Dissertations / Theses: 'Visions'

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Jackman, Anna Hamilton. "Unmanned geographies : drone visions and visions of the drone." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26196.

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This thesis approaches the study of the (aerial) military and non-military drone through an examination of the communities that variously compel and propel it into action: that culturally constitute it. Employing the term ‘proponent communities’, this thesis approaches the drone through an empiric-led exploration of such actors, those including: manufacturers, industry, regulators, governments, militaries, trade associations and end users. These proponent communities are accessed through fieldwork at three central sites, namely military and non-military tradeshows, military conferences, and through the completion of numerous industry educational courses. Whilst by no means a homogenous group, such communities remain important in crafting, composing, (re)producing and circulating both technical and cultural knowledges of the drone. In approaching the drone’s cultural constitution, the thesis pursues two distinct analytic foci. First, in response to the tendency of extant scholarship to focus upon what the functioning drone does and its implications, thus treating it like a ‘black box’, the thesis ‘opens’ the drone through an exploration of particular proponent cultures through which it is instituted. Examining both the role of military drone operators and the employment of drones with multi-sensory payloads in emergency service settings, over two chapters the thesis explores the cultures through which the drone comes to function in framing that below it. Second, the thesis explores a series of mechanisms through which the drone is articulated, visualized and otherwise legitimated as a tool, asset, and commodity within military and non-military drone tradeshows. In approaching the drone at the tradeshow, the thesis expands extant analyses of the drone by considering its cultural constitution at such hitherto unexamined sites of consumption. In approaching the cultural constitution of the drone through these two strands of investigation the thesis offers three contributions. First, in working within a research context punctuated with access limitations, the thesis opens up different windows of access at which drone proponent communities gather, form, and (re)compose drone knowledges. Second, in approaching the drone at sites in which it is instituted and traded, the thesis engages with both proponent knowledges of employment, and articulations of expectation and potential therein. It demonstrates that such an engagement facilitates the challenging of several dominant and entrenched narratives surrounding the drone, variously revealing them as inadequate, fractured, or fantastical. Third, whilst the main contribution of this thesis is to geographies, and the wider interdisciplinary field, of drone scholarship, the thesis argues for, and demonstrates the value of, engaging with alternative geographical literatures in developing its argumentation. In situating the drone within such wider discussions and landscapes the thesis thus productively develops distinct frameworks through which to conceptually and empirically engage with the drone.

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Cook, Ellen Angeline, and Ellen Angeline Cook. "Visions of Etruria." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626744.

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I have used mythology of Etruscan origin and mythology favored by the Etruscans as subject matter for a group of sculpture. While the work draws only a little upon Etruscan pictorial style, with the exception of what is needed to ascertain appropriate details of costume and attributes, it strives to capture the essential content and spirit of the original. Each image is accompanied by a description of its content and historical background, in addition to a description of the broader context of Etruscan civilization. I hope to create an interest in and awareness of this relatively obscure subject matter.

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Estes, Bryan. "Thief of Visions." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1101.

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This thesis is a creative study of poetry and visual art, containing fifty poems and ten illustrations. It is situated on the continuum of a long and rich history of interactions between poetry and the visual arts, from the earliest works of ekphrasis poetry written over two-thousand years ago, and the Haiga poets of 11th-century Japan blending painting and haiku, to the numerous and varied works of contemporary poets and artists. Inspiration for this creative endeavor spans the works of many poet-artists, including William Blake, Mark Strand, Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Anne Carson, Nick Flynn, and Tom Phillips, and many others who have created visual and concrete poetry, erasure poetry, graphic poetry, broadsides, and illustrated collections. The visual art contained in this thesis is not intended as a mere addition to the poetry, rather the poetry and art function as a composite, an integrated form that simultaneously illustrates, augments, contrasts, and distorts.

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Gonzalez, de Bustamante Celestine. "Tele-Visiones (Tele-Visions): The Making of Mexican Television News, 1950-1970." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195895.

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Between 1950 and 1970 television emerged as one of the most important forms of mass communication in Mexico. An analysis of television news scripts and film clips located at the Televisa (the nation’s largest television network) Archives in Mexico City exposed tensions and traditions in television news. The tensions reveal conflicts between: the government and media producers; modernity and the desire to create traditions and maintain those already invented; elite controllers of the media and popular viewers; a male dominated business and female news producers and viewers; an elite (mostly white) group of media moguls and a poor mestizo and indigenous viewers; and the United States and Mexico in the midst of the Cold War. In contrast to the trend in scholarship on Mexican television, this dissertation demonstrates that media executives such as Emilio Azcárrraga Milmo and high ranking government officials within the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) maintained close connections, but the two groups did not always walk in lock-step. Analysis of newscast scripts and film clips located at Televisa’s (Mexico’s largest network) Archive reveal a more complex picture, which shows there were several and sometimes competing visions for the country's future. Examining the first twenty years of television news in Mexico City, the author focuses on production, content, and interpretations of the news. The dissertation finds evidence to prove that news producers and writers formed tele-traditions that influenced news production, content, and interpretation well into the 1980s. Unprecedented access to Televisa Archives allowed the author to ask and answer questions, that to date scholars have not treated, such as, what makes Mexican television news Mexican? The dissertation is grounded in a theoretical framework called hybridity of framing, which combines the concepts of cultural hybridity and news framing. The dissertation concludes that although news producers and writers attempted to frame events in certain ways, viewers often interpreted the news differently.

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Brück, Andreas [Verfasser]. "URBAN TOMORROWS 2030 : Visions & Counter-Visions for Future Cities / Andreas Brück." Berlin : epubli, 2017. http://d-nb.info/114259002X/34.

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Utt, James H. "New visions, old structures." Chicago, Ill : McCormick Theological Seminary, 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Li, Yingzhen. "Approximate inference : new visions." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277549.

