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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 18 uppsatser innehållade ordet figurations.

1. 11. Food: A Sensuous Matter of the Everyday : A sensorial exploration of material and bounded natures of mundane food practices

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Författare :Elin Linder; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Food; sensuous anthropology; boundaries; the everyday; materials; actor-network theory;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines everyday food practices such as sensed by seven households in the city ofStockholm, Sweden. By sensuously exploring the acts of acquiring, preparing, cooking, eating,and wasting food, I analyze how food is a matter of olfactory, gustatory, auditory, tactile, andvisual significance, as much as matter per se. LÄS MER

3. 12. Medskyldiga män och oskyldiga kvinnor : En studie av domars könade offerkonstruktion vid dödligt våld i nära relationer

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Författare :Jimmy Karlsson; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Intimate Partner Homicide; Gender Figurations; Victim Discourses; Critical Discourse Analysis CDA ; Performativity;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present essay is to illuminate to which extent figurations of victims in cases of intimate partner homicide is conditional upon the sexes of these individuals. Furthermore, the aim of this study is to determine whether or not these gendered discrepancies reproduce or transform the existing gender-related social systems? The theoretical as well as methodological basis consists of Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA), which is combined with Judith Butler’s concept of performative acts. LÄS MER

4. 13. Hybrida kretsmaskiner : Ulla Wiggens måleri från 1960- och 2010-talet i skärningspunkten mellan kropp och maskin

   Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Konstvetenskap

   Författare :Ekaterina Sandomirskaja; [2017]
   Nyckelord :Ulla Wiggen; Swedish painting in the 1960s; body in art; grid; scientific imagery; history of anatomy; cyborg imagery; Ulla Wiggen; svensk måler på 1960-talet; kroppen i konst; rutnät; vetenskapliga bilder; anatomins historia; cyborgen;

   Sammanfattning : The Swedish artist Ulla Wiggen (b. 1942) started her artistic career in the early 1960s with detailed paintings of the insides of early electronic devices. In the early 2010s she turned to the interior of the body in the series Intra where organs and cells are fictionally combined. LÄS MER

5. 14. Towards Real-Time NavMesh Generation Using GPU Accelerated Scene Voxelization

   Master-uppsats, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för kreativa teknologier

   Författare :Alexander Brodén; Gustav Pihl Bohlin; [2017]
   Nyckelord :Voxelization; Recast; GPU; Pathfinding;

   Sammanfattning : Context. Producing NavMeshes for pathfinding in computer games is a time-consuming process. Recast and Detour is a pair of stateof-the-art libraries that allows automation of NavMesh generation. It builds on a technique called Scene Voxelization, where triangle geometry is converted to voxels in heightfields. LÄS MER

7. 15. Digital Figurations : The Human Figure as Cinematic Concept

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Författare :Tilde Fredholm; [2016]
   Nyckelord :The human figure; figuration; digital technology; body; film-theory; figural; visuality; dispositif; anthropocentrism; motion-capture; materiality; Gravity; Dawn of the Planet of the Apes;

   Sammanfattning : Mainstream cinema is to an ever-increasing degree deploying digital imaging technologies to work with the human form; expanding on it, morphing its features, or providing new ways of presenting it. This has prompted theories of simulation and virtualisation to explore the cultural and aesthetic implications, anxieties, and possibilities of a loss of the ‘real’ – in turn often defined in terms of the photographic trace. LÄS MER