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The Art of Ethics and the Ethics of Art: Between Kant and Wallace Stevens
(2019-03-05)In my dissertation I undertake to examine the relationship between ethics and art (aesthetics) through an analysis of the relationship between the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Wallace Stevens. I focus, in my analysis, ... -
From Social Servitude to Self Certitude: The Social Organization of Resistance of Racialized Diasporic Women
(2018-11-21)The relationship between migration incorporation and resistance is a quintessential problematic replete with controversy. As Arabs and Iranians migrate to a Western society, they are confronted by a whole new set of choices ... -
Of this Land, On this Land: Indigenous Artists Challenging the Racial Logics of Liberal Modernity
(2018-05-28)This dissertation discusses the role of Indigenous artists in illustrating and denaturalizing the systems of colonial thought that continue to constrain Indigenous peoples expressions of political agency. I argue that the ... -
Towards a Productive Aesthetics: History and Now-Time in Blake and Brecht
(2018-05-28)This thesis is a comparison of the theory and practice of aesthetic politics in key works of Bertolt Brecht and William Blake. I argue that there are two separate temporal moments that define Brechts and Blakes political ... -
Racial Extractivism: Neoliberal White Settler Colonialism and Tar Sands Extraction
(2018-03-01)This dissertation traces the reoccurrence of logics which attempt to justify white settler occupation and the extraction, theft and harm of Indigenous lands and life in the Athabasca region and in relation to the extraction, ... -
Elective Breast Surgery and Body Image: A Poststructural-Phenomenological Investigation
(2018-03-01)This dissertation examines what happens when elective breast surgery intervenes on women at the level of their body images. In this theoretical-empirical project, I compare practitioner discourses and patient narratives ... -
Nature, History and the Dialectic of Negativity: The Category of Nature in Marx's Writings
(2018-03-01)The following dissertation examines Marxs conception of nature, including the relationship between that conception and his social theory, political philosophy, and critique of political economy. It offers an erudite defence ... -
After The Death Of God: From Political Nihilism To Post-Foundational Democracy
(2017-07-27)The topic of this dissertation is Heideggers deconstruction of metaphysics viewed through the prism of Nietzsches declaration that God is dead. I argue that Nietzsches transvaluation of value remains ensnared by the will ... -
Democracy Against: The Antinomies of Politics
(2017-07-27)How should democracy be thought? How do we go about organising its concept? On what basis? And to what end? Rather than confine democracy to an ancient political constitution or modern system of government, this dissertation ... -
For the Other, Beyond Ethics: Responsibility, Critique, and Praxis in Levinas and Adorno
(2017-07-27)This dissertation grows out of the conviction that Emmanuel Levinas ethics and Theodor W. Adornos negative dialectics could supplement each other in mutually beneficial ways. While Levinas could provide an articulation of ... -
The Atomic Prince: A Lucretian Interpretation of Machiavelli
(2017-07-27)In 1417 Poggio Bracciolini discovered a copy of De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of Things. Lucretius, a Roman Epicurean philosopher, who lived from approximately 99 to 55 BCE, was its author. This dangerous text argued ... -
Quest(ion)s of Anarchist Power: Rethinking Power-To, Power-Over, and Power-With in the Radical Democratic Praxis of Consensus Decision-Making
(2017-07-27)In this dissertation I investigate the theory and practice of power in social movement organizations that use consensus decision-making, a form of deliberation that espouses radically democratic and anarchist political ... -
Towards Transformative Solidarities: Wars of Position in the Making of Labour Internationalism in Canada
(2017-07-26)Within the broad debates about neoliberalism, neoliberal globalization and the declining power of unions in the Global North, there has been renewed interest in the possibilities of international and transnational labour ... -
"We'll Sail Like Columbus": Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Making of South Asian Diasporas in Canada
(2016-11-25)This dissertation is an interrogation of colonial and racial formations in the making of white settler states. Through an intersectional and transnational exploration of proximities between South Asians and Indigenous ... -
In the Beginning...Was the Act!: Zizek, Marx, and the Question of Form
(2016-11-25)In almost all commentary on the work Slavoj iek the question of his relationship to the thought of Karl Marx is either ignored or indirectly addressed in terms of his relationship to contemporary thinkers. This is best ... -
Athletic Labour, Spectatorship, and Social Reproduction in the World of Professional Hockey
(2016-09-20)Existing literature in the sociology of sport largely omits any discussion of the relation between the spectator and athlete in professional and high performance sport. This dissertation explores that relation, demonstrating ... -
To Hold the World Visible: Writing and History in the Work of Mohammed Dib
(2016-09-20)This dissertation proposes a broad reading of the work of the Algerian francophone writer Mohammed Dib, some 30 volumes of novels, poetry, stories, and nonfiction writing published between 1952 and 2003. It reads a tension ... -
What's Love Got to Do With It? Diamonds and the Accumulation of De Beers, 1935-55
(2016-09-20)What is accumulation? Visibly, accumulation is a quantitative process, demarcated in financial quantities. However, what is the meaning of those quantities? This question has been the subject of great debate within political ... -
Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500-1900
(2016-09-20)My dissertation examines the relationship between the theological political and temporality in the constitution of the colonial-capitalist world system from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. World systems ... -
What Makes Hollywood Run? Capitalist Power, Risk and the Control of Social Creativity
(2016-09-20)This dissertation combines an interest in political economy, political theory and cinema to offer an answer about the pace of the Hollywood film business and its general modes of behaviour. More specifically, this dissertation ...
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