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Nowadays machine learning (especially deep learning) techniques are being incorporated to many intelligent systems affecting the quality of human life. The ultimate purpose of these systems is to perform automated decision making, and in order to achieve this, predictive systems need to return estimates of their confidence. Powered by the rules of probability, Bayesian inference is the gold standard method to perform coherent reasoning under uncertainty. It is generally believed that intelligent systems following the Bayesian approach can better incorporate uncertainty information for reliable decision making, and be less vulnerable to attacks such as data poisoning. Critically, the success of Bayesian methods in practice, including the recent resurgence of Bayesian deep learning, relies on fast and accurate approximate Bayesian inference applied to probabilistic models. These approximate inference methods perform (approximate) Bayesian reasoning at a relatively low cost in terms of time and memory, thus allowing the principles of Bayesian modelling to be applied to many practical settings. However, more work needs to be done to scale approximate Bayesian inference methods to big systems such as deep neural networks and large-scale dataset such as ImageNet. In this thesis we develop new algorithms towards addressing the open challenges in approximate inference. In the first part of the thesis we develop two new approximate inference algorithms, by drawing inspiration from the well known expectation propagation and message passing algorithms. Both approaches provide a unifying view of existing variational methods from different algorithmic perspectives. We also demonstrate that they lead to better calibrated inference results for complex models such as neural network classifiers and deep generative models, and scale to large datasets containing hundreds of thousands of data-points. In the second theme of the thesis we propose a new research direction for approximate inference: developing algorithms for fitting posterior approximations of arbitrary form, by rethinking the fundamental principles of Bayesian computation and the necessity of algorithmic constraints in traditional inference schemes. We specify four algorithmic options for the development of such new generation approximate inference methods, with one of them further investigated and applied to Bayesian deep learning tasks.

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Vine, Steven. "Blake's poetry : spectral visions /." London : New York : Macmillan ; St. Martin's press, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355874967.

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Bonnevier, Niklas. "De Paard - Visions of Playtopia." Thesis, Växjö University, Växjö University, School of Technology and Design, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-5220.

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Playsam in Kalmar AB are world famous for their design of the toys they sell. Together with their CEO Carl Zedig the goal was to find a new product for the company. The process has far from been linear, I started off in one direction, got rejected, turned another way and we finally decided to create a rocking horse in a De Stijl style. At the same time taking consideration of the demands from Playsam and myself.Playsam’s products are archetypes of ordinary objects around us such as the car or the aeroplane. The company mainly produces its toys in wood and the stylized shape together with the blank painted surface has become a hallmark for them.De Stijl, the Dutch art movement containing artists, designers and architects such as Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg and Gerrit Rietveld. Given inspiration for the rocking horse was Rietveld’s chair Red-Blue.I, Niklas Bonnevier, have a technical background and I am shaped by that. I rather draw with a ruler than by free hand, I often think mathematically instead of in free shapes. In my projects I often work with humour and playfulness, but with great seriousity as a base.The challenge in the project was to take in consideration the factors that would affect the shape and make decisions of what was the most essential to reach the goal. Compromises had to be done since all factors could not get the space they demanded. To renounce the thoughts of Rietveld in the making of the chair Red-Blue hurt in the designer soul but the main thing is that the product works for what it is meant to. Playsam also have to be allowed to say theirs if the result is supposed to be a commercial product in their range of products.

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Denham, Geoffrey Walter, University of Western Sydney, and School of Communication and Media. "Audio-visions : domestic videogame play." THESIS_XXX_SCM_Denham_G.xml, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/255.

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The domestic playing of videogames is examined through a series of extended dialogues with male adolescents. The research process was grounded in a theorisation of audience activity in communication studies which sees meanings emerging from the boys’ engagements with kinetic texts in terms of refigurative activity. This encapsulates reading, interpretation, and a cultural productivity whereby the kinetic text is returned to the everyday world, primarily through a relation of mimicry. The cultural fertility of videogames is traced through this mimicry to reveal a series of themes: a de-stabilising of the distinction between work and play spaces; the fragmentation of audiences of the small screen in the home through the establishment of gendered playspaces; the instilling of competitive relations within male community; and the melding of fantasy and discipline. An investigation of the significance of soundtrack to videogame play leads to the conclusion that in videogame playing a new cultural competency is taking shape in the form of a postmodern literacy, which lays stress on a continuous circumlocution, a destabilizing of narrative time, and middles rather than beginnings or endings. The findings contradict many ideas regarding videogame playing: that players are addicts; that videogame play is mindless; or that players are fickle. Videogame playing is implicated as an identity-making discursive project considered central to the business of being a male adolescent.
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Denham, Geoffrey Walter. "Audio-visions : domestic videogame play /." View thesis, 1999. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030808.133600/index.html.

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Edelsward, L. M. 1958. "Highland visions : recreating rural Sardinia." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28565.

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The village of Villagrande Strisaili, situated in central highlands of the island of Sardinia, Italy, is the subject of this ethnographic study of economic and cultural change. In Part I, a brief historical overview reveals that the pre-war society was largely subsistence based, with shepherding providing milk and cheese to sell on the market for cash. A strict division of labour and responsibilities by sex required mutual dependency of the male and female heads of a household, and supported local notions of gender equality. Part II examines the economic basis of and the restructuring of occupational opportunities in Villagrande today. Although shepherding and subsistence production continue to be important local activities, they are no longer the dominant forms of economic production and secure positions in government offices and institutions are now the preferred occupations. The profound cultural changes of recent decades is the focus of Part III. The notion of local culture, and of a distinctive local identity, is disappearing as cosmopolitan culture becomes localized through local acceptance. Contemporary villagers now create their sense of identity in terms of a wider reality, as defined by the powerful messages of the cosmopolitan system which are efficiently disseminated to villagers through the state educational system and the ubiquitous mass media. These cultural changes have unexpected consequences on the local culture and its reproduction to future generations.

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Chaplain, Josefina. "Gendered visions postcolonial Indian art." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31223928.

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Yang, Woo-Hyun. "M.I.Tomorrow--visions for East Campus." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78979.

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Thompson, Heidi M. "Uroboros : visions of the androgyne /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9473.

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Barnns, Christopher Anne. "Feminist (re)visions of anthropology." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291941.

