strategier, dock har materialet (ELK, 2014) mötts av en del kritik från framstående forskare inom området för läsförståelse (Damber & Nilsson, 2014; i Larsson, 2014). Vår uppsats utgår ifrån ett sociokulturellt perspektiv på lärande där individen, i sociala aktiviteter med kollektivet, utvecklar sitt lärande (Vygotskij, 1978). Vidare fördjupas denna teori ur ett literacyperspektiv som beskrivs som den förmåga och kunnighet en individ innehar inom läsning och skrivning och hur denna praktiseras genom varierande skriftspråkliga aktiviteter (Fast, 2007). Insamlandet av empirin sker genom ett strategiskt urval där vi fokuserar på den inledande höstterminens arbete med materialet En läsande klass (2014) i årskurs 1. Resultatet synliggör att En läsande klass (2014) till vissa delar utgår ifrån den tidigare forskning som presenterats inom området för läsförståelse men att de tolkningar och justeringar som gjorts påverkar materialets trovärdighet utifrån forskning och beprövad erfarenhet. Resultatet visar även att materialet En läsande klass (2014) skapar en formaliserad undervisning som inte utgår ifrån elevers behov, förutsättningar och intressen. Avslutningsvis kommer vi fram till att materialet En läsande klass (2014) inte utvecklar literacy i den mån som literacymodellen the Four Resource Model (Luke & Freebody, 1999) förespråkar.
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Mieville, China. "A historical-materialist analysis of international law and the legal form." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248676.
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Lovett, Matthew. "Outside on the inside : musical improvisation according to contemporary materialist thought." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2018. http://research.gold.ac.uk/23691/.
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One of the precursors to this PhD project was an awareness that a great deal of writing about music aesthetics, the practice of making music and the nature of listening to music, is often either knowingly or unknowingly grounded in a set of philosophical debates that predate (sometimes quite considerably) the music that is being written about. As such, there is a sense in which critical perspectives on improvised music practice, if they are to be relevant, need to take into account more recent developments in philosophical and theoretical thought, and one of the objectives of this study is to meet that challenge by mapping of some of the key aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century thought that have their roots in what could be described as ‘philosophies of immanence’ onto various aspects of improvisation. From the outset, this project is written from a maker’s perspective, and takes the form of a piece of extended research that takes as its starting point the idea that musical improvisation is a form of creative thinking in action. From this position, the process of improvising and an improvised piece of music, to some extent bear the traces of the thought that has given rise to both the music and the improvising itself. By grounding the research in a set of the afore-mentioned ‘philosophies of immanence’, it is therefore my intention to develop new ways of thinking about how improvisation works, new ways to describe what is happening when we hear musicians improvising, and new ways to understand what kinds of changes and innovations are brought to bear on the resources and materials – in other words the musical knowledge, the skills, the instruments, and a wider set of musical contexts and environments – that musicians have at their disposal during an improvisation.
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Töpfner, Christian. "Subjects of creation : on materialist abstraction and the enactment of ideas." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/11463/.
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How are we to think creation today when such an act is understood as the making of something out of nothing? Insisting that genuine creation happens ex nihilo brings us into direct confrontation with much of contemporary philosophical thought, be it critical or analytic, since the latter predominantly rules out the possibility of making reasonable statements about nothingness, or, indeed, about any kind of radical outside to what exists. This thesis attempts to formulate a speculative, rudimentary model of creation that proceeds from the consequences of affirming the possibility to not only think a radical outside, but to also instantiate ‘some’ of the latter in the form of genuine novelty. The terms for this model are developed from, and via a close examination of, Alain Badiou’s Being and Event and Logics of Worlds. Ultimately, however, it becomes necessary to take a critical distance to Badiou’s system on the basis of some foundational inconsistencies that arise from his unrelenting Platonism. In its place, this thesis proposes an alternative generic conception of creation, which, although following Badiou’s idea of subjective formalisms, transposes the latter onto a materialist foundation with the help of Quentin Meillassoux’s work in After Finitude and the late work of Michel Foucault. It is then demonstrated how this new model can itself be materially effective, or, more specifically, how its enactment in any particular world can be thought to work. The argument is also made, contra Badiou, that the event – that which establishes the possibility for radical difference – is something we can intentionally induce or work towards. In summary, the aim of this thesis is to reinvigorate the notion of radical novelty and the process of its instantiation through the act of creation. In doing so it proposes a rational basis for the belief that genuinely different worlds are indeed possible – and how such possibilities can be thought, occasioned and enacted.
