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Revolting Delight: Posthuman Subversion In The Work Of Leonora Carrington, Jacob Breeding
Revolting Delight: Posthuman Subversion In The Work Of Leonora Carrington, Jacob Breeding
Masters Theses
This thesis explores the posthuman implications of Leonora Carrington’s writing, painting, and other works. Carrington’s is a remedial project, one that points to a healthier potential future beyond the conceptual limits of humanism. Her body of work disorders the projected/created order of human society (with its arrogant philosophies and systems of knowledge) and supplies a sublimely recombined “order” of its own—one that, in its very grotesquerie, defies human hubris and solipsism and celebrates everything else besides. In spite of the undermining inherent in her work, Carrington provides a positive alternative to some of the “-isms” that spring from humanism and …
From Root To Wing: The Music Of Vermont's Ecological Soundscapes, Madeline S. Reilly
From Root To Wing: The Music Of Vermont's Ecological Soundscapes, Madeline S. Reilly
UVM Patrick Leahy Honors College Senior Theses
With a rapidly changing climate and mounting environmental crises, we are called to reevaluate and reimagine how we exist in relationship with the rest of the Earth. This thesis explores how we can deepen our relationships with the ecosystems we inhabit by tracing the threads that unite ecology, music, and sound. It is both a research thesis and a creative project that merges the fields of soundscape ecology, ecomusicology, and environmental philosophy with the practices of soundscape recording, soundscape design, and music-making. I spent the last two years studying and recording ecological soundscapes around Vermont. From Root to Wing is …