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This thesis characterizes feminist anthropology's past, present and future. The early years of feminist anthropology were committed to explication of the relationship between gender and power. Currently feminists are engaging in new post-modern ideas. Post-modern concerns with epistemology and knowledge/truth production resound with feminist observations, but post-modern concepts of power, resistance and deconstruction present problems for feminists. For post-modern anthropologists, traditional ethnography has been replaced by experimental texts. Feminist anthropologists created the textual innovation of "voices." Feminist anthropological texts are now focusing on how women handle the complex and diverse power structures that oppress them, incorporating a focus on media and discourse. Recent feminist anthropology combines textual experimentation with a focus on resistance at its various levels. Future feminist anthropologists will return to the discussion of gender and power begun in the 70s retaining the post-modern textual experimentation and interest in resistance and power.

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Brainard, Beverly G. "A critical examination of pre-exilic biblical visions as represented by Abraham's promise-vision." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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McWade, Jessica C. "Visions Of Vision| An Exploratory Study Of The Role College And University Presidents Play In Developing Institutional Vision." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3615867.

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This qualitative research explores how college and university presidents engage in the process of developing formal institutional vision. The inquiry identifies roles presidents play in vision development, which is often undertaken as part of strategic-planning initiatives. Two constructs of leadership and institutional vision are used to examine key variables such as vision development and the college presidency.

In-depth, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 10 presidents representing private and public institutions that have been or are being transformed. These interviews revealed 21 findings arrayed as: 1) seven organizing modalities, 2) five presidential roles, 3) seven role-based success factors and 4) two issues concerning balancing ownership of vision between presidents and stakeholders in shared-governance environments.

Many of the presidents developed formal institutional visions narrowly and on their own, but then undertook more inclusive processes to finalize their visions, socialize them through their organizations and integrate them into strategic planning. A related finding is that, despite pressures to engage in vision development with a broad spectrum of their communities, presidents are routinely asked to provide their visions to trustees and others during job recruitment.

Other findings include confirmation that visioning is generally part of strategic-planning exercises. Presidents often think in terms of what this study labels visionary intent, identified here as the combination of formal vision, objectives and strategies. Presidents also report relying on outside experts to play roles in visioning and strategic planning. Some presidents also spoke of balancing the need to encourage creativity and ambition among those engaged in the process with a responsibility to protect their institutions against misguided or even dangerous visions.

Numerous implications for both practice and theory emerged from this research. These include how essential it is for presidents to understand the cultural, political, historical, financial and operating contexts of their institutions prior to embarking on visioning. This includes awareness of the dynamics and visioning efforts of their immediate predecessors.

The presidents ultimately chose different courses of action to develop vision, though they all shared many best practices. In theoretical terms, this reflects an interesting Contingency Leadership approach to visioning in Complexity Leadership environments marked by the considerable Shared and Servant Leadership characteristics of shared governance.

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Stewart, Michelle Robin. "Sovereign visions : native North American documentary /." Diss., ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2001. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.

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Folkerth, Jennifer Amanda. "Shared visions : toward collaborative visual ethnography." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68089.

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Recent critiques of both the subject and method of anthropology have caused the discipline to reexamine its process of representation. This thesis provides an exploration of approaches to representation in visual anthropology, with specific emphasis on collaborative visual ethnography. Both theoretical and practical issues are considered. The first chapter traces the history of ethnographic film and discusses various approaches to subject participation in literature and films. The second chapter presents a theoretical basis for collaborative visual ethnography, primarily from "postmodern" critiques of anthropology and recent visual anthropology literature. The third chapter consists of an analysis of a video resulting from a collaborative project I facilitated, in order to illustrate ideas of collaborative visual ethnography in a practical setting. The fourth, and final, chapter examines the few examples of collaborative film and video that are documented in order to construct a framework for approaching collaborative projects.

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Bonelli, Cristobal Rodrigo. "Visions and divisions in Pehuenche life." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8275.

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This work is based upon fieldwork carried out among indigenous Pehuenche people living in the Andes in Southern Chile. It is an ethnographic investigation of the relations between Pehuenche vision and healing practices in different local settings. The first part of this thesis focuses on Pehuenche vision from a cosmo-political angle. In order to set the scene for my overall argument, I explore the constitutive relation between mutual vision among real people (Ch. che) and the emergence of the Pehuenche person, which I call the ‘dynamic personal composition.’ With mutual vision between people being a precondition for the emergence of social relations, I examine the experience of particular witchcraft actions in which mutual vision is not possible. This leads to the conceptualization of ‘unilateral vision’ as a key phenomenon associated with the emergence of illnesses and the alteration of the shared plane of Pehuenche visibility. I also explore how mutual vision can be restored only through the assemblage of particular visual capacities known in the vernacular as ‘the gift of vision.’ In the second part of the thesis, I analyze the ways in which public health services respond to particular illnesses not detectable or treatable by medical technicians. In particular, I focus on the implications of ‘the visualization of traditional healers,’ inherent in the State’s approach to intercultural health. Through the examination of both particular intercultural health projects, as well as local expressions of discontent and animosity towards the State, this thesis seeks to create awareness about the ontological relevance of mutual vision in relations among real people. By pointing out the equivocal understandings of the visible and the invisible domains within intercultural relations, the analysis as a whole seeks to explain why Pehuenche vision must be understood through ontological examination rather than through a multicultural approach.