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Kosugi, Masayoshi. "Reasonable evolution : on Bergson's dualism and the promise of materialist dialectic." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2017. http://research.gold.ac.uk/20629/.
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This thesis reconstructs a materialist dialectical logic through a novel reading of Henri Bergson’s method of intuition. We argue that Bergson’s theory of intuition is fundamentally double in nature and contains within itself both the retrieval of Kantian time as well as its transcendence by positing the Other of time through the theory of “duration.” We call this Bergson’s Transcendental Dualism and present a study of the materialist-phenomenological interrelation between time and duration as the key towards reconstructing a unique materialist dialectic that is neither naïvely positivistic nor nihilistic in nature. Our argument is that this dualism of intuition sits at the core of Bergson’s philosophy and it accomplishes a reversal of idealism that makes possible both the critique/negation of the historical constitution of finite human subjectivity as well as the affirmation of the Absolute Self from a materialist standpoint. Our exposition will be laid out in two parts. In Part I, we examine the element of time as that which endows the method of intuition with the capacity for negation or critique in a way compatible with Marxist criticism of subjectivity. In Part II, we explore the aspect of duration in terms of intuition’s capacity for affirmation. In contradistinction to that of time, it is our view that the theory of duration corresponds to Bergson’s non-metaphysical way of apprehending the Absolute Self, not in terms of a belief in the supra-sensible Idea but as the pure, transcendental sensuousness given within one’s actual intuition. Having established the duality of time and duration as the transcendental condition of intuition, this opens up a possibility for the becoming of human to be a free act of synthesis and leads towards what Bergson calls “reasonable evolution”.
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Garside, Damian John. "Satire and the satirist : a materialist reading of eighteenth-century satire." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18256.
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Bibliography: pages 480-513.This thesis presents an attempt to engage materialist literary analysis in a serious reconsideration of eighteenth-century satire as satire. In the process I see myself as challenging received notions of how the satire of the period is to be contextualized, as well as the way in which the category 'satire' has been constituted. I do not think it is possible to provide any reading of any satire today without initiating a reappraisal of the very form itself. Here I am attempting to integrate an ancient practice with new methodologies. This would seem to demand a perspective which is opposed to, and involves a critique of, not only the accepted institutional views of satire, but of aspects of the academic literary institution itself. Satire is, I believe, a term or category that should not be historicized and relativized out of existence. It has a significance and importance which is lost in attempts to make it a label of convenience: a convenient name that different literary cultures use to differentiate a particular form from the others available to them. In this thesis I will be focusing predominantly on Swift and Pope, who are not only the great satirists of this crucial period, but who are, arguably, the most subtle (Pope) and the most disturbing (Swift) of satirists who ever wrote.
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Hay, Duncan John Castel. "Form, place, and memory : materialist readings of Iain Sinclair's London writing." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/form-place-and-memory-materialist-readings-of-iain-sinclairs-london-writing(19d2419d-d2d3-4fbe-8124-ca111bd3e7d1).html.
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The body of poetry and prose produced by Iain Sinclair between 1975 and 2002 represents a sustained engagement with the question of the role of art and literature in the representation and comprehension of the city. This thesis reads Sinclair's work as a political intervention in the relationship between literature, urban space, and history, and takes its theoretical stance from the body of critical approaches to the city first articulated in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. The thesis proceeds on a broadly temporal and geographical basis from the East End of the author's 1975 poetic work Lud Heat to the suburbs of the capital in 2002's London Orbital, and is split into three sections of two chapters each, entitled 'Form', 'Place', and 'Memory' respectively. This structure periodises the author's oeuvre, demonstrating the ways in which his work responds to a series of historically specific cultural and political constellations; the titles name the perennial themes and critical concerns of Sinclair's writing, and allow the investigation of the ways in which these are instantiated and elaborated in his texts. Sinclair's earliest work builds upon the formal innovations and ambition of modernist poetics. Through an analysis of his first major collection of poetry, Lud Heat (1975), and his first novel, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (1987), the first part of the thesis - 'Form' - argues that these texts constitute an interrogation of the institutions of literature in postwar Britain in the wake of what Peter Burger identifies as the failure of the historic avant-gardes. These opening two chapters contextualise Sinclair's work so as to reveal its anti-establishment, oppositional character; the second section of the thesis - 'Place' - moves on to examine how these concerns are expressed in relation to urban space. Chapter 3 turns to the figure of the flaneur in his second novel, Downriver(1991), and demonstrates how this work at once radically decentres this subjectivity and is conditioned by his limitations. Downriver marks a moment of political nihilism in Sinclair's work, neither able to bring to representation Fredric Jameson's aesthetic of 'cognitive mapping', nor the emancipatory potential of postmodernism. His later 'psychogeographic' writing articulates a response to this impasse: chapter 4 demonstrates the ways in which Sinclair's use of this term at once divests it of the utopian character of its Situationist origins and transforms it into a dissenting, heterogeneous, literary mode. The final two chapters - 'Memory' - investigate the political potentialities of the models of history expressed in Sinclair's work. Chapter 5 turns to the author's use of the Gothic in relation to Benjamin's 'messianic' notion of 'the what has been', and argues that whilst such strategies can be of great critical potential, they at once risk collusion with that which they attack. Chapter 6 then analyses 2002's London Orbital, and argues that this work's ironic, tentative nostalgia for both the author's anti-establishment past and for the utopian character of former socio-political projects represents an attempt to find a way beyond the political malaise that Sinclair's London corpus identifies.
