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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
An Introduction To Philosophy, Jeff Mitchell
An Introduction To Philosophy, Jeff Mitchell
ATU Faculty OER Book Reviews
Review of OER textbook of Philosophy by Russ W. Payne, available at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/598
How Arguments Work: A Guide To Writing And Analyzing Texts In College, Regina St. John
How Arguments Work: A Guide To Writing And Analyzing Texts In College, Regina St. John
ATU Faculty OER Book Reviews
Review of OER Composition textbook by Anna Mills, available at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/how-arguments-work-a-guide-to-writing-and-analyzing-texts-in-college
Inferring And Explaining, Jeff Mitchell
Inferring And Explaining, Jeff Mitchell
ATU Faculty OER Book Reviews
Review of OER Philosophy textbook by Jeffery L. Johnson, available at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/661
Introduction To Philosophy, Jeff Mitchell
Introduction To Philosophy, Jeff Mitchell
ATU Faculty OER Book Reviews
Review of OER Philosophy textbook by Nathan Smith. et al., available at https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-philosophy
Lost Stories, Yuxuan Huang
Lost Stories, Yuxuan Huang
Masters Theses
The owner of the laundromat by the corner of my temporarily sublet room in New York once told me his life story randomly on the last day I went to dry my bedding. We had never spoken before because we both weren't sure if the other spoke Mandarin.
It’s a long and intricate one, so long and intricate that he could write his own book and become the protagonist of a realist novel. If one word could describe this world and the life we all live, it should be “Wuchang.” According to various authoritative Chinese-to-English dictionaries, it could mean unpredictable, …
Building The Body, Jasmine Flowers
Building The Body, Jasmine Flowers
Masters Theses
Bodies and space co-produce each other and the process of co-production originates racializing and gendering work.
The concept, thesis, and subsequent design are informed by the historical context around the House for Josephine Baker by Adolf Loos. Presented here is the culmination of research which grounds itself in the relationship between Primitivism and Modernism, theory on the body and flesh, architectural graphic standards, spectacle, gaze, surveillance, hypervisibility, invisibility, implications of privacy versus publicity, expressions of Blackness and its place in femmehood (a neologism that expands “womanhood” to be trans-inclusive), all of which directly engage in co-production.
This co-production changes how …
Urban Looms, Recoloring City, Ella Son
Urban Looms, Recoloring City, Ella Son
Masters Theses
The metropolis has been a dominant and defining aspect of my life. Acutely aware of visual illusions created by the choreographed and unchoreographed movements of people in the streets and the distortions of light and shadow on the glass facades of skyscrapers, I reinterpret the patterns and colors that are in constant interplay into a collection of architectural textiles.
With an emphasis on optical layering, these immersive installations recreate the quality of being spellbound in the city. Scaled to emphasize verticality and activated through transparent overlays and dense color interplay, a rich visual field is activated. In their application, the …
New Craft: Craft Practices In The Digital Era, Paulina Bereza
New Craft: Craft Practices In The Digital Era, Paulina Bereza
Masters Theses
Advancements in technology point to a thriving future through the allure of new tools and the promise of enhanced performance. With the current environmental crisis, military invasions and broader global conflicts, how can we utilize new digital media in a way that dismantles oppressive positions of power? Looking towards the future, I explore the potential of materiality and new methods of making, to reshape our relationship with the environment and each other. I collaborate with newly adopted forms of intelligence, artificial and automated, to express and reconcile the accelerated cultural shift. From ancient fibres to digital circuits, what will the …
Embodied Abstractions: Identity And Representation In The Digital Era, Srikar Hari
Embodied Abstractions: Identity And Representation In The Digital Era, Srikar Hari
Masters Theses
The digital image is a copy in motion. As it accelerates, it deteriorates.
It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, squeezed through
digital connections, resized, uploaded, downloaded, reformatted
and re-edited.
