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How Do Mainstream Cultural Market Categories Emerge: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Creation of Electronic Dance Music
(2016-09-20)
In my research I explore how a new market category is created in an existing market. I contribute to existing research in marketing by developing a novel framework that conceptualizes markets as constituted of three levels, ...
Re-working
(2015-08-28)
The thesis Re-working explores the concepts of affect, constant change, the unfinished and undefined, and the ineptness of representation.
It is a reflection and contemplation on the ontology of painting and the ongoing ...
Excavating Artiface
(2014-07-09)
We are all image-makers, whether in paint, pixels or persona, and every image contains a vulnerability and resistance to exposure. Inevitably, the acts of looking at and making images lead to a kind of erotic pathos. Seduced ...
Exhibiting Climate Change: An Examination of the Thresholds of Arts-Sciences Collaborations in the Context of Learning for a Sustainable Future
(2015-01-26)
This dissertation probes the cultural and political thresholds of arts–sciences collaborations in the context of the development of public pedagogy about a sustainable response to climate change. The dissertation is an ...
Playing Games with Art: The Cultural and Aesthetic Legitimation of Digital Games
(2015-01-26)
Like other popular cultural forms before them, digital games are undergoing a process of cultural and aesthetic legitimation; the question of digital games’ legitimacy as art is being raised with increasing urgency in a ...
"Only Connect"? Literary Interventions in a Time of Cruelty
(2017-07-27)
My dissertation,Only Connect? Literary Interventions in a Time of Cruelty, investigates how fiction and drama of the early twenty-first century focus on the social problem of cruelty, mainly defined as ignorance of, ...
Seeing the Spell: Baroque, Decadence, and a Cinema of Digital-Animated Liberation
(2016-09-20)
This dissertation draws on the artistic traditions of seventeenth-century Baroque and nineteenth-century Decadence in seeking to formulate an analytical vocabulary for the aesthetics of digitally-animated spectacle in ...
Politics and the Aesthetic Animal: Aristotle and Adorno
(2015-08-28)
This study examines the neglected role of other animals and art in Aristotle’s classic conception of the human being, and argues that the work of T.W. Adorno can be drawn upon to recover this conception’s neglected promise. ...
Of Field and Forest: Aesthetics and the Nonhuman on Hampstead Heath
(2016-11-25)
Hampstead Heaths eight-hundred acres of field and forest were acquired for the public in 1871. It was the first metropolitan open space in London to be acquired as a result of decades of campaigning, and is therefore central ...
Landscapes of the Hinged Trunk: With Seams of Glass and Bone
(2016-09-20)
This thesis engages the construction of a particular kind of artwork, namely an artwork that functions as an occult device, capable of affecting the physical body of the viewer as well as the space the artwork occupies. ...