Sökning: "Space and the American Imagination"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Space and the American Imagination.

1. 1. Imagining Somewheres: Obstruction as a Productive Force in Decolonial Visuality, Solidarities, and Asian American Futures

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Författare :Clarissa Grace Chang; [2018]
   Nyckelord :decoloniality; obstruction; radical hope; Asian American embodiment; virtual reality; Cultural Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Through a decolonial lens, visual culture can offer a variety of methods for solidarity-, community-, and future-building among people of color and other marginalized identities through applied imagination. However, a common impulse in these community-building endeavors is to explain as much as possible or to direct the image to the white gaze––a colonial ideology––which can further marginalize and unintentionally other the depicted subjects. LÄS MER

3. 2. NASA på Nya äventyr i rymden : Populariseringen av den amerikanska visionen om rymden

   Magister-uppsats, Institutionen för studier av samhällsutveckling och kultur

   Författare :Johan Nord; [2008]
   Nyckelord :Space; NASA; Rymdresor; Kalla kriget; Race to the Moon; kapplöpning; månen; Utforskning; Kolonisering; The Frontier; Kreationsmyten; The American Creation myth; Space program; Howard E McCurdy; Michael Godhe; Rymden; Populärvetenskap; USA; Visionen om rymden; New Vision for Space Exploration; Space and the American Imagination; George W Bush;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to bring forward and discuss the American vision for space exploration found at NASA's homepage, how the vision is popularised and why. NASA's homepage is analyzed as popularized science and the theoretical perspective emanates from the field of popular science and especially the work of Johan Kärnfelt. LÄS MER