- Adapted from “In defense of the Poor Image” by Hito Steryel
With today’s digital technology, the image is no longer a stable
representation of the world, but a programmable database that
is updated in real time. It is not only part of a program, but it
contains its own operating code: the image is a program in itself.
Consequently, the image’s rhetoric has taken on …
Life Of Things, Things Of Life, Shiyue Wang
Life Of Things, Things Of Life, Shiyue Wang
Masters Theses
In a world often captivated by the grand and explicit, my thesis, Life of Things, Things of Life explores the quiet yet profound narratives hidden within everyday objects. Drawing on my background in data design, I adopt a methodology that intertwines subjective narrative with rational analysis and challenges traditional hierarchies of value. Through processes of observation, collection, archiving, and re-contextualization, I elevate what is often overlooked as mundane and fleeting. This thesis not only uncovers the narrative potential of ordinary objects but also repositions them as protagonists in their own right, urging viewers to reconsider their conventional roles not as …
Tennessee Sure Knows How To Make 'Em, Lorena Park
Tennessee Sure Knows How To Make 'Em, Lorena Park
Masters Theses
I would say that I have a preoccupation, as well as a complicated relationship, with “the truth”. I was fortunate enough to be raised (and I use the term raised quite loosely, for I was downright ferrell) by pathological liars. This did an excellent job of preparing me for the world, I understand the deep horror and utter hilarity in life’s condition. I felt as though I was set upon a different path than most of the people I’ve come across. There was no intense disappointment when I was introduced to the ideas of the constructs of time and reality, …
An Abundance Of Caution, Gonçalo Preto Jorge
An Abundance Of Caution, Gonçalo Preto Jorge
Masters Theses
Abstract
An Abundance of Caution
3 puffs and breathing stabilizes...
Must have been the pollen last night.
Quiça
An eerie sense of emptiness takes over
And incidentally
The inability to express and verbalize any articulated thought.
Quiça
I seek sensations...experiences. To indulge.
The fascination with dreamscapes hails from the daunting lack of them.
Poooooxa
I listen, imagine, and process scenarios around me
In a precarious attempt to interpret and translate instances into something meaningful.
Oxalá, Matéria pictórica.
Oxalá.
I see my shadow but only an elusive silhouette
I observe the way it follows the wall and fades into the sidewalk, …
One Of One Of A Kind, Dominic Rishe
One Of One Of A Kind, Dominic Rishe
Masters Theses
This thesis probes the discourse around the increasing use of advanced digital tools in art and design, and articulates a paradoxical stance that these tools are re-illuminating a set of old ideas - ideas that have been preserved in a lineage of craft movements, historically perceived as anti-technological, nostalgic, or backwards-looking.
Over the last two decades, the use of generative and computational tools in art and design has evolved from a niche, experimental activity to a fully-fledged epochal movement, rising across all disciplines from architecture and graphic design to film and illustration.