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Berg, Jonatan. "Ett nytt användningsområde för materialet OrganoComp® : genom en materialdriven designprocess." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Design och formgivning, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-28380.
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Syftet med detta projekt är att med hjälp av en materialinriktad designprocess skapa en produkt av biokompositmaterialet OrganoComp® för att demonstrera dess styrkor och möjligheter. Arbetet kommer att följa metoden ”Material Driven Design (MDD)”, vilket betyder att processen kommer att börja med en noggrann studie av materialet – dels tekniskt och ur ett användarcentrerat perspektiv, men även jämförelsemässigt mot andra material. Insikterna från dessa studier kommer sedan trattas ner och sammanfattas i en ”designintention” som ska sätta målet för designarbetet. Slutligen kommer ett antal koncept som uppfyller designintentionen arbetas fram, varav ett koncept – ett litet, ihopvikbart och nedbrytbart paraply/regnskydd kommer att väljas ut som det slutgiltiga. Paraplyet visar på materialets vattenavvisande egenskaper, i kombination med hårdhet och vikbarhet. Målet med projektet är att skapa en demonstrator som även har potential att bli en användbar produkt i framtiden, och samtidigt ge företaget OrganoClick nya insikter och flera förslag på nya användningsområden för sitt material.
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Kim, Bomin. "Recycling History| Early Modern Fasting and Cultural Materialist Awareness in Thomas Middleton." Thesis, New York University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557008.
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This dissertation explores the possibility of an early modern cultural materialism in selected dramatic works of Thomas Middleton in which fasting plays a prominent thematic role. The once venerable Christian practice of fasting was compartmentalized into secular and religious components in the wake of the Protestant Reformation in England even as its overall practical contour was preserved largely intact. It was subjected to conflicting representations and programs for reform, and appropriated by differing political and ecclesiastical factions. The vicissitudes that beset fasting offered a fertile ground for cultivating an understanding about the nature of the material basis of cultural formations and the historical dynamic governing their fates. It is this indigenous cultural materialist understanding, I argue, that Middleton's treatment of fasting in his dramatic works exemplifies.
The first chapter offers a history of fasting from the early church to its secularization under Queen Elizabeth as Protestant status quo ante in reference to which later departures and appropriations took place. One such departure by King James is the subject of the next chapter on A Chaste Maid in Cheapside in which the king's attempt to re-sacralize fasting is subjected to a materialist satire and made into a springboard for imagining a utopia of a specifically materialist kind. The next chapter on The Puritan contextualizes the play in terms of the puritan attempts to incorporate fasting as part of the Protestant prayer regime in the place of cunning folk's witchcraft and Catholic ecclesiastical magic. Masque of Heroes and Christmas keeping at the Jacobean Inner Temple are the subjects of the last chapter. I discuss the prominence in the masque of the anthropomorphized Fasting Day in connection with inter-generational and inter-constituency struggle for the custodianship of the valued custom of Christmas keeping.
These studies represent a series of historicist contributions to Middleton scholarship on the individual works. More broadly, they constitute an attempt to exploit insights from cultural history and material culture studies to broaden the scope of the study of religion in early modern English drama.
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Smith, Paul B. "The materialist interpretation of John Millar's philosophical history : towards a critical appraisal." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1740/.