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SOUSA, MANOEL ALEXANDRE S. F. DE. "VISIONS OF MODERNISM: ROSALIND KRAUSS FORMALISMS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=36297@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
PROGRAMA DE DOUTORADO SANDUÍCHE NO EXTERIOR
A tese investiga a trajetória intelectual da crítica de arte, historiadora e professora da Columbia University, Rosalind Krauss. Dividida em cinco capítulos, a pesquisa contempla as fases históricas de seu exercício analítico, da década de 1960 aos dias atuais. Para isso, elege como ponto de partida a hipótese de seu percurso intelectual ser abordado enquanto sobreposições de correntes formalistas distintas, com especial destaque para o formalismo greenbergiano, o formalismo russo e o estruturalismo francês. Pretende-se comprovar que Krauss, mesmo em um contexto notadamente pluralista das práticas artísticas contemporâneas, jamais descarta refletir a respeito das estruturas formais que engendram as obras, isto é, de seus mediums. A obra da ensaísta é aqui considerada enquanto um prisma através do qual é possível identificar distintas vozes que circunscrevem o seu campo discursivo: a apologia histórica da arte abstrata de Clement Greenberg e Michael Fried; a geração de pensadores em torno dos periódicos estadunidenses Artforum e October; a fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty, a filosofia analítica do segundo Wittgenstein, o estruturalismo de Roland Barthes e Jacques Lacan; e, ainda, o pós-estruturalismo de Jacques Derrida. Deseja-se, com isso, oferecer ao leitor brasileiro uma leitura crítica da obra completa de uma das principais vozes da crítica de arte contemporânea estadunidense.
This thesis looks at the work of the art critic, art historian and professor of Columbia University, Rosalind Krauss. Organized in five chapters, it contemplates the historical phases of her intellectual trajectory, from the 1960s to the present day. The hypothesis that guides this work runs as follows: Krauss essays should be organized as overlapping layers of distinct formalist currents, with special emphasis on Greenbergian Formalism, Russian Formalism and French Structuralism. This research intends to demonstrate that Krauss, even in a remarkably pluralistic context of contemporary artistic practices, has never discarded reflecting on the formal structures that engender the art works, that is, their mediums. The essayist s contribution is here considered as a prism through which it is possible to identify distinct voices that circumscribe her discursive field: the historical apology of abstract art by Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried; The generation of thinkers around the American periodicals Artforum and October; Merleau-Ponty s phenomenology; later Wittgenstein s philosophy; Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan s structuralism; And Jacques Derrida s poststructuralism as well. In short, this project offers to Brazilian readers a critical reading of the work done by one of the dominant voices of contemporary art criticism.

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Rojas, Francisca M. 1976. "Cyberpunk visions of the future city." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69760.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-116).
As a future-oriented practice, urban design compels us to imagine, anticipate, design and plan our cities of tomorrow. In fact, 20* century urban planning has generated a number of influential visions of urban futures - from Howard, Le Corbusier, and Wright, to Fuller, Archigram, and Soleri. Yet for more than twenty years, urban planning has exhibited a conspicuous lack of critical projection about the future of urban life and form. This present lack of futurist vision is particularly remarkable when considering the rapid advancements in information technology (IT) that have begun to affect the nature of a wide range of interactions at the various scales of urban life. Of particular interest to urban planning and design is whether or not, and how, IT contributes to the transformation of social and spatial relationships. The future consequences of how IT and other postmodern forces are changing cities have been explored by a subset of science fiction dubbed, Cyberpunk. Writers of cyberpunk fiction have extrapolated the present urban condition to expose a cautionary dystopian vision of cities and urban life in the near-future. Generally, cyberpunks envision the technologically- enhanced future city as an anarchic physical environment of exclusion, sprawl, surveillance, degradation, dematerialization, submission, and resistance. This study examines the images of a potential urban future, with particular attention placed upon the future of urban form, through detailed readings of cyberpunk fiction and film. While a far cry from the communitarian utopias of the previous century that have served as models for the cities we live in today, the cyberpunk vision of the future city does present urban planning and design with cautionary tales from which the profession may begin to examine its current practices and inform its designs for an electronically mediated future.
by Francisca M. Rojas.
M.C.P.

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Carlsen, Christian. "Old Norse visions of the afterlife." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9b3b8518-912e-4425-8748-dea135e695d0.

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The nature of life after death is only tentatively sketched out in the canonical writings of the Christian Church, yet it represents one of the most prominent literary subjects in medieval Europe. The so-called Visiones represent a genre that enjoyed a particularly broad dissemination between the fourth and thirteenth centuries. This study aims to assess the impact of this Latin tradition on Norse-Icelandic authors and processes of cultural appropriation evident in medieval vernacular adaptations of the genre. The first chapter outlines the historical and theological conditions surrounding the genre’s dissemination in Western Scandinavia and identifies the primary corpus of vernacular adaptations of the genre to be analysed in this study. Chapter II considers the literary contexts in which Visio-conventions have been integrated, highlighting the distinctive generic and creative diversity exhibited in the primary corpus. Chapters III and IV are concerned with the literary motif of the journey to the otherworld and its importance in Old Norse literary traditions across the period of Christianisation. The former examines signs of continuity on a conceptual level between traditional native and Christian narratives about the otherworld, suggesting that the journey motif represented a sustained source of literary creativity in pre- and post-conversion societies. The latter examines this notion of continuity with reference to two significant literary symbols, the otherworld shoe and the otherworld bridge, and their pregnant resonances in Norse Icelandic records of myth, law, and religious ritual; it will here be shown how certain symbols found in vernacular accounts of the afterlife produce a rich set of connotations meaningful within their particular cultural setting. The final Chapter analyses the social mentality encoded in portrayals of the idealised hereafter, and it will be argued that portrayals of eschatological justice and the topography of heaven reflect attitudes characteristic of the societies from which these visions emerge. The thesis as a whole thereby calls attention to the broad and deep nature of the Visio genre’s impact on Western Scandinavian literary culture, suggesting that this particular genre-oriented study may serve as a case study of the reception of Christian literary traditions in medieval Iceland and Norway more generally.

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Lorei, Linda T. D. Ed. "Perceptions of Leadership: Visions of Integration." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1433710029.

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Todd, Sarah Jane. "Dream-visions in Boccaccio and Petrarch." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10026/.