Craft, which has always found its definition unstable …
Examining Book Banning Trends In The U.S., Amanda D. Filchock
Examining Book Banning Trends In The U.S., Amanda D. Filchock
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This capstone project is a web application for users to explore book banning trends across the United States. It is intended to serve as a resource for students, parents, educators, librarians, and authors who are interested in understanding the ways that book banning attempts have changed between 2021-2023 in the United States. These audiences will be able to interact with data visualizations to inform their own research and deepen their understanding of this current topic. Interactive features include: the ability to search by the title or author of a book to learn where, when, why, and by whom the book …
Housing Displacement In Corlears Hook: From Naghtongh To One Manhattan Square, Don Macleod
Housing Displacement In Corlears Hook: From Naghtongh To One Manhattan Square, Don Macleod
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The displacement of residents from their homes in New York City began with the European settlement of New Amsterdam and continues to this day. This paper focuses on displacement in Corlears Hook, part of Manhattan’s Lower East Side from the violent extirpation of a Lenape settlement in 1643 New Amsterdam to the gentrification of a traditional working-class neighborhood along the East River propelled by the influx of luxury housing development. Throughout Corlears Hook’s long history, displacement has been caused by violence, well-meaning efforts to improve slum conditions, ham-fisted “urban renewal” projects that favored the wealthy and civic improvements that used …
Defying Normativity: Reclaiming A Narrative Of Queer Resistance In Young Adult Literature, Christopher Morabito
Defying Normativity: Reclaiming A Narrative Of Queer Resistance In Young Adult Literature, Christopher Morabito
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
At the heart of this dissertation lies a single question: how Queer is Queer Young Adult Literature? As many scholars have argued, Queerness is, in many ways, a literacy, and literature is one of the greatest sponsors of Queer Literacy. While there is certainly no one comprehensive definition of what it means to be queer, it is also true that the general understanding of queerness has changed quite drastically in the last few decades. What was once used as a term to describe someone who is outside of social conventions has slowly begun to lose its sense of “otherness,” and …
The Four Seasons: Integrating The Big Four Sports, Joseph S. Brody
The Four Seasons: Integrating The Big Four Sports, Joseph S. Brody
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
After World War II, even though many African Americans served their country, policies of segregation were rampant throughout the United States of America. The aim of this Capstone is two-fold. First, to shed light on the men who followed the path of Jackie Robinson and give them their due. The most appropriate way to convey my research of these four athletes was by putting them all in the same fictional setting and discussing their trials and tribulations that made them the men they were in their day. Second, I want to highlight the many things I found in my research …
Metric Schemas And Projections In Three Colombian Folk Genres, Lina S. Tabak
Metric Schemas And Projections In Three Colombian Folk Genres, Lina S. Tabak
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation explores how stylistic expertise can affect metric perception, through the analysis of three Colombian folk genres—cantos de boga and currulaos from the Pacific region and joropos from the Eastern plains bordering Venezuela. Specifically, it considers the tension between metric perceptions which arise from bottom-up mechanisms for entrainment (such as projections), and those which are based on top-down mechanisms (such as schemata). This tension is at play when more and less musically enculturated listeners perceive entirely different metric structures when listening to identical music.
Taking bottom-up and top-down metric perception as a thread, this dissertation isolates three additional metric …
Consciousness And Physicalism, Brian Mcgowan
Consciousness And Physicalism, Brian Mcgowan
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Physicalism is a philosophy of mind which attempts to explain consciousness as resulting from physical causes. The lack of a complete and consistent mathematical theory to explain physical causation has led other philosophers of mind to propose that consciousness is a nonphysical essence, property, or substance. However, the idea that physics can be defined atomically and/or deterministically leads to explanatory problems for consciousness, as well as for the dualisms which explain consciousness under these assumptions. This thesis advances a position called “continuous physicalism” which takes all material to result from deformations in the physical medium of space, and any changes …
Fragmentation And Some Applications, Joseph Bendana
Fragmentation And Some Applications, Joseph Bendana
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation is an exploration of the idea that human minds are fragmented and its implications for some ongoing debates in the philosophy of mind and epistemology. Let Fragmentation be, minimally, the view that human cognitive information access is best modeled as having a structure that permits for selective, variable-mediated access, instead of a structure that enables always-on, global access. In chapter 1, I canvass the motivation for this view, its many variants, and some of the key open questions that it raises, situating this project in the broader landscape of work on the view. In chapter 2 I argue …
The Core Of It All: From The Forest To The Concrete Jungle, Ayo Andra J. Deas
The Core Of It All: From The Forest To The Concrete Jungle, Ayo Andra J. Deas
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The Core of It All is a component of principle within Fasaha. The mission of Fasaha is to implement programming directed toward development of one’s Core through self-actualization. Self-Actualization is defined as bringing forth the total essential qualities of one’s own consciousness, character, and identity through positive behavior. Throughout this manuscript, principle is defined as the standard of natural essential qualities determining intrinsic consciousness, character and identity. Programming is defined as providing with intrinsic instructions for the automatic performance of a task.