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This dissertation examines aspects of John Millar's philosophical history in order to provide grounds for a critical appraisal of the content of his contribution to social and historical science. Using Millar's published books and lectures in civil law as primary sources, it is suggested that Millar applied an empiricist method to the principles of jurisprudence. Millar shared this method with Hume and Smith. Implicit within the method was the abstraction of an ideal observer or spectator. This abstraction was derived from the use of an empiricist method to understand the operations of the minds of particular individual subjects on the pre-determined experience of immediate circumstances. The method assumed that the operations of subjects' minds on the objects of their experience included classification, comparison, generalisation, conjecture, inference, imaginative identification and experiment. Millar's method is therefore characterised as both conjectural and individualistic. Through a critique of Ronald Meek's seminal statements on Millar's materialism, certain issues are investigated for further critical appraisal. These include Millar's political economy, his conception of civil society, and his political theory. It is argued that Millar had a conception of generalised commodity production and exchange; that this conception was derived from the assumption that subjects are self-interest; and that the latter assumption was necessary to explain the origins, emergence and development of civil and political society. Millar assumed that individuals' pursuit of self-interested goals gave rise to ideas of positive law, freely alienable property, different distributions of property, and feelings of liberty. It is suggested that Millar's theorisation of the effect of the latter on forms of government is derived from a combined use of Smith's principles of authority and utility with Hume's commercialised Harringtonianism.
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Gahnström, Ingela, and Angelica Lorentzon. "Förskolegården : Ur pedagogers perspektiv." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-252125.
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Förskolegården är ett aktuellt och intressant område inför vår kommande roll som förskollärare. Gården är en plats där vi kommer tillbringa stor del av vår framtid och därför vill vi få mer kunskap om detta ur pedagogers perspektiv. Det vi fokuserat på är pedagogers uppfattningar och åsikter om förskolegården och detta kan vi koppla till begreppen intelligent action och learning by doing som är Deweys teorier. Dessa teorier handlar främst om upplevelser och erfarenheter vilket vi grundar vår studie på eftersom vi anser att man utvecklas hela livet och att det därför är viktigt att få vara med om olika händelser. Genom att vi kopplar vår studie till upplevelser och erfarenheter intar vi ett sociokulturellt perspektiv som fokuserar på intresset för det individuella barnet och barnet i grupp. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka några förskolepedagogers uppfattningar beträffande utemiljön på gården samt observera vad det finns för material och vad som används av barnen. Frågeställningarna vi använt oss av är: Vad anser den intervjuade pedagogen om miljön på gården i dag? Vad är pedagogernas åsikter kring upplägget av gården? Vad för material finns på gården och vad används? Metoderna vi använt oss av är intervju och observation på tre olika förskolor i mellansverige där vi intervjuat sex pedagoger och observerat på sex förskolegårdar. Resultatet av intervjuerna och observationerna visar att i de flesta fall var pedagogerna nöjda med gårdarna eftersom att det ansågs finnas det mesta, exempelvis närheten till naturen där utbudet skiftar beroende på årstid och detta ger barnen möjlighet till olika upplevelser. Resultatet visar även att materialutbudet och gårdens storlek var av betydelse för barnens motoriska utveckling samt att pedagogernas flexibilitet av verksamheten spelar in då aktiviteten likväl kan flyttas ut som att vara inne.
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Berglund, Anna-Karin. "Materialet och traditionens estetik : ett undersökande arbete om ungdomars syn på material." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Bildpedagogik (BI), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-569.
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Den här uppsatsen behandlar frågeställningen hur gymnasieelever idag förhåller sig till hemslöjdsrörelsens tradition och syn på material i förhållande till hantverk? Syftet med undersökningen är att lyfta fram och diskutera hur dagens ungdomar förhåller sig till material i jämförelse med den tradition som vuxit fram ur det sena 1800-talets hemslöjds- och sociala reformrörelser. Genom litteraturstudier inom området lyfter undersökningen fram tankegångar om på vilket sätt hemslöjdsrörelsens estetik och därmed förhållande till material, kunnat vinna ett mer allmänt utbrett anseende. I ett designpedagogiskt projekt som tar avstamp i etnologen Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius teorier om hur hemslöjdsrörelsen värderar olika material, är arbetets avsikt att undersöka i vad mån dessa ideal än i dag präglar gymnasieelevers förhållningssätt till material. Insamlingen av empiriskt material till undersökningen har skett med etnografisk metod i samband med det designpedagogiska projektet, den praktiska undersökningen. Observationer, fältanteckningar, fotodokumentation och samtal har fungerat som hjälpmedel för studien. Undersökningsgruppen har bestått av elever i årskurs tre på gymnasiets estetiska program i en mindre mellansvensk stad. Genom ett tredimensionellt gestaltande arbete, där eleverna utifrån en given uppgift väljer och förhåller sig till ett smörgåsbord av material av traditionell och icke-traditionell, industriell karaktär, besvaras undersökningens frågeställning, praktiskt och visuellt. Resultatet av undersökningen visar på att den undersökta gruppen som en indikation för gruppen ungdomar och gymnasieelever inte värderar material utifrån de kriterier som förvaltas av hemslöjdsrörelsen. Hos den undersökta gruppen har det framkommit att material i första hand svarar för ett visuellt uttryck, en komponent i en bild snarare än som en bärare av traditionsbunden kunskap och värderingar om material. Undersökningsresultatet redovisas i en utställning där resultatet av det designpedagogiska projektet, elevernas praktiska arbeten, tillsammans med undersökningens skrivna del besvarar frågeställningen.