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Dream-visions formed an integral part of literature since the Ancient Greek period, with discussions about their prophetic and revelatory value appearing alongside poetry, prose, and autobiographical accounts of visions. By the Middle Ages the popularity of the oneiric form reached a new height. This thesis examines the presence of dream-visions in three works from the fourteenth century: Boccaccio’s Amorosa visione and Corbaccio, and Petrarch’s Triumphi. It looks specifically at the ways in which the two authors drew upon existing oneiric sources in the composition of their own texts. Chapter 1 contextualises the thesis. It examines the different models of dream-vision texts which would have been available to Boccaccio and Petrarch when composing their oneiric narratives, and looks at the specific terminology used to describe dreams and their varying functions within biblical, fictional, and philosophical writings. This in turn helps to establish a set of conventions for dream-vision literature, which Boccaccio and Petrarch would have been able consciously to employ (or not) within their own texts. Chapter 2 examines the ways in which Boccaccio and Petrarch discuss and use dreams and visions within their non-dream-vision texts. It looks not only at their fictional dream-visions, but also at autobiographical and philosophical works written by the authors on the subject of dreaming, the presence of visions within their respective poems and prose, and discussions within their texts regarding the specific terminology one should use to discuss different types of dream experience. Chapter 3 considers the ways in which Boccaccio experiments with form and structure within the Amorosa visione, and the impact this has upon the resulting dream-vision text. It looks specifically at the use of the spirit-guide motif and Boccaccio’s unusual employment of the framing dream. Similarly, Chapter 4 looks at the various ways Petrarch deviates from the established norms of the dream-vision traditions within his Triumphi by employing multiple and simultaneous visions within a single text. In Chapter 5 Boccaccio’s Corbaccio is examined in the context of various literary traditions. The chapter considers how Boccaccio engages with his predecessors in the creation of his dream-vision text, and the ways in which he combines various literary elements in order to create a work which is both innovative and reliant on the encyclopaedic knowledge of oneiric works he possesses. In the conclusion the findings from each chapter are drawn together to present a view of the Amorosa visione, Triumphi, and Corbaccio as works which are simultaneously rooted in established traditions while at the same time testing the boundaries of the very genres to which they belong.

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Miller, Nicole Catherine. "Fluid visions: Sight, technology and representation." Thesis, Miller, Nicole Catherine (1998) Fluid visions: Sight, technology and representation. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1998. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50379/.

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Once considered the noblest of the senses, sight functioned as the paradigmatic metaphor for knowledge in Western metaphysics. This model of sight and knowledge presumed a stable, permanent and passive relationship between a viewer and their object. In the twentieth-century, this particular conception of knowledge and sight has been criticised for promoting a detached relationship to the world. It is commonly argued that the introduction of linear perspective in the Renaissance, and the consequent introduction of visual technologies like the camera, has further inculcated an uncompassionate, disengaged way of seeing. In this thesis I argue that in a technological environment, where the world is increasingly represented and understood as fluid, vision too must be conceived as fluid. Rather than focusing on the dissociative aspects of sight, I suggest it is more useful to examine the under-theorised connective aspects of vision. I argue visual technologies can not prohibit the practice of receptive ways of seeing. I specifically address the linear perspective argument by detailing some significant omissions and flaws in the existing field of enquiry. My discussion utilises paintings developed concurrently with the camera obscura, photography and film and includes a brief phenomenological description of television. Finally, with a detailed analysis of the spectacle of the metal morph in the film Terminator 2, I show how the computer-morph temporarily reconciles an understanding of the world as fluid with the fantastic desire for technology to transform with no loss. I diagnose a cultural failure to acknowledge that technology inevitably involves a trade-off, for technology never merely enhances our capacities. I suggest it is the blind(ing) desire to transcend the contextual specificities of sight that prohibits more receptive visions.

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Holmes, Kathleen Mary. "The concept of vision in American school reform: a study of visions of 21st century schooling." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332805/.

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The primary objective of this study was to describe and analyze visions of 21st century education articulated by prominent individuals involved with current school reform and restructuring efforts. A second objective was to describe and analyze those images of the most likely educational scenario in the 21st century and the perceived barriers that would prevent realization of those idealized visions.

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Nolte, Stefan. "Team Leadership - Einflussmöglichkeiten visions- und bedrohungsorientierter Führung." St. Gallen, 2005. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/02607083001/$FILE/02607083001.pdf.

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Roberts, John Joseph. "Dreams and visions in medieval Icelandic romance." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485264.

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This thesis is a literary analysis of the entire corpus of dreams and visions described in the prose romances (riddarasogur) composed in Iceland between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It considers the sources and analogues of the dreams and visions, the ways in which they are narrated, their narrative functions, and their connections with folk tradition, religious beliefs, and early writings on dreams. The study is organised according to the nature of the material under analysis. The dreams and visions of the riddarasogurfall naturally into six categories: (a) fetch dreams, in which the spirits of individuals appear as animals; (b) dreams and visions which convey information through symbolic images; (c) dear, unencrypted visions of future events; (d) dreams which are reported to have occurred but the contents of which are not described; (e) dreams and visions in which individuals appear to the dreamer and impart useful advice and information; and (f) dreams in which a supernatural being physically interacts with an individual in his sleep. Each chapter of the thesis treats one of these six categories, examining each individual dream or vision with regard to the features outlined above. The study shows that riddarasaga dreams and visions are heavily influenced by foreign literature, but also find a natural place in the Icelandic literary tradition by being integrated with the conventional structures of saga narrative. Dreams are used for a variety of purposes, not only to foreshadow later events in the story, but also as a medium through which the saga protagonist is provided with assistance or confronted by an enemy, and a means of characterisation. Extra-textual factors are also shown to be relevant to the dreams of the riddarasogur, most especially the influence of Christianity and medieval Icelandic conceptions of the relationship between the natural and supernatural worlds.

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Goddard-Rebstein, Rachael Jane. "Visions : the extraordinary life of Margery Kempe." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60256.

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My thesis project is an adaptation of The Book of Margery Kempe into the form of a play. Considered to be the first autobiography in English, The Book of Margery Kempe tells the story of Margery Kempe, a fourteenth century woman who experienced visions of God, Jesus and the Devil and who became famous in England as a religious mystic. Her visions inspired her to travel alone throughout England, Europe and the Middle East and meet with some of the most powerful religious figures of her time. She inspired controversy through weeping copiously during religious ceremonies and speaking publicly of her visions and was put on trial at York, Cawood and Leicester for heresy. Margery Kempe recorded her experiences in the form of a book with the aid of a priest, as she was illiterate. Her book is one of the few existing examples of medieval women’s writing, and provides a unique insight into the treatment of individuals who experienced visions during the medieval era. My play examines how the tradition of female mystical piety influenced Margery Kempe’s interpretation of her visions, and how her experience relates to that of individuals today who are diagnosed with conditions such as schizophrenia, temporal lobe epilepsy, postnatal psychosis and postnatal depression. In considering the latter, through the support of my supervisory committee member Dr. Todd Handy, I have read scholarly work from the fields of neuroscience and psychology. My play does not seek to diagnose Margery Kempe from the perspective of neuroscience and psychology, but rather to imagine how her experience of having visions might relate to that of individuals who are diagnosed with psychiatric and neurological conditions that are associated with hallucinations today. My play juxtaposes modern psychological perspectives on the phenomenon of hallucinations with medieval Christian beliefs regarding visions to demonstrate how cultural attitudes affect the treatment and perception of symptoms associated with madness, and how Margery Kempe coped with experiencing visions that set her apart from the rest of her community.
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Hagiioannu, Michael Costas. "Chaucer's dream visions : courtliness and individual identity." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30293.

