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Bernard Stiegler’s critique of and supplement to Martin Heidegger’s account of the independence of entities
DownloadFall 2011
This thesis first provides an explication of Bernard Stiegler’s implicit critique of Martin Heidegger’s account of the independence entities. After accomplishing this explication, an explanation and justification of Stiegler’s theory of entities, in the form of technology, is given to see if it...
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Spring 2013
My thesis explores the intersection of time and speed in two different displays at the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE). In chapter one, titled “The Assembly Line: Accumulation,” I analyse a narrative of progress enacted in the Ford Motor Company’s popular...
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Spring 2015
Feminist resistance to gender oppression, while surely a collective political project, has an important individual dimension. Individual resistance most often takes the shape of self-transformation where one works on the self to change desires, attitudes, and practices. I argue that paradigms of...
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Portfolio of Works: Composing Perceptions of Time in Music
2023-04-30
Audio recordings found at https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/r/wd3pv6cm2k Thesis found at https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-h15r-mp10
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2023-04-30
This portfolio contains three compositions whose primary aims are to manipulate perceptions of time through sonic contrast and similitude. The works also explore composing performer interactions, integrating electronics into an acoustic environment, and using varying levels of indeterminacy to...