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Ståhl, Elin. "Val och kompensation : En studie av lärares arbetssätt med materialet ABC-klubben." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-43584.
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This study, based on the socio-cultural theory of the book as a mediating tool, examines how four teachers say they work with the reader ABC-klubben. This is done with a focus on how they reason about choosing the level of readers for the pupils and about what compensation, if any, they make for pupils who read the simpler book and therefore miss the more difficult words and expressions. The result shows that all the teachers say that they take the pupils’ motivation for and pleasure in reading as an important ground for the decision as to which reader a pupil should use, and that this decision is taken with a focus on the individual. When it comes to compensation for the pupils who read the simpler book, the teachers do not describe consistently focused work on this, but they describe a similar way of working whereby they nevertheless acquaint these pupils with the more difficult book and the harder words and expressions. The conclusion of the study is that the teachers use many different methods to determine a pupil’s reading ability and hence which book is reasonable for the pupil to read, and one of the methods described is based on reading tests. Other methods are based on experience and the teachers’ own ability.
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Öman, Robinne. "spiritualize materia : blunda och stryk handen över materialet, det är nog krokodil." Thesis, Konstfack, Textil, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6772.
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Roman, Björklund Emma. "Medeltida matföring : En osteologisk analys på det animala materialet från borgen Ringstaholm." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Osteoarkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-136978.
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Ringstaholm, a castle in Östergötland was established in 1310 and torn down during a rebellion in 1470. Previous research has shown the importance in castles and fortifications, but the animal bone material is rarely examined. An excavation was conducted in Ringstaholm, on an islet in Motala ström in 1912, where animal and human bones were found, along with mundane everyday items. Since the excavation in 1912 has the material that was found not been examined, and with no written report there is very little known about this particular site. The aim of this study has been to highlight the meat supply that was in the medieval castle of Ringstaholm in Motala ström, but also to examine the human remains that were left at the site after the rebellion against the castle. The results derives from the osteological analysis and the quantification on the animal bones, where species, age, sex and slaughter traces has been of interest in this study. There has also been an analysis on the human bones that were found on the site, which gives knowledge on the battle, and also the history of the inhabitants of the castle.
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Duran, Marcela. "Barns pedagogiska material : En kvalitativ studie om barns användning av det pedagogiska materialet som finns på fem förskolor och om sex pedagogers tankar kring placeringen av det pedagogiska materialet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24530.
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“Childs pedagogic material – A qualitative study of child’s use of pedagogic materials available at five nursery schools and about their teachers thoughts about the display of the pedagogic material” In the nursery preschool the environment and the educational materials have always had a central place. That's why it has been chosen to study and observe five preschools and interview sex teachers, in an attempt to understand the teachers thought about the choice of material and the choices of material that the children used. The reason I do this is to see what the underlying idea about the materials the children use is, and why educators choose to make certain materials visible. The purpose of this study is to examine the educational materials that are used to stimulate children´s learning and examine what determines the choice of educational materials. In the assessment of the pedagogical scenario it has been used a socio-cultural perspective and a multimodal approach that allowed to conclude that children use most of the material with exception of what is often placed high up on shelves, locked in closets or a cabinets. Educational materials that children don't see are not commonly used by the children since they don’t of interest for them. When teachers display educational materials in the children’s level and make the material available for them, it results in awaking the children’s interest in using them. At the interviews all the teachers agreed that the educational material must be made available and that on the children's level. The educational material has to be tempting and varying nature, furthermore, the material also has to be concrete and so designed that the children could make use of them without needs of supervising guidance of an adult that explaining everything to them.