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This thesis presents a reading of Chaucer's dream visions in their philosophical, religious and secular contexts. It traces the poet's discussion of individual subjectivity, vis-a-vis the conventions of courtliness, in the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls, and the Legend of Good Women. Unlike the 'playful', and elliptical poet of many recent studies, this thesis presents a Chaucer who was fully engaged with the important moral and philosophical issues of his age. By drawing upon Aristotelian psychology, derived from his reading of Boethius, Dante and the poets of the French court, Chaucer was able to articulate precisely which aspects of the courtly identity are determined by language and empirical experience, and which parts are transcendent of this determinism. Engagement with the dream visions thus enabled the reader to recognise those aspects of courtliness which assist his or her ethically informed autonomy, and those which compromise it. A detailed engagement with the literature, language, and behaviour of the court then takes place in the dream visions, which are a genuine exploration of individual subjectivity yet still remain socially aware. The motivation for this exploration is shown to be a product of both the author's Christian beliefs and his identity as a courtly poet. Religious sensibility and the demands of courtly society are shown not to be mutually exclusive but rather the source of urgent and productive dialogue.

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Taylor, Eve. "Visions--, a narrative inquiry, analysis of identities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1994. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23756.pdf.

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Bradstreet, Christina Rain. "Scented visions : the nineteenth-century olfactory imagination." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504733.

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This thesis considers the role of smell in art and aesthetics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores the growing interest of a number of artists and literary figures, c.1860 - 1910, in cultivating an olfactory aesthetic. Through examination of artistic engagements with the sense of smell, it reveals how and why artists became occupied with olfactory perception and its representations, arguing that scents were increasingly perceived as an important means of communication in art, being influential in the life of the imagination owing to their emotional reverberation and associational nature. The thesis also examines popular ideas about the aesthetic status of perfume and argues that it was the perceived contradictory nature of smell as both sensuous and spiritual that rendered it so problematic and ripe for discussion in late-nineteenthcentury writings about the nature of art, beauty and aesthetics. This project carves out new territories within the history of visual culture through exploration of the areas of overlap and interplay between the visual and the olfactory, from the visualisation of invisible odour to the influence of scent upon mental imagery. Artistic sites of interaction between smell and the visual, such as perfume concerts that triggered visions of place, paintings of women smelling roses or bodily representations of incense in dance, provide new and fertile grounds for exploring the social and cultural fabric of the period. By drawing upon culturally specific ideas about smell, with reference to such themes as female sexuality and the erotic imagination as well as the Orient, health and disease, spirituality and the soul, this thesis offers fresh interpretative insights, being the first art historical project to bring into play the growing body of cultural and historical research on the sense of smell.

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Stevens, Donald Myton. "Dreams and visions in England : 1750-1850." Thesis, University of Reading, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329621.

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Craig, Geoffrey. "Journalistic visions : media, visualisation and public life." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368052.

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Schrage, Zarina Anna. "Visions of the future for international policy." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393327.

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Milewicz, Przemysław. "Visions of nation in Poland, 1815-1831." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609456.

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Reuter, Victoria. "Penelope differently : feminist re-visions of myth." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4f1ffe10-d690-441d-8726-7fe1df896cb4.

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This thesis examines feminist rewritings of the Penelope myth and the intersections between poetry, myth, and feminist theory. The theoretical framework develops from Rosi Braidotti’s theory of memory and subjectivity which has its roots in the work of Michel Foucault. In Braidotti’s understanding, subjectivity is constructed through narratives of the past including myth. In order to support new, minority, and dissident subjectivities, a re-remembering of mythical narratives needs to happen. This process is linked to Judith Butler’s recent work on narrating the self and to Adrienne Rich’s idea of “Re-vision”. What Butler’s theory adds to Braidotti’s is the notion of dispossession: that as subjects we do not own our identities. We are, instead, dependent on others for recognition. This co-dependence based notion of subjectivity has ethical implications for how we interact with one another and what kind of narratives we iterate and reiterate. The writers discussed in this thesis, namely, Francisca Aguirre, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Gail Holst-Warhaft, and Margaret Atwood, not only rewrite Penelope, but perform Re-visions of the myth. They look back at it with a critical eye and remake it. This thesis further contends that Re-vision provides contemporary feminist writers with a reading and writing strategy that allows them to engage with myth in a way that parallels feminist theory’s efforts to construct new forms of subjectivity. Chapter 1 frames feminist appropriations of myth in a contemporary context and discusses Adrienne Rich’s theory of Re- vision. The next four chapters focus on specific writers who carry out a sustained dialogue with Penelope; they each take an element of the myth and tease it out towards a modern relevance. In looking at how Penelope is revised, this thesis demonstrates that women writers are engaged in a process of remaking canonical, mythic texts in such a way that speaks to contemporary issues of ethical subjectivity and self-making.

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Scheidegger, Daniel Amadé. "Lights and visions in 'Rdzogs chen' thinking." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/5f1598aa-5e50-4df2-8107-79578b3dd6a2.