Fasaha is a support service that enhances the existing organization’s service. Throughout this dissertation, it will be apparent …
Schwarzenbach Goes South, Padraig Rooney
Schwarzenbach Goes South, Padraig Rooney
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Swiss writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach arrived in the United States in late August 1936 at the invitation of the American photographer Barbara Hamilton Wright. It was the first of three visits over the next five years, during which Annemarie reported on Roosevelt’s America for a variety of Swiss newspapers and illustrated magazines. Her first road trip through the Rust Belt was a success with her Swiss editors and the two women planned a second in the American South in the Fall of 1937. In late September, they boarded third class on the S.S. Berengaria, bound for New York. The effect …
The Tiny Village In The American Appalachians That Is More Swiss Than Switzerland, David Signer, Jonas Kakó
The Tiny Village In The American Appalachians That Is More Swiss Than Switzerland, David Signer, Jonas Kakó
Swiss American Historical Society Review
About 150 years ago, Swiss immigrants founded the hamlet of Helvetia in West Virginia. Villagers still organize themselves democratically and celebrate Swiss festivals. The background of a popular video game is even modeled after the idyllic town. But can Helvetia survive?
Praising The Industrial Achievements Of Switzerland In The Early Twentieth Century: A Mural Painting Cycle For The Federal Polytechnic In Zurich, Alex Winiger
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The dome of the Swiss parliament’s building, the central part of the so-called “Bundeshaus” in Bern, is framed by four stained glass windows. They represent four pillars of the Swiss economy of around 1900: commerce to the north, textile industries to the east, agriculture to the south, and metal industries to the west. Other important sources of the growing wealth of the country are absent: finance (the banks), science (especially chemistry and its respective productions), and tourism. The latter found abundant representation in the railway stations of the time, relics of them still to be seen in the entrance hall …
Book Review: The Gilded Chalet: Off-Piste In Literary Switzerland
Book Review: The Gilded Chalet: Off-Piste In Literary Switzerland
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Part detective work, part treasure chest, full of history and scandal, award-winning writer Padraig Rooney takes you on a grand tour of two centuries of great writing by both Swiss and foreign authors and shows how Switzerland has always been at the center of literary Europe.
Half Dawn, Catherine Ashley
Half Dawn, Catherine Ashley
Masters Theses
By presenting these words on paper, I have given entry into a microcosm of recent research, questions, and creative explorations. There is potential for disconnection when trying to turn your head inside out and present it in a way that feels beautiful for other people. I’m trusting the moments of authenticity I’ve found in my wandering. Segue. Relationship. Gesture. Illusion. My musings all stem from notions of temporality. Time dances on the farthest ends of both immensity and desolation. I’ve spent stretches of time asking the people, texts, and experiments around me to define time in a way that I …
Rejected Manuscripts, Yangqi Deng
Rejected Manuscripts, Yangqi Deng
Masters Theses
Rejected Manuscripts is a series of visual metaphors reconstructed from hyperlink research. It explores the representation, perception, and processing of information as fact across three projects, highlighting the pervasive influence of fiction throughout each stage. It investigates forms of fact versus fiction to bring awareness to multi-perspective and from that explores the intricate interplay between reality and imagination.
This thesis consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 falls into an abyss of fictional imagery intertwined with factual information. From there, the second chapter explores how we observe the world and how technology affects our vision. Chapter 3 discusses how this information …
Umbrella And Jellyfish, Yanran Bi
Umbrella And Jellyfish, Yanran Bi
Masters Theses
Rainy season arrives as soon as the summer begins in Shanghai. For some reason, I rarely remember to bring an umbrella with me. I have a lot of umbrellas, most of them are transparent ones bought at subway stations. When it suddenly starts pouring rain, umbrella vendors in Shanghai gather at each crowded exit of the subway sta- tions to sell umbrellas to people like me. The cheapest umbrellas they have are always the transparent ones. The whole city is turned upside down by the rain with its reflections on every street. Then a transparent umbrella opens up, then another, …