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Tunström, Isabelle. "NTA-materialet som stöd för systematiska undersökningar i NO-undervisningen : En studie om elevernas möjligheter att utveckla förmågan att genomföra systematiska undersökningar med NTA-materialet i årskurs F-3." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för lärarutbildning, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-36909.
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Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka på vilka sätt läromaterialet NTA gerförutsättningar för elever i årskurs F-3 att utveckla förmågan att genomföra systematiskaundersökningar samt hur lärare använder materialet. Studien har grundats på tresemistrukturerade intervjuer av lärare samt en innehållsanalys av textmaterial tillhörande treolika NTA-teman. De intervjuer som genomfördes är även de analyserade med hjälp av eninnehållsanalys. Resultatet för intervjuerna visade på att lärarna använder sig av NTAmaterialetför att utveckla elevernas förmåga till att genomföra systematiska undersökningargenom att dels utföra uppdragen i ett tema enligt beskrivningarna dels genom att utförauppdragen med anpassningar till den aktuella gruppen. Intervjuerna visade även på hur lärarnakunde se tydliga kopplingar till läroplanen och de kunskapskrav som eleverna ska uppnå.Dessutom ansåg de att NTA-materialet ger förutsättningar för att blanda det teoretiska arbetetmed praktiskt arbete där lärarna även ansåg att materialet är genomtänkt. NTA-materialet ansesdärmed vara en hjälp för lärarna att få ihop en bra undervisning kopplat till läroplanen. Dockframkom det att materialet kan vara tidskrävande i förberedelserna och att uppdragen iblandliknar varandra för mycket och vissa delar hoppas över för att spara tid. Avslutningsvisframkom det av intervjuerna att NTA-materialet är ett bra redskap för att utveckla elevernasförmåga att genomföra systematiska undersökningar men att det ibland kan bli begränsande förelever som har svårt att tänka utanför boxen eller om uppdragen är för svåra för eleverna för attkomma till steget att genomföra egna undersökningar. Vid analysen av textmaterialet för de treNTA-temana framkom det att materialet hjälper eleverna till en utveckling av förmågan attgenomföra systematiska undersökningar men att det till större del i uppdragen endast är en litendel av en förmågemålet som eleverna får öva på. Det framkom inte från något uppdrag atteleverna fullständigt fick pröva på att genomföra en systematisk undersökning även om detfanns enstaka uppdrag som var i närheten av fullständiga. Av de olika delarna en systematiskundersökning består av var möjligheten att ställa egna frågor samt deltagande i planeringenbegränsad för eleverna. Lite mer vanligt förekommande var möjligheten till att utvärderaarbetet. Möjligheterna till att ställa egna hypoteser samt dokumentation var det som förekom mest.NO
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Kuronen, Suzanne. "Figuring space : considering the figure in the construction of space as materialist film." University of Western Australia. School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0015.
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Figuring Space; considering the figure in the construction of space in materialist film is an analysis of film space that uses either the image of a figure or the actual figure of the viewer in its construction. The thesis focuses on particular screen works of William Raban, Guy Sherwin, Malcolm Le Grice, Chris Welsby, Nicky Hamlyn, Peter Gidal (all members of the London Filmmakers’ Cooperative) and the Canadian artist Michael Snow. It discusses the works in relation to the basic materials of time, light and sound found in film and video. The thesis looks at the way the film frame was implemented in the work of these artists to challenge preconceived notions of film space. It also highlights the uncertainty of spatial relativity within the screen image once the techniques imposed by the artist undermine previous determinations of positions in space. The frame provides necessary elements with which a reading of a pictorial space can be made. In addition, with some of the works discussed, the frame defines an exterior screen space that at times questions the boundaries between on-screen and off-screen, and fictive space and real space. While in other works that are addressed, binaries exist within which the boundaries of a picture plane are utilized to determine an object’s spatial relativity, which in turn questions the relativity of those boundaries that determine it. The frame that previously confirmed the illusions of space within the pictorial plane could no longer be prescribed as definitive. Calculations of the film space would become dependent upon a point of origin that is situated within actual time and space at the position of the viewer. The figure of paramount importance, when considering the constructs of space within materialist film, is that of the viewer
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Sim, Gerald Sianghwa. "The race with class towards a materialist methodology for race in film studies /." Diss., University of Iowa, 2007. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/187.
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