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The principal topic of this dissertation is the Rdzogs chen doctrine of a kind of fundamental Intelligence which is supposed to be the ground for both, samsara and nirvana. This ground is said to be an inseparable union of primordial purity and spontaneous perfection. Whereas its primordial purity is defined as empty of any qualifications, its spontaneous perfection is a luminous potentiality which arises as whatsoever. This arising occurs by means of Four Lamps and is a projection of the Inner empty and luminous Space of the ground into Outer Space (phyi'i dbyings). How it arises and how it finally dissolves back into its Inner Space (nang dbyings), is explained as consisting of Four Visions. A short but comprehensive account of this projection and of the view of the Rdzogs chen doctrine in general is contained in "The Eleven Themes" by Wong chen rab 'byams (1308-1364) which serves as basis for a detailed description of Intelligence and its multifarious reality of lamps or lights and visions as understood in Rdzogs chen thinking.

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Liveley, Genevieve. "Re-visions : disordering perspectives of Ovid's Metamorphoses." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/33dfa119-8af2-4df1-adf1-0733463354bc.

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Suppose the informed reader of Ovid's Metamorphoses were a woman. What difference might it make to posit a female reader for this work of literature? Might a woman reader offer an alternative to the kinds of perspectives employed in received readings of this text? Might a woman read this text differently? The pluralism of feminist literary criticism offers the woman reader a variety of reading strategies and positions to enable her to make a difference to her reading. Rather than assenting to textual biases in which the male perspective is made central and the female perspective is marginalised, women are invited to reread, to resist, to revise, to re-appropriate and to disorder the dominant discourses of texts and their received readings. Rereading focal stories and the narratives that place them in context, this thesis engages these reading strategies to resist received readings of Pygmalion and his puella, to revise the rape of Philomela, and to re-appropriate Echo. Theoretical models adduced here include the work of the French feminist writers Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, who identify Woman as a figure of indeterminacy and disorder, and a scientific model of chaos. Chaos theory challenges the notion that rules and formal systems of interpretation can be relied upon to interpret the dynamics of a complex system such as a literary text. It suggests that the linear perspectives assumed in traditional models of interpretation direct the reader towards the production of readings in which the structural and ideological complexities of a text are smoothed over. Beginning, like the Metamorphoses, with chaos and disorder this thesis will attempt to progress towards stability and order. However, the readings and rereadings of transformation through which this progression will be effected will suggest that order is not a totalising or universal ising condition, but is rather a pattern or state of symmetry in which asymmetries, gaps and unpredictabilities may Occur. While emphasising the impossibility of an absolute or final form of interpretation, it will offer an alternative to the kinds of linear perspectives conventionally employed to read and interpret the complex dynamics of Ovid's Metamorphoses. While seeking to map patterns and connections, causes and effects, it will take into account unpredictability and indeterminacy, plurality and contingency to read the Metamorphoses within an interpretative frame which views contradiction, discontinuity and variation not as sources of critical and textual weakness, but as sources of jouissance.

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Shanahan, Colin P. "Essentialist and Existentialist: Two Visions of Authenticity." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton15331374568137.

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Tatum, Simon J. "Repurposing Tourism: Visions from an Itinerant Artist." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1619483698972973.

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Tapia, Ruby C. "Conceiving images : racialized visions of the maternal /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3057347.

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Sheehan, Michele. "PERSPECTIVES/VISIONS/ACTIONS IN LANDSCAPE DECISION-MAKING." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187563.

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The Perspectives/Visions/Actions framework is designed to facilitate deeper understanding of issues and broader inclusion of publics in landscape decision-making conversations. A parallel analysis of landscape and policy theory was used to constructed the framework. Common terminology and visual expression of spatial/temporal aspects of landscape are viewed through the interactive segments of Perspectives, Visions, and Actions. Perspectives described through landscape/human relationships and intuitive images of landscape provide insight into various viewpoints. Visions, visual landscape features described in landscape ecology terminology, provide a base for development of potential scenarios. Actions, Tools and Rules, relate viewpoints and scenarios to a range of choices for implementing change. Document content analysis, open-ended interviews, and systematic establishment of a transect baseline from aerial photographs were used to historically analyze three shoreline landscapes (Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Cape Cod and Point Reyes National Seashores) through framework language and schematic. Landscape information, viewpoints, and choices within the case study landscapes were uniquely illustrated. Perspectives groupings of intuitive images indicated ovelapping viewpoints and set an inclusive base for landscape information types. Visions landscape ecology language used both to construct the schematic and to translate information into comron expressions provided a base for issue discussion. Actions tools and rules data provided examples of implementation choices which related to the Perspectives and Visions.

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Weiss, Katherine. "Beckett’s Ruined Landscapes: Dystopian Visions after WWII." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2252.

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Tai, Chih-Che. "Nature of Science, Connections, Visions and Opportunities." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3302.

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Rouliere, Camille. "Visions of Waters in Lower Murray Country." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMC014/document.

