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Wisdom Of Nature: Finding Tao In Water, Ziyu Xu Jan 2022

Wisdom Of Nature: Finding Tao In Water, Ziyu Xu

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.


Do Androids Dream Of Improvisation?, Aidan J. Samp Jan 2022

Do Androids Dream Of Improvisation?, Aidan J. Samp

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.


Decentered, Together, Alone: Thinking The Virtual World With Heidegger’S Being And Time, Margaux Juliette Suinat Jan 2022

Decentered, Together, Alone: Thinking The Virtual World With Heidegger’S Being And Time, Margaux Juliette Suinat

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


A Look At Sex Work And Onlyfans Through Self-Definition And Hegelian Dialectic, Morenike Ea Fabiyi Jan 2022

A Look At Sex Work And Onlyfans Through Self-Definition And Hegelian Dialectic, Morenike Ea Fabiyi

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Creativity As Potential: Humanity’S Most Important Trait Reimagined, Jess M. Berkun Jan 2022

Creativity As Potential: Humanity’S Most Important Trait Reimagined, Jess M. Berkun

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


When Words Fail: Towards A Subversive Account Of Gender Theory, James Toomey Jan 2022

When Words Fail: Towards A Subversive Account Of Gender Theory, James Toomey

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


The Artist's Diary, Anamae Gilroy Jan 2022

The Artist's Diary, Anamae Gilroy

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.


Confucianism And Pragmatism: Similarities In Notions Of Selfhood And Society, Zephyr Hrechdakian Jan 2022

Confucianism And Pragmatism: Similarities In Notions Of Selfhood And Society, Zephyr Hrechdakian

Senior Projects Spring 2022

There are a number of similarities between pragmatism and early Confucianism regarding their views of the self and society. I explore these, as well as some key differences, by comparing texts associated with Confucius with the work of three notable pragmatists: William James, George Herbert Mead, and John Dewey. I find that all four thinkers view human experience as intertwined with nature which leads them to form relational understandings of the self, ultimately sparking in them a tendency to view societies as communities that should by kept harmonious through various processes of cooperative social interaction. However, I find there are …


Decentralized Perfectionism: A Critique Of Contractarianism And Bureaucracy Through The Inspiration Of Nietzsche, Felix George Newton Johnson Jan 2022

Decentralized Perfectionism: A Critique Of Contractarianism And Bureaucracy Through The Inspiration Of Nietzsche, Felix George Newton Johnson

Senior Projects Spring 2022

The goal of this project is to articulate a critique of contractarianism and it links to the modern system of bureaucracy through a commitment to individual valuation and pluralism. This work illustrates the core of both contractarianism and bureaucracy as security and through this identification demonstrates the inability to consider social, political, and economic alternatives. This critique is based on the contractarianism of Thomas Hobbes and John Rawls, both demonstrating the deep contractarian need for security. This is extended further into a modern critique of bureaucracy as an extension of the contractarian framework, a system dependent on limiting conceptions of …


A Wordless Wild Cadence, Isaac Alexander Zaslow King Jan 2022

A Wordless Wild Cadence, Isaac Alexander Zaslow King

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Toward A Common Notion Of Authority, Tanner James Sheldon Jan 2022

Toward A Common Notion Of Authority, Tanner James Sheldon

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College


How Aesthetics Shape Our Ethics: Exploring Nazi Germany, The Soviet Union, And Digital World, Nika Kokhodze Jan 2022

How Aesthetics Shape Our Ethics: Exploring Nazi Germany, The Soviet Union, And Digital World, Nika Kokhodze

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Every day, we encounter numerous amount of images, films, news and propaganda. The different forms and manifestations of aesthetics haunts our lives daily. What if I told you that Aesthetics has immense amount of power? This project aims specifically at that as it explores authoritarian states and the liberal democracies alike. How could the moral compass that we all cherish and hold dearly be predicated and shaped by something so remote as aesthetics? Exploring through examples from the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the digital world we all live in, one might find some answers and the right questions to …


Psychoepistemology And Subjective Determinism, Kenneth Park Jan 2022

Psychoepistemology And Subjective Determinism, Kenneth Park

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.