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L’eau a creusé son chemin jusqu’au cœur des discussions sur le développement durable. Les discours autour de la gestion des eaux soulignent à la fois son abondance dévastatrice et son absence critique : la montée des eaux se juxtapose à la désertification ; les tornades et les inondations répondent à des périodes de sécheresse prolongées. Alors que nous polluons, canalisons et dessalinisons à un rythme toujours croissant, la nature ambiguë de notre relation avec l’eau devient visible. Pendant que nous continuons d’endommager ce qui, par-dessus tout, rend la vie possible, la précarité augmente pour l’ensemble de la population. Il n’est donc pas étonnant qu’un changement de paradigme dans notre compréhension des eaux, devant engendrer une modification dans leur utilisation, soit présenté comme l’un des plus grands et plus pressants défis de notre époque. Ma recherche répond à ce défi. Elle porte sur la poétique de l’espace, c’est-à-dire sur l’étude de la manière dont les êtres humains vivent et interagissent avec leur environnement à travers les arts. Plus précisément, j’explore les relations entre les humains, les eaux et les sons (à la fois propres et générés par les humains) dans la Lower Murray Country (Australie Méridionale). Mon but est de révéler et théoriser ces relations qui évoluent en parallèle afin d’élaborer une cartographie mettant à jour toute une gamme de manières de percevoir et de comprendre ces eaux, et d’être ensuite à même d’utiliser cette pluralité pour remettre en question—et potentiellement imaginer à nouveau—leur construction et représentation culturelles. Afin d’atteindre ce but, j’érige “les eaux” en leitmotiv qui me permet d’unifier ma recherche et me déplacer entre des espaces physiques et théoriques pour mettre en dialogue les individus et leur environnement, tant au niveau local que général. En particulier, je me sers du mouvement des eaux que forment le courant et la résonance pour opérer cette synthèse, mouvement que j’associe à la rythmanalyse et la réverbération (d’après les philosophes Henri Lefebvre et Fran Dyson, respectivement). Je me suis également inspirée du travail du philosophe et poète Édouard Glissant. En particulier, son concept de Relation est une clef pour me permettre de traduire textuellement ces mouvements des eaux. J’applique cette méthodologie aqueuse à presque deux siècles de production musicale—allant des pratiques ngarrindjeri et des ballades coloniales à la musique classique contemporaine et l’art sonore ; et presque deux siècles de modifications touchant au “caractère sonore” des eaux de la Lower Murray Country—matérialisée à travers la déforestation défigurante, la retenue des eaux, l’irrigation mais aussi la salinité croissante des eaux comme des sols. Ainsi, cette thèse se construit selon le principe d’accumulation d’exemples prôné par Glissant (Poetics of Relation 172-4). Elle est structurée autour de quatre sections—quatre visions punctiformes des eaux écrites comme un prélude à une potentielle infinité d’autres. Furtives, partielles, orientées et fragmentées, ces visions procèdent de périodes particulièrement significatives : de périodes pouvant subir des changements, de périodes charnières où des altérations radicales peuvent poindre ou apparaître effectivement
Waters are contested entities that are currently at the centre of most scientific discussions about sustainability. Discourse around water management underlines both the serious absence and devastating overabundance of water: rising sea levels compete against desertification; hurricanes and floods follow periods of prolonged drought. As we increasingly pollute, canalise and desalinate waters, the ambiguous nature of our relationship with these entities becomes visible. And, while we continue to damage what most sustains us, collective precarity grows. It is therefore unsurprising that shifting our understanding, and subsequent use, of water has been described as one of the biggest—and most pressing—challenges of our time.My research answers to this challenge. It centres on spatial poetics, that is, on the manner in which people engage and interact with their environment through art. More precisely, I explore the relationships between humans, waters and sound—both intrinsic and human-produced—in Lower Murray Country (South Australia). My aim is to unveil, theorise and create maps of these co-evolving relationships to reveal an array of manners to perceive and relate to these waters; and then draw on this plurality to question—and potentially reimagine—their cultural construction and representation. In order to do so, I transform waters into a leitmotif which enables me to weave my investigation together and move in-between theoretical and physical spaces to bring people and their environments into dialogue, both at the local and global levels. In particular, I draw on the watery movements of flow and resonance to operate this weaving, and associate these with rhythmanalysis and resounding (after philosophers Henri Lefebvre and Fran Dyson, respectively). I am also inspired by the work of philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant and use his concept of Relation as a key to enable me to translate these watery movements textually.I apply this aqueous theoretical frame to nearly two centuries of sonic production—ranging from Ngarrindjeri performance and colonial ballads through to contemporary classical music and sound art; and to nearly two centuries of evolution in the sonic character of Lower Murray Country’s waters—ranging from disfiguring deforestation and damming through to rising salinity and irrigation. As such, this thesis is built on the “accumulation of examples” advocated by Glissant (Poetics of Relation 172-4). It is structured around four sections—four punctiform visions of waters written as a prelude to a potential infinity of others. Furtive, partial, oriented and fragmented, these visions denote times of particular significance: times open to challenge; times of hinges and articulations where radical alteration (can) occur

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Rudolfsson, Sofia. "We have a vision : A vizualisation of the visions and pedagogic work in a Gambian pre-school." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap (UV), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65599.

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The aim of this study is to visualize the pre-school pedagogy in The Gambia and to discuss the Gambian pre-schools ideal view on pedagogy compared to the Swedish tradition. Through an ethnographically inspired study conducted at a Gambian preschool called SBEC bilingual international school, where I used Interviews and observations as a method to gather my empirical data, I sought answers to my overall questions which was: Which are the pre-schools main visions and values? What is the Gambian society´s view on pre-school education? And what is emphasized in the classroom work? In my results I found that the vision of the pre-school was designed to give something back to the Gambian society and have an impact on the country´s future. I also found that the schools vison had a large impact on the kind of work that went on in the classrooms. The view on the pre-schools in the society varied a bit depending on which perspective that was used. Those who were active in the world of education had a different view on the importance of pre-school education than for example the government in the country. In my discussion I compare my results in relation to the Swedish pre-school tradition and among other things I found that the two countries traditions regarding pre-schools had a common factor in the focus on nurturing the children but differed quite a bit when it came to their view on the pedagogic activities and how they were implemented.
Syftet med den här studien är att visualisera förskolepedagogiken I en gambisk förskola och diskutera den förskolans ideala syn på pedagogik jämfört med med traditionen i svenska förskolor. Genom en etnografiskt inspirerad studie, genomförd på en gambisk förskola som heter SBEC bilingual school, sökte jag svar på mina övergipande frågor genom att använda intervjuer och observationer för att samla in mitt empiriska material. De övergripande frågorna var: Vilka är förskolans huvudsakliga mål och visioner? Vad har det gambiska samhället för syn på förskolleutbildning? Och vad fokuserar arbetet i klassrummet på? I mitt resultat framkom det att förskolans vision var utformad för att kunna ge något tillbaka till det gambiska samhället och kunna påverka landets framtid. Jag fann också att skolans vision hade stor inverkan på vilken sorts arbete som pågick i klassrummen. Samhällets syn på förskolan varierade beroende på vilket perspektiv som användes. De som var aktiva inom utbildningsväsendet hade en annorlunda syn på vikten av förskoleutbildning än till exempel staten i Gambia. I dikussionen jämför jag mitt resultat i relation till den svenska förskolans tradition. Jag fann bland annat att förskolans traditioner i båda länderna hade en gemensam faktor när det gäller uppfostran av barnen men en annorlunda syn på den pedagogiska verksamhet och hur den implementeras.

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Claire-Woldt, Lynnette. "Business success : entrepreneurial visions from the early stage /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3181093.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-183). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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